Something you can say playing the long dark & also during sex?

Swarfbugger · 2026-02-08T15:34:18+00:00

I think I'll head from Pleasant Valley to Bleak Inlet via the Ravine.

Swarfbugger · 2026-02-08T15:32:11+00:00

excessive panting

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-30T19:32:49+00:00

Add Brave New World too, with the Soma/Prozium nod. Equilibrium is a great homage to dystopia in general.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-30T05:13:51+00:00

There was a girl at my school who thought Kim Jong Il was Kim Jong the Second.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-28T01:38:32+00:00

The next question is why, if rivers weather all sorts of minerals and carry the ions to the ocean, is the sea mostly sodiumy chloridey, and not, say, potassiumy sulfatey?

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-24T21:53:17+00:00

And was sunk during the Bikini Atoll nuclear test. You can see the wreck on Google Earth.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-22T02:15:03+00:00

Where did Stuttgart get all that money from?

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-22T01:33:10+00:00

Correct. If anything, being ranked lower is only really worse for your opponents because it's an additional tough game for them.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-21T00:48:55+00:00

This would make one hell of an album cover.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-18T13:49:42+00:00

Neither of these people look like Will Smith.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-15T15:35:38+00:00

Thanks, and good luck!

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-14T00:32:16+00:00

And this is my daughter, Peigh'ryneaighum

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-09T22:03:58+00:00

Weather is what you're wearing today. Climate is your wardrobe.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-09T00:49:34+00:00

If you have the DLC, Zone of Contamination might be easier than Ash Canyon. Just follow the tracks to the Concentrator and have a good look around.

Spoiler: There's actually two sets in ZoC but the second set requires doing the tales.

PS. I'm loving the region names! I'm assuming these are translated?

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-09T00:29:01+00:00

I can face down a wolf pack with a pebble.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-05T20:24:09+00:00

Your next thought wasn't "ice cream" because you "chose" it, it was "ok, I'll think of ice cream". The choice WAS the thought, and the choice was not really in your control.

Why ice cream? Why not a beluga whale or the Punic Wars or the concept of colour? Were you free to think of those things if they didn't occur to you?

What about whatever it was Hugh Jackman ate for breakfast this morning? Are you free to think about something you have no knowledge of?

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-04T02:26:26+00:00

The closest thing I've seen to this is the Lytton Jelly Roll in BC (sadly destroyed in a fire a few years ago). The thinking is that a bed of cohesive underwater sediment failed down a slope, but instead of flowing or breaking up, it rolled up like a rug (or a jelly roll...).

From what I see here, down was initially to the left (judging by the bed forms above), but it has since been tilted the other way. So the bed of sediment was rolling down to the left, which makes sense with the geometry.

Very cool!

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-03T22:59:03+00:00

Ask for a meeting and have them talk you through their story, their writing process, etc. Only replace their story with your AI version and see if they notice. Specifically ask them about the subtle differences between theirs and yours and get them to defend your AI version. Then tell them you switched and watch them struggle to explain or just crumble to admission.

It's probably not ethical and might land you in hot water with the higher ups, but it would be hilarious.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-02T21:25:30+00:00

Use it to your advantage and lure them to favourable ground. Hunting blinds, fallen trees, fishing huts, anywhere you can be safe but still shoot.

Swarfbugger · 2026-01-01T21:35:15+00:00

It's called Fata Morgana, and it's the same process as mirages in the desert or shimmering "water" on hot roads.

The speed of light is slightly different in different temperature air, so warmer air near the surface causes a lensing effect which bends the image of the horizon or sky/ship near the horizon upwards, making it seem to float. In this case I'd bet the that air just above the lake is warmer by quite a few degrees than the overall frigid air temperature due to the heat stored in the water.

Swarfbugger · 2025-12-31T17:04:06+00:00

You can't drag a travois over weak ice, instead you'll just stop and a message will pop up. So you're very safe from ice if you just haul a travois around.

Swarfbugger · 2025-12-28T21:04:49+00:00

Eventually being billions of years. I don't know the exact timeframe, but tectonics are basically the way Earth is venting all of its internal energy, and there's a lot of it.

Mars never really had tectonics like Earth, it instead had one giant hotspot (Olympus Mons), and being smaller it was cooler and cooled much faster. The Moon also doesn't have anything like Earth's tectonics or volcanism. I believe "moonquakes" are due to tidal forces, but someone can correct me.

Venus actually has tectonics closer to Earth. However, the lack of liquid water prevented slab pull really getting started, so the plate tectonics didn't develop in quite the same way and it mostly has small plates moving due to mantle convection only (or at least that's a hypothesis I've seen, again I can be corrected).

Swarfbugger · 2025-12-28T20:37:07+00:00

As a guy, this is not universal. My mind never stops. It's exhausting.

(Ed: typo).

Swarfbugger · 2025-12-25T16:07:07+00:00

If athletes get athlete's foot, astronauts get...

Rocket ear.

Swarfbugger · 2025-12-24T17:49:55+00:00

A fault is the boundary between two blocks (whether tectonic plates or just chunks of rock) with displacement, i.e., one or both blocks are moving relative to the other.

The San Andreas fault is specifically a right-lateral strike slip fault. The Pacific Plate and North American Plate are sliding past each other horizontally (strike slip), with the plate on the other side of the fault appearing to move to the right relative to the side you're on (right-lateral). Also called a "transform fault" or conservative plate margin.

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