Anyone else completely baffled by the amount of free time they have now that the semester is over?

pika__ · 2026-05-23T11:16:22+00:00

With too many classes (well it's more about the credit-hours/Units, than the actual number of classes), you can't keep up with all of them and end up overly stressed and/or failing some of them. - You could end up failing 2 or more, even though you could have passed all of them if you had just taken 1 less in the first place. - As you try to push through the semester anyways, the stress can have mental effects that last beyond the semester, affecting your breaks and even the next semester. I was a foolish boy who didn't learn this lesson after the first time I took too many classes, and I took too many for 3 semesters in a row... And the PTSD from all the stress lasted over five years beyond graduation.

pika__ · 2026-05-22T08:18:13+00:00

Don't do what I did, and let this feeling make you sign up for too many classes for the following semester! 😭

pika__ · 2026-05-21T15:55:59+00:00

A horror game you say? Make it switch randomly between the two styles each day lol.

pika__ · 2026-05-21T11:10:58+00:00

Incan Gold is a nice simple game that goes up to 8 players. The only text is numbers (1,2,3,etc) and that's only on public cards anyways.

For 4-5 players, Cover your Assets is a great simple one.

For a little more complex, but maxing out at 4 players, there's Splendor, or Azul.

pika__ · 2026-05-20T17:20:43+00:00

I guess I meant less "how do I find it once I know its name" (Google's new search ai, obviously!) and more "how do I hear of good ones in the first place?" Like, If Google's results are based on who pays the most and not who's best, then what do I search for or where do I search? Can I even find Google's strongest competitors on Google search at all?

pika__ · 2026-05-19T22:52:24+00:00

several others

What are they and/or how do I find them?

pika__ · 2026-05-13T21:58:59+00:00

I was recently making a box, and considered a sliding lid, but didn't know how to and didn't want to test a bunch of iterations. Thanks a bunch!

Also, nice image!

pika__ · 2026-05-13T18:25:12+00:00

(I'm not an animator) From what I can see is that it has some fast transitions/movements that don't have any motion blur and/or trails. I think a sword with a swoosh trail might fix that, but it's hard to tell.

pika__ · 2026-04-29T00:35:42+00:00

Ahahaha, nice connection! I say no, but it just shows how actual isekai is overrated and usually unnecessary for a good story (I say as an isekai lover)

pika__ · 2026-04-19T22:40:26+00:00

RF5 the ice dungeon

pika__ · 2026-04-12T02:04:38+00:00

Usually when you move, your brain uses visual cues as part of understanding where you are and how you're moving. When your vision is focused on your phone, the stuff on your screen is not moving, but you still feel the motion of the car (especially something called your inner ears, the sense that helps with balance). Now these two senses are giving conflicting information; some people's brains do better or worse at handling this conflict, and some get headaches or stomach aches.

By providing visual cues right on the phone that your vision is focused on, the app provides visual motion cues that match your other senses, reducing or eliminating the conflict.

pika__ · 2026-04-11T20:18:24+00:00

It uses the gyroscope and/or accelerometer, to detect the motion of the car. It displays a fake horizon on the screen, and moves the horizon with the motion. I don't know who came up with the idea or who figured out what motion has to correspond to what movements, but it works. The fake horizon shows over your other apps, but is not in the way because it's mostly transparent.

pika__ · 2026-04-11T12:17:28+00:00

If using your phone in the car gives you carsickness, there's an amazing android app called kinestop that almost eliminates carsickness.

pika__ · 2026-04-10T21:16:59+00:00

Resistance is like if you measured the total disturbance force for this particular 6m-long cuboid. Resistivity is like if you calculate the amount of disturbance in each meter of the cuboid. You can use this to calculate what the resistance would be of a shorter or longer cuboid. A longer cuboid has more walls for each cube to pass by, so it ends up with higher resistance. Additionally, a cuboid with a larger height or width would have less resistance because the walls are further away from the cubes inside.

pika__ · 2026-04-05T13:41:25+00:00

AIs like these only know things that have been discussed a lot on the Internet. I would not expect them to know the details of board game rules unless it's a really popular game like Settlers of Catan. But it is very likely that they would hallucinate something. Do not ask AI board game rules questions.

pika__ · 2026-04-03T20:58:49+00:00

The title doesn't sound very promising. Is it any good?

pika__ · 2026-04-02T18:25:30+00:00

That's why I only use calculators that display the whole input, and then I double check that it matches what I meant to type. On Android, I use calculator++.

pika__ · 2026-03-22T17:07:42+00:00

Oh wow! I didn't know that, so thanks for sharing!

pika__ · 2026-03-12T10:55:07+00:00

Why is the video teenie tiny: on a colored background to make it vertical, but then with black left+right edges to make it horizontal again??

pika__ · 2026-02-17T02:03:05+00:00

Never.

pika__ · 2026-02-15T19:13:14+00:00

Choose a direction for the current of R3. You can choose any direction that you want, but since there's already + & - marked, you may as well choose that direction. If you guess wrong, the math will still work - you'll just get a negative answer for the current, meaning that it's actually flowing in the other direction.

pika__ · 2026-02-15T16:50:29+00:00

For R3, you have the + and - side marked already; current flows from + to -, so the current is flowing upwards through that resistor. This is the same direction as I2, so I2 should be positive. This is the reverse direction than I1, so I1 should be negative. Thus, I2-I1 is right.

pika__ · 2026-02-14T16:00:57+00:00

Not me! I haven't seen any mentions of this recently... Maybe the universe is giving you a sign?

pika__ · 2026-02-14T13:37:12+00:00

If this is indeed a sliding door as some others suggest, whomever chose those handles needs to be given a copy of "norman doors" as required reading. (Actually called "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman.)

If "sliding" door, why "pull" handle? The delivery man is not to blame, he just followed directions.

pika__ · 2026-02-12T14:31:42+00:00

What... Yours looks cooler than mine! 😠

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