Quetzalcutlass

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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago

Ponder Stibbons inserts another punch card into Hex. Ants flow through tubes and gears begin turning.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Megumin's other problem is she only specced into things that would improve her explosion's damage output, neglecting basic mage things like mana capacity and efficiency. So she can only cast one (stupidly overpowered) explosion spell before all but passing out from using more mana than she actually has. It's why no other party would take her, because even in situations where the spell would be useful she becomes a massive liability after casting it.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Interesting (and terrifying) that microplastics could get past the blood-brain barrier. I'm wondering if it's because newly developed tissue incorporates contaminants and so the plastic was there since the brain developed, rather than it infiltrating the brain over time. Then we could at least say that the contamination won't get worse once you're an adult. But the tissue samples being 1/200th plastic - which is insane - doesn't inspire much hope.

Has there been a single place where microplastic contamination hasn't been found yet? I'm hoping the best possible timeline occurs and all these studies end up retracted due to the plastic contamination happening during the sample preparation/testing process or something, rather than us actually being that screwed.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that why the feet are cropped out too?

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

"Exploration is one of the central pillars of our gameplay. That's why we're offering this handy little DLC to instantly fill out your map!"

I've seen that kind of DLC a few times for open world games and it's always jarring.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I've been to Subway twice in the last twenty years. Both times the shop was understaffed and it took more than half an hour to get our meals, and they weren't even good compared to other sub chains that cost less, let alone the local non-franchise sub shops.

The last attempt was a few years before COVID. I can't imagine how bad it is now.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We could also have "karma" on Lemmy, but while technically tracked the environment is better off without it being public in my opinion. I view voting records similarly.

It's strange that they removed total account karma visibility a while back but are now thinking about making votes public.

I think a good compromise (since Lemmy already tracks that data) would have been to show the upvote/downvote ratio a user receives on their profile page, without showing their total karma. That'd help you spot toxic users without incentivising karma whoring.

Similarly, a display of how often a user upvotes versus downvotes others would help spot bots and trolls without completely obliterating privacy like their suggestion would.

(But ultimately none of this solves the problem of privacy on the Fediverse being one federated bad actor away from nonexistence)

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This sounds like artillery with extra steps.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Godot has one of the better explanations of vectors and their uses in games in their documentation, if you haven't checked that out yet. It focuses on their practical use rather than going deep into the mathematics (though there is quite a bit of that too).

And if you don't understand the math, the documentation also explains when and how to use specific methods, so you can still use it as a cheat sheet when working on your project even if you don't fully understand vectors.

(And you'll probably have an "ah-ha!" moment when working with them yourself. Like a lot of math, vectors are much easier to understand with practical, non-abstract examples.)

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'll get you next time, Gadget!

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

No, they're saying that companies that want graphene would probably grind up plastic rather than pay to extract microplastics from the environment.

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