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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 1d

For the granular approach, the Spectral Class section in Crewed Rules should probably have a components table for each site type, with component types grouped together, and with component weight and any special properties listed individually (So as to avoid "is the refinery included in this one?")

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 1d

From a player perspective, the most important things for me re: rockets are the numbers at the end of the row and maybe the bonus elsewhere due to refinery or robonaut type. Most of the components can be elided or bundled together, since I'm making choices solely by the thrust / fuel cost.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 1d

I'll stand by what I said in Part 2; a flowchart of premade rockets for each factory type would be a good alternative for people who want to engage with decision-making without having to do the whole granular shebang.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 1d

It's not easy, but there is a mostly-functioning procedure under there.

Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 2d

Part 3 of my mission report for @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space is up: at long last, I complete the first year of the Hayabusa's 4 year mission!

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60 Years, the Return: Part 3

I’ve kept the steps that aren’t applicable for this mission anyway as a model / memory aid. Part 1: Crew & Mission Generation Part 2: Rocket...

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 3d

Disney Star Wars has flubbed many things, but these guys are peak.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 4d

Well, won't be able to finish the video in time for the Cursed Conlang Circus deadline. I'll just take my time and polish it up properly.

Recording and editing is hard!

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 4d

It was certainly a bold choice for Team Cherry to put a message at the entrance to Mt. Fay that said "You should uninstall Silksong immediately and go play Hades 2 instead", but it's working for me so far

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 8d

Oh yeah: it's all coming together.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 9d

Hades 2: the game is //good//

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 10d

Where the flying fuck did Google hide the gslides table options menu. Where the fuck is it. I just want to resize the column widths. Where the fuck are the table options, everything says look at the table options THERE ARE NO TABLE OPTIONS. WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY, GOOGLE

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 12d

It's been far, far too long since I did a Mother Stole Fire post: here's 100 more facts about it

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100 More Facts About Mother Stole Fire

Sequel to a post I wrote nearly four years ago on the dot. Been away for far too long. There are seven dogs in the world whose loyalty is ...

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 15d

No like, in what you can do.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 15d

There's been like a slideshow arms race since I graduated college, hasn't there?

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 17d

All Errors are My Own is a solid 75% of why I want to do this experiment: there's so much great stuff in there.

Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, I get the logic behind putting the choice there - my main objection to it is that it's an unfairness that isn't signposted to the reader/player.

The archetypes that are missing their key skills are fine, but they aren't tagged as a hard mode where you start with fewer free skill points.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 17d

@andrewdoull.bsky.social

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 17d

My quest to play a single mission of 60 Years in Space continues, now with an entire post of actual rocket science.

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60 Years: Return Part 2

I hope you like math, because today is ROCKET SCIENCE DAY Picking up from Part 1 : Our story stars JAXA’s exploratory rocket Hayashida and ...

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 18d

You love to see it: local cafe got rid of the I-can't-confirm-but-it-definitely-feels-ai work they had hanging up and put in a two-wall mural by local artists.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 18d

Oh yeah, that'd do it.

Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 22d

Ah! Good to know.

I've done all my layout in Affinity, so I unfortunately don't know of any ways to wrangle LATEX. Though I'm sure someone out there has a template that plays nicer with tables.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 22d

In what can only be considered a stress-induced madman's fugue state, I've managed to prep a single mission in @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space: the Hayashida and her crew are headed to the asteroid 5145 Pholus out past Uranus.

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60 Years in Space: The Return

Artistbloomyk This post isn't about Magnus, but god damn is this what my brain feels like right now. ** I think the stress of this year migh...

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 22d

Dang that's a good list

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 23d

I have the barest possible outline for a revised gazetteer. it's basically nothing at the moment.

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Dandyman @throneofsalt.bsky.social · 25d

I actually ended up skipping them in chargen because doing demographics first makes more sense for my workflow

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