Deestan

From the comic "Girl Genius" by Phil and Kaja Foglio

Just for fun!

Made a shape out of gray self-drying hobby clay, took a (very clumsy) silicon mold of it, and now I have a fun shape to pour excess soap into if I make too much for the main mold.

On the left: clay thing. On the right: lavender soap.

Almost got a full gel this time, which felt nice.

The olive oil was marinating with shredded lemon peels for a week prior to processing, so it got a really strong natural lemon aroma. Hoping it holds up once done curing. :)

Apart from that, no additives.

Orbital Potato is one of my favorite channels to keep up on management/factory/strategy games. He usually covers one game at a time and tons more of them than I can keep up with, so I was happy to see which ones turned out to be favorites. :)

Cataclismo I have played, and its honking brilliant, but the others are new to me.

Rogue Command and Diplomacy is Not an Option look really interesting.

Still new, and trying to learn all the things and terms :)

Came over this (store bought soap) and was wondering why it becomes sorta layered after use. I read today about "glycerin rivers" which can happen both during hot process soap, or cold process where the soap gets very hot during the gel phase.

Mostly only the two timed achievements left.

Having completed the first run in 200 hours, it seem pretty safe to manage 100 hours now that I know what to expect, but the 40 hour one is probably going to need some thought.

Nefrum has started speedruns on it, and set a baseline of 15 hours.

Has anyone managed or tries it? What is your strategy?

100 hours in, about to go to Aquilo, and now I figured out how easy it is.

Torn between feeling giddy and excited, and feeling like a huge idiot.

I always felt it was a bit sad that the really cool engine exhaust was always down off the edge of the screen and anything interesting, so I decided to see how this worked.

Pretty happy with it! Learned from last time that I absolutely do not want any processing to go through the main storage, as it makes it so hard to select cargo when everything shifts around.

Also calmed down with engines and uncalmed on production. This thing is used to transport science from Gleba, so it's got to spend very little time refuelling.

Also added fuel, oxidizer and ammo gauges below the main storage so I didn't have to keep inspecing. When everything is full, a 3x7 rainbow lights up. :)

Any suggestions for name? It looks like a beefy dude with hairy armpits, so trying to come up with something that fits my mental image of that somehow.

Just for fun! I know there exist "the correct" pronunciations, but how do you pronounce the words in your inner monologue? :)

Nauvis:

1. "Now-vis"
2. Closer to "Novice"

Vulcanus:

1. "Vulk Anus"
2. Like "Tetanus"

Gleba:

1. "Gleeba"
2. "Glebbah"
3. "Glay Bar"

Fulgora:

1. "Ful-gore-ah"
2. "Ful-guu-rah"
3. "Fulger-ah"

Aquilo:

1. "Ack-eelo"
2. "A qui loh"
3. "Ack-willow"

And lastly:

1. "Space Age"
2. "Spaceage" like "Mileage"

My first working platform that has now taken me to my first two planets!

After the sad fate of Space Boat which went through the asteroid field like pudding through a cheese grater, and Space Boat II which did not have enough production capabilities to ward off wandering asteroids at Fulgora, the Space Boat III worked perfectly.

With the ability to travel safely and refuel and rearm itself in orbit around any of the starter planets, it is now running autonomous supply transport between Nauvis, Fulgora and Vulcanus without needing any oversight.

At some point I'll have to make a platform with bigger storage and stronger production capabilities so it can travel faster, but for now it does a solid job. :)

My GOD so many rocks on the way.

Space Boat v1 had 4 guns, and died immediately.

Space Boat v2 had 10 guns, and manged to barely get there by manually pausing thrust several times, then getting smashed in orbit by Fulgora's drifting medium asteroids because it ran out of ammo.

Space Boat v3 has 28 guns protected by walls and a stockpile of ammo. It can get there and back again. Time will tell if it has production capabilities to survive parking in Fulgora orbit.