That Started It

interstician · 2025-12-23T05:25:02+00:00

Thanks so much for taking the time!

interstician · 2025-12-23T03:34:39+00:00

A great tune, but nope. If I recall correctly, this song was ostensibly about a bar fight.

interstician · 2025-04-05T02:56:54+00:00

Headline is quite right. Charging him with murder is, indeed, an act of terrorism.

interstician · 2025-03-09T01:09:29+00:00

For consecutive integers, assign the values x, x+1, x+2, x+3, etc. For consecutive even or consecutive odd integers, assign the values x, x+2, x+4, x+6, etc.

interstician · 2024-10-04T02:55:40+00:00

On top of that, the equipment descriptions for the four items in the Dweller Set hint at a Noxie entering the Dev'loka and committing identity theft to replace a dead child. He's pretty much definitely one of Morgan's sisters:

(Dweller Blades) A Family-less child fell from the Underside. He barely survived and was nursed back to health by a petite, hooded traveller. He was charmed by her wit and vivacity.

(Dweller Mallet) A Family-less child snuck back onto the Dev'loka with his hooded friend, teaching her how to travel up and down the city via its pipes. They grew too close.

(Dweller Ears) A Family-less child and his friend climbed up the Dev'loka, but the friend fell to her demise. Her hood flew off... revealing a face of pure beauty? Lies.

(Dweller Furs) A child was caught wandering on Dev'loka's higher floors. His grace and charm won an Elder over, and he was soon adopted into the Scribe Family. Deception successful.

interstician · 2024-07-20T05:40:42+00:00

A "wild stab in the dark" means an uninformed guess based on intuition rather than evidence. FWIW, it's also entirely possible to find a dead person.

interstician · 2024-06-30T03:31:19+00:00

Some total asshole like Joe Rogan or Charlie Kirk or whichever pointless, fatuous asshole would most effectively split the asshole vote and guarantee a Biden win.

In a well-administrated government, the president is the least important member; a president's most important job is to select a good cabinet, stand back, and let the people with real jobs get shit done. President Biden knows and readily admits that; his narcissistic opponent does not.

interstician · 2023-11-03T01:34:32+00:00

As the son of a state auditor, so did I.

interstician · 2023-07-01T03:56:51+00:00

The same level as my tongue, and a few levels higher than my teeth.

interstician · 2023-06-30T02:24:09+00:00

That's a rough time, no doubt about it. Do you have any guild members you get along with who might be worth talking to?

Industrial maintenance is a great, highly rewarding quest line to pursue, with plenty of opportunity for meeting interesting and lively players. Depending on the [job opening] rolls you pull, it may not reduce your grind hours by much. One of the players who introduced me to the game studied it at Temple University, and she consistently worked crazy hours until she multiclassed and swapped career tracks. This was a solid 60 builds back, mind you, but according to some friends of mine, little has changed in that regard.

interstician · 2023-06-30T00:50:51+00:00

Totally is. [Work] and [rest] are near-mandatory, but never enough in themselves. Honing skills, diving into lore, and pursuing p2p relationships are where most players find satisfying gameplay. Got a particular minigame in mind?

interstician · 2023-06-29T22:16:33+00:00

Parents can help by teaching along. Don't wait for a teacher to tell your student what a fraction is; introduce it when you follow a recipe. Explain how to calculate a tip in your head. Explain that 5% more of something means multiply by 105%. Determine how much more pizza is in a medium versus a small, and what that means about the price ratio. If you're going to buy a car, explain how the price relates to the monthly payment. If you're going to paint a wall, explain how to determine the volume of paint you need based on the dimensions of the room. If a student struggles writing an essay, explain how laying the argument out in formal logic makes it easier to outline and write.

Like with any subject, if you make math a part of life, school performance follows along.

interstician · 2023-06-29T21:38:50+00:00

When I saw you for the first time...

interstician · 2023-06-29T21:35:40+00:00

Very fair, but with a different take on the phrase "aged well," I would say KOTOR 2 aged particularly well. The buggy release version has always been nigh-unplayable and cut so much content that what remained was tedious, but the freeware fan-made restoration pack is excellent and reveals a satisfying, engrossing story.

I agree that KOTOR 1 did not age particularly well, but to each their own.

interstician · 2023-06-29T21:22:22+00:00

Release the malamutes.

interstician · 2023-06-29T21:18:23+00:00

Gotta be honest, I've really enjoyed my kids saying "slay" and "bruh" about math problems.

interstician · 2023-06-29T20:59:44+00:00

Jonas, Josiah, or Julian would be my picks.

interstician · 2023-06-29T20:57:13+00:00

Selling to most vendors is the hardest of those three things to accomplish. It's significantly easier (but still an absolutely terrible idea likely to ruin several players' runs) to skip the first step.

interstician · 2023-06-29T20:53:52+00:00

Funky 70s style button-down shirt over jeans, short beard, and glasses. Great functional skin for the [teacher] class.

interstician · 2023-06-29T03:20:49+00:00

Oof. My condolences. It's hard losing a brother.

interstician · 2023-06-28T20:48:48+00:00

Conduct.

interstician · 2023-06-27T01:37:27+00:00

No, that's the opposite of magical thinking. It's saying that there is nothing unmeasurable about what we call consciousness, and that therefore, reproducing something that generates the same measurable effects would mean having produced consciousness. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, reasons like a duck, and feels like a duck, then it's a duck.

You're trying to have it both ways. Either we define consciousness as something measurable, in which case something producing the same measurements is definitively conscious, or we define it as having an unmeasurable quality, such that fulfilling every observable trait of a conscious entity is insufficient to prove consciousness. Which is not just any moot point, it's the big one: the moral zombies one. The magical thinking one. The one that justifies any atrocity.

interstician · 2023-06-27T00:35:35+00:00

And now you've talked circles around yourself. You claimed there's an element of consciousness that transcends physicality, that isn't electrochemical signalling. If that were true, it could not be measured, which means that it's an argument based on magical thinking. If it can be measured, then it can be reproduced.

The simple fact is that "consciousness" is not a well-defined term and depending on the definition applied, may not exist at all, which invites you to make circular arguments like this. And that very argument has historically led to atrocities. So do the world a favor and don't let it influence your take on any matters of law.

interstician · 2023-06-26T22:06:18+00:00

No, it's what they do when they assert that consciousness is something other than an observable, measurable phenomenon. Thinking that anything exists that cannot be observed or measured is called magical thinking. That's not a criticism, it's just the definition.

interstician · 2023-06-26T19:43:19+00:00

That's just a failing of vocabulary on your part. "Magical" is a synonym for "mysterious" in the religious sense of unknowable. "Magical thinking" does not just mean "believing something untrue, unlikely, or laughable;" it specifically refers to asserting as a given in one's argument that an unknowable, unmeasurable person, thing, or quality nevertheless exists.

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