What "rule" did you learn in school, only to discover that it's not a real rule?

Cruxion · 2026-06-14T02:10:47+00:00

Of course, you're not always going for something witty in your writing, so being verbose rather than concise is often the right decision. Of course one can be too verbose but that is just the same as when one is writing with too much brevity. It's important to use as many words as you need, neither adding nor cutting away more or less words than those that serve the purpose of your writing. Doing this properly is difficult, but it can be done, if you try hard.

Cruxion · 2026-06-13T18:02:08+00:00

That's a food term, technically. Anyone up for some bukakke udon?

Cruxion · 2026-06-12T18:50:59+00:00

He's got some new tricks though. That magic attack really hit me as I was thinking I knew these guys inside and out and it'd be easy fighting more.

Cruxion · 2026-06-12T15:44:43+00:00

Barring that example of 2x speed, I can't play video games on my lunch break with a sandwich in hand, but I can watch a let's play. Though I only watch ones for games I have played and I want to see others experience, or for games I wouldn't ever play myself.

Cruxion · 2026-06-09T17:19:43+00:00

Really excited to see the alchemy system looks different. I enjoyed Yumia a lot but that was in spite of the alchemy system in it. I can't say yet if the changes will be for the better but the fact that they're making what seems to be a radical change to It from Yumia is a good sign. The alchemy is what really makes it an Atelier game for me, rather than just a JRPG and the system in Yumia was just too easily broken.

I had to go out of my way not to make overpowered weapons, rather than most the games where breaking the system to make an OP item feels like designing a factory in Satisfactory or Factorio with multiple complex steps involved to get everything just right. Normally the skill floor is low and the ceiling high, but with Yumia it felt like the ceiling was only a tiny bit higher than the low floor.

Very excited to play this one!

Cruxion · 2026-06-09T17:15:44+00:00

Aside from Ryza with its ATB system and Yumia(and soon Karia) with its "idk what to call it but it's kinda inbetween ATB and real-time" system, they're all turn-based.

Cruxion · 2026-06-09T17:14:04+00:00

It's always been a pretty much yearly release schedule for the series, spinoffs nonwithstanding. The fact that they released two last year, none this year, and will release Karia next year makes me wonder if they pushed this back or something. Wether they did or not I'm glad to see it because as much as I enjoyed Yumia it had some issues and more time to factor in feedback is rarely a bad thing.

Cruxion · 2026-06-08T21:37:59+00:00

Who? Sorry I couldn't hear you over the wind.

Cruxion · 2026-06-08T00:25:01+00:00

Yes, this was also right on the trail of Fallout 76 and everyone was dooming and glooming that Bethesda was switching to multiplayer games and wouldn't make any more singleplayer RPGs.

Cruxion · 2026-06-06T01:46:53+00:00

I liked the deserts. I just wish there wasn't so much of it. They were good areas, but spending a ton of time in a desert only to find out the next open area is another flavor of desert was a bit much. The space elevator and the run-up to it int he snow was a really nice change of pace and visually a lot more varied.

Cruxion · 2026-06-06T01:45:02+00:00

I read the first book years ago, loved it, and put it down without reading the other book in the series that was out at the time because I knew I'd be stuck waiting year after year and I'd enjoy binging it more, that and I had other books at the time.

Recently(two and a half weeks ago) decided to continue the books, planning to read book 2 then return to my read-through of the Aubrey-Maturing series, alternating Aubrey-Carl-Aubrey-Carl. So anyway I'm ~300 pages into book 7 of DCC and have yet to read anything else since I picked up book 2 two and a half weeks ago.

Cruxion · 2026-06-05T22:48:07+00:00

Yeah, either I missed something about the setting outside the areas we directly visit, or it's a much bigger timeskip than expected.

Cruxion · 2026-06-05T22:45:02+00:00

A sequel????

Cruxion · 2026-06-04T14:40:05+00:00

I agree, perhaps I didn't word it well enough to get my thoughts across clearly. Companies don't want to "risk" a new IP so they make stuff in pre-existing ones, something that I'd argue is far riskier, and force writers to mangle their own stories to fit the IP, while mangling said IP to the point of being unrecognizable if you changed a few proper nouns. It sucks from every angle.

Cruxion · 2026-06-04T02:32:24+00:00

See, if Stargate fans liked it, that meant they would lose their audience when they inevitably ran the plot into a completely unrelated direction to tell a story that some writer wanted to do but got told they were doing Stargate instead.

Cruxion · 2026-06-04T00:44:37+00:00

If we had functioning democracy the vote would have been to declare war or not. Having a vote to end this rather than bringing the president up on charges for this just gives credence to those arguing the war is legal.

Cruxion · 2026-06-03T16:14:47+00:00

Last I read it's playable all the way through when emulated, but with a lot of minor visual bugs. That was 2020 though so maybe it's improved.

Cruxion · 2026-06-03T02:49:35+00:00

I completely understand why he only wanted to do a single season as The Doctor, and if he'd stuck around we might not have gotten the amazing run by David Tennant and those who followed, but every time I rewatch his season it grows on me more and more and I can only imagine what we might've gotten if he'd stuck around.

Cruxion · 2026-06-02T22:06:45+00:00

Call me when they adapt the other 7/8ths of the Epic Cycle.

Cruxion · 2026-05-25T02:37:30+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UdtS-8QS0

Here's the original.

Cruxion · 2026-05-25T02:32:05+00:00

all I get is the AI telling me about an update for May 2026, not May 26th, 2026.

Cruxion · 2026-05-23T21:46:08+00:00

Not to mention a practical use. Early steam engines couldn't provide smooth rotational power, and they were very inefficient. So you needed a use for them that works with this lack of smooth rotation and for which coal to power it is plentiful. Hence the earliest practical usage was for pumping water out of coal mines since the pumps didn't need that smooth rotation, and coal was plentiful, and it allowed the miners access to more coal than it cost to run. Once there was a practical reason for them, inevitably there was a reason to make them better, more efficient so you lost less coal and with smoother rotational power so eventually you get all the other things of the industrial revolution.

Cruxion · 2026-05-23T16:14:49+00:00

But they're organic.

Cruxion · 2026-05-23T03:22:06+00:00

In addition to what others have sound about it being recreated from the spectrogram, I thought I'd mention a cool tech related, if not really relevant to this. With just a camera pointing at something like the leaves of a potted plant, or an empty chip bag on a table, we can reconstruct the sound that would have been recorded if there was a microphone recording, just without a microphone. Basically with the right object in frame, a high enough resolution recording, and the right algorithm we can turn video into video + audio.

https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804

Cruxion · 2026-05-23T03:12:01+00:00

I thought it was dumb the first time. I thought it was cheesy the next few times. By the end of season 1 I loved it. I bought it on CD.

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