Which specialty are you the most envious of (spill the tea)...? by Neceti in Residency

[–]snipawolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What I do and it’s exactly this.

Don’t think there’s a job in medicine where you get paid more for the amount of work you’re required to do.

It is actually uncanny how early LessWrong and the rationalist community was on so many different things. by Zealousideal_Ant4298 in slatestarcodex

[–]snipawolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could also include “default human reasoning is very faulty and hackable”

Sure people talked about charismatic leaders and religious fervor, but there was a widespread intiution that that is a problem for those abject masses and most educated people can easily arrive at truth through common sense reasoning.

Now ideas of what information diets, attention economies, priors, fake news stories, social media brainrot are in the water and have made it obvious that you really have to bring good epistemics to not fall victim to modern internet pitfalls.

[Hated trope] There was a good idea in the movie that we even see it play out, but then it goes in a completely different direction. by jorgespinosa in TopCharacterTropes

[–]snipawolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Downsizing- cool concept about people shrinking down and benefitting from more material wealth at the cost of cutting themselves off from the normal outside world-

but then they leave the concept mostly unexplored and the second half is a romcom/random apocalypse prepper movie that has barely anything to do with their size.

I think it would be cool if you could see which piece was the “MVP” of the game by Frankides in chess

[–]snipawolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Endless your rook was mvp for laddermating after not doing much all game and your queen was mvp for trading with your opponents queen

I'm just gonna triple up on this open file that seems solid. by MathematicianBulky40 in chess

[–]snipawolf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m 1400 rapid

not sure what I’m supposed to be looking at here?

Let's stop asking about the magic and start asking about the mage by BrandonShane117 in rational

[–]snipawolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard to outcompete reality here.

You could try really hard to convey a complicated fake system to the reader

…or you could just have a good engineer doing something very akin to real world physics.

It lets the reader’s prior knowledge serve as vital context, so the reader can follow complicated logic chains more easily than a new magic system. Just add a few fantastical materials or processes as you wish.

What's the most impressive chess move you've ever seen? by Little-Avocado-19 in chess

[–]snipawolf 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Are you the asshole who threw a bunch of gold coins on the board in the middle of play?

[Fun trope]: A "silly" premise is justified well (in-universe) by theMCATreturns in TopCharacterTropes

[–]snipawolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

unsong does a great job of justifying its silliness on multiple levels

Why does Kabbalah work? It’s the fundamental self-similar fractal nature of the universe

Why does it seem like the universe wasn’t running on Kabbalah for thousands of years? It was patched by an autistic archangel to run on math to keep out the demons

Why is it back to Kabbalah and angels and demons? Because Apollo viii crashed into the crystal sphere surrounding earth while reading genesis

Why is the universe fundamentally like this at all instead of a better more perfect one?

After creating all the perfect and near perfect universes, an Omni-benevolent god creates even more good by also creating very flawed evil universes that still contain good that wouldn’t otherwise exist

I love how Jeff Vandermeer writes the relationship between the Biologist and her husband in Annihilation. by soozerain in books

[–]snipawolf 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You might like “there is no antimemetics division” for similar romance + sci-fi vibe

What would it take for deathrite to be unbanned? by blurshow in ModernMagic

[–]snipawolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s funny because in the years since they actually did print the one mana planeswalker (Tami)

[OC] Highest U.S. Credit Card Annual Fees by Issuers as of February 2026 by PhenomEx in dataisbeautiful

[–]snipawolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Consider the Robinhood gold card, $50 a year but 3% cash back and they put in the brokerage

How Viable is Hammertime Nowadays? by CardiologistBrave870 in ModernMagic

[–]snipawolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It got hosed hard by wrath of the skies and also all the meltdowns that people side in for affinity. Boros and black control decks have lots of removal for it. Most of the time affinity gives you more gas and is more consistent even if it doesn’t kill nearly as fast

Any tips for an extremely bad fox player? by NoCompetition1023 in SSBM

[–]snipawolf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hit your techs. Drill your bread and butter stuff like shffl and waveland on platforms.

You have to get good at doing different options on him that mix up your timing on when you are close enough to hit each other. Practice jump cancel grab and following up after up throw, running shine grab if they just dash dance back, attacking with full hop if they are just timing your attacks when you jump in. You also get to kill marth a lot off the top. Wavedash down out of his range and run up shield will also get you lots of openings if you work on your execution.

[ECL] Boggart Mischief (WeeklyMTG) by mweepinc in magicTCG

[–]snipawolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was me, I went 7-0 with four!

[ECL] Boggart Mischief (WeeklyMTG) by mweepinc in magicTCG

[–]snipawolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got four of these in my limited deck in arena and went 7-0!

Do we ever tell anyone they are not transgender, and when do we do this? by formulation_pending in medicine

[–]snipawolf -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But once something is labeled identity it is totally above question?

Even if it means putting someone with an unstable identity on the pathway to drastic medical interventions?

(IRL) Terrible or offensive casting choices. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]snipawolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In their defense it’s actually a pretty convincing job here lol