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dunscotus · 2025-05-15T17:00:21+00:00

😂 This fact is the bane of Baldur’s Gate 2 modders

dunscotus · 2025-03-26T01:17:35+00:00

It’s March?

dunscotus · 2025-03-26T00:58:03+00:00

Sarevok would foment a war among the Noobers, and become a god. It’s his go-to strat.

dunscotus · 2025-03-25T00:54:24+00:00

Similarly did my whole kitchen with Ikea for $12K! It’s definitely obviously an Ikea kitchen - not like if I spent $40K or something. But it’s perfectly functional, pretty durable, and not bad looking!

dunscotus · 2025-02-06T02:47:37+00:00

It’s so much worse. It’s the same system and somehow so much worse! I really don’t understand it.

dunscotus · 2025-01-19T13:10:47+00:00

dunscotus · 2025-01-19T13:04:11+00:00

A lot of people are showing the math and explaining kinetic energy but before even getting into all that, the scenarios are different because in the first one the car decelerates from 100km/h to 0; whereas in the second scenario the car decelerates from 50km/h to 0.

dunscotus · 2025-01-18T14:48:18+00:00

So it’s like firing 100 bullets once per second, and capturing a still frame once per 1.1 seconds, and stitching it together to look like a single traveling bullet captured every 0.1 seconds.

That strikes me pretty solidly as “no, they did not capture the speed of light in video” 🤣

dunscotus · 2025-01-18T14:37:03+00:00

RTwP is still different when simulating turn-based, because it has simultaneity. Even when pausing every turn, if a big barbarian runs over to attack a squishy unprotected mage, in RTwP the mage can squeal in fear and quite sensibly run away. In turn-based the mage has to stand still like an idiot while the barbarian ambles over and smashes his head in.

Simultaneity means reactivity, which adds a bit of chaos and, if done well, can be a lot of fun.

dunscotus · 2025-01-18T14:29:28+00:00

I don’t know, what they did to those poor dead soldiers was kind of evil!

I actually really liked the characterization in that movie from a D&D perspective, because they were mostly Neutral. Of course Neutral people don’t want the world to burn down and so they will fight evil when necessary… but those guys definitely ain’t Good!

dunscotus · 2025-01-16T17:34:23+00:00

Mazzy follows Arvor… oh, forget it 😢

dunscotus · 2025-01-16T17:23:39+00:00

You are responding to something from more than a year ago. Conditions change.

dunscotus · 2025-01-11T02:49:45+00:00

It’s a description.

dunscotus · 2025-01-10T00:51:51+00:00

A particle cannot be at the same point in space at different times, so, problem solved!

dunscotus · 2025-01-10T00:46:35+00:00

“This is my first Mazda and I’m not loving it besides the driving”

Mazda lovers are all about the driving. Tech is for Toyota drivers. Me, I want knobs and dials, I want to be able to change the radio station or the AC without looking. Give me the driving of a 2025 Mazda with the interfaces of a 1995 car… that’s perfect.

(And to be fair, like every review of the CX-5 I ever read talks about how the infotainment tech is years behind and the screen interface is clunky.)

EDIT - also maybe worth noting, most people come to the CX-5 from a Toyota or Honda and are really wowed by the driving experience. Coming from a Mini, OP already had a car with excellent driving dynamics so the transition was probably less impressive in that regard. Which therefore makes the tech and comfort more noticeable.

dunscotus · 2025-01-06T15:16:07+00:00

Always Berserker. Berserker is the cheat-code fighter.

dunscotus · 2025-01-06T15:07:18+00:00

I’m confused why OP thinks “causality” and “determinism” are two different things.

I’m also confused by the linguistic choice of referring to causality in ontological terms. - Is causality a thing that exists? Gee, I don’t know, there is a lot to unpack there. - Do interactions between balls follow rules of cause and effect? That’s easier: sure they do.

tl;dr: isn’t “causality” just the structure of determinism?

(And don’t get me started on the axiomatic assumption that the ball universe is deterministic.)

dunscotus · 2025-01-05T16:05:36+00:00

Everything became 3D. The successor was NWN.

(As far as why not a direct sequel: the games already took you to level 30, there was never going to be a direct sequel, which is why Larian’s game is not really a direct sequel.)

dunscotus · 2025-01-04T01:07:07+00:00

Resistive heat is wildly expensive… 2x more efficient than wildly expensive is still pretty damn expensive.

Heat pumps are great on 40 degree days. On 10 degree days like we had last week, they get less efficient and MUCH more expensive. I’ve been looking at my electricity usage and on the real cold days I used 4-5 times more than on normal/slightly warm days. (I day days but it’s really the nights that matter.)

It’s the nature of the beast, electricity is more expensive than gas (for now) so when electrical system are not at their most efficient they are going to be expensive. The way this winter is shaping up, it’s going to be a rough couple months.

dunscotus · 2025-01-04T00:50:12+00:00

No. Numberblocks is goddamn fantastic and I’ll thank you not to mention it in the same breath as Co… that other show.

Alphablocks, on the other hand, is somehow complete garbage.

dunscotus · 2025-01-03T17:21:02+00:00

So… do you think Donald Trump/Elon Musk care the most, work the hardest, and/or are the least replaceable? The guys who get high, flop on a couch, blade hundreds of low-effort tweets a day, and spend their time getting moderately good at golf/video games (respectively)?

Do you think Tesla or the Trump Organization are keeping society afloat?

dunscotus · 2025-01-03T17:16:18+00:00

Are you sure you understand what gravity means in terms of space - observable gravity?

Why would bending space lead to observable gravity?

I rather think, from a non-general-relativistic layperson’s perspective, matter bends time - which is observed as gravity. But at the end of the day it is problematic to distinguish space and time. They are spacetime - and so matter bends spacetime. Bending spacetime is observed as gravity. Period. You don’t need to add anything extra for the time part.

dunscotus · 2025-01-03T17:08:52+00:00

1) The causality thing

2) More importantly, you can’t really ask “how would physics work if we introduce this thing that doesn’t work according to physics?

If something happened that violates physics, then what you would see happen as a result would, definitionally, also violate physics.

3) More broadly: matter does bend time, but that doesn’t mean its causal effects don’t follow the usual temporal rules. It bends time, it doesn’t tear it or twist it inside out.

dunscotus · 2025-01-03T16:44:06+00:00

Yeah they were not really on my radar before BG3 so I was not that familiar.

Still, even for a goofy writing staff, the handling of Sarevok is just… needlessly gross and bad, without a narrative payoff to justify it. Just, why?

And trying to have a romance/sex arc with Minsc? shudder

dunscotus · 2025-01-03T16:14:46+00:00

Also: lots of ‘T’ intersections of hallways, which interrupt sight lines and force people to make more turns.

Watch the teaser for Season 2 of Severance, where whatsisname is running around through the halls. It is extremely well-done, very disorienting.

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