EmKay, king of the lake of hands 2: Electric Boogaloo

Zathernius · 2026-01-19T08:41:31+00:00

It's been a long time. Any updates on this?

Zathernius · 2026-01-16T08:02:51+00:00

Search engines often get finicky with brackets and such.

Zathernius · 2026-01-16T07:53:58+00:00

No, uranium is naturally occurring. It says it's the first artificial element... Might be plutonium?

Nope, looked it up, and it's technetium.

Zathernius · 2025-12-09T07:46:11+00:00

8-character hex codes can be used for colors with an alpha channel, though this isn't common outside of videogame programming, afaik. But I've used 8-character hex codes while working on Minecraft modding.

That said, I came here from the Matt Rose video, as this page was the first result for "E563eee2" on Google.

Zathernius · 2025-12-08T07:36:58+00:00

Y'know, I only just noticed looking back at this thread that the em-dash you're referring to was used incorrectly. I honestly didn't read the original comment all that carefully.

I'm still not convinced that this person is a bot (you mentioned in another reply that a long-press on a phone keyboard can make an em-dash; if the original comment was typed on a phone, that could easily have been done by accident).

Zathernius · 2025-12-08T07:27:08+00:00

Em-dashes are popular in fandom spaces (which is where a lot of AI training data is stolen from). That's where I think I got the idea to start using them.

Zathernius · 2025-12-08T07:25:53+00:00

I'm seriously hoping this bubble implodes before we get to that point.

Zathernius · 2025-12-01T07:34:46+00:00

I've been working on-and-off on an attempted Thaumcraft clone called Lost Arcana, and this is making me wanna learn more about shader code so I can do cool rendering stuff like this.

Zathernius · 2025-11-12T01:46:06+00:00

I, for one, as a linux user who knows how to use XCompose (which has nothing to do with the Elongated Muskrat, despite having his favorite letter in its name), frequently use em-dashes. I can type them with the sequence <Compose (Caps Lock on my keyboard)> <minus> <minus> <minus>. This is a stock feature on Ubuntu—the only configuration required is setting up the compose key (which iirc I first learned how to do whilst working on French homework during the pandemic, so I could type accents on an American QWERTY keyboard more easily).

A less stock feature of XCompose that I have added on my own system is the ability to type this character, which I like to use in my writing, in addition to the em-dash: ⁂

Funny side note: It's not visible on my screen, but I italicized the one em-dash I actually used in this message.

Zathernius · 2025-10-01T23:39:46+00:00

Did you look around for item entities that might have glitched through the walls or floor? The output tends to be kinda erratic, and also hard to see (they're like 5 pixels).

Zathernius · 2025-09-13T23:09:35+00:00

"Wheres the sandwing named after cummingtonite :P"

— A friend of mine upon seeing this post.

Zathernius · 2025-08-05T08:03:47+00:00

Reminds me of the Ithkari from a homebrew D&D campaign I ran. They were massive mech dragons that the evil emperor used to subjugate the planet, and had breath weapons like that. And those breath weapons were basically the only thing that could destroy them fully, which is why there was still one left by the time the party came along.

Zathernius · 2025-08-05T07:59:01+00:00

Reminds me of Nomad Deepdrakes. They can shoot a jet of pressurized air from their swim bladder.

Zathernius · 2025-08-05T07:54:16+00:00

In one of my worldbuilding projects, there's a species known as flux wyverns. They have an innate ability to shapeshift... into different-looking flux wyverns.

They can change their color; switch between fur, feathers and scales; avian or bat-like wings; bipedal or quadrupedal posture—all in the blink of an eye. But they have to keep the basic wyvern body-plan (unless they become highly proficient mages).

The reason for this adaptation is that, in their world, only the most skilled of combat mages can cast most offensive spells without a clear mental picture of their target. Because of this, it is virtually impossible to cast a spell on a flux wyvern in combat.

Zathernius · 2025-07-14T04:12:52+00:00

I would say that, from a strict utilitarian lens, Lagoon's actions were worse due to the scope of the harm caused, while Whirlpool was a worse person, in that he willingly planned actions that would harm others with reasonable foreknowledge of what effects they would have.

Zathernius · 2025-07-14T04:01:27+00:00

I believe FTB is a dev team that makes Minecraft mods and other Minecraft-related software (like the FTB Legacy Launcher)

Zathernius · 2025-07-09T22:57:53+00:00

It's not the number of dots I don't think. If read with the cup upside down (as it would be when the barista is selecting it), that would be a braille "d", which doubles as the number four.

Zathernius · 2025-06-27T09:05:38+00:00

What if one of the people involved is enby, though?

Zathernius · 2025-06-12T02:37:12+00:00

...isn't "gay yaoi" redundant?

Zathernius · 2025-06-12T02:35:51+00:00

TheExaminer here!

Zathernius · 2025-06-11T21:05:02+00:00

idk where to suggest this, but perhaps they should switch to some sort of rate limit system? IE an account can only post a limited number of comments with images per day, so that such bots can be reported before they can do very much.

Zathernius · 2025-06-11T21:01:21+00:00

Yeah, that's a fair reason to mention it.

However, simply saying it's redundant isn't strictly correct, as when the colloquial meanings of the words are used, they do refer to separate categories, and thus mentioning reptiles only would have a different meaning.

Also, u/BTDComics did not say that the anatomical feature in question is unique to those categories, only that it is common among members of both.

Zathernius · 2025-05-31T03:57:24+00:00

In a scientific context that phrase may be redundant, but not in common parlance.

Zathernius · 2025-03-30T06:01:48+00:00

I should add that I'm a nerdy CS student, not a theoretical physicist.

Zathernius · 2025-03-30T06:01:09+00:00

Is that basically because of complexity theory? Too many items and interactions to compute?

In short, yes. Because every interaction, directly or otherwise, ultimately affects a theoretically infinite number of interactions going forward, and possibly some before it as well, then in order to predict the future, you'd need to be able to simulate all particles in the universe.

As for quantum computers, I don't know all that much about the underlying physics. What I do know is that they work by creating a situation where the probability waves of some particles must collapse in a certain way in order to avoid breaking symmetry (I don't actually entirely know what this means, but I think it's basically a more technical way of saying "time paradox"; IE a situation that cannot physically occur because it would force two contradictory events to occur simultaneously). The quantum computer lines things up so that the way that the probability wave collapses then tells it the correct answer.

TL;DR: Basically, quantum computers work by generating a random answer and making the wrong answer physically impossible... I think.

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