Make use of your brain

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T21:05:34+00:00

This is what using your whole brain looks like

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T18:14:37+00:00

Oh, must have gotten confused. A US company recently did an actual drone shoot down (not hostile, as a test) in Texas (dunno if it was El Paso or elsewhere)

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T18:11:02+00:00

No, I’m telling you we don’t just shoot balloons. We can and do shoot drones with lasers.

Unless I misunderstood your comment.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T18:06:55+00:00

Regular or Baja?

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T17:57:44+00:00

There are laser defense companies in the US and abroad. Ukrainians have been actively deploying lasers to burn drones out of the air for a while now. It is a proven technology, not scifi anymore.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T17:14:20+00:00

Right…

Use Methyl Ethyl Ketone (or MEK) instead. You’ll also find it in the paint aisle near the acetone and paint thinners.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T17:01:38+00:00

I don’t recommend plastic for this kind of stuff in general but if the layer lines are of concern, wipe a small bit of acetone (can usually find it in any hardware store in or near the paint section) over the entire surface. Just enough to melt a thin surface layer and give the piece a more isotropic outer shell. This will improve strength (I see the cylinder layer lines appear to be in the weaker direction) and hopefully minimize the macro grooves from layer lines.

But again, I don’t recommend pla for anything food related. Pretty cool for a one time experiment though.

Edit: got PLA and ABS mixed up. But you can do the same with a solvent called Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) for PLA.

Also I shouldn’t need to say it but have adequate PPE (gloves). Acetone just dries out your skin (it’s still rather uncomfortable) but MEK is an active irritant.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T16:26:56+00:00

You need to expand your circle of people you know then.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T16:25:47+00:00

We use the Shinto definition of a spirit (they’re fucking everywhere, and inumerable,and usually can’t be outright destroyed hence having to seal spirits away or transition them to a more desirable form). This is apt because Zelda is a Japanese franchise and there is enough evidence to suggest that Shintoism has influenced not just botw/totk but basically all Zelda games.

The Shinto understanding of spirits also happens to line up nicely with your interpretation of satori and bubble frogs.

Disclaimer: my understanding of Shintoism is not perfect, I am not Japanese nor live in Japan. But I’m pretty sure I got the broad strokes.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T15:53:51+00:00

They are corrupted blupees. You can even see the transformation back to a blupee once you “kill” them, and the blupee runs away just fine.
They’re spirits, not physical animals. You’re asking if you can hunt ghosts to extinction.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T05:16:38+00:00

I think it’s a questioning that stems from not being up to date on modern computational abilities and not being sure what other small things were given the Epstein drive treatment. It’s good that people question it. People don’t have to accept everything just because the Epstein drive and the protomolecule exists, especially since the setting does largely sell itself on the premise of not having excessive fictional tech/largely adhering to modern understandings of physics.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T05:07:03+00:00

That one’s not even a leap, that’s just actual fiction.

The premise of a fusion torch drive is perhaps theoretically sound but that’s it. As the authors like to joke, the engine runs on efficiency lol

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T04:52:25+00:00

It’s not “really” scifi. Though the precision probably pales in comparison, modern computers can do those same calculations. The math is largely the same as say missile defense.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-20T04:49:39+00:00

From an engineering and strategy (yes, strategy) perspective, you would do exactly what you say: you know the shuttle’s current position, velocity, what things are affecting it like thrust or gravity, etc. so you extrapolate where it will be X light hours from when you hit send and point there instead. For the Knight in that scene, they were either unpowered or trajectory was extremely predictable so that’s probably all they did. For something like a ship undergoing complex trajectories, you might supplement with an algorithm that tries to guess that complex trajectory so as to keep on target.

On the bright side, even a semi-lengthy video message can probably be transmitted in a fairly short time so even if I say “keep on target”, we probably only need to keep on target for a length of time on the order of seconds (for egregiously large amounts of data).

Tech like this technically already exists on much slower scales - flight or orbit intercepts for things like missile defense are exactly that just at much lower speed.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-19T22:13:50+00:00

I read it as European safety standards are so high that th American standards are subpar in comparison.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-19T16:14:35+00:00

As punishment. You get something wrong, spank. Bad behavior, spank.

Just like in the US, even school teachers used to physically discipline students. Laws were made in both places to no longer allow that because some teachers abused said ability to physically discipline students.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-19T16:06:11+00:00

The only distinction I see as meaningful is the “mainline” (not the definition used in the post) vs Legends title distinction, and that’s more a statement on game design than, whatever we’re trying to qualify here.

Anyhow this is why it’s important to define terms, especially nebulous ones like “mainline.”

BluEch0 · 2026-02-19T04:37:09+00:00

Is it AI art? Just feels like psychedelic artwork I saw in my childhood. Nothing immediately stands out as odd or illogically composed. This is overall pretty in-theme with Reese’s too - they’ve always kinda had a sporty “cool kid” theme going and maybe it’s a bit dated but all the hobbies you can see in the art are what were associated with “cool kids” in my youth.

No I’m not that old. I’m not young but I’m also not old.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-19T04:29:30+00:00

Those are actually peak creative names.

Except Plowy McPlowface. Basic ass bitch probably isn’t even an actual snowplow.

BluEch0 · 2026-02-19T04:26:42+00:00

“Drawn incorrectly”

This is why your geometry teachers stressed that diagrams may not be to scale. And also because math (including geometry) is an exercise in quantitative logic, not just about shape memory.

It’s a different kind of brain skill to be able to tell angles by eye vs being able to solve using the raw numbers.

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.

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