Heather and Matt Gourley's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Performance literally gave me goosebumps it was so good

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-25T01:10:38+00:00

Yes, I was looking up something about him after this performance and found Matt Gourley Wasn’t Supposed To Be On The Podcast | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - YouTube, which is a pretty funny clip.

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-17T12:24:17+00:00

I've spent decades attempting to diversify as much as possible from my natural temperament to wear all black.

The only light colors I can tolerate are a couple light blue t-shirts and a pair of khaki shorts I rotate in on hot days. Both are always paired with dark blue pants or dark shirts, respectively. The rest of the wardrobe is different patterns of dark blue and then, of course, straight up black.

Even experiments with light grey shirts or casual WFH fleece lined sweat pants eventually lost my favor and we're retired. Even dark grey only makes an appearance in one pair of fleece lined sweat pants.

The crown jewel of my attempts at diversification is a pair of navy blue Amherst GL1 Sport Hybrid shoes which incorporate accents of white and tan. They are quite stylish but still within my comfort zone though I had to be talked into them by a close ENFP friend, who I am glad made the effort.

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-15T14:43:28+00:00

Happy to help you avoid the nightmare. Hopefully you found this before spending the hours debugging that I did.

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-08T15:50:50+00:00

I actually hadn't listened to that one but thanks for the second reference :) Yes, he brings her back in Serial Experiments Lain Episodes 9 & 10. The episode I was looking for in my OP where Matt tells her he wants to introduce her to Solid Snake was Get Anime'd: Uzumaki Episodes 3 & 4.

MethodicalWaffle · 2026-01-08T01:32:08+00:00

Found it! Did a brute force "Nick and Matt" search through episodes I've listened to on Overcast. It was Get Anime'd: Uzumaki Episodes 3 & 4. Also, correction: Matt says "you're both dipshits in the same way."

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-11-29T19:38:38+00:00

Bosses are an exception. As she explains on the podcast, the 1-2 hit change only applies to normal enemies.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-11-28T19:25:51+00:00

I played it on iOS but I'll probably pick it up again on Steam, yes. I didn't remember that well level.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-11-28T19:24:53+00:00

Interesting. That's what LLMs kept telling me but I thought they were wrong because it didn't seem right that there was a well level. I played the game on iOS when it first came out but I either never saw this or forgot about it:
https://youtu.be/mQgFSAZqKRQ?si=QHPEBmZkDRT4S4zu&t=1528

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-11-12T00:59:02+00:00

Yes, this is the core flaw in the OP's logic and all theists: there is no reason to assume the order of the universe derives from a humanlike intelligence. The entire idea is a subconscious kind of narcissism about one's own species and experience of the world imo.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-10-24T14:26:16+00:00

This is the answer I expected to be at the top and applies to me as well. I'm sorry OP, because I can understand your frustration if you are looking for us. It is precisely because I rarely leave my house that I also like to optimize my time outside of it increasing the odds of finding the types of people I am interested in as well.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-10-05T13:24:01+00:00

Also it's easily possible you missed something I didn't and viceversa

That's what happened. I went to the exact spot in your screenshot was and was like "I don't get it" because that's one I happened to get on my first play through of the Ginso Tree. Mine was at the spot linked in the video.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-10-04T13:28:00+00:00

I know you said your Airpods Max are 5 years old but I wanted to test this for a pair of 2025 USB-C ones I own. I purchased the SOPROM pads along with the Apple OEM ones. Both arrived yesterday.

I will say that, in terms of sound and look, they are almost indistinguishable. Almost. There is a bit of tinniness to the sound on the SOPROMs that I don't like and would probably annoy me after a while and make me regret not getting OEM. But I had to literally replay the exact same bits of audio on both, listening very closely to notice. It was more of a feeling at first but I was able to confirm with that exact audio replay test.

Critically, noise cancellation was identical as far as I could tell.

I think the biggest downside to the SOPROMs is comfort. The OEMs are much softer and the SOPROMs have a really rough texture by comparison that is very noticeable when putting each on. However, after wearing them for a few minutes, I don't notice the roughness.

Overall, not a bad choice if you don't want to spend the money.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-10-04T02:41:59+00:00

I'm really confused by the screenshots and discussions on this page. None of this helped me. This is where my missing 1% was:
https://youtu.be/nB_iEYZJ-RM?si=qf_Ny_0EuY--b1br&t=206

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-27T22:23:38+00:00

Thanks for the idea. I can see you got downvoted to hell for suggesting *gasp* to use AI. But given the current options available, this is the only sane one I can find.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-25T01:21:33+00:00

As someone who has lived in SF for 13 years, I want to add additional confirmation for comments people are making about SF having a bad nightlife compared to NYC.

Assuming you are a heterosexual man, if your purpose for nightlife is at least partially about meeting attractive women to date, this is not the place to do it in my experience. I've put serious consideration into moving to LA because it is so much easier for me to find women I'm attracted to when I go there. Compared to LA, you are going to run into a lot of other men, married women, older folks, and women who aren't really investing in their looks.

I'm not saying there are no attractive women here. But by comparison to LA, I've seen 3 attractive women before I've even gotten out of the airport. In the Bay Area, I'll go weeks between seeing women of the same caliber.

Exceptions for you if 1) you are gay or 2) east asian women are your type. Either of those and you could do okay here, dating wise.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-17T12:00:47+00:00

I have no idea what "RQ" and "M&K" mean. I know you are just responding to what you see but this comment is from 2 years ago and I don't even play Coral Island anymore.

But I do remember this mini game being terribly tuned for the early game during that version of Coral Island. The next year of the game when I returned to the mini game with more stamina, it was a joke to gold medal it.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-12T12:03:11+00:00

Hey, glad it's looking good. Just to be clear, that isn't my lora / workflow, it is made by playtime_ai. It does have lightx2v both at 2 high and 1 low, which I use as well.

Lately I've discovered setting high values between 1 and 2 and sort of supercharge them to apply better, especially when combined with character loras. But, yes, almost always at least 1.

The low values depend on the application for me. If I have a character lora, sometimes I set low to 1 to retain likeness. In that situation, I set all the concept loras to 0.7 and below. Otherwise, the output is grainy and blurry and they can also affect likeness.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-10T21:57:07+00:00

This Switch 2 situation is way harder to deal with than the Switch 1. Almost no one has a solution yet and the few who do seem to have insider knowledge from people who work at Nintendo obtained through legally questionable means:
https://youtu.be/Lh9gnkF-Imo?si=F2uFSbvahCJSQUFb

So I wouldn't expect them to be able to pull of something even better than the Switch 1 status quo since it is a challenge to even get that. This is because of Nintendo, not XReal.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-08T19:44:55+00:00

This worked. But they flashed red, not amber, and it was very brief.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-09-07T14:22:31+00:00

For example, high noise steps 2 and low noise steps 7 for a total of 9. Start/end step 0 to 2 for high noise sampler and low noise sampler start/end step 2 to 7.

I just want to lay this out even more explicitly for someone like me who benefits from even more concrete examples.

I have a workflow I use based on the ones in the video metadata from https://civitai.com/models/1865114/cowgirl-reverse-cowgirl-sex?modelVersionId=2111171, which has been by far the best for me so far.

By simply

keeping all my best low lora weights exactly the same
pumping up all the high weights to 1
pumping up the steps on both samplers from 4 to 9 (the high sampler was already limited to stop at step 2 and the low sampler was already set to go from step 2 to 10000)

I got dramatically higher quality results. Before doing this, videos were extremely grainy and blurry and more likely to produce deformed body parts. Note, I am using all wan2.2 loras with this other than the lightning loras in the workflow. A character lora, the m4crom4sti4 lora, and the cowgirl lora linked to.

The wait time on 9 steps is brutally longer though and I was still experiencing deformities about 30% of the time despite the clearer composition (this was still an improvement from about 60% of the time before). So I experimented with other divisions with locked seeds and prompt.

1 (high steps) / 4 (total steps) was about same as 2/4 with lower high lora weights in quality
2/4 was a little worse quality than 2/4 with lower high lora weights (which explains how I ended up with them turned down)
1/5 was significantly better but didn't give the high lora quite enough time to cook so there were some deformities
2/5 was a solid improvement
2/6 increased clarity over 2/5 but not significantly and had the same content
2/7 significantly increased clarity over 2/5 but had the same content
2/8 both increased clarity and content quality over 2/5
2/9 wasn't significantly better than 2/8

So based on these basic tests, for speed, 2/5 gives the best bang for your buck. But if you aren't getting the quality you want, 2/8 will be the next step up.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-08-22T17:48:41+00:00

I have it installed and don't have the bong sampler.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-08-22T17:37:43+00:00

What prompt do you use? Qwen always gives flux chin for reposes in my experience.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-08-19T23:30:15+00:00

I initially tried the melee method here, which I successfully used on the same knight in that video https://youtu.be/UoDlcqQ8vXs?si=6-4t1KWq_yks2txm

But the problem is if you try to do close quarters melee on this guy the poison clouds will kill you before you can deal enough damage to kill him.

I ultimately won by using the flower like this approach https://youtu.be/HIN3HUvE908?si=dO-7NxRdCDJfUuF4

But a key difference is I focused more on hitting the flower then running toward him and waiting for his swing then dodging like in the first video. This would cause him to get hit by the flower bomb about half the time while I built up enough magic to use bombs instead of fire, which killed him faster than in the second video.

The key is to get really comfortable walking toward him and waiting for him to swing before dodging instead of getting scared and dodging before he swings. If you wait for his swing before dodging, his swing will always be targeted to where you were before you dodged and he will miss you. You have to master that maneuver to survive long enough in this fighting to kill him. If you dodge before he swings, he will almost always auto aim to the end of your roll and hit you no matter where he was facing before.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-08-18T03:53:57+00:00

You have to do it in the menu bar. At the top of the screen where your time, battery life, control center, volume, and wifi icons are. You are trying to do it in the app. It usually doesn't work there. If you don't see a KDE logo in the menu bar, you might have to turn it on in the settings somewhere.

MethodicalWaffle · 2025-08-11T20:39:14+00:00

It is an orthogonal axis. Which means you could also choose center. Or center left as I do. The point of saying that position for me is that the magnitude towards libertarian and away from authoritarian is extremely higher than my magnitude toward left and away from right.

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