RiverDragon
strangeriverdragon.bsky.social
RiverDragon
@strangeriverdragon.bsky.social
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Wiggly Creature figuring out ΘΔ stuff
Rarely NSFW, but don't follow if you're a minor
PFP by @merteazy
oh dear, it's very negative
January 14, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I really hope it was just a poor explanation of specific gravity, which is just a way of talking about comparative density
January 10, 2026 at 7:05 AM
It's also much more fun to make things for each other than just for yourself
January 10, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Yeah, I always had trouble finding motivation to keep going when I was playing on my own, especially if I was starting over. I've only really gotten into it by playing with my GF. You get through the early game much faster
January 10, 2026 at 3:32 AM
I gotta see if this is allowed in the game Automation.
I gotta see if I can build a company that only sells that
January 9, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Everyone I know with a VR headset has a Quest and they all have such bad tech issues all the time. Meanwhile, I'm just vaguely annoyed with the Windows Mixed Reality UI that goes away when you open SteamVR. Can't believe I made the right call going for the weird discontinued HP headset
December 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I can only imagine the decision paralysis
December 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Also, someone needs to do a CGI nuke properly one of these days. One of the most distinctive and well-donumented phenomena caught on film and when we have the technology to depict it properly, TWO directors with budgets decide, "nah, gasoline bomb"
December 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The guy who taught me CNC plasma cutting can't retire because he's working off medical debt due to injuries he sustained on the job, including injuries from an acetylene explosion (we didn't even need to have acetylene at all. Less dangerous fuel gasses would work fine for our application)
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I got out of manufacturing and I'm only going back if I can move to Canada and get some actual union representation. The culture here is fucked. You're a joke if you care about safety. Everything is run by manchildren and the kind of executives who fire managers that care about OSHA compliance.
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A system based on this can never make a warp bubble that encompasses itself. The vacuum energy is very low compared to that of matter, so even the greatest possible deficit is never going to match the energy of matter needed to construct it.
December 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It's probably not a thing. A DoE experiment a few years ago showed that the Casimir effect (roughly, the reduction of local vacuum energy below ambient in nanoscale cavities) substitutes for actual negative energy on a tiny scale, but fundamentally can't be scaled up
December 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My only issue is that the way I pronounce it in my head makes me think of Ace Combat, then I keep thinking about Ace Combat and forget about it
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Yes, but when range and miniaturization are both important, visible light lasers make a lot of sense. Shorter wavelengths can be focused to longer ranges by smaller optics
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When you know it's a Lovecraft thing, you become even less comfortable with saying the full name
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Reentry - a space flight simulator (NASA capsules) is the best fit I know of.
Nucleares (PWR power plant) also kinda fits, but I can't really recommend it given my experience with its tutorials not working
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'm wondering how good its grenade launchers are gonna be. If it's capable of indirect fire from a reasonable range, it could be incredible for capturing bases
September 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What really boils my blood is when players think that fully voice acted stuff is an example of how good AI is even though there are real voice actors credited
September 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I have the same reaction, but having attempted to contribute amateur voice lines to a mod, but the project being abandoned due to two thirds of the volunteers desappearing after the first round of recording, I'm a little more forgiving. If they used AI for writing, though, instant loss of interest
September 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM