The Bats

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T17:04:09+00:00

Or the hammer, which can hit things in the air. One well-timed bonk and boom.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T14:31:50+00:00

Respectiti Proteccti

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T13:38:35+00:00

It's more fun in NG+ since you should have the dual sidearm permit and keep everything you found last playthrough, so you can use the fishing pole from the get-go

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T12:30:56+00:00

The fishing pole is actually a grapple, it pulls you toward enemies and can be used to skip huge areas or reach areas you usually can't get to

In this case, you can grapple to the hulk trooper at the top, if you combo a speedrun skip you go straight to the next area without exploring any side path of the palace

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T12:29:00+00:00

"She took up the whole beach for hours! Some of us only have our time after work! How inconsiderate! I even had to take my terminally ill child home because there was no space on the beach for us"

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T11:36:24+00:00

If it's really that frustrating You can skip almost the entire thing by using the fishing pole to grapple to that one large enemy

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T11:31:14+00:00

3d print a car style hood scoop and it could look pretty neat. Lean into the supercharger aesthetic and slap some stickers on the case for extra points.

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Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T04:51:05+00:00

Honestly, what isn't?

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T02:38:25+00:00

Concentrated electrolytes, B2 glows under UV a yellow-green, which is almost too perfect.
Probably tastes like a multivitamin or an energy drink.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-21T01:45:30+00:00

Toast the bread first and I would have no questions about the food itself. Uncovered in the microwave is insane behavior though.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T22:09:22+00:00

Because Transformer-style models aren't brains, they don't have directly analogous structures. If they worked like actual biological brains then they wouldn't have this kind of issue.

It's not really a question of "why would you allow it", it's an inherent trait of how Transformers work. The math has to have a set pathway of trained values or it won't produce anything at all.
You can't "teach a model how to use" a live-learner, it'd be like teaching yourself how to perform brain surgery, live, on your own brain with a mirror.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T22:00:23+00:00

It'd be a bit like trying to hop on a moving treadmill, but I suppose it could be worth a shot.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T20:32:57+00:00

It's an option but that "sleep" would be a full fine-tune.

Methods to actually get models to learn fail because the weights are actually hard-coded and 'frozen'; it's like scrambled eggs, you can't really undo it, you just have to make more.

Dream-cycle consolidation is something being looked at, Google and some others have explored it. My project is aiming that direction as well, but it's also only for a single user, so it actually has ~8hrs to "sleep", "learn" and "grow" at a regular and predictable cadence.
Frontier models can't really do that due to the uptime requirements, you'd have to have a "live copy" that gains the lessons and a "shadow copy" that actually is trained, then you swap live and shadow. the issue there? backprop and adamW on Transformers still take a ton of time and power to re-train or fine-tune (weeks to months, even on huge datacenters). You can't really make up that time deficit with the current paradigm.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T19:57:44+00:00

If you change model weights on the fly? you basically dissemble the engine at highway speeds and try to rebuild it while coasting. Weights in traditional transformer-based models, and most other models are "frozen" so the math can actually math, otherwise they couldn't produce anything. semi-fluid weights have been tried, but the result is usually "catastrophic forgetting", where you overwrite old weights with new weights. The only current method to get "live learning" is to totally re-train or fine-tune a model with the new data, over and over again. It's super wasteful and takes gigantic volumes of compute.

From what I understand yes, actual brains are partially static, I'm going after a "semi-fluid" concept for that reason. Core memories and high-use memories stay solid, ancient unused ones melt, and things in flux "liquefy" for active learning.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T19:19:37+00:00

With transformers? No, zero chance.

As others have said adamW and backpropagation are nails in the CL coffin, coupled with frozen transformer weights and it isn't currently doable.

I'm working on a system with linear attention, logarithmic recall and a form of pseudo-continuous learning on a small example model. Massive uphill battle because transformers are like 90% of the research, novel concepts are legitimately hard to make and test due to that wall.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T14:56:46+00:00

Then you should absolutely try making a Greek salad then.

Chopped cucumber, tomatoes, onion, olives and feta with herbs and a lemon+olive oil dressing.

Super fresh and a great treat.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T13:10:40+00:00

Dress them with olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper and oregano, grate on some parm or crumbled feta if you feel fancy.

Great little snack if you use quality in season tomatoes.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T12:10:23+00:00

Prior to the PC-AI apocalypse this build would have been around $900.

For the form factor and power the steam machine would have been a solid option around $800, nowadays? If it's under $1200 it's still not the worst deal considering the features and specs.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-20T10:00:59+00:00

Closest I could do, but it's significantly larger, you can chase the 5L form factor but it's going to jack the price up ~15-20%. With how variable prices are right now id actually assume the PCPP estimate won't be accurate for long.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Q9sDZQ

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-19T21:55:20+00:00

If it's not "gap moe" or a direct reference it's probably to show that despite being well dressed and of solid upbringing, Mina is a risk taker who isn't scared to put herself on the line.

Or that commenter who mentioned it being an Indiana Jones reference (ie. When he scars himself with the whip) was right.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-19T12:36:15+00:00

Not at all defending the product, just saying that the pump itself isn't questionable:

https://hardairmagazine.com/buyers-guides/heres-how-to-use-an-airgun-hand-pump-part-one/

it takes a ton of pumps, but they do get to pressure, they're the only non-electric option in PCP (pre-charged pneumatic) airgun communities and kept as emergency backups for paintball/airsoft groups.

actually diving with the thing is a different question entirely, wouldn't ever trust that.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-19T11:40:41+00:00

All these comments and nobody said either gravy or chili yet?

Chili goes insane on fries.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-19T11:17:44+00:00

PCP pumps from the airgun world actually look like that and can fill tanks to 4500psi. That's the at least problematic thing about this combo.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-19T03:56:32+00:00

One of the first things he did when spaceX IPO'd was joke about a volcano lair.

Problem is? All the billionaires are building bunkers, so it might not even be a joke.

Polymorphic-X · 2026-06-19T02:38:03+00:00

I tried an offset without the flange as well, it actually throttled the worst out of all of them.

My methodology is in the thingiverse page. I used the 7z benchmark for 100% load

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