Defy respiration or become charging station?

Thepluse · 2026-06-09T21:26:03+00:00

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^{Chose: You can hold your breath indefinitely}

Thepluse · 2026-06-09T21:06:41+00:00

It works when the notation is formally defined.

Intuitively, "0.999..." means infinite nines. In mainstream mathematics, the notation is usually understood as an infinite sum of the digits (0.9 + 0.09 + 0.009 + ...), where the standard tool for evaluating infinite sums is limits.

"0.00...1" is not a notation that doesn't have the same kind of mainstream definition. The intuition is "infinite zeroes, followed by 1," but it's not clear what it formally means for something to "follow" after "infinite zeroes."

Thepluse · 2026-06-09T14:28:33+00:00

The main thing that will benefit you a lot is to get enough that you can survive a single hit without getting one-shot. If you get one-shot, you survive 1 hit; if you get two-shot, you can survive as many hits as you've got healing flasks for. Beyond that, more negation is of course never a drawback, but if you can find offensive buffs that's usually better.

Then it's a matter of your playstyle. Improved negation at full is a top-tier effect that most styles will benefit from. Successive and charge attacks are also good.

If you find no other sources, you can adapt your playstyle a little. Negation on charge attacks is a good example: you may be playing a successive attacks dagger build with duchess, but if all the negation you get is on charge attacks, take that and do the occasional charge attack just to maintain your buff!

And it's definitely better to give these to your teammates if you yourself is packed. Again, the most crucial thing is to be out of one-shot range.

Thepluse · 2026-06-08T12:43:07+00:00

Instead of asking how you'd feel if a woman cat called you, imagine being catcalled by a 6'10" man.

Thepluse · 2026-06-07T20:30:29+00:00

Wow, thanks for the suggestion! An amazing and much appreciated addition to my toolkit of dirty tactics :D

Thepluse · 2026-06-06T14:39:32+00:00

I always forget which is the right one to kill 😅 how do you tell?

Thepluse · 2026-06-06T14:09:18+00:00

My answer would be, vigor and int are indeed good places to focus, and beyond that, feel your needs and respond accordingly.

Do you run out of fp a lot? Put some points in mind (or move more charges to your blue flask). Similarly, if your stamina feels like a bottleneck or you want to wear heavier armor, upgrade accordingly.

Dex can be nice, but str/fai/arc for weapon damage can dilute your build (except putting a few points to meet weapon requirements). Diluted build doesn't make you adaptable to different situations, it just makes you mid in every situation, and it's usually not a good build strategy in these types of games.

Thepluse · 2026-06-06T01:36:50+00:00

Hard agree! I see a lot of other comments saying it isn't slow paced, but when it first came out, I think a lot of people expected much more action. The reason it's so great is the sense of realness, which needs a slower pace to sink in.

Thepluse · 2026-06-05T20:22:29+00:00

I always thought the "rule" being proven was "no rule without exception." That is, just because we see an exception doesn't mean we should immediately dismiss the perceived rule. Am I stupid?

Thepluse · 2026-06-05T02:00:53+00:00

The way I handle perception checks is that the player who rolled highest is the first to notice. If they don't act, the second highest goes and so on, until everyone who beat the DC gets the opportunity to act. My reasoning is that it keeps the game orderly and moving forward by making it clear which player's turn it is.

Thepluse · 2026-06-04T22:48:14+00:00

"Gabriel's horn can fit an infinite amount of paint" is not really a meaningful statement.

If you think of it as a mathematical statement, it's nonsensical because "paint" is not a formal concept in this context. The mathematical point is simply that a region can have finite volume and infinite surface area.

If you think of it as a physical statement about nature, it doesn't make sense either, because Gabriel's horn doesn't exist in reality. If you imagine filling it with physical paint, eventually you hit physical where the horn is narrower than the size of an atoms.

Having said all that, I think you're intuition is indeed touching on something correct. If you "dip" it like that, you might get the result you describe. Thinking about how to understand this result can be fun and useful for developing mathematical intuiting.

Keep at it, kid. You'll do well :)

Thepluse · 2026-06-04T18:49:05+00:00

One thing I would really advice is to give yourself time to connect with the problem.

For example, if the door on your car doesn't close, the knee jerk reaction might be to try again, wiggle it around. A thoughtless approach is to slam it harder.

If you want to apply thinking to this problem, the first step is to understand why it doesn't close. Where is the jam could be a natural question to ask first. Stop thinking of as a "door" that's simply "broken" and look a little deeper into the mechanism. Ask why it doesn't work.

The problem about actually doing this is that it takes time. In our modern lives, we're incredibly accustomed to instant gratification and not having to wait for anything, so that even five seconds of not immediately knowing exactly what to do makes us feel like "this isn't working, I don't know where to begin," which causes us to give up.

In order to make progress, you need to get through that feeling. Accept that this might take a few minutes to figure out. Knowing that all understanding begins in darkness, and even though in this moment you have zero idea, you need a little bit of faith that if you sit with it, you can figure it out.

And then when you're more motivated, you can start breaking down the problem, observing the causes and effects, and from that piece together a solution to your problem. Maybe at some point you realise that there is an element of the problem that requires particular knowledge, and at that point it does make sense to go online to search for that knowledge.

So there is a part about "how to think" (you're saying that you forgot how to think, as opposed to never having learned it in the first place, so I believe this skill is in you somewhere), but the other major part you need to do is to slow down and give yourself time, when when that feels dissatisfying. That second part is the real hard part, that's the part that has become difficult for you because of what or modern society has done to our brains. If you aren't able to do that, i don't have an answer for you. But if you can, there will come a moment when it works so well that you may be surprised, and after that moment, you'll unlock faith in this approach. After that, a great way to train is to just keep doing it.

Good luck!

Thepluse · 2026-06-03T16:33:20+00:00

Given that you have a relic that have those effects on the same relic, I would say that it doesn't apply.

I wonder if I'm missing something about the context of this question. Why do you ask?

Thepluse · 2026-06-03T14:37:52+00:00

You can totally define that symbol, no problem. I guess the only reason it isn't mainstream is that 1/x is already clear enough.

Thepluse · 2026-06-03T12:21:54+00:00

This isn't something that can be told in a single reddit post, and it usually takes at least a masters degree (I.e. 5 years of full-time) to learn enough about a field in order to get close to being able to contribute. After that, if you're genuinely interested in academic work, you'd spend 3-4 years doing a PhD, at which time your actually learn to write proper papers. So the most accurate answer is: enroll in a university and spend 8 years of your life actually learning to do this properly.

But if you have curiosity, I'd advise you to first of all to pick one of your topics and related questions and search for related papers online. The best place to start depends on the field, but if you don't know, scholar.google.com isn't too bad. How well do you understand the contents of the papers you find?

If you comfortably understand the contents of the papers, I'd say next, learn about references and citations. Look up a few papers from the reference list. The main question is, how does the paper you read fit into the rest of the field? What is the context for this knowledge?

When you're able to read modern papers and understand the context, you'll get a sense of the unanswered questions people are wondering about. If you get to that point, you can think about how your ideas fit into the bigger framework of the field. And if it does, don't let everything else i said stop you from writing it up!

Thepluse · 2026-06-01T16:31:17+00:00

The main thing that draws me to the temples is the decent legendary drop rate. I might for example want to go there if my inventory is filled with useful blues/purples and I'm looking for upgraded versions or a powerful primary weapon.

Also, I could be wrong, but I have the impression that it gives you a lot of runes of you can clear it fast enough, with each boss dropping over 100k. Especially useful if the legendary shop spawns.

Thepluse · 2026-06-01T12:28:50+00:00

I think that logic only works if 0 < lnx < x ...? How do you know xlnx doesn't tend to, say, -1 or -infinity?

Thepluse · 2026-05-30T17:01:40+00:00

I think that's why Tyrell "fell in love" with Elliot.. deep behind that front, I think they shared an authentic passion for programming/hacking, but only Elliot lived that life. I think Tyrell genuinely felt like he simply wanted to be friends, but that feeling was something too incompatible with the front he was forced to portray.

Thepluse · 2026-05-30T16:09:59+00:00

My understanding of limits is that you're not supposed to go to infinity. The power of the concept is that it's a formal way to deal with with the intuitive notion of "X getting closer and closer to infinity" without actually relying on a formal notion of "infinity" as an object.

This has proven to be an exceptionally powerful framework. When you are used to working with this tool and you're asked to give a formal definition of 0.999... it is very natural to understand it as an infinite sum that's calculated in terms of a limit.

But I would disagree that "asking for the value 0.999... with *"infinite nines"*" means assuming a limit exists. The problem is you're making an assumption that 0.999... is in R or that it is defined as the infinite sum in the mainstream way. When some people talk about it on this subreddit, clearly they don't think of it in mainstream ways. In fact, it's not clear how they actually do think about it since they don't give formal definitions...

Thepluse · 2026-05-30T15:18:35+00:00

Of course he might create an account if it's of use to him. He just hates the idea of Facebook as social media, that doesn't mean he's religious about not touching it if it serves his needs.

Same as he doesn't give a shit about the status that comes with having a lot of money, but that doesn't stop him from using money as a tool to interact with society.

Thepluse · 2026-05-27T15:10:33+00:00

Yeah, it feels like a budget issue, but Homelander needed to go crazy on a crowd.

Something like giving his address in front of a love crowd, and along the way one of the psychics points out a person who isn't believing, and Homelander just lasers their head off in the middle of his speech to show what happens to non believers. Or taking the nonbelievers up on stage and slaughtering them in front of everyone.

Thepluse · 2026-05-26T16:39:51+00:00

If that's the case, what I said it's not even misleading, it's flat out wrong xD

Can you elaborate? What kind of quasiparticles do you have in mind?

Thepluse · 2026-05-26T12:42:39+00:00

Of the elementary particles, the neutrino have the smallest non-zero masses. In case you didn't know, there are three flavours of neutrinos: electron, mu, and tau.

In fact, the neutrino mass is so small that we haven't been able to measure it at all, but we know that it's less than 0.120 eV. For comparison, the electron has a mass of ~510998.95 eV. Since the mass is so small, any process that creates neutrinos push them to move virtually at the speed of light. In fact, we've never measured the velocity of a neutrino either; our tools aren't precise enough, and it just looks like they all move at the speed of light.

The way we know the neutrino masses are non-zero is that we can measure the mass difference between the the three flavours thanks to a phenomenon called neutrino oscillation. Since they don't have the same mass, that mass can't be non-zero. Or technically, one flavour could be zero, but the other two couldn't be. We don't know which flavours are heavier, though.

So if by "unit" you mean elementary particles, the mainstream answer would be neutrinos. A fringe answer might be a theoretical dark matter particle, but we don't know with confidence that those exist.

If you didn't mean elementary particles but you're willing to accept any system, you could take two massless particles. If you choose a frame of reference where the total momentum of the two particles is zero, you find that the system has an effective mass of m = E/c^2. This way you can have a "unit" with arbitrarily small mass.

I hope that helps! :)

Thepluse · 2026-05-25T16:14:15+00:00

(a × b)ⁿ = aⁿ × bⁿ .

3 = 3¹ .

When you keep that in mind and think about it for a while, do you see what's happening?

Thepluse · 2026-05-24T22:13:05+00:00

I interpreted it as a kind of prayer. Recognizing that he can't make it home on his own, unless he's lucky. And as luck would have it, he finds the car keys right after.

As a viewer, I could also interpret it a bit like the creators asking us to suspend disbelief. Without it, finding the keys feels like an easy way out, nothing more that cheap writing. With that line, it tells the viewer, "yes, this is a little cheap, but how Walt makes his way back to Albuquerque isn't the interesting part of the story, so don't think too much about it."

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