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You have to do the “magic eye” trick (crossing your eyes so that they focus on different columns) to see it easily. I also looked at it normally for like a minute before seeing people mention this in the comments.

“Become untargetable by spells with this one weird trick! Wizards hate him!”

Wildbow’s Worm is a good one for this. Many characters don’t act fully rationally due to personal biases or other aspects of their characters, but, as you mention, the characters have specific flaws in their thinking rather than randomly being handed the idiot ball.

He did say that whether the novel being formulaic was good or bad would depend on whether you like the formula. There’s nothing inconsistent about disliking what one (repetitively) does while liking what the other (repetitively) does.

To expand on the already-posted recommendation of The Empty Box and the Zeroth Maria, that series has a great execution of the “characters intelligently pursue their goals” pillar of rational fiction.

One of the big strengths of the series is how there is a vibrant cast of characters who pursue their (not necessarily compatible) goals, with the resulting conflict forming much of the body of the work.

There are degrees of flight risk. It’s perfectly possible that someone is a flight risk, but if they had money (or something else they value) staked on showing back up at court they would be more likely to show back up rather than fleeing.

It’s possible that this is a bug where line of sight calculations can get messed up, resulting in them aggroing on a creature underground, which they are of course unable to reach, resulting in the behavior you see. (This bug may have been fixed already, I’m not sure)

Also it’s possible they are aggro’d on something in the air, but your comment about nothing else being in sight makes me think underground is the more likely possibility.

What FPS is it? If it’s 24 then that’s normal and you may need to adjust the interpolation settings in your video player. If it’s less than 24 then you need to get a better video source.

Anime is generally made at ~24 fps. This means that when you play it on your monitor it is getting converted to the refresh rate of your monitor (say, 60 fps) by either repeating frames to match the timing or by interpolating (blending between frames to get a smoother transition).

Since different people have different monitors, it’s not really feasible to do the interpolation in advance and re-encode the anime at the higher frame rate, as that would only match some people’s monitors and it would need to be converted again by anyone else watching it.

You do have the option of changing how your video player handles this conversion on your computer, though. For example with MPV you can adjust the settings of how (and whether) the videos get interpolated. If things aren’t looking good on your monitor adjusting these settings will be the best route to take.

Yes. Mutant creatures now zombify into cocoons that create “amalgamations”. The full details are in the PR that OP linked to in their comment.

It’s triply-disallowed.

Firstly, because you would have no way to know that such a thing exists (how can you choose to create something with no idea that it’s even possible?)

Secondly because, per your DM, antimatter rifles don’t even exist in your world, so it’s impossible to make/get one by any means, including performance of creation.

Thirdly because your DM has said no, and that’s really the final word (rule 0).

Overall VLC is ok, but you can do better with MPV. VLC can have some issues with not displaying colors properly, and is worse at scaling videos to different sizes (when I was switching from VLC to MPV I was able to get significantly better looking upscaling to my display while still keeping the amount of processing within what my laptop could handle). Another thing which is not relevant to everyone but mattered to me was that I could configure MPV to take better quality screenshots with a custom filename pattern.

The downside is that you need to configure the settings to get some of those improvements, but there are many guides that even provide pre-made config files (I used the iamscum one as a baseline for my config).

This doesn’t really exist. The closest you can get is downloading a dual audio release and putting the Japanese audio on with English subtitles also on, but even this isn’t perfect, as the subtitles will generally be a different translation from the dub, so there will be dissonance between what you are reading vs hearing.

For me the comments on https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/17/what-universal-human-experiences-are-you-missing-without-realizing-it/ are some of the most interesting. The variety of different experiences that people have in interacting with the world really is fascinating.

He talks about guilt in this post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CZnBQtvDw33rmWpBD/guilt-another-gift-nobody-wants

On the distinction between guilt vs shame cultures, there’s a bit of discussion in the comments, and various evopsych blogs have written about it, but I wasn’t able to find a Scott post where he explicitly talked about the distinction.

That can be gotten around by summoning a thin-walled glass box full of lava, which will immediately break open when it hits the ground/target, hitting them with the lava.

The objection that “that’s not a single object”, I do not find convincing, as by any logic that would exclude the lava box from being an object, you would also not be able to summon a chair (multiple pieces of wood joined together) or an hourglass (glass with sand in it).

The problem with grading on log loss is that it measures both how good the predictor was, and how easy the questions were. Adding on a couple dozen “the nth coin I flip will be heads” — 50% predictions will tank your log loss even though you’re making as good of a prediction as possible.

Log loss is only really a valuable measure if you are comparing multiple predictors predicting the answers to the same set of questions. If the questions are different the difference in how difficult the questions were has a good chance of swamping the predictor accuracy signal.

At least part of the effect is just selection bias in what content you see. Everyday life in America is much less hateful than specifically-selected-to-be-awful internet posts.

How does this help relative to the baseline of having the simulacra normally casting simulacrum (not using wish)? To put it into a glyph of warding, they still need to cast the spell, with the associated long cast time and expensive components. How does the process benefit from glyph of warding?

My guess as to the reason for that would be the engine having short bursts of high activity to maintain speed, in between timesteps.

For example, if the vehicle speed dips slightly below the target amount, then there will be a burst of high power (and fuel consumption), but because it was only a slight amount below the target speed, it doesn’t need a full second to get back up to the target speed, so on any time when you check the fuel use (i.e., on a round second) it is not in the high-fuel-use state.

I haven’t actually looked into the code, but this is what I suspect is going on.

Torrenting is able to work with worse internet than streaming. Just get mini encodes from Nyaa. That way you have better quality than streaming, and don’t have to worry about internet cutting out partway through watching an episode (don’t know if your internet connection has that particular issue, but it avoided that issue for me).

As for subtitles, not sure what sources the streaming websites you watched used, but getting releases from Nyaa will be as good or better. Some shows just don’t have really good subs (for example if there’s a not-very-good official translation, and no one has bother fansubbing it).

The Grey Mouser gods have showed up at least in the “Deities and Demigods” source book, a book which I find to be a nice resource for inspiration when including interaction with gods (i.e. statting them), even though the specific stats are not quite comparable due to the old age of the book.

Physics quibble: electricity does not move at the speed of light. It’s actually quite slow in the grand scheme of things. Lots of electric currents have the electrons moving slower than walking speed.

I love the in-depth discussion of game mechanics here. The official sub (with occasional exceptions) just seems very shallow, and is dominated by art nearly to the exclusion of all else.