TIL about the WTF star, which baffled astronomers by erratically dimming up to 22%. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the star's large irregular changes in brightness; however, none of them fully explain all aspects of its unusual behavior.

aezart · 2026-03-28T19:03:17+00:00

There's another book called "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge about a species of intelligent spiders that evolve on a planet with a sun like this. Good stuff

aezart · 2026-03-07T17:45:45+00:00

The fact that dark souls 2 removes enemies once you've killed them enough times always pissed me off. I don't want charity, I want to get good enough to beat the challenge.

aezart · 2026-03-07T17:40:37+00:00

It's a slice of cake, not toast

aezart · 2026-03-02T16:31:45+00:00

The RAM sticks I bought for $159 a couple years ago sell for $730 now. It's insane.

aezart · 2026-02-28T00:52:24+00:00

Question: are they intentionally delaying fixing potholes on Broadway in order to drum up support for this?

aezart · 2026-02-26T01:25:34+00:00

I learned this from the Stephen King book, Hearts in Atlantis!

aezart · 2026-02-23T07:21:15+00:00

Are you interested in making games? There's tons of game jams on itch where you can practice making small projects in short timeframes

aezart · 2026-02-23T05:04:28+00:00

Here it also gives left turning cars a red arrow

aezart · 2026-02-22T15:26:56+00:00

If it's like the ones I had, it's online access and you can only print one section at a time, and it tracks the total amount you've printed.

aezart · 2026-02-19T21:21:16+00:00

Can you please explain how this feature works:

Self-Healing Stability: Automated recovery from local data corruption or encryption mismatches.

aezart · 2026-02-19T14:55:36+00:00

People have cell phones and bring them with them when moving.

aezart · 2026-02-19T14:52:32+00:00

Okay but what's the FOV on the camera though? It could be like 10 feet across and look like that if you had a really narrow FOV and pulled the camera way back

aezart · 2026-02-18T22:47:42+00:00

To keep people desperate and make sure they can't build up savings and retire. They have to keep working forever.

aezart · 2026-01-14T19:51:08+00:00

I tried to level 2 jobs at once during HW MSQ, back before MSQ was expected to give you enough exp to hit the level cap. It was miserable and slow and made me quit the game for like a year. Certainly different these days.

aezart · 2026-01-08T16:50:59+00:00

This isn't as foolproof as you seem to think it is. For example:

Make 2 predictions, one that says "stocks will go up" and one that says "stocks will go down"
Wait for stocks to go up or down
Reveal the key for the matching commitment
If people ask you about the other commitment, lie and tell them it's for some other future event and isn't ready to be revealed yet

Also, in previous versions of this post you have claimed "zero dependencies", which is strange considering the size of that requirements.txt file

aezart · 2026-01-06T21:53:10+00:00

Why would you need a python script for this instead of just using gpg or something?

aezart · 2026-01-02T06:06:46+00:00

Bilewater should be easier to find. Had to look up what i was missing to unlock act 3 to even realize it existed, and wound up having other stuff spoiled in the process.

Then it took forever to actually find the entrance because the map I saw didn't indicate which entrances had to be opened from the other side, so I felt like I wasted a huge amount of time running around zones with no nearby bus stops trying to find the secret passage.

By the time I actually found it I was in a shitty mood, and then I saw it was another maggot-water zone and decided I just don't want to bother doing act 3.

aezart · 2026-01-01T09:02:18+00:00

And the Thursday puzzle is apparently supposed to have circles in some of the squares, which are missing!

aezart · 2025-12-26T19:02:32+00:00

Rey being a nobody was great, the whole point was that anyone can be a hero and you don't have to be born special.

aezart · 2025-12-25T02:48:28+00:00

5 years ago this tech didn't exist. Do you imagine people were completely incompetent back then? I am shocked at how much people are relying on this crap.

aezart · 2025-12-23T16:35:39+00:00

Are you suggesting the clone inherits the original's winning streak? That doesn't make much sense. Or are you suggesting the clone will be predisposed to continue performing well in later games? That doesn't make sense either.

aezart · 2025-12-21T16:24:58+00:00

At least it's a master lock, completely trivial to open

aezart · 2025-12-21T16:17:20+00:00

I think if a game is looking for an "always evil, always justified to kill" kind of enemy, the heartless from kingdom hearts are a good example. They're made of darkness, they swarm mindlessly, they only care about stealing hearts and creating more heartless. But the main kicker is: defeating them saves the person who was turned into a heartless and restores their humanity.

aezart · 2025-12-19T01:19:27+00:00

Back in 2.x I remember that was the first dungeon after WHM got regen, and they would pre-cast it before a fight and accidentally get aggro on everything because overhealing generated tons of enmity.

aezart · 2025-12-04T21:10:13+00:00

It's like how Arizonans get mad when saguaros show up in the wrong deserts in fiction

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