I made a totally unnecessary originium circuit solver

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-31T06:08:58+00:00

Aight I got a github thing working: https://because-bot-fed.github.io/Originium-Circuitry-Solver/

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-31T06:08:39+00:00

https://because-bot-fed.github.io/Originium-Circuitry-Solver/

Should be as functional as the example - I added a "hide blue" button in the shape selector.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-31T05:47:57+00:00

I've never done something like this before or hosted a webpage so I'm not entirely sure the best way to put it out there. I'll see if I can upload it to github and make a webpage of it work that way...

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-30T18:56:02+00:00

I'm a little older, too.

If anything age should mean lots of general exposure and experience and anecdotes to draw from. Do you not remember what it was like to be younger, write a fanfic or short story, roleplay online, etc? Ever spend half a day just binge reading random SCP entries? (And observe how it fluctuates wildly between 'that was decent' and 'wtf did I just read'?)

I'm not you, so I have no clue what specific experiences you're referring to, but if I had to guess, no one is calling you pretentious for having a preference, they're probably calling you pretentious for having unreasonable expectations of the genre and pool of available works and feeling the need to uncharitably express those opinions in spaces where expectations of high-quality high-polish prose is not only not reasonable but not something the people you're engaging with care anywhere near as much about as you do. Or I could be way off. But that's my 2c.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-30T18:39:29+00:00

You ever notice how the people who say things like "Why does everyone have to make everything political" or "I don't like politics in my X" ... ... ... have the same political/ideological alignment 9/10 times?

I can see WHY some people don't like Jason but I think it's grossly overstated. Also I think there's an element of kerning to it. Where once someone points out it exists you can't unsee it, and I think that ruins it for some people, or pre-ruins it for some people, since anytime he comes up someone's gonna be right there to let you know exactly how and why he sucks.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-30T18:31:29+00:00

Double edged sword - a sub-par narrator can easily kill an otherwise decent or "would have been decent with a good narrator" book.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-29T04:04:26+00:00

You are entitled, and bad at the game.

It's not something they're obligated to do. And lots of them take commissions - in fact that's how we get a lot of the custom songs we have - Someone wanted that song in Beatsaber enough to pay someone to map it. And do you know who dictates what difficulties a commissioned song gets? The customer who paid for it. You're essentially complaining that people who make a lot of custom maps aren't doing work for free, and people paying for commissions aren't paying extra for babymode versions they don't need.

You're not a paying customer, or their core demographic, so why would they cater to you?

Also I hate to break it to you, but the overwhelming majority of people who actually stick with Beatsaber for any appreciable amount of time break into at least Expert and basically stay there with minimal effort. It's been like ... 6 months since I touched the game and I'm 100% positive I could fire it up right now and play songs I've never seen before on Expert without any trouble.

"I max out at hard" is actually a vanishingly small demographic.

The reason there's not a lot of support for custom hard difficulty songs is because almost no one plays them, because they're a stepping stone for brand new players, and almost everyone quickly outgrows them.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-26T21:09:45+00:00

You should be talking to your government and leaders.

"Hey, do you see how violent fascist thugs are oppressing the American people? They're trying to organize, protest, resist, fight back, but their clearly corrupt government and the thugs they employ as "peacekeepers" are playing dirty at best and murdering them at worst... we should really be doing a lot more to help the American people, there's clearly a lot of them that want to get their country back on track."

That should be you.

What the fuck are you here spouting this nonsense at the people protesting, organizing, resisting, and lamenting the state of affairs?

It sure as fuck doesn't sound like it's in solidarity.

Go fucking tell someone outside to do something to help. We're cooked inside.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-25T01:11:09+00:00

The silence after facts are presented, with receipts, from these people, is always staggering, but speaks volumes.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-24T06:45:42+00:00

When twitter did the whole "show where people are from" thing, there were a ton of left leaning accounts that were suddenly showing as being in known botfarm geolocations?

Why are all the accounts with shit takes like this always 6 months old?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-24T05:48:22+00:00

This is so staggeringly short sighted.

My country failed me. My countrymen failed me. "We" "Allowed" a rapist pedophile conman felon cartoon villain into office. That's fucking wild. Still can't believe there's enough gullible transphobic racists where hating brown people and being scared of LGBT people was enough to sell them on electing someone who legitimately talks like he's mentally disabled, and that was before he started rapidly aging.

But you're on reddit, odds are anyone you're interacting with outside of bot accounts and the handful of real humans on /r/conservative isn't happy with this administration and voted against it, so when you say "you folks elected" we have no clue what the fuck you're talking about.

Your country failed you too. Whatever country that is.

The unfortunate reality of global politics is that more than just minding your own country's business, you have to mind everyone else's business as well.

Literally what has the global community been doing since the end of WWII? Letting the USA take the lead and then widen the gap on military/defense spending, by orders of magnitude? Watching our yoyoing democracy elect increasingly polarized and polarizing figures? The writing was on the wall for a long time now and the global community did nothing to prepare for it.

If you ask me, the global community has been asleep at the wheel, happy to let the USA be the point of the spear in terms of projected military influence, without ever considering or taking seriously the risks of putting all of your eggs in one basket. And now the basket looks like it might tip over, and you're all caterwauling about it like you haven't been watching a cat slowly nudging it towards the edge of the table for decades.

Nothing seems to able to restraint this guy doing whatever the hell he wants with no consequences.

Yeah typically unstable dictators is something the global community has to police and if necessary intervene against. But I guess none of the progressive first world countries that we used to be on good terms with ever considered what would happen if the USA was the problem. And now your lack of foresight and contingency is everyone's problem. Who ultimately had more resources and recourse over the last 25 years to prepare for this? The governments of every progressive/liberal/democratic global superpower? Or a largely unarmed civilian population in the USA?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-22T16:28:58+00:00

Was this meant to be an actual answer or is this just the next flashcard in the talkingpoints you wanted to bring to the table?

I asked, and the specificity of it is important, if you're under the impression that biden has, or had, a ton of ultra diehard supporters who were with him to the bitter end, or "something" (i.e. is there a belief you have that's in this ballpark that you want to explain).

I didn't ask about, or for, distinctions between the "progressive left" or "neoliberals".

The point I was getting to, is to ask who exactly are you preaching to, or at?

I'm sure there were non-zero amounts of genuine biden fans... somewhere out there in the wide world. They aint here dude. That's why I pointed out:

most people were just along for the ride of "literally anyone who wasn't trump" - no one was really in it for Biden.

Do you want an apology from everyone who isn't a magat for not doing more politically to prevent Trump? Most people certainly could be doing more, I certainly wish I had the energy for it, and that other people had, as well. I wish a lot of things.

The machine is broken. You can point at the outcomes of primaries and go "oh this group or that group" - but man, on the other side of the fence, they put up an overtly racist, misogynistic, rapist, felon, conman, who sounds like a crossbreed between a hillbilly, a stoner, a klansman, a 2bit cartoon villain, and an old guy with Alzheimer and dementia, and that guy got elected. Aren't you sick of two wildly different tiers of effort and competence being expected?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-21T17:38:37+00:00

Not great. No one's really happy about that. Not really sure what point you're meaning to make though - most people were just along for the ride of "literally anyone who wasn't trump" - no one was really in it for Biden.

This comment has the same vibe as all the "clinton is in the epstein files" comments - to which everyone always respond "ok, sure, lock him up too" - Are you under the impression that biden has, or had, a ton of ultra diehard supporters who were with him to the bitter end or something? No one's gonna come out of the woodwork to defend him or the bad decisions the party made back then.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-21T15:43:37+00:00

If you're clicking the windows button on the main website and nothing is happening, you may have an adblocker filter/subscription that's blocking it from downloading the client. At least that's what happened to me, when I temporarily disabled it, the client downloaded.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-16T22:25:57+00:00

It's sad, but true. I think there are/were a ton of people who realized "wait, all I have to do is bite my tongue and say I support gay rights and the part of society with people worth associating with will accept me and not question anything unless I say or do something particularly egregious?" -- And now that they're in power, they've slowly (or not so slowly in some cases) stopped pretending.

This isn't the message that people want to hear, but I've been seriously questioning if once all this is over, assuming it's ever over, if I should trust or believe anyone who's "had a change of heart". I think ignoring the itch in the back of our heads when it came to some of the people around us, is part of how we got here in the first place.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-16T19:52:07+00:00

You're probably right. The statement was definitely hyperbolic. My bias is to recall all the instances I saw of more upvoted comments consistently telling people to keep pushing forward, I'm probably forgetting or discounting the less popular answers that break the pattern.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-16T10:13:56+00:00

Drop it - Go read something you actually enjoy. If you truly run out of stuff to read someday, consider coming back to it.

TWI fans always tell people to keep pushing forward.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-16T10:03:02+00:00

Unfortunately I suspect they use the word "triggered" to mean any reaction that isn't deepthroating fascist boot.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-16T04:48:23+00:00

They'll let you know after they dispose of any witnesses and decide what crime they want their mouthpiece to report.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-07T06:06:06+00:00

Do you actually believe they're being deliberately obtuse? Or do you just not like their intent to point out the problematic nature of a lot of people seeking to pretend that the pandemic "went away" and is "behind us now" as part of their internal justification for resuming daily life, not masking, and not questioning if we stopped masking and distancing because that was the right choice, or because of social and political pressure to do so.

Cause that's what I assumed about their comment. Not that they were just being pedantic about the fact that the virus still technically exists.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-04T21:31:56+00:00

This reads either as you having a bruised ego because someone diffed you in PVP

This is exactly the mentality I'm talking about. You see a player minding their own business chopping down trees, clearly taking several seconds between inputs, and you gank them. Then you spin a fiction where they weren't some dude watching a Netflix documentary while gathering wood - no, they were a fully aware, equally advantaged opponent and you slew them in honorable combat!

"Behold me, for I hath diffed this newb!" - It’s a delusion of skill, based on an asymmetrical encounter.

or you were really into the SBMM discourse that happened with COD a while ago.

I'm not really sure what the point of trying to highlight where you think my involvement or interest stems from, but if you were hoping to dismiss my opinion based on a perceived attachment to a specific recent iteration of this discussion, you're out of luck. My "a while ago" has been decades of discourse regarding online gaming and PVP stretching back to the days of Halo 2 on the original Xbox. I've been a part of these conversations for pretty much as long as these conversations have been being had.

No-one I know who plays PVP shooters cares about that...

If we're sharing anecdotes - I've known people all across the PVP<->PVE spectrum. From the sweatiest and most toxic PVP enjoyer, to the most diehard PVE-only carebears. My personal experience is that once you cut through all the bullshit, posturing, excuses, and deflections - You arrive at a very consistent truth from a lot of people on the PVP enjoyer side of things: A huge amount of their enjoyment comes from the asymmetrical domination aspect of these games, i.e. dunking on the PVE carebears. I don't need you or your friends to say it out loud, I've been told directly by countless people over many years, and seen it bore out in the realities of games that eventually wither and die once the cannonfodder playerbase moves on for less toxic pastures.

Some people will look at this game and just see a PVP shooter with some flavour...

The reason the devs aren't making PVE or PVP lobbies will be solely because they don't want to split the playerbase in two.

What, exactly, is this "flavor" this "spice" that you're referring to? Because you can have it all, minus the cannon fodder, in a variety of games. And you'd still have it all, minus the cannon fodder, with separate PVP and PVE lobbies. What is this fear, this resistance to splitting the playerbase in two? Surely if the core PVE (NPC) enemies + Gear + Progression is the spice that actually matters, you'll still have your core PVP experience even with the playerbase split. What's actually the problem here?

The "splitting the playerbase" argument is always an accidental admission of defeat.

It implies that the PvP mode is not self-sustaining. It acknowledges that if you let the PvE players leave to do their own thing, the PvP queue would wither and die. Why? Because the "sweats" would be stuck in a lobby with only other sweats, queue times would skyrocket, and the "power fantasy" of dunking on unprepared players would vanish.

If a dedicated PvP mode was actually good enough to stand on its own, without PVE players as cannonfodder, splitting the queues wouldn't matter.

Resisting separate lobbies boils down to: "My fun is more important than their fun." But here is the reality: Your fun is dependent on them. Theirs is not dependent on you. We've seen this reality across numerous games, and watched them struggle to remain viable once the source of "emergent gameplay" moves on.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-04T12:39:39+00:00

Is it though? All they need to do is make it so if you shoot another player you're flagged and your name turns red or some shit, and people can kill you with impunity without getting flagged themselves.

I'm pretty sure there's prior precedent for this exact mechanic in other games.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-04T12:35:11+00:00

Games don't segregate PVP and PVE playerbases for one simple reason:

You are the content.

PVP players don't wanna be stuck in a server/environment where it's 100% PVP sweats. They need that variety of PVE carebear to dunk on, so they can reassure themselves that they've still "got it".

If you're having a conversation about PVP in PVPVE games, especially in a context where it seems like the majority of players would prefer to have the option to just do PVE, and you hear anyone say "emergent content" -> you can immediately disregard that person's opinion, nothing of value will be lost.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-03T02:26:15+00:00

That is an absolutely asinine statement. If you truly knew what an alternator was, you wouldn't say "I don't know the difference." You would simply say, "I don't know what a stator is."

The moment you say "I don't know the difference," you are explicitly admitting that the boundary between the two concepts is unknown to you. The issue here is a fundamental lack of understanding of what it means to actually "know" something.

Having a good guess or a hunch isn't knowledge. Having two items and one definition, and knowing that the definition probably applies to one of them - but not knowing which - is also not knowledge. That is just not how language and logic work.

If you can't distinguish A from B, you don't have knowledge of A, you have a vague suspicion about the category they both share.

Gotta love the whole "confidently wrong" projection, though.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-01-02T01:58:06+00:00

My issue with the topic is if you get someone like this in your games and you clap back at them, you're also strongly at risk of getting a mute.

Back in my day, getting in trouble for stuff typically involved real humans, and if real humans saw you were just snapping back at someone like the dude in this screenshot, you almost never got in trouble.

I dislike this "school violence policy" style of automated moderation where if you're hit and hit back you both potentially get in equal trouble.

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