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Not early-game focused, but it's about as good as we'll get now:

Don't worry, inflation will take care of that.

I do think it matters when the numbers are so high and out of everyday experience that it's hard for people to to evaluate them intuitively when they're flying all over the screen. I agree that having things flat would be boring, but the progression could easily have been linear-ish vs...

That took me surprisingly long to see what was wrong, lol.

The damage numbers are all arbitrary. If the designers wanted they could have attack values and defense values interact so that overall damage does whatever they want. There's no reason it HAS to be exponentially increasing damage countered only by absurd HP pools.

Yeah, the time zone for England spits Ireland to the west and Germany to the east. Blizzard's line at the tip of Greenland is nothing and is in the middle of UTC-3.

I'll reiterate the need for conduit, having had direct experience with a bad subterranean run. If anything compromises the line you can end up with a leak that can be all of a) hard to detect b) expensive, and c) dangerous. For the cost of some pipe and a small amount of extra work it's well...

It's more because beta was only the first 2-3 hours of the game and we don't know enough to do any of that.

My dog just lost her shit when I asked my wife if she would like to "accompany me on a perambulation with the canine". WTF. It's worse than trying to talk about dessert in front of kids.

I would definitely bury it right and use conduit. The last rental I was in before buying my current place had a circuit run from the house to a receptacle by the pool. I got a MASSIVE power bill one month, and after some troubleshooting determined that the underground wire was compromised and...

I've seen above-ground pools fully buried for years without issue. Edit: You're right, there are specify types of pools designed to be fully or partially buried. https://blog.royalswimmingpools.com/is-it-safe-to-bury-an-above-ground-pool

Welp, that didn't take long. https://news.yahoo.com/chatgpt-us-lawyer-admits-using-222004701.html

Einstein was literally the twu No, that's very much not what Einstein's work says. Modern physics is very clear that time passes differently for different observers due to the local shape of spacetime. That's the foundational point of relativity.

No, the mathematics of physics is quite clear that the two observers are experiencing time differently. "t" is right there in the equations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation We're interacting with the signals that come from those objects experiencing time differently than from our...

No, that's not true at all. If you take observers and subject them to dramatically different speeds they will have experienced different amounts of time when reunited. GPS doesn't work without accounting for the fact that time literally runs slower for the satellites than it does here on Earth...

Last comment because I think we're taking in circles around each other, but I don't think that being able to react to or detect events in finer intervals is the same as time running more slowly. One minute of experience is still a minute if in 30 fps or 60 or 150. I don't think it's safe to...

My base assumption would be that time perception and reaction times are independent concepts. Time has to do with the propagation of causation and not biology. I understand why biology would influence reaction times, as having a larger and more complex brain lowers "clock speed" just based on...

I've seen a bunch of this research and never been convinced of the equivalence between detecting higher-resolution events and the actual experience of time at a different rate.

You need a pretty massive shade footprint to consistently cover a pool at different times of day at different times of year.

Good analogy; I also hate talk shows.

This is also how helicopter parenting goes off the rails. You need to model being a well adjusted adult with independence so that your kids can become one.

Maybe I could, but why? Plenty of that kind of stuff on YouTube in a condensed and searchable format. I'm obviously missing something since it seems to be an activity sustainable enough to run a platform around. As I said, I'm probably just old.

Maybe I'm just old, but the phenomenon of streamers in general is baffling to me. I'm supposed to spend my time listening to some fuckwit doing solo performance art for a camera while playing a game I can play myself? From the clips I've seen, half these guys are high off their minds on...

Depends if you have kids or not. Mine are fish in the summer and spend basically all of their time diving in and picking toys off the bottom of the deep end. When I swim I like the peaceful feeling of drifting through deep water. Amusingly, even in shallow water I always tuck my legs until it's...

Buddy working on my house right now used to run a demo company. He says +/- $5k for the job, if they quote close to $10k you're getting screwed. Break down the top 18'' of the rim, punch 6'' holes every 4 feet the bottom, throw the debris inside, and fill and compact.

Higher chance of methed-up carpentry, though. In my bathroom remodel we found a bunch of floor joists that are an inch out of square over the length of the room. We weren't quite sure why until we found a stash of beer and whiskey bottles behind a retaining wall.

The days are slower, but the years are faster.

But only in an abstract mechanical sense. There's so much shit going on that whatever ends up killing you is usually happening inside of human reaction/processing time.

I just had ChatGPT write a 1000 word promotional blurb for my business partner's industrial blog. It took 30-45 minutes of noodling around and refining to get exactly what I wanted, but it was FAR, FAR easier than writing it myself and the end result is of higher quality than what I would have...

Any career that is accessible and can remotely be construed as fun is an immediate race to the bottom.

What could go wrong? https://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-buyers-will-now-be-able-to-put-down-as-little-as-1-on-their-home-rocket-mortgage-says-ce46cb93

Some lazy-ass electrician (or previous homeowner) just grabbed the nearest wire instead of bothering to figure out how the circuits were set up.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

You need targeted PT to restore strength and motion to the supporting muscles. My wife just dealt with the same thing after years of trying every brace, cushion, and pad made by man. A weight and stretching program fixed it in a month. Get an appointment with a physical therapist.

I won't bore you with the napkin math, but a telescope 20 light-years away would need to be 35 million miles across in order to resolve an object six feet long. It gets worse than that very fast if you want to see any detail at that scale or are farther away.

Oh, I think his strategy is going to bomb horribly. That's the nominal rationale, though.

My dad has Starlink and the latency is surprisingly good. Reliably sub-100ms. Obviously that's a non-starter if you're doing competitive FPS gaming or some such.

Yeah, Windows Defender plus uBlock/Privacy Badger in the browsers has got me through the last ~12 years without a secondary anti-virus package.