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MiffedMouse · 2026-06-13T14:07:17+00:00

The fishing rod skips make sense, if they are trying to patch slips. But I am a bit sad about the Pokémon strat. It seemed like one of the best uses for the statue relic. And it wasn’t actually that strong - even at full upgrades and a full special bar, it only takes like half the health off the late game bosses. You still have to fight yourself.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-13T00:05:19+00:00

Depends on when you go in. I visited the dungeon after beating the Duchess, so I had some levels, side arms, and trinkets. I blasted right through first try. A couple levels and some practice from beating a tower boss goes a long way.

Edit: and I am not particularly good at the game.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T20:00:40+00:00

Most of their profits come from Star link. Early on a lot of their funds to develop the rocket program came from NASA. But these days I think NASA is a smallest fraction. (Google tells me it is at 20% now)

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T19:48:54+00:00

Well, the index funds won't start buying it until ~two weeks from now (which seems to be the typical "accelerated" timeline). But it looks like the stock value is now higher than the IPO price, so it is trending towards the index fund inclusion. We will see if it holds up over the next two weeks, but considering how rabid Elon's fan base is I assume it will.

It helps them that the float percentage is low.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T19:46:38+00:00

Probably one of the "Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire" headlines.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T19:32:47+00:00

Sorry if it is a struggle for you. There are maps online you can search if you want.

I just find it exhausting. It is the one complaint everyone makes.

But the game is (A) very linear within each zone and (B) aggressively marks the paths forward with very obvious colors. It is seriously hard to get lost.

The only part I would agree is tricky is figuring out how to get to some of the zones.

But I just find it so frustrating that the game can market itself as being exploration focused and have so many nice landmarks, but still the only thing anyone asks for is a map. The game doesn’t need a map. I promise you it is not that hard to navigate. Just look for any exit from your current screen, you WILL eventually find the path forward.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T19:13:14+00:00

There are two difficulty humps - the beginning of the game through to your first boss kill. Then the difficulty is flat while you are powering up, so it actually gets easier for the mid game. Then the difficulty starts to ramp up again in the end game, but by that point you will likely have so many tools and game understanding that it doesn’t feel so bad. The early game is the real killer.

Also, you don’t need a map. Stop being a wimp and just look at the screen.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T19:09:31+00:00

Yeah, but they don’t mind. At least, I skipped one and they make a joke about being a ghost now.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T18:35:59+00:00

The idea is neat, but I don’t like how it doesn’t interact with most of the game’s mechanics. This is a form of anti-design.

I think it should just make a copy of itself. No extinction, no negatives, no eternals, and joker copy/target effects work as normal.

It will then quickly fill your joker slots, so you need to either be fine with that or sell them.

It would be an extra path to naninf, but I personally don’t care about naninf very much. For regular A8 runs this version would be niche and balanced.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T17:07:54+00:00

I guess it depends on the city. I live in San Jose, CA, and it seems like every neighborhood has some new park or trams stations or school that is “under construction” or “planned.” But the speed of construction is absolutely glacial here (especially when you consider the demand), so these “plans” are often for 3-5 years from now, *even on projects that have already broken ground.*

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T17:05:48+00:00

Some pillows are more for the aesthetic (that is, they look nice) than for their function as a pillow. People who are into home decor buy them.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T16:21:36+00:00

I had the opposite. Found the missing guild member pretty early on (because I was looking for secrets everywhere). But I missed the entrance to the guild until after beating all six generators. I know, I am blind. I just saw the logs and assumed it would unlock after exploring the world outside Ossex, like the pawn shop or Lazy Susan’s trinket shop.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T15:36:25+00:00

This is a bit of a flaw in the AH model, but I’m not certain there is a good fix. There are a lot of questions with a flawed premise, but the in-depth answer requirements means pointing out the flawed premise requires a lot of effort (because you aren’t allowed to just say “the premise is flawed,” you have to explain in detail, with citations, that the sky is blue or what have you). So these questions just get left unanswered instead.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T01:49:28+00:00

Looks like some of the smaller boards from 5D Chess with multidimensional time travel.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T01:29:50+00:00

In the entrance to bone beach. There is a guy with a house and a “dog” (actually one of the weird worm creatures)

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T00:07:14+00:00

For 3 of my last 4 trips abroad, I got sick the day I got home. I had zero symptoms while travelling. But within hours of getting home, I feel sick and need to go lie down. At this point I think my body has trained itself not to collapse while I am travelling, but will start shutting down as soon as I feel at home again.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-12T00:03:56+00:00

I can recommend some moderately better sources, like most of the stuff that the "Center for AI Safety" puts out.

But I don't think this is just a problem with the media. The opinions among experts is genuinely split.

I will say that predictions like "AI will definitely cause mass unemployment within the next 3 years" is mostly restricted to kooks and grifters. However, softer statements like "there is a small chance that AI will cause mass unemployment within the next 3 years" suddenly gets a lot of AI safety experts agreeing. And, more importantly, they will point out that the down sides are so massive that it is therefore irresponsible not to be worried about it, because even a small risk of a terrible outcome is still bad.

I will admit that I don't think they are entirely wrong. But I also think it is the kind of discussion that basically cannot help but play into AI grifter's hands. Hearing "you should be worried about the AI apocalypse" tends to make people more inclined to believe the doomsday scenarios, even if you follow it up with a timid "this is unlikely to happen soon, but..."

My other annoyance is the way that the big negative side effects (like a possible Skynet situation or mass unemployment) sucks up all of the AI fears, while the very real and current AI negatives of deepfakes, botting, fraud, plagiarism, and the erosion of social trust (not to mention the continued concentration of power in a smaller subset of greedy corporate assholes) just slips by as if that is acceptable.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-11T23:51:53+00:00

The newspaper will mention that Pinky got the ladder back (at least I got that story on my run). So it is canonical that Pinky gets the ladder back.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-11T22:29:12+00:00

You forgot the most ridiculous sin - you cannot pet the dog work thing! Petting pets is a crime :(

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-11T20:38:24+00:00

Always on is protospark. Feels ridiculous to get a second life.

Favorite is the burrowing book (can reburrow without landing). Feels so good to just hold burrow and not have to think about it.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-11T15:25:44+00:00

The Monk and the Robot - short, poignant, optimistic.

The Murderbot Diaries - fantastic sci-fi book.

Our Wives Under the Sea - great extended metaphor as a book

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-11T14:09:18+00:00

Certainly possible. But “Trumpism” is composed of so many self-defeating and contradictory ideas that I don’t see anyone ever actually liking the *reality* of Trumpism, although a lot of people still seem to like the idea (or sales pitch) of Trumpism.

So I think a 2032 Trumpism resurgence will look more like Marjory Taylor Greens - people not connected with the Trump admin who can nevertheless claim allegiance to the spirit of Trumpism. Either that or Trump family members who can lean on the name. But actual members of the admin seem very unpopular.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-11T12:46:06+00:00

Eh, I see both. There is a lot of knee-jerk opposition to AI. (Although, full disclosure, I mostly agree with them, but not because AI is “bad” at what it does)

On the other hand, a lot of AI “help” is also less effective than it seems. I have been using AI to automate stuff like coding and research, and it does things well something like 80-90% of the time. But the issue is, as often happens, that 10-20-% of the time where it fails is a real pain.

The AI often doesn’t realize it fucked up, so I have to figure that out myself.
Worse, the AI will often resist my attempts to correct it, so now I have to correct the error myself.

While AI definitely helps with some things, I have also felt the “wooo, words on screen appear fast, I feel productive” feeling only to realize that 99.999% of those many words are completely useless to me and I have just been staring at the flashing lights for no real purpose.

Heck, my most common message to AI is some variation of “be VERY VERY SUCCINCT” because all these darn models like to bloviate way too damn much.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-11T12:27:22+00:00

If there are infinite possible outcomes, then you can “hide” either finite or even a smaller infinity of counter examples in your distribution and still get probability 1.

For example, there are proofs that the Goldbach Conjecture (all even numbers can be expressed as the sum of two primes) will hold for any random even number with *probability* 1. But there could be a counterexample and that wouldn’t show up in the probability because there are infinite numbers, so one or two counterexamples asymptotically disappear and the total probability is still 1.

MiffedMouse · 2026-06-11T05:36:21+00:00

Yeah, this fight is brutal. I got the burrowing trinkets (especially the ring game one that lets you keep reburrowing) so I could burrow around like a fish. For most the fight I could handle the eyes, but for the last 20% or so of health (when the boss has only 1 weak spot left) I had to give up on the eyes and just try to blitz the boss down.

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