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I found Grim Dawn to be way too slow. I ripped through the campaign as fast as I could, wasn't close to the endgame or maturing my build, and burned right as I got to the expansions. Maybe I was playing it wrong, but there's just an exhausting amount of filler to fight through if you're doing...

I don't understand why people with such an obviously sensitive public ego don't invest a couple hours in practice. It's not that hard to avoid looking like a complete tool.

Judging from that clip, his life energy was drained by Lavar Burton.

On the first three watches I thought that was a child.

What is the point of a team in an inherently individual competition? We want to see the best competitors period, not the best average of competitors.

"You’ll now be able to share map data with other vikings in your world, find seeds to plant more types of trees, and finally destroy your unwanted items with the new obliterator." Those are some nice QoL changes. I'm not sure I'm going to come back to the game this round, but I will eventually...

You can't "push atheism" on a child in the same sense that you can push a religion. It's the default mental state of everyone. No one derives an established religious practice absent learning it from their community. I have no objection to people converting into religions if done honestly; I...

This seems like an odd exercise for non-religious parents. Six year olds aren't really equipped to evaluate religious messaging. This is why early childhood indoctrination is the primary mechanism for propagating religions. If she's asking questions about "Where is our church?" it's almost...

Have you ever held a scythe? They shouldn't even count as weapons. You'd be better off removing the blade and using the handle as a staff. A "war scythe" is essentially a polearm; you'd never know it was a scythe if not for the name.

A youtube video of some dude livestreaming himself reading a blog about a completely different group of people not playing a video game is the most 2020's thing I can think of.

In abstract, I don't think the state should be involved in marriage at all. Given that they are, however, I don't mind taking advantage of tax-free spousal inheritance and asset transfer, joint IRAs, insurance benefits, etc.

Eh. I like being married. I hated dating; it was just a constant stream of discovering new kinds of new people's bullshit I wanted to avoid. My wife is my best friend and I'm a better person around her. She has her own career. We make a good team and enjoy our lives and raising our kids...

That's great. It reminds me of the time in high school where this entitled twerp who drove an Alfa Romeo parked somewhere he shouldn't have and the football team picked up his car and put it down 40 feet in the woods on the other side of a creek.

Exactly. Tons of people in the comments are taking the wrong lessons, though.

This was an interesting one. The takeaway is that even end grain glue joints are stronger than side grain wood. (How strong? We can't know until we find a wood with lignin bonds stronger than PVA glue.) HOWEVER, this does not mean that joinery is useless, just that butt joints are sufficient...

He's definitely a character, but his videos are great. No frills, just info, and he's invented some pretty cool stuff like the pantorouter. Someday when I'm not lazy I'll make his screw advance box joint jig. Edit: As an aside, if anyone likes this kind of detailed engineering edutainment...

Honestly, catastrophic protection is what insurance SHOULD be for, of all kinds. The whole point is to spread costs over a group that would otherwise bankrupt an individual. The idea that insurance pays for your routine dental checkups (or in this case regular roof maintenance) is just stupid...

Just in case someone wants to go totally OCD on thermal paste. (This guy's channel is a gold mine for high quality engineering educational material.)

Filing a claim like this is highly likely to result in your insurance policy getting more expensive. You should do the math out on self-funding the repair vs paying escalated rates. (Also, find a tenant who will keep you notified of maintenance problems.)

I had chocolate-covered deep fried tarantulas when I was in Ecuador. Surprisingly not bad.

8/4 is pretty standard. You don't really need more than that unless you're making conference tables with big spans or driving cars over your coffee tables.

You could get 4+ thick tabletops out of those.

My first BJJ coach was a 5x world/3x ADCC champion and hasn't had an ACL in either knee for ~10 years (confirmed by orthopedist during meniscus surgery). He was in such good shape that his muscle tension was sufficient to keep his knee stable enough that it didn't bother him. I fully expect...

"We’ve applied nearly 4 person-years of effort to accomplish this" That's not a terribly impressive amount of work, really. A team of eight working six months, oooooh....

You can find people willing to pay to get kicked in the balls. IMO that's not an argument that receiving ball kicks is inherently fun. More seriously, I think there's an important difference between small-scale and large-scale group content. Managing large groups just requires too much overhead...

If I wanted to spend all night trying to wrangle 40 neckbeards into getting something done, I'd stay at work.

I've had six knee surgeries and I'd be terrified of that kick, but I just don't see the basis for banning it in MMA. There's no shortage of ways to inflict career-ending injury, and the entire sport is a game of bodily integrity chicken. It may be "too easy", but that just means that we're...

A friend's wife converted to vegetarianism and now won't let him cook meat inside (they have an apartment). Shes a dancer/yoga instructor so I guess he's got his reasons for putting up with it, but fuck that noise.

At least you have a choice! I'm renting my current place, and the only circuit that goes to the garage also supports the dryer, dishwasher, AND microwave. What genius electrician did that, I will never know... I pretty much can't mill anything unless I know the house is empty.

The DW735 draws 15 amps on spec, so if you overload it at all it's trivial to trip 15/20A residential breakers. It's notorious for doing so.

I didn't watch the video; I assumed you were talking about elevators since that's what Mudcrush was discussing in the post you replied to. For the standard version of a space elevator with one end anchored on Earth, you need materials with an extremely high tensile strength-to-weight ratio...

Space elevators are "possible" with carbon nanotubes; we just aren't anywhere close to being able to produce them in the necessary length/quality.

It's hard to be productive when conversations with your stock broker take all your time.

It's not an issue with the concept of fusion, just the particulars of the stars. Fusion in other contexts is vastly more intense. https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/17/3478276.htm "The power output of the core of the Sun is about 276.5 watts per cubic metre — that's almost three...

The beards are hilarious and this guy is too tall to be a dwarf, but fuck he can sing. At least give it to 1:10. Also this: