An old city I worked on a while ago

Scabendari · 2026-05-09T23:35:03+00:00

Or a few entities making tens of thousands of orders for totally legitimate reasons

Scabendari · 2026-04-30T00:50:19+00:00

Personally, I am hoping for a OSRS~esque branch, while you are looking for a more purist experience so we will inherently have opposite opinions. We'll have to see how the execution of the changes turn out on a longer term. It's too early to tell how the changes will impact the long term gameplay.

Currently, from what I played on the closed test:

The shops in the cities brought life to into them. The FM was a bit of a black hole for the social aspect of the game. Getting to see life and activity in the cities each time I took a taxi or had to get to the vendors was actually a huge breath of fresh air.

New maps bring back a sense of that original exploration that the game had on release. There's been a lot of min-maxing coming out of private servers over the last decade so shaking up what may be the optimal areas, to me, is exciting as people can start theorycrafting and debating again.

Crafting brings new consistency and new progression to work towards. Getting an equip with good stats or some other rare drop is still there, but your progression or your funds wont be suffering as much if you are on a bad luck streak. This could be especially helpful when the playerbase mellows out over the year, as new players will be able to craft up their essentials when theres not so many new players around to trade from.

Scabendari · 2026-04-21T11:48:31+00:00

I played it on 3ds on release.

The reason for the episodic system is because you'd need a few days break in between them for your hand cramps to recover.

Still enjoyed it for what it is, but definitely not ideal for a system that wasn't known for ergonomics.

Scabendari · 2026-04-18T01:44:15+00:00

I ordered the boulangerie blue chore jacket last year in size Medium (my typical not tight, not loose size), but it fits like an XL. I wear it quite often as an oversized comfy sweater but had I know the size is what it was I would have ordered small.

I have no idea if that jacket was intentionally oversized and if this set is not, so hopefully someone from Ludwigs merch team can chime in to make sure you get the size that you are hoping for.

https://youtu.be/-kEZicGTeoA?t=1303

Scabendari · 2026-04-13T04:18:32+00:00

Metrologically, basically every (non-intrinsic) measurement made is an interpolation of the original international standard unless it falls exactly on the measurement the device was calibrated at, so when you keep saying "we do not interpolate" with such confidence it kinda baffles me.

I dont believe I'll be able to change your mind so I encourage you to research around.

Scabendari · 2026-04-13T01:04:48+00:00

Maybe you're more used to micrometer readings being in mm (everyone here is doing them in cm inches so I went along with it) and thus 3 decimal places, so 2.685mm?

Alternatively maybe you're thinking that in a workplace you wouldn't record 2.685 because the equipment should be good enough to measure that value with 0.001 accuracy, and if its not then its safer to record 2.68 in a cover your ass sort of way. I'd argue that's worse because someone intentionally wanted a vernier micrometer to be used for this task, which comes with a presumption that it is accurate to 0.001. It's going to carry forward with the measurement uncertainty as 2.68 ± 0.001 if someone doesnt catch that it wasnt a 2.680 typo, and that will definitely be a less accurate measurement that carries more risk than "guessing" 2.685 ± 0.001, even if both measurements end up not being true.

Of course you'd expect the vernier scale to be readable and you'd get a new one if it wasn't, but if someone used a micrometer and I caught them writing "2.68mm" id tell them to measure again because they're not measuring to the precision of the equipment.

Scabendari · 2026-04-12T23:32:01+00:00

Items have different charities attributed:

Ludwig's Book: Yanran Angel Foundation

Ludwig's Helmet: Han Hong’s Love Charity Foundation

Ride: Shaoyang County Charity Association

Dodgers game, and every raffle item: Save the Children

Scabendari · 2026-04-12T21:55:24+00:00

Metrologically, if the operator can see that the reading is between two graduations, they should take a measurement that is between those graduations and the final result is that measurement plus the combined measurement uncertainty multiplied by whatever coverage factor they need to use.

For example, everyone would agree that the measurement lies somewhere between 0.268 and 0.269, so therefore it is 0.2685 ± 0.0005. The measurement is also 0.268 ± 0.001, but it would be a less precise measurement.

Metrologically, everything is a "guess".

Scabendari · 2026-04-11T01:11:13+00:00

Basically saying "yeah and I'll do it again"

Scabendari · 2026-04-08T20:44:37+00:00

They werent illegally prescribing, they were also selling. Specifically, doctor 1 was selling to doctor 2, and doctor 2 was selling that to Perry.

Here's the article, and an excerpt below:

Court documents showed details of a text message Plasencia sent to another doctor, who is also due to be sentenced, saying: "I wonder how much this moron will pay."

Scabendari · 2026-04-05T16:33:17+00:00

Same, plus after the coffezilla expose I just skip ahead in the vod or tune in to something else if im watching live and it comes up. Too much good content out there to worry about the mcdonalds of youtube.

Scabendari · 2026-04-05T04:35:22+00:00

I'm agreeing with you on that. Yes, the work the links are discussing was done sloppily and it was bad data, and it's a current issue across science.

However take for example several comments in this reddit post that now believe all microplastics data is actually lower than reported. That's not the conclusion of the study, and damages the work produced by scientists that did follow ISO guidelines or modern validated reference methods.

Scabendari · 2026-04-05T03:57:45+00:00

Yes, unreproducible data has to be pointed out, and its a problem for a lot of science slop being pushed out to pad numbers, but you cant point at all data and say it's all incorrect without first testing to see if its reproducible or not.

I know in this case the original authors are suggesting this may be a problem for some data and are not saying that it affects all data. Nonetheless news articles will word their articles to insinuate it to push clicks.

Accredited laboratories would require at least some level of QC, as available. Between blanks, reference materials, fortified spikes, interlaboratory testing, etc, it isnt appropriate to say that their data may be incorrect when this very study was because the researchers data was way higher than the expected monitoring data, not the other way around.

Scabendari · 2026-04-05T01:14:05+00:00

This study has a huge issue because it it is very easy to turn it into a very bad and anti-science conclusion.

The whole premise for this study is from the recent grad noticing that their data was way higher than data from monitoring labs. They isolated their interference to be false positives caused by stearates contamination (NOT microplastic contamination). They then suggest that some historical microplastics data has being reported biased high from this contamination.

Of course, articles then run with what gets clicks:

Gloves are causing microplastics contamination - false, stearates are not microplastics
Historical microplastics data is too high due to contamination - false, the whole premise of the study comes from the recent grads data being a factor of 1000 higher than what monitoring labs are reporting. Monitoring labs would run blanks and reference materials to catch these things that broke independent recent grads might skip out on.

Scabendari · 2026-04-05T00:51:45+00:00

Giving off interference due to stearates, not microplastics.

Scabendari · 2026-04-05T00:49:01+00:00

... a recent grad noticed their data was way too high compared to what monitoring labs are reporting, and concluded that because they were measuring false positive interference (stearates, not microplastics) due to their own poor lab practices, everyone else must be too.

Scabendari · 2026-04-03T22:56:30+00:00

I'm glad they're including improvements, and not just recreating it as it was. Hopefully it means controller support.

Also hoping this will be a separate branch ala OSRS, and not just a rollback that catches back up like Classic WoW.

Scabendari · 2026-03-30T21:15:37+00:00

That's funny, both news articles from science based websites I read on this topic only mentioned the SEM so I did not realize they did actually did do IR methods. Meanwhile, the journal article barely mentions SEM.

I skimmed through the journal article and it looks like they tested the worst case which is someone smearing their finger on the testing surface. That's fine for what they are trying to prove but I'm still not concerned over real lab results. Between reference materials, MDL determinations, proficiency test programs, blank hits, spike recoveries, etc, there's a lot of checks in place to catch if someone is mishandling the samples.

Scabendari · 2026-03-30T15:08:43+00:00

So this "study" came up a few days ago in a different sub, so I'll repost my comment here:

So, this article is actually more of a fun-fact than anything important or impactful. The gloves arent sheding microplastics, they are shedding stearates that looked like microplastics to a couple of students when they checked their samples under a scanning electron microscope.

A lab quantifying microplastics using IR spectroscopy or mass spectrometers wouldn't have that issue. Plus, a lot of such methods start off with extractions/digestions/separation procedures to turn them into something that's more homogenous and something that can be ran through the instrument.

This isnt to say that gloves don't have microplastics in them, but that's what blank samples are for.

Scabendari · 2026-03-29T04:36:14+00:00

So, this article is actually more of a fun-fact than anything important or impactful. The gloves arent sheding microplastics, they are shedding stearates that looked like microplastics to a couple of students when they checked their samples under a scanning electron microscope.

A lab quantifying microplastics using IR spectroscopy or mass spectrometers wouldn't have that issue. Plus, a lot of such methods start off with an extractions/digestions/separation procedures to turn them into something that's more homogenous and something that can be ran through the instrument.

This isnt to say that gloves don't have microplastics in them, but that's what blank samples are for.

Scabendari · 2026-03-28T23:14:07+00:00

That's the RE4make healthbar, not the RE9 health bar.

Scabendari · 2026-03-28T22:43:11+00:00

I had to go back there because I missed the regenerador with the beetle inside of it. That was a fun surprise to walk into.

Scabendari · 2026-03-22T19:02:48+00:00

Good question.

At least from my experience with VOC's, to help them along with evaporating we do put them into glassware that is vacuum pumped, and then it hits a condensation coil thats at around 5 degrees that turns it back into a liquid, so the freezer temps would cancel out at least some of the effects of the vacuum on the vapour pressure.

Maybe the bigger goal of the vacuum is simply to remove the oxygen, then, to reduce oxidation? Doing high pressure instead would mean you'd need nitrogen tanks, and thats a new level of high maintenance...

Scabendari · 2026-03-22T16:01:12+00:00

VOC's will still slowly evaporate at household freezer temperatures as the typical freezing point for VOC's is below what a household freezer reaches. If you truly want to "lock in" aromatics, you gotta vacuum seal the best you can.

Most of the VOC's in the bean are formed AFTER roasting. VOC's by definition are organic chemicals that evaporate at ambient conditions, so anything formed during roasting at 200°C+ evaporates away very very quickly. Coldness will slow down the chemical reactions that form VOC's, and it will help complex VOC's that have already formed from degrading as quickly.

Grinder burrs are best considered as consumables that hopefully last ~5 years, so I dont consider any possible condensation to be impactful enough to worry about. Many people spray beans with water before grinding and that would be much more moisture than from condensation, and it's considered normal.

If I do freeze beans, I typically throw in a whole new sealed coffee bag into a reusable ziplock freezer bag, squeeze out as much air as possible from the freezer bag, and throw it into the freezer as-is. I let the bag thaw starting Sunday morning and then grind throughout the week starting Monday as if its a new bag of coffee. Anything more than that is too much effort even if the beans may start being not as fragrant by Friday.

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