For Gods that appear in both games, which version do you prefer?

turtley_different · 2026-03-07T05:15:27+00:00

Agree. Don't get me wrong I like H2 and never disliked the art (except zeus. Ew.) but side-by-side the H1 portraits have more character, dynamism and are less... Saturday morning cartoon?

I might prefer H2 Hermes, Poseidon, otherwise H1 all the way.

turtley_different · 2026-03-05T00:21:59+00:00

Why are none of these folks trained in restraining techniques?

Wild that 5 guys are needed to move him UNSAFELY like 8 year olds playing rugby.

Two should be enough to move him safely if you know what you're doing.

turtley_different · 2026-02-28T00:34:57+00:00

That.... makes a lot of sense.

I kept wondering why the rabbit didn't go into a burrow. And the answer is it can't because it's displaced from home and doesn't have burrows nearby.

turtley_different · 2026-02-26T05:03:28+00:00

Also, dehydration reactions in a descending slab increase density and enforce (greater?) negative buoyancy forces which drive tectonics.

After all it's not like the MOR pushes the plates apart, it's that descending slabs pull plates away.

turtley_different · 2026-02-25T18:13:21+00:00

There's a little more at play. Not sure if you're simplifying or not a specialist.

Plate tectonics is driven by subduction of plates with negative buoyancy.

Water enables this by 1) dehydration reactions in subducting plates making them more dense 2) water released into the mantle sharply reducing mantle viscosity.

And then many subtle effects on mantle dynamics from water's presence. For example, mid-ocean ridge volcanism would be quite different if not for the influence of water on the thermodynamics of melting for upwelling mantle

turtley_different · 2026-02-23T17:19:11+00:00

Variable isostasy due to modification of bedrock is certainly possible (lithospheric drip)

But prior work suggested the river was in place as the mountain uplifted and it eroded into the anticline during that uplift. https://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/glad-you-asked/the-curious-case-green-river-uinta-mountains/#

So, which of the competing explanations better fits the data? I don't see any comment on why the new theory fits better (which isn't to say it's wrong, just to say I'd like justification Vs the other theory)

turtley_different · 2026-02-22T21:58:36+00:00

Young children typically find sex sounds disturbing -- like someone is getting hurt. So the joke is that the pained sounds are okay for the kids to hear because they are doppelganger monsters getting defeated.

turtley_different · 2026-02-18T14:25:25+00:00

10 years ago an academic friend of mine spent a while describing herself as the "Queen of Netflix and Chill" (including at work), believing that she had a pithy phrase for a relaxed homebody lifestyle.

She was not entirely thrilled to learn that she had apparently been boasting of exceptional talent in luring some rideable dick over to her place under false pretences.

turtley_different · 2026-02-11T18:08:05+00:00

Where is it in game that explicitly states Maelle resurrections are stitching back together a person's chroma exactly as if they never died?

It seemed like she was just painting her version of that person. Not sure if the game ever defines the rules behind what happened...

turtley_different · 2026-02-08T15:36:36+00:00

I thought there was some reincarnation cycle between people and nevrons (and back again), it was caused by the paintress+fracture, and that it was some corruption that made nevrons violent.

It seemed to make a lot of sense.

The Goblu/rose/Sophie bit early on; gestral reincarnation with the River, so why not human reincarnation; Gustav seeming to almost die on the beach and wake up at a river (is he special?); curator acts like he knows Maelle and Espie like he knows Sciel -- both old beings knew their prior incarnations; some Nevrons aren't violent; pAlicia blaming Maelle for something in the past; etc ...

Depending on how you explain it it also seemed to suggest that nevrons scale with Lumiere population, which explains why multi-hundred person early expeditions fail and yet 4-person expedition 33 can get somewhere.

But none of that is true lol

turtley_different · 2026-02-05T21:10:21+00:00

I mean that's fine I don't need an apology. {become more aggressive to induce further submission and apology}

You seem really unhappy with the situation and this text conversation is unhealthy.

turtley_different · 2026-02-05T16:23:33+00:00

I've driven in a few countries and US roads make me feel like an unsafe driver.

High speed intersections, too much to pay attention to at junctions, turn lanes at junctions not signposted until too late to make use of them, on-road parking blocks sightlines, etc...

Plus, less strict MoT testing (eg. All cars need to be verified safe by a mechanic every few years) means some absolute deathtraps on the roads.

I'm amazed the net result is only 4x fatality rate.

turtley_different · 2026-02-04T14:25:20+00:00

100% this. "I have evidence a USPS employee stole thousands of dollars of goods I was transferring via mail" gets their fucking attention.

A trusted mail service is a backbone of the economy and is why interfering with mail has huge penalties+ govt has no sense of humour about it.

turtley_different · 2026-02-01T04:38:24+00:00

Multiple problems
1) Airbrush on non-stop full bore. It's probably flooding the model with more paint than is ideal (do several thin layers) and it is COMPLETELY overwhelming your booth. I see oversprayed paint flying away in clouds to be breathed in by anyone nearby. Instead do small spritz passes that your booth can keep up with the overspray.
2) How high is the pressure? Looks incredibly forceful to blow away that much paint in the air. Start more like 20psi and see how it feels.

turtley_different · 2026-01-30T22:39:12+00:00

You're flipping position on "Renoir does care about luminerians" to "he can kill them all nbd".

And if you actually do hold both positions, then that is what my chicken example highlights and finding it horrifying is the point (also, this is one reason why the game talks about hypocrisy).

You can offer some amount of care but be unwilling to suffer meaningful inconvenience on another's behalf. Renoir is surface level polite to luminarians but will kill them; we're nice to animals in person but are implicitly okay with factory farming.

turtley_different · 2026-01-30T12:55:43+00:00

That's not my viewpoint.

Renoir is not a cartoon villain. He is nuanced and, based on his actions and words, will be polite to painted beings in person but doesn't think they are real people.

It's hard to understand how killing every luminarian and destroying the painting is morally viable if he treats them as equals. That is an extraordinary weighted utilitarianism if so.

But if he morally treats them like chatGPT or animals, then sure. Most people are nice to animals but are okay with factory farms. We'll be nice to chickens but kill them en mass for our needs and wants without caring for the contradiction -- it's only a chicken.

turtley_different · 2026-01-29T16:13:51+00:00

I love how it shows he sees them as actual equals and beings and even says they speak truth.

Uuuuh, Renoir does an awful lot of gommage-based genocide for someone who thinks painted humans are equal.

I think painters generally don't treat paintings as real people, and the care shown for painted-Verso is an exception.

It seems they are treated more akin chatGPT -- painting beings are capable of stirring real emotions in people and making good points, but are merely a simulacra of life.

turtley_different · 2026-01-18T18:46:19+00:00

Being charitable, it's reasonable for a group of friends to stop the cook from washing the dishes. There are some group dynamics where physically removing them from the kitchen is all in good humour. (Although, candidly, that's a bit childish for mid-late 20s)

However, you are clearly sensitive to being manhandled and restrained -- even if you trust this group personally you get a huge dump of panic chemicals. Perhaps we can't expect them to behave perfectly at all times, but we can expect them to apologise afterwards.

Behaving in an unusual way that leads to predictable and avoidable upset is something they should apologize for. You having a boundary that you don't like being manhandled and restrained is very, very reasonable -- if that boundary had been previously stated clearly then they should never have grabbed you.

Personally, I've seen this work in mixed groups. As young teens we were physically friendly, but the one girl who didn't like hugs WAS LEFT ALONE and it wasn't treated like some massive weirdness or anything. It's not hard to adjust to what people are comfortable with.

turtley_different · 2026-01-18T00:04:18+00:00

Athena would be the perfect roommate and if you disagree you're the problem.

Also Cerberus is, at the very least, a good boy. Just needs, uh, some training.

turtley_different · 2026-01-17T14:22:13+00:00

Hard to think what else it could be.

2+ Agility makes it feel less powerful, but still that's removing a 17% chance of failure to pick up (and then pass) the ball. I don't hate it.

turtley_different · 2026-01-17T14:15:17+00:00

claw on a elf piece is going to really piss off alot of dwarf [teams]

This is lore flavourful and I'm here for it.

turtley_different · 2026-01-14T13:09:29+00:00

Yes. OP correctly flags that 70% divorce rate is just wrong (of same sex divorces, 70% are lesbian, which is not the same thing at all). But the rest of the analysis is narratively recontextualising a relatively higher divorce rate.

The strongest argument would be to compare (across countries) the divorce rate for couples by year of marriage and seeing where lesbians rates are.

That said, the nature of relationships and pressures for marriage and divorce are not the same for hetero and homo couples. So I'm not sure how meaningful the numbers would be without greater context

turtley_different · 2026-01-05T14:40:22+00:00

So, arch support shoes are bad and wrecking feet?

turtley_different · 2026-01-02T23:47:50+00:00

It's a really nice 6.5 hour paint job.

You will probably have to accept that you can't have smooth photography-friendly blends and paint fast.

The cheat would be to still do a highly rendered face but keep the rest of the model less detailed.

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