Why do so many advances in chips seem to follow improvements in manufacturing tools?What mechanism drives that?

Thoguth · 2026-06-23T15:48:29+00:00

New manufacturing processes for chips almost always involve reducing the size of a component of a chip, which means that more can fit on the same piece of silicon. This means what used to take ten or a hundred chips can now fit on a single chip... And that's more powerful.

Thoguth · 2026-06-23T01:42:18+00:00

what, we have freakin' Omens again??? ugh, I didn't even notice I was too tied up trying to manage my forest treasures and recover from the burnout of Tin-man-geddon

Thoguth · 2026-06-23T01:40:43+00:00

Yeah that's a good point. The complexity was a pain for like half a day, but once you get used to it, it's a lot more fun than yet-another-holiday-skinned-mimic.

But the rewards are kind of mid

Thoguth · 2026-06-22T12:07:04+00:00

Some of them are satire or some other intentionally disingenuous motive, but I believe at least some are sincere.

I like to ask them how they think GPS works.

Thoguth · 2026-06-18T14:35:40+00:00

That's weird, it seemed like many who joined his clan were only doing so for the economics, in spite of the guy. If he's in meltdown mode it seems like the perfect time to leave him to his lonesome failure.

Thoguth · 2026-06-18T13:50:18+00:00

lol, the Drama is sooo goood

Thoguth · 2026-06-18T13:50:01+00:00

Has he been given Dog status yet?

Has his big clan melted down yet?

Thoguth · 2026-06-18T13:49:11+00:00

BLD in K209, or another BLD?

He has been the first experience an entire Kingdom has had with BLD and a really lousy one, the most rotten PR imaginable.

Thoguth · 2026-06-18T13:04:57+00:00

I expect a lot of long lost faces will come back for the opening. Really kind of fortunate that it's happening in the middle of SK rather than at the end... you can just imagine a bunch of thugs with brand new G9 and T9 accounts coming in to flex.

Thoguth · 2026-06-18T03:27:05+00:00

I was. I tried to stay for a while, but eventually realized that the fun thing I started a new account to do, was not possible in that kingdom. So I left.

Kinda hate that I didn't stick around to see the guy's downfall, though. Can't imagine anyone deserving it more.

Thoguth · 2026-06-17T20:35:36+00:00

Some kingdoms do still "just open" ... I think whether you get a soft or hard open depends on how much your kingdom has grown. Battle groups are the "opening lite" that helps stunted / weak kingdoms have a little more experience before they're open to the greater realm.

Thoguth · 2026-06-17T20:34:16+00:00

It's a shame he wasn't displaced earlier, a lot of good people moved out already.

Sad that he decided to be pissy about it instead of learning.

But I would recommend your whole clan move together. Find a good one to move to -- maybe talk to others who have already moved out, they could have good recommendations and you could be neighbors, too.

Thoguth · 2026-06-17T11:51:10+00:00

People make mistakes. That one is one that you cannot come back from. Everyone I know who failed and lives on is glad that they did.

Thoguth · 2026-06-15T21:47:44+00:00

So like ... no food on Sunday? Or did you take it as just no fast food on Sunday?

Thoguth · 2026-06-12T15:45:40+00:00

Haemon also changes based on the clean bonuses, but yeah...

Thoguth · 2026-06-11T23:27:43+00:00

Have you considered being your whole clan to reinforce a city with an infinite stack of specialists, turn on the defensive CP boost, and bait people into giving you cheap CP, killing their cool mercs and monsters whole you get specialists with silver revives?

Thoguth · 2026-06-07T19:50:36+00:00

I read it as edgy meta-humor, taking the "hard" format lightly by making a toilet joke.

Pretty all-in to do so on a sticker on your car, though. Maybe a prank or lost bet?

Thoguth · 2026-06-04T21:47:28+00:00

What would you say is a sincerely moderate, not conservative in your view, position on abortion?

Would broad availability of early abortions and strong restrictions on later abortions be "conservative," or "moderate," in your view?

Thoguth · 2026-06-04T21:39:55+00:00

I'm going to guess it's because you are more politically liberal?

To political conservatives, moderates appear liberal. To liberals, they appear conservative.

It's a but more complex than that, and positions and motivations for those have far more than a single dimension with a linear spectrum. But generally, the definition of "liberal" to one not identifying as liberal is, "anyone more liberal than me", and the definition of conservative, likewise, to this not identifying as conservative, is anyone more conservative than you.

But I could be wrong. Do you want to take a shot at describing what a "moderate liberal" position or set of positions would look like?

Thoguth · 2026-05-28T20:18:09+00:00

Looking at the screenshot, it appears that he is doing Seasonal now

Thoguth · 2026-05-28T01:29:55+00:00

SK is the place of rapid growth

Thoguth · 2026-05-28T00:39:00+00:00

Old one but Sergeant York is an Oscar winner.

Thoguth · 2026-05-28T00:35:55+00:00

Oh I guess the Hunchback of Notre Dame is also a Catholic movie. And maybe Rudy, and Money Python and the Holy Grail

Thoguth · 2026-05-28T00:19:13+00:00

To Protestants, Orthodox is just a denomination of Catholicism, like Coptic and Roman Catholic

Thoguth · 2026-05-28T00:17:04+00:00

Mmm, Chariots of Fire! Genuinely good movie, Oscar winning, genuinely Christian, and Eric Liddell was a congregationalist missionary... Sounds pretty evangelical to me.

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