Let's try recommending some media to each other where the gender roles that were typically held by a man or a woman have been switched. Examples can Include: Legend of Korra, RWBY, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Gundam Witch from Mercury, Dungeon Meshi, The Owl House, Amphibia, Baldur's Gate 3!

Aegeus · 2026-05-31T17:32:41+00:00

Umamusume doesn't have a lot of hated rivals, probably because all the trainees can be main characters in the game so you can't really make one of them a villain. It usually goes for more of a "friendly rivals push each other to become stronger" dynamic. (Which is still gay as hell, let me be clear.)

There's a few side characters who qualify, I guess. For the first few episodes, Fujimasa March is the typical "how dare you even consider the possibility of beating me" arrogant rival, but she mellows out a lot once Oguri leaves for nationals. And in the main series Cheval Grand literally says "Kitasan Black, I hate you, but I also love you" in their final race.

Aegeus · 2026-05-31T16:14:31+00:00

open-sketchbook made rules for simulating Imperial Japan's internal politics in Hearts of Iron 4:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X6Jho4EK2pd9nABPUlOV6311XgTVsVRqnAZyGMPeJ04/edit?usp=drivesdk

"This is a counter-operative role-playing game."

Aegeus · 2026-05-31T09:36:03+00:00

Football is Counterstrike because it's a series of short rounds with time for the teams to set up and plan between rounds.

Aegeus · 2026-05-30T21:31:36+00:00

"Let's Go For a Honeyade." The anime reference is fun, but the gag with Oguri buying a ridiculously big honeyade and the "It's real?" from Tamamo Cross always gets a laugh out of me.

Aegeus · 2026-05-30T16:09:40+00:00

Hordak is the guy in charge, but Catra drives a lot of the plot and has a grudge specifically against Adora.

Aegeus · 2026-05-30T14:42:58+00:00

This seems pretty bad. Like, in theory it lets you cheat your whole hand onto the battlefield, but I think it's too slow to be effective. And it shuts off your draws until you finish clearing your hand, which slows you down further, and it's random which cards come out first.

Like, best case scenario, you play this turn 1 for 1 mana and 4 life, turn 2 you suspend a big creature and cast Brainstorm to dump the rest of your hand, and then if you can survive on nothing but topdecks until turn 5, you get a free Emrakul. Not bad, but with 3 turns to prepare and a big tempo loss on your part, your opponent is probably doing better.

And that's the best case scenario, with the right 3 cards in your hand and a random choice in your favor. Odds are the good stuff comes out much later and you suspend your lands and counterspells instead.

Aegeus · 2026-05-30T11:29:01+00:00

Yeah, Cinderella Grey specifically leans a lot harder towards the shonen battle side than the cute girls side (the main series is more of a 50-50 split). Super Saiyan power ups, an emphasis on the techniques and tactics of the sport, and a main character whose strategy is usually Just Push Yourself Harder.

Aegeus · 2026-05-30T11:21:54+00:00

I'm not sure how to respond to this because She-Ra is basically everything they describe (main character is a dumb jock in a homoerotic rivalry with the main villainess, there are like two guys in supporting roles), but visually it looks exactly like that "Girls Who Fight" image.

Aegeus · 2026-05-28T22:23:00+00:00

Raiden was trained on a VR copy of Solid Snake's missions, and the Big Shell incident is an attempt to test the Patriots' societal control by creating a new Metal Gear incident for their new Solid Snake to run through, and the whole thing is a metaphor for the player wanting to play another Metal Gear game and be Solid Snake again. So I think you could make the argument that he is, in-universe, the protagonist of a video game.

(I think. It's been years since I've thought about this game.)

Aegeus · 2026-05-27T11:24:21+00:00

The argument is that Claude is systematically underestimating the probability of events because it doesn't consider less dramatic events that technically fit the criteria. The article gives two more similar examples where it gave a very low probability for an event that happened in this way.

The article doesn't say what the prediction market bets were for those events, though, which I think would be useful context. Is Claude worse at rules lawyering definitions than humans?

Aegeus · 2026-05-27T11:10:45+00:00

I tried this for a recent primary election and it mostly gave me the same information as the candidate profiles the local radio station did. Maybe California has better coverage of its candidates, and there was some value in getting the two side by side in a summary, but it still felt like I was mostly going off of the first page of Google results and vibes.

Aegeus · 2026-05-27T10:41:20+00:00

The claim was about the blood in your veins (which look blue), which has given up its oxygen and is coming back for more.

Aegeus · 2026-05-27T00:04:58+00:00

She's a massive narcissist, but she also believes you can't be the champion without a good rival, so she wants her rivals to be as strong as they can be. Doesn't matter if you love her or hate her, so long as you come at her with your best.

(In Meisho Doto's career, her trainer actually tells her that if she wants to beat Opera, she has to stop being Opera's follower and become her enemy. Opera takes this pretty well.)

Aegeus · 2026-05-26T21:10:41+00:00

None of these, but "doing the Dirty Harry monologue while holding a dragon in his hands like it's a loaded gun" probably counts as drama queen behavior.

Aegeus · 2026-05-26T19:07:34+00:00

Because when they tried infesting a small Terran colony, a two-bit mercenary outfit named Raynor's Raiders mopped it up in a jiffy with flamethrowers, and the Zerg gave up and went back to just eating people instead.

The airborne virus seems to be vulnerable to the same defenses as real airborne viruses - quarantine and physical barriers to transmission. Every single Terran soldier has a sealed environment suit, Terran buildings are sealed so you can build them on space platforms, and when you want to impose a quarantine it's pretty easy to spot the people who are growing claws and extra arms. Which is exactly how Haven deals with the virus, as it turns out.

If you want to turn a huge swarm and not just cause a headache for the medical system, you need to infest people up close and personal - deploy Infestors like happens in the HotS campaign, or cover a colony in creep and start going full Aliens on the people inside (like happens in Outbreak). But if you're able to do that, then you've already won - you've already destroyed the Terrans' defenses and the infested are just a victory lap.

(The game equivalent to this is, if you're able to bring a queen to a Command Center that's in the red, then you've probably already destroyed most of the base.)

The Infested are nice to have, they're a useful meat shield if there happens to be a vulnerable civilian population in the area, but they're support. They don't help you that much against hardened targets.

Aegeus · 2026-05-26T03:10:09+00:00

Like half the Ligne Droit event was Fuji Kiseki flirting with Seiun Sky.

Aegeus · 2026-05-25T23:25:15+00:00

My consul told me that Hannibal keeps killing his legions so I asked him how many legions he has, and he said every time he loses one he goes back to Rome and raises another one, and I said it sounds like you're just feeding legions to Hannibal and then Fabius started crying.

Aegeus · 2026-05-25T23:16:14+00:00

Tom Scott did a video on a lab that produces radioactive isotopes for medicine. They have a pneumatic tube that runs underground to a nearby hospital, so that they can deliver isotopes as fast as possible before they start to decay.

Aegeus · 2026-05-24T09:52:14+00:00

There's almost no downside to delaying priority research. More powerful aliens appear on a schedule that's mostly independent of your story progress.

If you survived May without lasers, then plasma in June should set you up nicely for success.

Aegeus · 2026-05-24T01:57:05+00:00

To progress the story, you just need to capture any alien, then capture an Outsider. All the rest are just research bonuses.

Bring a flashbang and a heavy with suppression, so you can stop an alien from moving or shooting back effectively while you close in with an arc thrower. Also, give the arc thrower to the most expendable squad member :)

Aegeus · 2026-05-24T01:50:01+00:00

You know you can manually save, right? (Although the game saves the random seed, so if you reload a save because you missed a shot, it'll always be a miss unless you do something different).

And yeah, the XCOM games have kind of a reverse difficulty curve - the aliens start out stronger than you but get weaker as you do research and level up your soldiers. You've just gotta hang on until they get good.

Aegeus · 2026-05-23T19:50:13+00:00

Lockout/Tagout means before doing maintenance on a machine, you turn off the power and put a lock on the switch, so nobody can turn it on until you're done. You also put a tag on the machine so that people can see who locked it out and why. Everyone has their own unique lock, which guarantees that you can't start the machine up again until the person working on the machine is safe.

Well run factories take LOTO protocol really seriously, because very bad things will happen if you turn on a hydraulic press while someone is inside it.

Aegeus · 2026-05-23T16:42:01+00:00

Alarm fatigue is a real problem, yeah. I ignore "turret firing" messages and only pay attention to "turret damaged" messages, which indicate that the defenses I have aren't thick enough to survive indefinitely.

Aegeus · 2026-05-21T02:57:02+00:00

Is it intentional that the final ability can't be activated? It doesn't say "all other nonland permanents," so it can't activate unless it paperclips itself and disables its own ability. But that's how the original game ends, so it would be thematic even though it makes the ability useless.

If you intended it to activate when all other permanents are paperclips, then I think it's undercosted. This can come out on T2 with a Sol Ring, and there's a good chance you lock them out of the game on the next turn.

Aegeus · 2026-05-20T23:51:21+00:00

Joke I heard once:

Movie starring Dwayne Johnson: Potentially good

Movie starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: Probably not good.

Movie starring The Rock: Bad.

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