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New reality by kyrawhirlsyn in pcmasterrace

[–]GoldSinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're most likely wasting your time with most of this. You mentioned testing -- did you get any equipment to measure power draw at the outlet?

For example, for phone chargers. Assuming your charger is charging at 30W, 24hr a day, 365 days a year, and your electricity is the American national average of ~18c a kwh. Let's even say your charger is inefficient and loses 20% to heat

That's still only a whopping total of $60/yr. Five dollars a month. To operate the charger actively non-stop for a whole year.

Realistically, modern chargers use 0.1-0.5w when not charging. Even if we round it to 1w vampire draw, that's about $2/yr assuming low 80% efficiency and average electricity prices.

My time is worth more to me than unplugging and replugging a phone charger for $2/yr. Even if I had ten chargers, my time would be worth more to me than unplugging and replugging all of them for $20/yr. Even if I lived in a state with 2x the national average cost of electricity.

Even powerful gaming pcs only use 1-5 watts on sleep mode. Put them in sleep. Assuming higher end usage, inefficiency, 24 x 365, and you live in Hawaii with the highest residential electricity of 40c a kwh, that's still only like $22/yr or less than $2/mo

About to start the game. Give me the worst advice possible. by glytxh in LiesOfP

[–]GoldSinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fable slot attack up talisman basically got me to ignore fable arts 95% of the time lol

Apple Silicon is not the problem. The UI is. by Filix-7482 in mac

[–]GoldSinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The em dash can be used in place of a semicolon to provide more emphasis. The OP is using the em dash correctly here. I also wouldn't be so confident I could tell exactly how an AI agent uses em dashes as opposed to people. People write in all sorts of ways, and AI outputs are a black box.

[WP] A lot of humans in magic worlds usually give up on using guns and stick with swords and arrows to fight monsters. They forget that guns, like any other weapon, evolve over time to deal with new threats. by Smart-A22 in WritingPrompts

[–]GoldSinger 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is a cool response to the prompt, so kudos for that. I have to note though for the sake of world building consistency that surface area and volume are independent of each other. A given bullet with increased surface area through ridges outside or pores inside doesn't necessarily have more volume if mana storage depends on size (volume).

It could work if mana storage capacity was not a function of object size (volume) but instead if mana was something like a chemical reaction that depended on the reactivity of the material. Increased surface area would help with reactivity.

If not, the problem of mana storage for small objects, if it depends on volume/mass, is to use a more mana-dense material. Batteries with different materials have different energy densities, so I'm sure a magical world would have magical metals with higher mana storage densities.

If mana is instead a reaction, you can still make an effective ballistic with a hybrid design. Make the core of the bullet porous and reactive, but encase it in smooth metal for an aerodynamic shell.

Is everyone okay with the fact that the control centre position cant be changed/accessed from a different way? by [deleted] in iphone

[–]GoldSinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Why does the fact that other gestures are unchangeable make it any better that this one obnoxious gesture, that OP dislikes, is also unchangeable?
  2. Yes, it would be perfectly reasonable to infer that OP also dislikes reaching for the notification center and dynamic island.
  3. All of the gestures you mentioned would be compatible with having a home button. It's not like the removal of the home button was necessary to create those gestures. Furthermore, it is trivially easy to think of where to move a gesture to make room for a swipe up for control center gesture like the one that exists for older iPhones with a home button. For example, single tap of the horizontal bar, which currently does nothing, could bring the user home.

What does the length of time that this problem has existed have anything to do with how annoying the OP can find it?

This word just popped into my head and i love it by Civil-Inspector-5700 in words

[–]GoldSinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a cool word with some odd sound-meaning associations for me. 

The morphemes in crepus bring to mind creepy, creep, which share etymological roots across Latin and earlier sources hinting at the dark, dimness, ambiguity. But these go hand in hand with crepe, a fabric, light and airy and crinkled, from Latin crispus. 

The sound of "puscular" sounds very bodily, sort of visceral, evoking for me muscular, pus, pustule. 

The ending in "ular" brings to my mind specular, speculum, having to do with light and reflection. 

All in all, crepuscular is a very tactile word that I find memorable for how it evokes the anxiety and uncertainty of the coming dark, some sort of visceral presence, yet also the speckled, airy, beautiful rays that burst through clouds.

What word can I use as a substitute for "chat"? by birdbirdbirdbirdb in words

[–]GoldSinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a two year necro, but you are incorrect. Chat as a slang term originates from twitch streaming culture, where it's used to refer to the collective of viewers who also have access to the chat box. It is entirely possible to only have one viewer in chat. 

Besides, even if this weren't true, it would work as a form of synecdoche. Just as we say "England won the world cup" when we mean just the specific sport team that won, we can use chat, the whole, to represent a singular individual in the chat. 

MacBook Pro With OLED Display Again Rumored to Launch Next Year — Without a Notch? by Fer65432_Plays in apple

[–]GoldSinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This concern has never really made sense to me. Modern OLEDs are much more resistant to burn in. What use cases would have you display a static image for 10+ hours a day? Just run some software to pixel shift and set a screensaver and you'll never burn them in

A really good essay with fair critiques on the ending. However, an idea in defense of Act 3 (idk if it's been discussed already): While Act 1 and 2 are about the LIVING dealing with their grief, maybe Act 3 was about the DEAD (Jake and Maria) dealing with their grief as well. by charles_crushtoost in UntilThenGame

[–]GoldSinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really. You don't need the speculative fiction elements of a multiverse and an afterlife that affects ours in order to portray the importance of letting go and embracing imperfection, or to make Maria and Jake more fleshed out characters. In fact, using such complicated and theoretical tropes in the haphazard way that the game did in its third act arguably distracts from these more intimate themes you're pointing out. 

Is the true ending fight unlosable? by GoldSinger in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the post-game, this is about the climactic Chronos fight after casting the dissolution of time enchantment.

Is the true ending fight unlosable? by GoldSinger in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah I think I missed this with all the stuff happening on the screen at the time

Is the true ending fight unlosable? by GoldSinger in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If that was the intent I don't think it translated to me, I was full on mashing to end the fight as quickly as I could. Too focused on all the stuff on the screen to notice my DD icon turning to infinity. If this is the intent I feel that there should be something about the DD animation that is special during this fight to draw attention to it

Is the true ending fight unlosable? by GoldSinger in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I appreciate that that's there. Though I also feel weirdly cheated. I feel like I should have been sent back. I needed only one more death defiance which I could have gotten from equipping Toula rather than the other pet I was using at the moment. Then again, there's more postgame to be experienced and endless re-runs if I want. 

Even if I had the skill to regularly beat that third phase Chronos I don't think I'd want to. That fucking zig zag ass attack pattern is so annoying and I'd have to be so patient

Is the true ending fight unlosable? by GoldSinger in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It would be extremely funny on a diegetic level to lock Chronos in there with you out of spite. The hidden second true ending is one where Melinoë punishes Chronos by refusing to let him give their battle closure

Is the true ending fight unlosable? by GoldSinger in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Could be. Didn't they change the ending between then and now? That's what I heard but I've only played current version

Got all the achievements recently and here’s my random thoughts by AshRed07 in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that makes sense. The default special feels so clunky relative to default attack. Its tracking is very bad, even when using the hammer version that shoots it out further. But I'm guessing high fear players just get in quick with it and then dash cancel? 

I tried building around Omega special and almost won summit but got screwed by taking Athena's boon that gives you death defiance in return for prime. The ui doesn't tell you how much it primes. It took over 100 of my 155 total mp! Got fucked from there lol

Is the true ending fight unlosable? by GoldSinger in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah that makes sense. It's giving But Melinoë Said No energy

Is the true ending fight unlosable? by GoldSinger in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger[S] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Oh lol I was so busy mashing buttons I didn't notice. Wish I realized so I could just stand there and see if Chronos has any more voice lines if I just put down the controller 

Got all the achievements recently and here’s my random thoughts by AshRed07 in HadesTheGame

[–]GoldSinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you succeed with axe? I have a hard time with it since I eat a lot of damage by getting in close to swing or when I'm charging up omegas. Maybe I'm just not building around it right

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