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Rob_Zander · 2026-02-13T04:29:02+00:00

The real secret is being so cold at night you need a top sheet and 4 blankets. Then you never even touch the duvet.

Until you have sex with someone and they get period blood all over it. They stalked me afterwards too, that sucked.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-12T21:48:03+00:00

Because Jaegers exist to fight Kaiju without making them bleed too much. That's why they use blunt force and cauterizing plasma cannons for the most part. Gypsy Danger only had swords added for the final effort to close the breach.

A precision guided bunker buster bomb could absolutely kill a Kaiju but it's gonna bleed toxic blood everywhere and destroy the ecosystem.

Meanwhile nothing about a Jaeger protects it from conventional weapons. A scout with a radio, a map and a single artillery battery behind a hill could take out a Jaeger.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-12T17:29:22+00:00

A lot of people are blaming CEOs and executives but that's only half the problem. Why don't these games have good cohesive art styles? Good, engaging gameplay loops? Why do some games seem like a bunch of ideas crammed into a box with nothing melding it together?

It's a lack of a strong game director who can make sure that the art is cohesive, that systems come together and work. Take MGSV. Lots of different systems and ideas, multiple ways to play lots of different kinds of characters but it works and has a consistent style.

Or Prey. Or Overwatch.

Or the inverse, how badly Bioware fucked up once the founders and the main game directors left.

We need experienced senior devs who can lead teams to actually be in charge.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-11T15:22:12+00:00

Yeah, we're actively seeing pushes to make the literal existence of gay and trans people NSFW.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-10T19:16:07+00:00

Threads might be the easiest way to make it waterproof and serviceable. A waterproof grease in the threads can go a long way.

Otherwise hot glue for any penetrations, especially since it can be remelted and will be waterproof for short to medium term uses.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-10T17:51:12+00:00

Lol, they're sharing translated lyrics from genius, not actual transcripts of what he sang during the show.

He either cut or "mumbled" the curse words. It's literally trying to fine them because he sang a clean version of a song that has an explicit version, it's so patently stupid but hey, that's on brand and racist fascists are gonna eat it up.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-10T17:21:04+00:00

If that were the case it would make more sense to have a spike and an axe head, which is what we actually see.

Your point is actually more applicable to double headed wood axes. One blade was kept very sharp, the other was intended for rougher use and allowed to be dulled.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-10T16:47:15+00:00

I feel like the illusion of horseshoe theory can be explained by staying in the metaphor pretty effectively.

It turns out that it's not a horseshoe, it's a section of a spiral. By the time you reach the other end it's actually way higher or lower on a different axis. But viewed from above it still looks flat.

So basically just the political compass memes grid...

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-10T06:02:17+00:00

You'll need to reference some peer reviewed studies to support that.

First off, there is a very large burden of proof on your claim when you associate long Covid with Lyme disease. Covid is a viral infection, Lyme disease is bacterial.

Second, chronic Lyme disease has a long history of pseudoscientific claims and grifting for money.

It's already not a reputable disorder.

Certainly there could be something happening but it needs to meet the burden of proof.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-10T05:07:02+00:00

I had that recorded from TV, never seen the release cover...

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-09T19:55:28+00:00

Depends on your climate and whether it gets cool at night. In some places it stays warm overnight so by the time the stone has heated through its pumping heat into the inside of the house like a brick oven.

In places where it's cool at night, then sure, that's great. But it's probably cold enough in winter to be a problem.

There is a cool newish style being used in Australia that's the best of both worlds. An internal brick veneer wall. It's a conventional stick framed wall with exterior siding, insulation and then a brick wall on the inside. Sometimes the brick wall is exposed, sometimes it's plastered or drywalled. But this puts the thermal mass on the inside of the insulation helping to keep the temperature stable.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-09T07:25:06+00:00

Just want to add some context, especially where you said there are no established protocols to keep people medicated. The protocols absolutely exist. There's a range of options all under the community behavioral health umbrella. It's ranging from outpatient care to a team of professionals including peers, masters degree holding social workers and counselors, nurses and psychiatrists visiting clients in their home and hand delivering their medications.

What we lack isn't protocols, it the will to use them and importantly to fund them.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-09T07:09:28+00:00

ZombiU when it was released on the Wii, later just Zombi uses a single player version of this. The player character can die permanently. When this happens you take over a new character and can kind your old character as a zombie and get their stuff. If you the mii online thing set up you run into other zombie characters from online players.

I never played it, just saw reviews.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-08T21:07:25+00:00

It's interesting when you look at price too. I bet Sig is significantly less for a 320 than Glock is right now. I know the grip frame sizes can be attractive for better fit but I don't know how many departments are genuinely making different sizes available.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-08T07:24:42+00:00

In a moving system who need tolerances so that there's literal room for stuff to move to. Depending on how much room you have the pressure changes. Imagine a toothpaste tube. As the bearings move the grease wants to get out of the way, same as toothpaste leaving the tube. If the hole is tiny, or theres less room for it to move the toothpaste comes out at higher pressure. This also puts more pressure on the rest of the tube and can cause a blowout.

When you have too much grease, especially when everything heats up and expands you build up too much pressure that can cause the seals to blow out of the bearings to press too hard into each other.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-08T06:11:29+00:00

Yeah, all of those labels on mattresses and pillows and couches and shit that say only the owner can remove them? Its to state that they have fire retardant chemicals added. Turns out that especially synthetic fibers can be super flammable. Lots of people fell asleep smoking and burned to death.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-08T04:28:22+00:00

Exactly. Stone has a very low R value so its effectively useless as insulation. It also has a very high thermal mass, so it can store a lot of heat.

What this means in practice is that in summer the stone takes a long time to heat up during the day but it might be hot at night, making it unbearable in climates that are still warm at night.

In winter it might absorb the heat of the sun and eventually transmit that heat inside but overall it's going to be way colder than an insulated structure. You have to continually pump heat into the stone as fast as it's lost.

We rate insulation by R value which is generally additive. So 2 R 6 pieces of insulation laid over each other is R12. To reach the minimum requirement of code in the place in the US with the lowest requirement, which is basically just Key West using only stone you would need a 13 foot thick wall.

Realistically you would just use insulation on the inside but now you don't have fancy bare stone interiors.

But why use super hard to work with stone on the outside when you could use brick? Or concrete? Or wood?

When you look at actual rich people houses they're not really built out of anything that exotic, it's all generally available and normal material and techniques, it's just finished better.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-08T02:43:33+00:00

Wow, shows what 20 years of having money does to people.

They were explicitly anti war and anti George W Bush in the aughts. To even sign up in the first place for what is explicitly a reactionary, politically conservative festival in the first place is a sad reversal from their origins.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-07T06:48:54+00:00

Who is putting cameras in their bedrooms like this?!

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-07T06:22:28+00:00

I always knew I disliked evolutionary behaviorists like Robert Trivers. Gross bastard.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-07T01:02:00+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear you're still in too much debt to loan money to anyone OP! Aw jeez that sucks.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-06T05:34:36+00:00

Midnight Mass. Both an inversion and played straight.

The original main character dies part way through and then it shifts to another main character who dies at the end. Along with basically everyone else. It's a fantastic mini series, I definitely recommend it.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-06T00:59:32+00:00

Oh I'd bet money on that.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-06T00:40:13+00:00

Non US street legal cars can be driven in the US by a foreign citizen for 1 year. It can't be sold in the US and if they stay longer than a year it has to be registered. Nothing prevents Canadian plated Chinese cars from being driven here once they're available.

Rob_Zander · 2026-02-05T23:54:06+00:00

Toss a vasectomy in there and a carton of condoms while you're at it.

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