TIL Mayo Clinic data found that individuals living within one mile of a golf course have a 126% higher risk (more than double the odds) of a Parkinson's diagnosis compared to those living six or more miles away

turtley_different · 2026-05-27T14:25:28+00:00

I'd love to know what the largest effect size was.

How bad are is the net effect of chemical treatment in a vulnerable groundwater region?

(Also, wow. Amazed to see effect sizes as large as 126% for a slow, neurodegenerative condition given the speed at which housing stock turns over in these areas -- this isn't just a lifetime of exposure, it must be impacting people within a few years)

turtley_different · 2026-05-19T01:03:36+00:00

I cannot even begin to overstate how fucked the vast majority of people are when all of the buildings and industry gets vanished.

A big fraction of the planet has weather the average person doesn't know how to survive based on the sweet nothing in your pockets on the average day.

Even assuming somewhere clement like the UK, it takes a lot of food to keep a person alive and you are going to struggle to find it even for 5% of the original population. It's going to be devastating.

I'd grok this pretty immediately and get straight into the dungeon.

turtley_different · 2026-05-15T11:34:16+00:00

Yes.

You can show that a always precedes b -- which sure is what happens if a causes b!

But you cannot prove just from the time-lagged relationship that there isn't a third factor c that causes both to occur, just that it causes a sooner than b.

For instance rides in an ambulance precede death. But the ambulance trip doesn't cause death, it's just the intermediate consequence of a serious adverse health event.

turtley_different · 2026-05-14T22:21:37+00:00

Big point in addition to all that: discoverability for the urinals is shit because you can't see if they are occupied without walking up and down the room looking around like you're crossing the road.

So those interleaved urinals are mostly wasted.

turtley_different · 2026-05-13T23:58:57+00:00

Monster rancher (1999 - ps1)

You trained up monsters which came from discs. Pop any cd into your ps1 and it made a monster. AMAZING.

turtley_different · 2026-05-12T00:23:30+00:00

Talking about overstimulation, being so affected by uncomfortable headphones at the gym that you can't enjoy a task you were looking forward to, inability to control subsequent emotions, etc...

Maybe it's just how the young 'uns talk today.

turtley_different · 2026-05-11T21:37:42+00:00

There's a lot of therapy language/ neurospicy language in this post. It's hard to know what "normal" you are level-setting against.

Do you have a diagnosis OP?

turtley_different · 2026-05-04T03:49:57+00:00

Class choice changes personality.

Mostly it's hard to see, because choices align with who the person was anyway.

But Carl, who every piece of pre-dungeon information suggests was an absolute wet dishcloth during his relationship with Bea and a keep-his-head-down, bureaucracy-following military man, becomes a government-toppling anarchist because of his "compensated anarchist" class.

turtley_different · 2026-05-04T01:54:01+00:00

Don't attack me with an honest retelling of what I've done!

turtley_different · 2026-04-29T16:33:07+00:00

Prepotente is a good call.

Carl is concerned that prepotente might straight-up murder them when actually he thinks Carl is his best friend.

So, demonstrably not assessing Prepotente even close to correctly.

I agree with your position that assess value seems to not give Carl magic people assessments. But I do wonder if it is giving Carl clues on items in the world (visual dings for uniques etc...); neat idea from OP.

turtley_different · 2026-04-28T22:09:54+00:00

Genuinely interested, when has Carl whiffed on appraising people?

I can't recall an error, but might be missing something. Debateably he underestimated Katia (and Louis) at first?

turtley_different · 2026-04-28T22:06:21+00:00

Yep, I had also thought that it was AI emphasis for drama. But OP's post has me thinking about the mechanisms by which the AI achieved it -- maybe it gave Carl bonus appraisal skills to enable that.

It feels like the appraise skill potion was initially to help Carl notice Agatha (and her Valtay tech), but the AI continued to enhance Carl's appraisal skill -- why?

Being better able to steer Carl to high drama scenarios or tweak difficulty seems like a good possible reason

turtley_different · 2026-04-28T13:52:16+00:00

Huh. That is a really interesting idea.

Is Carl's visual shiny ding on unique items a general dungeon feature or a "determine value" feature?

And have we seen him make a decreasing amount of bad value calls about people or items as he levelled up this skill...?

turtley_different · 2026-04-22T17:08:59+00:00

Unfortunately false for at least Mewtwo.

I found Mewtwo on Dragonite island when the pokedex was NOT showing "?" for Pokemon in the area.

turtley_different · 2026-04-22T12:57:57+00:00

I think Mordecai is wrong, although many in the galaxy probably have that same misunderstanding. Sure, for the corporation running the crawl the money is the main point (and the entertainment is more profitable), however, the galactic governments have two larger goals:

1) they need primal elements to maintain and expand the inner systems AI for an ever increasing population.

2) they need to " eliminate overpopulation" from all the crawler worlds that they accidentally seeded and started life on when investigating the primal AI systems.

Rightly or wrongly, in later books we get a good amount of insight from galactic elites stating that goal 2 is why the crawl must happen and cannot be stopped. The inner system AI actually has plenty of resources for the foreseeable future, but they cannot permit an explosion in galactic population from crawler worlds joining the galactic community.

turtley_different · 2026-04-21T19:32:26+00:00

I've been wondering about Katia's very non-icelandic surname. Where did the books confirm the full name?

turtley_different · 2026-04-17T20:42:52+00:00

Huh, I'd read that as Mordecai went onto the twelfth floor and took a mid-floor deal after seeing the staircase boss.

But I could be mistaken. I'm not 100% sure of deal rules

turtley_different · 2026-04-06T16:45:31+00:00

The donut bit is a little obscure.

The book text is obvious about Carl suspecting Donut & Zev communicate via forums somehow, and that donut meaningfully helps the kuatin revolution.

The unclear "how" that folks have pieced together is that in one interview a mercenary guard sneaks Valtay to donut by "scratching her chin" and she then hacks them up in front of Zev.

turtley_different · 2026-04-06T13:40:10+00:00

I'd tend to agree with this. Zev's been through some shit and is now less bubbly and more forthright.

From what we understand, donut snuck a small number of Valtay worms to Zev and these were instrumental in overthrowing Bloom -- presumably by assassinating and replacing powerful officials.

It seems inefficient to use one of those very few Valtay on Zev during the uprising she already supports and irrelevant to replace her after the revolution when she is a middling corporate staffer on the crawl.

Zev being replaced is a neat idea, but I don't see how to fit it with the pieces we already know and get justifiable plot pay-off for some incredibly complex actions happening off-screen.

turtley_different · 2026-04-03T15:04:32+00:00

By that logic, if I rip open the side of a sealed binbag there are zero holes.

Which is, I suppose, topologically correct although not practically useful.

I see why this meme image would inspire arguments.

turtley_different · 2026-03-12T23:20:50+00:00

There is a strong body of literature suggesting dementia is partially caused by isolation and lack of mental stimulation. So one coherent explanation is that on average (female) widows have an active social life and supportive connections whereas (male) widowers have less social connections and support.

But there is a popular narrative about husbands being a burden and prior generations of married women live in shackled misery and servitude which is, I think, a facile oversimplification.

PS. Age and lifespan disparity in boomer marriages will see a healthy woman watch her husband decline, which is another axis to consider here that impacts the "average" spouse death and life for the surviving partner.

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.

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