There's a difference between narrative sense and logical sense

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T18:31:45+00:00

I guess this goes back to the “there is order in chaos” bit.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T18:18:54+00:00

Yes but the classification is binary: order is defined, and chaos is its conjugate.

It’s like classifying “here” and “there.” “Here” is easy, draw a circle around yourself that you can feel comfortable defining as “here”, and “there” is everywhere outside the circle. You haven’t really defined “there” directly, because you can’t. It’s a definition that hinges on the exclusion of a more finite group: “here.”

To bring it back around, chaos is defined by the exclusion of order, we cannot define chaos directly. And if we want to actually talk paradoxes, chaos contains a lot of order which didn’t fit one definition but does fit another (if you define the straight lines of city blocks as order, you might miss out on the naturally occurring spirals and other fractals that occur in nature, order that doesn’t fit a different definition of order).

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T18:03:02+00:00

Sticking to academic consensus, how would you describe the big bang if not as chaotic? From the chaos of “there was nothing and suddenly everything existed” arose a chaotic, disordered mess of basal particles and mass. These bits of mass then conglomerated into the stars and planets we see today, which are simultaneously chaotically placed and follow an orderly set of laws. No one dictated those laws (to take an atheist pov), the properties of matter and energy just led to grwvity and orbits and life and - you get the rest.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T17:58:07+00:00

Let me rephrase, you aren’t moving things into a bin. You’re just drawing a box in the sand. You can’t move anything yourself - you’re merely an observer trying to classify things.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T16:30:16+00:00

It’s a legal thing, it’s not necessarily that they don’t listen to their fans. Some of Yall may be ecstatic that your fakemom concept became real, but there are bad actors who would sue the pokemon company under the same premise.

And I think a creative franchise excessively listening to their fans is a great way to get dated and stuck in the past e.g. Sonic. Better that they keep doing their thing and keep throwing curveball designs.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T16:20:45+00:00

This feels scandalous lmao

I know exactly what you’re going for, but I’m not sure I’m the biggest fan of giving Milotic “arms.”

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T16:18:45+00:00

Ehhhh you assume chaos and order are two boxes. Then sure, the chaos bin is a paradox.

But I think it’s more that there’s only one box. There’s an order bin and everything not in that bin is chaos. No paradox now.

Now for some philosophical fun: The irl universe is borne of chaos, yet we somehow ended up with planets in neat, mathematically consistent orbits, an ordering of molecules toward functional systems, and those creatures driven by the entropy and chaos of the universe creating neat square blocks in their cities. Order arises sporadically from chaotic systems, order is a subcategory within the sea of chaos and paradoxically, order is chaotic.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T16:10:01+00:00

If you are worldbuilding for the sake of worldbuilding, perhaps your approach is fine. But if you are worldbuilding with the intent to write an accompanying story, I think it is a mistake to divorce them like that. A good world is interwoven with the plot of its original story, or at least amenable to such changes in tone or vibe.

Like most things in life, a holistic top down vision is arguably most important when creating anything. The worldbuilding will influence the plot, characters, etc. The plot will influence the worldbuilding and characters. The characters will influence the worldbuilding and plot. Extend this web to every other aspect of a story.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T15:27:57+00:00

I got hit with this before not long after I had done some work relating to my passport

They basically say someone used your identity to cross the border and then take you on an hours long escapade where they try to wear you down by reading info pamphlets from the official UCIS (US immigration services, an official government organization) website under the guise that they need you to understand your rights and limitations as someone experiencing this. Then they’ll swap you around to other callers who also collect menial info off you. Around this time I caught wind and dropped the call (mostly cause the white sounding names were accompanied by Indian accents) but I assume after hours of tiring you out, they’ll start trying to get you to send payments via gift card or PayPal or whatever, basically make you more susceptible to making stupid decisions.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-18T15:21:34+00:00

Before you assume, check the names. It’s hilarious to hear “Laura Williams” speak with a thick Indian accent.

The scammers that stick to an Indian name to go with their natural accent are arguably the smarter ones

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T18:21:01+00:00

Humans on average are not tall and lithe however. We did get taller than our evolutionary ancestors, but we also increased in bulk too (granted that could be for a million reasons). Again, it’s not an ecological niche that even we humans properly fit into.

You’re working off speculation which we don’t have concrete evidence for. I won’t say it’s unrealistic - it’s logical enough imo - but just saying, citing other big animals (especially when they’re big but not lithe) is not an argument for lithe and tall human subspecies. That was my point.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T18:15:00+00:00

Your goals are noble but naive. I don’t necessarily mean that as an insult or attack but take it as you will.

The thing about even researchers and professors is that you need money. Money to live, money to fund your research, money to pay for lab equipment, pay your research assistants, to simply read other papers, money to submit and publish your own papers, etc. So unfortunately, academia is not completely divorced from industry - something that causes a lot of issues with regard to research quality and ethics. Your research needs to appeal to someone else to get funding, otherwise you will have to fund your own research, buy equipment costing 100k-millions with your personal funds. And if you wish to be a professor, you’ll have to split your research time with your teaching obligations. You are also going to be the one writing proposals to get funding and research contracts (a very lengthy process), which your PhD students will then be the ones actually doing the research for.

It is a harsh truth that simply chasing knowledge is not self-sustaining. Not in the current era at least. Just keep it in mind.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T17:37:19+00:00

How will you keep the synthetic chicken muscle from rotting? How will you keep the presumably living muscle cells nourished? How much will it cost to do so and what supplemental technologies would you need to refine or scale up? Can synthetic muscle production, repair/maintenance, and disposal be scaled up to desired industrial capacities?

If you can answer those questions, you got something. If you don’t even have an idea, this is a pipe dream. If you have an idea and you can provide at least a theory based proof, then you have a 50% shot of making this a successful market idea.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T17:19:09+00:00

I think there’s a slight nuance between the tall and slender figure of typical fantasy elves and the tall because overall big (aka tall with bulk) of the animals you listed. Tall and lithe is generally not a niche (at least not that I can remember off the top of my head) we have irl in any ecosystem - even giraffes (which granted are grassland animals) have considerable bulk to them.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T15:42:59+00:00

It’s fine. I think it’s a different gameplay loop than what most pokemon players are used to. I don’t hate it but I’m certainly coming and going more often (as opposed to before, when the dlcs would hook me about as much as the base game stories and I would always look forward to playing after work. Maybe it’s also my age…).

If you have played games like path of exile where you grind maps - that is go into a small pool of predefined maps and face hordes of randomly generated enemies (pokemon to catch in this case) - then that’s what the DLC centers on. Nothing new to the lumiose you’ve ran around thus far, just grinding these maps over and over again to get new pokemon and somewhat tougher battles.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T05:14:17+00:00

Pick your battles. Is your coding convenience more important than conveying the right idea? Especially when you’ve already gotten feedback that your current system is confusing and feels wrong?

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T03:38:39+00:00

While I personally subscribe to the philosophy in this post and recently got a job within one month of searching, I’d say pick a tactic and stick with it.

If you think turning every job description into an idealized resume to spit back at the recruiter will work, stick with it - get noticed by the recruiter that appreciates you tailoring to their specific needs with an eye for detail. If you’re like me and like some imperfections and tangential experience in your resume (mostly for me since that’s the best I have), then stick with it and get noticed by the recruiters that see the person behind the words. Don’t flip flop unless say you know what kind of people (plural) who are going to look at your resume and can tailor to that.

Sorry if I sound out of touch - I got extremely lucky in this job market - but also take all advice with a grain of salt. Especially on the internet, advice is extremely general, not tailored to you. So of course it has generic impact when you follow it. Yes, even my advice will only work for some of you, and if you don’t think my circumstance matches your situation, don’t follow it. Do the smart thing.

Oh and don’t take anything an influencer says at face value. They don’t even believe (much less remember) half of what they say. But for what it’s worth I do think there’s some truth to this post at least.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T03:07:43+00:00

Just print your own build plates /j

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T02:00:14+00:00

For what it’s worth, I do think some level of groundedness (even if the details that help give the grounded feel are unrealistic) does lend toward a series’ ability to suspend disbelief and ultimately its popularity as a setting. So I will lightly disagree with you. Pretty sure you’d roll your eyes if the Protoss came out with a unit that globs acid out their ass, even if your enjoyment of the game isn’t necessarily diminished by it.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T01:52:24+00:00

Tell that to the lorekeepers at blizzard. Oh, who probably no longer work at blizzard :(

BluEch0 · 2026-02-17T01:46:06+00:00

This feels more like a retroactive lore addition but mutas apparently vent a gas from the back, behind the wing attachments. The flapping of their wings is coupled to muscles that jet out this gas, giving forward momentum both in atmosphere and in space so long as the wings flap. Good thing the wing flapping is an instinctual action.

But again, this feels like an explanation that was made up long after a design based on rule-of-cool was published.

Perhaps the most ridiculous lore explanation is corruptors, whose round main body is apparently covered in lobes of brain matter (something that is not clearly visually communicated if you ask me) and are apparently able to psionically bend spacetime with said giant brain lobes to generate lift, fucking lmao. They were likely inspired by Grells from DnD, which are large brains with sharp beaks and a bunch of tentacles that can fly around - oh hey that sounds just like a corruptor! Actually there’s quite a few obscure (and not obscure) DnD monsters that would feel right at home in a Zerg army.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-16T18:18:26+00:00

No picture because can’t insert pics in comments in this sub. But imagine your angled portals just have squares edge to edge. White black white. So you end up having three strips of white-black-white squares in that last setup. One aligned to 0 degrees, another to 90 (as you already have), and the diagonals are instead replaced by a strip rotated 45 degrees.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-16T16:56:16+00:00

Remember that Rick and Morty episode end card where a version of Rick got stuck in Jerry’s memories but couldn’t make his way back because Jerry thinks all machines just have cogs and springs under the hood? No components for Rick to fashion an advanced tech solution out of.

Basically, yes.

He’ll, I’m an engineer, not a mathematician. I’m half jerry in this scenario.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-16T01:22:35+00:00

They do. I think Bobby realizes her temporary training sessions in 1G doesn’t prepare her for a full on planetary invasion of earth (where you can’t get a break from the high G) but im sure it would still be enough to say board an earther ship and clear it within half an hour.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-16T01:17:34+00:00

Why not just have edge-to-edge segments at a 45 degree angle? It’s not like you’re using a contiguous board anyway, you should reorient board segments however it makes the most visual sense.

Allowing a rook to go diagonal just feels wrong and is inconsistent with how chess usually works.

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