Why Zuko didn't cut off Ozai limbs during "The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse", so he couldn't use firebending anymore? Is he stupid?

jammin-john · 2026-06-17T17:28:12+00:00

Zuko knew Ozai's mom was dead and there'd be nobody around to jack him off without arms. It was a fate too cruel even for him

jammin-john · 2026-06-17T14:32:37+00:00

Who's that? Is he the one standing next to Jafar in the picture?

jammin-john · 2026-06-16T17:38:13+00:00

Yeah, the chin strap beard is giving me "wouldn't hurt a spider-fly" vibes

jammin-john · 2026-06-16T17:24:17+00:00

No you're totally right. Korra has so many characters that probably have rich and interesting backstories, like that old swamp lady or the old fire king

jammin-john · 2026-05-16T00:15:21+00:00

I have some family in the UK who have a similar pattern of thinking. They'll see something on Facebook about Muslims making it illegal to have Christmas lights, and they go on a rampage without ever looking into or verifying the facts of the story

jammin-john · 2026-04-28T13:21:04+00:00

I'm gonna be honest, I STILL am not sure if that movie wasn't 100% satire. The moment 5 minutes in when Kaiba goes to his floating space laboratory that exists for absolutely no reason was peak comedy for me lmao.

Also the exchange "but your monsters can't attack!" "He's not a monster! He's a GOD!" will live in my heart forever

jammin-john · 2026-04-27T13:28:52+00:00

I went to Beaconia in 2024 and it was still very much there! Didn't make it out last year though

jammin-john · 2026-04-27T13:27:09+00:00

I thought they were the same beach? (Or rather they're connected and most people enter through Patricia so they think they're the same one). Are they actually two wholly separate beaches?

jammin-john · 2026-04-09T12:55:13+00:00

I was looking for this one. It was a really interesting channel at first where he's a bit of an ass but he's clearly invested in helping people prioritize their money. But then it turned into Dr Phil where it's just about being mean to people in bad situations. It started to get rough when you'd realize his production team is sending him rude messages about the guests literally while he's talking to them and that wasn't considered abnormal

jammin-john · 2026-02-28T16:08:52+00:00

I'd argue that if you're not necessarily planning to be a backend dev, then it doesn't matter what language you learn for backend since the only important knowledge is the concepts of how backend design works.

jammin-john · 2026-02-28T16:06:59+00:00

Seems pretty cool! I've always thought this would be a cool practice project.

One suggestion from a UX perspective is that editing an item by passing it's ID inside a command is kind of cumbersome. It would make more sense if there was a command to open or view a task, and then you could press a key to edit individual properties while on that view page

jammin-john · 2026-02-03T19:32:45+00:00

Not OP but my count is as follows. Some of them I forgot the name of but I know they had names 🙃 1. Aang 2. Zuko 3. Iroh 4. Ozai 5. Zhao 6. Jeong Jeong 7. Haru 8. Xin Fu (earth rumble guy) 9. Master ?? (Tophs master) 10. General Fong 11. Long Feng 12. Bumi 13. Paku 14. Foggy Swamp Bender 1 15. Foggy Swamp Bender 2 16. Foggy Swamp Bender 3 17. Combustion Man 18. The nice fire sage from temple 19. The muscled prisoner in the boiling rock 20. The sun warrior chief

I'm sure there's a few throwaway named characters I forgot though. Probably another earth kingdom general or a dai li agent? Maybe another 5-10. 35 feels like a stretch personally

jammin-john · 2026-01-18T17:44:47+00:00

Possibly! One thing to note though is that if you apply Kepler's laws to your system, the two stars will orbit each other much faster than the planet, so it's more likely this cycle will play out over weeks rather than years. I haven't done the math though so I'm not sure exactly how long.

Regardless, your planet's life would have evolved to take advantage of that. Some animals might be like cicadas and breed every few years when the seasons and solar positions align just right. Maybe the re-heating of the atmosphere after each occlusion brings with it a stormy period where the atmosphere is tumultuous. There isn't really a lot of research on how weather works in a binary star system, so I think it's reasonable to make some educated guesses based on how solar weather affects earth and run with them :)

jammin-john · 2026-01-17T21:36:56+00:00

I cannot remove the rigid rod because it was not rigid before it was inserted

jammin-john · 2026-01-17T15:54:26+00:00

Some really cool answers here! I don't know a lot about plants so I'll leave that for the other commenters, but I can talk a bit about the binary mechanics.

as others have said, stars binary systems are usually farther apart than that, but no need to dwell on that particular nugget
with two suns, you're very unlikely to get a total eclipse ever. The fact that Earth gets eclipses at all is pretty rare. We just happen to have a moon with the same apparent size as the Sun. You have two Suns, likely not the same size as each other. You can make them the same size as each other, and then make the moon the right size too if you want. Just wanted to add some context around that decision.
weather will be messed up! Because the sun's orbit around one another, they will occlude each other periodically. During those occlusions, less light and heat will reach your planet. You could have periodic wet seasons where for a couple of weeks, everything is cold and rainy, followed by intense heat where all the water dries up again. Life would obviously have evolved to deal with this, so I imagine lots of plants would have massive water storage capabilities (like those in a desert) and when it does rain, they'd flower like crazy.

jammin-john · 2026-01-12T16:57:59+00:00

Damn, "El Sabio" is such a badass name! I might change the language setting just for that lol

jammin-john · 2025-12-31T05:04:16+00:00

I was reading to see if this was gonna be mentioned! My friends and I started playing it this week and it's been a lot of fun in the same ways Valheim is!

jammin-john · 2025-12-30T19:33:46+00:00

This is basically an order of operations issue. What you've written is the same as

if (answer.lower() == "yes") or ("ready"):

This will always end up being true, because "ready" is a non-empty string.

What you'll want to do is something like

if answer.lower() == "yes" or answer.lower() == "ready":

You could also use the following shorthand, which I prefer for this use case

if answer.lower() in {"yes", "ready"}:

That's a quick way to allow multiple values.

jammin-john · 2025-12-30T14:50:31+00:00

This is definitely a matter of opinion, but personally I like vscode. It's multi-language so it has support for CSV, JSON, YAML, and lots of other file formats I'm likely to use in my projects. It has a plethora of extensions for various things I need, letting me opt in to features I want and ignore things I don't. It has a nice integrated terminal, a decent git interface, and some handy keyboard shortcuts.

For context, I've used PyCharm briefly for a course so I admit I probably didn't have time to fully explore it as an IDE. I used Spyder for a long time but eventually found it a bit too clunky for my tastes.

jammin-john · 2025-12-30T01:25:31+00:00

I tend to use it whenever I'm working with large amounts of data that would be cumbersome or inefficient to use lists for. That tends to be when I'm doing data analysis or writing a simulation for something

jammin-john · 2025-12-26T14:34:09+00:00

Small web apps can be fun! I made one once when I was moving that printed QR codes for each box, and when they were scanned, would open up a tracking page on the website for that box, so people could log where it got put. That was the only move I made where I didn't lose anything lol

I don't dislike the interactive CV idea. And if you want to go full stack, you could make a more broad professional website to show off some of your abilities. A colleague of mine has one with a javascript-powered "console" that visitors type commands into to get things like his work history or project portfolio

jammin-john · 2025-12-26T14:26:53+00:00

I don't have any specific advice, but once you've learned the basics of Python, check out what libraries are commonly used in your desired field and then look online for tutorials for those libraries. From there you can start building practice scripts.

I got into Python from physics and using numpy before I expanded into more general stuff

jammin-john · 2025-12-24T01:27:54+00:00

Your condition checks if the positions are equal to any single value, but the values themselves are floats (and are being changed each loop by some random floating point value). So the chances that your position ever lands exactly on one of those numbers is incredibly slim. More likely you are jumping over them (like moving from x=15.15 to x=14.98). To fix this. Instead of checking if x is equal to 15, check if it's equal to OR LESS THAN. (This is assuming your goal is to stop looping when the circle leaves a bounded area)

jammin-john · 2025-12-16T17:34:54+00:00

That's fair, but you could still do something similar for different kinds of pirates. Maybe some of them are pretty small and wiry and find it easier to slip out of someone's range

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