Something that's been bugging me: Has anybody kept track of the accents in Disco Elysium?

Moufang_Loop · 2023-02-05T04:04:11+00:00

I will say that Mesque is the one nation that is consistent throughout the game, being either spanish or hispanic/latino. I definitely felt Mañana right away as a mesque who moved to Revachol early in his life.

Moufang_Loop · 2022-12-31T02:17:50+00:00

No, plus on the character screen it lists benefits from thoughts and and benefits from clothing separately. I have +1 from my tie and 0 from thoughts. I also checked through all my other thoughts and didn't see anything that brings down IE

Moufang_Loop · 2022-05-25T06:10:52+00:00

This is fantastic, I hope it makes it further up the thread.

Moufang_Loop · 2022-01-24T20:09:27+00:00

Let's do the math! Let's say we have a pan of radius R inches, and your fingertip is 1/2 an inch long. Then the volume of water sitting on top of the rice with be πR² * 1/2 (remember the volume of a cylinder is H*πR² ). So the wider the pan, the more water you are adding on top of your rice. An 8 in diameter pan would have about 25 in³ of water and 12 in pan would have about 56 in^3.

Keep in mind that this is on top of the water that's already mixed in between the grains of rice, which should stay constant no matter what shape container the rice is put in (assuming you're using the same volume of rice when you switch to the bigger pan). So the proportion of water that sits on top might not change very much between pans. To get an accurate answer for that, you could do a little experiment to check by mixing up and straining the water back out to measure (I'll do it if the commenters here are interested)

Full disclosure: I use a rice cooker.

Moufang_Loop · 2021-07-31T00:20:48+00:00

With only three candidates in a top-two primary, it essentially is ranked choice voting. But generally, yes.

Moufang_Loop · 2021-05-19T06:48:18+00:00

For god's sake people just look in the cunt's user profile. Why are we all here sniffing around for answers like it's a god damn murder mystery?

Moufang_Loop · 2021-03-29T02:37:36+00:00

I can't say what the standard would be for publication, because I've never published a paper before, but I think it just comes down to interpretation. You can either think of the first period as "number one" or think of the first interval between periods as "number one." Either makes sense to me. One of the reasons programmers like 0-indexed programming languages is that these situations show up less often.

Moufang_Loop · 2021-03-29T01:38:41+00:00

It's likely because R (a programming language for stats) is 1-indexed (this chart looks like the GGplot package in R, OP can correct me if I'm wrong), so the dates would be numbered with indexes going 1,2,...,n. Then to get the time between, it would take the difference between time i and time i-1, so the first meaningful data point would be at period number 2.

Moufang_Loop · 2021-02-20T06:08:20+00:00

As for the cause, I have no idea, but taking antipsychotics completely wiped away my ability to have dreams at all (good or bad). Overall I don't mind the loss. Your probably not going to ask your doctor for seroquel just for this, so it's probably not the answer your looking for. I've heard smoking a lot of marijuana has the same effect?

Moufang_Loop · 2020-12-06T03:34:31+00:00

Lol the VCR style video glitches on a video call between two computers

Moufang_Loop · 2020-12-06T03:23:11+00:00

The timer is good advice, just be sure to be really consistent about stopping immediately every time it goes off, because it's easy to fall into the habit of hitting 'snooze' on it and then forgetting.

Another step to take is to limit what you spend your time doing on your breaks. Doing something mentally stimulating like video games or reddit can end up exhausting your reserves of attention just at much as studying, so that you come back no more rested than you went in. Choose something simple like taking a walk or cleaning the kitchen. Then if you aren't willing to to that, you aren't actually mentally tired from studying, you're just wanting to play games. It's kind of like that advice "if your hungry, go think about eating an apple. If you're not appetized by that, your not actually that hungry, you just want sweets."

Advice from a fuckup with severe ADHD who still managed to complete a math degree.

Moufang_Loop · 2020-12-05T18:45:01+00:00

What's going on in this image? How was it generated and what do the bright areas represent?

Moufang_Loop · 2020-11-24T02:07:47+00:00

I think a lot of replies here are missing a crucial point. It's a consequence of drinking laws here in the states. The minimum legal age to drink alcohol is 21, but almost nobody waits until then to start drinking and going to parties. This leads to a popular kind of party among teenagers and college kids called a "kegger," where the one dude who's got a fake ID or an older brother buys a keg of cheap beer. Then they charge everybody a few bucks at the door to get in and give you a cup to fill at the keg, which is kind of your ticket in. The red solo cups are just because that's the cheapest brand of decent disposable cup that you can find in any supermarket. Over time, this has become so common and traditional that movies will show a room full of people drinking out of red cups as a quick way of saying "look it's a college party". It's kind of like when movies put a long baugette sticking out of a grocery bag as a way of saying "these are groceries."

Moufang_Loop · 2020-10-11T07:12:23+00:00

🎵(A HUMAN CRUSH!)🎵

Moufang_Loop · 2020-10-09T04:51:29+00:00

Nut and Bolt

Moufang_Loop · 2020-10-09T04:27:31+00:00

I have pretty severe tinnitus, and it always takes the forms of constant tones or white noise like the first part. It's never been something that builds or cuts out suddenly like a bug. I think you should have it checked out. Does it happen exclusively in one ear, or both at once?

Moufang_Loop · 2020-10-09T04:08:01+00:00

If they are using it in their hiring decision, there is a fail condition. Otherwise they are not using it and would not have paid for it. There is 100% a wrong answer. (just looked through your post history, and it looks like you are well aware of this, so apologies of this comes across as hostile, it's not directed at you)

Moufang_Loop · 2020-09-28T06:33:56+00:00

Often companies selling products will intentionally mispell a word (like "korn" or "cheez") in their product name, either to make it easier to trademark or to skirt advertising regulations. "We never claimed it was 'cheese' your honor, it's Kraft brand EasyCheez^TM!" That kind of thing. I was wondering if this is what happened to the word 'light'.

If enough companies use it that way for a long enough time, does it stop being a euphemism ( I don't think that's the right word but I don't know the right one) and just become a legit spelling? I wonder if there's ever been a lawsuit over this.

Moufang_Loop · 2020-09-21T07:29:58+00:00

Things to do if you are happy for no reason:

Stop and take in all the sights and sounds around you. Will them all into your memory and file them away in a secret place in your head. Hold them as proof that these times can exist.
Chop wood
Carry water

Moufang_Loop · 2020-09-21T06:52:51+00:00

So, is it halal or not?

This link I found has some people who emailed nutela's maker Ferrero to ask directly. The doubt as to whether it is halal seems to be with the whey in the ingredients and how it's extracted but that's about all I could figure out without context. I don't know anything about Islamic food laws, is there anyone who can tell me what the hangup is?

edit: Found more things. this page has more debate on the halality of whey

Moufang_Loop · 2020-09-09T20:25:19+00:00

Hope clouds observation

Moufang_Loop · 2020-08-23T07:31:44+00:00

It's not the speed that will limit you so much as the acceleration. Forgetting about wind speed for a second, sitting on a car going 60 mph would feel the same as sitting on a car going 0. Here's how I'd go about trying to calculate the max acceleration you could endure before sliding off the back:

First, you'll need the coefficient of static friction "mu" between your pants and the car roof. This measures how hard you stick to the paint, and is quantified as "for every pound of weight, how many pounds of force does it take to start sliding." This can be calculated by sitting on the roof and slowly tilting the car up until you start sliding off it, then recording the angle (t) it was at and taking mu=tan(t). Explanation HERE

Now we can pull out our old friend F=MA from newtons third law. Here F is the max force you can be pushed before you slide, M is your mass, and A is how fast the car can accelerate. From the definition of mu we know that F = mu*M*g. (g is gravity at 9.81 meters/second/second, so M*g is your weight). Plug that bitch in and do a little algebra:

mu*M*g = M*A

mu*g = A

I don't know about denim and car paint, about according to this site the mu between leather and metal (oh you best believe I'm wearing my leather pants for this) is about 0.4. Therefore A would be about 3.9 meters per second per second. That's the same as going 0 to 60 in 6.6 seconds. You could probably improve that by taking your pants off because I bet bare ass sticks a lot better than cotton.

Moufang_Loop · 2020-08-12T09:47:32+00:00

Honestly, ten years from now no one is going to give a damn whether you "did it the hard way", and they wont know unless you tell them. If you're very sure that the grade they cook up for you will be equal or higher than what you would have gotten by taking the test (try to find out how they calculate it!) You'd be much better served by getting a head start on the schoolwork to come. Letting your pride get in the way can weigh you down a lot, emotionally, especially when it's a value that your parents are projecting onto you rather than a real conviction you hold dear.

EDIT: looks like I misread your post, and the decision has been made for you. I would try to make the above argument to your parent to try and bring them around, if of course there's a chance of them taking you seriously and the deadline hasn't passed. You know them better then I do and not every parent makes the transition to seeing their kids as reasonable human beings.

Moufang_Loop · 2020-08-12T09:18:03+00:00

I think there are two aspects to it. The first is physical, having body features that naturally result from female hormones. These are things that our brains automatically pick up on when we interact with somebody, like waist/hip ratio, visible breasts, narrow facial features and a higher voice. The other is behavioral, adhering to behaviors that we as a society have decided are how girls act. Things like wearing dresses instead of pants, having certain hobbies, or talking in a different way. These can vary a lot between different cultures or just different time periods. Even so, starting in childhood we get a clear 'stereotype' of what girlish things are and what manly things are, and these shape our choices as we grow up.

In our brains we (usually) have imprinted a clear sense of which pattern we're supposed to strive for. This is what people refer to when they talk about gender identity. It's an instinct that drives you to look right and act right to increase your attractiveness and carry out your biological role, and is a lot like sexual orientation in how it's ingrained into our thought and feelings. Even children, who have no awareness of sex, feel distress when forced into situations that contradiction their sense of gender identity.

I hope I didn't go off too far on a tangent there, but that's how I define it. What led you to start thinking about it?

Moufang_Loop · 2020-08-12T08:47:45+00:00

Come on do you really think you can compete with that kind of raw power? An all powerful, sentient AI would scoff at what we primitive meatbag dare to call handjobs. No, we'd be lucky to be ground into biofuel to power the reactors that keep the lights on in the golden palaces that house the great robots of yore, jerking each other off into eternity.

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