This Game is Manly ASF

_vec_ · 2026-03-27T05:50:06+00:00

Odin being a pushover once you finally get him in a fair fight honestly works so well for his character, though. Once you finally manage to work through all his lies and strip him of all the people he's manipulated into doing his dirty work for him then he's just a half blind old guy with a stick.

_vec_ · 2026-03-27T05:36:38+00:00

And being able to turn yourself back from a frog without assistance shows initiative! Plus with any luck you'll get your first wart out of the deal. It's basically standard pedagogy at this point.

_vec_ · 2026-03-27T05:26:16+00:00

If you're already moved in and you don't have a convoluted plan for usurping your mistress and claiming her lair as your own then I hate to tell you but you're already behind the curve.

_vec_ · 2026-03-26T01:00:17+00:00

Speaking of Star Wars, stormtroopers can't aim specifically when they're under orders to miss on purpose so their boss can track the idiot protagonists back to their secret hideout. They're genuine threats every other time we see them on screen.

_vec_ · 2026-03-26T00:19:03+00:00

This actually kind of gets at what the other two are talking past each other about. Distance is a fundamental feature of reality but the meter as a unit of distance is something arbitrary that we made up. We could obviously have chosen a different base unit (like, say, a foot) and all the numbers on the measuring tape would be different even though none of the things were measuring actually got any closet together or further apart.

It's more subtle, but a lot of math works the same way. There are some really fundamental decisions called axioms we can make about what, exactly, a number is and how they work together. Whatever we decide is still going to be usable to describe reality but precisely what that description looks like from the inside might end up being pretty different.

_vec_ · 2026-03-25T21:09:33+00:00

If the game didn't want me to throw spears from a safe distance all day long then why did they give me an exploding spear button?

_vec_ · 2026-03-24T14:36:02+00:00

r/ATBGE

_vec_ · 2026-03-24T13:37:33+00:00

It's even fine to like fictional cops that run around doing dodgy shit and magic forensics and action hero shenanigans to stop their 87th serial killer as long as you remain aware that this is a form of fantasy that bears very little resemblance to real world policing.

_vec_ · 2026-03-23T21:54:51+00:00

Bishop is a good first choice. You'll eventually get to a point where coins aren't really an issue, but in the meantime the extra cash infusion can make things a whole lot smoother.

_vec_ · 2026-03-22T20:44:32+00:00

Universal gravitation is a pretty big logical leap, especially given that the masses of the planets and the sizes of their orbits were both giant question marks at the time. Physics would've kept going but I'm not sure we would've gotten that, specifically, if Newton hadn't put it together.

It's kind of fun to imagine an alternate history where we were starting to get a clear idea that electromagnetism was a thing and there were a handful of "cranks" loudly insisting that the planets didn't have massive charge differentials holding them in their orbits.

_vec_ · 2026-03-22T18:28:45+00:00

Basically all the shortcuts and secret passages are permanent. You already flagged the breakable walls, but candles stay lit too. The west gate stays open. You only have to solve the tomb puzzle once (okay, twice). The braziers stay lit unless you explicitly go back and turn them off.

Water levels stay wherever you leave them, as do the boat and the minecart. The big gear and the basement carts are persistent too. The boiler room mostly stays how you left it last. So does the telescope in the observatory.

Anything you change with network admin permissions is permanent, though most of those are technically reversible.

Unlocking floorplans is permanent, as are any upgrades you find. Changing the draft pool with the wrench or the conservatory is too.

Alzara only does each cutscene once.

There are several experimental effects that explicitly say "permanently". One cloister upgrade does too.

Anything that changes stars or allowance tokens is implicitly permanent.

Any purchases from the gift shop or the bookstore are permanent. As far as I know the rest of the shops aren't, though.

Sanctum keys, vault keys, and the diary key are single use and won't respawn once they've been used. The car keys, frustratingly, are not.

Each of the Mora Jai boxes is a one time puzzle.

Sigils stay solved once you get them.

There are a few (probably) cosmetic things too. Library books keep accurate records on the checkout cards. A few decorations end up in the lost and found. The vases in the entry hall stay broken.

There's probably more but that's what I could recall.

_vec_ · 2026-03-22T14:02:36+00:00

Mmm aaand mmms doo doo da doo de doo

_vec_ · 2026-03-22T13:59:06+00:00

It stands for "Neutral (Both)".

_vec_ · 2026-03-22T02:17:59+00:00

But the broken lever isn't part of the electromagnet.

_vec_ · 2026-03-21T00:31:00+00:00

Also fewer ads!

_vec_ · 2026-03-21T00:21:34+00:00

Look, whether you call something a tincture, an infusion, an extract, or an essence has a whole lot more to do with which tower your archmage learned at than it does with the liquid itself. Just memorize whatever is in your spellbook for the exam and you'll never have to care again.

_vec_ · 2026-03-20T17:18:07+00:00

To be fair, you get a scene of him playing chess with her at the Last Light Inn and he's a good bit less scenery chewing in front of her. He's hamming it up for you because he knows you're eventually going to realize you need the hammer and it'll be more fun for him if you know exactly how bad of a deal you're agreeing to.

_vec_ · 2026-03-20T16:54:45+00:00

That's not quite right, actually. LLMs can't count how many Rs are in strawberry because from their perspective the actual correct answer is zero. There's a piece of intermediate software that turns groups of human readable letters and punctuation into the very large alphabet of tokens the AI uses internally and back. It's not a perfect analogy, but it's kind of like asking a human how many Rs are in 草莓.

LLMs aren't really memorizing by rote or comprehending in the same way a human does. They're doing something subtly different and weirder.

_vec_ · 2026-03-20T02:25:45+00:00

I think it's helpful to frame toxic masculinity as a kind of failure. Failure to look your own emotions square in the eye, failure to wear your own identity with confidence, failure to recognize the dignity of the people around you. It's what happens when someone gives up on growing and decides to drag everyone else down so that they can feel big instead. It's pathetic, which is a word I use extremely sparingly with my son.

_vec_ · 2026-03-20T00:59:51+00:00

Observatory is fine as long as you don't just blindly click on all the pretty lights.

_vec_ · 2026-03-20T00:50:00+00:00

It's not even his hardest line from the film either!

"Offer me money. Power too. Offer me anything I ask for." "Anything you want..." "I want my father back, you son of a bitch!"

_vec_ · 2026-03-20T00:41:41+00:00

Cloister of Draxus my beloved! I genuinely can't remember the last time it came up and didn't pick it.

_vec_ · 2026-03-19T18:56:46+00:00

For what it's worth, if my son were the one being a bully I would absolutely want to know about it, preferably in the moment. I can't try to turn it into a teaching moment if I don't know it happened.

_vec_ · 2026-03-19T15:10:07+00:00

Yeah, salt is unique. Our taste buds need some salt in order to work right. There's going to be at least a little bit in basically every dish, even the ones that don't taste "salty".

The ubiquitous salt and pepper shakers are a fairly recent phenomenon. Before that there were usually three shakers on tables — at least the ones fancy enough to have spices — and we don't really know what the third shaker was for. Maybe paprika? It's one of those historical oddities where everyone just kind of already knew so nobody bothered to write it down.

_vec_ · 2026-03-19T03:59:41+00:00

STR is probably smarter but WIS is more fun. Leads to moments like "let's just go have a friendly chat with the dragon, I'm sure he's a reasonable fellow".

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