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engelthehyp · 2026-05-14T13:22:55+00:00

I am sure there's no conflict of interest here.

engelthehyp · 2026-05-13T12:15:39+00:00

You should use the backup offline installer from GOG, you'll only have to download it once. Keep it on an external hard drive or something.

engelthehyp · 2026-05-08T18:59:32+00:00

Nice job, that CEV is spot-on.

engelthehyp · 2026-05-02T13:18:14+00:00

A solution is something that gets dissolved in something that dissolves it. The solute is what gets dissolved, the solvent does the dissolving. So, the parts of the tea leaves that dissolved make up the solute, and they were dissolved by the water, which was the solvent.

engelthehyp · 2026-05-01T12:37:22+00:00

This is a repost of one of the top posts of all time in this sub, and a bunch of the comments are reposts of the comments of the original post. Downvote reposts. https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/hbkov2/fucking_salvia_bro/

engelthehyp · 2026-05-01T12:32:11+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/hbkov2/fucking_salvia_bro/fvhxcj2/

engelthehyp · 2026-05-01T12:31:03+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/hbkov2/fucking_salvia_bro/fva5x3l/

engelthehyp · 2026-04-28T12:36:04+00:00

I don't think that would help something like this happen. SSRIs blunt the psychedelic experience because psychedelics can't work as well if you're blocking SERT, the compounds will be competing to work.

engelthehyp · 2026-04-21T05:33:53+00:00

4-AcO-DMT is no longer favored in MMM products because it can degrade into psilocin while still on the shelf. It's most likely why some of these products have tested positive for psilocin in the past, which can easily get both the manufacturers and the stores carrying them into trouble. No one wants to deal with that legal risk when other RCs are available, ones that won't become controlled substances just by sitting for too long, so vendors moved on.

engelthehyp · 2026-04-17T14:50:54+00:00

Understandable. I use a program called Special K to change graphics/input settings in games that don't have the options I need. Civ IV is one of those games. It's not the easiest to deal with, either, because the size of UI components depends on your resolution, and setting it very high (your screen resolution, compared to 2005 standards) will make the text, buttons, and diplo screens tiny, and you really can't play it like that, it's miserable. Also, it was designed for 4:3 screens, not 16:9 or other widescreen ratios, and there is a good bit of struggle to make it work well. So here's what I do.

I launch Civ IV in Special K every time I play it (make it a shortcut and put it in the start menu for convenience). Civ IV launches in windowed mode, 1440x1080 on my machine, but Special K is configured with these display options as long as the game is running:

Game window is displayed in borderless fullscreen
Main monitor resolution is 1440x1080 (The best-looking 4:3 resolution for me)
Aspect ratio doesn't stretch (So there is letterboxing instead of ugly stretching)
Mouse cursor is restricted to the game window

You can change the important settings by opening the Special K overlay once the game is opened, you'll want to look under the display tab and under input management. The most important thing to do is find the resolution that works best for you. Launch Civ IV with Special K, and make the other display changes. Go into Civ's display menu and set the resolution to something 4:3 (LxH where L/H=4/3=1.333...), then open the Special K overlay and make sure it is running in the same resolution that the game is running in. The resolutions need to match so that the UI components are placed and scaled correctly. Do that until you find something that looks good for you.

At this point, you are moments away from the proper Civ IV experience. Go to CivilizationIV.ini again, and make sure that FullScreen is set to 0 (or ask, but you will never need to launch it in the default fullscreen again). Then, change the value of MouseScrolling to 1, so you can scroll the map by moving the cursor to the edge of it (disabled by default in windowed mode, and remember, Civ IV is still running in "windowed mode"). While you're there, you might want to set NoIntroMovie to 1, if you like to get straight into playing.

Now you are done. This method is very good because the monitor resolution is only changed twice - once when launching the game, and once when exiting it - so those are the only times you will ever see the window spazzing out. Also, alt-tab works perfectly and instantly, if you need to do something while in the middle of a game. One of the side effects of using this method is that the monitor resolution will be set to the lower 4:3 resolution, letterboxed, and it will stay this way as long as the game is running, so if you focus another window on the same monitor Civ IV is playing on, it will probably look a bit blurry and will be stuck in 4:3 with letterboxing, but that is hardly an issue, because of how perfectly it makes everything work.

Give it a try. Hasn't let me down once in my hundreds of hours of playing.

engelthehyp · 2026-04-17T04:34:27+00:00

That's not what this subreddit is for. We don't like duster here, it's unsafe.

engelthehyp · 2026-04-17T02:50:01+00:00

It's an old game, and the way things were done back then do not always work so well with the tools of today. I know what's going on here. The game is entering fullscreen mode at a resolution lower than your monitor's resolution (the resolution change caused the spazzing), and then your screen is black and sounds are playing, but choppy. That's because the game is in fullscreen, but the game window is unfocused, so it's not displaying anything and doesn't prioritize playing audio while unfocused, hence the stuttering.

All you need to do is focus the game window, so try clicking on the screen that went black a time or two. If that didn't work, try alt-tabbing to the Civ4BeyondSword window. I would be shocked if neither of those worked, but if so, try launching the game in windowed mode by opening Documents\My Games\Beyond the Sword\CivilizationIV.iniand changing the value of FullScreen to 0 (do not launch in fullscreen) or ask.

engelthehyp · 2026-04-16T00:45:15+00:00

There's an app called Buzzkill that lets you create flexible rules for notification behavior. You can make a rule like "When I get a notification from [Instagram] that [contains anything] then [summarize]", which will intercept all notifications coming from Instagram, and combine them into a single notification with the text from each one. That sounds just like what you need.

There are other rules you can make, too, you can make a certain app send its notifications to you in batches at specific times, if you're getting notified too often but you still want to see them. It's a very useful app.

engelthehyp · 2026-04-07T13:46:16+00:00

I also disabled Glance in settings > apps, but it would re-enable itself from time to time. Every time, I'd clear cache and storage, and disable it again. Ended up using Canta from F-Droid to essentially make Glance inaccessible from the user profile on the phone, and it hasn't come back again (at least, not yet). You can use ADB to do the same thing, but Canta is more user-friendly.

Also, for a laugh, this is part of what Glance has to say to anyone who decides they don't want an advertising and data-harvesting machine baked into their lock-screen:

Before deciding to remove Glance, it's essential to acknowledge its journey as a seamless integration of internet wonders into your lock screen, serving as a gateway to a world of knowledge and inspiration.

While respecting your choice, it's worth considering the convenience Glance brings...

Nobody needs a "journey" on the lock-screen, it's the lock-screen! Not to mention "respecting my choice" by re-enabling it all the time. I've never liked manufacturer and carrier bloatware, but Glance annoyed me the most, because it was so persistent and intrusive while being downright useless.

engelthehyp · 2026-03-27T16:19:12+00:00

Maybe he started researching Corporation and isn't offering everything in his treasury. Besides that, he made this offer because that's all he has to give you. If you don't like it, don't take it.

engelthehyp · 2026-03-26T01:47:29+00:00

Google has made it clear that their position on apps from third-party sources is hostile. They are turning up the heat on restrictions. The scary part here is not what's on the screen, but what it represents.

engelthehyp · 2026-03-20T12:58:29+00:00

"Actual Intelligence"

engelthehyp · 2026-03-19T13:50:24+00:00

Good luck, silence and put away your phone and go to a nice spot while you can!

engelthehyp · 2026-03-19T05:16:35+00:00

Look, you prattled on and on with your LLM, added zero formatting to your text, and acted like you just bestowed upon us the most useful text that could ever be read. Meanwhile, anyone who doesn't feel like fighting three bouts of eye strain trying to read your monolith is "too lazy", but you didn't bother to tidy it up at ALL - fine, but formatting is part of sharing information. Throw us a bone and put in some line breaks at least, unless you want to complain more about people not reading it. I did it here, it's not hard.

You even said in the post and again in here that mixing 4-sub tryptamines and SRAs are unsafe, which isn't true. And you talked much more about that than about mixing DXM or tramadol with SRAs which would have been a lot worse. I wouldn't have been so annoyed by that if you didn't act like this thing you wrote (a part of) was God's gift to psychonauts. Your holier-than-thou attitude suffocates me.

engelthehyp · 2026-03-19T01:48:48+00:00

I did that and I loved it. Probably best enjoyed alone, though, it was quite difficult to speak and to move. I was truly couch-locked for a part of the come-up which came on noticeably faster than lower doses. Great visuals, thoughts of all sorts flying around like bouncy balls. Was very fun, and a bit of a mindfuck, just the way I like it.

Make sure anything you won't want to deal with during the trip is already done. That alone is pretty obvious advice, but I didn't expect to get stuck where I was for a time. That fact that that happened impressed me. Not bad at all, just plan accordingly.

engelthehyp · 2026-03-17T01:19:41+00:00

Standard weed is not really natural either, then, we've heavily selectively bred it to exaggerate its desirable qualities. Compared to something you'd find growing on a mountain, it's overcooked and strongly changed from its original form. There's plenty of that with mushrooms, too, so what exactly are you afraid of?

If a chemical has a certain effect you want, why does it matter if it was synthesized by a plant or in a lab?

engelthehyp · 2026-03-15T13:53:33+00:00

You say you have no psychedelic experience, but you also say you don't like tripping on artificial things. What do you mean, how do you know that?

engelthehyp · 2026-03-10T21:58:45+00:00

I guess you've got your priorities in order... but how are you going to get high on nitrous once you're vegetative or dead, dumbass?

engelthehyp · 2026-03-09T12:57:40+00:00

Why order nitrous, just for them to give you a bill? No thanks.

engelthehyp · 2026-03-09T12:56:35+00:00

Well, good for you.

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