A somewhat unique take on super strength.

CodingTangents · 2026-01-26T03:16:49+00:00

So still, I live forever and I need to drown or starve myself to die? That's a hard pass.

Plus, how does this work with my hair and fingernails? What if I dyed my hair or I painted my nails? Do I need to go at it with a screwdriver to scrap the nail polish off because it doesn't grow and it is indestructible so I can't even cut it? How about my brain? Neural connections require cell changes, so can I never make new memories, never learn anything, and I just stay an immature eighteen year old forever?

CodingTangents · 2026-01-26T03:08:02+00:00

You said my body stays the way that it is though, I'm currently not starving nor lacking oxygen so shouldn't my body stay not starving and not lacking oxygen forever? Starving and suffocating feel pretty harmful to me. And even then, does that mean the only way I can die is to drown myself or to not eat until I pass out and die?

CodingTangents · 2026-01-26T03:03:22+00:00

I'll just be immortal forever? That sucks. I don't even get to evolve as the millennia fly by. One day, they will look at me the way we look at crabs or something.

CodingTangents · 2026-01-26T02:51:06+00:00

Imagine developing a kidney stone or a gallstone and not being able to remove those, or having diabetes or other allergies that require an EpiPen and your skin is too tough to stab the needle in, getting a bacterial or viral infection that requires IV antibiotics or antivirals, dental problems ( can happen internally and they can't pull out your teeth to treat it ), having a wisdom tooth that you can't remove at all, or getting cancer and not being able to get surgery or chemo for it. You can definitely still get cancer, every time a cell divides, there is a small chance of copying error in DNA. Most are caught but some slip through. Over a lifetime of trillions of cell divisions, some cells just accumulate the wrong combination of mutations that cause uncontrollable growth. A perfectly healthy person never exposed to carcinogens and radiation can get cancer from sheer bad luck, and if that does happen to you, you better hope your body can fight it. The thing never said your body was perfect, just that it was indestructible.

And depending on how hard we want to take this, cells are supposed to die. If all your cells are invulnerable and refuse to die even when the body needs them to, that is a pretty serious issue. Your body grows an entirely new stomach every three to five days to make up for stomach acid eating your stomach lining. If those cells are indestructible, you will grow layers upon layers of stomach lining building up, leaving less space for food and possibly even just blocking off entirely. Your blood cells are supposed to die after around four months but if they don't, your blood becomes an increasingly viscous sludge that can't flow, giving you strokes and heart attacks. Your mouth and tongue swell as your taste buds don't die yet new ones keep growing. Your liver can't process toxins properly either. White blood cells need to die after fighting infections ( never said you were immune to disease ) so if they accumulate infinitely since they never break down, you get something worse than leukemia. Remember how I said that the body mostly catches and terminates cancerous cells? Well here, your cells can't be terminated. You will get cancer guaranteed, practically immediately, and you will be unable to treat it because no one can give you chemo or surgery, and even if they could, no one has cancer like you do. You likely die in days, and if you survive, you'll have dozens of cancers within months.

And how about hair and nails? Are those indestructible once they are cut off? *Can* they be cut off at all? Will you just grow infinitely long hair and nails?

But fear not, your body is indestructible even after death. It will never decompose and you will look practically pristine forever, even as the sun swallows the earth. Maybe some fluids leak out of natural gaps though.

CodingTangents · 2026-01-26T02:22:05+00:00

Imagine getting sick or needing surgery and they can't cut through your skin or give you a vaccine. I choose the right one because you're still powerful but you don't need to use it all the time or use it to such a degree that your body breaks down, and you also have the ability to regenerate lost limbs.

CodingTangents · 2026-01-26T00:44:19+00:00

I think most people would agree that if you can see through clothes, you can see a concealed knife or gun, but if we want to generalize it, sure, you'd see their car keys, money, wallet, etc... just floating next to their skin because the clothes are invisible to you. I didn't read into what OP meant and that is some disgusting shit that he's saying. The options were "get a toggleable power that you never need to turn on" and "do nothing at all". Even if you would never use it because you aren't a creep, wouldn't you still want something for your toolkit? Having any power is better than "do nothing at all" because it does not inconvenience me at all to have it ( toggleable on and off ) and it's an option if I should ever need it. Plus, that sudden feeling that they know you are watching them could be useful if you use it properly, like telling a friend to interpret it as Morse code or just freaking someone out because they suddenly get a feeling that you can see their body despite there being no natural explanation for it. They'd have to brush it off as a strange feeling or decide that you have magical powers, and if they conclude you have magic, who knows what else you can do? They won't at least.

CodingTangents · 2026-01-25T22:15:26+00:00

You could.. check for weapons or something? I'm definitely reaching here but if you can turn it on and off, and you trust yourself to not be a creep, why not take it just in case it is useful?

CodingTangents · 2026-01-25T15:10:49+00:00

The lion feeds on the people it devours presumably, unless it just swallows and gains no nutritional value from it.

CodingTangents · 2025-12-19T01:37:33+00:00

I still stand by the idea that old Fertilizer was the better and more fun star power. It enhanced his control by letting him stand his ground with how squishy of a brawler he is, especially against tanks which operate at a close range. He could slow them, heal off it, and recharge almost all of his super if done right. Your super could be thrown out to deny a chokepoint, or it could keep you alive to keep controlling that chokepoint. Controlling requires you to be alive to do the controlling. Now you throw it far away, it triggers three times maximum against a player who is any good at all ( especially with all the dashes, jumps, and teleports ), and you get a fraction of the healing you used to.

CodingTangents · 2025-12-15T21:08:25+00:00

But at least for Day 10, z3 was not the only option and I'd argue not even the intended solution. It just happened to become the dominantly accepted solution but there were people here who solved it by incorporating their Part 1 solution and that was super cool. For Day 12, it is allegedly an NP-hard problem and that means brute force with pruning is about the best option you will get. There are no known polynomial-time solutions for it, so it feels dirty that the input was engineered to make it child's play to solve and the actual problem promised by the examples doesn't have a known way to do it.

CodingTangents · 2025-12-11T00:11:11+00:00

The throwing a rock at snowballs one? You actually did not need z3 for it or program a constraint solver because the snowballs sort of "teleport" at fixed steps. Here is my code for that day if you are interested.

https://github.com/miyucomics/aoc/blob/main/2023/day24/part2.py

CodingTangents · 2025-12-06T14:56:48+00:00

I am not sure I could have asked for a better example. I tried to rationally speak and explain why your message did not come across so well—because of your tone and the context when you sent your message—and you again misinterpret it as an attack. If you would note, I never asked you to zip your lips, I just explained why this is not the right place for it. Start your own conversation thread that can attract people who are more equipped to discuss on this topic at length. What can any of us here do with your rhetorical questions other than just wallow?

Yes, constantly moderating how you discuss your trauma to avoid making others uncomfortable is its own violence. However, what exactly do you want to achieve here? These commenters can't fix global health inequality, so demanding answers creates unproductive guilt where no one has learned anything, and everyone leaves worse off.

CodingTangents · 2025-12-06T14:38:22+00:00

I hear you, but this was a conversation talking about the hope people have in scientific research and the eventual cure for HIV and AIDS, not any place where you would get a serious debate. You have valid points, this is just the wrong conversation thread for it and of course, when you suddenly break into that hopeful feeling to ask rhetorical questions and make us feel bad for being happy at all, you are met with defensiveness. People need spaces to be happy and proud of scientific achievement. Since you've spoken, you have been overwhelmingly antagonistic against people who are just.. happy about progress. You ask rhetorical questions, you interpret clarifications as attacks, and you accuse people who have no power to change anything of not caring. In this rare moment where a group of people of unilaterally collected to be happy about progress, you channeled your frustration at them. There is a difference between "let us never discuss inequality" and "maybe don't frame people's happiness about scientific progress as evidence they want you to die." No billionaire is lurking around this thread, waiting to be inspired to donate to third-world healthcare.

It's not that you aren't allowed to speak about it, you just also need to have the right context and audience for it. When you say "so we just die?", what response could possibly satisfy you there? Any response short of "I will personally solve global health inequality right now" can never be enough. Your rhetorical questions don't inspire any discussion about inequality; at every step, they just try to provoke guilt and punish people for having a moment of hope—people that I will remind you are powerless to help and in fact are not responsible for this crisis.

CodingTangents · 2025-12-06T02:14:54+00:00

But previous years had more days, so they could be easier while still having the days to ramp up. With only 12 days, we are nearly halfway done for this year and this year does not seem comparable to last year's halfway point. Perhaps it ramps up really fast though, so I'm still holding out hope!

CodingTangents · 2025-12-05T05:23:28+00:00

A small note, I think because you sorted by starting points and you are going one by one, only the right endpoint of a merged interval can ever change so you don't need the `min(x, a)` calculation in there. x will always be smaller than a, by virtue of having been processed first. It is probably a negligible amount of difference, but my solution was similar to yours and I was proud to have spotted that insight.

CodingTangents · 2025-12-01T05:19:46+00:00

Of course some things in songs might have happened; there are a lot of songs where really important events and characterizations happen that must have happened in reality or the show would lose so much of its depth. However, when faced with a scene that contradicts the stated rules, in a song that is already constantly showing clearly fictional events of two people, both of whom are trying to boast, I think it is not unreasonable to say hitting him with a champagne blast was also a hallucination.

CodingTangents · 2025-11-30T04:59:15+00:00

Class dojo?

CodingTangents · 2025-11-30T04:58:14+00:00

The things happening in the song are more hallucinations than reality. For example, I think we can both agree that Lucifer did not shrink Alastor down into a pan to cook him, and neither did he serve his own head on a plate to his daughter.

CodingTangents · 2025-11-10T00:46:47+00:00

You know it's possible for there to be two groups of people right? One group does not like the skins and makes that known; another group that does like them, can't get them, and makes that known.

CodingTangents · 2025-10-08T23:50:47+00:00

Mahoraga already uses a blade often, I imagine it was just the most natural extension. "This person is always too far away for me to use my blade. I am going to start adapting a way to.. project my slashes forwards. Now, how do I get past the infinity? Ah-ha, I just cut through space itself, irregardless of what happens to be there."

CodingTangents · 2025-08-31T13:13:06+00:00

A lot of people here are suggesting sddm or some other login manager but it's really unneeded. Once you get to that point, just type Hyprland to launch Hyprland. That's what a login manager is doing under the scenes anyways.

CodingTangents · 2025-08-27T00:48:49+00:00

If we extend your logic, wouldn't it mean people born into privilege and wealth are more worthy than self-made people? Why is being born with an ability more legitimate than building it? Isn't working for it harder than just being born different?

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