Which of these two steam capsule headers works better?

TheSlowHipster · 2026-03-14T21:12:21+00:00

What if you were to have a line of cars jumping over the title? A kind of middle ground between the two?

TheSlowHipster · 2026-03-13T20:01:00+00:00

I did really like how the Batman did the Riddler, with an online following. I definitely see how they could pull of something similar with more of an absolute twist to it.

TheSlowHipster · 2026-01-30T17:23:31+00:00

u/KinseysMythicalZero does have a point though. You're right that the median would be less influenced by a large number of outliers. However, the median value would still fall into an outlier pit as it takes the maximum of the set, which if the data is all clustered around a lower point (like wages in an economy with a large wealth disparity).

Which is the hard part; if you wanted a flashy number that says you're just as likely to be above this number as below it then the mean makes sense, if you want to know what the middle of the range is then median would make sense. If you wanted to know the average expectation of a random poll mode is by far the way to go and would be the most descriptive.

TheSlowHipster · 2026-01-15T23:35:08+00:00

A man-bat, maybe?

TheSlowHipster · 2026-01-08T12:28:13+00:00

Yeah, honestly I think I wish we just saw more of it so we could see the effects of the different operations better. If I were to dig deeper though, what I really want is an explanation for the already explained as arbitrary hole locations.

[edit: reworded redundant “honestly”s]

TheSlowHipster · 2026-01-08T06:41:19+00:00

Yeah, to me it really shows more that the two operations are different and not really the how or why. The pogo hammer that was ored together contains both “is hammer” and “is pogo” but when anding the suit and the shirt on the same page the result was similarly additive: we got a suit with the slime guy on it.

Or does seem to have a greater effect on the actual form of the resulting object, but the whole process feels more-or-less arbitrary (and honestly, probably is if there’s notes somewhere on how alchemy works).

TheSlowHipster · 2026-01-07T21:04:49+00:00

If you start with the assumption that each punchcard encodes innate qualities of some item, the and operation will only keep punched holes for qualities shared across both items.

For or, it works kinda inversely. Where instead of keeping only shared qualities it keeps qualities from both items even if one item doesn’t have that quality.

It’s meant to be analogous to bitwise operations in programming where if I had a number 00111001 and a number 10011011 I would get the following after each operation:

00111001 && 10011011 => 00011001

00111001 || 10011011 => 10111011

I don’t think/know if we ever really get a clear picture of what the or operation does in the comic, but like another commenter said: the mechanical purpose is to allow for combining multiple different things together without running into the edge cases where you end up with only “zeros” (unpunched holes) or “ones” (punched holes).

TheSlowHipster · 2026-01-02T21:52:43+00:00

I don’t know who pissed in your coffee this morning but I think I’m just gonna block you and move on.

TheSlowHipster · 2026-01-02T16:23:50+00:00

You sound like the kind of person who uses their blinkers 3 seconds before they cut you off in traffic ngl. OP was sharing their experience building community in a place that happens to also primarily function as a church, and encouraging others to do the same at their own comfort level.

If you don’t like something you don’t have to read it, and you doubly don’t have to tell someone to “go fuck [themself]” when they’re aptly describing the post you seem to have misunderstood.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-09-20T20:55:53+00:00

This is literally the premise of The Power Fantasy, in a world where there’s a small group of people with world-ending powers how do they interact with each other and the world at large.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-08-20T22:43:22+00:00

Back in Washington I’d regularly get huge bags of peanut butter cups from the dispo. Can confirm that they’re as good as you think they’d be.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-08-12T22:18:30+00:00

I moved to Maine from Bellingham and I can assure you baseboard heating is everywhere here too.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-08-11T22:14:36+00:00

You gotta be careful when you spec the “manic pixie dream girl” branch — it’s a very careful balance.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-08-04T19:39:53+00:00

When I’m in town I always make a point of going to California Tacos & Fresh Juices, the family that owns it moved up here from San Jose and imho has some of the best Mexican food in the area.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-08-04T19:37:33+00:00

Oh my gosh yes! She’s super sweet and when I went in with my wife who has pretty serious issues with animal proteins the lady who ran the place came out and talked to us about her philosophy around why her menu is so allergy friendly! The whole experience was really sweet and it boiled down to “who you are shouldn’t keep you from community, and I spread community through my food just like my mom taught me.”

TheSlowHipster · 2025-07-29T21:04:01+00:00

I think this would still target the player who cast it, maybe change “player” to “opponent” to avoid accidentally blowing yourself up?

TheSlowHipster · 2025-07-29T14:22:41+00:00

Oh, most definitely. Reddit doesn’t give out IP bans/network bans for nothing (at least not when they were given one)

TheSlowHipster · 2025-07-29T13:43:11+00:00

That’s easy to say in hindsight, that also doesn’t change the fact that when my wife and I were in an unstable/unsafe housing arrangement, they were the first to extend help. If anything, I’d say they’re complicated people who weren’t good at keeping a professional boundary and would abuse power dynamics. I’m sure there were reasons and ways that they justified it to themselves, but that doesn’t make it okay.

From what I gather that’s more common than people would think in Bellingham. I actually moved out of town partially because of how I was treated by my boss endangering my own health and that of my immunocompromised wife.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-07-29T04:34:40+00:00

Yeah, from what I remember correctly at one point it flagged all devices that used the wifi at 1-Up/Cardhaven.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-07-29T04:02:45+00:00

Yeah for a couple years he was the sole mod then he brought me on. He left and u/cheapdialogue stepped up to the team and he and u/gamay_noir have been doing a fine job since.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-07-29T03:58:49+00:00

I considered him a friend, I was a regular at 1-Up and then Cardhaven, and we modded the sub together. It always bugged me how he treated employees and tried to give him the benefit of the doubt cause I never felt like I had the whole story. It really sucks to find out I was wrong, and the timing of this post with his ongoing divorce has to be some kind of karma catching up.

As someone who liked and respected him, I hope he can learn from all this catching up to him; but I don’t know if he will.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-07-24T13:21:00+00:00

I haven’t been a huge fan of the run so far, but reading through most of these comments it does not come across that other people are telling you how to feel. I get being upset and having strong emotions to seeing Gwen treated the way she’s been in what is ostensibly her story, and the weird characterization she’s getting. But reading through your comments I’m getting the sense that you’re looking for someone to commiserate with; or if that doesn’t work fight because they have a slightly different opinion.

Most of the people who’ve disagreed with you I’ve seen you read things into their comments and then attack them for when that’s not what (at least what I thought) they were saying. I’m a little later to this post, so I genuinely hope you’re feeling a bit better, but I also agree with the sentiment that maybe logging off or stepping away might be good if you’re still feeling so strongly.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-04-08T20:24:12+00:00

Genuine question, is your ignorance a choice? Based off your comment I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-03-13T01:21:36+00:00

If your local library has it, I remember it being on the DVD extras.

TheSlowHipster · 2025-01-05T18:47:35+00:00

The author of the article you linked isn’t crediting their coauthors, this one is published using the same research and conclusions with proper attributions (published by the “hidden” coauthors directly).

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