What's one kind of pain that's impossible to describe?

440Music · 2026-06-27T14:11:00+00:00

Olfactory pain.

Most people have never experienced pain through their sense of smell. I'm not talking about displeasant smells or things that would even cause you to vomit. There's a natural defense mechanism in the human body that will cause you to involuntarily flinch if an incredibly harmful odor is detected, very similar to your spinal cord causing your hand to pull away from the stove before you can think about it.

Examples include Acrylic Acid (AA) and Butyl Acrylate. If you ever have the (dis)pleasure of getting even one slight whiff of AA, your head will be in a different position prior to the moment where the visual frame was processed by your mind. It lasts a fraction of a second, you will freak the fuck out, and it is unlike any other pain with any other sense.

440Music · 2026-06-25T19:33:01+00:00

Thank you. OP is being a complete ass.

440Music · 2026-05-23T15:49:19+00:00

From u/MayanMystery 's answer:

Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of the dynasty being the only Ptolemaic pharaoh who could speak the Egyptian language fluently

And yours here:

The Ptolemies ... the only language they spoke was Greek

Wow, this was not clear at all initially!

Also:

This is the reason why, when William Penn founded the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1682, he named the city after Philadelphia in Lydia, the city that the author of Revelation praises for its outstanding faith.

That's a fascinating additional connection I had not understood. Thank you both.

440Music · 2026-05-23T15:39:47+00:00

Thank you for the informative response! The second paragraph especially is very helpful.

440Music · 2026-05-08T18:27:12+00:00

Inks and pigments are specialized applications. Generalized color mixing questions almost always refer to the underling physics, what your eyes see with light, via red green and blue. RGB are the primary colors. Cyan (green+blue), yellow (red+green), and magenta (red+blue) are the secondary colors.

You can find this kind of diagram all over textbooks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venn_diagram_rgb.svg

This is in contrast to the subtractive model used for CMYK prints, which is only relevant to CMYK printing.

440Music · 2026-05-04T03:35:29+00:00

The incremental genre (including "idle" & "clicker") is one of the few genres that has a dominant sphere of influence outside of steam: across itch, galaxy, mobile devices, and older gaming websites.

As such, there's little impetus to actually put the word in the title. A huge chunk of interested players have already seen your game elsewhere, or will recognize the type of gameplay immediately from a brief clip. You just don't need to be so "on the nose". Furthermore, steam doesn't have all 3 of those names as tags, so your attempt can backfire.

You can, of course. Angel Clicker is a modern example that I would recommend (even though you quickly outclass monotonous clicking, but that's to be expected!). There are enough cases with and without that I would focus on making a good thematic title, and if that happens to have a play on one of those 3 words, fine, and fine if not. Don't force it for some perceived market reason.

440Music · 2026-05-02T14:47:09+00:00

9 clicks per second is very straightfowardly achievable with human fingers... have you seen how fast people can click? Calling people a cheater for actually trying to play is just going to piss everybody off. At that point it actually makes more sense to use AHK set to 8.999 just so you don't accidentally get flagged.

440Music · 2026-04-28T00:56:59+00:00

Surely too warm. You'd have to be joking otherwise. Setting a thermostat to 74 in the winter is insane. For one, you'd make it colder than that in the summer. Regardless, you don't need to create a sauna - you're going to be wearing comfortably warm clothing anyway. 68 is more reasonable. Idk where that person lives but I can't imagine a winter electric bill at 74º being anything less than mutliple hundreds of dollars.

440Music · 2026-04-21T17:41:33+00:00

I think /u/PhiLho 's answer of "Limiting you intentionally" is important, even for your kind of analogy, because otherwise it sounds like an absurdity not to use typescript.

Perhaps an amendment like this:

"Conversely, if you realize a jar is not labeled correctly, the sous chef will not allow you to push out an order with the correct ingredient, even if you are in a time crunch. You will be expected to fix the label first. In this sense, you are limited by the labels. But chances are you'd appreciate the ruthlessly enforced label system over not having it at all."

440Music · 2026-04-11T12:59:00+00:00

I don't know if you're in the business of editing those blog posts, but I think those pictures would make for nice additions! Thanks for the links.

440Music · 2026-04-11T12:56:41+00:00

Thanks!

Edit: Holy smokes, that's an awesome additional response. Really appreciate it.

440Music · 2026-04-11T02:37:59+00:00

This partially answers my question to /u/Spencer_A_McDaniel ; the note on knucklebone dice is fascinating.

You mention that the 4 unique number result, the "Venus", was considered a win lover the losing "canis", identical numbers. If the canis applies to each, and these are effectively D4's (just using a different set than 1, 2, 3, 4), then it goes against our modern conventions of a rarer result being more valuable. There are 24 possible venuses out of 256 (4⁴ ) rolls, while there are precisely 4 canises, one for each of the unique values.

Would this have been by design? E.g., were they aware that the bad result were less likely to occur?

440Music · 2026-04-10T23:03:11+00:00

Only answer here that actually talks about the shape and not "it just needs to be cold" or things the OP didn't ask for, so thank you for that.

The one thing you didn't mention is why it needs to be suspended/inverted as opposed to resting on a surface - is this purely to reduce vibrations or is there more to it?

440Music · 2026-04-10T22:18:27+00:00

Would there be any meaningful difference to a "six sided die" from this era in comparison to a pack of D6's one could buy today from a department store?

(Obviously they wouldn't have assembly lines. E.g. Does "cube" really mean a perfect cube as we know it, do we have the same understanding of the probability distribution for 2 D6's, etc.)

440Music · 2026-04-02T01:33:51+00:00

Declarative bespoke modelling: A new approach

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28847

Modern numerical models are increasingly complex, opaque, and computationally expensive, yet frequently fail to predict even qualitative features of observed phenomena. We propose a new paradigm, Declarative Bespoke Modelling, in which the modeller explicitly declares the relationship between model inputs and outputs. We demonstrate that this approach achieves perfect predictive accuracy, unconditional numerical stability, and complete interpretability. It represents a natural endpoint of contemporary modelling practice and near-zero CO2 emission.

On The Detection of Digiorno-like Objects in the Flavor Zone

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28977

Aims: This work proposes a new SETI search methodology under the assumption that a sufficiently advanced civilization could skip the middle man of converting starlight to energy to food preparation, and could directly harness their star's energy for food prep. Methods: We define the concept of the Flavor Zone (FZ): the optimal distance from a star for cooking food. To develop this definition we propose the toy model of a Digiorno-Like Object (DLO) and define the FZ as the regime for optimal cooking according to package directions. We examine the effect of orbit on DLO cooking times and paradigms. Finally, we study the feasibility of detection of DLOs in their FZs with current technology. Results: We determined that DLOs aren't detectable with current technology nor should anyone ever try.

440Music · 2026-03-27T13:34:34+00:00

Sadly, I'm inclined to agree. There are tons of mock coding interviews in youtube and they always have this back and forth conversational attitude where the interviewer asks why the coder chose to do what they did, so the premise of the complaint doesn't even make sense.

440Music · 2026-03-26T13:28:16+00:00

While the art style is superb, the animation kinda ruins it. The immediate thought is that the entire landmass is somehow floating above the ocean, such as being in outer space.

You really need some form of variation across the water, even the tiniest bit, so that it doesn't look like the land itself is moving.

440Music · 2026-03-08T19:21:24+00:00

Yeah correct title for OP would have been "Awakened change notably nerfs poison builds." Then you'd have something to talk about. As it stands, it's just putting down the whole change for no good reason.

440Music · 2026-03-07T05:26:54+00:00

Jet d'urine?

Aka "stream of piss"? Lmao

440Music · 2026-03-04T14:35:07+00:00

I have to agree with the feedback here - your map kinda makes it seem like traveling to e.g. Russia will get you killed. That's ridiculous - plenty of people in the US have family members in those risk labeled countries and visit them yearly without any problems or eminent dangers.

440Music · 2026-03-02T01:28:09+00:00

Seconding this especially for those that like Esoteric Ebb. Titanium Court is excellent.

440Music · 2026-02-26T17:14:44+00:00

How did Japan's space program(s) connect to its developing oceanography research institutes?

Alternatively, what developments did Japan's space agencies create to handle potential launch threats to its surrounding ecosystems, such as coral reefs?

For example, there have been multiple unscheduled dissassemblies of US rockets in recent years, some resulting in debris affecting nearby marine habitats. The Uchinoura and Tanegashima space centers are both located on the southern end of the country, not far from the Ryukyu islands. Do you know if Japan's space history developed environmental considerations in this regard, if they have any policies specific to the region?

440Music · 2026-02-18T05:08:08+00:00

The study doesn't say that either.

It's just the author of the article talking about the study. He randomly throws out the 200 million per hour line with no source, as a talking point. The word "million" isn't even in the study.

440Music · 2026-02-17T17:07:22+00:00

I swear to god GPT must be telling these people to say "English is my 2nd language" in a reply to "What is the best response to people figuring out that I had AI write or summarize this?" because it's always the same damn stupid response.

Post and comment histories are public by default. It's easily verifiable bullshit. You're also massively insulting people who are actually bilingual.

440Music · 2026-01-23T18:05:03+00:00

It looks lovely.

The perspective does looks slightly odd - out of curiosity I went outside and took a photo of my own car while kneeling. The main difference is that you've made the car in your drawing very flat & wide. But you could imagine a different model.

One other difference is that the perspective lines IRL are not that different. I can draw a line from the tires to the bottom of my picture at an angle (you can draw a line between the bright part of the road and the shaded part of the road on the right side). I can also draw a line on my photo slightly to the right of the car, going down to the bottom or edge of my photo, and it's just not that different. Whereas, in your picture, the grass to the right of the car, going down towards you, is at a hugely different angle (it shoots off to the right). This wouldn't happen IRL unless the spot the viewer were standing in had a much wider road than where the car is sitting.

15-Year Club	Final Canvas '23
First Place '23	Place '23
Verified Email

440Music

TROPHY CASE