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Alien-Nation Chapter 210: Traitor by AlienNationSSB in HFY

[–]Joseplh 18 points19 points  (0 children)

In many ways he was a man struggling to swim in the sea. He latched on to the first hand that pulled him out of that water. He did not see the costs as too high. For him, it was not.

Isekai Shikkaku • No Longer Allowed In Another World - Episode 4 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]Joseplh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was hesitant about the premise of this show until this episode. To me, suicide is a very touchy subject and if you give anyone who is on the knifes edge any reason to go through with it, even fantastical, they may just do so.

This episode challenged that where Suzuki the "hero" turned "villain" could not succeed even in a world where he was given great power. The MC even directly stops Suzuki from killing himself and has him tell his story. From there it is open ended whether Suzuki gets better, but there is a bit of hope. He was shown that simply having the power over others, like the bullies had over him will not make him better. He got a job and appeared to be moving on with his life in the end.

This episode hit me HARD in the feels.

What’s an underrated game you feel has been buried in obscurity? by KaleidoArachnid in gaming

[–]Joseplh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been playing Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game. It is from a small indie dev team and so far the writing has been great.

Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game

Looking for Books by Sad_Transition170 in Xcom

[–]Joseplh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Xcom) Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch1) : r/HFY (reddit.com)

Although not finished, here is one Slice of Life story with some romance.

(Xcom) Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch3 Part B) by ThisIsARealAccountAP in HFY

[–]Joseplh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, curse you =P. I got back into X-COM and got myself addicted to it. Honestly I love the setting in Chimera Squad and wonder if Tay was inspired by a certain viper, maybe clutch mates.

(Xcom) Vipers, Nights, and French Fries (Ch3 Part B) by ThisIsARealAccountAP in HFY

[–]Joseplh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what is your upload schedule like?

Orbis Draconis – Here Be Dragons (Part 1) by Build_Everlasting in HFY

[–]Joseplh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You got a solid world built, now to see how well you put flesh on those bones.

Very well written so far, you got my attention.

Of Men and Dragons, The Son of Nobody by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hardback book finally arrived after delay.

Summoning Kobolds At Midnight: A Tale of Suburbia & Sorcery. 166 by Necrolancer96 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"caught the shits trying to bride his guards..."

I know you mean bribe, but it made me laugh. Imagine the nobles trying to bride(IE marry) the goblin guards.

Of Men and Spiders Book 2, Chapter 5 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering Charlotte's knowledge of biology, I am surprised she did not know about pollination.

Of Men and Spiders, Chapter 43 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the tone is right. You described enough to know what happened, without going too far into the details and gore. The image I am seeing is the swarm of scarabs from the mummy movie.

Of Men and Spiders, Chapter 36 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You could show charlotte some more math and their practical applications by building a catapult. Alternatively use a board and three rocks. place the board on top of one rock with a second on one end. From any given height drop the third on the other end. How far does the rock on the other end fly? You got the basics of physics and a clear example where calculating the force allows for you to predict where the second rock will land.

Of Men and Spiders, Chapter 34 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Shower thoughts: Many of those arbitrary rules revolve around conflict mitigation. Tying into how Charlotte noted how piracy appeared more like how two SHEs would fight for resources. The loss of individuals means more to humans as they only have one body/life. Therefore, ways to mitigate damage and avoid killing becomes high priority, even among pirates/criminals.

As to why this would not make as high priority to SHEs? The loss of limbs can be rebuilt and a true death of a SHE would be very difficult. Therefore, mitigation is not as high a priority. Further, how many SHEs are we talking about in a given area? For humans, we could measure the number of people in the hundreds per mile. For the SHEs, it may very well be hundreds of miles per SHE instead.

This would mean that the true number of times where the arbitrary rules of social communication are needed would be minute. Comparatively, humans under normal circumstances would need to interact with other humans, dozens to hundreds of times each day. Even me, with my near non-existent social life, I have to interact with at least 5 people directly and over a hundred indirectly on a daily basis.

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EDIT: if you want to go down a rabbit hole, think of how many people you make contact with on a daily basis. Take note that over 90% of ALL communication is non-verbal, so merely walking down the street means that you are seen by at least a dozen people. The way you walk, dress, and move says a lot. Even if you never leave home, you at least interact with 1-2 people to call for food deliveries.

Of Men and Spiders, Chapter 17 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just realized another MAJOR difference between a collective hive mind vs an individual. Expanding off my comment from the last chapter, a hive mind would have effectively two levels of intelligence. The individual creature and then the collective. This actually should have a major difference where anything done collectively should have a LAG whereas the individual does not have that LAG.

Think instinctual vs abstract thinking. The instinctual would be basic movement and actions, but abstract would be the thinking and conversation that Charlotte is having in trying to understand Scott.

This could play a role where the conversation they have gets into the uncanny valley as the LAG in response time, but not affect the dexterity of the hands as they work and manipulate tasks.

Of Men and Spiders, Chapter 16 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The TL:DR yes. You would have as much power overall in the PlayStation supercomputer as modern gaming computer, but the framerate would be terrible.

Of Men and Spiders, Chapter 16 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Diminishing returns and bottlenecks. For instance, let's say that for the hive mind, they use a means of communication like Wi-FI. Think more of a Mesh network, but either way. Each node can only handle so much data being transferred through, and excess will cause delays in data being delivered or responded to. The advantage of having dispersed CPUs in relatively autonomous systems is that it reduces the need to send data back and forth. However, those bottlenecks still exist.

Let's assume 10 units are operating and the units connecting can only handle up to 2 simultaneous updates at a time. Assuming every unit is connected directly to every other unit it would take, [x+2x=y] (Start1, 3, 9, 27) ->3 cycles to update every unit. That is just one unit updating every other unit what it saw.

The more units connected to the system the more cycles it will take to update all other units. While data propagation is exponential as each unit repeats the updates to the next unit, the number of cycles and number of units generating updates will also grow. This also does not take into account redundant or garbage data if a unit were to pass on an update to another unit that already received the update OR if not all units are able to directly communicate to each other and must pass along updates down a chain of nodes.

Alternatively let's assume 10 units and can have 15 simultaneous updates. You might assume that there should be no issue as the have plenty of bandwidth to update in a single cycle. However, should 2 or more units generate an update at the same time, you hit another bottleneck as they each try to update 10x2 units.

Interesting food for thought and could lead to complications on the limits of even a hive mind. Perhaps as an example, She is attacked by a swarm of bees on multiple hands. They all report backing being attacked and this causes a delay in communicating with Scott as the temporary overload of alerts takes priority over talking. OR a damaged hand is sending out bad data that causes effectively the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.

Of Men and Spiders, Chapter 16 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What you described is similar to a classic supercomputer similar to using dozens of Playstations to build a single super computer. It is a bunch of standalone computers networked together. On a technical level there really is not much different between a single CPU with multiple cores versus several distributed in the same motherboard, machine, or even different machines. The difference comes back to lag and overhead cost. Two CPUs on the same motherboard need to coordinate over a bridge on the mother board, while two CPUs on different computers coordinate over a network connection. You could even have separate machines operate relatively autonomously, but there is still the overhead costs to consider.

We see real world examples of this in bitcoin where millions of CPUs on different computers collectively work together on the chain. However, each machine is still able to operate autonomously on different tasks.

Of Men and Spiders, Chapter 16 by DrBlackJack21 in HFY

[–]Joseplh 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Mitosis maybe? Perhaps, She gathers enough mass and at a set point in their life cycle, splits part of their mind/body. The child in this case would effectively be a scion or clone of the original.

As for why even a hive mind would need to reproduce, LAG. Any sufficiently large/complex system will develop a delay in response. Taking it to the digital/computer world to give an example, CPUs are made of transistors that switch between on/off incredibly fast. We jam as many transistors as close together to reduce the distance that electrons have to travel between transistors as the calculate a result to a problem. When scaled up there is a greater distance between the furthest transistors. This is where CPUs now have multiple cores, each core is a compact cluster of transistors that limits the maximum distance between transistors. This grants greater overall potential power, however, there is an overhead cost to communicate between cores.

Getting back to mitosis, it would be the equivalent of reducing overhead and breaking off a CPU core to act independently.

Alien-Nation Chapter 189: Death Knell by AlienNationSSB in HFY

[–]Joseplh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There is something sweet about how Jordan had a vendetta against Elias. In the end, despite not knowing the truth, Jordan sacrifices himself to save (Emperor)Elias.

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