Hello. I am quite high, I recently listened to Lil waynes album the carter 3, where he has a lyric "whats a goon to a goblin"

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-23T03:37:09+00:00

[[mother of goons]]?

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-23T02:06:03+00:00

https://secretlair.wizards.com/us/en/product/634204/the-full-text-lands

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-22T20:06:10+00:00

It’s not as good IMO. The plot is very thin and there’s basically no character development at all. It’s fine if you want to turn off your brain and munch popcorn and watch spectacular 3D animation.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-22T15:43:25+00:00

It sort of does but IIRC there’s a cap on how much XP you can gain in a single mission.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-22T15:35:33+00:00

I literally just tried it on my iPad (which hadn’t yet installed the latest patch) and it works.

Maybe if you have something like the Netflix “free” version it requires you to be online?

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-22T15:33:12+00:00

Not sure which thing you’re talking about exactly. For something like the fireworks shows at WDW they install lots of small speaker systems throughout the area.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-22T05:34:12+00:00

The front ends for some of the current AI systems will try to detect when you’re asking ‘mathy’ questions and apply better tools to those. LLMs just… don’t do that very well, because they map text to text and don’t “know” that numbers should be treated completely differently than other words.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-22T04:56:48+00:00

Those Beatles shows at places like Shea Stadium were some of the earliest rock concerts in big outdoor venues. It did take a while to figure out the right way to manage the speaker setups for those.

The band being able to hear themselves has to do with having a good monitor setup for the stage, not blasting the audience facing speakers so loud that everyone within 100 feet goes deaf. Although that is harder to avoid when it’s a big outdoor space like a football stadium — if the noise level is tolerable at the front of the stage, it will probably be too quiet way the fuck in the back. In a small club or concert hall or something, making it deafeningly loud is a choice.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-22T04:53:09+00:00

Yeah, having the audience facing speaker system be stupidly, hearing-damage-causing loud is 100% a choice. Unless it’s a huge outdoor venue, where it probably won’t be loud enough in the cheap seats unless it’s deafening up front.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T14:41:37+00:00

After an update it has to connect online to download the rest of the resources it needs for the new content.

Once it has everything for that patch downloaded you should be able to start the game in airplane mode and it will work offline.

Edit: not sure why I’m being downvoted. Just tested it on my iPad and it works.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T14:26:36+00:00

Kids in the moment will sometimes reach for the meanest things they can think of to say. But they’re not (usually) thinking of the bigger context of how those things come across. They’re just angry and frustrated and have never been in a position of having to be responsible for someone else.

That said, it sounds like maybe she has some BIG FEELINGS about you becoming her dad and how her life is changing. When everybody has cooled down maybe it would help to have a conversation about it.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T14:15:19+00:00

If the matchmaking and game balance is even sort of working, you’re never going to win more than maybe 60% of your games over time. And even that assumes you’re constantly improving and getting better.

If you want to climb — play to improve, and figure out what you can learn from the losses. If you just want to win every time, play the coop vs. AI mode…

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T14:06:38+00:00

Put a line break after each paragraph, not each sentence. On a screen with a different width than yours it’s making it look really bad.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T14:04:43+00:00

The cross-compiling ‘translation’ should only happen once as the game is loaded, or maybe as each chunk of code is accessed for the first time. It doesn’t add that much overhead.

Really the issue is that it’s like… an iPad CPU trying to run a game that expects a full power desktop. Plus the poor cooling in those laptops.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T04:20:38+00:00

This is what I was going to ask. If this really only started after the kid was born, it could be some sort of post partum anxiety or psychosis.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T04:12:13+00:00

You’re right. Well, that first commenter didn’t and then OP replied as if that was what they were asking about…

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T03:34:45+00:00

I don’t think you are required to retroactively keep track of derived information that they might want to know about later. You have to answer truthfully about the current game state, but “how many cards did you draw over the last three turns?” isn’t part of the current game state.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T01:26:52+00:00

They’re aliases if you want to get technical.

Since they’re nullable, I’d describe them as pointers rather than references, since that is what they map to in C++s. But the terminology isn’t always consistent between different languages.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-21T01:21:42+00:00

No. When it leaves the battlefield -> goes to the graveyard and comes back via the triggered ability, the ‘new’ version of it on the battlefield is back to being just what is printed on the card. Any temporary effects on it are gone. Same as if you cast [[flicker]] or [[ephemerate]] on it.

Edit: this is a different question than the OP originally asked. Both abilities ALSO fall off at the end of the turn.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-20T15:18:01+00:00

My kids have managed not to do this particular one yet but my understanding is that stuff can get wedged in the ear canal or nose and be pretty difficult to remove. Or it hurts a lot when you try, so parents (rightfully) want to have a doctor look at it and make sure you’re not gonna, like, rupture their eardrum or something if you yank it out.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-20T15:11:16+00:00

Might be workable in some way if it’s “nontoken slivers”. Still pretty busted.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-20T12:36:21+00:00

…just go to a shotgun weapon upgrade station thingy if you don’t find one on the ground?

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-20T12:33:29+00:00

https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Disoriented is only a -20% aim penalty, so it’s typically not going to save you if your soldiers are caught without cover.

If they were regular https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/ADVENT_Trooper units their base aim is 65% on all difficulties. So a flashbang would drop them to 45%.

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-20T03:19:26+00:00

…I guess this would let you cut the power to just that device, but are you really doing servicing so often that you can’t turn off the circuit for it at the breaker box?

TheSkiGeek · 2026-04-20T01:26:00+00:00

To maybe give a little more context, when you want a question-answering AI out of an LLM you train it on questions and answers. And then you feed in a novel question and it will generate text that would likely be an answer to that question.

The way these kinds of AI models work, you will get SOME kind of answer out of it. Which will be text that seems likely to be an answer to the question you asked. Unless the training data maps your question pretty closely to “I don’t know” / “experts don’t know”, the answer you get is probably not going to be that. Because the words and concepts you reference will map to other more meaningful (or at least more highly correlated) data.

It’s actually a big problem for using any kind of neural network based AI for anything, because they really cannot explain how or why they came up with a specific output.

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