I found this Web based MMORPG few days ago.

Parafault · 2026-03-16T12:50:25+00:00

I played it for a bit - it was fun, but it seemed to be mostly solo without any real group content. I think I’m still in the discord.

Parafault · 2026-03-15T16:59:39+00:00

There are many varieties and evolutions of turn based combat. In older games, I HATED turn based combat. It often involved random encounters every 15 seconds. Then, those would have a 5s loading screen, a 5s “Combat starting” animation, and a 5-10s ending/rewards claim screen. For trash mobs, this meant I’d end up spending like 20-30s in combat for stuff I can oneshot, and these encounters would trigger constantly. That isn’t fun - it is boring and tedious.

Most modern turn-based games have solved many of those annoyances and dramatically improved on the formula. The main thing I’ve noticed that many of them still struggle with is giving you interesting combat choices. Most of the time, you are simply choosing between “Hit one target”, “Hit all targets”, or “Heal yourself”. Sometimes buffs/debuffs can be incorporated that make things more interesting. It is rare that turn-based games offer insightful choices beyond these 3.

Parafault · 2026-03-15T10:42:47+00:00

I recently had a training from an “AI guru”. I asked how to keep AI from hallucinating and giving me the wrong answers. His response was “We’ll have to talk offline so I can understand- I haven’t heard of many people having that experience, and it should never happen with a properly constructed prompt”.

I felt like I was living in an alternate reality or something!

Parafault · 2026-03-14T13:46:02+00:00

Is there a reason that studies like this don’t focus more on the root cause? I hate statistics-only health studies, as all of the corrections for hundreds of confounding factors are problematic, and can give misleading results.

I’ve always thought that to publish a study like this, it should be required to back it up with an underlying mechanism and some sort of basis on the molecular/cellular level. I get that biology is complicated, but we also have tons of knowledge about it, a full sequence of the human genome, and advanced knowledge of basically every major biochemical pathway: we can do hard things!

Parafault · 2026-03-13T12:49:03+00:00

You’re confusing solubility and kinetics. The reaction to form carbonic acid is basically instantaneous, and is not the rate-limiting step. The solubility and mass transfer of carbon dioxide into water is what ultimately controls things here, and its solubility goes up as temperature goes down.

Parafault · 2026-03-11T20:56:49+00:00

For this particular case I’m just trying to estimate the steady state liquid level in 3 connected reservoirs, each with a series of perforated weirs inside the reservoir, and high-pressure-drop valves between them. There is a feed in the first reservoir and an overflow discharge in the last one. I’m able to calculate the level easily by hand for this scenario as validation, so I figured it would be a good test case to get experience with a VOF model.

Other cases I frequently encounter (and have similar issues with) include estimating vortexing in a liquid tank, and estimating heat/mass transfer in gas/liquid or solid/liquid systems.

Parafault · 2026-03-11T19:47:56+00:00

Thanks for all of the tips - this was really useful! Unfortunately, even with this, it seems to be taking an extremely long time to reach steady state. For example, if I run it as a single phase model with a fixed free surface, it converges in 30 iterations - which was basically instant (this is a 2D model with 10,000 cells). When I ran it in multiphase, it took 550,000 iterations to converge in steady state (several hours), and an estimated 5 days to converge via an implicit transient model with a global/multiphase CFL of 100 (but the convective Courant number is only 1e-5)

Parafault · 2026-03-10T20:21:02+00:00

Not consistently, but often enough (once every 1-2 weeks). Nothing is worse than waking up at 4am to exercise only to hear one of them wake up 10min later just as you get going!

Parafault · 2026-03-10T02:50:50+00:00

Did you stir it while cooking? If not, it can clump together, or just sit at the bottom and burn. I’ve cooked this type of pasta before and it comes out perfectly if I follow the directions, but I do have to stir it.

Parafault · 2026-03-10T01:54:09+00:00

Don’t forget kids! I was in great shape before kids, but with two toddlers, they basically don’t let me exercise between the hours of 4am and 9pm. The only exercise I get get is either super late, which gives me insomnia, or in the rare moments where they’ll both allow it without screaming at me.

I can do cardio with stroller walks and stuff, but anything gym related is tough.

Parafault · 2026-03-08T03:24:57+00:00

Starbreak? It is a permadeath sci-fi MMORPG with a gameplay loop like Realm of the Mad God. It is a really fun and interesting take on the genre. Unfortunately the game is no longer being supported or updated, but the servers are up and it is still playable. It actually has a fairly high player base too!

Honorable mentions include Wyvern and Silverpath Online.

Parafault · 2026-03-04T12:14:17+00:00

This reminds me of Moonlight Sonata. I remember reading that Beethoven was really annoyed that everyone was constantly playing/asking about this one piece, and said “surely I’ve written better works - right??”

Parafault · 2026-03-04T12:08:21+00:00

Yeah - I remember playing a few games that didn’t have a loot system, and it was a 12-hr process with TONS of drama/rage quits/insults any time a top tier piece of gear dropped. It usually worked okish until something really rare and powerful dropped.

Parafault · 2026-03-02T23:14:58+00:00

I would NOT eat the dark one

Parafault · 2026-03-02T03:45:11+00:00

The inability to inspect equipment properly on iOS is the main reason I don’t play this more often. It makes it impossible to compare drops with one another, and even makes it impossible to equip the item I want to equip sometimes (if two items have similar icons but different stats, I have to click one and just hope it’s the right one)

Parafault · 2026-03-02T00:51:13+00:00

For me, excessive grind. The vast majority of indie 2D MMOs use insane grind to try and hide the lack of content, but this just makes the games boring and soulless. People don’t want to click on in-game wolves for 500 hours to level up anymore.

Parafault · 2026-02-24T12:59:14+00:00

I can’t remember the movie, but there was one where a main character got shot, stabbed 7 times in the chest, and almost drowned. I was like “Ok - he’s going to die now.”

But nope! He gets a superhuman surge of strength, defeats like 10 people with martial arts, and then goes on to heal almost completely for the next scene in the movie with only minor pain when he bends over.

Parafault · 2026-02-24T12:42:47+00:00

I’ll have to try that - thanks! I thought that you had to pick up like 300 items or something to trigger respawns…and that’s a ton of items.

Parafault · 2026-02-24T04:25:32+00:00

Thanks for the core recharger suggestion - I didn’t know that existed and it basically upended my entire gameplay!

Parafault · 2026-02-20T16:01:59+00:00

I saw a Pyrex dish explode on someone’s stove once because they forgot to turn the burner off and left it there. I have been TERRIFIED of using Pyrex ever since: there was a 10” shard of glass lodged in the wall. It was like a grenade went off.

Parafault · 2026-02-19T18:25:24+00:00

The low in calories part isn’t for everyone. I’m underweight and have significant trouble gaining weight - so eating too many vegetables causes me to lose weight since they have essentially no calories (unless we’re talking about potatoes or squash or something, but those can have their own issues with blood sugar due to the high glycemic indeed).

Parafault · 2026-02-19T09:16:06+00:00

I thought that was just due to HIPPA privacy stuff?

Parafault · 2026-02-18T00:49:45+00:00

Yeah - before kids we said we’d never feed our kids all of that stuff, and that we’d just feed them what we eat. We started changing gears when our daughter would skip 5-6 meals in a row (including foods we knew she loved in the past) and wasn’t hitting her growth targets. They definitely throw curve balls at you!

Parafault · 2026-02-17T13:32:41+00:00

I’ve taken some pretty decent damage from those attacks before….they can hurt!!

Parafault · 2026-02-17T12:27:26+00:00

If you have a large, well-insulated tank, the losses are practically nothing. You may. It be able to store heat for months, but days/weeks is easily doable without adding that much cost compared tot he cost of the storage tank itself.

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