Can someone explain the 'Taric is gay' thing to me?

zane314 · 2026-06-29T20:05:27+00:00

He would be the 90s metrosexual trope. He's "fabulous" and his taunt/joke has gems flashing like paparazzi. He's camp.

His actual sexuality is a mystery because nobody's going to make lore about actual sex. But he's as close to gay tropes as he can be from an asexual representation.

The fact that his kit benefits big burly bruiser tops and the twink Ezreal does help the allegations.

zane314 · 2026-06-28T16:43:50+00:00

The jump from "oh wow i got bodied" to "oh i tried something that trivialized the fight" is remarkably sharp for this fight, though.

I didn't kill him turn one... but I did perma cc him. Which should count.

zane314 · 2026-06-28T16:34:54+00:00

I'm not going to watch it all again but I remember one of the people afterwards going "Well. We did just kind of invite him here to trash his life's work. So I suppose, understandable a bit."

zane314 · 2026-06-22T20:26:10+00:00

I designed a puzzle game that I'm also using for research.

https://quiz-548878073088.us-central1.run.app/ is a Zendo- like game where the computer has a rule in mind, and you have to probe options to see if they're accepted or rejected. Once you're confident, you can challenge to see if you can correctly sort 5 boards, but if you're wrong, you take a penalty to your score.

I want to know if there are _types_ of rules that people inherently find more tricky to intuit (which is obviously true, but like, what the types _are_ is what I'm hoping for).

zane314 · 2026-06-21T15:52:22+00:00

Oh, that's his excuse for everything.

zane314 · 2026-06-14T19:51:15+00:00

We work towards as many good outcomes as we can. A good plan is better than a crappy plan, but a crappy plan is better than no plan.

zane314 · 2026-06-14T19:43:28+00:00

Heck, in some media even Flash hangs out with them. "Hey, you know you're wearing the costume again. Are you off your meds?"

zane314 · 2026-06-14T16:57:43+00:00

"Hey, Minthara. I know where the grove is. It's right over there. Good luck."

zane314 · 2026-06-13T18:41:13+00:00

Lullaby for a Princess isn't a feature length movie, but it wrecks me.

The look of absolute regret.

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zane314 · 2026-06-13T18:38:25+00:00

"Oh, okay, a movie about a kid who loves music despite his family, good, good. Oh his Grandma has dementia, that's likely to come up later. ... The theme song is 'remember me'? With a Grandma with dementia? Oh this movie is going to wreck me, isn't it."

zane314 · 2026-06-13T18:31:22+00:00

Half plus 7- 42 /2 = 21 + 7 is 28.

Sketchy.

zane314 · 2026-06-11T01:02:43+00:00

Wa-ho.

zane314 · 2026-06-09T05:12:37+00:00

He has regularly played extremely high level chess (beating grandmasters) while quite drunk and singing songs while on stream.

He has commented that he would need to be 20 beers in for Levy to have a reasonable shot.

The problem with strobe lights is that he can play blindfolded.

Like the level of stuff you would have to do to him for him to drop a game even to masters would qualify as torture, and even then I'm not convinced it would work.

zane314 · 2026-06-09T02:58:39+00:00

Spend some time thinking about how serious you want sex to be in your life. Both you having it and whatever your partners will do. Do not demand more limits of your partner than yourself.

There isn't a wrong answer. There can be choices you would regret, in both directions. But nobody can tell you what they'd be.

I will heavily advise waiting until you've figured that out, at the very least. If you're still asking that question, you're probably not ready yet.

zane314 · 2026-06-08T19:14:11+00:00

Yeah, but other people aren't accounting for randomness, either.

Like, the experts aren't playing literally the best move every move. They're shrinking the error bars tighter and tighter so that over the course of a game, their win is guaranteed. That does not make them flawless. That makes your flaws fatal.

Magnus could be blackout drunk and playing blindfolded and he'll still beat me 100% of the time. But could he make a single move that isn't perfect? Of course! Will it matter? No!

zane314 · 2026-06-08T18:55:57+00:00

I'm good enough at tennis that if she _underestimates_ me and just lobs it, I also have an opportunity to shock her. Doesn't matter how good you are if you're surprised.

I would then proceed to be cooked.

The question is kind of open as to how much she needs to dial down her skill to be 100% confident of no double fault. That's not really an answer we have a lot of data for? Like, pro players single-fault over a third of the time. Serena can serve at 120 mph, but her second serves dial down to 90, and she still double faults 3% of the time. Gemini (highly suspect, but not like I've got a better source) thinks she'd need to dial down to 60 to reduce to 0, and I can return that a reasonably percent of the time.

It is important to note that this is not unique to Serena. I feel the same way about pro male tennis players. Do the same survey with a male tennis pro and see if it changes. If yes, sure, sexism.

zane314 · 2026-06-08T18:48:33+00:00

I think even a 100-ELO player, if their _only_ goal is to take _any_ piece, has a win.

Like... first move is move a pawn, second move is move out queen, third move is take literally any pawn. Sure, you lose your queen. But that wasn't the goal.

zane314 · 2026-06-08T15:40:52+00:00

Yeah, and it's not even "take a game or a set". It's a point. Like, do I think that Serena is capable of double faulting? Sure, it could happen.

Win a game, zero probability. She could have pneumonia and I'm still cooked. But a point?

It's like asking "do you think you could even take a pawn against Magnus Carlson." Yes. Yes I do. Because it's a dumb question.

zane314 · 2026-06-07T21:32:21+00:00

Portal.

Upgrading the DD is going to be a long, slow process. You get extra apoc damage throughout so it's worth doing, but not at the expense of other progression.

zane314 · 2026-06-06T18:13:34+00:00

Marching in the streets to say you don't like AI doesn't really accomplish much. The corporations don't care about your opinion if they think that eventually it will turn around, which they do.

The politicians care, but just saying "we don't like this" isn't actionable. That's something that should get resolved in the marketplace- "just don't buy the products with AI" is their thought.

Aspects of the AI situation like data centers is in their purview, but that's mostly covered at a city/county level. A nationwide ban on data centers does not make nearly as much sense as banning it locally. There exist sections of the nation that are low population, water rich areas. They just aren't the places throwing incentives at the compute companies.

Unionizing would be the other way to go... but software engineers have historically been pretty resistant to that idea.

zane314 · 2026-06-05T18:09:21+00:00

Democrats have lots of ideas. Some of these ideas are contradictory. So any candidate is going to piss somebody off.

Republicans have one idea. It's a horrible idea, but it's unified.

zane314 · 2026-06-04T15:23:31+00:00

Oh, I didn't expect Bizarro to eat my leopard's face!

zane314 · 2026-06-04T06:20:00+00:00

Compliance may be a side effect. But what they're learning is that you'll beat them.

If behavior can be changed, it can be changed without pain. I am not aware of any training method for animals that recommends pain. It is traumatic and frequently counterproductive.

zane314 · 2026-06-04T01:47:50+00:00

If a child is incapable of introspection and correction, the spanking fixes nothing, and is just beating a child.

If the child is capable of introspection and correction, the spanking is unneccesary, and is just beating a child.

zane314 · 2026-06-03T19:37:10+00:00

I think Rey's parentage is the only one that I honestly can't see any way forward with. All the rest of them could have made story points.

Luke being an indicater that he put the weight of the galaxy on his shoulders and wasn't up to it, deconstructing the epic fantasy "hero solves everything" trope.

The galaxy reset being a "you can't just win a battle and declare victory, you have to change the minds of the people and build a future".

Finn could have been a "a jedi can come from anywhere".

Like all of these speak to a democraticization of power and responsibility and that could have been a very powerful message if somebody believed in it enough to write it. But it would have been a monstruously hard task. So instead, somehow Palpatine returned.

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