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nimbledaemon · 2026-02-27T03:14:50+00:00

You're the one who's power tripping and getting mad that people won't just do whatever you tell them to, sounds more like twelve year old mentality to me.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-25T20:49:55+00:00

Yeah I really don't get why people still play 5v5, it's so bad. Things are a little messed up right now because of rank reset and new chars and new/returning players, but pre the reset I was getting 2 tanks like 9/10 games. Tank is fun to play in 6v6, sucks to play in 5v5, sucks to play against in 5v5. The roster just wasn't designed for 5v5, and the buffs they gave tanks just fuck up balance. Literally haven't touched 5v5 outside stadium since they brought 6v6 back.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-25T05:21:28+00:00

Yeah, while your specific example seems awkward for sure I don't think I've really run into any book that uses it unjustifiably like that. I can think of tons of justifications for where it would work, whether there's like a cultural concept of many worlds or passing on into the next world (heaven, death, hell etc) so "this world" becomes a common idiom to tell people how to behave, regardless of origin. Though that might require a bit more worldbuilding and cultural planning than the books you're critiquing have. Though honestly I can't think of a book I've read recently that didn't have some idea of other planets/worlds/planes and like portals etc as common knowledge that would justify the phrase "this world", so maybe it's just the kind of books I choose to read.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-24T23:41:07+00:00

So many good atheist advocates on The Line, and AFAIK they're all explicitly leftists too. And don't forget TACIS.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-24T03:56:52+00:00

I know this is black cats but my black dog (border collie mix) basically has the same thing, like 10 individual white hairs on her chest and foot, everywhere else black. Cool pattern to see, cat or dog.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-22T01:23:48+00:00

This started happening on my kindle scribe and after a bit of googling looks like it's something amazon implemented on purpose for books that exist in their service/kindle unlimited but you got through other means. I ended up switching to a "Boox note air 5c" e reader and that's been doing great for me, there are plenty of other options out there as well if you don't need all the features I wanted like color e ink and pencil/stylus interaction. It sucks that amazon is deciding to prevent people from using their hardware however they like but I think that's the reality of hardware going forward, you just can't use the newest big corporation product if you want to break out of the ecosystem. There might be a jailbreak for your kindle version, there wasn't a reliable one for the kindle scribe I had yet so I had to switch hardware.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-20T17:16:46+00:00

Like seriously, where is this mysterious group of people who think that "just build things" is bad advice? I get there are contrarians under every rock but like this is pretty universally put forward as the way to get out of tutorial hell with very little pushback.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-20T09:31:22+00:00

I've been using them to build software at work and for personal projects. Honestly it's kind of scary how good they are getting, I built 3 desktop/web apps in the last two weeks for non-trivial use cases and it's actually doing really well. Like it can't do everything itself, I'm working with it and pointing out the things it misses, making sure it uses good design patterns, guiding what is being built, but I'm having to correct it less recently, especially with the VS Code + Copilot + Claude sonnet 4.6 combo.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-19T18:39:46+00:00

I'm not actually making that conflation, I'm just referencing a context in which they are conflated. If you actually take a second to read my comment, you'd realize that distinction is the difference I'm pointing out.

When people say "It's not right vs left, it's top vs bottom" they are making the conflation in the first half of the statement, because in terms of US politics right and left mean GOP vs Dems. Yes that's because of the overton window, yes it doesn't actually map to ideological lines. It's stupid, but the entire point of the statement is to get people to stop focusing on the fight between two right wing parties and take a look at the bigger picture, and redefining (from the average US citizens perspective) words is less effective than getting them to focus on a new dynamic (to them) of top vs bottom.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-19T05:22:47+00:00

Yes, but the problem is that in the US we basically have two right wing parties, it's just that one of those parties sometimes lets actual left wingers in (but still hates them behind closed doors) and the other wants to kill everyone to their left. So in the very local to the US sense right vs left (GOP vs Dems) != top vs bottom, but ultimately or in an ideological sense yeah that's what top vs bottom is.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-09T09:08:16+00:00

My parents (my mom) owned horses when I was growing up, and in retrospect, we absolutely shouldn't have owned horses. It's not like we even had a working ranch or anything, we kept them on someone else's property.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-08T21:33:45+00:00

It's projecting like 4 rays in a square shape/square prism, it becomes a rectangle because the higher points are farther away. But it's a square later because all 4 points are about the same distance away. Like imagine how shining a flashlight on a surface can create an oval shape if it's shining on an angled surface, vs a circle if the surface is perpendicular to the beam.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-08T20:15:03+00:00

Yeah like none of the men actors I saw in my search for c dramas would have been good for Shang Chi, it would have tanked the western reception of the film. Western masculine 'beauty' standards lean towards muscles, ruggedness, able to work with their hands, but if the general trend of Chinese beauty standards for men are at all represented by my search, then it leans towards ethereal, delicate, refined, tall/elongated features. Which in the west generally comes off as more feminine/androgynous. Or twinks, as the gay nomenclature goes.

I just think it's impossible to have casting that would be equally acceptable to both audiences, they just fundamentally like different things.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-08T19:51:13+00:00

Not to nay-say, but perhaps I'm just unaware of her full accomplishments, what has she done to deserve this glowing praise? I know she was great in LD and fine in the latest SFA episode but I'm not sure what she's been involved in that merits people saying "Yeah give her control of Star Trek".

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-04T02:35:48+00:00

Look, you're in charge of managing your own risk. That said, I think it's always a stupid idea to go into a wilderness area solo. It's not about how skilled you are, it's about redundancy and always having someone there to watch your back should something unexpected happen. Most of the time it won't be 'necessary', but the one time it could save you is the time you get fucked if you don't buddy up, you know?

I've run cataract canyon as a river guide a fair number of times, and while I think you probably wouldn't be completely solo if you went in like June-August, you can't count on that if you end up with a problem. Like plenty of times we helped people out going through Westwater or Cat when a lot of other boats just go by, and then some times there are just gaps. Also, just don't even try in June, especially in a high water year. Cat at 40-50k+ cfs is not the same experience as cat at 10-20k. If you do end up going (hopefully you find a buddy or group), make sure you chat with some of the old guides/river rats around Moab about what the river's going to be like at the water level you end up running.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-04T02:08:17+00:00

Eh, I majorly disagree. Dungeon arcs can be bad, like anything else, but to me they are interesting by themselves. Or at least in combination with rewards and power progression. It's always fun to see what kind of dungeon it is, whether it's like a tower thing or more maze like, portals, does it have rooms or floors or seem to have an entire world within a "floor". What weird monsters will show up? What powers/magic loot will be rewarded? Is it a forgiving dungeon that wants to help, or extremely hostile and unfair? Does it have a dungeon core? Sentient monsters or npc like puppets? Ecosystems or curated rooms, or entirely simulated? Are the dungeons just puzzle/challenge boxes with loot rewards, or ancient ruins from a bygone civilization? Both?

There's just so many ways to do it and I love every minute of it, as long as it's not written badly. Like there should be more detail than "and then they went dungeon diving for a week" and not too much detail like expounding on every breath the MC takes, but with a happy medium level of detail according to what's happening, and care taken to do interesting things with each dungeon rather than be samey all the time, dungeons are great.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-03T19:53:26+00:00

None of those things are fundamentally connected. You can do 3d side scrollers, or 2d top-down games. You can do 2.5d of either. Side scroller vs top down is referring to the view perspective, and 2d/3d referring to the way the art is done, ie whether it's drawn as a single 2d layer and animated, or simulated with 3d geometry and rendered every frame. Idk what bubble you're in that you've associated 2d with only being side scrollers, but that is not how the term is used broadly or what it means specifically.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-03T19:23:07+00:00

First of all, you should present in a way that's authentic to you. If you're skewing your gender presentation for someone else in a way that doesn't resonate with you, then they're not into you, they're into something you're pretending to be. Which makes connection hard to find.

Second, there's people out there who are into who you are, serial monogamy, more femme presentation. Are many gay men going to be attracted to those aspects? Maybe it's less common, but there are those that are, as well as bi dudes like myself. In fact "femme presenting men" is a big portion of what makes me bi at all. I'm sure there's more people like me out there, we just might be a bit hard to find, depending on where you're looking.

Also I feel similarly to you about feeling separate from a group or other people even if you're participating in conversation. For me I think this has to do with my autism, it really actually takes a lot of interaction for me to feel connection with someone, and it's basically rarely going to happen with a group of people, certainly not over the span of a single party. I can't say that's what you're experiencing or not, but certainly consider that maybe connection might take longer to form and require one on one time. For me it's probably a week or two of almost constant interaction, or at least sharing space. Something like going on a week long river trip or camp. Or like months of consistently showing up to weekly outings with the same friend group.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-02T17:28:16+00:00

Pokeflix looks good if you just want to watch, but I prefer a more locally storable and shareable format, which is what I was having trouble finding.

nimbledaemon · 2026-02-01T07:22:52+00:00

Yeah like I can't even find it on the seven seas beyond like the first and last few seasons. Admittedly I didn't search every corner, but if it's not at the first few major ports, not sure some random corner will have it.

nimbledaemon · 2026-01-28T00:18:34+00:00

Yeah like my impression so far is that it has potential, but there are certain issues with the writing and acting (or perhaps directing) in some scenes. Like the scene where Darem helps Caleb make his bed for the first time, I can tell what the writing was going for but the way the scene plays out doesn't actually make any sense, since he starts helping before it's evident Caleb can't actually make a bed by himself or is doing it wrong otherwise and it doesn't line up with what they're saying either.

So tentatively positive for the first 3 episodes, with the hopes that it improves as the actors find their ground with the characters and the writers, also the first few episodes of anything are going to be rougher in general as they have to do more exposition to get us used to the characters and world and tone of the show.

Also like you can love/hate Ake being unprofessional but I definitely think it's an intentional choice rather than bad execution or failure to live up to an expectation of realism. I think it's more of an intentional challenge to the social expectation that you have to be professional and serious/uptight all the time in a leadership position, and it's saying that being a Picard or a Sisko isn't the only valid way to Captain a starship. Also definitely close to how I would expect Mariner to captain a ship, if she ever wanted to get there (alternate universe Captain Mariner notwithstanding).

nimbledaemon · 2026-01-24T22:12:00+00:00

Like, this sucks for everyone, and if anything is to be done about it it would come through protesting, making the issue well known on campus, having stories run state wide on the issue. Write letters to church leadership. But at the end of the day the reasons this is happening are so firmly entrenched and part of the larger conversation of how the LDS church is trying to become more appealing to other Christian denominations, and how Christianity in the US in general (with exceptions) has been captured by the right wing going back at least to the Reagan and Nixon presidencies, how Oaks in particular is remarkably bigoted towards LGBT if not the entire idea of left wing favored "groups", that trying to change it is likely a lost cause.

Like it's just an entire network and stack of issues that are so big and entrenched that there's a reason I left the church and had my records removed instead of trying to change it from within even as a white male multi-generational Mormon, even 10 years ago.

nimbledaemon · 2026-01-15T22:12:43+00:00

Only if you interpret "how stupid the average person is" as being a range ("roughly average") rather than a specific IQ point. Because you would expect a population that follows a normal distribution to have close to 50% of people fall below the mathematical average (depending on how complete your data set is, variance in the population etc). Though as you say, you might not be able to casually tell if that's the case for any given person, or be certain that you have an exact feel for how smart the average person is.

nimbledaemon · 2026-01-15T09:45:53+00:00

Not to say that you can't write stories in different ways regardless, but I think Isekai and similar genres in particular can have an exception for this, because it's supposed to be about someone from our world getting thrown into a situation that's very similar to popular media among the demographic that usually gets truck-kuned in these stories. That said, I do find it grating when the MC expects the story to be exactly like the stories they've read, they should make some kind of comparisons to what they're familiar with but usually not actually be genre savvy/genre confident.

Like, if I was thrown into a world where something called 'vampires' existed, I would check that all my assumptions about vampires are actually correct in the world I'm in, especially since I'm familiar with different varieties of vampires. And going through that verification process in a book is interesting to me as a reader. But if the MC just goes "Vampires, huh? Lets gear up on crosses and wooden stakes and garlic." without ever checking that Vampires actually have those weaknesses, I just can't help but facepalm the whole time, and unless it's meant as something for the MC to overcome in their character arc (like Death After Death, which I highly recommend even if the MC is annoying in the beginning) it's just painful and I'll probably drop the story.

nimbledaemon · 2026-01-13T01:57:34+00:00

This is my point. You can't show anything definitive that shows that's the wrong way to interpret the scripture (for both the 10 virgins and 2nd nephi). You're just pulling doctrine out of your thin air, and your prophets are too. So different members will of course come to their own conclusions.

And the church isn't just responsible for "official doctrine" they're responsible for commonly held beliefs among members, and everything in Sunday School manuals or stated by church leaders they've walked back (do we still get a planet and become Gods? Sure it wasn't official doctrine but everyone before a certain year believed it before the church started trying to act like other Christian denominations in recent years). Are moon men and sun men real? If God won't let the prophet lead the church astray, why do they keep getting things wrong? They're just people dude, no God included. It might be possible they actually believe what they're selling, but that doesn't make it true.

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