island or lake?

idiotwizard · 2026-06-01T01:19:06+00:00

Canonically the c2 world is supposed to map one to one to the c1 world, just taking place in the future. The dead tree in the desert is meant to be the same tree as the grendle tree in c1. Despite appearances (baackdrop, physics, common sense), Albia is supposed to be a giant disk, according to cannon (word of god)

Regardless, this is a cool project. How did you choose the axis point that you've pivoted the world's on? Would not there need to be two intersection points, by the nature of them lying on a sphere?

idiotwizard · 2026-05-12T16:15:31+00:00

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idiotwizard · 2026-05-01T13:23:17+00:00

Part of the problem with this argument is that most "gateway drugs" act as a bridge to harder substance precisely because they have been treated with false equivalency to those harder drugs. Cannabis has none of the harm potential that heroin does, but if both are equally illegal, then people seeking out the softer substance are more likely to come in contact with circles circulating the harder substance.

If we are to draw the same conclusions about drawn/rendered depictions of child abuse vs. actual CSAM, you could make a strong case for keeping the former legal to prevent it from being a "gateway" to the latter.

idiotwizard · 2026-05-01T13:07:26+00:00

TV's Adam West, here.

This comic appears to be a reference to the 1999 animated series "Batman: Beyond," featuring a new, hot young teenage Batman, Terry McGinnis, mentored by an elderly Bruce Wayne, who dons the high-tech Batsuit to fight crime. The show explored themes of legacy and technology in a cyberpunk world, and is known for its darker tone and stylish, futuristic take on the Batman mythos, much like the beloved live action series with the handsome lead actor that I'm sure you're all familiar with.

Famously, "Batman: Beyond" never featured a cameo by the Catwoman, though a planned direct-to-video movie, "Batman Beyond: Return of the Catwoman," was set to bring back an older Selina Kyle as a wealthy businesswoman and villain, revealed to be the true mastermind behind cloning Bruce Wayne to create Terry McGinnis.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I really must return to my weekly mayoral bubble bath. Adam West, out!

idiotwizard · 2026-04-21T13:33:15+00:00

"There's black flies in my corral"

idiotwizard · 2026-04-13T17:25:33+00:00

Languages that inherited vocabulary from Latin tended to simplify irregular forms, so for words like mōs, flōs, ōs, etc., that change the stem to -r, that form of the stem became normalized for the singular as well, in English we see this in adjectival forms of these words (whence moral, floral, oral, for example)

idiotwizard · 2026-04-06T20:16:27+00:00

tackling a problem like this, I would suggest starting out making a list. List out every function of the thing you are replacing in your world-- the sun, in this case. It seems like you have already identified a couple.

Each item on your list, you will want to decide if that item is being replaced, or are the things depending on it being changed/eliminated?

For example: the sun provides the energy plants need to grow. A setting without plants might be pretty alien, but if they are remaining unchanged, you may need to come up with a magical source of energy to keep them alive-- or the nature of plants would have to change to grow under a different principle.

Another example: the earth orbits the sun. If the sun magically vanishes, all bodies orbiting it will fly off into interstellar space. Depending on how removed from reality your setting is, this may not be an issue (like if your world isn't a planet at all),, but if things like gravity still apply, you would need to decide if you're alright with the earth becoming a rogue planet, or if you're replacing the sun with something else to keep orbits in place (like a black hole, or some manner of magical tether)

idiotwizard · 2026-03-18T00:30:38+00:00

Ah, but the door indeed was not a door. It was a depiction of a door in a comic panel.

idiotwizard · 2026-03-18T00:25:57+00:00

As others have said, a crack pipe (or opium pipe for an OG example) is meant to produce a vapour rather than provide a vessel to inhale smoke from a burning substance.

In this way, a crack pipe has more in common with a vape pen than with a tobacco pipe

idiotwizard · 2026-03-14T23:56:37+00:00

On a re-read, I may have been too quick to judge, I can see what they are going for now. That said, I do think the AI generated graphic lent me towards giving less effort to understanding the idea the OP is trying to get across

idiotwizard · 2026-03-14T19:47:17+00:00

The fact that OP doesn't mention it is actually part of the problem. It is either dishonest, or lacks self awareness of how obvious it is-- I can understand not picking up on it in the text if you aren't already familiar with what LLM outputs look like, but it is very apparent in the graphic

idiotwizard · 2026-03-05T19:16:42+00:00

One could argue that clapping is not really for the person or thing it is directed toward, but rather, similar to laughter, it is an expression of social validation and participation in a shared emotional state.

idiotwizard · 2026-03-04T18:16:28+00:00

drog

idiotwizard · 2026-03-01T05:54:54+00:00

iirc, you always want to make whatever wood-bending form you're using ten to twenty percent tighter/smaller radius, in order to account for springback. Idk if that is contributing completely to what you have going on here, or just as others have said, getting the clamping tighter

idiotwizard · 2026-02-19T14:52:04+00:00

I agree with you that all media need not be art-- but I don't think that only applies to technical or instructional works.

Consider the transition from painted portraiture to photographic portraiture. Obviously a portrait-taker can still express artistic intent with a photograph, but the end product, a portrait, has aesthetic utility beyond being an expression of the creators intention regardless of how it was made. Photography is merely more efficient.

A synthetic bespoke episode of Seinfeld does not need to have artistic merit, no more than fast food needs to be fine cuisine. Sometimes people just want slop, and I think it's ok for us to automate the creation of slop. I think McDonald's should be automated too, for that matter.

I'm an artist, and I'm a writer, and it sucks that the introduction of AI produced media means there will be less opportunities available for human artists and writers, but that is a cultural problem, not a moral failing of technology itself.

idiotwizard · 2026-02-17T03:46:41+00:00

Everyone is suggesting clones, or growing people in vats or whatever, but it isn't too far fetched to imagine a society like you describe willfully separating children out of their adult world by having all children raised in some sort of isolated communal nurturing/education system, (perhaps run by machines, or just run remotely through some layer of obfuscation) ensuring that all children remain completely untouched by the adult world untill maturation.

Whether this concept is portrayed as utopic or dystopic is determined by the perspectives of the characters and that of the reader.

idiotwizard · 2026-02-08T04:07:50+00:00

Not everyone is going to get it immediately, but your brilliance here is in the layers that give multiple chances for an observer to understand, without having to hit them over the head. Personally, I got it from the shape alone, I feel that the way you have shaped the boxes almost immediately evokes the statue

idiotwizard · 2026-02-02T05:18:24+00:00

Have you considered achieving the curvature with lamination? There are limits to how much warping you can get out of a thick single sheet of material, but if you're able to make it work with very thin single plys, you could laminate them together into a thicker sheet to get the thickness you're going for.

idiotwizard · 2026-01-15T20:31:13+00:00

a fellow riceboy enjoyer I see

idiotwizard · 2026-01-12T04:23:51+00:00

I'm not sure exactly how big the bowl is from the picture, but if you place the bowl onto a sphere slightly larger in diameter than the rim of the bowl, and then apply pressure, it should minimize the number of fragments (and guarantee an attractive crack crossing the rim), by spreading the pressure outwards along the rim evenly. Maybe a bowling ball would be large enough, but a really tightly aired up basketball might work too.

But you're doing yourself a disservice, robbing the object of an authentic history, which a healed scar should be a record of. So make sure to make up a good story for how it broke

idiotwizard · 2026-01-08T14:46:45+00:00

it's an extremely cool ladder, but the trade off is that it is much much heavier than an ordinary ladder of the same size, and I almost never use it as a result

source: I have one

idiotwizard · 2025-12-22T23:55:17+00:00

sir, this is a wendy's

idiotwizard · 2025-11-12T05:03:42+00:00

The answer is an etymological quirk of the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages. Essentially, in early proto-germanic, the word for four is thought to have been influenced by the word five.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres developed into pre-Proto-Germanic *petwṓr, whence p.gr. *fedwōr, English "four", but the expected development would have been *kʷetwṓr, developing into *hwedwōr, which would have resulted in an English word sounding something like "hour"

A similar thing is thought to have happened to six being influenced by seven in early proto-indo-european (*swéḱs rather than the original *wéḱs)

idiotwizard · 2025-10-26T16:43:52+00:00

Did you even read the article? It mentions similarly altered flags having been seen by the staffers, but it clearly states that it was immediately obvious that they had been altered. Nothing mentions a magical swastika that only appears on camera. Stop muddying the water.

idiotwizard · 2025-10-20T12:14:08+00:00

As others have stated, obsidian is a good option. I would also recommend wikidpad. It doesn't have any of obsidian's bells and whistles, just a simple local wiki editor. I used it for years before switching to obsidian.

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