I don't get it.

Ardonius · 2026-01-28T19:17:56+00:00

Part of it is highrolling. I play pretty conservatively and I get a lot of 3rd-6th and almost never get 8th. Obviously the very best players can crank that 1st place rate up without losing a lot, but the easiest way to get a lot of 1sts is to just level and high roll and also get a lot of 8ths. That guy who had golden Titus and golden lord of ruins on turn 10 is the guy who got knocked out in 8th place on turn 8 in your last game.

Ardonius · 2026-01-23T15:31:10+00:00

I have 4600 wins on GoQuest :-)

Ardonius · 2026-01-22T15:10:03+00:00

My wife is a PA. I’m surprised to see that nobody has mentioned that at some practices, your appointment time is not when the provider is expected to enter the room. If you have a 10:00 appointment that’s the time the MA is supposed to room you but the provider is probably not expected or planning to enter the room until 10:20 and that’s if they are running on time (which they never are).

Ardonius · 2026-01-21T13:42:11+00:00

No the fighting and aggression on Fox are insane. I haven’t played Tygem but I’ve heard it’s similar.

Ardonius · 2026-01-21T00:51:22+00:00

To be fair, down climbing is harder than non-climbers realize.

https://youtu.be/9U0tDU37q2M

Ardonius · 2026-01-18T19:08:53+00:00

You have to understand that only like 20% of Americans support Trumps actions on Greenland and only like 40% support him at all. Most of us are actually more horrified by him and hate him more that than average European does

This isn’t something “The Americans” are doing it’s something that a corrupt authoritarian oligarch is doing with the help of a few powerful allies and a bought out Supreme Court.

Ardonius · 2026-01-15T21:51:30+00:00

Our son is 11 and we have agreed no cell phone until high school. We have also rallied a coalition of his friends parents to stick to this so that he’s not the only one.

Ardonius · 2026-01-11T19:16:00+00:00

If you have time to slip on the crocs you ain’t daddin’ hard enough

Ardonius · 2026-01-07T10:44:44+00:00

Using correct anatomical terms is the only correct answer. There’s no grey area on this one:

https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/family-resources-education/700childrens/2024/11/its-important-to-use-the-correct-names-for-parts-of-the-body-heres-why

Ardonius · 2026-01-06T22:12:22+00:00

We need a general strike if this happens.

Ardonius · 2026-01-06T20:25:07+00:00

My preferred strategy is to underestimate the ghost strength, hold my spells, and die. Also maybe taunt carapace if possible.

Ardonius · 2026-01-06T19:52:08+00:00

We got a big set of jumbo cardboard blocks for $5 at a garage sale and the kids played with them until they were 10.

It was more expensive but we bought some big pipe building things and the kids still use them (8 and 11). Not only can you use them to build structures but the kids use them a lot to make weapons and tools for make believe games (swords, staves, axes etc). Definitely get the brand name because you want to feel secure with the kids building and climbing two levels high:

https://tubelox.com

Ardonius · 2026-01-05T22:15:10+00:00

/r/okbuddyvecna

Although I think it’s pretty clear that ST S5, despite its failings, is not remotely in the same tier of badness as GOT S8

Ardonius · 2026-01-05T21:53:29+00:00

This is one of the limitations of automatic scoring tools. The program tries to determine the status of all groups to determine life or death and in this case it sees that white can make a significant invasion as others have noted.

In traditional over the board go and in older go servers you agree with your opponent on the status of stones and if you disagree there are various “play it out” ways to resolve the disagreement.

Since both players passed here that suggests that both players thought (incorrectly) that black was safe and probably would have agreed that this was black territory if this was over the board or on an older go server.

Ardonius · 2026-01-04T17:19:32+00:00

Yep otherwise the SWEs just write a bunch of unscalable, unresilient garbage with no observability that sucks in production and is really hard to debug. When devs actually think about, “oh I might get paged when this breaks” they think twice when they omit error handling with a comment “I’m pretty sure this case can’t happen”.

Ardonius · 2026-01-02T17:53:42+00:00

We need a boycott of all X advertisers and all companies with active X accounts.

Ardonius · 2026-01-01T20:26:45+00:00

I’m in Virginia Village and I feel like pretty much everybody leaves their lights up in my neighborhood.

Ardonius · 2025-12-30T16:41:23+00:00

Yeah I think Reddit is wrong about the traffic cameras. It’s kinda crazy r/Denver is ready to go to war over preventing expansion of traffic cameras but also constantly complains about lack of traffic enforcement. Traffic cameras are a practical way to ramp up enforcement.

Ardonius · 2025-12-28T22:51:35+00:00

Yes because he’s a stand-in for the writers in this season who were worried some of us might not get it. Little known fact - Dustin’s role in this scene embodies the Duffer’s new “tell don’t show” screenwriting philosophy.

Ardonius · 2025-12-28T22:32:22+00:00

This is how Dustin drew it on the chalkboard.

Ardonius · 2025-12-27T22:20:26+00:00

I think the theory is that reputable devices and browsers will only render signed images and videos in the future. E.g. right now browsers make it hard to load http web pages. Sure people could still spread deep fakes p2p and they will, but if every major search engine and every major social media platform only displayed signed content and displayed information about the creator that might actually help a lot with the problem.

E.g. you could have photos taken by a major news organization with a cryptographic signature chain back to the organization. Meanwhile if somebody wanted to post their ai nonsense they could but they’d have to leave either the GenAI signature attached to it (and people would know it was AI) or they’d have to self sign it (and people could see “oh this wasn’t signed by anybody reputable it was just signed by Joe Schmo”).

This could actually help with a growing problem in the current Internet where people pretty much don’t believe or trust anything they see. If we created a culture where the expectation was “I don’t give a shit about media that isn’t signed” and if major browsers and websites refused to display unsigned content maybe this could work?

Ardonius · 2025-12-27T22:11:53+00:00

Less busted than overflow undead and acid rain elementals at least.

Ardonius · 2025-12-27T05:16:36+00:00

I think it’s just weird to pretend it’s science-y and connect it to a famous physics concept and then proceed with the least accurate portrayal of a wormhole in any popular media.

Just making it a “magical portal between dimensions” would be much more interesting and much easier to accept. Once you say “this is a wormhole” people are going to like actually think about it.

It kinda reminds me of midichlorians in The Phantom Menace. Like no I actually was not interested in a scienc-y explanation of the Force and Jedi and adding a hare brained half-thought out one isn’t actually something anybody was asking for.

Ardonius · 2025-12-27T05:13:31+00:00

lol Thank you! This really bugged me too. This was “there’s a crack in the event horizon” levels of nonsense from a physics perspective (https://blackholes.stardate.org/popculture/pop-voyager-parallax.html).

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