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###Commander's Personal Log, Entry 1

####16 Jul 2035, 0500 GMT

Our newest member of the council, Doctor Kiselyova, approached me after today's meeting. She recommended I keep a journal, as a therapeutic tool--something about studies showing that journaling about your goings-on and emotions can help to reduce mental distress, that it can help you to identify what's actually troubling you. She also said that, when this is all over, the history books are going to want to know what the mind of the 'great leader of the Resistance' was like, "what was inside your head, what drove you to make the decisions you did, to see your strategic brilliance in your own words."

The woma

Alright, so I've had to restart my second, ~100 hour, campaign.

I may or may not have blown up a mothership, blown up a >!landed UFO!<, went on an assassination spree on Servant councilors, and beat back an >!alien invasion!<, all before I had torches or even coilguns.

You see, while I knew what I was doing was somewhat dumb, I didn't realize exactly HOW bad it was. Until I noticed a fleet heading for Earth. Comprised of 2 motherships, six dreadnoughts, and a fuckton of escorts. Which then proceeded to completely obliterate the fleet I built to kill the mothership (I managed to kill one of the motherships through sheer luck, though, so I call that a win). Then all my orbitals.

This is a longshot, but I was playing EDF with a random group, having a great time. We got to the beach mission with the reds, and my connection crapped out. I didn't manage to catch his Steam ID, other than the fact it had "Chaos" in it.

If y'all see someone named Chaos, and they mention their save file being corrupted/wiped, that's probably him. Tell him Marauder/Panteradactyl is looking for him.

Running OCCT AVX2 Large data set, with my CPU overclocked to 5 GHz and undervolting by .005 volts. It's stable, but temps on the core spike up to 97 degrees max during the test, and the average is 79. This is a lower clock and higher temps than I expected, given my experiences with older CPUs. I'm using an NH-D15 with a single fan, because I made a minor error when determining compatibility. The bloody fan didn't fit anywhere.

Are these temps normal or did I screw up with the thermal compound application or something?

Edit: After further testing it spikes up to 100 degrees.

Running OCCT AVX2 Large data set, with my CPU overclocked to 5 GHz and undervolting by .005 volts. It's stable, but temps on the core spike up to 97 degrees max during the test, and the average is 79. This is a lower clock and higher temps than I expected, given my experiences with older CPUs. I'm using an NH-D15 with a single fan, because I made a minor error when determining compatibility. The bloody fan didn't fit anywhere.

Are these temps normal or did I screw up with the thermal compound application or something?

Edit: After further testing it spikes up to 100 degrees.

Refer to title. I'm using an ROG Strix Z690-F motherboard and Dominator Platinum RAM, which all show up and are controllable in iCUE, as well as all the latest drivers, BIOSes, firmware, and what have you as of 6/29/2022.

The GPU runs games fine, and it responds to commands for RGB shenanigans in Armory Crate, but iCUE doesn't know it exists, outside the sensor information on the dashboard. Did I do something incorrectly, or is there some shenaniganery afoot I have no control over?

Is it just me, or is TiM just saying "Shepard uncovered the truth" rather than Miranda going on about Shep either saving/abandoning the Council?

Is that an intentional change, mentioned in the... patch notes, I guess you'd call them, or is something borked on my end?

I have a rough understanding of naval designer stats, and have seen several comments about how obtuse it is, so I thought I'd share that understanding. I made a comment on another post with this same information, but it's buried pretty deep, so here's a dedicated post:

###Offensive Stats:

Heavy/Light Attack is basically the DPS of your ship's guns if everything actually hits, and adding more bigger guns increases that DPS. It's the "Weight of Broadside Per Minute." All main battery guns (Heavy Attack) target one enemy per hour, and secondary battery guns (Light Attack) target one, potentially different, enemy per hour. However, CLs and DDs only possess "Light Attack" weapons so all g

If you, like me, didn't like the quite limited max level of 15 in the most recent update, then I have the mod for you! 'A New Level' has six different optional versions to fit almost any level of balance you desire: a max level of 25, a max level of 30, and for those of you who wish to be God Emperor of the Persean Sector, a max level of 40 where you can unlock every single skill! And, for those of you who don't like to wait, you can also download the "Fast" versions, which have doubled levelling rate to get through that grind quickly and show those pesky [ERR:DATA_CORRUPTED] what's what!

Sorry, I always wanted to do a snake-oil salesman bit. Now that that's over, I made mod found [here

See title; Cobras rarely seem to make it through a flak/fighter screen, let alone their vicious payload, even when escorted by Lux or Broadsword wings. Tridents, however, seem to fare significantly better against point defense, and I think it's because there's simply more of them--a numbers game. If 8 strike vessels are launched, it's more likely that at least one of them is going to find a nice new home for its ordnance than if only 4 are launched. Additionally, in terms of size, it doesn't look like Cobras are that much bigger than Tridents, so I don't see any logistic reason why 2 Cobras couldn't fit in a single hangar.

To that end, I'm thinking of making a minor mod that adds a new blue

"Is Buchanan a man? Oh boy, what a man! The truest of men! You can say that again!"

 

Seriously I heard that all of five times about a week ago and it's been stuck in my head playing on repeat nonstop ever since. And just when I think I've forgotten it, I'm humming the little bastard again. I now understand why Wesson sings that little bit when you enter the museum for the first time—it's probably playing on a loop in her head too!

Amazing job by the developers, or whoever made the song, because I simply cannot get it out of my head. That is exactly what you want for a such a propagantastic tune!

Answer: Yes, but.

This is a question I've seen asked, and I've also wondered about it, so I just recently spent about two hours experimenting with Effects to discover a way to do it, and I have succeeded. It does not, however, appear possible to alter either color variant or hairstyle through Effects, which is a problem.

The command is honestly kind of simple; "change_leader_portrait = <desired phenotype>" while scoped to the desired leader. However, in vanilla, only Humans and Humanoid species have phenotypes instead of color variants, which are grouped together by the "portrait_groups" in their respective files under gfx\portraits\portraits. And, as mentioned, this comman