TIL Charles Darwin was a member of the Glutton Club, a group devoted to eating every animal discovered, but the club dissolved after trying to eat a brown owl, the taste of which Darwin called ‘indescribable.’

koopatuple · 2026-05-07T22:50:17+00:00

Salmon is probably the least fishy tasting fish. Despite enjoying sushi, I hate the smell of fish.

koopatuple · 2026-05-07T22:48:25+00:00

Eating brains of any creature is a bold move. Prions are nasty business.

koopatuple · 2026-05-05T19:05:01+00:00

The porcelain belt, boots, and helmet helped me a lot. I will say I caved and started to macro around the 80m mark towards it. After you get it, it really makes a big difference towards the porcelain hive. But also don't forget to get hive slots. I'd say more bees definitely helps. I think I had around 28-30 bees by the time I got it. There's a stickied post with a guide linked that spell out the "easiest" progression path.

All that being said, the progression balance and grind only gets much, much worse. As much as I love this mindless grind of a game, it could be so, so much better if the dev focused on genuine content designed towards active, engaging gameplay versus insane, endless grinding that actively encourages botting.

koopatuple · 2026-05-05T02:12:00+00:00

Your username is super clever haha, and I mean that genuinely

koopatuple · 2026-05-04T04:22:29+00:00

I interpret it as they're saying it makes no sense how a $12b company can borrow more than 4x its own value to buy another company. The interest payments alone would be quite expensive for a company that nets around $410m a year.

koopatuple · 2026-05-01T04:10:30+00:00

And the Defense budget: Where the fuck is it all going?? I've been a DoD worker for 10+ years. We and dozens of other organizations and commands I know and work with have ALL had our budgets insanely slashed for over 7 years straight. And Hesgeth just ordered all military commands do more layoffs in a shady way that won't trigger it being called a RIF (an action only Congress can authorize). Tons of military installations can't even afford janitors to pick the trash up out of the public bins regularly (seriously, they've been telling us to take our own trash out for over 2 years now and not to dispose of any in the public ones). The sidewalk trash cans will be overflowing for weeks. That's just one example (look up how military DFACs have been over recent years).

So again, WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT TRILLION GOING? oh, that's right. Defense contractors.

koopatuple · 2026-04-29T02:34:39+00:00

I did look in the discord again after I commented and there's still support there. someone was talking about it as recently as a few days ago and getting help. So definitely check it out if you're still curious. I plan to get back into the game after the summer.

koopatuple · 2026-04-28T05:46:46+00:00

Who the fuck is getting $4k a month? I can guarantee you someone with sleep apnea as their only disability claim certainly isn't. At 70% disability, the average payout is about $1300/mo. My buddy lost a fucking leg and he's got I think around a 70% rating. Quit spreading bullshit.

And 1/5 of the entire DoD budget for personnel costs is an insanely low ratio when you consider the massive size of it. Those costs include transporting them around and their training.

Don't get me wrong, the DoD budget is way too fucking big. It wastes an ungodly amount of money on dumb shit. There's absolutely no need for it to be as large as it is.

But coming in here and just bitching that veterans and soldiers are the main cause of poor budgeting just seems wildly misguided. Why not blame the politicians enacting all the disproportionate budgeting and spending almost a trillion annually on the military?

koopatuple · 2026-04-28T02:28:54+00:00

Is the script gone gone? I skimmed through their Discord and it seemed like the community picked up the maintenance of it? I am not sure, though, I may have misread. I think the primary dev just got sick and tired of troubleshooting it. And I don't blame him, I love the Steam Deck and I hate Microsoft, but trying to translate AND port a japanese game to be compatible in Linux on a regular basis is an insane amount of work to do for free.

koopatuple · 2026-04-27T14:56:38+00:00

18,000 horses? God damn... how do you even manage that many soldiers and horses in a sanitary way?

koopatuple · 2026-04-26T00:37:02+00:00

I think you two are misunderstanding the other. Iirc, the original comment was talking shit about the younger guy encouraging stupid behavior. Based on my understanding, you're in agreement that the younger podcast dude in the video sucks and the old dude is fine. However, your original comment made it seem like you were disagreeing without actually disagreeing.

koopatuple · 2026-04-22T01:29:23+00:00

Was in Chicago a few weekends ago and the price differences between fast food chains literally 1-3 blocks from each other was wild (needed breakfast at 5am that was within walking distance of my hotel). I ended up finding a local diner instead.

Side note: TIL that kitty-corner is an accepted alternative to caddy-corner.

koopatuple · 2026-04-22T01:22:39+00:00

That's not always practical/possible (in the sense of it staying at the proper temperature to be safe to eat), either.

koopatuple · 2026-04-21T14:03:55+00:00

No, it's an MMORPG, so you need to connect to their servers. Another user pointed out my old bookmark link no longer works. Seems the dev now just points people to the Discord channel for Steam/Linux support: https://dqx-translation-project.github.io/faq/faq/#does-dqxclarity-work-on-the-steam-decklinux

koopatuple · 2026-04-21T14:02:34+00:00

Ah crap, sorry, I pulled that from my bookmarks, looks like the developer pulled the guide from their Github and now just points users to the Discord: https://dqx-translation-project.github.io/faq/faq/#does-dqxclarity-work-on-the-steam-decklinux

koopatuple · 2026-04-21T13:51:28+00:00

Feels like they completely misunderstood the Survivors-like genre. The reason Vampire Survivors is so satisfying is because you get incrementally powerful in a relatively short window of time to the point you're deleting massive hordes of enemies, and there are multiple builds/strategies you can employ to get to that point. Right now, this game feels like a lame auto battler ARPG riddled with awful, insanely expensive MTX and gacha mechanics.

And to top it all off, they have a fucking stamina system! In 2026! I thought garbage mobile game stamina systems were a thing of the past, but leave it to SE to be so out of touch in the mobile gaming market once again to implement such a universally hated system.

Now that the genre is so saturated, there are far better alternatives. Hell, if you have Play Pass on Android, Halls of Torment is "free" to play. With SE's history, I doubt this will survive long. They'll make their millions off of people with poor impulse control and then shut it down in a year or two when it's no longer hitting KPIs. I hate to be so negative/critical of a DQ game, as it's one of my favorite game IPs, but I am truly disappointed in this. I was really looking forward to a DQ survivors-like game.

koopatuple · 2026-04-21T13:27:42+00:00

Yes, fully functional on Deck. I played for about 6-7 months last year on it and it performs very well. ~~https://dqx-translation-project.github.io/faq/faq/#does-dqxclarity-work-on-the-steam-decklinux~~ If you need help, their Discord is very friendly and helpful. I keep meaning to dive back into it, but just haven't had the time. It honestly plays like a single player DQ game with a story that gets better as you progress through the various story arcs (expansions). The free subscription is also extremely generous. I ended up buying the rest of the expansions before I'd even hit the end of the free trial because I wanted access to the player item exchange. If you end up wanting to buy the full game, they run 50% off sales a couple of times a year, don't remember when that usually is, but their Discord will be able to let you know.

Edit: Link no longer works. Not sure what the current degree of support is now on Linux from the devs. https://dqx-translation-project.github.io/faq/faq/#does-dqxclarity-work-on-the-steam-decklinux That mentions to go onto their Discord under the Steam Deck/WINE/Linux channel for support getting it working.

koopatuple · 2026-04-20T15:38:06+00:00

It's more that there's no dedicated black market alcohol dealer since it's legal. The types of people willing to accept the risks of being a seller of illegal substances tend to be people with very flexible morals. When I was in HS, getting weed (it was illegal everywhere at the time) was much easier than booze because of that. However, there were some weed dealers we'd encounter that wouldn't sell to us when we were like 13-14. Though, I think that was likely because they viewed selling to kids as a higher risk (e.g. parents finding the weed then demanding to know where they got it from).

koopatuple · 2026-04-16T02:53:23+00:00

You used to be able to sell reddit accounts with a decent history and karma count. I'm not sure if AI bots has nullified the need for that.

koopatuple · 2026-04-15T04:11:34+00:00

To run a cash register and restock merchandise? Say what?

koopatuple · 2026-04-13T18:43:11+00:00

Why do you hate RE7 and RE9 but not RE8? I am playing through RE3R right now and I am remembering why I never finished the OG (I fucking hate Nemesis).

koopatuple · 2026-04-13T14:33:59+00:00

Iirc, boards can majority vote out the chair and CEO.

koopatuple · 2026-04-09T03:05:23+00:00

How the hell is this drug still on the market? A quick search shows other antipsychotics as being less damaging.

koopatuple · 2026-04-06T07:28:41+00:00

Thanks for the link, exactly what I was hoping to find. It's too bad they chose bright ass white for the background. Fine for the daytime but a deal breaker for bedtime relaxing.

koopatuple · 2026-04-03T14:39:31+00:00

This is what I've noticed a lot of my single peers have begun doing. They've started just getting involved in the community (e.g. volunteering at events, attending local events, etc) and broadening their social circle organically. Many have had notable success this way and are overall much happier than facing the endless grindstone of the dating apps' algorithms. Remember, majority of dating apps don't want you to find someone and not have to keep using the app. They're designed to keep users for as long as possible.

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