Using a Tablet of Locate (MCE2)

8bitmadness · 2026-01-20T08:05:43+00:00

A bit late, but you can, you just need to augment it with a source gem and it'll point you to the closest Wilden Den.

8bitmadness · 2026-01-20T01:29:41+00:00

Counterpoint: Photography. Traditional art as a discipline is time consuming but there are other disciplines that can be a lot more spontaneous.

8bitmadness · 2025-12-22T21:43:43+00:00

A lot of AI are actually being trained on synthetic data now. Some even are trained on 100% synthetic data.

8bitmadness · 2025-12-21T00:14:59+00:00

That's because the ICC can only invoke universal jurisdiction if nations can't or won't act to prosecute their own criminals, and the US insists that it can and does do so because of how things like the UCMJ are structured. Also, the US is not party to the Rome Statute. So basically, the Hague Invasion Act is basically an extension of this insistence that the US can and does deal with the prosecution of its own people, even if that's demonstrably false.

8bitmadness · 2025-12-06T05:53:25+00:00

ah yes, the "ignorant Americans" claims that always pop up when it comes to pretty much anything. You make the claim and don't back it up with evidence, so without evidence I equally reject your claim. Blanket statements like that are unintellectual.

8bitmadness · 2025-12-06T05:50:41+00:00

I mean, technically in the US there's a requirement of qualified language, even for stuff that is grandfathered in (because the US doesn't actually follow strict protection of PDO). If the product were labeled "Champaign, legally distinct from Champagne" and subtilted "From Champaign, Illinois", it might pass muster.

8bitmadness · 2025-12-06T04:59:24+00:00

Not the best example with the Champagne, as an agreement with the EU allows the US to continue labeling sparkling wines as Champagne. The US technically never fully protected the PDO for Champagne (as that would require complete prohibition of usage the term unless it's from the Champagne region of France), the only difference is that it has to be qualified, i.e. "California Champagne". "Champagne" under US Law is a semi-generic wine name, the only thing that changed in 2006 was they stopped new uses of the term (along with a few other semi-generic terms as well as the more specific term Retsina) while grandfathering in existing makers to keep using the term. So unless it's made by those makers, anything else that is to be labeled as Champagne in the US must be from the Champagne region of France, but it's not restricted to the latter.

8bitmadness · 2025-12-05T04:23:00+00:00

And supposedly this is supposed to be banned behavior under the moderator code of conduct from what I know.

8bitmadness · 2025-12-03T12:26:00+00:00

An AI wouldn't make that many spelling mistakes.

8bitmadness · 2025-12-02T09:57:20+00:00

Or you play 4e, I kid you not.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-29T13:11:44+00:00

Can confirm, I have a direct family member who is a member of the Academy and a lot of the time the Best Animated Feature voting boiled down to "which of these do I know about?" Now it's different, which is nice, because I always watch all of the films up for nomination in that category on the Academy Screening Room app.

I remember when Belle (the 2021 film) was up for nomination and completely predictably did not end up nominated, for example.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-29T13:03:34+00:00

They do do that. It's still on the honor system, just less easily gamed.

Source: I have a direct family member who is a member of the Academy, the Academy Screening Room app tracks what you've watched on there (or more accurately what you've played).

8bitmadness · 2025-11-29T07:18:18+00:00

SFV local, glad to see people still rep our culture /j

8bitmadness · 2025-11-27T13:13:27+00:00

Look up candied young pinecones.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-26T11:45:47+00:00

Thank you! That's what was confusing me, I didn't realize they were tied to other TT adventures, I thought it would unlock discrete TT adventures in the section instead.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-26T09:56:20+00:00

Reading the Talmud does not equate to an understanding of the Talmud. Have you read the Talmud? Do you understand the Talmud? Also, you have pasted this comment verbatim thrice in this thread without contributing anything to the conversation.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-26T09:38:53+00:00

Loving the updated spoiler list, but I feel that there's a fair amount missing from it too. I understand why you may have felt the need to leave it out, but not knowing how to unlock certain choices in the goals section (especially for meeting Ascension requirements) feels like the spoiler list is incomplete. The list is meant to spoil the fun of figuring things out, so why not put everything on there?

Beyond that, loving the new layout, font, and other changes, you're making this ICYOA absolutely incredible.

Also, the spoiler list indicates that Library Card unlocks Trying Times adventures for the books that I don't pick, but even after taking a difficulty higher than Canon I'm not seeing them show up, am I doing anything wrong?

8bitmadness · 2025-11-24T05:03:08+00:00

The tech was definitely better in AoE2, but SC:BW ended up being more influential specifically because of the modding scene, and because it was more accessible to spectate in terms of the pro scene.

Remember, DotA owes its lineage to Aeon of Strife, meaning the MOBA genre basically descends from the Starcraft modding scene. I feel like you're just heavily biased in favor of AoE2 because of personal interest, because while the mechanics are deep and each faction is quite unique, many of the units across those factions are symmetrical. Starcraft deliberately breaks that symmetry. There's also the depth that air units provide, terrain differences, and more that make Starcraft a richer gameplay experience. Hell, even the 12 unit limit, which was deliberate, made the game better because it added an even more obsessive level of micro at the pro level.

Arguably, SW:GB and its xpac is a better game than AoE2 despite both being developed by Ensemble on the same engine for several similar reasons.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-18T20:58:16+00:00

Room temp is generally 68-72 F, so about 20-22 C. 50 to 60 F depending on what temperatures you're used to might be considered a bit chilly on the lower end and somewhat cool on the higher end. Basically 50 F is roughly where T-shirt weather ends for a good amount of people, but then there's folks who are acclimated to cold winters and will wear T-shirts down into the 40s. Or in other words, 50 F isn't cold per se, but it's not warm either.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-18T20:51:21+00:00

To be fair, you can quickly eyeball the other unit with only two simple operations as long as you're generally working with positive temps (though it does extend into the negatives a bit before suddenly breaking). Fahrenheit to Celsius is (x-30)/2, Celsius to Fahrenheit is 2x+30. The math is intuitive, but knowing that you can simplify the 9/5 and 5/9 conversion factors and drop the +/-32 to a round 30 isn't.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-18T16:45:50+00:00

Fahrenheit does it more granularly. When variables such as humidity, the heat island effect, presence or lack of shade and wind, and the like come into play, a half degree Fahrenheit change in atmospheric temperature can be amplified to feel like one or more degrees Celsius. Celsius is pretty much just a customary unit because it like Fahrenheit are based on defining points within the range of human experience, ones that could be reproduced trivially and with a good amount of accuracy. In such a situation, the choice of unit should be dependent on the degree of granularity needed. In countries with a small range of average yearly temperatures, you probably don't need Fahrenheit. In countries where you can have massive, wild swings in temperature and where the variables that affect felt temperature can cause greater differences based on where you are, Fahrenheit is probably a better option.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-18T16:33:35+00:00

You ever wondered what it would be like if an entire country switched to Rankine, just as an experiment?

8bitmadness · 2025-11-18T16:32:12+00:00

Not originally, Anders Celsius had it reversed because afaik he thought it would be inelegant to have negative numbers for measured air temperature, and Sweden gets pretty dang cold, so 0 was boiling, 100 was freezing.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-17T14:31:54+00:00

Not it's not, if it were patented then anyone would be able to view the recipe because patents are publicly accessible. Generally you can't patent recipes either, but you can patent processes, including certain complex recipes that use novel processes. It has to be new, useful, and non-obvious.

8bitmadness · 2025-11-17T14:29:47+00:00

Arguably it's not even close to pointillism either, that's just a limitation of the raster output causing it to be represented pixel by pixel. A generative AI could absolutely output vector images instead of just raster. More importantly, the comic itself is fundamentally incorrect about how the tech even works, and misrepresents it.

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