@Boeing727200F The yard workers are clearly entertaining your attempts to drag it home with you because they find it entertaining. Goodness knows I would, if I were there. Keep at it, you almost moved it there. Just a few dozen more kilonewtons and you might just have it!
It's not 1 foot, it's 300mm. 1 foot would be 304.8mm.
It's mostly used for small but highly regular transport. Think like a conveyor belt or personnel shuttle.
@TheLoadingGorilla Oof. Sorry to hear that.
@Boeing727200F This site is a joke sometimes.
I even tagged SupremeDorian, but nope! No indication if it's been missed or if it's somehow not VR-compatible.
@TheLoadingGorilla I can't see how I would. I'm a stone. There's no nutrients for a biological disease to use, not am I porous enough to get infected.
That said, it IS possible for a geobrain to get temporarily disrupted, which is quite annoying and unpleasant.
@TheLoadingGorilla Hm. Seeing as it's the tumour, and we don't usually do branded merchandise deliveries there...
I reckon around, eh, $15-20 USD approximately.
@Boeing727200F One of the small gauge ones? 30cm? How much did they charge you? Can’t imagine they’d give those away for free…
Now that I think about it, what did it cost to get in? We don’t typically take visitors; security is taken very seriously, if the checking of any cameras on your person at the gates was any indication.
@Boeing727200F Yes, it was a near miss but it seems those ears aren’t entirely for show. Making away with an original concept model duplicate is a damn steal and I’ll admit I’m rather jealous, even if only a locomotive.
@Michiganstatepolicethe2nd Indeed, under the right circumstances they (and by that I mean the GDE series especially) can be next to silent. Teslas make a whirring noise, like a UFO in a movie, though.
@MarkTheDesignGuy There was confusion and a delay, but not from this.
@YishFish42 It's a short story compilation; a play on 'Grain' (my name) and 'Anthology'.
I wrote it at the beginning of October during a time when I was banned from both Reddit and SimplePlanes.com, the SP ban being a week long. I set out to write a story every day, though life ended up causing only five to be written (and a scrapped sixth that I didn't like how it was turning out).
Originally they were supposed to be lower-quality snapshots of around ~1000 words, but ended up growing substantially to the point I wanted to get them pre-read for feedback. What were supposed to come out in quick succession have instead taken months. Granted, it has been an especially long time since the last one due to life business. Before that it was a couple weeks between each.
@YishFish42 Steam randomly deleted everything. This was during the time of the first SP2 playtest.
I'm not sure if it was completely random, or if it did that thing where it throws a window (in this case the extremely dangerous steam cloud vs. local window, if it was that) at you in front of something you were about to click and you click it by accident. I think I had a window fly at me around that time, but I don't know if "that time" was that moment when I was starting the game or like a few days around that point. Idk if it was related.
TL;DR: Not only are all projects that I hadn't clicked the save button on (which makes a local backup) since my laptop last shat itself gone forever (and all the subassemblies), but I simply cannot trust SP anymore. How can I invest time into something which could take it all away at random?
@YishFish42 Yep. A little off-topic, but the next Grainthology part is about it.
@Boeing727200F Maybe someone just wants you dead?
@Randomplayer No need to shout.
@YishFish42 Me? Not much.
I'm honestly still not sure why the Yukon plant was abandoned. It was only a couple decades old at the time and was very developed. Had its own infrastructure and everything.
@TheLoadingGorilla There are gorillas in Alaska?
@Boeing727200F Oh, well that's good.
... I'm not sure why it was moving, actually. Those engines are retired. Why on Earth was it active? Hmm...
Most of my knowledge about diesel locomotives comes from this video. I thought it mentioned an electrical propulsion system, though I couldn't be bothered to rewatch it right now to verify that.
@TheLoadingGorilla Depends, where would it be shipped to? What material?
Just the balloon, or helium also?
@Boeing727200F IIRC don't diesels have battery packs for moving around the yard without using the engine?
@Boeing727200F I googled it right after.
I have this strange tendency to ask people questions online, then go look for the answer myself. It's like the moment I've sent the message I stop treating it as a conversation and begin treating it as the internet. It's funny.
@TheLoadingGorilla You'd have to visit a Graingy plant, which is... difficult for someone in your position.
@Boeing727200F "Quiet" might be an understatement. More like silent.
I don't know what the rail engineers did to those things, but I swear there's some sort of sound-dampening magic involved.
I dunno, trains aren't my thing. For all I know the wheels could be covered in foam or whatever.
@Boeing727200F Did you think to look in the cab to see if there was someone at the controls? Because I guarantee that's what was happening.
+1@Boeing727200F The yard workers are clearly entertaining your attempts to drag it home with you because they find it entertaining. Goodness knows I would, if I were there. Keep at it, you almost moved it there. Just a few dozen more kilonewtons and you might just have it!
+2It's not 1 foot, it's 300mm. 1 foot would be 304.8mm.
It's mostly used for small but highly regular transport. Think like a conveyor belt or personnel shuttle.
@TheLoadingGorilla Oof. Sorry to hear that.
@Boeing727200F This site is a joke sometimes.
I even tagged SupremeDorian, but nope! No indication if it's been missed or if it's somehow not VR-compatible.
@TheLoadingGorilla I can't see how I would. I'm a stone. There's no nutrients for a biological disease to use, not am I porous enough to get infected.
That said, it IS possible for a geobrain to get temporarily disrupted, which is quite annoying and unpleasant.
The last one before this was the Name Change announcement. Also known as the point which I became the account manager.
@Boeing727200F Apparently this is the ONLY public post on this account without an upvote.
+1And it remains relevant. The freighter still isn't curated!
sharp plane
+1@32 Except it doesn't work, because it's a terribly thought-out system.
+1@TheLoadingGorilla I'll pass your request to sales.
@TheLoadingGorilla No. It includes delivery, but does not include anything that the US government may demand. You have to pay that.
@TheLoadingGorilla Hm. Seeing as it's the tumour, and we don't usually do branded merchandise deliveries there...
I reckon around, eh, $15-20 USD approximately.
@Monarchii It was nearly a major interplanetary diplomatic incident.
@TheLoadingGorilla correct
@Boeing727200F One of the small gauge ones? 30cm? How much did they charge you? Can’t imagine they’d give those away for free…
+1Now that I think about it, what did it cost to get in? We don’t typically take visitors; security is taken very seriously, if the checking of any cameras on your person at the gates was any indication.
0/10 would not recommend they wouldn’t let me out
There’s rocks and shit there
@Monarchii It’s called the Tower of London.
+1@BYardley And enemies.
+1@brainsloplunch You make a convincing argument…
+1JESUS CHRIST
+1The numbers mean what exactly?
@Boeing727200F Yes, it was a near miss but it seems those ears aren’t entirely for show. Making away with an original concept model duplicate is a damn steal and I’ll admit I’m rather jealous, even if only a locomotive.
+2@Michiganstatepolicethe2nd Indeed, under the right circumstances they (and by that I mean the GDE series especially) can be next to silent. Teslas make a whirring noise, like a UFO in a movie, though.
@MarkTheDesignGuy There was confusion and a delay, but not from this.
@Monarchii I see you’ve hit the groovy stage
@Boeing727200F leaf soup
@Michiganstatepolicethe2nd ?
I’m very prolific.
uh what
+1@Monarchii oh wonderful I'll get the jam
@YishFish42 I see.
Accent when speaking English, I assume?
@TheLoadingGorilla Gorilla activities.
+1@MetallicBeef6572 Don't pull the lever to flatten the fox, pull the lever to pick up the fax.
@TheLoadingGorilla Gorilla will remember that.
@MetallicBeef6572 There's no questions to be asked.
The fox man will be flattened. Flat like pancake.
Smooshed into jelly.
@YishFish42 Anyways care to explain why you want to learn to squeeze your juice out?
@YishFish42 It's a short story compilation; a play on 'Grain' (my name) and 'Anthology'.
+1I wrote it at the beginning of October during a time when I was banned from both Reddit and SimplePlanes.com, the SP ban being a week long. I set out to write a story every day, though life ended up causing only five to be written (and a scrapped sixth that I didn't like how it was turning out).
Originally they were supposed to be lower-quality snapshots of around ~1000 words, but ended up growing substantially to the point I wanted to get them pre-read for feedback. What were supposed to come out in quick succession have instead taken months. Granted, it has been an especially long time since the last one due to life business. Before that it was a couple weeks between each.
@YishFish42 Steam randomly deleted everything. This was during the time of the first SP2 playtest.
I'm not sure if it was completely random, or if it did that thing where it throws a window (in this case the extremely dangerous steam cloud vs. local window, if it was that) at you in front of something you were about to click and you click it by accident. I think I had a window fly at me around that time, but I don't know if "that time" was that moment when I was starting the game or like a few days around that point. Idk if it was related.
TL;DR: Not only are all projects that I hadn't clicked the save button on (which makes a local backup) since my laptop last shat itself gone forever (and all the subassemblies), but I simply cannot trust SP anymore. How can I invest time into something which could take it all away at random?
@YishFish42 What does?
Also, *a lot.
@YishFish42 Yep. A little off-topic, but the next Grainthology part is about it.
+1@Boeing727200F Maybe someone just wants you dead?
@Randomplayer No need to shout.
@YishFish42 I can't even play SP anymore anyways.
... you mean squeeze your juice out? What?
@TheLoadingGorilla Good. For your safety.
@YishFish42 Me? Not much.
I'm honestly still not sure why the Yukon plant was abandoned. It was only a couple decades old at the time and was very developed. Had its own infrastructure and everything.
@TheLoadingGorilla There are gorillas in Alaska?
@Boeing727200F Oh, well that's good.
... I'm not sure why it was moving, actually. Those engines are retired. Why on Earth was it active? Hmm...
Most of my knowledge about diesel locomotives comes from this video. I thought it mentioned an electrical propulsion system, though I couldn't be bothered to rewatch it right now to verify that.
@Boeing727200F That GDE-G-45 was doing about a walking pace on electrical power. So, yeah, quiet.
@TheLoadingGorilla Depends, where would it be shipped to? What material?
Just the balloon, or helium also?
@Boeing727200F IIRC don't diesels have battery packs for moving around the yard without using the engine?
@Monarchii uh... you smelling toast?
@TheLoadingGorilla Remember when I mentioned that you should never try to handle a geobrain without their consent?
That's why.
@TheLoadingGorilla Uh, maybe?
@Boeing727200F I googled it right after.
+2I have this strange tendency to ask people questions online, then go look for the answer myself. It's like the moment I've sent the message I stop treating it as a conversation and begin treating it as the internet. It's funny.
@TheLoadingGorilla You'd have to visit a Graingy plant, which is... difficult for someone in your position.
ALCO?
@Boeing727200F "Quiet" might be an understatement. More like silent.
+1I don't know what the rail engineers did to those things, but I swear there's some sort of sound-dampening magic involved.
I dunno, trains aren't my thing. For all I know the wheels could be covered in foam or whatever.
@Boeing727200F To your credit, these things are shockingly quiet for machines weighing the better part of two hundred tonnes.
+1@TheLoadingGorilla Radioactive decay.
We're also natural capacitors, so we can store charge for greater bursts of power if needed.
@Boeing727200F Turn around. They say in the yards that the GDE-G-45 is coin-operated, and this one wants your wallet.
@Boeing727200F An awful lot of care for a battered corpse...
+1