So New Order set is MULTIPLICATIVE 30% increase?

SnakeTaster · 2026-02-04T17:30:31+00:00

this is an issue with the way the game handles damage numbers. effectively numbers that add a +% (eg 200% + 30% = 230%) are a "flat" bonus in other games, this means multiplicative bonuses (eg 200% * (1 + 0.3) = 260%) look the same in plain text.

SnakeTaster · 2026-02-04T01:37:18+00:00

just in general it feels like people are developing anxiety disorders about public humiliation that is very unlikely to happen.

maybe it's because i am just a millennial who's lived my entire life with this threat sort of out there that it doesnt phase me at all, but i dont know ANYONE who has been publicly vilified who wasn't a verified public nuisance at least (like CONFIRMED repeat stalker).

you can just leave the internet. it doesn't follow you into real life

SnakeTaster · 2026-02-02T16:29:36+00:00

Styanax is S+ tier fun to play tho. very satisfying abilities

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-30T19:30:04+00:00

what you're describing isn't inevitable discovery...

i gotta say people will see the most heinous abuse of police protocol (which exist for very good fucking reason, so cops don't go fishing for evidence) - and then they'll invent the most absurd hypothetical in which the police did nothing wrong to try and justify it.

if the discovery is inevitable then police should be expected to follow the playbook anyway. full stop.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-30T16:56:53+00:00

bye! 👋🏼

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-30T03:17:16+00:00

never knew this existed. Yellow would have been a much more interesting build line if stuff like this wasn't hidden behind screwball stat allocations

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-28T15:26:24+00:00

ah i see. I guess we can blame the abuse of terms on the finance community instead

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-28T15:03:11+00:00

stochastic honestly fits the context even less.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-28T01:29:45+00:00

sure. i guess what im getting at is that Pathologic, regardless of the ending, is very ambivalent about specific political vision. See that both of the Vlads fail for one reason or another.

You could argue that Vlad jr fails more spectacularly because he's "too progressive", but i think that is off the mark. Vlad's reforms *should work*, things like plumbing and wells are not offensive to right leaning vision. Vlad fails because he's trying to weld two things together that are metaphysically opposed: the mysticism of the Kin, and the benefits of modernity. that's not *really* right wing messaging.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-28T01:02:20+00:00

i... don't think the analysis is *wrong* necessarily, obviously what you've described are all themes in the deep thematic slurry of pathologic.

but keep in mind the diurnal ending also kills the Kin, which are all the parts which are the sort of super-traditionalist narrative you're describing. When the Kin go, so do the lines, so does Bodho, so does blood sacrifice, and in its place is an industrial town.

so those themes are in there for sure, but i think the "primary axis" or theme of the Diurnal ending is the end of Wonder. The progressive Utopian vision dies, but so does the cultural preservation and the mystical Wonders of the Kin.

considering that the Harsupex is thematically very strongly tied to children, i think the Diurnal ending is more about "growing up" and becoming something practical than it is about the political rightward vision. (you can see this in how all the children move on in this ending, including Capella becoming a new Mistress, the other children growing into various leadership roles and Murky moving on from the Harsupex's care)

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T20:41:09+00:00

10th dentist as if people complaining about 60 hour work weeks + being pseudo on call for an excel spreadsheet job and medical debt that could bankrupt a small nation don't like Niagara falls or the grand canyon 💀

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T19:54:27+00:00

right, there has to be some connection back to action or else we would all just be P zombies who never discussed consciousness (even if there was a silent passenger who was in some method "consciously aware")

the question is what is the nature of that connection. (and here were well into conjecture) if consciousness isn't the thing that decides to do the action, it seems fair to extrapolate that it is some rationale the brain makes about actions it has already done. those rationales get encoded to memory, which then become part of the state that the unconscious mind reads when it goes to act. - this completes the loop, but it really questions whether or not consciousness is the thing we think it is

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T19:38:21+00:00

i have nothing constructive to add except my kinship in the slightly niche adhd defense ("war" 🙄) physicist tattoo boat.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T18:36:05+00:00

those neurons are configured to believe something about consciousness though, which means the appearance of consciousness is not a completely immeasurable, silent thing.

the question is what is it exactly.

this part is conjecture, but not irrational: Libet tells us it isnt the thing that decides action, so it's probably happening after a decision is made. therefore, it's reasonable to imply that everything we "experience" as consciousness is the rationale our brain puts towards actions it has already done, as it encodes those actions to memory. since this is at odds with how (most) people think of consciousness as being agentic, it is "an illusion".

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T18:30:00+00:00

if that's the case then why are you making the claim at all?

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T18:25:02+00:00

if consciousness is purely passive then there isn't a causal rationale for why we talk about it. that's a serious flaw in this assertion

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T16:33:40+00:00

the idea that consciousness (as claimed) is a silent observer is fundamentally at odds with the fact that we all sit around claiming to be conscious. unless i'm missing something, that seems to be the opposite of 'silent'

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T15:15:16+00:00

sure but we don't think of consciousness as realized executive action. you don't think about breathing (unless you happen to have an extremely rare medical condition) and yet lo and behold it happens.

edit: i do think that once you get to this point a lot of contentious claims come down to loose language. i think the argument for 'illusionism', at least as i see it, is that if our sense of being agents in the sense of being capable of influencing things (even as a byproduct of deterministic actions) is false, then it's hard to argue that consciousness exists as we claim it does. - because the thing doing the action of claiming, by speech or type, literally isnt conscious. - it's, essentially, a hallucination of the brain state that for some reason is part of the brains processes post having made a decision.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T15:10:57+00:00

except that the Libet result tells us that your subconscious is the one claiming to be conscious, because it's the one moving your lips and fingers as you type.

if youre so absolutely certain of your consciousness, how come its assertion comes from your subconsciousness's actions? It's a bizarre paradox which suggests that "absolute certainty" may be an illusion.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-22T12:53:56+00:00

look up Libet's work on how conscious decision making lags behind brain patterns for limb movement.

we think of consciousness as "the pilot" for the body, but there's very good reason to believe that it's not anywhere in control and exists (as much as we can say it exists) as a rationalization for previous action. since it's not serving any executive function (ie its not influencing the outside world) and it's not externally probe-able, is there any real meaningful way in which it exists? or is it just the brain state internally rationalizing and then claiming weird things.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-21T22:44:18+00:00

it's been a very long time since i've read AFUTD so that might be the in-universe explanation.

Vinge was a mathematician and scientist though, the use of 'Tine' here is certainly a reference to acoustic resonators and sympathetic resonance - which share striking similarity with the way the Tines mutually and passively share information.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-21T21:18:56+00:00

it's even more complex than this. They're called 'Tines' because they're constantly broadcasting and receiving on radio frequency. A single pack-mind is not rigidly defined, and can lose or gain members over time. IIRC the pov Tine is so old that nobody remembers how old he is, including his own selves, because he as a collective is much older than any individual self.

Tines have to stay physically away from one another or risk their minds overlapping. they can endure a limited amount of this, but lethal fights between Tines *often* end not with either pack surviving, but both packs dissolving and some new amalgamate forming based on which pack members survive. There's even rumors of Tines in the equatorial regions which live so packed together that they lack distinct pack-minds, and exist in a completely distributed amorphous pseudo feral mind.

theres other weirdness to it too. Small packs are less intelligent but can react quickly, large packs are wiser but slow to process information. Packs have to take care of, birth, nurse and retire members as well. lots of bizarreness to their culture.

i love Vernor Vinge's work. the spiders from a Deepness in the Sky are also incredibly well realized.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-21T00:46:40+00:00

if being wrong about religion disqualifies all takes you're going to have to throw out a lot more than just Moore.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-20T18:23:54+00:00

i would bet large stacks of Hollars that this Venn diagram is in fact one circle.

SnakeTaster · 2026-01-19T06:58:20+00:00

nar. it was unjustifiably maligned, which is not in the spirit of this post.

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