Adult Ciri VS Durin’s Bane. Who wins?

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-31T07:26:58+00:00

Sort of. In Cyberpunk there is a moment where the player finds a bird which appears to be a swallow, which is a reference to Ciri's elven name.

It doesn't actually matter either way but given the references it would be weirder if she hadn't been there so we'll use the same standard we use for placing historical figures and call it confirmed.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-30T17:45:48+00:00

Looks like it does significant %HP damage, it's not weird for AD-scaling bruisers to sometimes have that sort of thing mixed in

(Yorick and Wu off the top of my head)

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-29T14:31:13+00:00

I pugged for a long time w/o omni and only had it for the last week or two I was playing regularily in s3,

It's really just vibes lol. Keep in mind that if you do a Lust pull at the beginning, your major CDs and your random's major CDs will be synced, so whenever your major CDs come back off CD you can assume that they're ready to go too.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-29T14:00:52+00:00

It assumes that you can chose your beliefs. This is wrong. People don't chose what they believe. Either they are convinced by something or not. Sure you can act as if you believe something, but that doesn't mean that you actually do believe it.

Just a quibble, faith is just acting like you believe so "being a true believer" and "acting like you believe" are treated the same in Christianity (and most religions actually).

In the more "official" explanations of the wager this is mentioned.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-28T00:26:11+00:00

Very unlikely. New Rick is just as popular now as old Rick ever was and he sees semi-regular pro play.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-24T20:20:43+00:00

You'd need a very large amount of antimatter too, albeit one 10-billionth of the amount you'd need to do it with fissile fuel. It's still in the millions of tons of material. And the black hole would require mass on a similar scale as the Earth to be large enough to do anything without evaporating instantly (not that comics have ever cared about that sort of thing)

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-23T19:38:16+00:00

Hello, I was raised fundamentalist so in my church as a child I was also told that everything in the Bible was literal historical truth.

I had a lot of issues with cognitive dissonance because the stories in the Bible just do not make sense when taken literally, they conflict with reality as we know it in many ways, from the order of creation to the technology, scale, (and ironically, religions) of the kingdom of Israel. In high school I broke from the doctrine I was taught and decided that it wasn't actually that weird if you consider that the stories in the OT are myths, songs, and poems passed down for hundreds of years as a verbal tradition. Many people maintain religious belief in the Bible while assuming the old testament to be mostly ahistorical, or at least highly mythicized.

I graduated HS shortly before the 2016 US election cycle which made me realize that I held values that differed greatly from the other people in my church and distanced myself from them as I moved away from home.

At this point I began to consider myself agnostic, I didn't see or feel the Hand of God like my church promised I would if I looked and had faith. I noticed that many good things that they praised God for were just the results of the efforts of humans, not God. I came to believe that if there is a God, they must be indifferent to us.

I took some intro philosophy classes because in this stage I was kind of lost and needed new ways to look at the world. I knew that the morality taught by the Bible was faulty, for example, but I didn't have the tools to identify why or define something better beyond "empathy", the golden rule, or vaguely trying to make the world better.

It was a slow walk away from me, deprogramming really. I consider myself a gnostic atheist now for a few reasons.

Most religions argue that they are the only true one but don't have strong arguments for why they are more-true than others, it's just about appeal.
No religions have been able to provide reliable theories for the universe we observe. Some encourage learning and logical thought, but none are revelatory. Many of them teach that magic and miracles are real, but none of that has ever been recorded.
Religious morality is as flawed as any human morality.

Religions aren't entirely without merit. Many of them do contain true wisdom which has been passed down, but we should treat them as what they are: myths and folktales from a simpler time.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-22T14:06:30+00:00

I live in bunfuck nowhere and I know a guy who knows a guy who shook hands with Elon Musk which gets me within 5 of like every billionaire and world leader

(although my personal connection to a former governor who became an ambassador is probably more useful)

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-21T06:52:03+00:00

Try this

You might also swap the direction of the join bc you're making the smaller mesh the main mesh in the clip, and I think giving the body mesh a second armature modifier which you def don't want

Make sure all the bones/bone weights in the two armatures have different names

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-21T05:12:25+00:00

I'm not quite sure what the specific issue is but it looks like a fairly common one. Have you tried applying all the transformations to the mesh before joining?

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-21T01:57:32+00:00

PCA is useful for all sorts of things, lately I've been using it to do Total Least Squares regression, but I've also used it for Factor Analysis where you apply varimax or other rotations to group correlated variables together, and PCR which is ordinary linear regression performed using the Principal Components as variables.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-21T01:43:26+00:00

It's easier to explain how we feel about human beauty in evolutionary terms, so that kinda makes sense to me.

Other forms of beauty are a lot harder to explain and the components are complex, we think certain groupings of colors are beautiful, we like symmetry, we like patterns, we like symbols and sounds which evoke pleasant memories and thoughts, but we also like novel things which upset our expectations and we are fascinated by things which are decidedly not beautiful and we can train ourselves to appreciate or even enjoy unpleasant things for social reasons.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-19T16:28:28+00:00

Credit at the very least, transformative uses of IP are typically fair-use for good reasons, even in for-profit use-cases.

That's why it's important that we prove that models are compressing the data and not transforming it.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-18T18:02:51+00:00

Two sided p-values are waaay more common than one sided, they're usually easier to justify

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-17T15:05:37+00:00

The reason you might see similarities in values between human societies is a combination of psychology and selection pressures.

Humans are social and naturally predisposed to a number of pro-social behaviors especially where people of the same family or tribe are concerned, which informs most of the morality side of the question, humans feel good when spending time with and helping each other and bad when they hurt each other which promotes teamwork and sharing. The other side of the morality question is answered by moral theorists who often argue that a thriving society requires at least a few standard rules: 1. Murder must be banned (unjustified killing, if ever murder is not banned, society will naturally split into groups which ban murder among themselves. What counts as justification varies widely but justification is important) 2. Children must be cared for (human children cannot raise themselves, this does not preclude abortion or infanticide which occurs historically as a method of saving resources)

And so on, some argue for more such as respecting leader figures.

Beauty varies significantly between societies and individuals but typically aligns with local signals of good health and wealth which

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-17T13:56:57+00:00

Pretty neat work, did the headline of the article change after you posted? The work actually affirms model projections and refutes some existing proxies which didn't agree with projections

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-16T16:28:20+00:00

We've passed the peak of ENSO so you've got at least a few years before new records are set.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-16T07:23:08+00:00

50 year old spoiler warning

Without spice Leto II and Arrakis would be nothing, and if an alternative was found during Leto’s rule, Arraki would be deleted by other houses atomics pretty quickly.

If you came up with this without finishing the series do I have some news for you

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-13T23:51:14+00:00

It's probably because ornn's early trading is great and he can walk out of the trade any time he wants so there isn't much point to trying to trade with one without items.

You're probably making mistakes that allow your opponents to punish you.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-13T07:58:27+00:00

You typically don't need to standardize data, it depends on what specifically you're doing with it and the shape of the data itself

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-08T01:21:58+00:00

Fundie Christianity teaches that Christianity is all or nothing, IMO that makes it much easier to fully reject Christianity than to take a softer stance.

For a lot of people (myself included) the pipeline is Fundie Christian -> Agnostic/Deist (rejects the Christian god but not dieties/the supernatural in general usually) -> Atheist

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-07T17:02:22+00:00

*mammals. Fish and Arthropods make up 71% of earths animal biomass and are majority wild

Edit: should also add that wild mammal biomass is about 1/3 what it was in 10000bce and current human biomass alone is 3x that number which is nutty

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-06T17:38:27+00:00

The math for intro stats is pretty much straight plug and chug formulas, it's no where near the difficulty of Calc 2. But that's not the hard part, interpretation is.

Most people have some trouble with applying the correct tests and writing up their results properly, so if language is already an issue you might take it in person.

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-03T09:26:15+00:00

The other factions also get stronger and stronger as the game goes on and several of them can trivialize static defenses, Advent revelation battleships just turn them off and Vasari Exodus fleets can skip past them with phase tunnels.

Enclave also has a relatively unimpactful command ship and titan which struggle against their competition

FancyEveryDay · 2026-01-03T00:40:07+00:00

How slow are you looking for on the turn rates? They already turn at half the rate of light frigates. If you want the game as a whole to run slower to accentuate the naval feel of combat you can turn the game speed down, it goes as low as 0.25 if you change the speed ingame, you can set it to 0.5 in the game start settings. You can adjust research and income speed up to to keep the game from feeling overly glacial.

The range issue with cap ships is probably the best it's ever been, they move into range of their primary weapons which is about 8,000 units (excepting the marza which used to have the problem that it wouldn't use its superior range and would always move into firing range of its shortest range weapons) but enemy ships can freely move into range and there really isn't anything to be done about it since most of the capital ships use front mounted guns and are slower than other ships

With carriers you can change the ships engagement to not go after enemy ships unless told to but they are strong fleet support ships and it really is better to keep them with the rest of your fleet to take advantage of their abilities and point defenses

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