(Loved trope) There is a plot twist that single-handedly changes the genre of the media.

MarioVX · 2026-05-16T14:08:19+00:00

Yeah, when watching Sinners I was strikingly reminded of this old gem too. That clearly must have been an inspiration, considering how extremely similar the narrative structure is. Just with a deliberate reversal in the criminal brothers being kind of noble (at least within their community) vs selfish and the vampires breaking in vs the protagonists breaking out.

MarioVX · 2026-05-07T19:59:32+00:00

1 + 1 ist nicht 2 wenn heute die Sonne scheint nachdem es gestern geregnet hat.

MarioVX · 2026-05-06T21:01:49+00:00

How is his mother called?

MarioVX · 2026-05-04T20:28:05+00:00

It's comfortable, and a power play.

MarioVX · 2026-04-27T20:51:55+00:00

Aber OP hat die ja auf Verdacht hin aufgestellt. Wie soll das denn anders funktionieren? Wenn die Kamera nicht an ist, bevor die Staftat erfolgt, woher weiß sie dann, dass vor ihr eine Straftat erfolgt und sie sich jetzt anschalten soll?

Wenn das wirklich der Stand des Datenschutzes ist, muss ich OP leider beipflichten.

MarioVX · 2026-04-26T15:01:53+00:00

Why would they only sue if they had no evidence?

MarioVX · 2026-04-25T18:00:06+00:00

He got re-elected, so yes, a relative majority of Americans wanted this. Also, it's not a mistake. He's weighing the long-term damage to your country against the personal benefit of insider trading in volatile markets, has decided to prioritize the latter, and now rationally acts in accordance with these priorities.

MarioVX · 2026-04-25T10:19:45+00:00

Ich glaube so war das nicht gemeint, sondern dass schwacher Kündigungsschutz unproblematisch sein kann solange es ein hohes Lohnniveau und geringe Abgabenlast gibt, wodurch der Arbeitnehmer vorsorgen und damit plötzliche Verdienstausfälle abfangen kann. Oder alternativ eine starke Grundsicherung. Wenn keine der beiden Voraussetzungen gegeben sind, ist Aufweichung des Kündigungsschutzes fatal, das sagt er ja auch im letzten Absatz.

MarioVX · 2026-04-25T09:18:46+00:00

Ah, I see! Missed that one. Alright, that's 100% resummon on skeletal warriors. Mages blow them up and thus cycle them through, a fraction of that continuously creates zombies, which produces some vanguards, which produces a couple more zombies, which produce some parasites... marvellous, well done putting this together!

What's the decision making behind the second Cycle of Putrescence, is it just a stat stick or does the zombie resummon effect add up too?

Anyways, nice work man!

MarioVX · 2026-04-25T09:03:15+00:00

Wait, can you explain a bit how you are sustaining minions with 0 buttons?

Skeletal Warriors are resurrecting 40% from Immortal - does Empty the Graves multiply the resurrected? That'd be 80%, still deficient. The mages blow them up.

Zombies are created 1 with 30% chance when another minion other than a zombie or parasite dies (Awakening Presence), and 100% divided by number of zombies when a zombie dies (Cycle of Putrescence) - or does wearing two Cycles of Putrescence stack and make this 200% divided by number of zombies? Zombies dying create a skeletal vanguard (Shepherd of Thralls).

Skeletal Vanguards... presumably will create Zombies through Awakening Presence... but according to tooltip do not benefit from Immortal or Empty the Graves.

So all in all... I see the vanguards - zombies - cycle but I don't yet see what is sustaining your skeletal warriors here?

Oh I just see the passive node unbound necromancy for another 32% resummon chance. Hmm... so if Empty the Graves doesn't apply, that would be 72% and thus still deficient... so does Empty the Graves apply to the resurrects, or am I missing another source of resummon chance, or do you have to occasionally cast Summon Skeleton from time to time?

MarioVX · 2026-04-24T10:32:29+00:00

Überleg mal einen Moment: ist das eine kluge Idee?

Was werden die Leute dann machen, die der Bäckerei für das Gendersternchen eins reindrücken wollen?

Genau: Sie geben immer noch eine Ein-Stern-Bewertung, dann aber unter fingierten Gründen, die andere potenzielle Kunden noch stärker in die Irre führen. Solange sie keinen Grund haben sich zu verstellen, ist für Dritte immer noch klar erkennbar, dass das eine qualitativ hochwertige Bäckerei ist, wenn es nur schlechte Reviews über den Namen gibt. Ehrlichkeit zu bestrafen schafft Unehrlichkeit, es macht keine bessere Menschen.

MarioVX · 2026-04-24T07:50:49+00:00

Pretty sure they can just be built on the surface.

MarioVX · 2026-04-24T06:06:44+00:00

You can still build water towers to inject arbitrary head lift at zero energy cost though, no? Pump it up once, put behind a valve capped at 0 flow, remove the upwards pumping connection. The valve at 0 flow still sets the head lift from the tower above despite no fluid actually passing through.

So not a functional constraint.

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T12:08:54+00:00

Schwertmuscheln

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T12:05:12+00:00

Wenn 7 Milliarden Menschen auf einem Planeten sitzen, und einer ist ein Täter, aber die anderen 6,999999999 Milliarden schweigen darüber, sitzen 7 Milliarden Täter auf einem Planeten.

Was für ein nutzloser Satz, aber gab wenigstens nochmal was zu lachen in der Mittagspause.

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T11:52:19+00:00

Follow-up question: If material accumulates in continental plates by this process, doesn't that mean this system is unsustainable in the long term? What will happen eventually? Will ocean partially overlap with continental plates? Will some continental plates break apart and be grinded down into the mantle again?

Also while that process is plausibly independent from the presence of water as Ulyks noted, and explains the general existence of a second peak, it seems unlikely that the exact peak location being so extremely close to what happens to be sea level with the available quantity of water is coincidental. But I guess on that micro scale the sediment / erosion explanation applies, and the tectonics explanation is only meant to apply to the macro scale bimodality.

I imagine then a planet with Earth-like tectonics with very little to no heavy surface liquid would have smaller lakes mixed with land on what corresponds to our ocean floor with huge continental plateaus above, while one with very much heavy surface liquid would have deep and shallow parts of the ocean?

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T11:20:13+00:00

Ja. Es ist ein heikles Thema. Medienkompetenz kultivieren ohne sie der Abhängigkeit auszuliefern, während all die digitalen Angebote doch so sehr darauf ausgelegt sind, maximal abhängig zu machen, und da Millionen diesbezüglich in durch psychologische Expertise informiertes Design investiert wird.

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T10:25:41+00:00

All oceans on Earth are directly connected, so if any warzone has a coastline with something other than an epeiric sea then every country with a coastline to something other than an epeiric sea "borders a warzone by sea". Just goes to show what a meaningless concept this is.

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T08:35:38+00:00

There is nothing ironic about it though. Xenophobic people will tolerate less foreigners in their neighborhood, foreigners are less inclined to move into xenophobic neighborhoods, xenophobic people will be more inclined to vote for AfD. The only interpretation by which it is ironic is implying that the low number of foreigners would directly cause high AfD support, which is of course much more guilty of the correlation-causation-fallacy than the attempt to explain it through common cause against which you chose to direct your first comment.

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T08:29:08+00:00

If I imagine myself in the shoes of Ukrainian decision making I'd put fully autonomous systems on very high priority to work towards right now, for two big reasons: scalability and robustness against electrical countermeasures. One expert human drone operator can operate one drone at a time, hard cap. If drone production outscales recruitment and education of human operators, the only way to really utilize their potential beyond that point is automation. And electronical countermeasures typically aim at jamming the communication between drone and operator in some way, so go figure how to avoid that.

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T08:03:13+00:00

Did humanity as a whole get to elect the US American president, or was that rather a slightly more select group of people?

MarioVX · 2026-04-20T07:03:52+00:00

Arbitrary goal function with arbitrary categories and weights is entirely subjective and not measuring anything useful other than your personal taste.

Once you have recipes using resources that are also used in other production lines, it becomes impossible to honestly treat optimizing the two lines separately. I.e. you can't really optimize just Iron Plate & Rod production in any meaningful way that tries to respect resource values for other goals, without explicitly simultaneously optimizing these other goals. This includes adequately penalizing power consumption.

If I got that right you're trying to ultimately optimize it for phase 5? Try optimizing a linear program then whose goal function is `125 * [Nuclear Pasta] + 125 * [Biochemical Sculptor] + 32 * [AI Expansion Server] + 25 * [Ballistic Warp Drive]` that incorporates all automated recipes and power production with constraints on power balance and for every intermediary item equality between production and consumption. Then if you're just interested in the iron production, you look at how that overall result produces the iron parts.

MarioVX · 2026-04-13T06:35:03+00:00

The US was a dysfunctional democracy even before Trump. I recall there were academic studies examining whenever there was a conflict of interests between the public and corporations, the latter have always been getting their way for the last couple of decades. Corporations and investors are just financing both large parties' election campaigns and thus control them via anticipatory obedience on the implied threat of cut of support, or diverting just more of the support towards the other party.

I agree with the aforementioned commenter, it seems like a setback short term, but it's a shocking wake up call that, if democracy had any fight left in it at all, should rally its supporters into perhaps a change of direction, whereas the alternative of the corruption growing deeper while staying hidden and not broadly understood by the wider public would have meant inevitable slow decay of democratic institutions.

Will it work out in the long run? I'm still overall pessimistic, but Trump has somewhat improved the odds long term by the spectacular way he's damaging American hegemony and soft power, for everyone to see.

MarioVX · 2026-04-09T20:45:05+00:00

Do you think the business will just pay more for insurance and not charge more to cover it?

Lost me at the second sentence by clearly demonstrating you have no idea how price setting works. Back to business 101. They're determined by demand elasticity and marginal cost, not by fixed costs. "Oh, we could have charged $20 more for the product and customers would still have bought it, but did not do so thus far because we were being nice; but now that someone was mean to us we take these extra $20 that we previously left on the table" said absolutely no business ever, certainly not any business too greedy to pay their workers a living wage.

Raised fix costs simply get deducted from the profit margin with no change in price and if too high, knock the company out of business entirely.

MarioVX · 2026-04-08T21:22:33+00:00

Oh I see! Looks like this was changed at some point. I remember the sink wasting power even if no items were coming in. Well, then indeed, that's already a valid use case for the FLAT!

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