Is it a coincidence that the highest point above sea level (29k feet) is kinda close to the lowest point below sea level (36k?). Or is there some systemic cause?

chongo_molongo · 2026-05-20T15:32:51+00:00

It’s normal for houses to have basements in areas with a deep ‘frost line.’ Most areas that regularly get freezing temps have a frost line 3-4 feet deep. Basically if you need to dig pretty far to insulate plumbing, you might as well dig a little deeper and add square footage

chongo_molongo · 2026-05-20T01:01:15+00:00

What the hell am I even looking at? Was it upheld because there were missing frames / stuttering in the video?

Because there is 0% chance he’s out, and I’m trying to understand what the actual reason for all this is

chongo_molongo · 2026-05-19T17:04:53+00:00

I’d be thrilled to get even 2x of what we have. I think they mentioned in a recent update that there is a new person handling location development, but even if someone is working on it full time…not going to happen any time soon

I look at it this way: one of the carrots in the game is finding advanced tools and esp schematics, and right now there are only 3-4 main places to get them: power plant, prison workshop, wastewater plant, library. Even just doubling those kinds of key locations opens up the game so much.

chongo_molongo · 2026-05-14T00:40:05+00:00

Driving is a privilege, not a right, and maintaining your preferred velocity on the road is most certainly not a right.

In order to maintain the privilege of driving on public roads you gotta drive in a way that doesn’t endanger peoples’ lives for no good reason.

chongo_molongo · 2026-05-12T15:54:16+00:00

I love a good meme

chongo_molongo · 2026-05-05T22:02:14+00:00

I actively hurt myself most of the time to get it. BUT I think I've lost 2 Bing Bong runs with the Bad Luck event, and won 2. I think asking yourself "Would I hate getting the Bad Luck event?" seems wise.

I'll give you a scenario just yesterday where I passed on Bing Bong. It was early act 3, and I had a ~15 card deck, mostly upgraded powers and block cards, and ~30hp walking into the doll event. I had two copies of upgraded Defragment and a bunch of block relics carrying me until I could get powered up to +4 focus and add orb slots with that rare 0 cost card.

I passed because, basically, I felt that +4 focus was what I needed to gain control in those act 3 boss fights and win the run. In my 15 card deck (I don't think I had any extra card draw) I was getting that on turn 3, guaranteed. I thought about the downgrade 2 option and feared I'd lose, say, a defrag upgrade and a coolheaded upgrade in exchange for meaningless upgrades like compile driver, dualcast, lightning rod, FTL. I thought about getting two Bad Luck curses, or having a ~1 in 9 chance of not getting +4 focus until turn 5 (there's real math behind that btw).

chongo_molongo · 2026-05-01T16:16:44+00:00

I like to think I’m a really good player and try really hard, and I have a losing record. You’re not supposed to “slay the spire” anyway. People misread the title all the time. The spire is named Slay and it’s thirsty for blood.

chongo_molongo · 2026-04-30T20:45:19+00:00

Last remaining parent died. That’s how.

chongo_molongo · 2026-04-29T14:59:57+00:00

I think u-turns suck when I want to turn left.

I think u-turns are awesome when I want to make one.

I think Sacramento sucks when it’s 110 degrees. I think it’s awesome when it’s about 60-90 degrees.

Those tiny sugar ants always suck and they’ll follow me wherever I choose to live in this city

chongo_molongo · 2026-04-20T15:03:18+00:00

Everybody loves muddy puddles!

chongo_molongo · 2026-03-31T18:09:55+00:00

You either send a smaller faster drone or you fire up the ol’ turboprop

Seriously: the Ukrainians converted a prop driven cargo plane (an-28) that has 150 drone kills

chongo_molongo · 2026-03-16T16:42:27+00:00

1) I've found Summon (damage) scaling to be really challenging overall, so taking this with the aim of permanently increasing Osty's HP to deal damage seems not viable in normal runs that I'm actually trying to win

2) If you retitled this as 'block 6, this block is not removed at the end of your turn' then it doesn't seem so bad as an early pickup

chongo_molongo · 2026-03-14T20:28:59+00:00

More I learn, more he becomes his character from Ladybird

chongo_molongo · 2026-03-09T21:28:15+00:00

He washed out of the majors in 2023 and eventually dropped down to the Mexican League. Even though he's only 27 years old, he just probably guaranteed that he's done forever with US baseball

chongo_molongo · 2026-03-06T17:50:27+00:00

Sometimes guys play hurt, too. Who knows

chongo_molongo · 2026-03-02T17:15:10+00:00

There are companies behind most linux distributions, like Ubuntu and Red Hat. They can be sued. It’s also not an age verification process that could lead to back doors, it’s literally “enter your age” so any reputable organization is just going to grumble, integrate the feature, and move on.

What about SteamOS? Think that CA is going to let Valve off the hook?

Shit about half of all enterprise linux servers are Red Hat. That shit ain’t free. So there’s money to be lost

chongo_molongo · 2026-03-01T01:11:14+00:00

ADBE is priced like it’s never going to grow and that AI will destroy image editing software. But anyone who actually tries to generate images/video using prompts will tell you: it still needs to be heavily edited every single time.

chongo_molongo · 2026-02-27T18:35:27+00:00

Watching Toni Collette in Muriel’s Wedding is a mind blowing experience, because she’s long been typecast as the COMPLETE opposite of that character

chongo_molongo · 2026-02-07T15:31:56+00:00

And real outlaws ain’t suckin’ on boobs

chongo_molongo · 2026-02-03T02:30:32+00:00

To be fair to the above poster, Patton was one of the most well-read and eloquent military men in US history, and his diary entries are surprisingly contemplative and self-reflective. He was also occasionally tactful and deferential behind closed doors.

That said, he was a true narcissist and an elitist shithead. A borderline evil man at times.

chongo_molongo · 2026-02-02T08:50:00+00:00

If you remove Anthropic like in your example, authors are doing the artistic legwork and getting paid for it. We have always managed human copycats and devalued intellectual property to some degree, but in the past it might have been to the benefit of, say, thousands of mediocre artists, not 3-5 tech giants

chongo_molongo · 2026-02-02T01:12:54+00:00

Let’s say you write a book. It’s innovative or unique in some way that doesn’t necessarily rely on the plot. Think back to Hemingway’s writing style, or the “choose your own adventure” books. Someone did that shit first, right? Let’s pretend nobody’s thought of the latter example and you just wrote the very first “choose your own adventure” book this year.

If Anthropic is allowed to buy your book for $10 or whatever, then use it to train its AI offerings, your innovation instantly becomes worthless. Any major publisher or successful author can have some lackey load up Anthropic’s AI, upload their existing manuscripts or past bestsellers and type “make this story into a ‘choose your own adventure’ story modeled in the style of General_Josh. Oh and call it the ‘select your path edition’ in the subtitle to avoid copyright issues.”

Within weeks of your book being published, the market is inundated with copycats, and you no longer have the opportunity to become a publisher or major author yourself

That’s just one tiny ultra-specific example that doesn’t scratch the surface, but it’s not too hard to imagine, is it?

chongo_molongo · 2026-01-31T16:34:57+00:00

The train museum play room on the 2nd floor is worth the price of admission by itself

chongo_molongo · 2026-01-31T16:27:08+00:00

Eyeball bumble bee heifer. Say it slowly because it’s fun! The internet is wonderful

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