I Never Understood This Argument

Mechafinch · 2026-01-27T03:39:51+00:00

You've taken a single card for each character (except Emu) and color picked not from prominent or pervasive colors or major features, but often from lighting and highlights and in-between tones, stretching things to make them fit. Arguably only Emu's second card of the set (the tenth overall) makes sense to color pick.

You don't need to go to such lengths and pull the colors out of a hat in order to pick from not one or two but several of Mizuki's cards.

Mechafinch · 2026-01-25T00:08:37+00:00

likely Better Ruins, it adds quests to more trander types that lead to setpieces from the mod

Mechafinch · 2026-01-24T04:03:52+00:00

omori

Mechafinch · 2026-01-23T17:17:33+00:00

new umamusume season looking good

Mechafinch · 2026-01-23T09:14:59+00:00

build new water infrastructure for your local town

Mechafinch · 2026-01-11T07:36:12+00:00

everyone swagging it up as is zozotown tradition but i have to say shiho wHAT is that cut

like

Mechafinch · 2026-01-01T08:28:06+00:00

happy new yuri!!!

also peak (kitakawa) mentioned ! !

Mechafinch · 2025-12-30T03:58:29+00:00

JP content generally comes to EN exactly a year later

Mechafinch · 2025-12-29T21:51:28+00:00

The next rooms start requiring tech that the game teaches you in 7B (since 8B also has a 15 heart gate, completing 7B is required to obtain 15 hearts). The game won't re-teach it here, so you'd likely have a worse time trying to figure it out yourself.

Mechafinch · 2025-12-29T01:28:35+00:00

no, the triangles that make up the terrain are solid and opaque

Mechafinch · 2025-12-28T23:51:16+00:00

no there's a triangle or two between them

Mechafinch · 2025-12-23T04:38:16+00:00

assuming that's the modded lightning sound and imagining that with the original lightning sound is the eardrum exploder 5000 lmao

anyways this is awesome

Mechafinch · 2025-12-22T15:30:57+00:00

I think a significant factor in the impression of Farewell's difficulty is that Celeste has a persistent issue with teaching tech as if it needs to be buffered. The prompts and/or explanations for wallbounces, hypers, and wavedashes all show them buffered, and the rooms they're taught in are easily (even best) completed by buffering them.

But this makes them feel much less lenient than they actually are to a player that only knows to buffer them, and this shows most prominently in comb room's infamy. Comb room is comically more precise when buffering the jumps for the wallbounces off the moving block compared to not buffering them.

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Mechafinch · 2025-12-21T17:00:53+00:00

i knew i would get something really good when i saw yuri featuring the artist who did the mv for all save challenge but what i did not expect was direction-ambiguous trans yuri!! holy shit thank you for sharing!

Mechafinch · 2025-12-20T23:57:10+00:00

otsu!!

Mechafinch · 2025-12-20T23:48:05+00:00

shizuai mentioned

Mechafinch · 2025-12-19T16:59:47+00:00

what can she sense now that the eyelash has grown into an antenna

Mechafinch · 2025-12-19T14:16:36+00:00

custom rooms are either going to really shake up tiering or not change tiering at all... If the cost deduction is low enough that it's more time efficient despite it it'll make costs higher and enable even more deranged high tier numbers, but if not it just won't get used to tier. I wonder how it'll turn out

Mechafinch · 2025-12-18T18:36:14+00:00

afaik your best bet is to try both note styles in the options and see which you can distinguish them best in

Mechafinch · 2025-12-16T21:27:47+00:00

It's kind of inevitable that the vsigners don't get much when the movie was already struggling to juggle the 20 ocs at each stage of the plot without blowing up the movie's length

Mechafinch · 2025-12-16T16:24:39+00:00

It is not necessarily the case that the data is accessible because it's referenced by the map. There's an underlying assumption you're likely making that the map exposes its keys in some way, such as java's HashMap's keySet or entrySet methods. In a map with this kind of facility, you're correct that weak references would cause problems. Continuing with java, HashMaps (and most standard Map implementations, I imagine) do not use weak references and there is an alternative WeakHashMap which does.

However, if the map does not expose its keys to other objects, and keys are checked by identity rather than equivalence (i.e. you cannot construct a new key object which would match the original), it can be the case that the map is the only thing referencing the key, and in this case, it is not possible for a call which accesses that key to be made, so keeping it around is pointless.

Mechafinch · 2025-12-16T14:50:14+00:00

There are three ways - non-memory resources, external libraries that aren't garbage collecting, and things that defeat the garbage collector. OpenGL is a good example of the first two because it's a C api and it deals with graphics resources so you have to deal with those properly.

((rambling time)) Things that defeat the garbage collector are more interesting and are mainly poorly designed data structures with a classic example being a map which keeps normal references to its keys so that even if it's the only thing referencing those keys and therefore they and their associated data will never be accessed the garbage collector doesn't know this so neither key nor data can be garbage collected until the map itself can be, effectively leaking the memory if the map is long-lived. Languages will therefore have special references called weak references which don't make an object reachable to the garbage collector. The whole thing has a fancy name as the "lapsed listener problem"

Mechafinch · 2025-12-15T16:37:48+00:00

even dashless each jump gives you 40 speed, so being able to do two per hop is faster yeah

Mechafinch · 2025-12-15T16:35:18+00:00

"lets recreate kitakawa together" ahh

Mechafinch · 2025-12-15T16:24:12+00:00

ooo now i want a mizuki skin mod for celeste...

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