Simple Questions Thread

[Reece]

Bottom post of the previous page:

If you crash land a plane and you and a guy with no feeling or nerves in his legs live, is it more of less evil to wait until he's alseep and then eat his legs than simple cannibalism?

[FantasticFwoosh]

If you crash land a plane and you and a guy with no feeling or nerves in his legs live, is it more of less evil to wait until he's alseep and then eat his legs than simple cannibalism?

Providing he doesn't notice, build a deep fryer first and sandwich his grilled legs between two loafs of ash bread (weeds and ash mixed with blood & bones) for maximum consumption

[Armhulen]

you might as well kill him, if you eat his legs he'll die of shock anyways

[Armhulen]

kill and then eat him entirely i mean

[Reece]

Thanks for the fast replies.

Next question, what's the best way to painlessly kill a disabled man with a satellite laptop without breaking the laptop?

[Remie Richards]

If this is still the plane crash, don't use the laptop, use part of the wreckage.
Or a rock.

[FantasticFwoosh]

A Nokia phone should do the job well enough.

[calzilla1]

There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead, on the tracks, there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off in the train yard, next to a lever. If you pull this lever, the trolley will switch to a different set of tracks. However, you notice that there is one person on the side track. You have two options:

Do nothing, and the trolley kills the five people on the main track.
Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.
Which is the most ethical choice?

[Anonmare]

Switching the tracks when the train is halfway across.
That way, you can get the highest K/D ratio via multi-track drifting

[Professor Hangar]

Jump onto the train, screaming 'WITNESS ME!' at the top of your lungs.

[Lazengann]

Is the one person black

[FantasticFwoosh]

Throw yourself onto the tracks so that your mangled corpse might buffer to slow down the train when it collides into the 5 people in the hopes that someone will survive.

[D&B]

Ahelp the train for random murder as non antag

[Remie Richards]

Ask the train nicely to stop.

[Screemonster]

you guys are philosophising like babies

watch this

[RandolfTheMeh]

ez pz

[Swindly]

you guys are philosophising like babies

watch this

According to math, the best strategy would be to not pull the lever unless you are only minimizing the deaths of your loved ones and you know the person at the other lever wants to minimize total deaths.

[Anonmare]

Pull the lever Kronk

[Armhulen]

Pull the lever Kronk

i respect you

[DemonFiren]

eh, nothing

[Qbopper]

Pull the lever Kronk

i respect you

[tacolizard]

Pull the lever Kronk

i respect you

[DemonFiren]

What the fuck is Agent B?

[Nabski]

What the fuck is Agent B?

Proof that you've code dived trying to do toxins.

[MimicFaux]

What the fuck is Agent B?

Proof that you've code dived trying to do toxins.

Now I'm just curious.

[DemonFiren]

What the fuck is Agent B?

Proof that you've code dived trying to do toxins.

Actually, no. I was going to spawn some pressure tanks into my test server and noticed one named "Oxygen Agent B".
The old as fuck sprite makes me assume it's something that never really got finished.

[TribeOfBeavers]

It's an unfinished/unimplemented gas. Here's an old thead with someone asking about it:
https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4422.

I checked the code and for some reason it is supposed to react with hot CO2 to make oxygen.

[DemonFiren]

Sounds like something designed to pipe into a plasma fire to make the air semi-breathable again.

[Nabski]

It also had the highest specific heat before freon came and meme'd it out of the park with 2000. That's the real reason it's so effective for fixing a semi-fucked engine.

[AnonymousNow]

How do you inject people as a PAI in a medibot? You'd think clicking on them would do it, but it only says a TTS line.

[Dr_bee]

How do you inject people as a PAI in a medibot? You'd think clicking on them would do it, but it only says a TTS line.

It depends on how you are set. pAI still are restricted by the health threshold that non-pAI medibots have.

I imagine if someone emagged a pAI controlled medibot it wouldnt have to worry about the health threshold.

[Lazengann]

If you buy a syndicate encryption key, can people adjacent to you hear you have additional radio channels?

[Anonmare]

They shouldn't be able to, I'm almost certain syndi-keys were designed with the intent of not being able to be eavesdropped on by someone standing next to you.

An interesting thing to note is that there is two unused encryption keys in the game. Standard keys, which you used to need to speak on common, and the robotics encryption key which gives you science and engineering radio channels

[AnonymousNow]

health threshold

I tried it on a variety of people, ranging from fully healthy to missing an arm. The only difference was that the healthy peoples' TTS lines were along the lines of "all patched up".

Another question: is the wrecked mech shuttle able to fly? I've never got to it to try, and nobody ever visits it since it hasn't got, like, a Phazon or something. You'd think that, with an engine and a console on it, it could fly to station space.

[Anonmare]

Shuttles need a landmark to be able to move to that location. You can actually interact with them ingame as an admin if you know the exact tile they're on

[Grazyn]

If you buy a syndicate encryption key, can people adjacent to you hear you have additional radio channels?

I think you can't hear anyone's radio headset, syndie or not

[Lazengann]

Nah when you stand next to someone you can hear their radio. I was wondering if the syndie key was different.

[AnonymousNow]

Shuttles need a landmark to be able to move to that location. You can actually interact with them ingame as an admin if you know the exact tile they're on

I hope that shuttles and shuttle-like objects being repaired and sent to station space is an option in the future.

Another question. Is there a way to clear lava? The traditional way is using an RCD, but that's just been patched (?) out; you'd figure that with enough ashsand that you could make a basalt floor tile.

[Drynwyn]

Shuttles need a landmark to be able to move to that location. You can actually interact with them ingame as an admin if you know the exact tile they're on

I hope that shuttles and shuttle-like objects being repaired and sent to station space is an option in the future.

Another question. Is there a way to clear lava? The traditional way is using an RCD, but that's just been patched (?) out; you'd figure that with enough ashsand that you could make a basalt floor tile.

Carpet smoke used to work, don't know if it still does.

[DemonFiren]

Next gas question, what does volatile fuel do?
Because it doesn't seem to burn.

[Remie Richards]

it increases the temperature of existing fires.
the reaction is oxygen + volatile fuel = hotter flame.

[DemonFiren]

So it's more of an accelerant.

Should probably experiment with putting some of this in a turbine mix.

[Remie Richards]

accelerant is a good term for it, yes.

[DemonFiren]

All right, next is poisonous shit.

My go-to kill mix for syringes contains toxin, plasma, lexorin, cyanide, mutagen, heparin, formaldehyde, sulfuric, fluorosulfuric, and fluorine.
A single syringe of this crits in 15 seconds and can be made without leaving medbay.
Is there any way to decrease this time without traitor items?

[XDTM]

Xenobio can give you frost oil and slime toxin (if not outright dangerous shit like plasmaman or black slime toxin), and with a little rnd you can make chem dispensers for the rest.

[Anonmare]

Fun fact: Slime (not slimeperson) Advanced Mutation toxin plus a potion of docility is a really effective way of killing someone

[Jegub]

You can use some toxin to make weed killer, pest killer and plant-b-gone. I also generally add some neurotoxin, as in the chemical; you can cut out the long heating time by adding 5 units each of chlorine and fluorine.
The initial stun from injected miner's salve and the illusion of health it provides could make it a worthwhile addition.

[MimicFaux]

A little over simplistic, but could you double tap someone with a syringe of water and a syringe of potassium for the classic blast?

[Anonmare]

A little over simplistic, but could you double tap someone with a syringe of water and a syringe of potassium for the classic blast?

Theoretically doable but it wouldn't be an amazingly large blast. You'd blow their socks off though. You'd probably get a blast worth mentioning if you force-fed them potassium and water pills but that has the downside of putting you in harm's way.

I'd recommend doubletapping with the components of a meth explosion to get a much bigger boom when they mix inside the person's body

[DemonFiren]

Personally I'd prefer double-tapping with nitroglycerin components.
Bonus point in that these components are damaging anyway.

[Anonmare]

I mean,if you have the ability and time to make nitroglycerin in any significant amount, you could probably just make a bomb core from plasteel and stick a couple of beakers of the stuff in it and hit the station with a bomb that's bigger than a maxcap (chem bombs ignore the bomb cap).