TIL! Well, I guess my galaxy transit was delayed by a valid rarity! Well, I plunked down a base there, so I’ll consider it an addition to my collection of rarities.

For sure. In the right hands you could do so much. Even without a plot as such, or much lore, just imagine the material for a “Game Theory” video. Why is the “Mad Forest” now a dumping ground for evil? What was it like before the vampire? Does the Astral Stair connect to the Tiny Bridge? What is the Legacy of Moonspell? Where is the fried chicken?

Chemical warfare. These bombers are carrying a chemical called “Dihydrogen Monoxide” or DHMO. What effect does adding a chemical containing Hydrogen and Oxygen to fires have?

Why isn’t Trump talking about this Canadian chemical attack?

Pretty much the default for Steam Deck keyboard+mouse.

Works surprisingly well, just bind some keyboard shortcuts to the various other buttons and such.

Downside is that my right track pad is polished a little smooth in the middle. I blame the Master of Magic remake.

HODL! (For Steam sale or Humble Bundle)

My Steam Deck has largely replaced my laptop, so there is some overlap, but I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. If you are carrying a keyboard & external screen to work on spreadsheets with you Steam Deck, you would be happier with a laptop.

I have a 60% Bluetooth keyboard and a relatively compact mouse that I can carry with me, but by that point a compact laptop would be more portable with a larger screen.

Using the on screen keyboard and built-in screen to edit spreadsheets would constitute a crime against humanity. Don’t do it, there’s so much more to live for.

The reason it’s replaced my laptop is that I mostly use my laptop for gaming, and the Steam Deck excels at that. Most places I would use a laptop for something else, I have ready access to surplus keyboards and mice. At my parents there is an old TV with HDMI, and I stashed a basic USB mouse and keyboard there over a decade ago. My Steam Deck and a small hub is all I need.

Because of the need of external devices, I kind of consider the Steam Deck a combination of a handheld and a really portable desktop tower.

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That’s pretty much the “correct” way to play. Hence “Traveller” or wanderer.

The “Galaxy tour” is just an extension of that playstyle. Make your way to the centre of the galaxy, travel to the next galaxy, repeat, with detours to check out interesting diversions.

To search for synthetic creatures like these, you’ll want an Emeril or Indium drive in order to visit green or blue stars.

If you have the scanner, you can also look for uninhabited systems. Once in the green or blue uninhabited system, look for planets with 2,3 or 4 lifeforms. Synthetic creatures do not apparently coexist with “regular” creatures, so if you see one of the standard flyers in the distance, you can move onto the next planet.

The big walkers are great for exploring a planet, it will move along, giving you a good vantage point for you to scan. These really big walkers might be too tall, strictly speaking, but once you’ve ranged across an alien landscape astride your towering steed it’s tough to settle for a lesser mount.

I’m reminded of “Howl’s Moving Castle”, and by support base is “Howl’s Observatory”.

I’ll post the Euclid walker planet later tonight when I get home, if I can find the screenshot. Safe journeys Traveller!

You don’t need to do an expedition to find these guys, although I personally enjoy doing them (and redoing them).

These guys aren’t in the starting galaxy, so you won’t be able to visit them until you’re pretty far along in galaxy hopping. I have some glyphs in Euclid for some pretty big walkers, just not this big. I’ll dig them up and do another post.

Seems a better idea. There is a non-zero chance Ivanka has been abused by her dad or someone associated with Don’s old friend Epstein. Melania just has an “arrangement” with Don.

Oh god, I’m taking this too seriously. I remember making the same jokes and posting these same pictures right after the US election with Don blathering about tariffs.

Yeah, I remember Wubi! That was 20-ish years ago now. It kind of got made irrelevant by VM’s I guess. I wonder if it’s still around.

Making the same journey! Just about two jumps away from the center of Galaxy 34 (hex 21, thanks to glyphs, I started using hex to label my respective portal bases).

As others have said, uninstall your tech modules before jumping. I’ve stopped reinstalling when skipping through galaxies, although the absence of shields and environmental modules is noticeable, it’s mitigated by just summoning my freighter and an exocraft as soon as I “initialize” in a new galaxy.

I’ll then usually use my exocraft radar to find a monolith, use the monolith to find a portal, build a mini-base next to the portal, then teleport to 0000:0000:0000, make a few jumps, switch out my ship and multi tool, then onto the next galaxy.

Throw in some deviations for exploring and investigation, and I can clear a galaxy in probably ten minutes. Of course it never takes just ten minutes, there’s always distractions. Need to share some glyphs…

On the same journey. Stopped reinstalling my exosuit modules back around galaxy 25.

My “galaxy hopper” is my trusty old Radiant Pillar with everything uninstalled that I can get away with. My multi tool is whatever the last looted one I was going to scrap next anyways.

There would be a problem of “you go first…”

If the US became Imperialistic, and I mean old-school Imperial, non of this new age cultural or economic imperialism, then they could probably “take” their first conquest or two without much opposition. In this case Canada and Greenland would probably fall to US occupation.

It’s what would happen next that would destroy the American Empire. Everything you said is true, and every one of the US’s allies would wonder if they are next. If Canada, the US’s closest ally for generations cannot trust the US who can? The clear answer is no one. I would expect a swift unravelling of the global order. The EU would be an interesting case. With a belligerent (but failing) Russia to the East, and their long standing guarantor of peace suddenly no better, would it crack under the stress or would something more capable emerge?

It’s a horrific dystopian future we face, the entire globe would be plunged into an era of increased tension and military spending in the best case.

The current US “empire” has shown that buying something is cheaper and more beneficial than conquering something. In a few short years Trump might effectively vastly increase the cost of power from Canadian hydro facilities and at the same time scare away any others that would do business with them.

I don’t think the North Korean soldiers have much choice.

If I were a DPRK soldier sent to Russia, I would be taking notes on how to desert, although Russia and North Korea probably have a decent amount of experience dealing with this, so chances might be slim. Still, I’m thinking the chances look better.

Floppy disks are still used in industrial automation. If something works, you don’t mess with it until you need to. The thing with floppies, is that there are lots of them floating around, and they last a long time. You can also write different information to them.

I’ve got a couple of 8" floppies near my desk that aren’t used for anything anymore, but I bet they still work. So even though there are no floppies being produced, the existing supply of floppies will last a heck of a long time.

The cull creatures ones. When you kill biological horrors/monstrosities while Larval Core farming it counts as creatures killed. Don’t count as predators though, so I have a different planet I go to where an annoyingly aggressive predator almost always attacks in short order making it easy to find predators.

Sentinels require triggering a sentinel fight, which does happen periodically at settlements, but it’s still more work to trigger.

Overall, my favourite task to stack is the cull creatures.

Over two years with mine, battery aging isn’t noticeable. I’m pretty sure when plugged in and fully charged, the Deck runs off of external power. I don’t know if it shunts around the battery or not, but it certainly isn’t cycling the battery.

I mostly use my deck in a few fixed locations, so it’s mostly plugged in.

I’ve got some “fancy” $20 headphones right now. I used to use $10 headphones from Miniso, but they only last a year before one ear bud will go dead.

I’ve had expensive headphones, and have a nice pair of Sennheisers, but really it’s cheap in ear headphones most of the time for me.

They are small, and I keep them rolled up in a little pouch with a USB drive that’s pretty much always in my pocket. They never need to be charged. The audio quality is good enough that unless I start listening to FLACC files on my SD, I’m never going to notice. Their wired, so no lag or syncing issues ever. If something happens to them, I have another $10 pair tucked in a drawer, plus I can always buy more.

The Steam Deck is portable, can’t beat wired earbuds for portability and reliability.

Also, the mic is fine. The mic is on a wire, close to my mouth. It’s simple, but it makes the audio about as good as my Sennheisers. Or at least I’ve never noticed.

Ahh, such a rich diet of schadenfreude these days.