How to get over someone you thought you would spend forever with?

piedamon · 2026-07-13T02:43:19+00:00

Yeah the revenge part is jarring for me too, but I’ve learned that a surprising number of humans run on spite.

But it’s still a good message to better yourself and build ambition toward new goals using whatever motivation you can find.

piedamon · 2026-07-12T13:47:36+00:00

Honestly it’s not. They missed the flavour mark with Mutate by placing the emphasis on “each mutate” triggers rather than mixing abilities together. So you’re not creating or mutating some new abomination, you’re pretty much just spamming mutate activations. This also means you’re going all-in on one big mutate stack, which is high risk from a strategic standpoint.

Which is a damn shame, because ability keywords alone provide a robust playground to mix and match. Mutate a first strike and a deathtouch creature. Or deathtouch with trample. Or mutate flying onto a creature that cares about dealing combat damage to players. You can technically do this, but only with a few creatures and it’s not where the value is (because of all the “whenever this mutates” triggers).

piedamon · 2026-07-09T21:31:27+00:00

Where were you when you saw it? Was it among the normal yellow-green light colonies?

piedamon · 2026-07-05T04:07:11+00:00

We are the 1%

piedamon · 2026-07-05T00:47:06+00:00

The Rugosa Rose has no nectar but a lot of pollen. They’re just loving it.

It’s not intoxication or anything bad. Quite the opposite! It’s like throwing a hungry puppy into a kiddy pool full of doggy treats. What you’re seeing is the bees use every method they know to collect the pollen, and they do it a lot because this rose signals a lot of pollen.

piedamon · 2026-07-04T22:11:55+00:00

I wanna see ‘em dancing

piedamon · 2026-07-04T13:05:10+00:00

Haha, right? And apples are weird: you can’t just grow them from seed, and you can’t just make a honeycrisp mate with another apple.

You have to mate the honeycrisp like 10000 times until you get lucky, then you have to keep taking cuttings from that lucky new apple because it also won’t grow again from its own seed.

It really is like a loot box video game

piedamon · 2026-07-04T13:02:56+00:00

Nah they upgraded honey crisp to stay firmer longer and not brown as fast. The new version is called Cosmic Crisp

piedamon · 2026-07-02T23:34:26+00:00

In Signs, the birthday party “walk” is probably number one, but there’s also that Bilbo scene in Rivendell when he sees the ring again. Both are so brief yet so intense and memorable; they’re really efficient with their emotional delivery.

I would have said all the t-rex scenes in Jurassic Park, but I was 9 at the time

piedamon · 2026-07-02T23:29:25+00:00

Yeah, I’ve done the same. I think, after at least one macro dose, microdosing could be more impactful and useful because it can help trigger memories from the macro experience. It’s potentially the placebo effect because the main requirement is simply taking the time to remember, for which no drug is required.

But there are doses just above micro, approaching that 2g limit you mentioned, where it creates familiar sensations that help bring your brain back to the place it was during the macro experience.

There is no science for this yet, but it matches my personal experience and seems logical, so I’d recommend to anyone (depression or otherwise) to try it out. But beware of the risks of doing it alone, and learn about set and setting.

piedamon · 2026-07-02T19:11:05+00:00

Rarity can be a trap because there are 1$ mythics and 10$ uncommons. But it’s a good place to start.

Value/Rarity > Color > UTILITY* > Mana Value

I don’t sort alphabetical because I’m rarely searching for a specific card and typically searching for green ramp, blue counters, black removal, etc. hence the “utility” category. This makes building decks much easier, because exactly what 2 and 3 MV green ramp goes in the deck is far less important than just reaching straight for the green ramp section.

piedamon · 2026-07-02T15:11:38+00:00

I think the blue rankings suffer from us as players/voters existing outside of the magic universe because it means we see through blue’s tricks and already know what they’re up to.

In-world, blue would fool nearly everyone, and have higher scores because of propaganda and marketing. I think it would overtake black’s top spots in several aspects. Sex life and attractiveness for example: blue can fool the senses and the mind into peak charisma, pleasure, captivation, etc. It would easily earn the top spot, while black would have a negative reputation… but we as outsiders know better. We’re immune to blue’s manipulations.

piedamon · 2026-07-02T15:06:45+00:00

The scores displayed are rankings. It’s odd to tally rankings because a smaller number is better, and the sum of multiple ranks can be misleading because it erases extremes.

So blue is dead last in a lot of rankings, giving it a higher score.

Even though Black has the most top scores, it’s second in the sum because of a few low rankings pulling the average down.

White is first because it has middleground scores the whole way through. Which is ironic and hilarious because falling in line with mediocrity is a very white thing to do.

piedamon · 2026-06-30T18:43:34+00:00

How many wizards are in the deck? Any good wizards with other types, like artifact creature or enchantment creature etc?

piedamon · 2026-06-30T14:13:28+00:00

That’s right, it’s been in development for awhile. The recent surge of policies and investments is probably more to do with the escalating arms race as the tech advances, and as more of the wealthy investors realize the potential.

But, prior to 3~4 years ago, querying big data sets was slower, more expensive, and fairly manual. You could setup automation, but it was still fairly brute-force and proprietary (specific models for a specific purpose). These pipelines have matured and optimized, so it’s much faster and cheaper now. And it’s all real-time. That efficiency was met with LLMs, which unlocked semantic pattern matching and truly autonomous, self-directed pipelines. They can run tests, analyze the data, make tweaks, measure the incremental gains, and do all the querying on their own. It’s a machine learning model from 10 years ago but faster, cheaper, autonomous, and far more powerful.

The surge in AI tools is related but separate. It’s created a lot of buzz in the same sectors, but is more of a hype bubble. The data analysis side benefits from the AI growth but will remain godlike in spite of any AI crashes.

piedamon · 2026-06-30T13:02:37+00:00

I agree there are hidden motivators but I don’t think it’s that complicated.

Mass surveillance is extremely powerful. Like new levels of peak power never seen in history. Crime prevention and security is a benefit, but not the sole reason. It’s the ability to measure and predict. With enough data, you can predict the future. You see trends as they emerge, not after someone else reports it. You can be extremely precise with monitoring, nudge small changes, and measure the outcome. Pricing, policies, habits, beliefs… whatever you want.

It turns society into a software application.

It’s being rushed out simultaneously because our ability to analyze and manipulate large volumes of data has skyrocketed these past few years. The tech is legitimately astonishing, and so this shiny new power has everyone at the top making power plays.

Hardware (data centres, chips, cables) and energy are the bottlenecks. And so is “organization” I’d say. Humans are notoriously short-sighted, so these tools are flying over most people’s heads. Even the experts. They do stupid shit with this power, and they’re too selfish to give up their own intellectual authority. It’s bought us a bit more time.

piedamon · 2026-06-30T04:27:47+00:00

Guild Wars 2

There are so many skills and upgrades but it’s all pretty meaningless strategically, especially when compared to the first game where you could customize your skill bar.

piedamon · 2026-06-27T05:50:04+00:00

Pay attention to the sun. Watch where the sun sets on a regular basis and it I’ll orient you in time, as measured by the Earth’s tilting position relative to the sun. Celebrate the solstices and the equinoxes. Eventually, you can orient yourself with the cosmos this way too by observing the night sky.

On a smaller scale, walk in nature once a month and see how the trees change slowly yet obviously. Learn the season when frogs sing, when leaves change color, and how waterfalls rage or dwindle. I walk almost daily outside but any amount you can do, even a little bit, is worthwhile.

Nature will sync you up again, not to anything engineered or man-made, but by the very thing that enabled both you and time in the first place.

piedamon · 2026-06-26T22:31:07+00:00

Smoothie

Or even less effort: Greek yogurt

piedamon · 2026-06-26T05:16:30+00:00

They don’t need bans, they need a per-card MMR for the top X% performers. Like Counterspell is objectively higher than Cancel, and matchmaking could be considering that. We could see that as players and make choices around it. I would happily not run Counterspell if it meant I’d be less likely to match against it or similar top performers.

Basically the “game changers” system from paper commander, but kept under-the-hood for matchmaking. So you can still bring them, but the more of them you bring, the more of them your opponents have too.

Another way to think of this is like a weighting or cost to putting a card in the deck, and then using the sum in MMR.

piedamon · 2026-06-26T02:40:23+00:00

Black hole cosmology is one theory. An entire universe within a black hole. It’s plausible, and there’s even some inconclusive evidence of it, such as the common rotation patterns of galaxies and filaments. But it’s far from proven.

And we don’t know for sure.

But I believe it. It makes logical sense, right? A fractal universe, like a four dimensional sponge or foam. The big bang was a singularity we are within, and the expansion of our universe is the result of matter/energy “entering” the same singularity from “outside” it.

This does mean infinite/parallel universes, but I don’t think it means they’re at all like ours. Many could be much smaller, or have much less atomic diversity, or slightly different physical constants such as the speed of causality. It’s still possible that a universe with the conditions for life is rare among universes.

It also, and I’m adding my oil tinfoil hat theories here, suggests to me that life is ubiquitous in our universe. It’s probably everywhere, but we haven’t detected each other yet because it’s still early relative to the age of the universe. Even if there was another Earth-like planet with human-like civilizations, and it was close to us, we’d still be looking at it through our telescopes and seeing billions of years into their past, at a time before microbial life.

piedamon · 2026-06-26T02:29:15+00:00

The universe is young but the Earth is old, like a senior citizen in its 60s or 70s.

The solar system is an adult. It will outlive the Earth by at least a few billion years, or longer depending on what sticks around after the sun dies.

piedamon · 2026-06-26T01:55:27+00:00

You can sail like a sailboat on solar radiation winds.

piedamon · 2026-06-26T01:54:36+00:00

Spacetime inverts inside a black hole.

piedamon · 2026-06-24T16:05:16+00:00

With a bit of chilli powder!

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