CentipedeFarrier

That’s stupid. My oven isn’t internet connected and I can set it to preheat at a certain time. It takes slightly more forethought to use but it does the same thing. Still though, there’s prep work that needs to be done before throwing something in, and the oven is mostly heated by then, so there’s doubly no point.

I used gen ai for some concept stuff, not as a finished product, but as a muse. I haven’t touched it since the first generation of image gen, so to say what it made for me was nowhere near what I had in mind is a dramatic understatement (boy did it suck with fins!). But it pointed me in the direction I wanted and gave me some additional ideas for what to use for my own work, as well as posture models (I don’t really have art skills as such; that trait largely skipped me in my wildly artistic family, but I’m trying to develop it somewhat cuz I have IDEAS). It helped fuel my idea spark into a creative bonfire.

If I showed you the finished piece (which isn’t done by a long shot, and probably won’t be as good as I imagine it), then the muse concept stuff, you’d be hard pressed to find any real resemblance, other than certain major elements being present, but those elements were what I was asking it to generate in the first place.

I assume that is basically what their art department is doing as well. And for that, it’s actually pretty useful, specifically because it pulls details from many different works, and blends them in potentially novel ways.

If you get a nice metal one you can use acid to dissolve the hair that gets stuck in it. Then you can just wash the soap scum off.

DISCLAIMER: acid is incredibly dangerous. Make sure you know how to handle it. Wear easy to remove protective clothing, acid-rated eye protection, acid-proof gloves, and ideally do this outside, where spills aren’t a catastrophe.

I don’t do this to clean my snake, myself, but I do sometimes use sulphuric acid in my drain to clear up clogs my snake can’t reach (note: my drains are safe for this, not all are. Do not just assume you can dump acid down the drain and be done with it. You can corrode or rupture your waste lines.) so I know it works fine to break down hair and stuff, then the rest just washes away. If you go this route, soak in acid outside (it fumes, and you don’t want to breathe it), preferably in some sort of sealed container. But do make sure the container is acid-proof, like glass. And you can dilute the acid if you want, a little goes a long way if you let it sit for a while.

Birds, mostly males, get all flashy and showy to attract a mate, and bees all answer to the matriarch of the family, so it’s just like life. Obviously.

Maybe the saying came from the mirror universe…

Oh man if I found out my manager had that mentality I’d be second-guessing literally everything they say forever. I would much rather someone say “I don’t know, but that’s a good question. I’ll find out for you” than give me the wrong information confidently.

I already struggle with respecting authority figures who clearly don’t know what they are doing and thus have no actual basis for their authority, so yeah that’d be a ticking time bomb.

Please try to move away from doing that. It’s genuinely not great for your reports, only for you to put in less effort.

Bad science reporting as usual. I read the study and it doesn’t even hint at collision as a possible outcome of the binary system. It’s a potentially special system for study, but not because we are going to see stars collide or anything.

Also “solved” is wrong. They presented a potential answer that needs more study.

There is significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.

That line is in relation to locking dumpsters, but applies here, too.

Have I got a survival crafting rpg game for you!

Semi-joking there; dysmantle is a breath of fresh air imo. It’s not as survival-focused as some games; you don’t have to eat, for example, and the crafting that you do is… actually worth it, and usually dead simple to unlock because if you’ve been progressively destroying literally everything like the game wants you to do, you have plenty of stuff shortly after unlocking the thing. And yes I do have a save file in which I am attempting to clear every breakable item in the game, which is almost everything. Because why not.

The game is mostly just explore, break shit, kill zombies, build a base if you want (there are some quests but you can destroy everything after if you don’t want it. It serves no real purpose beyond a creativity outlet), and eventually escape the island. After you learn all the story through finding random scraps of information because that’s right, all people except you are zombies! You don’t talk to anyone! And that really enhances the game imo.

That one has a magic I’ve been looking to get again with another game but no, it’s too unique! The horrors! The studio is working on another game called dysplaced which is going to be drum roll an open world survival crafter!! I’m actually excited to try it because of dysmantle, though! :)

I’m really looking forward to the day this can be done with a simple prescription, a suppository of blended healthy samples, with a really long soft silicone applicator to get it roughly to the right area (I assume that’s kinda up in there). And is provided automatically after a round of antibiotics.

That explains why I couldn’t get it working through lutris. I thought the copy was the problem…

You don’t have Kroger anymore? We do up north now, so figured it was still down there.

The people I know refer to those people as “bougie” (boo-gee) as in bourgeoisie.

That’s the preferred order. It’s much harder to throw a community at a cop.

Same. I have a bunch of them, have tried most of what I have, and really want to play through them cuz they sound really rewarding. Instead I find them rage-inducingly, frustratingly difficult and I’m just not that into being frustrated and mad for hours at a time. If I was, there’s some humans I could talk to for similar effect…

Counterpoint: “get therapy” is often a shorthand stand-in for “Jesus fuck, do at least a little bit of work on making yourself slightly tolerable, please!” Which can be done through reading stuff online and actually thinking about it, watching videos on YouTube, etc. It doesn’t all actually require therapy, but a therapist is capable of pointing you in the right direction, and reassessing with progress, which makes it faster and easier.

There is definitely some stuff that requires outside help to really thrive with, or that’s much easier to work through with help, but most of the therapy I’ve ever had was shit I could have found online. It wasn’t even applied in a particularly unique way.

Another comment gave probable context for that :)

https://slrpnk.net/comment/19387527

Oh! I bet that’s where the name of the thing comes from! If you go back into the link, Lena is at the top of the page, and the original draft shared the name.

Thanks for that added context!

No idea on the naming, I haven’t really looked into the author or their writing beyond this tbh. However if you click on the links at the top, it takes you through more of their work and author info, it might be buried there somewhere.

And the spoiler request is just because it’s really not that long and those are the juicy bits ;) I think it’s way more impactful inside the greater context, but I mean maybe I’m wrong on that, and have weird preferences.

You should put that in a spoiler tag :)

I’ve not read it; any good?