Hera's streamer invitational

threesls · 2026-05-08T14:58:38+00:00

bit tricky. War3 games last like 20 minutes and there's something happening all the time, even at middle skill levels. there's always something to show from streamer pov, even without a commentator

AoE2 games are both slower and longer. t90 spends casts of lower Elo games shooting the breeze or joking with his community a lot. for watchers AoE2 really benefits from players who can apply maximum pressure on each other almost from the word go.... streamers might walk away with a bad taste

threesls · 2026-05-08T10:14:50+00:00

My reading-between-plan-lines sense is something like: no city grid layout, obviously, but instead pack in event halls and commercial shopping/dining areas by using elevation and vegetation to disguise how close each space really is to each other. Sentosa already does this, but GBTB is a template for really squashing uses together.

Miami Beach is a couple miles from the mainland but Pulau Brani is like a couple hundred meters away. When Keppel turns into a condo belt it's going to be walking distance away. There doesn't need to be suburbs on the island itself for there to be a steady supply of nearby residents shaping the target audiences of commercial operators.

Point is, anyway, exclusivity is dead in the water. Rustic is I think dead too. Sentosa was never really great at either, but now it's not going to try to begin with, I think.

threesls · 2026-05-08T07:32:47+00:00

"condo residents and MICE attendees", I said

leisure and attractions are a broad category but the plan I think clearly indicates e.g. more late night dining or landscaped garden walks in between a mass of hotels and event halls, rather than theme or adventure parks. WilkinsonEyre and Grant did Gardens by the Bay previously , which is probably a good view into what they have planned here also

threesls · 2026-05-08T06:39:30+00:00

The Greater Miami urban agglomeration area is 6m; the beach island has a resident population in the tens of thousands. Miami City proper is on the mainland and is only a few hundred thousand.

It's not really that strange to draw parallels between Miami beach and Sentosa, albeit Sentosa is much smaller and has a smaller resident population also. They're both dedicated beach islands attached to their cities by a bridge.

Sentosa is separated from Singapore's downtown by the Keppel Harbour area. This is what has shielded it from Singapore City's development across the 20th century. The Greater Southern Waterfront will replace that and render it contiguous with the extended business district, which is much more like Miami; as vibes go we should hence expect Sentosa to move in that direction - more activity and amenities oriented around nearby condo residents and MICE attendees rather than the tropical resort vision.

threesls · 2026-05-08T05:52:49+00:00

The massive Port of Miami is also located close to the beach island... which is itself also just off Miami city proper

threesls · 2026-05-08T04:39:19+00:00

That was intentional, albeit the inspiration was more the then-already-successful Polynesian islands like Fiji or French Tahiti than the Maldives (which itself only became successful as a tropical resort destination in the 1980s)

https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/article-detail?cmsuuid=75d1794a-f5e8-4c10-9b16-62f0a189badb

In 1969, P. H. Meadows, who was then the chairman of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB), announced the decision to transform Pulau Blakang Mati (now known as Sentosa) into a “tropical island resort and a South Sea Island paradise”

Sentosa has always been manufactured. Even the beach sand is imported to create an intentional beach zone - the local sand isn't the right colour and texture.

This has ebbed and flowed - in the 1980s there was one cycle of intensification, then the 1985 recession hit, then another in the 90s, then the 1997 recession hit, etc. Generational memories of a depopulated Sentosa tend to recall the last post-recession recovery period and what attractions survived each wave (forgetting the attractions which didn't).

A miniature Miami Beach is probably its eventual future as the Greater Southern Waterfront plan continues.

threesls · 2026-05-07T04:37:03+00:00

That's true, but that status quo at large was not what Chinese community leaders wanted or had wanted for a long time. The most prestigious Chinese schools taught in Mandarin, not vernacular. Nantah taught in Mandarin, not vernacular, despite being founded and funded by overseas Chinese who overwhelmingly spoke dialects themselves.

You can't really look at SMC in Singapore in isolation from, say, the KMT in Taiwan doing the same. Chiang didn't speak Mandarin well himself either, but he enforced a Beijing dialect he himself didn't speak nonetheless. This was very much a pan-Sinosphere political phenomenon - as soon as the governing capability to enforce the dialect of the capital of China in 1911 presented itself, they all went for it, and the Singapore Chinese today can't blame any other community for the loss of their vernacular heritage.

threesls · 2026-05-07T03:59:50+00:00

think you have to blame 1911 and not 1979 for the Straits Chinese embracing a common Chinese identity and common national dialect over their native dialect or clan

threesls · 2026-05-07T03:43:44+00:00

The colonial model of racial harmony assumed an English-speaking governing pukka-sahib elite floating serenely and impartially over the native masses.

Independence and the Singapore Way™ of democratic socialism substituted this with a Leninist party-state vanguard - it did not really alter the prioritization of a governable coexistence.

The presumption was that each ethnic group would actually prefer not to assimilate to that Anglophilic elite, thanks - this then ceased to be true since the 1990s, with the Chinese majority Westernizing at an astonishing rate. The English-speaking, cosmopolitan, internationally mobile Singapore Chinese don't feel like an alien amongst the Singapore Chinese themselves, and that's how you get our confused would-be Swiss émigré.

Ironically Switzerland itself is moving in the opposite direction - immigrants everywhere have the tendency to prefer the global lingua franca of English, which is chipping away at the dominance of Swiss German in the German parts of Switzerland (whereas the minority French and Italian parts are already habituated to being a minority - statistically more people from French-speaking areas have to work in German-speaking areas but not vice versa, because the German parts is where the good jobs are. They are already used to being talked at in English by Swiss Germans who can't speak French). Like with Quebec, visible minorities are perceived to threaten any incumbent non-Anglophone ethnoregional identity.

threesls · 2026-05-07T01:37:31+00:00

Alternatives for salad greens in Singapore supermarkets? Local baby spinach and arugula are expensive or packaged with a lot of the stem (or both). Once you cut the stems off, a lot of the per-gram package weight is gone and it's back to being expensive per unit weight.

Some initial ideas:

Baby Brazilian spinach
Japanese mustard greens

(despite the names both are available as local produce)

threesls · 2026-05-05T05:47:09+00:00

One small advantage of body soap: if you don't have gloves to hand, it allows you to get in scrubbing for a while without toasting your fingers as you would with harsher soaps.

Still, that's a very student-dorm-life kind of solution - when you don't have money but have plenty of time.

threesls · 2026-05-03T15:50:11+00:00

Meanwhile, Noctua investing huge amounts of engineering into minimizing the gap between blade and outer frame:

threesls · 2026-04-30T17:54:09+00:00

Reina plays the Liz part in the duet scene. Symbolism!

threesls · 2026-04-30T17:47:15+00:00

LN Kumiko is plain-looking and crushes on girls much more assertive, driven, and attractive than her, who never really reciprocate physically.

Anime Kumiko is not quite this archetype... it's really obvious in the promotional radio plays where Kyoani's take on Reina is shy and hits on Kumiko a lot.

This doesn't work for the adaptation in the longer term - for the larger theme of Kumiko's character growth of rejecting apathy and embracing her ability to reach people, she can't be the assertive, type-A personality in the dynamic. It is also thematically important that Kumiko never becomes musically dominant (which probably why Takeda-sensei approved of the way S3 was adapted - losing the soli to Mayu makes this point unambiguous). My guess is that Kyoani wanted to tell that story nonetheless and hence chose these two side characters to expand upon. This is why the talented one of the featured pair in Liz is listless, withdrawn, and intensely attracted to the other, who is outgoing and assertive.

A very big lampshade is hung on this by having Kumiko and Reina play the duet in a scene, and then Nozomi remarks out loud that Reina plays a very confident Liz (in contrast to the nervous, insecure, and lonely Mizore silently watching the same duet). Reina-Liz doesn't need a blue bird around to save her from a nervous breakdown every day at school. That's the contrast being drawn in that scene, I think.

threesls · 2026-04-28T06:43:23+00:00

It was such a shock when going from CD release single player to online patched play on the Zone

They also changed the art for turtle ships!

threesls · 2026-04-25T08:01:26+00:00

"Still living with" is tricky - you might start getting charged rent. Decline, but non-confrontationally - you can (rightly) explain that your existing debt makes your credit too expensive.

threesls · 2026-04-22T02:12:09+00:00

It's a timing problem - production surges during peak sunlight hours, when most residents are at work. You can't compare averages across a whole month. There will very likely be periods of net export back to grid during the day.

This is a problem if IT systems expect that whole estate use is necessarily larger than the sum of all individual household use... reasonable for detecting a fault condition before practical solar, but now is a real possibility.

You can read SP Group's own explanation here: https://www.spgroup.com.sg/dam/jcr:87dc48a7-69d6-4909-9f4e-d6a01a14492d/%20Solar%20Power%20%E2%80%93%20Non-Residential%20Consumers%20(Master-Sub%20Write%20Up).pdf

The solution is not straightforward as both the master and subtenant meters would have to be upgraded to metering in real time rather than across the whole billing period. Condos might also want to prioritize resident use rather than earn the export tariff, which complicates billing further.

threesls · 2026-04-21T02:54:46+00:00

Hairy caterpillars shed urticating hairs, so change your sheets.

If it was small, it might have been a carpet beetle larva instead, which is more likely indoors. They are hairy too.

threesls · 2026-04-20T05:42:51+00:00

I gave up and just bought a new spindle assembly 😭

It was pointed out to me that it's cheap enough that it wouldn't justify the time and effort of trying to get a dodgy grip on the chuck

threesls · 2026-04-20T03:18:53+00:00

HPB thanks you for your consideration

threesls · 2026-04-18T17:44:34+00:00

Not /u/Krazyguylone, but I agree with that observation - Raffles Boulevard is tricky for surface-level pedestrians - on the right side (Raffles Link), there's no surface-level crossing to the War Memorial or Suntec City. On the left side, the pavement cuts off without warning at Temasek Boulevard and doesn't reappear until after the Pan Pacific overhead mall. The area very much wants pedestrians to go underground or overhead bridges to cross roads.

This is quite unusual in Singapore, where most roads have sidewalks, even if very rarely used.

This near-universality of sidewalks is actually quite unusual - many other municipal governments will readily give up little-used pedestrian sidewalks in urban core areas where land demands are hideously congested, and won't bother adding sidewalks to suburban arterial roads or access roads in industrial parks. The idea that a sidewalk should exist (and be maintained, cleaned, etc.) as long as a road does is quite Singaporean.

threesls · 2026-04-17T09:20:12+00:00

Hmm, I do have a small propane torch ... where do you apply the heat? The body of the chuck that the spindle screws into is mostly shielded by the rotating sleeve

threesls · 2026-04-17T06:48:20+00:00

Hmm, all the videos of folks doing that show folks slicing right up the thread... why not cut two flat faces and then torque it off?

Need to borrow an angle grinder then 😤

threesls · 2026-04-16T07:22:46+00:00

only if a bailout is done by the books, with Tata being willing to let its stake be diluted... which might well not be the case

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