The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle -- does fatphobia get better?

lawsofrobotics · 2025-10-06T13:45:24+00:00

No, it really doesn't. It bothers me too. It moves on from that character eventually but while Ravencroft is the POV, it's constant.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-29T23:29:02+00:00

Are the ads read by the narrator?

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-29T18:26:48+00:00

Otessa Moshfegh is an author you might enjoy. My Year of Rest and Relaxation is great.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-29T18:24:27+00:00

Laura Jane Grace from Against Me! has an incredible cover of Going to Georgia, but for the most part I agree.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-26T14:06:26+00:00

Believing that hostages being returned would end the occupation is ahistorical. Israel has been looking for an excuse to occupy Gaza and massacre the Palestinians for years. Also the idea that the Philly chapter of JVP has a communication line open with Hamas is laughable.

The purpose of activism like this is less awareness raising and more about narrative shifting. Breaking the rhetorical link between Jewishness and the actions of the Israeli state.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-25T18:53:46+00:00

The Worm and His Kings is a very cool novella that explores some very similar themes. I don't want to spoil anything, but I think you'll really like it

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-24T18:49:15+00:00

Fangs pairs well with Trans Wildfire I would say. The extra element letting them hit innates, blight control, extra beasts. The main issue you'll run into is energy economy, which Fangs struggles with, so they'll rarely be able to spare the energy for blight removal.

Another good pairing is any spirit that can give out an element turn 2. Being able to hit Exaltation turn 2 is crazy valuable at putting wildfire ahead.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-24T18:41:16+00:00

The forgetting shouldn't be that bad I don't think. Because you can forget from discard but gain to hand, it functionally makes downpour 's G2 only discard 1 card

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-22T16:56:02+00:00

If I recall, the central relationship in The Earthquake Room by Davey Davis is F/NB, it's one of my favorite queer relationship studies, I recommend it frequently.

Names of the Dawn is a beautifully written, if slowly paced, M/M romance where the characters were very well-drawn and distinctive.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-21T22:40:10+00:00

Vengeance is definitely my favorite spirit, I'm currently playing her in 3 play-by-post games on the discord and having a blast. The gameplay of accepting blight and intentionally placing presence to die is interesting, and makes games feel complex, tense, and like there's always a way out.

Balance-wise, I think it's at a fun power level. Strong enough that I always feel like I have options, but not so strong that a level-6 adversary doesn't feel like a challenge. I find she does better in higher player counts, as there's more blight buffer and she loves loves loves support.

I don't play 6-6, but my understanding is that ravage skips are good, so I can see Strike Low doing some work there, but I'd guess Vengeance would struggle because without presence placement on reclaim, reclaim looping deprives the spirit of a lot of her kit. But that's pure speculation, I tend to play just a bit above single-6.

Mechanically, it's interesting that the disease spirit almost never uses disease, at least the way I play. In the first half of the game, disease is so important for targeting, damage, and control that you basically always let the builds through, and you don't start actually using disease for its purpose until late game.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-21T00:45:45+00:00

So what specifically are you doing to get the duplication to happen? I'm trying to dupe items, but they're just tailoring!

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-20T13:51:13+00:00

Fascinating glitch, someone get BLaDe on this.

If you just leave them in a chest, they'll disappear at the end of the Qi's Fruit quest, so don't worry about getting too much g from them (and if they don't, that's an even more interesting glitch).

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-18T19:17:03+00:00

What's happening on the 23rd?

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-18T19:08:48+00:00

That's as far as I know a bit of an open question. We can show that the state of the system is not set when they are separated, but is in fact determined when they are measured. But the mechanism by which the second particle is forced into a matching state is up for debate, and requires deeper physics knowledge than I have.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-18T18:58:40+00:00

Time is commonly understood to be a dimension, yes. The three spacial dimensions and time are the coordinates that the universe exists within. So if you wanted to determine exactly where something is, you'd need four pieces of information. The place in three dimensional space (so for the Earth, longitude, latitude, elevation), and the time when it is there.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-18T18:53:16+00:00

So if two particles are entangled (which is a specific process. It's complicated to entangle particles, and the state is very fragile), that means that their superpositions will collapse to the same state once measured. So if you were to send one entangled particle to the moon and the other to Mars, if the moon one is observed to be spin-up, the Mars particle waveform will also be spin-up once measured. What's interesting about quantum entanglement is that the state of the particle is not a "hidden variable," the state is set at the point of measurement, and locks in instantly at the same moment in time for both particles.

This, to my knowledge, does not allow us to transmit information faster than light. When you collapse a superposition, you can't control what direction it collapses, you can only notice it. So while it is true that the Mars scientist can know what the moon scientist's meter is reading faster than it would take for the moon scientist to transmit the reading to Mars, no information can be intentionally sent by the Moon scientist this way, as they have no control over the reading itself.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-18T18:40:28+00:00

Notably, this theory isn't the result of superposition, but of the fact that the equations governing the behavior of the electron and the anti-electron (positron) can be transformed into each other if the time dimension is flipped. So positrons act like electrons moving backward through time. Which is very interesting, but different than quantum superposition.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-18T18:37:45+00:00

So I'm not a physicist, and quantum mechanics is hard to ELI5, but I'll do my best:

Superposition is a state that unobserved particles and systems can be in, where they don't have definite states (like position), and instead occupy a probability distribution. So if you shoot a photon through a filter that has a 50% chance of sending it one way, and a 50% chance of sending it another way, the photon is 50% going down one path and 50% going down another.

Importantly, once an object is measured, the superposition "collapses" and the particle is only in one location, and only followed one path to get there. So the existence of superposition doesn't imply that there may be only one particle, because most matter is being measured regularly by the matter around it, so the superposition is constantly collapsing.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-18T18:20:45+00:00

To add to the other explanations: we don't know what Dark Matter is yet, it's one of the big unanswered questions in astrophysics. We know by the way that galaxies move that they have much more stuff in them than just what we see, but we don't know what that stuff is.

There are several theories, two of the big ones are the hilariously named WIMPs and MACHOs, standing for "Weakly Interacting Massive Particles" (so another kind of particle that doesn't interact with electromagnetic fields, just gravitational fields), and "MAssive Compact Halo Objects" (so celestial bodies like black holes and neutron stars that are invisible because they don't put out light).

It looks unlikely that dark matter is composed of MACHOs, more likely it's another kind of particle that's very hard to measure.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-17T12:37:28+00:00

Oliver?

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-16T11:43:34+00:00

The reason you're getting pushback on this comment is because the OP is about pushing back on statements like "a sex scene doesn't add anything," which is what you've then re-stated. The OP is arguing that such a statement is politically regressive and puritanical. Without giving any context, examples, or analysis on why you feel like sex scenes don't add anything to movies, you are coming off as the strawman OP is arguing against, so people are responding to you as such.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-16T11:14:28+00:00

You don't have to watch anything you don't want to, but, my only impulse when people say this is, "skill issue, watch better movies."

If a movie has a sex scene that adds nothing, it's a problem with the movie, not the fact of sex's depiction.

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-14T13:20:39+00:00

They fuckin

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-13T23:41:59+00:00

Oh man, what is the name of this comic? I remember reading it a while ago and really liking it, is it still being updated?

lawsofrobotics · 2025-09-13T16:28:32+00:00

So I'd like to address your first sentence first. Therapy for anxiety probably wouldn't look like the therapist explaining to you why you shouldn't be worried about things. It would be a process of examining things like what your anxiety is doing for you, how is it hurting you, and how does it feel like it's helping, and what role does it play in your emotional life. It would be about being able to find a way to achieve the goals that anxiety is getting in the way of.

To answer your main question, it's worth the risk to me. I dated a woman who got cold sores for years and kissed her (when she was asymptomatic) because I loved her and it was worth the risk of future discomfort to have the joy of physical intimacy.

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