ChiralTheAlien

izaya, 4 hours ago to random

you actually have to be joking
so my grandad decided he was going to have the roof washed and repainted. I'm not sure why exactly, but whatever, it's his FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS to spend

however, it has contaminated the water tank with roof dust, and now my coffee tastes like dirt.

so we just spent half an hour trying to switch to one of the two other, uncontaminated tanks. here's what I've learned:

• the roof gutters drain into tank A
• water flows from tank A into an electric pump
• pump, acting as a valve, runs to a distributor, feeding:
  a) the house
  b) the laundry
  c) tank B
  d) tank C

now, the astute of you may be wondering, "so how do you feed the pump from tank B or C"
that's very simple: you don't. we're stuck with dirty water I guess, because my grandad spent TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS on a pair of unusable water tanks, I guess.

ChiralTheAlien, 4 hours ago to random

I've been worldbuilding again, this time for a fantasy story set somewhere way before the middle ages, probably like our world's equivalent of the early iron age. It has been surprisingly fun.

ChiralTheAlien, 4 hours ago to random

I return! Shockingly enough, I am still alive....

Anyway, have a great day!

lofty, 3 days ago to random

I've been having a lot of fun playing Rabbit and Steel.

Too bad I suck at it though.

ChiralTheAlien, 5 days ago to random

Hey all. Sadly, I'm going to have to skip this morning as well. If I feel better tomorrow evening, I'll do a catch-up stream, otherwise, I will see you Wednesday

ChiralTheAlien, 6 days ago to random

Good morning, all. I'm really quite dead today, so I'm not going to stream. I'll be back tomorrow.

follpvosten, 9 days ago to random

welp, plans for today have been moved to tomorrow.

enigmatico, 10 days ago to random

I fucking hate mosquitoes

izaya, 10 days ago to random

Current RimWorld colony has four robots: two Militors, a Lifter, and a Constructoid

anyone want a robot named after them?

ChiralTheAlien, 10 days ago to random

People always go on about the KT extinction event and the utterly catastrophic impact the asteroid had. However, my "favourite" (horrible as it is to call it that) (not-exactly) extinction event has instead become the Great Oxygenation Event, where 80% of life on earth flat out died and the planet became terraformed (heh) because some stupid-ass bacterium learned to eat the sun really, REALLY well.

Not just the inhabitants, but the planet itself, the very composition of its atmosphere and just about all the rules changed as these bacteria slowly poisoned the air and rusted the oceans. It's... frankly mind-blowing the scale of it all.

And today it's just considered a super ordinary, rather unremarkable thing that there is a stupid amount of oxygen floating around freely in our atmosphere.

Houl, 11 days ago to random

:neofox_up_paws:​ morning

Houl, 12 days ago to random

:neofox_comfy_mug: morning

ChiralTheAlien, 13 days ago to random

To my Northern hemisphere friends who got to see the Aurora... I am both super jealous, and so happy for you!

ChiralTheAlien, 13 days ago to random

Hello, all. Okays, so bad news first: no stream today.

Good news: tomorrow should be a return to normalcy on my end! Finally!

rq, 19 days ago to random

So I lost an account. Like, genuinely lost. I know the username. I don't know the password or e-mail address.

ChiralTheAlien, 20 days ago to random

Hey all! No streams this week, I'll be back next week!

ChiralTheAlien, 21 days ago to random

I kid you not, the standard keybind for MHW's keyboard shortcut to get to the communication menu....
alt+f4

lofty, 22 days ago to random

where's a set theoretician when you need them.

ChiralTheAlien, 23 days ago to random

Eh? What do you know! I now have a semi-working trade price calculator for my game! Well... sorta. I have a base-cost price that is then taxed thrice (Settlement, provincial and regional taxes).

Merchants don't pay the same taxes when buying from you (you pay taxes in other ways, that still needs to happen), but they will have an amount that they are comfortable to offer you to open with, knowing they can turn a profit. That is now in as well.

Technically, this system is okay. There's a little trade game's start in here now, but it's nowhere near done. Next, I need to add what items merchants sell, what items they buy, and what items they're willing to go all in on if you happen to have them. (You don't just walk up to a town and the merchants there will buy whatever. They're very specific about what they'll buy, and from where. Same with what they'll sell. Think Morrowind, but instead of flat-out refusing to buy from you if you have stuff they don't like, they might low-ball you or, worse, it might harm your rep with them.). In order to do that the player's inventory will need to happen at the same time.

Then, I need to get a haggling system going.

ChiralTheAlien, 23 days ago to random

Speaking of, for some reason last night I fell into the rabbit hole of looking through jewellery of ancient civilisations, and while the context of some of the finds makes my stomach feel very poorly (seriously don't look this stuff up, you will have nightmares), I will say that, honestly, very fancy even today.

Our craftsmanship has certainly improved, we can work much finer much more reliably as our tools are incomprehensibly better than anything they would have had to work with, but they were indisputably masters of their craft.

lofty, 23 days ago to random

yawns
Morning fedi