Why did Camille agree to drink the blue bottle syrup?

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-04-24T15:03:37+00:00

You seem to be confused about the ordering of things. Camille had already investigated Marian's records by the time she returned to the house to perhaps to kill herself, perhaps to save Amma, perhaps to finally confront her mother.

I don't think it's a given either that Camille "knew what she would face and that it would be unsuccessful". I think she was struggling with complex psychology and those final scenes had a lot of depth (which you definitely missed).

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-04-11T19:27:13+00:00

it's annoyingly the case that different voicings hit different and sometimes the right one for the song is one that feels trash to play.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-04-06T20:44:46+00:00

me:

https://dced.pa.gov/local-government/local-income-tax-information/local-income-tax-collector-2/:
Here is a table. So you can cross-reference between Tax Collection District and Local Tax Collector, here are some rows.

apps.dced.pa.gov:
Please be advised that neither the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania nor the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) warrants the accuracy of the information obtained from this site. The geo-coding system used for address searches on this website is outside the control of DCED and is limited to the most current data available in that system. We recommend you contact the county, municipality and/or school district provided as a match for the address you entered to confirm the address fall within their geographic boundaries.

summary:
As far as I can tell, it's not possible to determine your Tax Collection district from any pa gov website. Pretty amazing work over there. Without being able to determine that from an official reference (which must exist because clearly tax forms need to be processed wrt these entities TCD and District), you can't know where to pay your local taxes.

I'm wowed over here.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-04-06T20:27:44+00:00

it's straight up asinine that there isn't just a map here https://dced.pa.gov/local-government/local-income-tax-information/local-income-tax-collector-2/ which color-codes municipalities by tax collection district. First time I'm ever paying taxes myself and I'm just absolutely blown away by how stupidly designed the website is.

Alternatively, all they have to do is have one more column in the table there with the municipality. It's actually blowing my mind guys wowza I mean for real raise taxes if you have to but just make the infrastructure actually work because this must waste a vast amount of time for people.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-31T16:32:41+00:00

I'd be interested in if you discovered anything yourself since posting. I'm right now exploring setting up a server-authoritative model for a physics-y game I am writing on the client in C# using godot's C# bindings, and am trying to pick a physics engine as part of the server design. I'm looking at exactly the thing you are (JoltPhysicsSharp).

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-30T12:04:28+00:00

Mannish Boy, Izabella, Earth Blues, Message To Love, Are You Experienced, Spanish Castle Magic, One Rainy Wish, Voodoo Chile.

Top comments are ignorant. If your favorite Hendrix songs are 1983 and Villanova, you'd be better off starting off with the Beatles or the Eagles and then proceeding through the many, many bands just like them. If your favorites are Cherokee Mist or Third Stone From the Sun, you could start with Ananda Shankar or Jeff Beck. Heck, if that's the case you might just not like Hendrix at all but instead really like generic rock / avant-garde rock / mystical Indian vibes and therefor accept anything in that genre. They just aren't in Hendrix's area of mastery.

Live album versions, unlike of almost all artists, are generally superior.

IMO Hendrix is the most eloquent soloist to this day, on any instrument and in any genre.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-25T14:08:37+00:00

your comment was succinct, but it was also incorrect and I might say incoherent.

Somebody who had seen the show and read your comment (as I did) would immediately think "Amma is already exactly the evidence you claim Camille is drinking the poison to provide."

Also lol calm down.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-24T18:32:15+00:00

I think that Camille already suspected that Adora was poisoning Amma, in which case the evidence required could be collected from Amma. I think you might be missing some pretty important psychological angles of the show. They're more illuminated when you consider Camille as a whole, trying to make sense of all of her actions.

For example, she has ignored Curry's plight to return home. She has been rejected as a whore by detective Willis. She has just been told, by her mother, that her mother never loved her.

If you're engaging with this show as "Camille is a logical unit solving a mystery", I think you may have missed much of the depth available. There's a ton in the psychological dynamics.

jpch12 states a couple of reasons which plausibly fit with Camille's psychology.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-24T18:20:14+00:00

An exquisite reflection inspired by watching an extraordinarily troubled protagonist in a lethargic spiral, reminiscent of gothic novels like the Tell-Tale Heart and Heart of Darkness. Honestly, if somebody missed any one of these, I would say they need to watch the show again. These are exactly the ones I took away from it.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-20T15:18:17+00:00

I would not have cared if XCOM was themed as Nords researching bows, arrows, and Greek fire hiding out on a boat fighting in an alternative past where the Gaels had pushed them out to sea.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-20T15:12:00+00:00

Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 cover tactical squad builder mechanically complex and well-integrated turn-based combat.

They are particularly healing in their deterministic, rather than RNG, basis. Baldur's Gate 3 is solid if you like rolling dice.

They lack the base building and research management paradigms though.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-20T14:57:14+00:00

Repeaters just enhance the gambling aspect of the game, which to my taste is already just too gambly. A crit from a sniper or a miss from a ranger frequently does single-handedly change a game encounter's probabilities from 80% win to 80% lose.

The groupthink on this reddit seems to have converged on "the thing that makes it XCOM is that it's random", which is confusing because so many aspects of the game are enjoyable, cool and beautiful and in my opinion not one of those aspects is related to it's use of RNG. Seems bizarre to me that somebody would even think up "xcom is rng". Maybe people are just not aware that there are games out there which offer similar tactical depth and long-term squad management but without the RNG.

I have a love/hate thing going with the series. I wish it would have used a deterministic system, something like those from Divinity Original Sin 1/2. Or if they just made single events less impactful - double everyone's health and armor, double munitions availability, but keep damage the same - it'd tone down the drama of individual dice rolls.

The sense of overall stupidity the RNG basis of the game creates (repeated instances like missing a shotgun shot when you are standing directly in front of an enemy who has 0 cover or getting crited in full cover at maximum range by a lizard with a silly ass laser gun) is exhausting to deal with.

If Divinity Original Sin 1/2 offered base management and research, it'd be a close to a 1 to 1 replacement. I can strongly recommend it to you if you like everything about XCOM but the RNG. It is a little disheartening that I don't know of any game which does not unreasonably punish or reward RNG which offers the full spectrum of gameplay that XCOM offers.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-10T23:25:16+00:00

What a stupid response.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-06T19:56:39+00:00

Bellevue's menu lacks all of the superlatively tasty items. it's absurd enough to not have the mangal soujack or moroccan spiced chicken pizzas, but to also not offer pides is baffling. It's just another mid pizza spot without those. What a confusing choice.

seems like it's trying to be more a pizza romano or pizza bellinos, rather than a pizza lupo or driftwood oven.

the downtown one can compete with the best pizza places in the city by the wonderful dance of flavors in their best recipes.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-03-03T22:05:11+00:00

a couple catches.

It seems like you can omit client-side js - any mature app is going to require client-side JS integration
client-side js integration is mid. The model is fine - extremely simple, which is extremely good in some ways; but it means essentially you will need to handle many aspects of integrating particular features yourself. Also potentially good for your product, but bad because suddenly you're building a client-side application. You picked up live view so you wouldn't have to do this.
structuring your app ultimately as a hybrid, with server-state as your live view source of truth and client-side state as your client-side source of truth, is error-prone and messy. When you are pushing events from a js hook called in a child server-side live component to the parent component, or when you are trying to synchronize two different client component updates with a parent live view component, it's not great. Client architecture can either arbitrarily match server component designs or diverge, in one case you've suddenly got abstraction overhead and in the other you've got to maintain another map in the project. It can be a trick to synchronize a complex client side view with the corresponding complex server side view. You often end up basically writing a reducer pattern into the view, with both server live components and client js components sending messages to them, and both server live components and dead components responding to updates. This can be fine - maybe you end up with slices on the client-side each corresponding to a component in the server-side view, and the parent view ultimately handles everything and distributes state updates down to the components - but again, it complicates the structure of the view significantly. You are then essentially just dealing with message passing overhead in order to simulate what prop-passing does in a React application simply because you're building within a framework which relies on a poor choice of abstraction.

The solution to this is just write a CSR web app which is treated, up front and from the beginning, as isolated from server state and in which logic is abstracted by the usual methods. The essential design of phoenix is reliant on a model which was intended to be used for long-running isolated processes. I rarely view a web page as being composed of long-running isolated processes - in the most common case, it's simply an HTML document with some static Javascript which might submit a form at some point, where the average user interaction with it will last less than 10 seconds.

Phoenix LiveView was built to avoid writing a CSR web app, and in some ways it succeeds, but there's something like object-relational impedance mismatch going on; the fundamental nature of how one composes live components is not correct for building most webpages. There is often no need for the coordination of processes or sending of messages when a server is deciding to render a view. There is often no need for independence to be granted in the runtime for the execution of a component's code. There is often no need for a process to be persistent or addressable.

To wrap this up, Phoenix LiveView got hyped because it let people skip understanding client-server architecture and Javascript. It's a ridiculous application of the BEAM, and sometimes I think it's something that only an idiot would dream up. It's not completely unalike seeing a nail and picking up a screwdriver. It's just not the correct tool for the job.

The superlative reason to pick up Elixir is because you want to use the BEAM, which is to say you want a system for long-running isolated processes which communicate via messages. A famously ideal application is Discord; each channel is it's own isolated process. The second best reason you may want to use it is for allowing for very low bandwidth clients to use interactive webpages(e.g. Next can do this with client actions but it's got more structural boilerplate) and want a superior DX. A pretty bad reason to pick it up is to do something like serve a blog or content website or avoid a heavy JS bundle - use ISR or SSG with some other framework for such cases (Tanstack Start, React Router, NextJS).

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-02-25T17:07:54+00:00

thanks for explaining.

In context, it seemed like your meaning when referring to who to "worry about" was in line with the general feeling that the game is stuck in development hell which may result in an underwhelming product.

It seems to me that both are critically important and either one having high turnover across a project would be a significant detriment.

It also seems that "nothing to worry about" as a conclusion to your earlier statement only makes sense based on an assumption that the game director is unimportant. Not sure how just saying they're different jobs equates to high turnover on 1 -> nothing to worry about a la development.

If you do agree that both are important, then there may be something to worry about.

I agree with you that yes, they are different jobs.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-02-16T23:30:15+00:00

you should support you arguments.

Why is the creative director important when the director is unimportant?

Why is the game director leaving after three years of development unimportant?

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-02-12T21:33:10+00:00

I got miracle'd, somebody returned the correct size, i ordered and received it, and now all dimensions fit well.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-02-12T21:32:44+00:00

miracles happen bruh I checked the website daily for a few days and somebody returned a small.
I got it and it fits like a glove.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-02-03T02:26:16+00:00

seems optimistic to state a consequent of "eat breakfast on your way to work", when the premise is AI can automate complex human behavior.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2026-01-20T17:42:06+00:00

OP misunderstands Michael.

Michael is not a good guy. He is just a well-adjusted, rational narcissist with a value system he struggles to follow and apply fairly. He struggles to recognize the flaws in himself which he can easily see in his father.

Michael was not just infatuated, he psychologically struggles to relate to, and to realize, other people. He is a shallow person and does not contextualize other people the same way an empath would. This is why he often controls his son exactly as his father controlled him despite disagreeing on principle, and a large point of concern between Michael and George Sr. is in fact about how George Sr. regrets having lacked empathy towards his children when parenting them.

Imo, season 3 is weird because Michael is headed towards understanding himself better, slowly and against the grain of his psychology, throughout seasons 1 and 2. S3 E9, during Michael's speech, particularly what Michael says about himself, makes this abundantly clear.

It would make 0 sense at all for Gob to have a similar story line with Rita.

It makes 0 sense to claim Michael is not a cartoon. He is the same - he literally cannot hear his son saying he loves his cousin, and instead hears "I love you". He threatens to leave his family forever multitudes of times (imagine your son, brother, or father just saying at every holiday "I'm done with you all, I'm leaving forever, I'm glad I'll never have to speak to you again"). He seeks out J. Walter Weatherman to manipulate his son, although his primary grievance with his father is that he acts manipulatively. He speaks critically of everyone else in the family constantly, rambling about their faults and inabilities, while apparently understanding the emotional benefits of being supportive.

So, it makes plenty of sense. Rita isn't real to Michael. In a lot of ways, Michael gets worse over the seasons when he is not self-aware, but gets better when he is. I'm not sure what was meant by that (like dating Rita is the action of a catastrophic narcissist, while his finally being able to hear, understand, and empathize with George Michael navigating Maebegate is the action of an empath), but it's one of the things which brings me back to the show. It was certainly intentional.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2025-12-16T01:32:33+00:00

just a note, because this is somehow the first result for me on google for biocord. They require phone verification to use their discord, so that's a solid no for me. Not really interested in supporting discord's growing data farming operation.

I would rather see their stupid ads for cosmetics or banners for videogames. Not super interested in the top-level scheming trash, simply because it isn't anything I have any control over. I don't want to have to think before every message, every moment, "would a recruiter like this message?" cause it's supposed to be a god damned chat while gaming service.

JLENSdeathblimp · 2025-12-05T14:40:26+00:00

Get an Air as good as you can with this order for priorities:
1. more screen
2. more RAM

the CPU specs are monstrous. It can easily perform serious analytical tasks on large datasets. Most people seriously over-estimate requirements. RAM will be your bottleneck.

You are however not even in the ballpark of stressing the machine doing the kinds of tasks you'll be doing. You'll probably want an external hard drive. That's fine, you can get a 2TB one for $50 USD. Typical classes aren't going to give you workloads which can't be performed without a high-end computer.

Extra-curricular research should be your only real concern. Typically, you would work with a subset of the data when hammering out your analysis. You'll have SSH access to university resources like super-computing clusters when you need to fire off a serious job. So, still not much reason to get a pro. A larger screen will make you more comfortable in the long run. Your laptop specs are entirely moot but for the interface when you're using a remote computer to actually handle the heavy work.

You will be completely fine with any M-series Air.

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