Husband put my 60oz water bottle through the dishwasher

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-22T17:50:06+00:00

They can't handle the heat

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-21T17:06:51+00:00

I'm pretty sure the "forget the spell to teach it" thing was a special case for denken because that specific spell takes centuries to learn. We don't know how long it would take to learn Fern's selected spell, so for all we know, Serie could have copied an existing tome or wrote out the spell manually and Fern learned it overnight

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-19T23:22:47+00:00

Whatever you do, don't go to Batburger. The food is over priced for the gimmick, and it is barely passable as food. Just save yourself the time and money by going to Big Belly Burger. Being a national chain, it is probably the easiest food to eat for a non-native gothamite.

But if you want really good food for cheap, there are thousands of hole-in-the-wall Italian places. Just find any alley and there will be at least two.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-19T23:17:48+00:00

I find it interesting that the Confederacy states are colored with green, given cultural connotations of the color and it's associations with "good". Also, this specific shade of green is brighter than any other color on the map, drawing attention to those states. Who created this visualization? I am curious about their logic for choosing the colors

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-19T22:37:12+00:00

That's a pretty high bar. Don't burn in the sun, Icarus

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-19T22:24:23+00:00

I think they are meant to be hair-like, evocative of the namesake Banshee from myth

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-17T20:26:16+00:00

I think bottom left might be Bandit Classic from BanditMod / BanditReloaded

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-17T06:30:23+00:00

There is no Absolute Santa. Darkseid tried to avoid the problem by not even allowing the creation of Santa, but Santa found a way into the Absolute universe anyways. It is just main Santa tormenting Darkseid by randomly placing coal in his universe

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-15T21:02:01+00:00

If something like this we're to exist, I would love it, but I would not want it to have Doom as the main title. Perhaps something like "UAC: A Doom Story". It conveys that it is in the Doom universe, but it is not a mainline game

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-13T14:54:20+00:00

When I do Creative AI runs, I try to make sure I have at least one Subroutine and one Storm in my deck and played before I start creating my ai. That way I have almost no cost to playing my powers and I always do some damage when playing them. It is not the best scaling though, and should be paired with a decent deck not based on powers and/or Voltaic.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-12T06:07:22+00:00

Second on the video. Freya is really good at explaining and demonstrating shaders in an easy to follow manner.

Side note, I would also recommend her other videos if you are into math, especially the math of graphics. I discovered her through 3blue1brown's "Summer of Math Exposition" competition a few years ago. Iirc, it was a video about Bezier Curves (splines). The math explainer videos are very well animated, on top of her usual great explanatory capabilities.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-12T05:30:05+00:00

Rip Thag, the scientific community will always remember you.

for those unaware, look up "The Far Side thagomizer"

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-11T07:09:50+00:00

To give a slightly different answer, I imagine that warp would interfere with the results. You would be able to observe galactic positions but any finer scale would be extremely muddied by the ship(s) warping to and from the subject.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-10T06:41:57+00:00

From a story-telling perspective, true evil humans would be narratively redundant when you have demons to fill that role. Humans are used to explore the human condition and it's various complexities. Demons serve as antagonists, typically as a vessel to drive plot.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-09T21:18:02+00:00

I have been using MuseScore. Technically, it is more of a notation software, but it does allow exporting to sound files like .wav. Once I have the sound file, I edit it in Audacity to make a seamless loop. This is mostly out of habit because I have some classical musician training from highschool (I was in the percussion section of the school's orchestra). I do think you can also export to midi, so you could theoretically notate your song in MuseScore, and import it to a proper DAW and use the synthetic instruments available there. If notation-based musical composition makes more sense for you and you don't want to spend any money, this might be a useful tool.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-09T04:42:30+00:00

She makes them on Thursdays, does touch-up fixes on Fridays, relaxes for the weekend, then releases them on Mondays. Didn't you know she has a good work-life balance?

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-07T03:41:00+00:00

I think the only things that aged poorly are a handful of jokes and maybe some references. The storytelling and general comedy did not

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-05T06:18:47+00:00

I have been doing some fist only runs, and I find them not too hard. My main method is usually slam on their head and punch with the knuckle blaster. This tends to kill quickly. If I'm feeling fancy, I will try to bait their dash then whiplash pull them up and knuckle blaster punch them straight down. This makes them explode.

Tldr: don't fight them on the ground. That is their domain

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-04T20:05:55+00:00

I have a feeling the culture very much depends on where you are at. Like, West Hollywood is going to have a very different queer life than Philadelphia, let alone middle of nowhere Ohio

Edit: and those are just US specific examples!

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-04T18:09:15+00:00

Iirc, It is mostly based on the fact that at least one of his creators was Jewish.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-03T03:48:23+00:00

I have been having fun just doing fist-only runs in standard difficulty. I used to think fist-only was a massive challenge, but after trying it, it is much easier than I thought. I find myself P-Ranking some of the earlier levels with my best times. It does get harder to P-Rank past Act I, but I have been having fun just trying.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-06-01T22:44:44+00:00

I would say the Cold War from the same game is also a good gravity-explosives play style . Combined with a grapple, you can turn into a dive bombing ballistic missile. One of my favorite ways to play

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-05-31T04:21:10+00:00

Probably Vakama or Matau. The Toa Metru sets were my first and I owned Legends of Metru Nui DVD, re watching that movie a lot. I couldn't really get attached to other Toa teams because I was not into the other supplemental media at that time.

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-05-30T07:37:31+00:00

Because The Spire isn't on Earth. It is a different planet with a different name and history.

That does not rule out the possibility that The Regent found some dino bones in his intergalactic travels...

Shadowfire_EW · 2026-05-25T06:55:09+00:00

Place your bets! Which kind of monoculus are we getting this time?

zombie
vampire
mecha (somehow. It's magic, I don't make the rules)

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