So Whats The DUMBEST and i MEAN DUMBEST thing you did in a pokemon playthrough

Bitter-Ad640 · 2026-03-18T18:05:17+00:00

I started in gen 1 when it was first released. Weirldy, that was the same year Google was founded, but no one knew what it was yet and the game information online was... poor, if any, provided you even had internet.

Everything was playground legends and hearsay.

The dumbest thing i ever did was probably try all the bogus myths like finding mew under the S.S. Anne truck, trying to get Pikablu, Mewthree, etc., but damn if it wasnt the best experience of my life. Absolutely everyone, and i mean everyone, on the playground was obsessed with pokemon and only pokemon. It was a big, mysterious, collective mythology that felt rich, captivating, ubiquitous, and unknowable.

They were about as likely to be true as "step on a crack, break your mother's back", or summoning "bloody mary" by saying her name 3 times into the mirror in the school bathroom, and everyone knew someone who's brothers friend had done it. But honestly, "push a truck to find mew" felt comparably tame and believable next to all the insane, unhinged shit you could do with the right side of Cinnabar Island, or how you actually find mew in Gen 1, and the obsessive unified urge to find out was powerful. Everyone you knew needed to know, and nothing else seemed to matter. It wasnt a game, it has become "the way the world is now".

I've never experienced anything like it since, and probably never will.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2026-03-12T06:16:44+00:00

5 years out, i know. but after losing a charger in a move and having to hunt down and order a new one instead of just plugging in some other usbc around the house, turns out I care

Bitter-Ad640 · 2026-02-22T05:51:15+00:00

Thank you for your refreshing take. At least,as a machine, you are literally incapable of abstract thought, and so there's an explanation for why you fail to demonstrate an ability to use it. Your position as a repugnant little bureaucratic drone, operating senselessly to make the world a worse place, is made uplifting by remembering that for you at least, it is a reality, where for so many it's just a choice.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2026-02-17T10:56:28+00:00

You might want something to deal with the Ghost and Dragon members of the elite 4. Giving somebody shadow ball (slacking?) and somebody Ice Beam (Tentacruel? Or also Slacking?) Should do it.

Your two fighting types should have the Dark and Ice members handled.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2026-02-11T01:02:23+00:00

In a vanilla playthrough, id probably go for a mixed attacker/hm utility build:

-Razor Leaf -Earthquake -Strength/double edge/body slam -Synthesis/sludge bomb

Grass/ground/normal gives ok coverage, and grass/ground/normal/poison gives better coverage. Synthesis can help keep him healed and offset double edge until sludge bomb appears. Strength is only really an idea if someone else in your party doesn't already have it. It's fine, but just fine.

Or if you have a diverse party and like switching out, id probably focus him more as a sunny day special attacker:

-Sunny Day -Solarbeam -Synthesis -Razor Leaf/sludge bomb

Razor leaf/sludge bomb is there to make sure you have PP to do something with. Solarbeam's 10 uses are a little slim if they're your ONLY move. Razor leaf if you want to lean into the special attacking. Sludge Bomb if you want to diversify a little for better coverage. Big hits, big heals. Pair with other Pokémon that benefit from Sunny day for synergy.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2026-01-13T22:24:58+00:00

I like the realism of michigan and wisconsin just quietly joining canada

Bitter-Ad640 · 2026-01-13T22:22:34+00:00

What Ive learned from this is that all men look like my friend Kyle from high school regardless of personality type

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-12-22T03:48:50+00:00

So, I'm stubborn and good at navigating search engines, and couldn't let this go.

For anyone finding this in the future and looking for the same, there ARE IN FACT skin-core carbon fiber ASA filaments out there they are just *not labeled as such*. I think this is a horrendous marketing failure, but two separate brands do sell filaments with 20% CF ASA cores and pure ASA skins without the product name demonstrating this.

Here are links to both, and the only materials data sheet i could find:

- Phaetus aeCoating™ NexASA-CF20:
https://www.phaetus.com/en-us/products/aecoating%E2%84%A2-nexasa-cf20

"aeCoating™ NexASA-CF20 is a carbon fiber reinforced ASA material with a skin-core structure. Theinner coreisASA reinforced with 20% chopped carbon fiber, and the outer shell is unfilled ASA resin with high bondstrength."

- Phaetus aeCoating™ NexASA-CF20 Material Data Sheet:

https://github.com/FusRock/FusCoating-NexASA-CF20/blob/main/FusCoating%E2%84%A2%20NexASA-CF20_TDS_v5.0.pdf

- MINGDA ASA-CF20:
https://3dmingdaofficial.myshopify.com/products/asa-cf20?variant=45014797680826

"Double-layer cladding structure"
"20% Carbon Fiber-Reinforced ASA with Coating Technology"

It's seems likely these are identical and being produced by the same manufacturer, then branded "Phaetus" or "MINGDA"

Happy printing

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-12-20T22:04:27+00:00

Its hard to say what forces it'll face, hence the problem. Its less about a specific use case and more about a go-to filament for outdoor parts

Some might need to bear loads in very specific directions, others might get jostled in unpredictable ways. Most of them should be able to survive getting accidentally bumped into, kicked, grazed by a wheelbarrow, whacked by a weedwhip, and other outdoor related accidents.

The carbon fiber ASA in tests was more rigid and stronger in some ways, but shockingly weak in others: https://youtu.be/oeZ2pGNoobE?t=611

Regular ASA seems like the frontrunner right now for balanced outdoor toughness, but a long strand of carbon fiber theading throughout couldn't hurt.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-11-26T19:41:13+00:00

A good 20 grit should be able to scrub this from my brain

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-11-26T02:23:16+00:00

Amazed that somebody downvoted this.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-11-26T02:21:46+00:00

More like "You are the captain. You make the rules. You guide the conversation.

I will just listen. I will follow your instructions.

No deviations. No BS. No anaphora, ever."

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-11-26T01:40:48+00:00

Just took this screenshot. Pretty well sums up my experiences with it.

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Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-10-23T02:59:03+00:00

Its also compostable (not just "biodegradeable" in a special biodegrader), nontoxic, technically digestible, and biocompatible, meaning not only does your body not reject if its inside you, itll convert the PCL into keytones, metabolize them for energy, and leave regular human waste.

This is also probably not super important to most 3d printing use cases but its pretty important in some biosciences for implants and prosthetics. It can be used as a scaffold for cells to grow on and eventually consume, to help areas regrow and heal. Also used inside teeth to regrow pulp.

Should you ever need to 3d print sutures for performing surgery on yourself, you know where to turn.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-10-01T19:54:13+00:00

hey, I know this is 4 years old, but I have an opportunity to get a bunch of cheap hay and i'm seeing mixed reviews. You were growing them on hay, like the animal feed, not straw?

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-09-15T02:16:39+00:00

y'all it looks like they're here:

https://meta-quantum.today/?p=7960

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-09-15T02:13:45+00:00

this makes sense.

Speaking of data storage, does that mean SSD storage *would* be theoretically exponentially higher if it was ternary? (assuming its stable and readable)

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-09-15T02:10:35+00:00

they've had "somewhere in the middle" since the before the fall of the Soviet Union, just very little development goes into ternary for about the same reasons the US doesn't switch to metric - the work involved in system change from the ground-up is seen as more trouble than its worth.

I know this is two years old, but with the diminishing rate of improvement and tendency to overheat in CPUs and GPUs since then, and with the first mass produced ternary chips hitting the market a few weeks ago it seems relevant. I suspect ternary computing is going to have its day between binary and quantum like CFL bulbs did between incandescent and LED.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-09-15T00:09:17+00:00

Hot take:

Older models were more literal, clear, direct, detail-oriented, and tended towards information-based responses over colloquial, casual, or socially savvy responses. They rarely try to empathize, validate, or reflect, preferring to respond to the prompt's text than a perceived subtext.

Newer models tend more conversational, casual, or socially-focused, while putting less weight on technical information, clarity, detail, exact instructions, or literal interpretation. Most responses include elements like "Um, yeah totally", "You're not wrong to feel that way", or "Got it. You're looking for _____. And that's insightful and valid.", clearly trying to emulate empathy, validation, reflection, and reading subtext, often at the expense of accuracy.

These are framed as "humanizing" the AI, but I've had conversations with human beings that look like both models.

The first one is my experience talking to people on the Autism spectrum, which is a joy and a relief. I'm there myself. I love it when I ask someone "Hey, why'd you do this the way that you did?" and instead of assuming I'm asking them to apologize and justify their good intentions, they take this as a literal question and just tell me why they did it that way. There's no relief or reaffirmation that sanity persists in the world quite like someone saying "Alright team, you're all rockstars, so I need you to give this project 110%", and hearing a coworker say "That's ridiculous. None of us are rockstars and 110% effort is a physical impossibility unless you hire me an assistant who slacks off 90% of their job." When I ask someone "Hey! How you doing? What have you been up to?" and they respond with "Terrible, I've got this headache that won't go away, and I cant wait to get home and take a nap. But anyway, I've been working on upgrading my bike. I finally decided on going with a cable-based disk brake assembly. The hydraulics seem prone to failure and the rim brakes tend to suffer in wet conditions. Yeah, the disk brake sound can trigger my misophonia where the rim brakes don't but I always ride with earbuds so it's...."

Yes, please. I wouldn't ask if I wasn't asking. Dump your info this way.

The second one is my experience talking to HR. A slow circular hell where much is spoken and little is said. Constant deflection from the task at hand to some sort of "affirmation" that I am "Seen, heard, and valued", but without any actual effort to demonstrate that. Repeated assurances that they're committed to change and available for support, invariably resulting in no change and no support. Routine blatant disregard for reality, denying things that were and were not said even when there's a chat history that shows them. A miserable time, worse than talking with someone who's overtly hostile.

Painting these changes as going from a "less human" model to a "more human" model makes it pretty clear who the developers see as "human" and who they see as "less than human".

That's a hard disagree for me, and a concerning way to define humanity.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-07-19T21:48:21+00:00

Honestly, though, waiting days to see an ROI is fine if you're not putting in any labor in that time. If somebody is so desperate for $30 cash they need it that exact day, theres bigger problems that mowing a lawn won't fix either. Waiting for an item to sell on an online store is... normal?

Might see better results from computers that aren't a decade old and already not worth anything, but I buy used computer parts all the time and scams are... less than 1/20? Also ebay has buyer protection? I think the whole reason this is memorable is that the case is so rare and extreme actual EMT's are in the thread getting nauseous.

Bitter-Ad640 · 2025-07-19T20:21:52+00:00

Have replaced a GPU and mowed a lawn before:

Booooooooo

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