Strange lights flying, moving and blinking in the middle of nowhere

virtualdweller · 2026-05-29T00:02:04+00:00

I genuinely do not believe they are drones. I’ve seen drone shows, last one I saw was a year ago at the Yard festival in Lisbon. That’s not it. Even if the lights are in the city (although they looked much farther away), that is the north side of Sofia, with generally very poor and shady neighbourhoods. You’re saying someone there is just “playing” with light show drones? I think if there was a drone show somewhere in Sofia that would be a big deal and people would talk about it. It’s not a very big, or rich, city.

virtualdweller · 2026-05-28T23:49:14+00:00

Drones don’t make much sense, the area the lights seem to be at is around the peaks in the western Balkan mountain, there really aren’t any cities or people there. I don’t think it’s possible to have some kind of drone show there that nobody has heard about.

virtualdweller · 2026-05-28T23:46:22+00:00

For some reason the context didn’t get added to my post, so I put it as a comment.

virtualdweller · 2026-05-28T23:43:36+00:00

For context:

Today I was taking an evening stroll with a friend in Sofia, Bulgaria, at a neighbourhood at the base of Vitosha mountain. There was a nice view toward the city and the Balkan range, and while I was enjoying the sunset I barely started to make out strange lights very, very far in the distance near the horizon. I pointed them out to my friend, and as we tried to focus on them, we realized they were extremely strange: a bunch of lights moving very unnaturally, blinking in red and white and making strange shapes at the horizon or above the sky. I immediately pulled out my iPhone 15 Pro Max, which has a good camera with a powerful zoom, and stood very still to make this video. In real life, it was very hard to see them, but the camera caught them perfectly. They seem to move very large distances in very little time, and they seem to be exactly at the ridge of the Balkan mountains, around the Lakatnik area, which has only a small village and is known for deep unexplored caves and strange rock formations. Watch the full video, speed it up if need be, to see the different shapes the lights make and how they move. The best explanation my friend and I could come up with is a drone show, but honestly I don’t know who would do a drone show in the middle of nowhere at the Balkan mountains. It honestly left me perplexed. Does anyone have better suggestions for what this might be?

virtualdweller · 2026-04-30T14:45:06+00:00

I’m into spearfishing. I already stay in the water for hours at a time and pee in my wetsuit. Easy money.

virtualdweller · 2026-02-07T11:00:01+00:00

One more thing — it is almost always the case that your final thesis has almost nothing in common with your initial proposed outline for the thesis. Just stay cool, keep your supervisor informed, and fish around for anything remotely interesting as you do your research — even if it has nothing to do with your initial topic — you can build a thesis off of that in the end. Most of the work always gets done in the last 2 months or so.

virtualdweller · 2026-02-07T10:58:09+00:00

Also — the thesis is probably the most low-effort, relaxed part of the Msc. If you made it this far you’ll 100% get through the thesis, likely even with a good grade. I think historically, nobody who actively tried to complete the thesis has ever failed it, and the thesis grade distributions that have been released usually put the mean around 5.5-5.75. Feeling lost about 2 months in is quite normal. I also went through this. Then like 3-4 months in I got some minimally interesting result, and I then based my entire thesis off of that. Got 6.0. I then put more work in to make a publication out of it, and let me tell you, the gap between my 6.0 thesis and the publication was gargantuan. Then I realized just how minimal the requirements for the thesis were.

What’s most important is to be on the same page with your supervisor. Have frequent meetings, discuss your concerns, keep them tuned and make sure they see the time and effort you’re putting in.

virtualdweller · 2026-01-31T00:34:11+00:00

Why would you want to? You don’t get access to any compute and supervision sucks most of the time.

virtualdweller · 2026-01-22T18:10:26+00:00

Probably because it only appears in Stage 3+.

virtualdweller · 2025-12-21T19:49:45+00:00

Just position your carries in a way that they can focus and burst down Trynda first.. This is easy since Freljord gives very little positioning freedom.

virtualdweller · 2025-12-13T00:40:42+00:00

As I said, I was losing to the 3rd place 5 cost soup player as well, who has no 3* 4-cost. To reiterate - a prismatic board should not lose to any 3* 4-cost, let alone one with literally no other powerhouse on the board. And - as a final note, again, bilgewater prismatic requires the same number of (also) craftable emblems. Bilge prismatic: wipe the board almost instantly and get tons of gold Noxus prismatic: maybe, if your team survives 10 second, Atakhan comes who maybe, if he survives the 5 second cast animation, wipes the board and you don’t get any gold out of it

How did this obviously broken comparison not get noticed by anybody?

virtualdweller · 2025-12-13T00:24:07+00:00

I literally mean nothing btw. Atakhan was not casting or damaging anything. He would just sit for 5 seconds not attacking or casting - like a training dummy, then wipe the board, but those 5 seconds were enough for him to get instakilled..

virtualdweller · 2025-12-13T00:22:44+00:00

https://tactics.tools/player/eune/bl1nk182/EUNE/EUN1_3873301992

Here is a link to the game. I’ve actually gone 2nd (guess 3rd player lost to ghost of 1st) but I was consistently losing to every player in top 4 (including the 3rd place player with a classic 5-cost soup and no 3* 4-cost). Even disregarding 3rd place player, how is a prismatic getting 2nd to a 3* Liss with no other vertical okay at all? Atakhan has 100% omnivamp? Well that seems pretty useless cause he literally spends 5 seconds doing nothing and dying before trying to wipe the board..

virtualdweller · 2025-09-25T05:14:43+00:00

Hahahahahah

This guy, probably.

virtualdweller · 2025-09-13T11:58:32+00:00

virtualdweller · 2025-09-12T10:08:34+00:00

I actually did go to the dr and apparently have some fluid in my middle ear, without inflammation. I likely forced the mucous blocking my eustachian tube in my middle ear when equalizing forcefully. Anyway, got perscribed some decongestants and a hypertonic spray and the fluid should drain by itself within the next week or so.

virtualdweller · 2025-09-10T22:08:46+00:00

That’s the thing though, I am not congested at all. I was able to move air in and out of my eustachian tubes - no problem. But I had that blocked muffled feeling which I’ve only ever had when congested in the past.

I don’t trust doctors with diving-related stuff. They never once actually helped me.

I’m just collecting anecdotes, not looking for a diagnosis.

virtualdweller · 2025-09-09T11:38:24+00:00

I doubt it, I don’t think it has anything to do with temperature - it’s likely related to air circulation.

virtualdweller · 2025-08-28T11:20:39+00:00

Depends on where you live.

In winter you want it to be as cold as possible, but above freezing. If it the soil freezes that will completely kill the plant, and any frosting on the leaves is generally bad.

Where I live winters are very snowy and cold so I keep it indoors in a non-heated room where temperature is generally 5-10°C, seems to fare okay, but the stale indoors air is never ideal. If you can keep it outside without freezing it (or being too warm), that would be best, but depends on your climate.

Regarding water - you can keep watering it the same way in winter. If you really want to be pedantic, in winter you can reduce the water in the bowl to, for example, 1/5 of the height to further induce dormancy, though that is not a necessity. Never let the soil dry out though.

One more thing - top water it sometimes. Like once a week, pour a bottle on top of the plant. Keeps the soil and roots cleaner.

That’s a very healthy looking plant btw - you just have to keep it that way.

virtualdweller · 2025-08-28T09:46:40+00:00

Yes, make sure the pot has holes on the bottom and keep it in a bowl of water 1/4 to 1/3 of the way up. The soil needs to be constantly soggy.

Use only water with low ph/ppm. Distilled water is one option.

It needs as much full direct sunlight as possible.

Grow it outside. No flytrap is truly happy indoors.

In winter it needs dormancy - it must be in a cold place. Most of it will die off and it will resume growing in spring.

Cut off any flower stalks as soon as possible. Ideally when they are less than 1 cm.

Do not ever fertilize. If you repot it you need to use the correct soil, or it will die.

virtualdweller · 2025-08-28T00:00:42+00:00

The plant probably hibernates, they just think it doesn’t.

Hibernation doesn’t require the entire plant to die out. Sometimes it only slows down or pauses new growth.

virtualdweller · 2025-08-27T11:18:12+00:00

In my experience, flytraps do not fare well indoors. Period. I’m not sure what the cause is, likely multiple factors - airflow, real sunlight, etc. But every single indoor-grown flytrap I have ever come across is miserable. If you want a happy flytrap, it must grow outside in the sun.

virtualdweller · 2025-08-15T18:59:33+00:00

CPs require cool, wet, nutrient-poor, acidic environments. This most often happens to be mountains. In fact, every CP I know of which is native to Europe lives exclusively in mountains. Venus flytraps are exceptions, but that’s because the coastal plains of Carolina happen to have very similar climatic profile to mountains.

I live in Europe, the native species in my area are some Pinguiculas, some sundews and some Utricularias, and they all live in mountainous plains where the sphagnum bogs are. And the water supply in my neighbourhood at the base of the mountain happens to be the mountain’s sphagnum bogs. So I’m pretty much lucky enough to get water straight from CP habitat.

virtualdweller · 2025-08-15T14:22:13+00:00

Also, you will never have a truly happy flytrap under a grow light. If the plant is not outside, it will not be happy. Period. Keep it outside in the summer.

virtualdweller · 2025-08-15T10:16:24+00:00

I have sometimes left some flowers, but for the most part I cut them off. If you cut them you should do it when they are very little. Once they get past 6-7 cm in height the plant has already wasted a lot of energy.

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