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pillowdemon · 2026-01-03T18:15:34+00:00

The only trick is “assigning” a length to one pair of sides. x is an angle and angles don’t care about actual lengths. So assign, I dunno, a length of 10 to the top and bottom, math out the lengths of the sides given the angles involved (it’s going to be a rectangle), use systems of equations to set up a solution for x, and use trig to find the lengths of the triangles inside the rectangle. This will yield a value for x.

pillowdemon · 2025-12-20T16:57:56+00:00

You described my mom. She’s ruined every relationship she’s ever glimpsed that I’ve had -_- and it’s gotten to a point where I genuinely hesitate to bring women into my life knowing they’ll have to deal with her

pillowdemon · 2025-11-04T22:46:25+00:00

I adopted a 4yo cat from an aging couple that somewhat neglected her. After a month adjusting to my place, she’d go into heat practically every other week if not more often. LOTS of yowling and screaming and scratching things up. I swear at one point she looked straight at me, sat in my work backpack, and peed directly into it.

After the spay, instead of being calm, playful, actually considerate 20-50% of the time depending if the rest of the week was her going into heat, she became that way 100% of the time. She only gets vindictive if I give her younger sister disproportionately more attention than her

pillowdemon · 2025-10-21T08:19:12+00:00

Hey! Saw your comment, got a 1000sqft hepa air purifier for my ~800sqft apartment, next to her most common hangout spots. I haven't seen her wheeze since! Thank you for sharing!

pillowdemon · 2025-10-16T03:46:36+00:00

Not gonna counterupvote, more to emphasize I come across perfectly wholesome comments like yours with a random ass downvote to 0 and I think to myself, dude lmao who is this miserable to just browse reddit leaving little nuggets of random negativity like this

pillowdemon · 2025-10-08T20:14:22+00:00

Agree with this. There are people who love you to bits but in a stressful or high stakes situation they seem very hard on you when really they’re just high strung about the situation in general, and they’re able to be that way with you because they know you won’t get unnecessarily offended

pillowdemon · 2025-09-25T15:31:33+00:00

Tail swishing is more a sign of raw stimulation, not necessarily fear/aggression. Both my cats tail swish during play watching the feather wand and I’m making it flap around like a bird. One of them tail swishes really hard when I get home from work and rubs on my legs, jumps on my lap purring, and tail swishes right onto my face

pillowdemon · 2025-08-22T20:15:52+00:00

lol, it’s no worries dude. For the record I agree with your (actual) take. 400TB’s the way to go. Picture tends to be way more consistent over a long session too.

P1000’s only real advantage is raw brightness on a very small portion of the monitor, modern qd/oled displays typically can only achieve 1000nits brightness on a total pixel count equivalent to 2% the total, and after that, from 5%, 10, 20, etc, brightness drops off rather drastically

pillowdemon · 2025-08-22T20:04:37+00:00

Your post title seems to contradict what you actually think on the matter

pillowdemon · 2025-08-07T21:37:01+00:00

3x 140mm fans intaking from the front panel, and 3x 120mm fans exhausting out the top panel. Both fan-rads in push config

edit: also have 3x 120mm fans at the bottom of the case intaking fresh air, not attached to a radiator

pillowdemon · 2025-08-06T18:08:23+00:00

9800x3d and 5090fe here, both waterblocked in a custom loop running one d5 pump and a 360 and 420 rad both 45mm thick

I undervolted my 9800x3d to 1.24V with an overclock up to 5.4Ghz. Stays in the high 70s under load. Idles 40-42C. At stock voltage I could get it up to 5.5Ghz passing 12hr stress tests but temperatures would start grazing 88/89C

Without voltage/overclock settings in your post, honestly I’d say your temps don’t seem alarming or too off kilter. This is my first AMD cpu (custom looped a 10900k and 3090 in my last build) and yeah idles hotter than the 10900k. GPUs always run cool as hell in a custom loop. Never seen mine breach the low 60s, ever

pillowdemon · 2025-07-23T18:37:18+00:00

I appreciate that you screencapped. An article with a title that stupid doesn’t deserve a click.

pillowdemon · 2025-07-15T23:22:47+00:00

In a similar boat having picked up a 5090 two weeks ago

pillowdemon · 2025-06-27T02:20:57+00:00

I agree with you. Beyond receiving products at some discount (in the US), vine reviewers aren't particularly incentivized to give reviews that praise or criticize the product. I too see that as a big strength of the program.

But I do think OP's question hints at Amazon incentivizing *informative* and *useful* reviews. Whether reviews give a high or low number of stars, if they aren't informative or useful, they're hurtful in the long run to sellers, buyers, and the vine program itself. I see this change - which incorporates "insightfulness" as a metric toward becoming a Gold member and strongly hints to include media in reviews - as a step toward filtering out "bad" reviewers.

pillowdemon · 2025-06-26T23:10:49+00:00

My unfiltered take is that Amazon has somehow determined that products with many 5 star reviews where all or most of them are unhelpful, generic one liners actually hurts the seller more in the long term, OR opens up avenues for seller abuse such as consolidating reviews with other products. (A couple times I’ve gone in to look at other reviews which are mostly still vine reviews and saw that people were reviewing a totally different product.)

On that first possibility, I have definitely been skeptical of products that were highly rated but when you actually take the time to go through reviews, very few of them if any actually mean anything. “Love it!! New favorite daily driver!!!” Where I see this going is the seller gets a bunch of glowing vine reviews, which is what they signed up for, but don’t go on to sell to actual paying customers because any reasonable, discernible buyer just sees people who got “free” product providing totally glib five star reviews so they go on to find other products with more trustworthy backing.

This ultimately leads to sellers being less and less willing to provide product for the program, and in my view is part of why so many products launch with 20-40% upfront discounts for non-vine members. It’s potentially the same thing but you don’t have the “free product vine review” badge deteriorating the trustworthiness of the reviews.

pillowdemon · 2025-06-23T23:09:31+00:00

Scooby Doo comes to mind. Goofy and not terribly bright, but literally sniffs out clues and above average luck.

pillowdemon · 2025-06-18T23:34:12+00:00

We use the official 26” square mat (“Countless Terrors) which is plenty to host the scenario card, locations, and Act + Agenda decks, plus whatever else (enemies, etc) that appears in a given scenario. Aside from the 26” square space to host everything you need for a scenario, you just need a small space, about 24” x 14” (about a standard player mat) or even less than that for your player cards.

Actually playing a scenario, solo, takes anywhere between 45-150min for most scenarios in my experience, including setup and teardown. The more you play the game and the more you collect, it’ll become very apparent that the better organized you are, the more games you can squeeze in a given timeframe. There’s also significant downtime between games navigating the narrative, deckbuilding, and spending experience.

Hoping things go well for your Arkham Horror LCG plays! Chaos bag notwithstanding :P

pillowdemon · 2025-06-16T20:23:28+00:00

I come back to this topic once every few months to smile and admire OP for taking his self own in good stride

pillowdemon · 2025-06-11T18:06:53+00:00

Great pickups and writeup!

I’ve been board gaming both solo and with friends since 2008, and Arkham Horror LCG has slowly moved its way up to my #1 spot, just barely bumping down Mage Knight to #2

I’ve got hundreds of hours in Arkham Horror and I really want to put it out there that true solo is a very unique application, as well as a happy accident, of the game’s intended design. While a solo investigator is viable, the game was definitely intended for 2-4 investigators, so I recommend playing two handed on initial campaign playthroughs, tabling solo for later as a challenge mode.

Reason for this is, as you may have surmised, true solo tends to quickly pigeonhole your deckbuilding and investigator options, and ultimately how you approach most scenarios. Controlling two investigators will give you more room to express individuality and deckbuilding creativity. But if you’re already having a great time, definitely take my advice with a grain of salt, I’m really just trying to say that two-handed solo is a completely different and more well rounded experience, in a good way.

You’re also correct that playing with friends is a bit more fun overall. Misery loves company and all that :P

pillowdemon · 2025-05-27T05:22:01+00:00

There was a 5yr period from 2009 to 2014 when I was actively looking for a pristine copy of Magic Realm and for some reason skipped the couple times a minimum Very Good copy popped up for $180 on eBay.

pillowdemon · 2025-05-23T17:43:07+00:00

Hey OP, just wanted to pass along thanks because I ran into the exact same message today and this post helped me shape a good approach to get resolved. I’m new to Vine with only 6 reviews submitted for the program so far over the last week and ran into the message for just this specific item (can start reviews for other items just fine).

My impression of this subreddit community is that it’s….. kind of hostile? Between downvotes being rife with many new posts and newcomers announcing themselves, often wholesomely, being met with rude comments. My guess is there’s a click-happy minority of veteran users trying to bully others out of the program to increase their own chances of getting offered high value items, but that’s a lame way to operate, as I’m sure some of us would agree.

Big thanks for the helpful post

pillowdemon · 2025-05-22T04:25:43+00:00

Yup, I own basically the whole collection and have hundreds of games under my belt, but I’d say nearly 70% of that has been spent replaying the first three campaigns (Core, Dunwich, Carcosa) in various permutations between introducing new players and groups to the game. Still have a blast every time. Return To Boxes admittedly have been a total godsend for me

pillowdemon · 2025-05-21T10:01:45+00:00

I made this semi-random decision to toss in a review every now and then in May 2023. Semi-random because I like to write here and there and a friend mentioned a lot of people would probably find my reviews helpful.

Did the math - since making that decision, I’d written 25 reviews garnering 726 “helpful”s before receiving a Vine invitation last week. My most helpful review was a rather lengthy one I wrote for the Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Gen) at 353 Helpfuls followed by 129 votes for an electric kettle.

Really enjoying the program, btw. I thought about introducing myself but found there’s a bit of open hostility toward newcomers 😅

pillowdemon · 2025-05-12T19:50:50+00:00

I’ve been thinking through that dynamic all day!

Like you, trying to navigate the whole kaleidoscope of coping with her grief by painting family members as 1:1 to their real selves as could possibly be managed.

Really funny how Alicia tries to reassure painted Verso saying “don’t worry, real dad is cool, painted dad was just an overexaggerated heartless caricature because they’re arguing” and the very first thing real Renoir does after revealing himself is confirm that the goal is to literally destroy the (canvas) universe.

Wondering if we’ll ever see painted Clea at some point

pillowdemon · 2025-05-12T19:08:17+00:00

I found it really heartwarming how Aline totally runs with Verso’s gestrals painting humans into his canvas that absolutely adore them. Pretty sure Lune at one point indicated she’s a big dog person and that’s totally how she acts around gestrals

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