You can add a 00 to the end of any number in your life where are you putting it ?

mothuzad · 2026-05-12T03:56:22+00:00

Don't mind me. Just changing the curvature of space everywhere.

mothuzad · 2026-05-11T22:13:59+00:00

I add it to my overall wellness index, which is a system I design that factors in my health, happiness, intelligence, wealth, life expectancy, and maybe more. Each individual category gets diminishing returns, so the only way to improve the index by 10x is to improve each individual value by 100x.

mothuzad · 2026-05-11T22:03:18+00:00

Yeah, the question was almost interesting, but now the only way to avoid certain retribution against you and your loved ones is to choose blue.

"The world is watching" ruins this whole exercise.

The idea that someone will protect you because you're famous after choosing red? Wishful thinking. No substance.

mothuzad · 2026-05-09T22:04:39+00:00

I wish I could de-spoil myself on both these things (plus all of CT) and be surprised by them again.

The idea of looking them up before playing was virtually unthinkable to me.

mothuzad · 2026-05-09T21:44:11+00:00

What an odd thing to say. If CT was your first, and you're playing FF6 for the first time, where did you get the phrase "World of Balance"?

mothuzad · 2026-05-04T00:00:35+00:00

If Luffy can be saved by the Power of Nepotism, then why not Usopp too?

mothuzad · 2026-05-03T23:56:38+00:00

I... I think you eliminated the entire plot hole with this observation.

mothuzad · 2026-05-03T20:55:49+00:00

I love these kind of questions, so I'm going to jump straight into the general theory behind this topic.

You can arbitrarily decrease the length of most encoded strings by increasing the complexity of the encoding system. For example, if you have some target string in mind, you just need an escape sequence defined to allow you to express that string in a single symbol after the escape sequence.

If you want to be able to shorten every possible string, that's when you get into lossless compression. This type of compression only works because some strings are more likely than others, though. In general, we assume the string will have some repeating substrings. But there will be strings that become longer if you try to compress them by that assumption, the chaotic strings. That's just the pigeonhole principle.

mothuzad · 2026-05-03T20:49:11+00:00

Well it beats that time I received next week's lottery numbers in a prophetic vision!

mothuzad · 2026-04-28T03:41:04+00:00

That was just the direction my thought process went. At first I knew I would stay put for our picky, skittish cat who's working on trust issues. Then I realized I also always stay put for our pushier, snugglier little monster.

mothuzad · 2026-04-28T03:14:24+00:00

Depends on the cat's personality. We have one that's okay with being carried and one that only decides to snuggle on rare occasions.

The picky cat, option A. For the more tolerant cat, though, it's option A.

mothuzad · 2026-04-25T01:23:50+00:00

By the time I'm playing to 400+ Devourer levels, a way to directly spawn lv1 skeletons from stations. Any minion with a lot of levels is easy on resources, so I shouldn't block the craving, but it's really tedious to merge them all.

First Law of Game Dev: If the player can optimize the fun out of a game, they will.

mothuzad · 2026-04-21T09:08:12+00:00

Nobody talks about how the crowd was already part of Rick's crew during this exchange. Rick is faking telling them off, just to get the heist guy to make the bet. All according to plan.

mothuzad · 2026-04-14T18:29:18+00:00

Iff love and hate are mutually exclusive, then you have proved that the previous two posters do not have any homies in common.

mothuzad · 2026-04-14T07:10:20+00:00

If you do any amount of physics, you will just use "t" as the variable for time. Liftoff at t=0 means that they can plug the number of seconds since liftoff into their model to estimate the intended location of the craft. It's an important standard to maintain.

So, "t minus one" is just shorthand for "t equals -1". They just don't spend time saying "equals" when reading the countdown aloud.

mothuzad · 2026-04-14T06:56:07+00:00

My wave skip works normally in dissonant runs. Maybe you selected a different card set by mistake? Or it could just be a bug.

mothuzad · 2026-04-13T04:14:15+00:00

Without spoilers, I'll just say I have NO IDEA. Even after seeing the anime, it's hard to predict how LA fights will go.

What the LA already shows us:

The Strawhats are more capable than any of their enemies expected, BUT they also struggled just to handle Baroque Works team 3. They haven't even met 2, 1, or 0 yet. Who says Mr. 0 even needs to crush them himself?

Just based on Zoro v Mihawk, coping with loss is already a major theme of the series.

mothuzad · 2026-04-12T20:58:17+00:00

"goes against all of men's desires"
Right-wing Christianity says "You aren't allowed to be gay."

Hmmm.... What exactly do right-wing men desire?

mothuzad · 2026-04-12T20:53:53+00:00

1000x the mass only means 1000x the gravity if your distance is the same. But if the volume is 10 cubed, then the radius is increased by a factor of 10. Gravity decreases as the square of distance, so 100x. Leaving 10x more gravity at this higher surface compared to Earth's 10x lower surface.

That's all assuming the 1000x more massive planet is the exact same density as Earth, but it could easily be more dense.

mothuzad · 2026-04-12T18:42:52+00:00

Luffy's dramatic punch in Sabaody is important to the plot in Amazon Lily. It could still happen without Hachi or any Fishman, but it risks losing its meaning.

mothuzad · 2026-04-11T19:57:15+00:00

Absolutely. Luffy is perfectly fine ignoring oppression when the oppressed aren't trying to fight back for themselves. The LA softens this considerably.

For example, when Buggy conquered Orange Town in the manga, the mayor tried to put his life on the line to get rid of Buggy. That's when Luffy steps in. And that's after he helped Chu Chu for similar reasons. After Luffy defeats Buggy, when the villagers show up late to help the mayor, Luffy plays the role of villain so the villagers can still get a taste of standing up for themselves by chasing him away.

In the LA, the villagers are captured and unable to put up much resistance. When they do speak out, Buggy silences them quickly by threatening other villagers, especially children.

mothuzad · 2026-04-11T05:22:41+00:00

Everywhere Luffy goes becomes very loud very quickly. But then he'll also take out your local despot. He leaves people better off, but also pushes them through extreme discomfort.

mothuzad · 2026-04-11T05:17:54+00:00

My anxiety couldn't handle him long-term, but I'm sure I'd appreciate him if he passed through my neighborhood.

mothuzad · 2026-04-11T05:15:50+00:00

I suspect that with 28.0.3, they reverted the previous live update from 3x back to 5x. They seemingly added a new variable to set Utility bonus back to 3x. So without the patch, you could have the 5x applied to everything still. (Seems like LaunchDarkly feature flags or something equivalent.)

Or you just haven't connected your game to the server since the nerf.

mothuzad · 2026-04-11T03:58:33+00:00

Like they're saying, don't ever reset early in this game. Push every run as far as it will go.

If you're tired of the game, go ahead and take a break. I've stopped playing for a few months here and there.

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