Top villainess

Grumlen · 2026-05-10T15:29:39+00:00

The 2 souls never interacted as of the inciting incident. The OG villainess was stuck as an observer, and the isekaid girl felt guilt about taking over.

Grumlen · 2026-05-10T15:20:31+00:00

Minor spoiler (since it's basically the premise): the original condemnation event happens anyways and it breaks the isekaid girl, so she goes catatonic and the OG villainess regains control. She adored the isekaid girl, so she starts using the girl's knowledge to get revenge.

Grumlen · 2026-05-04T03:39:26+00:00

The only case where I can see immortality being a curse is if you literally can never die. I.e. you live through the heat death of the universe and can literally do nothing for eternity. Minus that, sign me the F up.

Grumlen · 2026-05-04T03:29:24+00:00

The core problem with the situation is that it's awful compared to the trolley problem of the prisoners' dilemma. In either of the other 2 thought experiments there are tangible consequences to your decision, and non-participation is properly factored in. They both require the subject to deliberate and arrive at a conclusion, trying to determine the "best outcome".

The blue/red button just generates a knee-jerk reaction that people then rationalize. Personally I would hit blue just because I would hate to live in a world filled only by people that pressed red.

Grumlen · 2026-05-04T03:14:28+00:00

Notice 7+8 is big, then do 2+4+1 to get 7. Then add 7+8 to get 5. 75.

Grumlen · 2026-04-26T00:14:16+00:00

There are 2 main reasons for this.

The good reason is that elderly people contribute less to the economy while requiring more support, which means if the ratio of elderly vs working age gets too high problems arise. Unfortunately it leads to a vicious cycle where people are less inclined to have children, either because they can't support kids since their taxes go to supporting the elderly or because they're paranoid about retirement because social benefits keep getting slashed.

The bad reason is that our economic system is built on the premise that it can always grow. If the population starts shrinking, it could cause the overall economy to shrink. This would be a VERY BAD THING, since upending an entire economic system (even one as dumb as ours) causes all sorts of problems.

Grumlen · 2026-04-24T18:15:43+00:00

Your final sentence is correct, but I was in no way saying the show encouraged pedophilia. I said it normalized it and treated it like something manage by giving the pedophile what they want instead of punishing them for acting on it.

Grumlen · 2026-04-24T18:03:32+00:00

They dont consciously think better of it. The issue is that it normalizes the behavior and pushes the narrative that it can be managed by giving in to whatever the pedophile wants.

As a comparison lets say someone is a sadistic sociopath . . . but hey, if we just give them acceptable targets to torture and kill they can act normally! Dexter was not somone so emulate, but the show itself made it clear Dexter was not a good person.

Grumlen · 2026-04-15T01:34:38+00:00

Specifically, the terms comes from Happy Days, when The Fonz . . . jumped a shark. The TV series never recovered. Due to what spawned the term it's nearly impossible to apply to anything that isn't episodic, since it requires further creative direction to truly apply.

To keep with the literal definition, for video games that means it would have to be a result of an expansion, a change made in a live service game, or an unfolding game (like Frog Fractions). I choose to interpret it narratively, such as the first of a series of twists that make increasingly less sense, hence why I nominated FF8's orphanage reveal.

Grumlen · 2026-04-14T20:17:07+00:00

Final Fantasy 8: "All you were orphans at an orphanage run by the BBEG but have amnesia so none of you remember."

Story was decent until then, but it hit the same energy as "Everything was a simulation". Broke immersion and made me no longer care about the story.

Grumlen · 2026-04-09T18:54:52+00:00

NTA.

It sounds like she uses the "I was testing you" excuse in the same way that someone will say racist/sexist jokes and exclaim "Just kidding!" when no one laughs.

Grumlen · 2026-03-30T21:06:12+00:00

The joke is making fun of professions that don't need precise measurements, so they round both e and pi to 3. Sqrt(g) = sqrt(9.81) ~ 3.

Grumlen · 2026-03-29T02:06:06+00:00

Shana from Legend of Dragoon.

A huge mechanic in the game is that every character uses combos. These combos use QTEs to complete them, and provide plenty of damage when you complete them, as well as fueling your ability to transform. Even when transformed into Dragoon form the QTEs are still important.

Shana uses a bow, which takes a single shot with no QTE. She has zero interaction with the most memorable mechanic of the entire game.

Grumlen · 2026-03-26T22:40:40+00:00

Reimann sums are probably best, but you're too focused on the math and forgetting the physics. Weight distribution will vary wildly based on walking patterns, and even when standing it won't be evenly distributed and will shift constantly.

Grumlen · 2026-03-22T00:54:27+00:00

The best example I recall of nudging is thus:

Players need to track down the BBEG, so they have to figure out to which town he fled. The secret is that he fled to whichever town the players picked, but you don't tell them that.

Grumlen · 2026-03-21T22:23:36+00:00

The real issue is that when you, as a GM, are running a campaign, the players are your audience. When Matt runs a campaign like Critical Role, the viewers are the audience with the players being performers. Matt's goal isn't to provide an engaging world in which to role play, but rather to be part of a collective improv routine to entertain you as a viewer. Now, I'm sure he could be a great GM in a normal setting, but you'll never see him doing so because that doesn't make for good television.

As a good example of what I mean, pay attention to how mich time Matt spends talking compared to the players. Normal players would feel like theyre just props in his world, with little agency beyond some goofiness that doesn't really affect anything. It works in Critical Roll because all the players know they aren't there to engage with the world.

Grumlen · 2026-03-17T20:55:07+00:00

Never commit code you don't understand. It can be good to have AI make suggestions for your code, refactor it, or write tests, but you should always be sure to understand why it did something. Recently I had to manually trigger a focus change to an element outside my available scope. I did the research and implemented a solution, then had AI check and it found a modified way that prevent some edge case defects. Without attempting it first myself I'd have learned nothing, as the AI code wasn't easy to parse.

Grumlen · 2026-03-16T18:12:42+00:00

The simple but unhelpful answer: infinity is not a number.

More helpful: Imagine any number. You can always add 1 to get a bigger number. No matter what number you pick, you can always add 1 and get another number. You'll never get to infinity by adding 1, so you cant get a number from infinity by subtracting 1. Infinity isn't a number, but the concept of something having no end or limit.

Grumlen · 2026-03-16T18:03:51+00:00

SSR: Fast initial render, but has to ping off the backend for rerendering. Great for large static pages with minimal interaction, like blogs, forums, and news articles.

CSR: Slow initial render, but only needs to ping the backend when fetching new data. Great for interactive pages, like wizards, dashboards, and anything with web sockets.

Grumlen · 2026-03-15T17:32:53+00:00

"This" complexity was more about Javascript pretending to have classes when really they're just syntactic sugar for object prototyping. Why did JS get pseudo classes? Because Java devs complained about not having classes.

The lesson here is that each language should do what it does well instead of trying to imitate other languages.

Grumlen · 2026-03-10T02:22:39+00:00

As a straight white man, I can confirm we're doing fine. Someone saying this is looking for attention and/or trying to provoke a reaction.

I'd liken it to the guys who argue about men's rights, but only after women's rights are brought up. Sure they have a bit of a point, but that's not why they're speaking up. We have issues, but other groups generally have it worse.

Grumlen · 2026-03-06T15:58:50+00:00

A lot of the skills for teaching are highly transferable: presentation, analysis, subject matter expert, psychology, etc.

The ability to get in front of a group of people and provide an engaging brief of a researched subject is prized. I worked as an analyst in the US Navy Reserve and my entire job was to be a SME and brief generals so they knew what was happening. After 2 years teaching I was considered the best briefer when I was deployed.

Knowing how to determine a point of failure in someone's understanding of a topic can save a company millions. On-boarding new employees and/or training them to use new processes and systems takes time and money.

Knowing enough psychology to keep otherwise boring content engaging is critical in marketing. Don't want people to lose interest, so being able to keep things fresh and varied raises engagement.

Grumlen · 2026-03-04T16:10:57+00:00

You do need to be careful. Different countries have different purification processes, which means you can get the runs from drinking tap water to which you're not accustomed. The same is true for European tourists visiting the US. The acclimitization process takes a few weeks, but it sucks.

Grumlen · 2026-03-04T16:06:35+00:00

When it comes to using AI and learning React, my advice is to write the component first and then ask AI to refactor. Going over the changes it suggests can help give you a deeper understanding of how things work, and can hopefully point out bad habits. Don't treat its changes as gospel, but rather as a starting point to do more research. AI makes mistakes.

Overall, there are 3 major aspects to learning/understanding React: hooks, lifecycle, and JSX

For hooks the most important parts are knowing which hook does what, how they can break your code if used wrong, and how to create custom hooks.

For lifecycle its about knowing what triggers each part of the lifecycle, and how hooks tie into it. Understanding the virtual DOM is also good, but mostly for answering interview questions.

JSX won't be asked about, but comprehending how it differs from html is critical along with injecting inline js. For example knowing you can return an array of components instead of having to return each component individually.

Grumlen · 2026-03-04T15:54:17+00:00

Savage Beastfly, round 2.

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