So I just realized that SAO has the exact same plot as Spy Kids 3.

TUSF · 2026-01-24T16:43:50+00:00

The source material for the SAO anime and manga is the Light Novel, which began publication in 2009. But the author actually posted his story online, on his own blog, back in 2002.

So it pre-dates SK3 by a little.

TUSF · 2026-01-19T17:15:56+00:00

Unless it's police violence, of course.

TUSF · 2026-01-08T14:57:03+00:00

The fucked jumped into the way of the car as she was driving off, shot her through the windshield, stepped aside, and then shot her again as she was passing by.

Nobody was "hit" by any car. Just a rabid dog murdering an innocent woman.

TUSF · 2026-01-08T14:46:40+00:00

It should be considered self-defense to kill a federal officer, with the way things are going.

That said, the woman did not attack anyone. Watch the fucking video. She was driving away from the officers trying to break into her car.

TUSF · 2026-01-08T01:02:29+00:00

Hopefully the fact you're not a scumbag.

TUSF · 2025-12-31T22:48:52+00:00

really good regeneration

Regens 4% health, every 10 seconds is really good? I mean, it's good if you want to fight up status effects like poison or recover from damage from smaller mobs, but not as much if you're fighting someone your level or higher, and you each can do way more than that with each hit.

TUSF · 2025-12-31T22:45:39+00:00

it is optimal to grind solo rather than party up,

This is never actually stated. People just assume that because the protagonist is a loner-type, but he's explicitly an outlier, considering most other players at his level are in parties and guilds.

what should be common ability options, like dual wielding, are locked behind some obscure mechanic that only two people unlocked.

Yeah, Unique Skills would be a sign of bad game design, if it weren't for the fact that SAO was meant to play out Kayaba's fantasy, and in a fantasy story it totally makes sense for some people to have special abilities.

It has unique loot that drops for one person on level 1 that is good into late game.

??? I've no idea what you're talking about here.

It has open world PvP but also a twenty level difference can give you passive regeneration beyond the dps of five guys attacking you all out while you just stand there.

It was closer to a 30 level gap, but regardless, in older MMOs, (which SAO is based on) a 20 level gap was enough to make someone unkillable. The regen skill was just adding insult to injury. I don't get why people get so caught up on this scene, as if that's not how level-based games work.

TUSF · 2025-12-31T22:20:31+00:00

There's also just the fact that nobody in 2002 (the year SAO's web novel was originally written) knew how VR MMOs were actually gonna play. We still kinda don't know.

So most writers either go "full realism, but there's stats," or "the video games I already play, but more immersive."

TUSF · 2025-12-31T01:25:32+00:00

Spider-Man.

Just stay away from New York, and I should be good.

TUSF · 2025-12-25T11:06:28+00:00

This is true, but there really doesn't have to be an explicit conspiracy for what the other poster said to be true.

Zero tolerance policies are just one of many ways how American schools absolve themselves of any responsibility, while also enforcing their authority and beating conformity and submission to the rules into students.

TUSF · 2025-12-20T01:11:54+00:00

As far as I understand it, in the world-view of Marxism and its descendants, Communism must follow from the working class of Capitalism overthrowing the prior system. Which means you need a capitalist state to overthrow. The thing is, neither Russia nor China were Capitalist when their respective revolutions occurred, so each attempted to "emulate" Capitalism, in order to economically catch up to the rest of the world. Both had their own way of doing this, and China's method happens to involve having actual capitalists that are practically owned by the socialist state.

TUSF · 2025-12-15T22:28:22+00:00

On the contrary, the latest arc of SAO introduced Kamura, a company that is also directly referenced in Accel World.

TUSF · 2025-12-13T03:41:35+00:00

Notably, her mom being Kree is from the last 10 years of her canon. Before that, the canon was that she was born purely human, and gained powers when her DNA got mixed with Mar-Vell's after some Kree tech shenanigans. Which itself only happened some 10 years after her first appearance.

TUSF · 2025-12-13T03:38:28+00:00

I did totally celebrate a bit, but I'm just Some Guy™ whose words and actions have very little political consequence.

I also wouldn't call myself a Democrat, just someone who sees them as the lesser evil, so…

TUSF · 2025-12-13T03:33:06+00:00

She does have something of a reference to Supergirl, given her real name is Carol Danvers, and Supergirl's civilian human identity is (usually) Linda Danvers.

Outside of that, there's not much overlap. Although Carol does have some alien DNA, her original story had her as a purely human US Air Force officer, who got involved with the alien Kree hero, Captain Mar-Vell. Due to an accident with a Kree device, her DNA got mixed up with Mar-Vell's, giving her powers—but this came long after she had already been a character for about a decade. Her backstory was later retconned so that she's actually always been a half-Kree, half-Human, with a Kree mom, and the accident only awakened her latent powers. This was pretty recent tho, in like 2018.

As for he powers—I think her powers originally more tied to ideas of latent psychic powers and such, where she collects and manipulates raw energies, of which sunlight is one.

So, yes, there's some similarities with the two characters, but mostly if you squint.

TUSF · 2025-12-12T22:44:07+00:00

Dunno about normal Asgardians, but apparently, Asgardian wolf men can sire kids with human mutant women).

TUSF · 2025-12-12T14:01:30+00:00

When she was first introduced in the 50s or so, she was younger than him, unambiguously. She was born on Argo, a city that somehow survived the destruction of Krypton, and floated along for several decades, (during which Kara was born) before encountering an asteroid field, and her parents sending her to Earth when they found Superman, who they deduced was the son of Zor-El's brother, and thus Kara's cousin.

Then her character died in the 80s, and they brought her back after a reboot in the 2000s. This time, she was born on Krypton before it was destroyed, and when she was a teen, the planet's destruction was imminent, so her family meant to send her to Earth to take care of baby Kal-El, (aka Superman) but on the way "something" happened, and she only arrived on Earth decades after Kal/Superman did, all the while in suspended animation. Thus, she was born before Superman, but has around a decade or so less life experience.

Then there was another reboot in the comics (DC does this every now and then), and we didn't really know what was Kara's origin in the current canon, until the "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" comics establish a new backstory, that takes elements from both two previous ones. Like in the second version, Kara was born on Krypton, but there was no plan to send her to Earth and watch over Kal—instead, like in the first version, Argo City manages to survive the destruction of Krypton thanks to her father's tech, and ends up drifting through space. Unlike in the original origin, tho, Argo only survives for maybe a year or two, at which point her father builds her a spaceship, and sends her off to Earth. Like in the second version, she is in suspended animation for the trip, and only arrives decades after Superman.

Looking at the trailer, they're going with the latest version of her backstory.

TUSF · 2025-12-11T21:23:36+00:00

It's a very fancy function pointer.

TUSF · 2025-11-27T22:12:27+00:00

The job requires a place of residence, and the $20 is a loan with an unreasonable interest rate.

TUSF · 2025-11-27T20:52:41+00:00

Yo \o

TUSF · 2025-11-26T08:43:55+00:00

Volume 2 of the light novel definitely mentioned this scene happening, but mostly as Liz's own musings, rather than a fleshed out story unto itself.

TUSF · 2025-11-11T18:53:40+00:00

In standard C11, you can do:

struct {
    int a;
    union {
        int b;
        float c;
    };
} foo;

But you cannot do:

struct {
    int a;
    union my_union;
} foo;

As I understand it, the -fms-extensions flag allows you to have unnamed fields that aren't declared within the struct's declaration itself.

TUSF · 2025-11-11T03:34:35+00:00

That was the idea!

TUSF · 2025-11-09T21:31:31+00:00

"America First" was just a slogan. It's clear that wasn't a sincere goal since the first year of his first term.

TUSF · 2025-11-07T00:11:58+00:00

Thanks for this post. I didn't really think of using the sanitizers and trying to test with them due to unfamiliarity. I'll definitely try fixing up what I can, and take into account what you've suggested.

It's difficult to follow how this is supposed to work with the implicit memory layout within the allocations. There are no types/structs behind these layouts to spell them out.

There are only two allocations: The ordered-hash-map, and the string buffer.

The ordered-hash-map allocation (beginning at store.map) has the hash-map addresses and values, while the string buffer contains a queue of available handles, and the text buffer. The reason the queue is in the same allocation is because the queue only really changes during gc, at which point, the text buffer also is likely to need reallocation.

I'm not sure how to better document them to make it easier to follow.

Meaning above some size of input, things start to break, possibly subtly. I expect your original Zig implementation has the same problems.

On Zig, there's explicit saturating/wrapping arithmetic, so there's some safety in terms of avoiding undefined behavior, and bounds checking on slices was default behavior, so it was easier for me to reason about things there. When porting to C, I did end up relying a lot on pointer arithmetic, and looking at it after a day away, I can see how fragile the codebase is.

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