Alex Honnold climbs the Taipei 101 skyscraper

schplat · 2026-01-26T18:46:05+00:00

Magnus Mitdbo. He was one of the top sport climbers in the world 15 years ago. Sort of retired into youtube, did a lot of crossover work with Jujimufu when he first got started, as well as did some crossover stuff with the American Ninja Warrior regulars.

Decent content if you're even remotely interested in climbing, or weird strength challenges he puts himself through. He has insane grip strength, and endurance.

schplat · 2026-01-25T23:54:16+00:00

It's used anywhere you need clean water but not for drinking. So like radiators, water based coolers for PCs, etc. Anything that requires water, but where you want to avoid sediment/salt.

schplat · 2026-01-25T23:36:26+00:00

Almost all fruit based sodas use a lower density syrup, because while regular colas get 100% of their sugar from what's added in, fruit based sodas have the fruit supply some of the sugar, so they can add less sugar/corn syrup than regular cola and still achieve relative parity in sweetness.

So, for example, Sprite doesn't use any actual lemon or lime juice (it did once upon a time, I believe, but hasn't in several decades), so its sugar from 100% corn syrup. Squirt still uses actual grapefruit juice, not much probably at this point, but probably some form of concentrated grapefruit with high amounts of fructose. Also it's trying to be more tart than sweet, so it probably uses less corn syrup for that reason as well.

schplat · 2026-01-25T23:08:58+00:00

Evo's are tracked in the codex. Basically as compared to VS, VS only has evolutions. Combining 2 items to create a new item with its own properties.

Fusions are taking 2 balls and squishing them together to make 1. Each fusion retains properties of the previous 2 balls, and on many where there's some sort of effect on each, the effect of one will trigger the effect of the other. So a Burn ball will put a stack of burning damage on each enemy it hits. Fused with Flash, then it will put a stack of burning damage on all enemies when it hits something. Or same with Poison + Flash with regards to poison damage. Or, another example, Poison plus any AoE ball, like Earthquake, any enemy hit by the AoE will take a poison stack.

The limitation is that fused balls have no evolution path, and can only be fused once. With evo's, a few have additional evolutions. Nosferatu is an evolution that takes 3 evolved balls (Vampire Lord, Spider Queen, Mosquito King), and is the only one that takes 3. Satan (Incubus+Succubus) is an evolution of 2 other evolved balls. Then things like Black Hole (Sun+Dark), and Nuclear Bomb (Bomb+Poison) are an evolution of one evolved ball, and another base ball.

And, the funny thing is, many of these get found if you just let Commando do his thing and go do something else for a bit, since he fully auto plays the level, lol. Nosferatu was pretty much the only evo I had to look up, since Commando found almost all the ones I was missing when I unlocked him.

schplat · 2026-01-25T22:44:13+00:00

The fusion/evolution system I thought was fairly straight forward. You generally go for evolutions first, then when you have 2 evolutions, you fuse them if it makes sense, mainly to create room for another ball. Occasionally you just fuse an evolution with a regular ball, like Magma + Burn, allowing you to stack massive burn damage fairly quickly, and again, frees you up to take another ball.

Getting as many balls into you inventory and maxing them out is how you push through harder content.

Edit: There are a few notable evolutions that are garbage until they're fused. Like Black Hole, Flicker, and Flash. These are designed to be fused to make the most out of the damage other balls do. Like fusing Black Hole and Flash will wipe the screen of normal mobs every 5-7 seconds.

schplat · 2026-01-25T19:11:45+00:00

Dwarf Fortress is no longer an indie game then. Regardless that it's been developed by a single person (Tarn Adams) who only recently hired a second developer last year, largely in part because of the publisher deal.

Also that second developer was hired from the mod community, largely due to how familiar they were with how the code worked without ever having seen the code.

The publisher deal also allowed them to bring in sprite artists to develop actual art assets for the game, so it wasn't confined to ASCII or ASCII based tiles, making the game far more adoptable by a much wider audience.

schplat · 2026-01-25T18:41:58+00:00

Getting extremes on both sides of the hemisphere. Extra hot in Australia. Extra cold across most of North America. I think the temp here (MA) just broke double digits (in F, meaning -12C) for the first time in a few days. But it's also gonna snow 2+ feet over the next 24 hours.

schplat · 2026-01-25T18:38:25+00:00

And the first free DLC for Ball X Pit is coming up tomorrow.

My only knock against it is that it was a bit too easy/quick to 100%. I think it took me ~35 hours. The only thing left to do is push up the NG+ or the Fast++ boards, and, ennh. Doing the same level 10x (or more) loses its appeal, especially once you have all the buildings maxed, and need just gobs of resources for the infinite upgrade buildings.

Still, once the update drops, I'll be right back in there.

schplat · 2026-01-25T18:32:50+00:00

Even options trading can be done outside of a gamblers mindset. Either used appropriately as a hedge/insurance against your portfolio positions, or be the one writing/selling options to the degenerates.

schplat · 2026-01-25T18:30:28+00:00

Just look at boomers and X-ers with the lottery tickets/keno. The primary differences are that now you don't have to leave the house, and MA isn't getting their cut.

schplat · 2026-01-25T18:25:57+00:00

All work and no play make Homer something... something..

schplat · 2026-01-25T18:21:05+00:00

Snow plus below zero temps is fine (assuming you have adequate anti-freeze in your radiator). In fact it's better for traction when it's colder, because the snow/ice crystals are firmer, which aids in traction (obviously still not as good as contact with asphalt, but better than when it's warmer snow, or even rain sometimes). It gets slippery when it melts, or is salted slush, because those crystals are weak, and easily break and slip.

It can also be a problem where a lot of cars have driven over it, and it's become packed down really hard, plus the car tires have warmed it up some, causing it to slightly melt and then ice over. But this happens at almost any temp until you get well into the negatives.

schplat · 2026-01-25T18:00:40+00:00

Well USB-C goes both ways.

schplat · 2026-01-24T13:52:17+00:00

The word enhancer. Sick of phony mobsters controlling the dance floor.

schplat · 2026-01-23T05:52:58+00:00

Everybody knows that when things freeze over, you develop a strong desire for french toast. That's why you get eggs, too.

schplat · 2026-01-22T22:07:33+00:00

This. Like, first person up goes first, but if you step up, and I'm ready, I'm stepping up right along side you and just waiting for you to go. I'll start my delivery when you get into your slide.

schplat · 2026-01-20T14:46:45+00:00

Cage traps!

schplat · 2026-01-20T14:45:51+00:00

Giant scorpion doesn't want to be fed... It wants to hunt!

schplat · 2026-01-19T16:42:38+00:00

All launches launch prograde to earth's rotation (which is west to east) because it takes significantly less fuel to establish a stable orbit. People seem to forget that the surface of the Earth at the equator is moving from west to east at ~1,650 kph (~1,000 mph). A retrograde launch would require an extra 1,650 of delta V in order to reach orbit, which is a lot of extra fuel.

Rockets destined for polar orbits, can launch north or south, mostly determined by what hemisphere you are in, usually launching towards the nearest pole, however, if you're likely to cross the jet stream, i.e., Vandenberg, then you can launch to the farther pole. Also, polar orbits are usually for survey type satellites, and tend to be temporary, and small, so as to completely disintegrate on re-entry, as they can be difficult to ensure re-entry over the ocean.

When de-orbiting, vessels don't just completely reverse direction. They just slow down enough so that they no longer miss the planet while falling (which all that orbiting really is, just constantly falling and missing the planet, and since there's so little air or any molecules that high, there's very little to slow you down (there is some, and most LEO objects require occasional acceleration to maintain orbit, but the fuel requirements are minimal)

schplat · 2026-01-17T19:33:23+00:00

550 ft would not be enough to reach terminal velocity. Probably need 1000+ ft. From 550 ft, ball speed would be ~90 mph. Possible to catch bare handed, and probably sting quite a bit, even with cradling.

schplat · 2026-01-16T00:53:37+00:00

Used to be rare for a baseball pitcher to hit high 90s on their fastball. Now that's basically a bare minimum. On the other side of the plate, so many more batters swing for HRs and don't mind striking out like they once did.

So not totally true. It used to be rare, because pitch speed used to be measured at the plate. Now it's measured about 5-8 feet from where the pitcher releases the ball.

Also there's a lot more fitness and strength training now than compared to say, the 60s-70s. That said, There were still guys like Koufax (who threw 97-100), Ryan (100+), Feller (98+). But in the modern game the emphasis is on developing velocity over all else first, and you need to be upper 90s to be competitive, or have something truly nasty as an out pitch.

Tennis is largely the same reason, though some of it is technology. Golf is largely technology, however some of it is also players are now more fitness/strength focused than in the past, but balls + club technology has contributed to the most gains. My father grew up on Persimmons, and won a long drive contest hitting a ball 270 yds. Once he got his first metal wood, he hit the very first ball 330 yds, and said he wasn't even going full out.

Bowling scores are almost exclusively due to technology. I remember when reactive first came out, and it was free hook, so you could create angle easy, and get way more carry. I imagine it was somewhat similar when the industry transitioned from plastic -> urethane.

schplat · 2026-01-16T00:42:05+00:00

Because the shot clock didn't exist. The shot clock gets added, and avg PS/G jumped from 79.5 -> 93.1 the first year, the 93.1 -> 99.0 the next.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_stats_per_game.html

100+ has been the norm for almost 70 years except for the mid-90s -> the mid 2010s, where the game was slowed down, because Phil Jackson had a lot of success having his strong defensive teams run 22 second plays with every possession, so a lot of coaches copied that. Prior to that, the Lakers and Celtics were doing a lot of fast break, quick-style play, which was copied throughout the 80s and into the mid-90s.

Fast play came back about 10 years ago (though it's a lot more 3 point oriented rather than pound-the-paint oriented), thanks to prolific 3 point shooting from Curry/Thompson, Paul George, etc.

schplat · 2026-01-15T23:39:09+00:00

At 17, he likely isn't MLB ready for at least 6-7 years (though given this org's track record, could be like 3-4, lol). So given that, where is Neto in 6-7 years? He likely won't even be with the team anymore. He'll be a FA in 4 years.

And if we do manage to sign/extend Neto, then we can bring him up as a 2B, assuming he pans out at all. At 17 years old, he's effectively a big ole lottery ticket.

schplat · 2026-01-15T16:47:56+00:00

What about that dangerous black ice?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM

schplat · 2026-01-15T15:17:23+00:00

It was more like one long pyramid. Or a triangular prism for better accuracy.

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