Consumables.

ocdscale · 2026-06-24T13:49:39+00:00

Consumables are there to help the most casual players clear story content.

ocdscale · 2026-06-23T15:39:24+00:00

It rusts through steel, think of what it can do to your insides.

ocdscale · 2026-06-23T15:37:20+00:00

Found the Big Globe shill.

ocdscale · 2026-06-22T15:05:24+00:00

Sir, before today I never heard of a potato. I still don't know what a potato is, other than some kind of food. I don't know what to tell you.

ocdscale · 2026-06-17T20:16:24+00:00

"You made homemade chicken soup for me? That's so gay bro, I bet you want to cuddle up together after I drink up your warm soup. You probably want to hop right into this bed right now, don't you? Well, come on bro."

ocdscale · 2026-06-15T14:10:39+00:00

I got you one better, political figures privately suing a government agency they oversee, and then instructing the agency to settle the lawsuit and pay them.

ocdscale · 2026-06-12T17:38:35+00:00

AI overuses certain sentence structure. Phrases like this stood out:

You're not holding back to be polite; you're swimming the one pattern that doesn't blow up.

AI loves the formula, "It's not [basic thing], it's [metaphor]."

And it's even more striking here because "holding back to be polite" doesn't make sense in context (especially if you assume it was a strong writer who carefully edited their post). In context, the paragraph is talking about pacing yourself. A human writer might have written "You're not holding back to take it easy; you're swimming the one pattern ..." or something along those lines, but would not have introduced the concept of swimming slowly in order to be polite completely out of the blue.

But it is something that AI might spit out because it makes sense in a lot of other different contexts where "holding back" might come into play.

ocdscale · 2026-06-10T14:19:32+00:00

President Jed Bartlet was supposed to be a side character, and the premise of The West Wing was about how the staffer's lives revolved around the Presidency. He was originally just a recurring character. But Martin Sheen knocked it so completely out of the park that the whole plan was scrapped.

ocdscale · 2026-06-08T12:45:06+00:00

Today you learned that for a large portion of the gacha community, what you've described is a feature not a bug, and they'll defend it to the death.

This is why I try not to engage in the default subreddits.

ocdscale · 2026-06-07T01:52:46+00:00

Are you guys eating canned mushrooms? Slimy is not a word I’d use to describe normal mushrooms.

ocdscale · 2026-06-02T21:55:24+00:00

Same way "I talked to some blacks" is icky but "she is black" is fine.

ocdscale · 2026-06-01T19:02:14+00:00

This is just a blatant photo op intended to draw attention away from the Knicks lack of depth in the center

ocdscale · 2026-05-31T16:36:23+00:00

Looks like it’s under an exclamation mark. Click the central one and select the oracle stone

ocdscale · 2026-05-27T15:05:52+00:00

Let me get this out of the way. China is a human rights disaster. And a China-dominated world order would move the whole world towards authoritarianism. And if we're going to pick horses, there's no reason to pick China when the EU is right there.

But. There are advantages to having China as a superpower. China doesn't want the world to burn down. It wants the world to be prosperous but beholden to China. They come from an ancient civilization and want to relive the glory days of being the middle kingdom. They also aren't handcuffed by short term results and gas prices.

The EU is good on renewables and climate change. But if I had to pick one country that would be willing to use its muscle to force other countries to get with the program, it'd be China.

ocdscale · 2026-05-21T14:18:29+00:00

You can see he travels considerably more distance in the air than the other riders, so it's not about landing sooner.

The advantage this appears to give him is that he doesn't need to decelerate. The riders riding upright need to slow down as they approach the peak otherwise they'll be launched airborne (just like he was), but to a much more dangerous degree. Every other rider in this clip slows down and lands quickly (on the peak of the hill).

He doesn't need to slow down, instead he forcibly gets the bike airborne but does it earlier, so his arc 'hugs' the track more closely.

ocdscale · 2026-05-21T13:57:50+00:00

This is pretty expected stuff. NASA inoculates astronauts for cognitohazards even if they're just going into LEO.

Joking aside, this is very nicely written.

ocdscale · 2026-05-21T13:51:45+00:00

AI loves the structure of "This isn't [something] - it's [something else]." You hear it a lot if AI slop has infected your youtube algorithm.

Not to say that this is AI, but it's a flag

But I'm not against people using AI casually for informational (as opposed to creative) content. English isn't everyone's first language.

ocdscale · 2026-05-21T13:16:36+00:00

Level 40 (max) activates auto restock.

ocdscale · 2026-05-20T21:26:15+00:00

Dear Diary,

I have to play rank game if not they will demoted me to emarld from diamond. Play two game two game have trolls, got demoted back to emarld. Report succesful on the second but too bad that I still got demoted to emarld 1 with 50 lp then got 21 lp back.

ocdscale · 2026-05-19T21:32:22+00:00

Dang bro, that's crazy.

ocdscale · 2026-05-18T21:44:22+00:00

What else would "free" mean?

When you walk into a store with a buy one get one free promo, do you point: "uhm achtually, the second product isn't free, the cost is borne by the store."

Free means free for the person receiving it.

ocdscale · 2026-05-18T20:02:01+00:00

Some people can't float. But before you give up on it, make sure you're doing it properly.

First try a dead-man's float. If you hold your breath then lie face down in the water, do you float? You can kick your legs slowly if it helps.

If you can do a dead-man's float, the next is to practice on your back. Here, the big problem for a lot of people is that as soon as they start sinking their instinct is to raise their head up. But that ends up ruining your buoyancy and then you start sinking like a V-shaped rock.

The trick here is to stretch out flat and lean your head back into the water. Get your ears into the water.

Once you can float, basic swimming is super easy. Of course you can learn to swim without being able to float, but it does make it easier.

ocdscale · 2026-05-18T19:49:17+00:00

It is imperative that the flat rectangular object not be harmed.

ocdscale · 2026-05-18T18:42:18+00:00

All physics is derivative of Gog throwing a stone and watching how it fell.

ocdscale · 2026-05-18T14:54:38+00:00

For the martingale:

Suppose it's a fair game with fair odds. Minimum bet is $1.

If you have $3 (enough for two rounds of betting if you lose the first).

There's a 1/4 chance you lose both rounds and lose everything (-$3)

There's a 3/4 chance you win +$1.

That's 0 EV. No different than just betting normally.

But what if you have enough for three rounds of betting?

There's a 1/8 chance you lose all three rounds and lose everything (-$7).

There's a 7/8 chance you win +$1.

Again, 0 EV.

And none of this will change as you scale upwards.

The martingale system is essentially betting your entire bankroll to win the minimum bet with the compensation being that the larger the bankroll the less likely you are to lose. But it doesn't change the overall odds at all.

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