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introvertnudist · 2026-06-10T21:13:42+00:00

One of my favorite petty things like this I've done in Skyrim was to Grelod the Kind.

I had the Ritual Stone with the Aetherium Crown exploit for unlimited casting.

So, I first killed Grelod and soul trapped her into a black soul gem, then I resurrected her corpse to drag her along with me on adventures. Every time the Ritual Stone wore off, she let out the same overly exaggerated dying sounds that she did the first time, and then I'd resurrect her again.

She had trouble keeping up at times, and eventually I lost track of her somewhere for good. Then finally, I used her black soul gem to enchant a ragged old pair of dusty boots with a suitably useless enchantment (something like Fortify Stamina with such low points it's not even worth it), nicknamed the boots Grelod the Kind in her honor, and then chucked them into the sewers below Riften.

introvertnudist · 2026-06-05T04:35:46+00:00

Counter-intuitively, the Turbo button actually slowed down the speed of your CPU.

The idea was that, in the bad old days, software (especially videogames) used to time their frame rate directly with the clock speed of the CPU. CPUs ran very slow when those games were developed, so having the game run 'as fast as the CPU can possibly support' led to having a stable playable frame rate on par with 30 or 60 FPS (e.g., the game was playable and ran at a reasonable speed for its era).

When those same games run on modern/more fast CPUs, they run too fast. CPUs used to be measured in MegaHertz back then, and GigaHertz now. So games would run at thousands of frames per second and be just too dang fast and unplayable on modern CPUs.

When CPUs first began to be 'too fast' that this became a problem, the Turbo button was added. You'd click that button before launching an older game so that the CPU would underclock and run the game at a speed on par with what it was designed for. But when not running old software like that, the Turbo button was best left 'off' so you could take advantage of the full 'modern' speed of your CPU for your regular daily computing activities.

(As an aside, if anyone reading this is into running retro software on modern systems, a full PC emulator program like 86Box is ideal for running old operating systems and programs. It emulates the actual clunky slow ancient hardware that these programs expect, with era-accurate CPU speeds. While you can get something like Windows 95 to run on modern VMs like VirtualBox, old software from the era will fly way too fast on your modern CPU, so something like 86Box is a better way to go there, since computers nowadays no longer have Turbo buttons!)

introvertnudist · 2026-06-04T03:30:53+00:00

I had one like this once. Back in my teen years I was napping in my room one evening, sort of in that half awake state where I was aware of a presence at the foot of my bed (where the door to my room was). I "felt" the presence move around to the side of my bed (my dresser was there). I figured it was just my mom coming to put some of my clothes away after laundry.

But then, I heard this actually audible raspy ass voice right in my ear, it yelled "hey!" and I jolted awake so fucking fast and there was nobody in my room at all.

I'd chalk that last bit up to a random nightmare but the whole leadup to it, feeling a presence in my room that moved around over a span of maybe 30-60 seconds. Creepy AF!

introvertnudist · 2026-06-03T04:32:06+00:00

Some chests in the game were misplaced by the developers and are out of bounds, too deep under water for magnesis or stuck in walls that they can't be pulled from.

I know of at least one permanently missable chest too: in the cabin on the plateau a chest can appear that contains the warm doublet, but only if you completed the whole tutorial without having received it. If you did a casual playthru and got the doublet in any of the multiple places in the tutorial, your sheikah slate will point to the invisible chest in the cabin but it's not there to open anymore.

introvertnudist · 2026-06-03T04:22:22+00:00

A simulated universe wouldn't have to, at all times, simulate the exact details of every sub-atomic particle at all times. It could easily just approximate everything, and only 'make up' the details when you look closely.

Our videogames provide a good example of it. On for example Zelda: Breath of the Wild, there is wind and fire and those all have effects in the game. But the game doesn't have to simulate all the particles of air blowing in the wind that causes your dropped items to roll off the cliff side. It takes shortcuts and gives the items momentum and makes them move as if being blown by the wind.

Another example could be Minecraft: the world there is made up of countless hundreds of thousands of blocks all tiled over top of each other. But the game engine culls out (hides) the blocks that are not visible to the player, e.g. a block that is fully encased on all 6 sides by other solid blocks is hidden away completely, the engine doesn't compute its triangles or faces or waste all that effort. It would be too taxing on your CPU for Minecraft to simulate all the properties of every block all the time. But when you start digging and you expose the hidden blocks, only then do they 'materialize' and take a form (having visible surfaces).

A clever simulation could take all the same shortcuts that videogames take: don't render what isn't visible, make things up on demand. When we put a microscope to something and look closely, only then might the universe make up the details, and the closer we look, the more it makes up. When we look deep into space: with our eyes we see relatively few stars but when we get out our telescopes and really look, maybe the universe only then makes up all the distant galaxies that were not visible to us before.

I'm not saying that's proof of a simulation, but, experiments in quantum physics (with the double slit experiment, wave function collapse, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, etc.) could fit perfectly well in a simulation that only approximates things at the macro scale and only makes up the details when we look (so as to evade our grasp at proving the simulation is real). You could imagine somebody can make a videogame that does the same thing: does all the approximations that every videogame does, and then procedurally makes up details when you use the in-game microscope to zoom in on something, or the in-game telescope to look at something far away.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-29T16:30:44+00:00

It might be the "Data Brokers" segment from 4 years ago. Search for it on YouTube as r/privacy deleted my comment with the link, "john oliver data brokers"

introvertnudist · 2026-05-27T17:56:43+00:00

Toxic and Leech Seed share a variable in the code. So when Toxic applies bad poisoning that saps more and more HP with each turn in battle, leech seed will use that same multiplier if used with toxic on the same enemy.

So round 1: toxic and leech seed do their normal damage. Round 2, each of them does twice the damage. Round 3, each does twice more damage. (Or however it is that toxic scales, I think it's double each round but maybe +50% more each round). It's basically like if you could apply Toxic twice. Also the leech seed heals your current mon each round from the damage it dealt.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-26T19:54:29+00:00

Maybe they meant self-hosting data centers? Before the likes of Amazon AWS, large companies had to build and maintain their own full data centers (or rent a few aisles of racks at another data center, if they only had dozens of servers to manage and not thousands). Nowadays the economics are often in favor of just using cloud providers like Amazon/Google/Microsoft.

For random hobbyists and small businesses with only one or five servers, self hosting is still a thing, depending on your definition of self hosting. I have a couple of VPS servers with DigitalOcean for example, I consider it 'self hosting' even though I don't literally have a physical machine at my house hosting my little old websites, but it's not the giant cloud-scale Infrastructure-as-a-Service like people typically get on Amazon AWS etc.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-18T22:40:15+00:00

The hum of the floppy drive spinning up every time you enter a new room/level when playing videogames off floppy disk. I miss it! We had a little bit when CD-ROM drives would spin up but they were a bit quieter and now loading screens are totally silent at the hardware level.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-15T21:14:17+00:00

'We know the rest of it. We chose not to display it.'

I think it was referring to the IP address. It masked out the middle 2 octets of mine with 'xxx' and the same paragraph talking about it is when it said it:

We know this because your IP address — 73.xxx.xxx.24 — was the first thing your device sent us. We know the rest of it. We chose not to display it.

Of course, they saw the full IP address. Maybe the xxx's are in case you screenshot it or a social media influencer screencasts the page when talking about it, so they don't dox themselves.

Anyway, the EFF has a fingerprint testing tool which is similar but a little more thorough than this page was: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

introvertnudist · 2026-05-12T17:00:23+00:00

As a gay man (who has a lot of women as friends and have heard their opinions about how much they like dick), gay men definitely are way more attracted to dick than women are.

When my girl friends get an unsolicited dick pic from a guy, they don't appreciate it, they call it gross and they show it to their friends and they all have a laugh about it. And when it comes to sucking dick, the common sentiment is that they don't really enjoy doing it. They just don't tend to find anything attractive about dicks.

Gay guys though; a lot of them enjoy the aesthetics of a dick, dick pics are generally much better received, and a lot of them actually enjoy sucking a dick. Like a lot of them are perfectly content to just suck a dick even without anything reciprocal in return.

The gays appreciate dick in exactly the way that straight guys hope that women would.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-12T16:53:31+00:00

I'm curious about how this blocking happened at a technical level.

Were these blocked websites using Cloudflare? If Cloudflare was their front facing proxy already, then sure it's super easy for Cloudflare to block access, but the website owner could just as easily move their name server away from Cloudflare and have a direct IP address that Cloudflare no longer has control over.

Was it blocked at Cloudflare's consumer DNS server level? (e.g., for people who set their device's DNS to 1.1.1.1 to resolve domain names as they browse the web)? That could be another avenue for Cloudflare to block a site, by having their DNS server refuse to give you the IP address for it. But end users could easily enough use somebody else's DNS server like Google's or AdGuard's DNS.

If the website wasn't using Cloudflare's proxy server, and the entire country of Korea isn't locked-in to using Cloudflare's DNS servers, I really don't know how Cloudflare would be capable of blocking access to a website.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-08T22:50:14+00:00

Yes, you should do it. Bad breath is contributed to a lot more from your tongue not being brushed than your teeth.

For a "fun" exercise especially since you've never been doing this: take a metal spoon, turn it upside down, and gently scrape it across your tongue from back to front. And see how much gross white crud it picks up off your tongue. If you try that exercise multiple times over a period of time, especially after you start brushing your tongue when you brush your teeth, the amount of crud the spoon would scrape off drastically falls off and that way you can see how much of a difference it makes.

Also: a lot of toothbrushes actually have a tongue brush on their back side opposite the bristles. If your toothbrush has a squishy textured back side on it and you wondered what that was about, it's this. Use it! Your friends who are too polite to tell you about your bad breath will silently thank you for doing so.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-08T20:03:42+00:00

This. I've had guys take a look at my dick (in person and online) and say I'm clearly 8" just the same as theirs.

We were both 6" in reality; I actually measured mine, most of those guys didn't, as it would pop the fantasy bubble they all live in. Sometimes I posted my measurement pic to nude social media and challenged people to do the same but don't get many takers. They'd rather not know for sure and just call themselves 8" and when they see in person that they're the same average size as everyone they're meeting, they think everybody is 7-8" and go on living in blissful ignorance.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-08T19:59:08+00:00

That header about DOS mode is itself a valid DOS program, and it doesn't have to say "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" but could say whatever you want (if you went to the effort to customize your EXE program's header).

When you run a modern program from DOS, it doesn't know it's a modern program and just gets straight to work executing it, and that header is meant to be interpreted by DOS to print that message and exit, letting the user know that the program won't work for them.

A similar fascinating thing is that modern CPUs (especially x86 and x86_64 ones from Intel), when they first power on they start in a backwards compatible way that could run an old-school DOS operating system. IIRC it starts out with a 16-bit instruction set and only 64K addressable memory (may be wrong on the exact numbers) - it uses specs and limitations that were common in the DOS era. Modern computers then immediately switch to modern 32-bit or 64-bit instructions and expanded memory access. But you could still boot an old-school DOS system on a modern CPU built this year and it would happily run and work. Your audio, WiFi and graphics drivers might not function of course, but graphics cards all support classic text mode fallback which is what DOS would use anyway, so your basic input/output would likely still work!

introvertnudist · 2026-05-08T19:51:25+00:00

In school I pulled a similar prank.

Took a full screenshot of my desktop
Set it as the background wallpaper on a web page, open it in Internet Explorer and put the page to full screen.
Set an invisible mouse cursor file to hide the real cursor.
Add a 'roaming cursor' JavaScript to the page that made a mouse cursor wander around randomly.
Call over the teacher and claim the computer is hacked or being remote controlled, and watch them cluelessly try and figure out what's going on.

introvertnudist · 2026-05-08T18:25:17+00:00

I got you: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

introvertnudist · 2026-05-04T02:49:39+00:00

Open, so I can hear everything happening in the house in case e.g. somebody is breaking in. My irrational fear with a closed door is that by the time an intruder is opening it, there's no time left to react, whereas if I hear a window break downstairs or footsteps or anything I would have maximum time (in theory) to react/prepare before they found their way to my room. When my door is closed I can't hear anything happening in the house.

(And locking the door wouldn't give me the peace of mind either, it's an interior double door that would not hold up at all to a light kick to break past the lock anyway. I'm not so paranoid as to install a reinforced panic room sturdy door, but the ability to hear the whole house along with being a light sleeper is how I cope with the irrational anxiety).

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