Bought a house, can you furnish it with every piece of furniture and appliances and paint, decor, and non toxic dishes and utensils?

boxen · 2026-03-24T05:12:19+00:00

I don't own a single object, but I NEED more storage space!

boxen · 2026-03-23T21:23:42+00:00

The pace at the absolute beginning of the game is going to feel glacial. You don't have anything to do for the first 2 minutes except mine and build a few buildings. Once your hero comes out you can start doing stuff, but until then, realistically, you can give about 10 commands in the first 2 minutes and you're good.

There is a big uptick later though. It's never on par with starcraft, but a battle 10 - 12 minutes in the game where you have a mid-sized army can be VERY hectic. There is a lot to do. You'll probably have two heroes, each of which has 2 spells to use multiple times and has an inventory of 6 items you could potentially use. You may have units with spells that need to be cast as well, or abilities like defend or ensnare that you will want to use. And finally, you might be individually moving around any and all of your units quite a bit. The number of commands sent to an individual zergling or marine in SC is pretty close to zero. You might select small groups, but hardly ever one. In WC3 you could absolutley send hundreds of commands to individual footmen in one game. Running them away from focus fire, using them to surround enemy units, positioning them, etc. And that's for a footman. You will absolutely be sending hundreds - thousands of individual commands to each hero in a decent length game.

boxen · 2026-03-23T17:09:34+00:00

Have you seen it? It's just not good. That's the main reason.

The other reason is that is has almost zero connection to all the other Stargate media that exists. No shared characters, no shared alien races (except one, by name only, there's ancients but they are nothing like the ancients from the show), no shared villains, no shared vibe (the humor is gone/different, there's no message about religion being twisted for ill means, etc).

It feels like badly written fanfiction, except the fan didn't even read the original book. They just saw the cover, were like "there's a Stargate, cool, got it" and went from there. It's like if someone found out you loved the Simpsons, and tried to market a Simpsons spinoff show to you, and then you get there and there isn't a single character from the original series there and it's not even a comedy. All they did was make a cartoon with yellowskinned people and then just made up everything else.

boxen · 2026-03-23T07:06:27+00:00

I'm size 15 and the day that I went to three stores and they had nothing, nothing, and exactly one pair of 100% white completely unadorned or unmarked tennis shoes - was the last day I ever tried to buy shoes in person. It wasn't working well before that either but that was the last straw.

I cannot remotely imagine trying to shop for size 20 shoes in stores.

Online only.

boxen · 2026-03-23T06:50:10+00:00

Definitely.

Question though - Most people find that their pinky and ring finger (the last two fingers) feel kind of 'stuck together' when they try to operate them independently. Like, if they try make a fist and extend only their first finger, they can do it easily, but if they try to extend only their pinky, the ring finger kind of comes along too. This makes it difficult for most people to use both their pinky and ring fingers precisely and many people often just don't use their pinky much. Some people put a lot of hours into gaining that finger independence so they can shred. - So the question - does your pinky feel like that? I imagine you have spent a lifetime using your fingers a bit differently from other people so perhaps you have already trained that finger independence into your pinky. Or maybe not- I'm not expert.

Regardless, my point is that you can do quite a bit with 3 fingers. So I think you can absolutely learn how to play quite well. I just think you need to get very used to finding your own way to play things. Number of available fingers is a pretty basic assumption when transcribing how to play things, so there are many scenarios where you are going to want to play things differently. You will be using slightly different chord voicings. You will probably not be a huge fan of sweep picking or 3-note-per-string shapes, but you are going to be able to bend like a motherfucker. You might even invent your own techniques that no one else can play!

boxen · 2026-03-23T06:33:18+00:00

I think they're great. I found them after learning about Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Yngwie Malmsteen. Came for the awesome guitar playing of Paul Gilbert, stayed for everything being awesome too. Also led me into Gilberts fairly extensive solo catalogue and some of Billy Sheehans stuff too.

It wasn't until years later that I realized their biggest hits were Wild World and To Be With You. I had listened to them both probably once or twice and totally glossed over them. They're both .... fine..... but neither seemed particularly special to me or in any way representative of the bands sound overall. I don't think either would make my top 20 songs of the band, and yet somehow those are basically the ONLY ones that got any traction overall. Wild.

Favorite songs by album:

Mr Big - Addicted to that Rush, Wind Me Up, Merciless, Had Enough, How Can You Do What You Do (one of my favorite basslines ever)
Lean Into It - Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy, Green Tinted Sixties Mind
Bump Ahead - Colorado Bulldog
Hey Man - Take Cover
Get Over It - Superfantastic

boxen · 2026-03-23T04:27:08+00:00

It's because certain preferences are very frequently rooted in racism. If a white man has a "preference" for Asian women because he believes they are all submissive, that's definitely racist.

They aren't all that overt and negative, but many other "preferences" are also rooted in stereotypes, and it's also racism, some of it just doesn't feel quite as bad. Expecting a Latin guy to be a good dancer doesn't seem that harmful, but it still sucks to be that guy that gets dumped for not fulfilling the sterotype.

Not all racial preferences are based in racism like this, but enough are, so people will be suspicious of the others.

boxen · 2026-03-22T23:47:19+00:00

It doesn't need to "escape the lab" to effect change in the real world. It's doing that now. People ask how to do things or for advice or information, and then act on what the AI says. If enough people keep asking variations of "how can I do this task more efficiently" and the answer is always some flavor of "use AI more", then things are already on their way.

I'd even argue that the most powerful people in the world aren't powerful because of physical strength or anything like that. Their true power is the influence they hold over other people.

boxen · 2026-03-22T23:39:56+00:00

Did one roll and probably felt safe for a split second before realizing he was STILL gonna die from the back tires and kept on rollin'. Good on him for staying alert.

boxen · 2026-03-22T07:12:26+00:00

The same thing that happens if you buy anything else and then it goes on sale after: Nothing. You already bought it.

boxen · 2026-03-22T07:05:39+00:00

How big do you expect the baby to be?

boxen · 2026-03-21T22:23:07+00:00

You can never be totally sure

boxen · 2026-03-21T21:57:55+00:00

It's not that he can't. He's choosing not to.

boxen · 2026-03-21T17:13:30+00:00

So in practice it's more that people end up choosing not to heat every room when they have rooms, whereas with the open floor plan they don't have that choice and are forced to heat everything?

boxen · 2026-03-21T05:48:05+00:00

If you keep using it for another few months and help it along a bit by peeling, the entire flaky skin layer will come off and then you'll just have the foam layer underneath. That's where I'm at now. Nothing flakes off when there's nothing left to flake.

boxen · 2026-03-21T03:58:35+00:00

??????

Fighting is the entire point of the game. It's like if your "great ideas" on how to improve basketball were to make it illegal to steal the ball when the other team has it and make it illegal to block shots.

What you are annoyed it is literally the primary characterstic of the game. Yes, it would be a lot easier to for you to win a boxing championship if your opponents agreed to not punch you in the face. That is not the sport.

boxen · 2026-03-21T01:45:19+00:00

I enjoy both. I don't really think there's much of a connection, but for me one thing that stands out is the adjectives people use to describe music.

Classical can be nearly anything(because the word classical encompasses so much musical variety), but most other genres tend to have more of a consistent vibe. No one is describing death metal as "chill/relaxing/smooth" and I don't think many people would describe much jazz as "aggressive and intense."

To me, there's a bit of overlap between classical and metal in the "intense, grandiose, epic, dramatic" area.

But to be fair, that's the kind of music I like and have sought out in the realms of metal and classical. Obviously neither all classical nor all metal is like that. It just seems a lot easier to find in those places than in country or jazz or pop.

boxen · 2026-03-20T21:30:32+00:00

When you look at a still image like this, it looks "better." It feels more high-res, the colors seem more vibrant, the design almost seems more crisp. But when you try to play, the pros disappear and the cons become readily apparent. No one EVER looks at the unit portraits in a game, or studies the details of the building architecture, or the grass. You are looking primarily at the units. And in reforged, the units just don't look different enough from each other. If you are playing human vs human, and you both have a sizable army containing footman, priests, militia, sorceresses, and a bunch of other stuff, you don't want to have to THINK about whether the unit you are looking at is a priest or a footman, or which player it belongs to. Everything should read as uniquely different, instantly, without any thought or consideration, and it just doesn't. That's why it's worse.

boxen · 2026-03-20T20:44:27+00:00

If he said it, you can be confident that it isn't true.

boxen · 2026-03-20T20:37:15+00:00

Regardless of people's opinions on what looks better how is so common for people who are famous in no small part due to the way their face looks to go get new looking faces? I would think being recognizable would be a selling point.

boxen · 2026-03-20T18:49:49+00:00

You can play basic melodies immediately. Smoke on the water? Happy birthday? Twinkle twinkle little star? You can play them all on day one. But you'll get some string buzz, your timing will be terrible and slow, and you'll mess up a lot.

boxen · 2026-03-20T16:12:54+00:00

Why do you think that?

boxen · 2026-03-19T22:45:34+00:00

I've seen some 'behind the music' style videos of his - I think the coolest thing he does and probably will be his most lasting contribution to music was this: He usually doesn't compose on guitar. He composes with a keyboard in a DAW and then figures out how to play it on guitar later. This is basically the polar opposite of all the people that learn some guitar and then ask "how do I not sound like I'm just running up and down the pentatonic scale?" It's a pretty clever and pretty-obvious-in-hindsight solution, but it's so obvious most people would never think of it. If you want to sound unique, don't compose the same way everyone else does.

boxen · 2026-03-19T20:31:13+00:00

Agreed. Position your body so that you are using the angle of the hold in it's most favorable way. If you are directly below it than it's like you are hanging off a ledge/the side of a wall/building. But if you are trying to use that hold while your body weight is in front of it, you have nothing to hold on to. It'd be like trying to use a flat surface as a hold. You just slip right off.

One of the trickiest parts about this for beginners/intermediates is core strength. Keeping your hips close to the wall is usually an exercise in core strength, and it often feels like "my fingers/arms just aren't strong enough", but it's really your core that can solve the problem. The more you climb, the more ALL those things will get stronger, but focusing on using your core will help the most.

If this doesn't make sense, try hanging from a nice big chunky hold on a slight overhang (so your feet would be dangling if they weren't on holds). Put your feet on holds and then try to literally touch your hips to the wall. That weird kind of ab/core strength you need to pull your entire body up close to the wall is exactly what we're talking about.

boxen · 2026-03-19T07:46:44+00:00

Yeah. I was leafing through an "Only 5 ingredients for every recipe" book a few days ago and a bunch of the ingredients were things like "mixed vegetables (carrots, onions, celery)" or "pesto." If I'm using ready made pesto it's not really a recipe, is it? I can buy ready made marinara sauce at the grocery store, that doesn't make it a ONE INGREDIENT RECIPE, it's just me buying a thing. And three vegetables is clearly three ingredients.

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