nickajeglin

Yesssss

Do you know of anything like this for the switch? I'm a late comer to handhelds since I developed some shoulder problems and can't really PC game anymore.

I used to love a game called transcendence back when it was a free alpha. Top down, open world, semi-roguelike, big focus on combat with satisfying 2d physics and lots of ship customization. Less focus on trading and world interaction stuff.

I've looked at a couple you guys mentioned, but I'm really trying to find something that'll scratch that 2d space combat itch on a handheld.

There are a few kinds of steam!

Wet (unsaturated) steam: this is probably what's coming out of the instant pot. It's gasified water mixed with tiny particles of liquid water. Industrial processes do not want wet steam in their systems. They have machinery to separate the liquid out. If that liquid water settles out inside a pipe and blocks it, it'll go shooting down the pipe like a bullet and cause damage to whatever is at the end of the line. If the droplets get into turbomachinery, they'll tear up the turbines. Adding additional heat will not increase the temperature, but will get consumed by the phase change to evaporate the remaining water and change the wet steam into...

Dry (saturated) steam: this is precisely the point when all the water has been evaporated. If you remove heat, it will start to condense without changing temperature. If you add additional heat, it will increase the temperature of the steam, because there is no water left to evaporate. This is useful because changing phase between liquid and gas consumes/yields a ton of energy, and that happens at a constant temperature. So if you need to transfer heat from one place to another, then saturated steam is what you want. Adding heat to saturated steam gets you...

Superheated steam: at this point you can conceptualize water as a gas. Intuitively, it works just like air or nitrogen or whatever. Pressure/temp relationships act like you'd expect from your everyday experience, because you're far enough above the gas-liquid phase change temperature that you don't have to worry about condensation getting into your equipment. If you want to use steam as a working fluid in turbomachinery or something, then you want superheated steam.

All three can hurt you badly, but inadvertent contact with superheated steam will fuck you up or cause irreversible death.

Yeah, but then they go and open all the windows to "change the air" no matter the weather.

I used to work with a bunch of Germans in the US. I came in to the office one time at about 4:30am in February. One of the guys had all the windows open when the outdoor temperature was something like -20F.

Like Moritz, I think that avoiding the draft is more important than changing the air at that point. 🙄

I also had an old manufacturing guy tell me that drinking cold water in the summer would kill you because of the shock to your system.

I love that chart and I've posted it in several discussions about the safety of nuclear. A lot of people have weirdly volatile reactions to it though. It's really hard for them to believe that nuclear is on par with renewables.

Pushing the metaphor even further, all my stuff isn't even moved out of the ex's house yet, so I'll probably want to keep talking about them until the situation is over. It's just going to take a little time.

Yes, thank you. Excessive prudishness and self censoring is always an indicator to me that a community is going a weird direction.

Dark souls 1 or the remaster is still worth playing. The map design is once-in-a-lifetime good. There is a pretty hefty penalty like in other souls games, but it's just getting hollowed and losing some souls. DS3 is also good, maybe a more refined version of 1, but I personally don't think the world is as cohesive with the loading screens.

The trick is to just get used to being hollowed all the time and spending souls asap when you get them. You don't lose gear when you die, and gear is pretty important. The real progress comes from learning how to deal with each enemy though, and that comes from dying. I guess it sort of boils down to "git gud", even though that wasn't what I was trying to say here lol.

Wonderful, I hope they burn the sub to the ground before reddit makes any more ad revenue off it.

BOT-Albert is my oldest friend.

I'm worried that the costs of the physical hardware are trivial compared to the amount of money that content farming etc pulls in, so it's just an expense that scales with the amount of junk content they produce.

This is great news, thank you!