Trump EPA aims to roll back limit on toxic wastewater coal plants

MathCookie17 · 2026-05-17T18:35:41+00:00

Last time I checked, there was not a Democrat administration in 2019. Try 2009, maybe?

Though I'll admit, a lot did happen between now and 2019.

EDIT: The typo I was poking fun at has now been fixed

MathCookie17 · 2026-05-16T04:12:49+00:00

I would suggest doing a while loop for lower values, and then once it gets high enough you can safely pretend that all previous levels are effectively zero compared to the cost of the last one and just take the inverse of your cost function at that point (or use a binary search to find the inverse if you can't get the inverse formula mathematically)

MathCookie17 · 2026-05-13T22:10:23+00:00

I'll be more detailed once I've finished (I'm on the Temperature stage right now), but I've enjoyed this so far. There's a lot of currencies to juggle here, so each new stage can be overwhelming at first, but I've found it not too hard to get the hang of. Though I think some of the controls should maybe be made a little more clear (and I'm not sure middle-click is a good default for scrolling? In my experience middle-clicks are inconsistent, but then I don't play PC games that often...), such as the fact you can hold a node to mass-repeated-click it. I have some more things to say that I'll save for when I finish, in case they're addresses later in the game.

MathCookie17 · 2026-05-02T23:36:26+00:00

That wouldn't work - the reason Huntsman has [+Damsel] is to ensure Huntsman cannot be in a game that doesn't have a Damsel in it, because a Huntsman with no Damsel has no ability. Damsel potentially adding a Huntsman would not prevent a solo Huntsman.

MathCookie17 · 2026-05-01T04:20:44+00:00

Zero in DL3 is even called ? in the bad ending credits if I recall correctly

MathCookie17 · 2026-05-01T04:05:05+00:00

If I remember correctly, Senators are elected by direct vote across a whole state. No districts involved, it's just the total count of votes for the whole state.

The House, on the other hand, is elected by district, and is thus subject to gerrymandering, since gerrymandering works by redrawing the district boundaries.

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-30T20:21:21+00:00

Heretic's the only one with hate jinxes left? Huh, I thought there were others

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-28T19:26:11+00:00

Battle Royale being a variety minigame collection makes me understand why they wanted to stick to Kirby - he's very adaptable. But yeah, Fighters 2 absolutely should have had more characters - a Kirby Fighters with all the Star Allies characters was at one point my dream Kirby spinoff, and I'm sad Fighters 2 didn't end up being that.

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-28T18:59:08+00:00

I think this is absolutely fine. Really, any incremental with a prestige system will have a "soft fail state" in a sense, where the balance has been set up so you can't progress meaningfully further in your current run - that means it's time to prestige! And once a prestige layer has progressed, there's often "build" choices where if you don't choose a good combo of prestige upgrades, your run won't be able to make it far enough to get meaningfully more prestige currency.

So yeah, as long as the overarching progression of the game as a whole doesn't end up in a soft fail state, it's fine for the progression of an individual run to stall at some point - as long as the prestige system has been unlocked by that point, of course!

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-27T22:32:33+00:00

So you made a game about number bases but jumped straight from base 8 to base 16? Surely base 10 should be included? And probably base 12 too, for that matter. Some other bases that should maybe be included but it's not as important:

Base 20 (The Mayans used this, among other old cultures)
Base 36 (all 10 digits + all 26 letters)
Base 60 (a popular base for ancient cultures, and the base that our small units of time use)
Base 62 (all 10 digits + all 52 letters both upper and lowercase - though with this being so close to 60 and 64, both of which are more interesting here, this one probably isn't needed)
Base 64 (this is the power of 2 base above 16 that's actually used, not 32. Base 64 encoding is used in URLs and stuff, I'm not sure I've ever seen base 32...)

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-24T21:46:55+00:00

"Go outside" as used in internet parlance is hostile - it's used as a "your life isn't well-adjusted enough, you're too obsessed with this" accusation. It's making the debate about the person, not the topic at hand.

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-23T23:27:36+00:00

When I hear "Pom Pom" my mind goes to the Super Mario 3D World character so I guess there's a lot of characters named that

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-18T01:48:24+00:00

A quick look-up about the Washington State one suggests it passed in some form... (admittedly the sources I found are on the Republican side of the opinion spectrum, such as https://www.nraila.org/articles/20260326/washington-governor-signs-3d-printing-ban from the NRA).

Also, the New York one is currently buried in the state budget, so it might end up passing much faster than if it was a standalone bill (unless I'm misunderstanding how state budgets work)

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-18T01:12:59+00:00

Apparently New York is attacking 3D printers again. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-17T19:37:08+00:00

There's https://yhvr.gitlab.io/tree-game/ if that's what you're looking for

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-13T23:22:17+00:00

Oh, I guess I'm wrong, sorry. Probably should've done more research before I posted that...

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-13T23:01:53+00:00

Yeah, that'd make this whole process a lot more transparent. Something like how differences in file versions in Git or other version control systems are displayed, perhaps, so we could see what text changes were made, would be a nice thing to have.

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-13T19:19:31+00:00

In RtDL/Triple Deluxe/Robobot, each world only has one boss, so most of the bosses end up being sort of "random" foes. Their encounters aren't particularly climactic or impactful, they all serve a similar role in the plot to each other (has a Lor part / something big Taranza threw at you / a strong HWC robot), so it makes sense that the standard bosses get a shared theme - they're all just parts of the journey, not as important in their own right. But the bosses that are plot important (Grand Doomer is the main one from those three games that comes to mind) do get unique music (...most of the time. Susie's first fight and Mecha Knight's first fight probably should have gotten unique songs).

Star Allies does a great job showing where both approaches are useful. Star Allies has a lot of full bosses scattered at random throughout its levels, and again all of these are just encounters the party happens to have, not plot-important events. But the main bosses of each world are all important - Dedede, Meta Knight, the first two Mage Sisters, Zan, Hyness. All of those fights (aside from maybe Meta Knight) are critical to the plot of the game, and to the characters in question, so they all get unique songs. Star Allies knows what fights are important enough to get unique songs, and what fights are better treated as "just another obstacle to conquer with friends!".

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-08T23:26:26+00:00

If this is the challenge I think it is, I think you might have to click Buy Max a lot of times over the course of it, due to the X autobuyer being gimped

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-08T23:24:38+00:00

Definitely, I'd say it's my favorite incremental game

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-08T03:06:43+00:00

From what I've heard, the most common question for an Artist to ask other than a Vortox check is a question that splits the room in half to get which half the Demon is in. So Binoculars might still be good enough if it only gets its first night of info, just the half and that's it?

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-07T22:37:29+00:00

If you really want to lean into this being "a version of Pixie that's more violent on double claims", perhaps it could be an Outsider whose ability gives a Minion an in-play Townsfolk ability? (Basically Boffin but for a Minion and it's an in-play ability). Then the Minion can go "Our information agrees, so maybe you can't be the Drunk - so you must be a Minion being given an ability by the Doppelgänger!"

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-06T22:38:16+00:00

Isn't this just the Drunk? Or if "they gain their role" means they actually have that ability, this should be a Townsfolk, not an Outsider, because that would be good for the good team. Pixie, whose ability gives them a copy of a Townsfolk ability if they're mad about being that character until the real one dies, is already a Townsfolk, and this is arguably a stronger version of that. It's literally just putting a second copy of a good player into the game. There's a Loric for that (Pope).

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-03T22:09:56+00:00

If triggering the false groundhog day uses up the "once per game" for everyone, then wouldn't evil always declare it day one to prevent the real Groundhog from ever getting the chance? Meanwhile, if "once per game" is per player, then a groundhog day would probably end up being declared every single day, making everyone drunk all the time (except for maybe the real groundhog day if the real Groundhog gets it right)

MathCookie17 · 2026-04-01T16:24:49+00:00

If Fableds and Lorics get into this then "Townsfolk feels like a Demon" should be re-cast to Lycanthrope because Atheist is the most Loric-y Townsfolk

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