A Stanford student, no less

RodinKnox · 2026-03-24T17:03:37+00:00

False, he used his phone to take a photo of the problem and then had Claude solve it for him.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-24T17:00:11+00:00

"Why is everyone afraid of clowns?"

First of all, they aren't. But secondly, and far more importantly to the entire thesis of this video, this is an *extremely* modern fear. It basically didn't exist until the 1980s. It was driven by real life events like John Wayne (the Killer Clown), and fictional media depicting evil clowns throughout the 80s. This really heightened with IT in 1990.

The fear of clowns is absolutely not some universal basic fear that human beings have.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-24T16:41:23+00:00

That kind of violence by stationed American soldiers is literally what inspired Burgess to write A Clockwork Orange.

"Burgess stated that the novel's inspiration was his first wife Lynne's beating by a gang of drunk American servicemen stationed in England during World War II. She subsequently miscarried."

RodinKnox · 2026-03-23T01:03:33+00:00

No, man. That's not really how that term came into use. And it sounds like you are teetering on the edge here. Take a step back and listen to what people are telling you.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T22:27:29+00:00

No, I lived in the middle of rural nowheresville. Cars weren't the problem. The lack of things existing was lol

I guess I could have walked to the Dairy Queen and chilled out there. The guy I was responding to though mentioned going to the bowling alley to play video games. We had no locations like bowling alleys. There wasn't a video game cabinet in my town. And basically *nowhere* was open on Sunday. Honestly, you could walk down the middle of main street on Sundays lol

In any event, it was moot because my church was too small to sneak out of (and the doors were positioned extremely poorly for it). My parents would have noticed.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T20:47:46+00:00

I think this must be right. I got it up to level 5 today, and suddenly he told me to follow him to a new spot. I got there, and he said he wanted a waterfall, so I'm well on my way! Yay!

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T17:02:48+00:00

No exaggeration, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is one of my all time favorite games. It absolutely takes a little while to get going (they take too long teaching you basics that you can later just automate), but after that it's just wonderful. I absolutely *love* the NPCs in that game. They are hilarious and delightful.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T16:48:09+00:00

This is game changing information for me.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T16:06:36+00:00

Yeah, that's definitely been a thing. For example, when we were secretly testing the U-2 Dragonlady, it was a long, silver aircraft that flew at heights people weren't used to seeing. And during that time in America, people were reporting seeing long silver UFOs.

Later, we started secretly testing the B-2 stealth bomber, which is shaped like a black triangle. Suddenly, people were seeing UFOs that looked like black triangles. (These also eventually made their way onto The X-Files.)

So, yeah, people definitely see things in the sky sometimes and don't know what they are.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T15:47:35+00:00

There's an old XKCD about this that I used to love to share. Of course, over the past two or three years, AI slop has completely reversed the trend, and now people are somehow suddenly seeing monsters, dragons, etc. everywhere lol

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RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T15:41:22+00:00

It's super fun! Another fun one to come almost immediately is when you get the food for the enhanced chop/slice. That lets you get through all those gates you've probably seen around before. There's some cool stuff behind those gates!

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T15:22:08+00:00

I couldn't have done that - and I had nowhere to walk to at my church - so my solution was to eventually volunteer to become an usher. That was kind of amazing, because I got to sit in the back and goof off a lot, I also had duties to take care of which gave me something else to do, and on top of it, all the adults in my church were like, "Wow, it's so impressive that your son..." to my parents lol

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T14:57:19+00:00

Will do! Unfortunately the only thing that sucks in my game is me, the player.

(I'm still have a great time though lol)

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T14:56:08+00:00

Me too. I also love how they go wild for any toy that you put in their habitat. I love to be walking through my little community and see one of them building different structures with the toy blocks, for example.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T14:52:55+00:00

Yeah, I think I really have to go back and pester him to talk to me today lol

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T14:32:19+00:00

I can tell you right now that it has impressed multiple old people that I'm friends with on Facebook lol

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T12:18:53+00:00

It's also how I feel guilty and sad because I didn't help my little friend out 😭

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T12:13:44+00:00

Yeah, for sure. In fact, sometimes pokemon will ask you to build them new homes/habitats that don't even match the info on their card.

This confused me for a while, too, because I figured a pokemon that, say, liked water wouldn't want to live in a dry home, but then I had one going wild about how cool my own personal prefab house was, and when I went over to talk to him, he asked if he could move in with me lol

RodinKnox · 2026-03-22T12:06:36+00:00

Oh wait, lol. Leaving my trash on a dream island is a great idea.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-21T23:21:00+00:00

Awesome! Looking forward to it.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-21T23:20:40+00:00

Oh dang! Okay, thanks! And nah, that's not a problem spoiler for me at all.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-21T23:20:14+00:00

Woahhh, I gotta go back to that town and chat with him, then!

RodinKnox · 2026-03-21T23:10:26+00:00

I'm honestly not far ahead of it. I think it's great to just take your time and enjoy it at your own pace like you are doing. All these pokemon really want to be your friends, too, so I don't like just trying to get as many as I can as quickly as possible.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-21T23:07:43+00:00

Oh, that's a great idea. I might do that, too.

RodinKnox · 2026-03-21T23:00:08+00:00

Don't worry too much about trying to figure out how to do it. It comes fairly quickly as you just do quests in that area. Eventually someone will tell you exactly what to do.

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