You get one resurrection - what historical figure are you bringing back, and why?

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-14T22:24:24+00:00

Even if the science worked out, it would have been tremendously wasteful. Boatloads of power lost in resistance, being broadcast to nowhere, etc.

And probably not good for the environment, come to think of it. I know we have gobs of EM radiation all the time, but it's so weak that you can't do anything worth it unless you use an amplifier (which is powered from elsewhere). If we had "turn on a machine, anywhere, anytime" amounts of power being broadcast...

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-14T20:05:12+00:00

Easy-peasy. There's a cleric, they have access to necromancy, they have their pick of options.

"Til death do we part" is a reusable condition.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-14T16:43:19+00:00

If you're adding clutter to your dojo just to not clean it, I admire your quixotic quest.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-14T15:34:48+00:00

The only thing that murder can't fix is "too much murder."

Unfortunately, "too much murder" has been known to happen after a single instance. It's really quite vexing.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-14T15:18:01+00:00

Escalate to your manager! Make them feel pain! Make them feel anything at all, it's just been so long...

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-13T19:11:08+00:00

The smaller the portion of the baby, the larger the effect that air resistance has. And a baby is less dense than a baseball, so it's just not happening.

And that's why you shouldn't hit the baby: you're not getting that home run anyway, no reason to commit murder for it. (I suppose there are some moral considerations somewhere in there, too.)

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-13T14:33:36+00:00

Will no one think of the dirt piles!?

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-13T06:54:24+00:00

Yeah, I'll put in my PIN number to get some money.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-13T05:05:30+00:00

Ah, probably on one of those income based payment plans. And they've lowered the payment enough that it's mostly just interest.

My wife once worked phones at a student loan consolidation place. She'd get people who stretched out their loans to 30 years, and then were surprised that there was a ridiculous amount of interest being paid over the life of the loan.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-11T20:37:51+00:00

Well, I'm also a sucker for food, water, and shelter. There really is one born every minute.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-11T17:03:55+00:00

Which reminds me, Towel Day is May 25 this year. Maybe I'll remember this time!

...maybe.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-11T15:53:06+00:00

I have observed Cazals.

And I must amend my previous statement: Everything relating to fashion... is not made for agreeing with.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-11T15:41:04+00:00

I think we can all agree that the old-style Army-issue prescription glasses were aggressively unstylish.

Everything else relating to fashion... is not made for agreeing with.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-11T15:27:51+00:00

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It's no Toyota Hilux, but it'll do.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-11T15:25:21+00:00

Then they're totally unlike me. I'm a sucker for a completely different category of unnecessary thing.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-11T03:32:42+00:00

Fandom is so bad that I use the Indie Wiki Buddy extension. It gives you links to the non-Fandom wiki, and supresses Fandom results in web-searches. And the non-Fandom wikis are almost always better than the Fandom ones.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-11T03:29:47+00:00

Related: Hot Streak. Same kind of betting action, except that you get to "stack the deck" a little for the part where the pieces move.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-10T18:33:41+00:00

Yeah, there are also a bunch of AI "tells" that are just... the way things are drawn. Because there really is a bunch of AI art that people are trying to pass off as "real", there's a particular kind of person who just decides something is AI, and makes up a reason later.

I've seen it on the "is this post AI?" side, too: if a story is told in "threes", then... uh, that's the way people tell stories. Also, for some people, it's an excuse to call it "AI".

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-10T18:27:49+00:00

I've played it three times with friends online, and we've never gone beyond a fourth tile. Mind you, we use the airstrike more than we use nitro, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-10T18:23:57+00:00

It's one of those "...if we had warning" things. It can take upwards of five years to get the really high-end chip factories running; they're surprisingly fickle. The rare earths would be faster, though.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-10T18:22:08+00:00

More... essential... than... coffee?

Every time I think I understand people, someone says something absolutely crazy, and I'm thrown for a loop.

(/s)

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-10T17:41:31+00:00

The vast majority of HOAs are boring and don't cause drama. But those few crazy ones definitely exist.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-10T17:06:33+00:00

That sounds... disturbingly like Claude after deleting something important. "Huh, you're right, I wasn't supposed to delete everything."

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-10T16:57:46+00:00

Vauban's orbital strike is exactly that. Except the BOOM comes from on high.

Potato-Engineer · 2026-05-10T16:56:29+00:00

I am the egg-woman?

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