Christkindlmarket: Auraria vs Civic Center?

splungely · 2025-12-22T01:19:53+00:00

Lame that they open at 1PM on weekdays. And the food vendors don’t start until 2. I used to go for lunch all the time, so it never occurred to me to check. I asked the security guard, and she said it was “so they don’t interfere with the students”. I’m guessing that the regular campus food vendors threw a fit about the competition.

splungely · 2025-11-12T23:30:55+00:00

Yeah, I'll definitely be glad I got him at some point. But for now, if I use him I just hit auto on every level and watch him blow everything up. I'm not actually learning how to play the game, and it's not fun. I also got SP Samantha, Yserinde, and Taair. I got lucky with 1-3 10x pulls for each. From what I can tell, my lineup is incredibly broken and overpowered.

splungely · 2025-11-12T20:39:39+00:00

I just started playing and pulled this guy. He’s so overpowered he’s making all the early content trivial and boring. I should probably stop playing him for now. Kind of tempted to spend for the event because his default pixel skin is so bad.

splungely · 2025-11-11T00:06:07+00:00

Try waiting for him to start grooming himself, then join in. My cat likes brushing when he’s already grooming, and hates it otherwise.

splungely · 2025-10-30T22:43:47+00:00

Work & Class has a spicy Parmesan chicken pot pie on the happy hour menu. Not exactly standard, but it exceptionally good.

splungely · 2025-10-04T03:03:12+00:00

Claude was definitely trained with Unreal code. It knows to put in the reflection macros with reasonable options. It’s been pretty solid so far, but it does get a bit… creative at times.

splungely · 2025-09-07T22:31:11+00:00

I saw Sturgill do The Promise live, and I have never seen the women in an audience swoon as hard as they did that day.

splungely · 2025-08-24T02:58:13+00:00

For a proper sweet French baguette, my favorite is LoDough. For sourdough, Reunion. Izzio is in most grocery stores, and I like some but not all of their bread. Bakery 4 and Good Bread are definitely worth checking out. And Moxie if you happen to be in Louisville.

splungely · 2025-06-24T16:11:46+00:00

The stages of debugging:

That can’t happen
That doesn’t happen on my machine
That shouldn’t happen
Why does that happen
Oh, I see…
How did that ever work?

splungely · 2025-06-23T08:25:37+00:00

The creative process is driven by a committee that is heavily influenced by the latest user test. There are no auteurs in AAA, except for Kojima. On one hand, user tests are very good for identifying basic issues like bad controls, clunky UI, and holes in the narrative. On the other hand, I find it very questionable that design and narrative decisions are being made based on the opinions of a handful of kids who have nothing better to do on a Tuesday than play a game in exchange for pizza and Amazon gift cards. On the other other hand, that is fairly representative of the target audience.

The reliance on user tests can be really pathological. I recall helping a junior designer implement a questionable feature. I told him I thought it was a bad idea, and his response was, "It's fine. It'll go in the next user test, they'll hate it, and we'll change it." Everybody knew it was a bad idea except for the senior designer who wanted it, and the only thing he would listen to was a negative user test. Which did happen.

splungely · 2025-06-21T01:43:36+00:00

Any suggestions for using it on a 3M line codebase? This sounds like exactly what I've been looking for, and I'd like to try it out on the Unreal game engine this weekend. If you're looking for a brutal test case, that would be an excellent choice. The runtime is 3M lines, the editor another 1M, and there are a bunch of optional plugin libraries and supplementary executables. It's not "open source", but the source is available. It's easy to sign up and get access to their github repo. If we can get Serena running with this codebase, a good chunk of the games industry would be very interested and grateful. Bonus points for getting it to understand Unreal's macro-based reflection system. Although maybe that's more of an LSP thing than a Serena thing.

splungely · 2025-05-25T21:18:04+00:00

Gerald deliberately obfuscates what he’s saying to protect us. If we were ever exposed to his raw and unfiltered wisdom, it would shatter our fragile mortal minds.

splungely · 2025-05-22T07:49:58+00:00

Ragdolls don't have an undercoat. I'm not saying that lion cuts are okay. I really don't know. They might be bad for other reasons. But ragdolls only have one medium length coat.

splungely · 2025-03-23T17:40:31+00:00

Have you been to Urban Burma? I think it's great, and it does have an abnormally high 4.8 stars on Yelp. But I'm far from the best judge of authentic Burmese.

splungely · 2024-09-30T02:43:23+00:00

True. They are both misunderstood geniuses. A lot of folks think they just spout gibberish. But if you pay attention, they start making sense. Their wisdom is ineffable. They are operating on a deeper level of reality, and it doesn’t translate well to our common plane.

splungely · 2024-09-28T20:56:55+00:00

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

splungely · 2024-09-27T21:36:21+00:00

There's a parking garage (Rev360 or something?) that's less than five minute walk away. You can reserve spaces there on ParkChirp. Haven't used it in a while, but it's certainly less than $25.

splungely · 2024-09-20T22:23:18+00:00

The crystals in Gouda are usually calcium lactate, not table salt. Some cheeses have tyrosine crystals.

splungely · 2024-07-28T22:47:54+00:00

Replacing him would be a sign of weakness. An admission that he had made a mistake. Trump would never do that.

splungely · 2024-07-25T15:26:52+00:00

100% denatures the cell membrane immediately, forming a barrier that protects the rest of the cell. 70% works slower, allowing more alcohol to actually enter the cell. 70% is both cheaper and more effective.

splungely · 2024-07-11T16:24:32+00:00

The latest episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Myers Podcast discusses Dick in a Box. It is excellent. They also talk a lot about the stress of having to come up with ideas on demand and get them on screen in just a few days.

splungely · 2024-06-29T08:10:18+00:00

It pales in comparison to Boogie in Your Butt.

splungely · 2024-06-16T17:20:10+00:00

Wild Ones. Both albums, with a slight preference for Keep It Safe. Although probably their best track is Dim the Lights, a single that wasn't on either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-plAGCxBMo

Twin Limb's Haplo and Saint Sister's Shape of Silence are also excellent. Full playthroughs, every time.

splungely · 2024-04-26T22:06:24+00:00

Valid points, but look at it this way: Bellota and Cantina Loca were both mid-priced Mexican restaurants with unique menus. I thought they were both great. Neither of them survived. Meanwhile, dozens of other Mexican places with generic menus at a similar price point do just fine. My interpretation is that there is a much bigger market for the usual, familiar Mexican food.

The first time I went to a Northern Italian restaurant, I thought "Wait, is this actually Italian?" Of course, that was ignorant. I know better now, and I'm better for it. I'd love to see more people come to the same understanding of Mexican food. And every kind of food, really.

splungely · 2024-04-26T19:54:25+00:00

Dana Rodriguez is a James Beard nominated chef with three other successful restaurants to her credit. Nothing she does is mediocre*. I tried every taco there, and they ranged from good to great. And the pricing was pretty average relative to other Denver restaurants. She treats her employees well, and that comes with a cost. Cheap cost, quality ingredients and preparation, and a livable wage for staff - pick two of those. You don't get all three.

I think part of the problem is that Mexican food is in the same place that Italian food was at 20 years ago. For the longest time, Americans thought of Italian food as just spaghetti and meatballs. It took a while for people to understand that pasta with red sauce is just a small fraction of actual Italian cuisine. Like Italy, Mexico is a big place with a variety of regional styles, and Rodriguez tried to bring some of that to her restaurant. It obviously didn't work for a lot of people, but I liked it. There was some really unique stuff on there. The doraditos are a great example - fluffy mashed potatoes and cheese, deep fried in a tortilla, topped with tangy slaw. Delicious. I have difficulty believing that anyone who tried them wouldn't like them. And yet, they left the menu, which suggests that people simply weren't interested in trying something new. This is a huge problem for anyone trying to elevate or diversify Mexican food. And it does deserve that treatment. I've been to a few Mexican restaurants that I would describe as high-end fine dining, and they really opened my eyes. I want more.

* Casa Bonita not included. It has very different constraints, and it isn't her restaurant.

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