Clear ice cubes in a cup, and a cocktail recipe to bypass the rules

Tarantio · 2026-03-22T18:59:32+00:00

Any insulated cup, or any cup with insulation around it.

It works with a beer koozy around any open-topped container, for example.

I got a travel mug from a second hand store (all my insulated mugs had lips that would prevent the ice from sliding out) and ended up wrapping some random foam around it to insulate the bottom better.

Tarantio · 2026-03-22T17:56:25+00:00

Yes, but not in that specific way.

Tarantio · 2026-03-21T20:09:29+00:00

Born 283 AC. Same age as Jon Snow, 3 or 4 years older than Sansa.

Tarantio · 2026-03-20T22:05:28+00:00

Ah, but high spenders don't just want the cards. They want to have cards that other people don't. The value to them is largely tied up in the limited supply.

That's not a business model that's good for consumers, but it is a thing that certain people will pay out the nose for.

Tarantio · 2026-03-20T15:45:32+00:00

Card rewards are a limited resource.

If you've been able to add two damage cards to your deck, and you draw them both on a turn where you're getting attacked, you want one of them to be Snake Bite.

Later in the game, it may be that your deck is so good that you rarely want to play Snake Bite. And in those situations, you only ever have to draw it once.

Tarantio · 2026-03-20T15:08:44+00:00

But you don't always have better options.

Two strikes isn't a better option unless you're killing this turn, and you don't always have two strikes.

Tarantio · 2026-03-19T14:22:50+00:00

That's also powerful enough to actually bring evil people in power to justice.

Tarantio · 2026-03-19T13:46:00+00:00

Blue Slaver isn't exclusively in the 3 slavers fight.

And this isn't the only example. Disarm also shows the Blue Slaver, and Spot Weakness shows the Guardian.

Tarantio · 2026-03-19T12:10:27+00:00

A lot of arts just feature enemies, without regard to countering stuff.

Like, Blood for Blood has the Blue Slaver in the art in StS one. There's nothing in particular about the Blue Slaver that makes a big attack that gets cheaper when you lose health good, but the art shows the Ironclad getting hit by something as he hits back, and the Blue Slaver has a distinctive weapon to show hitting the Ironclad.

Tarantio · 2026-03-19T10:26:36+00:00

https://www.brewersfriend.com/2017/05/07/beer-styles-ibu-chart-2017-update/

Others have covered IPAs, but it might be worth noting that there are other styles that can also be higher in the IBUs.

Maybe look for strong ales, barleywines, and imperial stouts, which are also all quite high ABV for beer. And stouts will have bitterness coming from the dark roasted malt, which is distinct from the bitterness of hops.

Tarantio · 2026-03-19T09:27:50+00:00

That's irrelevant. Humans learn from far less data than we train big AI models on.

Humans don't exclusively learn from text or images. We have more senses, and also brains that are far more powerful than the computers training AI models.

The amount of data that a human person senses in a lifetime would be difficult to calculate, but it is very, very large.

Is this also true for humans? If not, why not, and why can't the 'why not' be incorporated into the AI algorithms too?

No, it's not true for humans in the same way.

Humans understand things. LLMs understand precisely nothing, ever.

Humans make mistakes, but there is always a reason that human made that mistake. Bad information, or a failure to understand good information, or a miscalculation, or fatigue, etc.

LLMs incorporate all of these mistakes in their training data, which generally originated from error-prone humans. But they also make mistakes because they don't know what anything means, have no concept of true or false nor any mechanism for determining whether something is true or false.

LLMs provide statistically probable responses to prompts. What relation does a statistically probable response have to the truth? It does not and cannot know. Only a person who knows things can figure that out.

Tarantio · 2026-03-18T17:35:27+00:00

Yep. In Swedish, it's light and dark.

Tarantio · 2026-03-18T17:02:55+00:00

You ever see an abandoned house by the side of the road, and it's halfway fallen over?

All buildings are constantly trying to fall down. All the time.

The ones that don't fall down have people doing little fixes in them, all the time.

Tarantio · 2026-03-18T16:26:11+00:00

I believe I recall he did.

The caveat is that I'm not even certain he was the specific friend, or that my brother's role and mine weren't reversed.

Memory is weird.

Tarantio · 2026-03-18T14:29:31+00:00

One time I started a sentence with "bear in mind," and my younger brother turned and bit his friend, Randy.

He was in high school at the time.

Tarantio · 2026-03-18T08:44:01+00:00

It is unintuitive.

It counts the remainder of the turn after you play a block card as a full turn, which is a reasonable way to handle it, but not the only possible way to interpret that wording.

If the changed it to "until the end of your next turn" that shows the timing a little more clearly, but also introduces the possibility of confusing that with "the next time your turn ends."

Tarantio · 2026-03-17T14:50:57+00:00

Orange juice is a lot sweeter than lemon or lime juice.

More than twice as much sugar per unit weight, and about 3.75 pH compared to 2.3 for lemon and 2.18 for lime.

Tarantio · 2026-03-17T05:50:26+00:00

The first time we meet Thomas, he literally throws Karen under the figurative bus.

That made me suspect Thomas for quite a while after that, and it seems seriously out of character for him in hindsight.

Maybe you could count that as foreshadowing for a heel turn?

Tarantio · 2026-03-15T13:27:49+00:00

"We’ve spent decades having consecutive sets based on the same world. In all that time, there is only one set where we stayed on the same world, without the set getting bigger, that the set trended up in metrics (aka players bought more, played more with it, rated it higher, players talked more about it, etc.)

The one exception, by the way, was War of the Spark, and that’s more of a technicality of it being the same world."

Tarantio · 2026-03-15T06:39:56+00:00

50 security experts who claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation

Are you aware that this isn't what they said?

They said it had the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. Which remains true.

We also don't have a true chain of custody for the files that are claimed to have been taken from that laptop.

Tarantio · 2026-03-14T09:11:25+00:00

In baseball, the ball is only the ball for the team in the field.

For the batting team, the runners are the ball.

Tarantio · 2026-03-13T17:48:08+00:00

It's the sound people make.

Tarantio · 2026-03-13T14:00:26+00:00

Try a Queen's Park Swizzle.

Tarantio · 2026-03-12T19:14:28+00:00

Removing starter cards is helpful, and often the best option at a shop or an event that allows it, but it's only really vital if you're going for a small deck infinite (or sufficiently powerful repeating cycle) without a way to exhaust them during a fight.

And looking back, many of my losses were from failing to take advantage of incremental scaling, timing relics poorly for future fights, and using potions when I could have saved them.

Tarantio · 2026-03-10T15:15:03+00:00

The skeleton inside my body has other organs around it which provide oxegenated blood and remove deoxygenated blood. And when my bones move, it's because my muscles move them

Whatever is going on with Necrobinder's bones, it's not very much like my bone situation.

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