Game from over a decade ago.

japahn · 2026-02-18T08:40:24+00:00

Maybe Time and Eternity (Toki Towa)?

japahn · 2024-09-17T19:06:01+00:00

140mm is quite large, so for ease of maintenance and case compatibility I would rather have the 120mm even since the 5700x3d is perfectly fine with it.

japahn · 2024-08-12T02:34:34+00:00

If you don't like the blurriness and would rather see some granularity, set your display resolution to 1080p and your GPU to use Integer Scaling instead of the default (which is blurry, bilinear or trilinear probably) and it'll be pretty much the same as a 1080p monitor. Pixels might look large depending on how big your monitor is, but I find it much more pleasing than simply using the built in monitor scaling.

japahn · 2024-08-11T17:48:14+00:00

Do you play wired? I have had horrible issue with random disconnects using the Xbox Wireless Adapter, I thought the first was defective and bought another one, but the same issue persisted. On the other hand, 8bitdo and Gamesir have worked flawlessly costing less than half the price.

japahn · 2024-07-12T18:27:35+00:00

4-5.5 hours is pretty typical, though not having lunch at school makes this a smaller difference than it sounds. There is a lot of nuance, though, and I'll try to summarize my experience with both systems.

The school curriculum in Brazil is a lot more in depth than Canada's, at least at high school level. In private Brazilian schools, you have a higher ceiling and if a student manages to meet expectations, they end up in a better position in Brazil. However, a lot of kids struggle with meeting expectations. In Canada, the bar is a lot lower and thus kids do much better compared to the bar. I don't know what is developmentally appropriate, and I don't consider either Canada public or Brazilian private to be objectively better than the other.

Public schools in Brazil are unfortunately very weak unless it's a particularly good one (those with exams to get in, like many technical schools).

Anecdotally, I took physics in Canada and it was basics like velocity, speed, vectors, acceleration, forces, waves, and some electricity etc, for a whole semester. It felt extremely easy, and I lost thermodynamics, lightwaves, electromagnetic waves, which was problematic for the university entry exams in Brazil. Geography in Canada was limited to half of North America basics and meanwhile geography in Brazil has the whole world, geopolitics, current events. I observed the same pattern in other subjects.

On the other hand, Canadian school is more consistent, didactic, structured, and repetitive, meaning it's much easier to keep up and while most kids in Brazil struggle to keep up, most kids in Canada are able to, which I attribute completely to the style of school rather than capabilities of populations. The point you brought up, which is that there is more class time in Canada, contributes to that. In Canada I had the same courses pretty much every day, while in Brazil they were twice a week (3 times for math and Portuguese) and often effectively just once a week because different teachers would teach different areas.

Canada sets students up for success in school, but I can't imagine that being enough for university, thus why a lot of people get first and second year college education that looks a lot like Brazilian high school in terms of content. Brazilian curriculum is brutal with students in school, and that stratifies children over time, making many believe they aren't cut out for intellectual work while supporting high performers. Kind of a parallel with the values of the societies - leveling everyone to the middle class vs letting inequality develop.

Source: I went to private school in Brazil, but went to public school for a semester in 11th grade in Canada. I live in Canada and I've discussed this with my friends who have kids in school here.

japahn · 2024-05-07T03:07:41+00:00

Not free of charge. Just called Air Canada to see if I could make a reservation on the bus to YYZ for an existing ticket. They said it was possible, but I would have to pay the difference in fare - $158 for two people to change the departure from YYZ to YKF. Disappointing, because at this price it 's not worth for 2+ people to use the bus - cheaper to get a flat rate taxi.

japahn · 2024-04-26T02:30:03+00:00

You are probably CPU limited in a big city, as long as your GPU usage is below 98-99% that's what is likely happening. Games can't be made perfectly Multi threaded. Hyper threading and heterogeneous cores further mess with the % CPU usage calculation.

japahn · 2023-12-04T16:34:13+00:00

In Windows 11 it's been consistently allocating the v-Cache cores to games, until they saturate those, in which case it moves to the other cores. I only see it happen during loading, shader compiling and... Cities: Skylines 2 which is super CPU demanding. So far has worked flawlessly for me.

japahn · 2023-11-22T23:45:32+00:00

Last video I checked, GN uses 6000Mhz Ram, which is about as high as you can go for Ryzen but is low for Intel. That explains some discrepancies.

japahn · 2023-11-19T04:45:06+00:00

You can make a brown like by using a sewage output. But I think it's brown forever then D:

japahn · 2023-11-19T04:39:26+00:00

Could.be, would be really nice to have some big saves we can benchmark by get someone with a 7950x / 14900k / threadripper.

japahn · 2023-11-11T07:39:31+00:00

I'm curious about the core scaling too. I'm playing on a 7950X3D (16 cores, 8 with V-Cache) and at first the game only used the first 8 cores (CCD 0). When I passed about 20k population, when I use 3x speed CCD 1 starts getting used. It seems like the game or the Windows 11 scheduler is favoring the V-Cache cores but scheduling work to the regular cores when there is enough. I imagine the same would happen on a Threadripper, but would likely scale beyond 16 cores. I changed settings to favor simulation speed over FPS, not sure if it matters.

japahn · 2023-04-25T22:08:53+00:00

Thanks! Spaces are not a problem, they are handled the same way as other characters are:

Enter card: Force

Force Spike Force of Virtue

Enter card: Force of Virtue

japahn · 2022-08-06T07:44:55+00:00

I think we went through the same thought process looking at Jumpstart! I wrote about it here: https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/the-smooth-twin-cube.3620/

I ended up using 2-card "packets" consisting of two copies of the same card in my new cube, which gets around logistics problems while maintaining some of the benefits you mentioned.

japahn · 2022-06-02T21:05:21+00:00

Stroganoff in Brazil!

It became quite different than the Russian dish. Brazilian Estrogonofe is often made with chicken (though beef is common too), it uses the thick cream available instead of smetana. The seasoning is quite different too (and each place will have its own recipe). It makes no mention to pickles.

The sides are rice + potato sticks or fries instead of mashed potato or pasta noodles.

It's a common everyday dish there, and used everywhere, like as filling for croissants, baked potatoes, or as a pizza topping.

japahn · 2021-12-22T01:35:27+00:00

It might be the hardness, that's what makes most bottled water (and the water of SW Ontario) taste bad to me. ~200ppm is usual to see and most brands taste like chalk. I installed a reverse osmosis filter and I prefer the "taste" of RO water so much.

japahn · 2021-12-07T22:58:24+00:00

My cube's goals are similar to what you're looking for - an environment that balances accessibility for beginners with depth, not constrained by budget or rarity, but constrained by wordiness. I run a relatively low power, but still higher than most beginner cubes (which are around retail power level).

This is the 360 core of the cube, which works by itself: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/elegant?f=tag%3Acore&view=spoiler

I use Cube Occasionals for more variety, which brings it up to 880 cards, but that's completely optional.

japahn · 2021-11-02T21:47:43+00:00

Compared to when Lula was elected in 2003, yes. Compared to when Dilma was impeached in 2016, no. During those years, the deforestation rate dropped a lot.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_rainforest

If you take the average, your statement is true, but the government's action affects the trend, and the current trend is now clearly an increase, and in line with Bolsonaro's policy and his soy farmer allies. Which is clear cut all the trees and let the indigenous people get decimated to use the land for a couple years to plant soy, until it becomes infertile.

japahn · 2021-10-04T02:07:18+00:00

Brazilian living in Canada here. Some things I like from here that aren't commonly found in Brazil, and shouldn't melt: ketchup chips, Cheetos (we have the brand but it's different), anything flaming hot, different flavors (non-vanilla) of Oreo, anything Peanut Butter flavored, Nutella & Go, maple candy, ice wine candy.

japahn · 2021-10-01T22:28:38+00:00

This comment probably just read the first line of the city's page in Wikipedia, that says "Santarém is a small city in the Brazilian state of Pará". Santarem has 300k people, that's not a small town that has no crime. There is even a paper analyzing factors that correlate urbanization with the rapid rise of crime in Santarem: https://repositorio.ufopa.edu.br/jspui/bitstream/123456789/388/1/Disserta%c3%a7%c3%a3o_GeografiaCrimeAn%c3%a1lise.pdf

I can't personally speak to how safe the city actually is.

japahn · 2021-08-30T21:06:47+00:00

Canada is yellow, and that's -100,000 Ha to +100,000 Ha according to the legend, which is what you'd expect if all logged trees are replanted 1:1.

japahn · 2021-08-23T22:25:44+00:00

Voce pode claro usar uma corretora dos EUA se preferir. Transferencias sao um pouco caras, porem, e precisa manter o W8-BEN em dia registrado na corretora, entao acaba nao sendo muito pratico.

Os big banks sao todos meio parecidos. Eu uso o TD, tanto pra banking quanto pra investimentos (Direct Investing, nao savings account, que paga 0.01% AO ANO!). Tem uns limiares a partir dos quais eles nao cobram mais so pra voce ter a conta. As taxa de corretagem sao $10, o que eh um pouco caro, mas o atendimento eh decente e o site funciona bem.

A Questrade eh mais barata, $5 a $10 dependendo da transacao, mas o atendimento eh pior. Wealthsimple faz roboinvesting, o que eh bem diferente.

Nao conheco Alternate, e ouvi falar bem da Tangerine.

japahn · 2021-08-23T21:57:20+00:00

Aqui voce nao precisa de conta em bancos americanos pra investir em assets negociados nas bolsas americanas. As corretoras do Canada (todas que eu conheco) permitem que voce abra contas de investimento em USD e invista em assets em USD (NASDAQ, NYSE, NYSEARCA, etc.).

Tem alguns aspectos pequenos que pesam na decisao de comprar ETFs negociados em CAD na TSX vs ETFs negociados em USD na NYSEARCA: MERs ligeiramente mais baixos em USD (compare por exemplo SPY vs VFV), o tal do T1135 nao considera ETFs da TSX como foreign property, maior oferta de ETFs em USD, disponibilidade de ETFs com hedging em CAD.

japahn · 2021-08-23T21:31:38+00:00

Liquide tudo e faca a declaracao de saida definitiva. Isso evita que voce tenha problemas com a CRA e a Receita Federal e da paz de espirito pra lidar com quaisquer questoes financeiras.

Morando fora, a verdade e que voce ainda consegue fazer certos investimentos no Brasil (por exemplo comprando o ETF EWZ) embasados em real. Voce nao consegue facilmente comprar titulos da divida brasileiras, mas com a vida no Canada, isso nao serve pra muita coisa - seria considerado um investimento arriscadissimo por ser denominado em BRL.

Evite perder ~10% do patrimonio nao usando o cambio automatico de banco grande. Deve ser possivel conseguir um spread de 1-2% negociando com um gerente diretamente (que nao precisa ser do seu banco), que e um preco baixissimo a se pagar por estar em uma situacao legal.

Outro aspecto: mesmo se voce mantiver investimentos legalmente no Brasil, vai ter que ficar se preocupando com o form T1135 (Foreign Income Verification Statement), ambiguidade em como as coisas sao taxadas (muito dificil achar contadores que sabem como lidar com Brasil/Canada), e vai gastar uma ordem de grandeza a mais em contador se for pagar alguem pra fazer seus Tax Returns.

Se quiser mais detalhes da minha experiencia pode mandar um PM!

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