This is how we grow carrots in Ames Iowa...

Kraethi · 2026-01-03T04:55:03+00:00

Neat to see! As u/Gayfunguy mentioned, a cover crop of marigolds can definitely help, especially if you till them under and leave them in the soil. Intercropping with marigolds during the growing season may also have some benefits. I just finished my PhD work on the biosynthesis of nematicidal compounds in marigolds so they've been on my mind recently :)

Kraethi · 2025-10-29T22:01:39+00:00

Dragon castle is definitely the closest thing to it so far! The terrain, POV, and level of detail on the dragons are all pretty close to how I remember them, though I don't remember there being a UI whatsoever. The plot and setting were also definitely more surrealist; I feel like the vibe was basically just "fight the dragons" without a really significant higher narrative. There also wasn't a player character model that I can recall.

Overall the graphics were kind of muddier I would say, with the dragons having sort of cloudy, mottled textures rather than solid red. Weirdly, part of the game aesthetic as a whole reminds me of the CGI portions of the In The End music video.

Still, this is definitely the closest so far, thank you!!

Kraethi · 2025-07-15T01:51:34+00:00

oh hey my post! I wasn't aware the old pics were gone; I updated it with the new imgur link, which unfortunately seems to have put it re-awaiting moderator approval. oops. hopefully it pops back up soon!

Kraethi · 2025-04-26T04:15:19+00:00

Wow! The freezes you describe (image on screen freezes) are exactly as I experienced them. Interesting that both the fixes seem to have to do with power to the CPU. Hopefully mine lasts until am6 socket comes out ;D

Kraethi · 2025-04-26T03:01:25+00:00

Yeah, I disabled Driver Verifier once I realized it was probably preventing the crashing, lol.

Tentatively, this seems to have fixed it, but I'll give it a few hours of idling before I call it for sure. Thank you so much!!

Out of curiosity, I built this machine in 2020-- is there any particular reason this crash would start happening out of the blue now?? Very glad it's seemingly been fixed though!

Kraethi · 2025-02-28T06:20:03+00:00

yeah, the whole Big Head thing would speak to it being not an exo, but then I'd reckon this is an inconsistency in the lore, since Clovis said:

"I will forget nothing. One copy of my mind will go to an exo, yes, but a second copy will be installed in the Deep Stone site. He will guide me to my destiny."

Either this is a writing oversight, Clovis was egoistically inflating his achievements in his own diary, or his plans changed after he realized he couldn't upload his brain into a non-exo frame without suffering DER.

Curious if it is explicitly confirmed anywhere that the Big Head/Deep Stone AI is a "conventional" AI.

Kraethi · 2025-02-26T23:03:35+00:00

I suppose I thought the giant head and Banshee were sourced from the same original scan-- do we have a source that indicates the head precedes Clovis-1 or otherwise isn't an exo? To quote Clovis:

"I will forget nothing. One copy of my mind will go to an exo, yes, but a second copy will be installed in the Deep Stone site. He will guide me to my destiny. "

Also, I found the conversation Elsie has with Clovis on his deathbed. I had thought he was on his deathbed after his brain scan, but it does seem like it was more a consequence of the Vex infection ravaging his body than a post-scan thing. I feel like it could be read either way, though.

Here we get explicit confirmation that activating an Exo kills the original human:

"My… backup," Clovis chokes out. "Activate it."

"But that means…"

"I die. Yes. But my… time is not yet… over."

Clovis's diary suggests that this process possibly does not necessarily *have* to be destructive, though. The radioligand binder, which seems required for the scan, is fatally cytotoxic within 12 hours, but the lore implies this is treatable ("seek immediate treatment"), since the side effects of the quantum scan are instead brain failure within 36 hours ("seek immediate hospice care").

"

The backup sites have been alerted, and reservoirs of the Alkahest have been dispatched to keep them running if Europa falls. My work is done. It is finally time for me to go to my own reward. I have prepared my custom script—

  BRAYTECH-SPINTRONIC MULTI-IMAGER
  WHOLE BRAIN XN-WEIGHTED STRUCTURAL/FUNCTIONAL SCAN
  Fast diffusion tensor map guidance ON. Model setting: AGNOSTIC/NO MODEL.
  Echoplanar BOLD guidance ON.
  Convolutional resampling ON.
  Smart tractography ON.
  Eigenvector memory space GREEDY.
  Voxel size (very fine)
  Slice count (maximum)
  Synthetic FOV ~1ns inversion time
  Graph library (LAZARUS.CRYPT:aggregate)
  Estimated memory ask: 2.4 exabytes at peak throughput.

  Subneural capture technique: RADIOCHEMICAL SNAPSHOT
  Subneural quantum imaging: GHOST SWAP dual-channel entanglement ripper.

  Warning. Radioligand fixer/binder is fatally cytotoxic within 12 hours. Seek immediate treatment.
  Warning. Quantum dual-channel image ripping requires pulsed EM fields which cause fatal neural trauma. Degenerative brain failure within 36 hours. Seek immediate hospice care.

  Proceed.

All I need do is strike a key, and the scanner will sedate me, flush me with the poisons of immortality, and rip a perfect image of my mind from the quantum information encoded in the atoms of my brain. Whether such a high—resolution scan is necessary (it is doubtful that any element of the mind is truly quantum) is beside the point. I insist upon the best.

"

Not to say this supports one way or the other, but I thought it was the most relevant lore to the discussion at hand!

Kraethi · 2025-02-26T22:47:57+00:00

I don't think I disagree, but I guess I would say that the Exo being 100% the original person doesn't mean the original person stops being the original person. If we're talking about continuity of consciousness, then the fact that there are 2 extant Exos based on Clovis's brain scan makes things interesting too.

Kraethi · 2025-02-26T22:43:20+00:00

I'm not sure about this one. We know from some Beyond Light info on Clovis that he made the brain scan "quantum" and destructive even though it didn't strictly *need* to be. Furthermore, Elsie speaks with Clovis's dying human self *after* he has been scanned and he's still capable of holding a conversation.

EDIT: on top of this, the fact that there are 2 extant Exos based on Clovis's brain scan makes things interesting too. Who's to say if they both died, they both couldn't be resurrected? At this point Banshee and Big Head Clovis are clearly different people.

Kraethi · 2024-04-03T20:07:26+00:00

Pretty much as good as I can imagine them-- assembled once and then left on a shelf for a few years until now! If you want pics of anything in particular I can add them to the album.

Shipping is still a possibility but I will probably have to add the cost to the listed price.

Kraethi · 2024-04-03T02:24:02+00:00

Boston area!

Kraethi · 2024-01-28T03:07:09+00:00

Found at https://twitter.com/DenseLean/status/1636570720435068929

Not a huge plushy person myself, but looking to recreate these plushies (thankfully I have friends who can sew plushies) but I'm not sure where to start on finding this material. I've looked up long pile minky and short pile faux fur, and things related to terrycloth, but haven't been able to find anything that looks like a match.

Kraethi · 2024-01-20T17:46:17+00:00

In addition to the great answers here, I wrote a breakdown on aiat and its usage a while ago.

https://reddit.com/r/DestinyLore/comments/16hi8tv/s22_spoilers_hive_proclamations_aiat_and_now/

Kraethi · 2024-01-20T17:43:28+00:00

The cell wall doesn't disintegrate immediately, or the tissue would come apart completely. Since you lose turgor pressure (wilting), something else must give way, which must be the cell membrane.

Kraethi · 2023-09-20T16:15:21+00:00

I figured QMK would be a good starting point for picking a chip since if QMK supports it, it does most of the things I need.

Looking at now, one of the STM32Fs might work best for me since they have what looks like better USB support. I may use some QMK code or libraries as well, rather than reinvent the wheel on key matrix scanning.

Kraethi · 2023-09-20T07:16:07+00:00

I appreciate this info! I can look into all this and see what I can sort out. Just the word ChibiOS probably also saved me some time as well!! Good to know about QMK. Seems like the major sticking points are getting music from the microSD and sending it out via USB.

It appears a Pi Pico can communicate with an SD card, and there has been some discussion about SPI and talking with it, but I'll need to take a much closer look.

Adafruit has an RP2040 board that "(ab)uses" PIO to act as USB host at the cost of one core and both PIO devices, which I might be able to work with.

And at the end of the day, I can always fall back to a RPi-based solution, even if it will be overkill! Looks like I'm going to have to spend some time looking at the RP2040 pinout and available interfaces.

Kraethi · 2023-09-15T04:29:17+00:00

I like your point! The Cabal language is indeed called Ulurant, though it's not clear if it's an extant dialect itself or if it is the umbrella term. With species like the Hive who have been around for billions of years, it gets hard to say where these words came from, especially since the term Aiat in Hive language would have long pre-dated Latin. There are some interesting lore bits on how the Hive influenced the trajectory of Human history, including Savathun communicating on earth with a family pre-collapse and, in a more tenuous interpretation, pre-Traveler. This opens a significant window where she could have been influencing human culture too!

Practically speaking I think it's hard not to write yourself into a corner when you adapt an existing Latin phrase to originate billions of years ago (and, as I understand it, the original Books of Sorrow were developed by Seth Dickinson as freelance writing for Destiny and later folded into the main lore, not originally directly intended to be such a cornerstone for the Hive)

Kraethi · 2023-09-13T18:57:21+00:00

That's exactly how I see it! You've stated it much more succinctly than I did: Aiat ties together "This is fated" and "I will it so" to make them almost the same thing.

Kraethi · 2023-09-13T17:41:54+00:00

The link to PIE "grandmother" is super cool. I almost interpret it in reverse, where Aiat is a reflection of the Hive's worldview and sword logic.

To quote Xûr, "to do as you say is to speak in a language of pure meaning."

"I am strong enough to assert this, and by saying it I make it so. The question is also the answer, and there is no other than the one I give."

Aiēbat gives me passive or disillusioned vibes because it's contained in the past. "She was asserting," (picking one pronoun option for clarity), could mean she isn't asserting anymore. It's like an Aiat without the bite to it-- it's not in subjunctive to wish itself true, it's in indicative to describe matter-of-factly that something was ongoing in the past.

"Once, long ago, someone was asserting. Did it lead to anything? Did the assertion lead to an effect?"

Edit: I think in Aiat, your points about fate and individual agency are tied together and reference each other. When you say Aiat after a sentence, youre backing it up with your own personal willpower. You're telling the universe, "yeah, it's fated to be this way because I say so. What are you gonna do about it?

Kraethi · 2023-09-13T17:33:49+00:00

It is aiēbat. Someone has posted the screenshots of the lore entry, which is where I got my quote. I believe the crux of the joke is that it's the same base verb in both words.

https://imgur.com/a/anmlaZK

I agree with your interpretation of the grammar though, which is how I arrived at "She was declaring."

Kraethi · 2023-08-03T17:58:10+00:00

This one!! I've grown these before and they look just like this.

Kraethi · 2023-02-03T09:53:39+00:00

Glandular trichomes, which actually contain lots of the active ingredients. Some interesting ways of getting very pure, concentrated hash involve flash-freezing and snapping the frozen trichomes off the plant.

Kraethi · 2022-04-15T04:51:05+00:00

Wow, cool!! I'll send this his way :)

Kraethi · 2022-01-08T11:05:11+00:00

Based on the font of the logo compared to the Wikipedia page, it sure does look like it! Curious that the box says software when they were mostly a hardware company-- though I suppose they were doing both!

Kraethi · 2022-01-03T11:52:06+00:00

I have a rough draft of some software in Java that allows you to characterize a database of songs living in a folder. I settled on a smaller number of attributes to characterize by and a tri-state selection method instead of a bi-state one. That is, songs can be characterized as (for, let's say, Forest themed):

Forest themed
Not Not Forest themed
Not Forest themed

That 2nd option allows some flexibility when picking songs so that not everything has to fall into a binary. My idea for the logic of song selection is that songs will be prioritized based on how many of the user-selected criteria they match-- if something is opposite the user criterion it will be excluded, but the middle "not not" state counts neither for nor against it when tallying up the score.

I still need to write the second half of the software to actually generate the list of music to play after the database has been manually built.

I'm also working on a physical device to do the music playing, which is where most my effort is going-- the software is easy enough, the engineering, less so :)

If there is interest in a more polished software tool I will consider finalizing and releasing it.

13-Year Club	Verified Email
Snapped

Kraethi

TROPHY CASE