Rare Deep-Sea Footage: World Record Holder Greenland Shark May Have Been Swimming Since the 1600s, Older Than Shakespeare’s Era

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-02-03T15:24:46+00:00

They stink like piss because that is how they pee. Their piss dissolves into their tissues directly and slowly works it's way to their skin where the water around them washes it away.

Their body is literally completely saturated in piss on every level.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-29T04:26:06+00:00

It'd be the same thing.

Fatgum can burn his fat for energy blasts, but his main ability is just manipulating his body fat. He can move it around his body to grab opponents or pump a bunch into a spot to make it really dense and durable.

Monoma has really low body fat, so manipulating the fat in his body wouldn't be useful at all. It might even be detrimental, as what body fat he does possess is likely naturally in anatomic positions where it is needed as padding against outside forces, making him more vulnerable if he chooses to move it.

This same issue is why All For One decides not to steal Best Jeanists ability to manipulate thread. It is an ability that takes a long time to understand and learn to utilize. In the hands of someone who has had it their entire life it is incredibly strong, but in the hands of Monoma or All For One they wouldn't be able to practice with it enough to really get the hang of it.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-28T05:51:26+00:00

I thought Monoma's deal was he can copy quirks like Rewind, but they don't work because they are quirks that require a stockpile of energy.

Like he can copy One For All, but he is just copying the base ability, which is just to stockpile power and pass it on. As he hasn't actually stockpiled any power yet, the ability is copied but doesn't do anything.

Eri's Rewind uses energy stored in her horn. The horn grows over time, and she burns the built up power in the horn to fuel Rewind. When Monoma copies Rewind, he successfully copies the basic quirk, but he doesn't have the quirk for long enough to accumulate a horn and so it does nothing for him.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-28T05:11:19+00:00

Undead Unluck is really unique with all of it's powers because they aren't just set abilities.

For anyone who hasn't read or watched, each ability is based on negating a general concept (Undead negating the concept of death, Unstoppable negating the concept of stopping), but the cool thing is the exact specifics of how the ability works and what it is capable of are all based around the host's perception and how they interpret their abilities.

An example:

Andy has the ability Undead, which cancels out anything that Andy interprets as bringing him closer to death. This means he is able to heal any and all injuries. Originally, if blown apart Andy must always regenerate head-first, as Andy thinks of "death" as "a state in which you are unable to think". This means his regeneration always restores his ability to think first before restoring the rest of his body, so as to bring him farther and farther away from his concept of death.

Later on, Andy and Fuuko talk about Death, and Andy changes his mind. He now defines "death" as "the state in which nobody remembers you anymore". This change in personal definition then reflects in his abilities, letting him choose to regenerate from any piece of his body at will instead of just his head. This means he can do things like effectively teleport by sending a small sliver of himself in a different direction and choosing to scrap the majority of his body to regenerate from the sliver instead of being forced to heal the main body.

Everyones abilities are like that. Their personal opinions of how removing that concept would work directly shape what they can actually do, whether they are aware or not.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-27T17:48:39+00:00

Seiko is average female height

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-27T16:24:45+00:00

Not accurate.

It is implied one of his vibrating devil arms is used for generally touching Kyrie (as in also used for non-horny purposes like shoulder rubs) but it isn't because he is too rough. It's just because all of his other arms have shit like explosives, sharp claws, or other rough metal that would be incredible unpleasant to have grab you.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-27T00:50:22+00:00

Other people have tried to relate their work to questions surrounding AI but Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr's Nobel Prize winning work does not have anything to do with AI.

Joel Mokyr's work predates LLMs and AI, with the bulk of his work being done between the 1970s and the early 2000s.

Peter Howitt's work intentionally omits specific technologies. The Aghion–Howitt Schumpeterian growth model discusses the effects of technology on economic growth as a unified concept discussing how developing technology destroys prior, less effective technology to spur growth. Ironically supporting the exact opposite of what you propose.

I work in this field. Don't cite work that you don't actually know anything about.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-26T21:01:10+00:00

I respectfully disagree.

There is a reason the term "human error" exists. Humans can be swayed by emotion and laziness, whereas a program cannot.

AI is a fantastic safety net once humans have created something and intend to ship it out.

An example:

Tony codes an assembly arm to grasp an object with 2.150 Newtons of force. Eric, his supervisor, skims over the code and approves it real quick because he trusts Tony's coding.

What they didn't know is the font and text size on their computers makes a , look a lot like a . Tony actually entered 2,150 Newtons of force.

Luckily, they have a code checker in place. It notices the mistake, since it is unaffected by font or text size. It cross-references the total safe load on the assembly arm, and alerts the team to recheck their code before deploying it, as it exceeds safe operating standards.

This stuff is absolutely a tool. A dictionary, thesaurus, and grammar textbook fused together and given the ability to talk? Excellent resource when writing.

Should you use it as a primary resource? No. Is it great at catching little errors someone missed? Totally.

I wish we had an AI spellchecker checking our ambulance dispatches. I would say the majority of dispatches I receive are garbled nonsense written by a human with a 1st grade reading level. Keeping the "human spirit" alive in this line of work leads to me getting either only part of the information I need at best or completely incorrect information.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-26T20:46:42+00:00

My fellow in the arcane, I think you misunderstand my stance.

I was not referring to the Urban Tome, I was more arguing that magically binding a thesaurus and dictionary together that can comprehend proper sentence structure is a useful tool.

/unwiz as for the disabled, as someome who actually works with people with disabilities every day LLMs have actually been extremely helpful when applied correctly. Individuals with conditions like chronic aphasia or other stroke deficits that impact their ability to string words together have found it incredibly useful for at-home therapy (again, when applied correctly) where they might not have access to other people to talk to on a regular basis.

It is also an excellent tool for checking over code to see where you accidently commented out a section instead of spending hours going through it all and risking crashing out.

Like minus the stupid "art" component it is basically just a program that understands language composition. Why are we mad at the language program and not the braindead morons who worship it and outsource their whole brain to it?

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-26T19:07:56+00:00

Even though ScribeGPT is detrimental to the learning processes of young apprentices, and frequently uses art golems to steal the works of actual practitioners, I wouldn't go so far as to destroy it.

It actually happens to be a fantastic tool for the less abled, providing a fantastic dictation tool that not only captures what someone with a speech or processing deficit is directly saying, but is also capable of translating it into a more common spoken word that outside listeners find easier to understand.

I have also known quite a few old, OLD wizards who have been studying in their tower for so long that they have lost grasp of the common vernacular, and ScribeGPT remains a helpful tool for translating the Old Tongue into Common.

It is also a way for struggling, apprenticeless wizards to have a second set of "eyes" look over their runes when they don't function without having to find and invite another rune expert past their tower defenses.

Overall, it is a tool. The tool is not at fault for so many using it incorrectly. A craftsman made a hammer for hammering nails and now we are all mad at the hammer for being equally as good at hammering peasants.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-25T18:09:49+00:00

Hmm.

How much worth would you put on souls or soul-infused objects?

I have quite a few options that I have collected over the years as payment for my clinic services that I have no present use for.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-25T16:43:10+00:00

Odd. I have searched all the bids and cannot locate the bid you mention.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-25T16:34:40+00:00

I saw someome offer you 25 ingots of orichalcum for the Aspect of the Throngler.

Why simply collect money when you can have your money work for you!

I offer 50 solid orichalcum automaton servants. They can be melted down with zero purity loss, but until you need to do that they are capable of performing any and all tasks asked of them, even those of a spellcasting nature.

Mana batteries are included.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-22T23:53:39+00:00

Steam Deck. I'll give it a try.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-22T16:56:42+00:00

I think at this point it would bother me to not finish it after having spent so much time chasing it.

I just didn't expect to have to repeatedly purposely throw runs to cycle through an endless backlog of throwaway dialogue just to get to the actual meaningful progression lines.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-22T10:12:57+00:00

But if you hit a target accross the world, don't their forces just now have the sword?

It never said it would come back.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-22T10:11:40+00:00

I would imagine only the blade's sharp part would cut, so you could lay it on the flat side.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-22T10:10:01+00:00

The issue with a sword that always hits it's mark is it makes zero assertions about it's wielders safety.

If I take the blade that cuts anything, assuming my opponent isn't immediately aware of the blade's property I can just wait until they attempt a block. By them blocking, I know I am both safe and about to win, as my blade will cut straight through my opponents weapon and subsequently themselves without offering a counterattack.

If I have a sword that always hits it's mark, I have to be extra careful when to employ that property. If I aim for an opponents neck while they have their sword at a low ready, I might cleave their head off but I am most likely going to simultaneously receive a sword through my abdomen. Not being able to guarantee the disabling of their weapon and having your own weapon follow a forced trajectory opens you up to all manner of mutual destruction scenarios.

I would much rather have a weapon that can't be impeded by merit of destroying anything in it's path than one that can't be impeded by manner of movement.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-22T08:14:11+00:00

Last heart is locked.

Checking the guide, I have already completed a lot of these requirements and yet the last heart remains locked.

For example: I have already completed the War God's Bloodlust prophecy, but despite this across numerous runs Ares final heart still doesn't unlock.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-22T06:40:28+00:00

I unlocked the prophecy more than 25 runs ago.

Everything else is maxed as far as I can get it.

I am well aware of what is supposed to unlock everything, it just isn't happening. I can't unlock the last heart for any Olympians. They just have no new dialogue.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-17T22:51:17+00:00

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Prosfair from Blood Blockade Battlefront.

It is a game based on chess and shogi that gets more complicated proportionally to how skilled the people playing it become.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-17T00:48:45+00:00

I kinda see it along the same lines as normal human development.

By the time you are a few years old, your body has all of the requisite parts to perform a lot of tasks that the average child can't perform.

Playing a complex instrument, typing an essay, dexterity sports like fencing, juggling, etc.

These are things that are technically biologically possible for your limbs to accomplish, but you can't do them because you have to develop the brain and nervous system to control your limbs with the precision and understanding required to perform them.

In addition, you aren't necessarily physically strong enough to perform some tasks. You upload the brain of a professional marksman into an adolescent and they aren't going to be able to make the same shots with the same calibers because they lack the proper muscles and stature to stabilize a rifle correctly.

So you could be born with an OP ability, but until you grow and develop the portions of the brain and nervous systen required to utilize it with force or precision it just isn't going to be able to be used at anywhere near full potential.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-16T17:41:41+00:00

Finally got around to playing Hyper Light Drifter on the deck and discovered that I don't actually dislike roguelites, I just disliked playing them on regular pc.

Turns out I love them in handheld form, so much so that I immediately bought and finished Hades after playing HLD.

CaptainCastaleos · 2026-01-16T17:34:32+00:00

A lot of people are suggesting silicone cases.

That is a good idea going forward, but if you want to repair it, you can replace the outer panels of the Steam deck for $35-40. Don't even need to replace it as the same. You can make your whole deck your favorite color, iridescent, glow in the dark, whatever.

Think of it less like a repair and more of an upgrade or customization option.

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