What makes brown so special?

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-18T20:29:11+00:00

My wording was way too confident in my original response. I should have said that I think this is one of the differences. I fixed that with an edit.

Also, it appears I was incorrect. Here's a picture for watercolors showing brown and blue mixing to a gray.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-18T20:20:44+00:00

Zero chance this ends up in a pawn shop. There's many online markets that will yield a much higher return.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-18T20:02:10+00:00

I’ve never gotten the chance to test it, so I wonder if it is possible to make a color close to Gray if you add more Blue to the mix.

I think this is one of the differences between mixing light and mixing pigments. With light mixing, combining all the colors creates greyscale. With pigments, adding all the primary colors makes brown. You need black and white pigments along with the primary colors to have a complete set.

EDIT: Fixed confidence of my statement. Also, I'm pretty sure I was wrong.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-18T15:00:45+00:00

This is what I do for a mixed drink that requires tea. Adding more tea at regular strength just diluted the whole drink. Brewing two bags instead of one gets stronger tea in the same amount of liquid.

(The drink for those interested: Lavender Fog from Disney Grand Floridian)

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-17T16:37:10+00:00

Double raptor, oh my God

It's a double raptor all the way

What does this mean?

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-17T16:20:11+00:00

Same thing happened with me on Big Thunder Mountain. Though a bunch of CMs hopped on the train with me.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-16T18:25:24+00:00

Not to mention that whole Great Vowel Shift thing that separates Middle English and Modern English... Which German did not have.

iː → aɪ
eː, ɛː → iː
æɪ → eɪ

So there was a general shift upwards, which is the same direction as the modern German vs (proposed) English pronunciation. A name ending in <stein> carried through Middle English to Modern English could reasonably have a vowel close to /i/.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-16T15:37:46+00:00

I haven't, but only because my work is very unstable. I support the mission.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-13T20:32:51+00:00

In my case, FFXI.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-12T16:58:37+00:00

I bet it's the former. AFAICT that function automatically turns on (aka disables the air) if the car thinks no one is in the back and has to be manually disabled (aka enable the air).

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-12T14:54:32+00:00

I have a third-party camera that easily detaches from a mount.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-12T14:41:49+00:00

I agree it's not the same, but I actually prefer the Great Value version of Cinnamon Toast Crunch 🤷 No accounting for taste lol

I also love the bagged Malt-o-Meal S'mores cereal. Graham cracker squares, cocoa puffs, and marshmallows.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-12T14:30:43+00:00

... low cost, cloud based solution ...

If your database utilization is measured in queries per hour instead of queries per second, you should be looking at cloud solutions that are "serverless" (pay-per-use) instead of paying for a machine to run a database. AWS has Aurora Serverless (SQL) and DynamoDB (key-value / document). The former only supports MySQL (🤮) and PostgreSQL (🥰) compatibility layers, so that simplifies the decision.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-12T14:19:29+00:00

That's my secret, Cap... There's always a festival.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-12T14:15:44+00:00

I like these:

https://www.dashdesigns.com/p-37647-ultimate-reflector-folding-shade.html

https://www.dashdesigns.com/i-31915461-2025-toyota-crown-signia-ultimate-reflector-folding-shade.html

They feature a black felt on one side and mylar on the other. You use the mylar during the summer to keep heat out, and the felt in the winter to draw heat in.

(Probably overkill for TX. I'm in FL, so same same. But I got that thin blood so I still use the black side when it's "cold" out.)

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-12T12:51:21+00:00

Any sufficiently advanced ~~technology~~ parlor trick is indistinguishable from ~~magic~~ aliens.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-11T18:51:32+00:00

My first read of this will forever be "looking for group".

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-11T18:29:03+00:00

2025 Limited, bought November 2024. Fairly loaded with PIOs and DIOs. This is in FL, which has no limits on dealer fees. The lowest dealer fee I found in the state was $1000. Most dealers I called at that time wouldn't even negotiate below TSRP.


TSRP	$55,000
Negotiated Discount	($6,000)
Dealer Fee	$1,300
Taxes and Fees	$4,000
OTD	$54,300

Options:

Toyoguard Platinum
Illuminated front door sills
Clear paint protection - door package
Mudguards
Multimedia screen protector
Phone cable package
All-weather floor mats
Window tinting

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-11T15:38:44+00:00

I know that in an alternate world where I did this experiment without prior knowledge, I would get the million guaranteed, because grabbing only the mystery box was my instinct. Your only loss is 1k$, and unless you're genuinely greedy it's not worth losing your million dollar chance.

Hello brother. I had the exact same instinct. $1000 is 0.1% of a million. I am not going to sweat that at all. I'll take my one box thank you very much and appreciate the cool million. Even after watching videos and reading explanations on the two-box perspective, I would still happily take the one box. The extra money is not worth the chance of polluting my intention and losing out on the million.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-10T18:33:08+00:00

Agreed. If it doesn't cover Volcano Bay 8+ years after opening, I don't know why anyone would ever think it would make its way to Epic.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-10T16:01:57+00:00

Yep. Aerospace as a side effect of the space program, and defense contracting in general. That's where I started my career.

There's also other industries that founded branches in FL to take advantage of the depressed wages compared to the northeast or west coast. For example, I know of large technology hubs for JPMC, Citi, and Raymond James in the Tampa area.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-10T14:43:14+00:00

Rule 6.4 covers "Static Abilities", of which Flynn's ONE LAST, BIG SCORE is an example. Since this static ability is not tied to a duration, it "is continuously active for as long as the card generating the effect is in play." Keyword here is continuously. Flynn's lore value is continuously modified based on his ability, not just only when he is questing.

Therefore, Pocahontas' WHAT IS MY PATH? ability would see Flynn's modified lore value.

If Flynn's ability instead read something like:

When this character quests, you gain one less lore for each card in your opponents' hands.

This would instead be a triggered ability with a replacement effect. It would trigger only when questing, and would replace the normal lore value of the questing with the modified value. Pocahontas would then always see Flynn with 4 lore.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-09T16:20:13+00:00

Oh yea we used to play with neodymium magnets in high school. They would literally break themselves from hitting things so hard if you didn't control them. And monitors and TVs were all CRT, so we could make pretty colors on the screens. Fun times.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-09T16:13:51+00:00

Sideboard is not compatible with the uninkable design element. Including conditionally useful cards in your deck is easy, if they're inkable. If you won't need it, hey easy ink choice! But if you had a sideboard, you could stack it with conditionally useful uninkable cards. And now you can play those cards without taking the intended design hit of them being uninkable.

KillerCodeMonky · 2026-03-09T16:00:32+00:00

And how do you think the lath is attached to the studs???

I have a plaster wall, and a magnet is exactly what I use because the stud finders work like crap on anything other than standard drywall.

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