Post #2321974
2024-11-11 17:53 UTC
Replies (24)
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@JustinH@twit.social 2024-11-11 17:58
@danderson@hachyderm.io It's interesting to see what sort of things humans put their effort into when survival/comfort isn't dependent on it. Sometimes I think about how if money was removed from everyone's equation, being a waiter at a greasy spoon diner would be a really fun job!
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@mav@hackers.town 2024-11-11 19:07
@danderson@hachyderm.io wow, I really like the whole idea of this. In fact, I almost want to play it just to get involved. That sounds amazingly cathartic. I keep thinking of the fact that in Fallout 4 one of the most fun things to do is build these incredibly cool, survivable settlements (which the NPCs never take advantage of, but still, one can dream)
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@thedarkpreacher@streamers.social 2024-11-11 19:56
@danderson@hachyderm.io I do believe the Fuel Rats now have carriers to help with extreme long haul rescue, and people bring them fuel donations whenever they are parked back in the bubble. Gods love the Fuel Rats.
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@Lazarou@mastodon.social 2024-11-11 23:53
@danderson@hachyderm.io The Anaconda was a great ship for deep space in Elite II Frontier as I recall.
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@MisuseCase@twit.social 2024-11-11 23:57
@danderson@hachyderm.io I play in a text-based MUD where we have something similar. Priests who can perform a resurrection ritual will come to the aid of dead players but there’s also a club of people who will retrieve players’ corpses (and their stuff) from dangerous locations. If you want someone to rescue your corpse you have to permit them to take stuff off your corpse. You’d think people would be hesitant to trust strangers with this. /1
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@wirehead@mastodon.social 2024-11-12 00:50
@danderson@hachyderm.io In the Voron community, there's the "Rescue Ravens" (they wanted to call them Rescue Rats in reference to Fuel Rats but they concluded it might be too confusing) who are there to get your open source 3D printer back up and running by any means necessary in basically the same fashion, except that we're talking about something that's IRL.
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@jplebreton@mastodon.social 2024-11-12 01:19
@danderson@hachyderm.io thanks for the storytelling! No Man's Sky had something a bit similar to this, back when you couldn't just travel to anywhere in the galaxy with portals. and the practice remained for a while longer, because there's a particular galaxy (Odyalutai, galaxy 256) that you can only get to by joining the session of another player already there. but the Elite thing is way cooler and more in-fiction and socially emergent.
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@keir@mastodon.design 2024-11-12 02:04
@danderson@hachyderm.io I have had to use their services before and was both incredibly impressed and incredibly thankful to them. It’s a fantastic example of community in MMO’s 🫶🏻
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@kingtor@urbanists.social 2024-11-12 02:24
@danderson@hachyderm.io I love this whole story. Makes me want to invest a lot of time that I don't have and probably money that I can't afford into becoming a Fuel Rat.
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@Primo@donphan.social 2024-11-12 04:33
@danderson@hachyderm.io thank you, that really was a read I needed without knowing.
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@balloonpup@blimps.xyz 2024-11-12 05:47
@danderson@hachyderm.io that's wonderful. Thank you for sharing this - I kind of needed it right now
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@emma@ruby.social 2024-11-12 08:19
@danderson@hachyderm.io My son was rescued by a fuel rat once and I felt so blessed and grateful that he got to witness the absolute best of humanity
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@edwardclaytonandrew@kind.social 2024-11-12 08:49
@danderson@hachyderm.io I have never played Elite, and I am ready to launch myself across space with a crowbar. "Oh, shite, it's that mad g jumper from planet Saskatoon !" "Dude, I told you don't fuck with the fuel rats!"
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@bekopharm@indieweb.social 2024-11-12 08:59
@danderson@hachyderm.io there's something in my eyes 🥹
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@frazzle@squeak.social 2024-11-12 10:15
@danderson@hachyderm.io Thank you for this trip down Memory Lane. 8 years ago, when I was still playing, I ran out of gas in my brand new Anaconda, gravely misjudging how costly the jumps the Anaconda could pull would be. I had played forever to scrounge up enough ingame funds to buy this ship, and I was so proud - and now it was about to blow up from ...running out of fuel (my cartoonist mind loves this fact though 🤣). ->
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@eisfunke@inductive.space 2024-11-12 11:24
@danderson@hachyderm.io Beautiful write-up! I should play E:D again some time :D
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@Sparkwave@wetdry.world 2024-11-12 11:36
@danderson@hachyderm.io Ah yes, the fuel rats, even despite everything they're still resilliently helping people, kinda makes me want to play this game again
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@Tombfyre@blimps.xyz 2024-11-12 17:45
@danderson@hachyderm.io @RavenWorks@mastodon.social There's also the Hull Seals, who do much the same thing but for emergency repairs. I expect there's some overlap between the two groups. ^.==.^
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@tek_dmn@mastodon.tekdmn.me 2024-11-12 18:25
@danderson@hachyderm.io me, seeing this as a "former" fuel rats dispatcher:
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@supersaladboy@tty0.social 2024-11-12 19:23
@danderson@hachyderm.io I wasn't a part of the Rats but I ran with a group called Iridium Wing! Explorers who had been out for a long time collected millions of credits worth of exploration data, but if they came home in Open and a griefer pops them, that's potentially months of work gone in a flash. We'd escort them through the last few jumps to their destinations! I flew escort for the dread pirate Harry Potter during his prime. Good times. Now I'm a paramedic, go figure.
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@futurshox@squawk.mytransponder.com 2024-11-12 21:04
@danderson@hachyderm.io That is fantastic :-) I grew up on the original Elite, but never had the chance to play the modern versions. That sounds so cool.
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@lnr@tech.lgbt 2024-11-12 21:09
@danderson@hachyderm.io thank you for this thread, which is utterly delightful. Your love of it shines through your writing.
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@drwho@hackers.town 2024-11-14 03:36
@danderson@hachyderm.io This gives me hope for people.
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@stevenodb@mastodon.social 2024-11-21 18:19
@danderson@hachyderm.io @mastoreaderio@mastodon.social unroll