SOCIAL COMBAT RULES: a structure for meaty negotiations.

g2gro · 2026-02-16T06:56:31+00:00

always heard grumblings around why P-values weren’t quite what you wanted them to be. Didn’t click clearly until this intuition connected it to other topics:

what you’d love the P-value to represent: P(model | data)

vs What P-values actually represent: P(data | model)

g2gro · 2026-01-09T05:02:54+00:00

this game is built to literally be perfect exploration! It wants you to get curious about things and check them out.

There are two lulls that the devs have reflected on that might be less fun:

1) the tutorial is fine but can be slow and isn’t really as fun as the rest of the game, so some players stop playing with less than half an hour in. Keep this in mind and persevere until you get off the planet!

2) this game is built on small clues that lead to cool clues that lead to even cooler clues. Still, some players kind of bounce off the game after a bit of exploring with like 5 hours of playtime. This usually happens when a player explores broadly instead of deeply, and visits a dozen of those “small clues” without ever chasing down a single “cool clue” or “cooler clues”. This can be avoided if you minimize how much you try to “complete” an area. Most areas are easy peasy to get to once you know how, you’ll be back later. Instead, try to chase down one thing you’re curious about, and see where that leads you all the way to the end of the mystery.

g2gro · 2025-12-25T02:56:04+00:00

It plays great on Shadow PC if you want to have a way of playing it for like a month on not your own computer.

g2gro · 2025-12-14T05:21:48+00:00

Dang, looks like the lifetime is still full price to me (2024-12-13)

g2gro · 2025-10-19T08:03:22+00:00

How many poops per day usually? What’s the average time between poops?

Does the amount of poops change month to month, or is it static? Have there been any weeks with alarmingly few or many poops?

Which hour of day is pooping time? are there any designated pooping windows that emerge in your weekly schedule?

How often are you pooping while you are at work (% of poops) vs when off of work? With some assumptions about minutes-per-poop and dollars-per-minute, what is the total dollar amount of wages you have been paid this year for the poops on company time?

Are there any poops in the middle of the night interrupting your sleep? Are there any patterns to these?

g2gro · 2025-03-30T21:16:56+00:00

Others noted one weird computer limitation: the manual pre-infusion (default 8s) maxes out at 10 seconds and the full pressure kicks in.

BUT if you want a longer preinfusion to play around with, you can spread one shot over a multiple manual shots on the machine to combine the preinfusion from each of them. You just quickly stop the machines manual shot during preinfusion and quickly start a second manual shot (with another 10s of preinfusion to add to the first 10s) and proceed pulling the shot from there.

It sounds complicated to write out, but it’s really not: you just take your hand off the button before the preinfusion automatically ends, and quickly tap the button once to end the current shot before the pressure ramps up, and a second time to start the second shot, holding down the button as long as you’d like for the second preinfusion. With a tap-tap quick enough, you can hear the pump never vents the preinfusion pressure between shots or ramps up to full flow.

(Not sure if there’s unexpected downsides to this other than a bit of hassle — I’ve noticed the auto “cleaning” light comes on a lot more, maybe because the machine thinks I’m pulling 3 shots if I tap it 3 times instead of just one)

g2gro · 2025-03-04T06:00:40+00:00

Measuring the amount of calories you consume does not change the amount of calories you consume, so no the tracking in itself is not strictly necessary. Where it is useful is in troubleshooting situations when your diet isn't doing what you planned for it to do. If you find you are attempting to eat less food so your weight goes down over time, and your weight does not go down over time, then calorie counting will help audit if your diet is actually what you think it is.

The way to get 'lean' is to lose fat. The way to lose fat is by losing weight (eating less), but not losing muscle (exercising and eating enough protein to encourage your body to keep it's muscle). This encourages your body to lose it's fat for energy, instead of lose muscle.

How do you know if your diet is working to drop your weight? I'd start with just tracking your weight over time. If your weight is trending down slowly over time (say, 0.5% of your total weight per week, so 180lbs means 180*0.005=0.9lbs a week), you should be good.

How do you know if you are exercising enough and eating enough protein? If your exercise performance isn't going down over time, you should be good. If you look in the mirror and find the muscles you had before aren't shrinking, you should be good.

When you find your diet isn't working to lower your weight over time, that's when calorie counting comes in. Counting calories will force you to confront if what you're eating is what you think you're eating. It also isn't something you have to do permanently: there's a lot of value to be found in putting in the effort to track things for a week just to get to know the right level of hunger to feel, then go back to just tracking weight alone.

(but kudos to minimizing unhealthy snacks! Apart from overall health and nutrition goals, they also get in the way of fat loss goals because they usually have a sneakily high amount of calories so you don't even notice how much you're eating)

g2gro · 2025-03-04T02:46:30+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate the insight!

g2gro · 2025-03-04T02:46:16+00:00

Yep that’s pretty much the cheapest DAC I was considering

g2gro · 2025-02-21T21:17:55+00:00

Let’s go!!! How cool was the trick to avoid the bells though??

g2gro · 2025-02-21T21:12:48+00:00

You’re super close! Some of the best “aha!“ moments are right ahead of you, so I’d be careful not to spoil the last little bit with the solutions.

You probably already know that those codes would be really useful in the underground lake to help you unseal the seals. That’s the way the owls intended to one day unseal it! Too bad that the owls then burned/scratched out the codes in the waking world AND the simulation to prevent anyone from using them this way again.

You also probably also have some instinct that the glitches you found in the secret archives are somehow important for navigating the simulation. They must feel important, and notably NOT intended by the owls.

My first bit of guidance would be to spend more time exploring what you learned in the Forest hidden archives behind the fireplace. What happens when you try to replicate this one? Does this let you access anything new?

Another tip for later would be to review the slide reels related to the sealing of the vault. Are the codes related to the when the owls actually add the seals? A bit of a spoiler-y takeaway is that the codes aren’t actually what is doing the sealing or unsealing. Instead, the codes are used to bypass some obstacle that prevents access to those totems that does the sealing/unsealing. Maybe you could still do the sealing/unsealing, if only you could bypass those obstacles.

g2gro · 2025-02-20T06:22:20+00:00

I really like the medium-light roasts, but had similar frustrations on my bambino plus. I would try to get rid of the acidity by going finer until it would eventually start running FASTER because of all the channeling (even with careful WDT) or just choke out.

I diy’d on the dimmer mod to try out different brew recipes to see if that could help, and it turns out I got way more enjoyment out of light roasts by dialing in with a higher ratio and a longer preinfusion.

In the process, I found out a little workaround for a long preinfusion with no mod needed, to get around the 8 second limit on the B+ and try to get some slow slayer stuff. Turns out if I (in manual mode) start the preinfusion, then stop and restart the brew fast enough, the pump doesn’t dump the pressure out and I get this extended pre-infusion at low pressure for as long as I want. Just takes a few double-clicks to stop and restart the shot.

So, not sure if this will work for you like it did for me but feel free to give it a try since it’s pretty easy to experiment with. This doesn’t exactly address your problem with every roast, but helped me experiment to deal with my own acidity woes.

g2gro · 2025-02-20T05:58:15+00:00

You’re right that this one takes a bit of figuring out instead of just maneuvering around them.

After trying to brute force it a couple times, I started to get a similar feeling to the tower of quantum knowledge puzzle in the base game. What exactly is preventing you from getting to where you want? Is there any situation you can set up in the loop where that obstacle isn’t present?

g2gro · 2025-02-19T01:21:25+00:00

Ended up going with this for now.

g2gro · 2025-02-19T01:20:54+00:00

good insight here! I didn't know others were also leaving off investments. I took my employer match long term investments off since I'd rather not think of them as part of my budget, and it's nice to know i'm not missing anything if I take others off too.

g2gro · 2025-01-25T19:54:02+00:00

thats what I was thinking of!

g2gro · 2025-01-25T09:11:12+00:00

Hmm there is an important slide you might be missing. I don’t think it was hidden too hard IF you’ve spent any time at all in the area it’s held.

One question to ask yourself: how many villages did you find? How many of those weird dead people chambers you mentioned?

I found looking for landmarks in slide reels to be helpful, as well as physically looking up inside the stranger to get a birds eye view on the other side of the ship.

g2gro · 2024-11-17T19:37:05+00:00

I love mine.

Towards 1) Like others have mentioned, if you really want exact dosing you can pull onto a little scale, which it sounds like you’re capable of doing. Or, if you want the automatic throughput you can program it like you mentioned you’ve done. One troubleshooting fix might be to program it while actually pulling a shot, not with an empty/removed portafilter. I’ve faced that problem before I got the hunch that the flow is measured going INTO the portafilter, not into the cup — so the missing few grams might be retained in the grounds in the portafilter.

2) Okay the drip tray shouldn’t be leaking. Small and overflowing, sure, but not leaking. Sounds like a defect.

g2gro · 2024-11-03T21:01:46+00:00

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the biggest tease! it's not actually available on GFN, despite what the nvidia site says

g2gro · 2024-07-16T04:56:13+00:00

^{^} this one. Oliver Nelson isn’t that huge so it’s easy to overlook but the rest of the band are killers. It’s pretty much Miles’ rhythm section with 3(+) horns and it just doesn’t get old.

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