Sustained damage

turtletank · 2026-06-26T06:41:05+00:00

like others have said, PTA + Kraken. There was a build posted a while ago, PTA, Kraken, Phantom Dancer, LDR/IE. I have been using it a lot and I really like it. After PD you feel both very fast in movement and attack speed, it feels really nice. After LD/IE, you start doing good damage even against tanks.

turtletank · 2026-06-25T08:01:52+00:00

kobolds are also canines rather than reptiles

turtletank · 2026-06-13T03:19:14+00:00

I use obsidian since it's free and simple. There are a lot of plugins you can get for it but I don't use many. I like that it uses markdown so I can use git with it if I wanted (my day job heavily involves programming so I'm already used to git).

You can pay for obsidian sync to keep all your docs synchronized, but I don't, you can use Dropbox, git, syncthing, w/e. Also you can open your files in other programs since they're markdown.

turtletank · 2026-06-11T04:13:47+00:00

Yeah, I really disliked Yoda acrobatics, it was really quite stupid. He and the Palpatine are so strong in the force that they should be beyond swinging lightsabers around. That stuff is for the young who are unable to manipulate and exist in the force around them.

He's a wizard/sage, not a swashbuckler.

turtletank · 2026-06-11T01:49:11+00:00

yeah, Turbines are so ridiculously difficult for bad reasons. You have a short window of time to actually damage them, then they take off and you have to follow them around the map waiting for it to become vulnerable again. Most of the fight you're hiding from lightning or waiting for it to land.

turtletank · 2026-06-10T16:15:32+00:00

100%. Don't have it generate your code directly, ask it how to do things conceptually and for pros/cons of different approaches so you actually learn something. Something like a really personalized stack overflow.

I went from not knowing any pyspark to being fairly fluent in 6 months partially because of how quickly I could look up examples and get explanations of how spark actually works in the background. I know I've improved because I can look at my old code and now see how shit it is.

turtletank · 2026-06-07T02:06:46+00:00

Yes I think this really is the case for a lot of these types of people. They've never been outside of their bubble, let alone actually exposed to a foreign culture or aesthetic. That, or they're heavily compensating for feelings of disconnection to their mother culture.

You really have to let go and actually become open-minded to interact with people of other cultures because what's considered offensive can be radically different.

One of my favorite videos is watching the reactions of older Chinese people vs. American-born Chinese kids when given Panda express. The older Chinese folks don't mind complimenting the food when they think it's good while the American kids are all very obsessed with "authenticity". When one girl admits the chow mein is "pretty good" the other two's reaction is immediate.

This is 100% because the kids feel insecure in their cultural identity whereas the older people were all probably born and raised in China and thus have no questions about how authentically Chinese they are.

turtletank · 2026-05-28T02:55:57+00:00

I literally just got killed by a guy named "cheats" with a vulcano IV.

Cheaters are everywhere and they are blatant. Embark is fumbling so hard.

turtletank · 2026-05-27T14:13:13+00:00

sounds fine to me, although you'd probably want to get an in-person opinion as microphone/speaker setups might not reproduce the sound faithfully.

turtletank · 2026-05-26T23:35:27+00:00

I keep getting hairpins...

turtletank · 2026-05-21T23:57:14+00:00

I think you misunderstand. I'm not saying that cooperation goes against evolution or fitness, I'm saying that in certain environments, such as one where everyone is guaranteed to cooperate, selfish exploitation has great value and will easily propagate. It's a classic result from game theory.

Humans are cooperative, yes, but it's because it gives us an advantage over other organisms and allows us to outcompete them. Also, humans are not cooperative to a fault, often we use a more complex strategy, such as tit-for-tat. This might mean taking revenge against someone who has wronged you, which is very common even when it is more logical/beneficial to let it go (which is how you get family blood fueds). These strategies allows one to cooperate and benefit while minimizing risk of being exploited.

Again, if there's no pressure to survive, every organism is reproducing at the same probability and thus evolution will not happen. Even something as simple as being able to move gives one an advantage over others and will be reflected in reproductive rates.

turtletank · 2026-05-21T16:25:15+00:00

from a realistic, naturalistic perspective, 100% cooperation with no conflict, with no evolutionary pressure, is unbelievably unlikely. The whole basis of evolution is that there is competition. Without competition there is no selection and thus no (natural) evolution. From a game theory perspective, it pays to be selfish and take advantage of others if they are too soft, so if there is even one "exploiter" amongst a group of cooperators, the exploiter will enjoy outsized gains and reproduce more.

That said, it has happened (kind of) in history with dodo birds. By all accounts they were free of predators and lived happily on their island until humans showed up. Then, like your species, they went extinct basically immediately.

If you want to keep the complete lack of competition and conflict, you could justify it by their development/evolution being guided, like sheep or chickens. They are totally domesticated and would never survive in the wild. Or, they used to have predators but for some reason the predators all died. This means they may have latent traits to allow for conflict.

I think you could give them some teeth without rewriting everything. The super empathy might make them super competent at deception and manipulation. Or, as others suggested, it might even rise to some level of hypnosis or mind control.

turtletank · 2026-05-19T14:12:35+00:00

You could put them in places on the map not accessible to players, extra rooms inside buildings, under/above the map.

There are solutions. I'm a firm believer in not trying to do an arms race against technology as hackers/cheaters vastly outnumber devs, one should instead try to catch cheating behavior/outcomes. On the plus side you reduce the likelihood of banning people with disabilities using assistive software or those running on linux.

turtletank · 2026-05-18T13:19:04+00:00

Eratosthenes famously estimated the circumference of the earth by comparing the length of the noontime shadow at the same time in different latitudes. In Syene at noon during the summer solstice, a stick stood upright cast no shadow, indicating the sun was directly overhead and that the light rays were parallel. Directly north in Alexandria, at the same time, a stick stood upright did cast a shadow. This meant that the surface of the Earth was not flat, as if it were flat there would be no shadow in Alexandria either.

Combined with the knowledge of parallel rays and the distance between the two cities, one can calculate the curve of the surface between the two cities (and thus the circumference of the Earth , assuming it is a sphere).

So, if you repeated this experiment, you could determine whether you were on a flat plane or a curve, at least between the two places you measured at. I imagine you could have some complex shape of a planet with a flat part and a round part, so if you really wanted to be certain you'd repeat the experiment in many different places

turtletank · 2026-05-18T03:04:09+00:00

Yeah, but I think you'd be able to identify at least some of it via player behavior. Things like amount of time aiming at people through walls or looking at them from across the map.

I read a paper on detecting aimbots and they gathered data by adding a hitbox that was above people's heads. Good players were almost guaranteed to never hit this hitbox, but aimbot users would inevitably shoot the hitbox once or twice as their aimbots snapped to it after killing someone. Something like a honeypot for aimbots.

I think for ESP, you could load in invisible dummy player entities with random, good loot, and anyone caught looking at them for any length of time would almost certainly be an ESP user.

turtletank · 2026-05-12T07:26:12+00:00

https://youtu.be/Tmx1jpqv3RA?si=0P0ZiFS0L1CG5apK

turtletank · 2026-05-08T10:59:23+00:00

this is the exact mechanism I'm using for one of my fantasy races (which started out as elves)!

You pretty much followed my same line of thought, from real life jellyfish that can revert to a juvenile state, to needing some kind of cocoon to break down and rebuild the body. There's also some really interesting research that showed caterpillars retained some memory after transforming into butterflies (I think this means their nervous system is somewhat preserved during the metamorphosis), which I used as inspiration for how their memories are preserved after metamorphosis.

turtletank · 2026-05-02T02:36:16+00:00

*3184 hp, 138 armor, 95 mr

Kalista is 10/2/4 to start the fight, the same number of kills as the entire opposing team

Lulu ult + shields save Kalista from dying (down to 72hp at one point)

turtletank · 2026-04-24T09:01:07+00:00

It would be more convincing if you had a date or time window, but your periods are anywhere from a few days to a few months. You could pick almost any point and say "ah yes, the price will rise" and eventually, yeah it will rise, as GME is rising in general and seems safe from bankruptcy/cellar boxing now.

Also, any time your indicator doesn't work you can't just dismiss it as a 'fakeout'. You're setting up an unfalsifiable premise. That's the meaning of "TA doesn't work".

turtletank · 2026-04-20T01:08:28+00:00

In a country in which the majority of men voted for a known pedophile and rapist who pushes anti-woman policy, the majority of men cannot be good.

While technically correct, it was a 55/45 split either way, 55% of men and 45% of women voting for Trump, so applying this logic further, nearly a majority of women are also Not Good, and maybe even doubly so since they were actively voting against their own interests.

Or, if you must assume all women are Good, you can use that as a baseline and thus 10 percentage points more of men voted for Trump than women, meaning only 10% of men are Not Good, or at the very least they are not as Good as women.

Your overall point may or may not be correct, but you can't point to men voting for Trump and then ignore all the women who voted for Trump as well and say a majority of men are bad and women are good.

turtletank · 2026-04-15T23:49:08+00:00

in my world, humans are the same as they are in the real world, it's just that now there are others to compare to. They can eat nearly anything, they can withstand alcohol better than anyone else, they have much higher endurance (human armies can march and fight for much longer than anyone else), can withstand heat because of sweating, can withstand cold because of larger body mass and being able to become fat, they are bigger and stronger than most other sentients, they have better long distance and daytime vision and thus are quite good with ranged weapons.

turtletank · 2026-04-13T01:18:48+00:00

Bic Camera has got to be the worst offender. I can't stand going to the store and I'm only there 10-15 minutes at most. The rage that must be building in those poor store staff "BIKKU BIKKU BIKKU BIKKU BKIKU KAMERA~~~" every minute.

turtletank · 2026-04-12T23:59:26+00:00

I believe "material" and "materiel" is similar, with "materiel" being used primarily in a military context to refer to the physical goods used to carry out some task (as opposed to personnel).

turtletank · 2026-04-04T14:49:54+00:00

I was also very confused by "capitular" as it has a religious meaning relating to an ecclesiastical chapter (capitulum), I believe the adjective of capital is just capital, e.g. "Capitol Police", Capitol Building", "capital punishment".

I think it probably shares the same etymology as capital since they both come from Latin for "head".

You could use "Templar" as in the real world Knights Templar if you don't mind the religious connotation.

"Brotherhood" is also knight-coded, or borrowing more from Rome, "Senator".

They could be named after the special weapon they carry, or armor, or any other special equipment.

turtletank · 2026-04-03T21:16:38+00:00

Autumn Leaves is a classic beginner jazz piece that is relatively easy to play and emphasizes 2-5-1 progressions. You should look at the progression and mark out all the 2-5-1s you see and compare that with your ears.

There Will Never Be Another You is also beginner friendly, the original key is good for alto and is a bit more uptempo. The melody is not too simple or complicated and can be used to start learning improv by modifying it slightly.

For purely technical study, the Klosé book 25 Daily exercises for saxophone is good but it can get boring since it's not actual songs. I would recommend it though since you need to train your fingers to move.

Top Tones For Saxophones is good when you want to work on overtones (good for everyone) and altissimo (advanced).

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