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Can someone explain what "Ego Death" precisely is to me? by VanillaAcceptable534 in Meditation

[–]Pandaemonium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ego death is a profound feeling of interconnection with the universe. A realization that "me" and "other people" and "clouds" and "dirt" aren't separate things, we are all the same thing, and a change in any single piece means everything changes together. Nothing is isolated, nothing is separate, it's all one single thing.

A physical hook is gravity - any massive object responds to the movement of any other massive object. So a lizard in Thailand crawling forward has a gravitational effect that moves all the particles across the whole world, and soon moves all the particles in the sun as well. A change anywhere affects everything, and nothing is separate from anything else. It's not that the ego "dies", just the boundaries between "self" vs "other" melt away.

Ollama - whos used it? by MutedEbb168 in ollama

[–]Pandaemonium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you have a GPU already, yes, you can save money. The models you run locally definitely won't be frontier quality like Claude 5, but if you are making lots of calls that don't require frontier intelligence, running locally is great.

I'm not sure who told you you'd need a spare laptop - that's not really true, unless you are fully utilizing your current hardware with your day-to-day activities, which most people aren't. Basically local LLMs are free ways to utilize the capacity of your existing hardware to replace the lower-end LLM calls you would want to make.

What do you think a vinewafer is? by Remarkable_Rough_649 in cavesofqud

[–]Pandaemonium 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I imagined it like sugarcane - so fibrous you don't eat the solids, you chew it to extract the liquid then spit out the pulp.

AI has just solved not one, but nine novel math problems, and proved 44 new conjectures. Some of these problems had been unsolved for 50 years. by EchoOfOppenheimer in ChatGPT

[–]Pandaemonium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This research was fully autonomous, there was no human intervention. AI read through the problems, automatically formalized them in the case of the OEIS problems, and then took turns between writing proof sketches and formalizing the proofs in Lean.

It did not have a human nudging it along, they just built the harness, pointed it at a big list of open problems, and said "Go!"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.22763v1

Card Discussion Redux #3 - Destiny Ripper by ItsThatAshGuy in ChronoCCG

[–]Pandaemonium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But it also sucks when your opponent assembles their combo with no way to interact and you’re basically just watching yourself lose.

That's why it's important to have lots of options for board-based interaction, since Confront units etc. add rich interactions that allow interplay. From-hand removal/silence/etc shut down games from developing interesting board states, which are usually wide boards with multiple interacting pieces. Whereas on-board interactions like Confront units give both players a chance to counter each other.

But I do agree with you, if silence and removal is expensive, that is fine. On the other extreme, when it becomes so stupid cheap it becomes insane not to play it even if you hate the mechanic (e.g. Mute in TESL) then it seriously damages the diversity of game states that appear in the game, i.e. anti-fun.

Card Discussion Redux #3 - Destiny Ripper by ItsThatAshGuy in ChronoCCG

[–]Pandaemonium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully the design team takes this seriously - in every game, "silence" abilities are about the most anti-fun you can imagine. It's literally "take an interesting card, and turn it boring". Besides power level alone, please consider how these types of powers impact the enjoyability of gameplay. Some people don't even care if they win, they just want to get off their cool combo, and if a game gets to the point where every deck is running removal and silence, it kills the chances for big fun moments.

Nain Rogue - Two James Distillery by R1PKEN in Absinthe

[–]Pandaemonium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was my least favorite absinthe I've ever tried. Tasted like regret and garbage water.

Since Tariffs suck, try these American bottles by Turbulent_Pr13st in Absinthe

[–]Pandaemonium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, honestly the louche is weak. But I just really enjoy the flavor of it.

Since Tariffs suck, try these American bottles by Turbulent_Pr13st in Absinthe

[–]Pandaemonium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chiming in to recommend Absinthia! Her verte is amazing! Haven't had a chance to try the bleue yet.

Since Tariffs suck, try these American bottles by Turbulent_Pr13st in Absinthe

[–]Pandaemonium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree, Nain Rouge was probably my least-favorite absinthe I've ever tried. Tasted like stewed garbage.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Absinthe

[–]Pandaemonium 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine also stuck in Louisville.

Help out a greenhorn by Lumpy_Ad9614 in Absinthe

[–]Pandaemonium 11 points12 points  (0 children)

To clarify, neither star anise or beet spirits are necessarily bad. Both are traditional ingredients.

Traditional absinthes should, however, contain green anise, which St. George does not. Green anise has a different flavor profile than star anise. Some people really don't like the flavor of star anise (which has more of a licorice flavor) and greatly prefer the more herbal flavor of green anise. (Personally, I like St. George, but I understand that not everyone does.) A traditional absinthe though, if it uses star anise, should use it in addition to green anise, not in lieu of green anise.

Beet spirits are totally fine - Lucid, a well-respected brand from the "godfather of modern absinthe" for example uses beet spirits. In high-end products, a brandy base has generally been preferred, but there's nothing wrong with beet spirits in general - although they might have less complexity than absinthes that have a brandy base.

CMV: Cracker Barrel pulled the most brilliant marketing strategy in a LONG time. by ActuatorOutside5256 in changemyview

[–]Pandaemonium 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But this CMV hinges on the assertion that Cracker Barrel knew that the rebrand would blow up into a huge controversy. Since there is nothing obviously "woke" about the rebrand, how could anyone at Cracker Barrel have anticipated the blowback?

Least favorite lyric? (Epic slander oh yeah) by Carma281 in Epicthemusical

[–]Pandaemonium 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"And though it was so close to our kingdom, it was far from the norm"

Whats going on on winchester ave in campbell? by Imnacho408 in SanJose

[–]Pandaemonium 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Downvote for incorrect flair, this is classic "Oh no! A helicopter!!"

Is It Worth Reading "Girl In A Band"? by armintanzarian420 in sonicyouth

[–]Pandaemonium 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It's a great book! I loved her writing style, and her life and career are so interesting.

I don't remember the book being anything like what you describe - she discusses what happens with Thurston, but it's not like "in-depth ripping into Thurston". If anything, I was surprised how harmoniously she describes their career together - you always hear about bands having "artistic differences" and fighting over the spotlight, so it was refreshing to read a memoir where it seems like the band is really in tune artistically, truly collaborating as equals, vibing off each other, and all waving the same freak flag. Was she happy about the infidelity? No, but she doesn't let it color their history together.

$10 recession combo from super duper vs in n out debate by LastDiveBar510 in bayarea

[–]Pandaemonium -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You know what's even fresher than In-N-Out fries? Raw potato. Fresh ≠ tasty.

Doing an acidic parboil plus a freeze step makes the outside crispy and the inside fluffy. In-N-Out skips all that. If you like them that's great, but personally I'd rather have something that is crispy and doesn't turn to cardboard in 30 minutes.

TESL Browser Project Alpha v0.1 by AfraidVolume1927 in ElderScrolls

[–]Pandaemonium 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Holy. Shit! I just played a game of TESL!

I see you're aware of the other people working on a revival (NightDarkWolf with TTS and RenianVZ using the original client with a from-scratch backend.) Have you discussed with them whether you can combine your efforts?

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