Simple Questions Thread

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:57 am #248539

Bottom post of the previous page:

Am I an idiot or is there no way to repair a broken airlock? (Damaged, not emagged.)

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:58 am #248541

Both, I think.

Haevacht · Post by **Haevacht** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 1:06 am #248558

He's right it's both.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 1:13 am #248567

DemonFiren wrote:Both, I think.

Haevacht wrote:He's right it's both.

Day of the rope soon, Lizard scum

danno · Post by **danno** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 1:14 am #248568

geilebeer wrote:what happened to subtlegraces

lost it while adminning like everyone else

Munchlax · Post by **Munchlax** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:18 am #248655

danno wrote:
geilebeer wrote:what happened to subtlegraces
lost it while adminning like everyone else

bring him back

Whoisthere · Post by **Whoisthere** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:09 pm #252172

Are carrot shivs edible?

Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:03 pm

Whoisthere wrote:Are carrot shivs edible?

No too sharp

Paroxysms · Post by **Paroxysms** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:04 am #252341

Are atmos canister bombs still possible to make?

Munchlax · Post by **Munchlax** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:31 am #252350

Paroxysms wrote:Are atmos canister bombs still possible to make?

Last time I tried was half a year ago, didnt work, dont know about now

Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:50 am

they do work but i dont know how to make them. ive definitely fallen for them before by opening them and exploding.

OtherDalfite · Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:18 am

What all can take someone's head off? By pure beating I mean. I know eswords and surgery stuff as well as spears. Anything else that's able to with enough thrashing?

Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:53 am

OtherDalfite wrote:What all can take someone's head off? By pure beating I mean. I know eswords and surgery stuff as well as spears. Anything else that's able to with enough thrashing?

chainsaws, sabre, swords, several chaplain weapons, chef cleaver, possibly chef knife if you're patient, cake hat, welder (you'll probably need to refill ammo at some point for it though), axe, switchblades maybe, mining survival knife, probably more stuff

Munchlax · Post by **Munchlax** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:01 am #252398

Does decapitating a ling make it unable to regen?

Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:20 am

geilebeer wrote:Does decapitating a ling make it unable to regen?

No, they can survive without a head.

Whoisthere · Post by **Whoisthere** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:45 am #252478

How old should one be to play the game
Asking for a friend

Screemonster · Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:55 am

Whoisthere wrote:How old should one be to play the game
Asking for a friend

old enough to have the sense to lie about it

(but seriously it's 18)

Zaffre · Post by **Zaffre** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:27 pm #253723

Why are some things invisible but some things are not when you take a picture of them?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:48 pm #253730

If that question was simple it would have been fixed a long time ago.

AnonymousNow · Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:22 am

When did the department chat channel colours get changed? I keep mistaking command for medical now that the former's navy instead of gold.

cedarbridge · Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:27 am

AnonymousNow wrote:When did the department chat channel colours get changed? I keep mistaking command for medical now that the former's navy instead of gold.

Right here: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/21476

AnonymousNow · Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:48 am

Well, that's poor.

FantasticFwoosh · Fri Feb 10, 2017 1:33 pm

Zaffre wrote:Why are some things invisible but some things are not when you take a picture of them?
~snipped picture~

Most if not all traitor & antagonistic items are invisible to photographs, unless in the case that is a agent card disguised as a off station ID in which it uses a non traitorous/antag sprite.

Lore reason is that it makes it harder to prove traitors, so everything traitor related is usually sprayed with anti-photogenic paint that repels polaroids etc.

Zaffre · Post by **Zaffre** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:23 pm #254967

Most if not all traitor & antagonistic items are invisible to photographs, unless in the case that is a agent card disguised as a off station ID in which it uses a non traitorous/antag sprite.

Lore reason is that it makes it harder to prove traitors, so everything traitor related is usually sprayed with anti-photogenic paint that repels polaroids etc.

But nothing in that picture is anything to do with antags. I tried with many other items, such as a piece of paper, a straight jacket and a MMI with brain but they still didn't appear.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 4:42 pm #255022

Zaffre wrote:
Most if not all traitor & antagonistic items are invisible to photographs, unless in the case that is a agent card disguised as a off station ID in which it uses a non traitorous/antag sprite.

Lore reason is that it makes it harder to prove traitors, so everything traitor related is usually sprayed with anti-photogenic paint that repels polaroids etc.
But nothing in that picture is anything to do with antags. I tried with many other items, such as a piece of paper, a straight jacket and a MMI with brain but they still didn't appear.

MMIs are camera shy

calzilla1 · Post by **calzilla1** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:36 pm #255050

If i ported the nazi vendor from vg but made it say "from the natsoc party of earth" could that get through?

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:14 pm #255068

calzilla1 wrote:If i ported the nazi vendor from vg but made it say "from the natsoc party of earth" could that get through?

Gonna need a bit more information. I don't spend enough time on /vg/ to know what that even does.

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:20 pm #255112

Code policy only mentions the national socialist party of Germany so I think you're in the clear

AnonymousNow · Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:17 am

Only just had my first ayy round after all this time.

How're we supposed to figure out what the different glands do? And do the three different buttons in the processor do different things? Do they have a chance to fail?

Haevacht · Post by **Haevacht** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 6:57 am #259176

AnonymousNow wrote:Only just had my first ayy round after all this time.

How're we supposed to figure out what the different glands do? And do the three different buttons in the processor do different things? Do they have a chance to fail?

For the first one: You don't. You just put gland in and hope someone talks about it over comms.

Remie Richards · Wed Feb 22, 2017 11:41 am

AnonymousNow wrote:do the three different buttons in the processor do different things?

Code: Select all

		switch(text2num(type))
			if(1)
				H << "<span class='warning'>You feel violated.</span>"
			if(2)
				H << "<span class='warning'>You feel yourself being sliced apart and put back together.</span>"
			if(3)
				H << "<span class='warning'>You feel intensely watched.</span>"

fluff.

AnonymousNow · Wed Feb 22, 2017 11:52 am

Haevacht wrote:For the first one: You don't. You just put gland in and hope someone talks about it over comms.

That's unfortunate. Especially since the roundend objectives for our subjects didn't seem to reflect what we heard on the radio.
In an ideal world, I'd like to home in on the healing glands for people.

Remie Richards wrote:fluff.

Ah, good. I had a brief moment of panic when I pressed what I thought was the wrong button and a subject vanished.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 1:59 pm #259251

AnonymousNow wrote:Only just had my first ayy round after all this time.

How're we supposed to figure out what the different glands do? And do the three different buttons in the processor do different things? Do they have a chance to fail?

You don't, that's why you're sticking them in people so you can study them (That's the lore anyway).

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 1:12 pm #259673

On long voyages do NT sleeper the crew, OD them on chems till they die, have special drones space the bodies and then clone a new crew on arrival in order to maintain the illusion of cryostasis, or is there an army of borgs on NT spaceships to keep the crew alive in suspended animation.

MimicFaux · Post by **MimicFaux** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:23 pm #259684

Reece wrote:On long voyages do NT sleeper the crew, OD them on chems till they die, have special drones space the bodies and then clone a new crew on arrival in order to maintain the illusion of cryostasis, or is there an army of borgs on NT spaceships to keep the crew alive in suspended animation.

Seeing how they handle everything else, probably whichever is the cheapest option.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:47 pm #259688

Watch Moon.
Literally NT.

Remie Richards · Thu Feb 23, 2017 2:58 pm

MimicFaux wrote:
Reece wrote:On long voyages do NT sleeper the crew, OD them on chems till they die, have special drones space the bodies and then clone a new crew on arrival in order to maintain the illusion of cryostasis, or is there an army of borgs on NT spaceships to keep the crew alive in suspended animation.
Seeing how they handle everything else, probably whichever is the cheapest option.

Is it cheaper to space and clone them, or to keep them suspended?
given the frequency of cloning in rounds I'd say we get chucked out every single trip (grim ;_;)
Though this has given me an idea...

onleavedontatme · Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:01 pm

Trick question, they both cost nothing since NT has discovered both infinitely renewable energy sources and also ways to convert energy into matter.

Post by **Shaps-cloud** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:07 pm #259694

Reece wrote:On long voyages do NT sleeper the crew, OD them on chems till they die, have special drones space the bodies and then clone a new crew on arrival in order to maintain the illusion of cryostasis, or is there an army of borgs on NT spaceships to keep the crew alive in suspended animation.

Probably have a select crew of janitors and engineers who wake up every so often to do maintenance on the ship and make sure things are progressing smoothly.

Remie Richards · Thu Feb 23, 2017 3:46 pm

Kor wrote:Trick question, they both cost nothing since NT has discovered both infinitely renewable energy sources and also ways to convert energy into matter.

too late I'm making the "mass body ejection" canon.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:06 pm #259704

>implying

MimicFaux · Post by **MimicFaux** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:27 pm #259708

This conversation reminds me of

Spoiler:

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:44 pm #259711

Maybe it's that we all get MMI'd put into storage and then placed into humanised monkeys, defibed and healed up on our way.

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:46 pm #259712

Anonmare wrote:
AnonymousNow wrote:Only just had my first ayy round after all this time.

How're we supposed to figure out what the different glands do? And do the three different buttons in the processor do different things? Do they have a chance to fail?
You don't, that's why you're sticking them in people so you can study them (That's the lore anyway).

About this, the sprites are consistent with the gland type, so you can just check the helpful table at https://tgstation13.org/wiki/Abductor#Possible_Glands !

Screemonster · Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:09 pm

Could always go the Eclipse Phase route and just have them resleeved into new bodies as and when needed

and the stress of constantly changing bodies and being murdered over and over is why most spacemen are fucking bugnuts insane and paranoid

confused rock · Sat Feb 25, 2017 6:50 am

seriously how tf you make a simple black powder nade fuck black powder

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:55 am #260512

If you pre-heat the components for black powder they'll keep the heat once mixed, so it will be above explosion temperature.

confused rock · Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:01 am

jesus fucking goddamned bloody christ mate laddo right there thats the most fucking goddamned bloody genius shit I've ever heard

Jacough · Post by **Jacough** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 4:57 am #261118

What would happen if someone somehow managed to set up and release the singularity on lavalands? Would it suck in every tile leaving nothing but space or would it just fly around aimlessly doing little harm?

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 5:30 am #261121

Jacough wrote:What would happen if someone somehow managed to set up and release the singularity on lavalands? Would it suck in every tile leaving nothing but space or would it just fly around aimlessly doing little harm?

Its actually been tried on lowpop sybil. It eats the rocks and mobs and leaves the ground tiles alone.

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 5:31 am #261122

And megafauna is 100% immune, i once tried to kill a dragon with a BoH bomb as a golem and was unsuccessful.