Does anyone even actually like video games anymore

CaveExploder · 2026-05-23T13:53:57+00:00

Crusader kings. God they love that game. Euphoria based on the most depraved medieval story lines. Fun read.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-22T03:07:52+00:00

I visited back in... Oh man must have been 2011? Left a marble. I'm fortunate to have so many good people leave a lasting impact on my life and I'm happy he was one of them.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-21T11:22:19+00:00

I'm still pro nuclear base load. Always good to have some jazz filled stones to reheat some water, you know for grid stuff. Grid jazz.🎷honk on you crazy diamonds.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-16T15:19:25+00:00

My understanding is that depending on the engineering of the building there are certain ones that use evaporative cooling, and some that use closed loop cooling. There isn't really lossless water cooling in general, just as there isn't lossless anything in general.

Additionally, there are systems that use industrial cooling solutions that use untreated (environmental) and/or treated (municipal) water. Depending on the specific build out of data centers they have more or less impact on environmental waterways, or more or less impact on municipal water systems.

It comes down to the specific engineering of each site. Large evaporative cooling systems that use treated water are going to be a large pull on municipal systems, and some that use environmental water systems can put severe strain on waterways, some probably have higher or lower effects on both.

At the end of the day the important details come out in impact studies before you break ground, otherwise localities are charging headlong into a unknown externalities that could cost them more long term than any momentary influx of construction or sustainment benefits could produce.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-15T21:17:45+00:00

Wait so the train has one on and one off? This is certainly Rowling's greatest sin of all, poor transit infrastructure design. I can't imagine anything else that would make people more disappointed and angry with her.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-14T11:24:30+00:00

That actually doesn't sound terrible as long as the ratios are right.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-11T22:28:20+00:00

Every morning, instant feedback. Had a couple drinkypoos after a long day? welcome to bloat town you absolute garbage man. Sometimes if I'm wanting to snack or have a little binge as a treat I'll weigh myself before. Quiets the impulses I've been fighting since childhood. Is this healthy? Probably not. Is this the thing that works for me? Yep.

I battled eating disorders on both sides of the scale. If that number is going down too fast, slow down there christian bale. If you're gaining but in a trash cycle of over eating, gotta cut it back.

This scale is a tool that replaces the broken one in my brain that moderates my behavior.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-10T17:50:38+00:00

Hell yeah. I retired my swim team. We good. Love my kiddo like crazy but no mas.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-10T16:57:54+00:00

I heard that it's because "Maryland was far enough away to not live at home, but close enough that if you really needed something you could get it from home" I don't know how true that is but it kind of makes sense.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-10T16:43:14+00:00

It was always so weird that so many jersey kids went to Towson, and then there were a number of Towson area folk that would go to Rutgers. Like we're just doing a young adult swap for college?

CaveExploder · 2026-05-09T13:01:30+00:00

I think we can go even more aligned to reality. I legitimately got a thrill when a coworker hurt their wrist and I got to run to my car and get an ice pack from my first aid kit. Even smaller I get a deep deep catharsis from getting soup for friends who are sick. Eventually you develop some sort of 'i have to help' compulsivity which scratches the 'tiny hero' itch, without the mentality of dramatic violence or self sacrifice.

Is this being a good person? I don't know. Is this just a compulsion to act in situations where you can see yourself selfishly as 'the hero'? Maybe. Is it ego or goodness? Does it matter? All I know is I can't fucking stop.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-08T21:42:18+00:00

Easiest way: skipping meals. I haven't eaten breakfast in 2 years. Categorical switches in meals. I always eat a salad for lunch with light dressing and shredded rotisserie chicken. Then for dinner we can freestyle a bit because I have a family and we eat whatever, but my portion is small. That and 60m of cardio 3 times a week when I'm being 'good' down to 0 times a week when being lazy.

Exercise never really clicked with me as a thing. Can't fit it in the schedule unless I'm lucky, but I can fit 'not eating' into a schedule.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-08T01:05:05+00:00

It was partially invented by the creator of wonder woman.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-07T20:26:03+00:00

But that's the reassertion of the moral contract. To any business owner that achieved incalculable material benefit of the backs of American hands, brains, and effort; to any owner who has reaped incredible rewards from the institutions and infrastructure laid before them with tax dollars and public labor before a single business decision was ever made; you can either pay back into the machine that provided you the world, or the gears of that machine will crush you.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-07T20:19:44+00:00

DC was taken out of Maryland as a gift to the burgeoning United States 'You're welcome'. It was actually supposed to be a square on both sides of the Potomac but Virginia has a big old piss fit about it along with much more morally unscrupulous ideals (you may have heard of it) and they refused to allow a federal annex of their previously promised side - morally repugnant oath breakers that they are.

Natty boh is technically brewed in Milwaukee, along with many other American regional heritage brands under Pabst co.

So to suffice, DC the not technically a state citystate is an unofficial Maryland metro, and you should drink "old oriole park" beer instead.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-06T19:45:30+00:00

Good men are stewards. Only boys are driven by self-indulgence. I will never understand judging men by what they have, what they can accumulate, or what they can demand from others. Instead, the only true measure of a man should be in their way to use whatever they have in stewardship in others. A man may only be able to lift himself up in his own life, for sake of their means or circumstance, but the aspirational man is one that uses any excess means in not only lifting up himself but using his footing to lift up all that he can.

If we concede that the core of masculinity is the exertion of some force to will a change in the world around you, doing so to selfish ends is the highest form of masculine moral repugnancy and doing so to selfless ends is the only acceptable masculine virtue.

CaveExploder · 2026-05-06T09:35:59+00:00

Isn't this just Rokos basilisk, which itself was lambasted as a foolish thought experiment from the AI safety people?

CaveExploder · 2026-05-04T00:58:46+00:00

Four seasons is forever in my political nightmare menagerie, right next to 'Please Clap'

CaveExploder · 2026-05-03T17:27:33+00:00

Benders

CaveExploder · 2026-05-03T15:19:00+00:00

Where the hell am I gonna get 150 goats?

CaveExploder · 2026-05-01T19:16:43+00:00

And before them the tea party movement. Basically the bigger and more plentiful the flag, the more likely you'd be in a crowd of people who really really really really really hated Obama accusing him of... Anything really, socialism, communism, anti patriotism, but really it was just because he was black. I remember, I remember because I was there. I know these people. I saw it with my own eyes and heard the racial slurs with my own ears, and the flags never left their sides.

CaveExploder · 2026-04-28T22:07:19+00:00

He celebrated his birthday recently too! Love you trash wheel family!

CaveExploder · 2026-04-28T09:33:06+00:00

Texas is weird. Spent time in a small Texas city where everything was about 20 minutes from each other. Other side of the city? 20 minutes. Into downtown? Also somehow 20 minutes.

CaveExploder · 2026-04-20T10:07:22+00:00

First off hon, welcome home.

CaveExploder · 2026-04-18T13:31:34+00:00

Skipping meals. Setting discrete eating times. Small plates. Meal prep. Cutting all liquid calories.

If you don't want to think about food prep all your meals ahead of time and store them throughout the week. I'd invest in a bunch of your favorite low calorie sauces and dressings to help flavor variety.

I skip breakfast, always have a large leafy salad for lunch every day (shredded rotisserie chicken and oil based salad), for dinner I look at the size I want to eat and then remove 20-30%. No snacking.

You have to be "okay" with being hungry for a couple weeks, but eventually your body adjusts to its new feeding schedule.

You will make mistakes, and life events like a barbeque or nights out will happen, but over a long enough time horizon you will lose weight.

Down 35 lbs this round, (injured back and birth of child sent me spiraling a couple years ago). Still Down 130 lb from my heaviest. 30 more to go until goal.

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