Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Age of Conan was fun

..till they nerfed my Guardian and I never looked back

I was guardian too! (And naked tempest of set)

TSW was such a unique game, really sucks how they killed it with monetization

This is purchase behaviour, not SE press release lol. I don't know if SE purposely established this kind of behaviour with their branding strategy but this kind of behaviour isn't just corporate talk nor assumption, it's real. SE just go with the flow and make money off this particular behaviour.

If you ever visit FF sub every once a while there will be a "I just beat all of the mainline FF story" kind of bragging post, and of course it'll never include FF crystal chronicles.

Or if you visit ff11 reddit every once a while somebody will post "I am new, not into MMO, only playing FF11 for a month so I can finish all the mainline story" kind of post.

Are they ALL SE's press release? I think not. This is how some people within FF community behave. They view numeral FF differently from non-numeral FF.

I don't know if SE purposely established this kind of purchase behaviour by branding numeral FF as "the better FF" with bigger budget if that is what you meant by "corporation talk". I can only tell you buying mainline FF and ignoring number-less spin-off kind of purchase behaviour do exist within FF community, and I am one of these people. This behaviour isn't driven by a press release, but brand recognition as a whole.

I almost lost to
And I also found that a bit rough.

But I haven't lost to anything yet.

Dark Souls reflex to press O to dodge is not helping me out, but I refuse to change the default button layout, because I like becoming acquainted with default button layouts (with the exception of Elden Ring trying to make triangle the accept button instead of X or whatever, and X the jump button. I switched that ***immediately).

Oh, cracked split roger's honest skits into it's own channel. That's convenient.

https://www.youtube.com/@Honest_Ads/videos

I almost wonder if the team behind those videos split up and just went their own way. There's a noticeably lower budget to all of the ones they've been making since the split.

Without 1500 "why I left cracked" videos though?

lol you're right about that

Jeeze, uber eats in europe, the fee is like 3 dollars. In NY, I place an order that's like 50 dollars then the next screen the fees are add up to 75..

chant usa usa usa were number 1

the mostest bestest

Seriously though, yeah, gubhub, ubereats, all that ***, massive scam. $20 to drive a $5 burger 1 mile. And the driver gets 55 cents.

Indeed. $7.99 carryout

Same exact pizza delivered, $23

Absolute horseshit lol

i still say that for the small percentage of people like me, the COVID quarantines and increase in delivery options was a godsend. Yeah, the fees have skyrocketed all over, but as someone who lives alone with no family within 1,000 miles and epilepsy, the fact that I can get a full grocery order sent to my door vs 3 days worth on a bus ride is a huge benefit.

But man, if I could still drive...I'd leave those fees at the gas pump instead ;)

*buys proper certified Italian San whatever tomatoes for badass homemade pizza and authentic sauce*
*gets lazy and buys frozen dough balls*

It was a pizza of contrasts.

Meh. There's really no such thing as "from scratch" anyway. You're always going to have to buy something from a store. Somewhere down the line you'd have to get something that you didn't produce yourself.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
-Carl Sagan

Random thought: I wonder if there's some sort of psychological thing about Discord servers that preemptively have enough channels to support hundreds or even thousands of members. When you've got more channels than you have members, strongly dictating people post only in the appropriate channel, what does that say about the moderator?

(This didn't happen to me, but I witnessed it) Mod cracking down on people talking about a screenshot posted under the "Tears of the Kingdom screenshots" channel because discussion should be made in the "Tears of the Kingdom discussion" channel. And then chop up and move some of that discussion to the "Breath of the Wild discussion" channel because people are alluding to that game in the middle of it all lol

There's 14 people in the entire server, and only about 4 people ever post anything. But there's 25 channels, each devoted to an expressly defined topic.

It probably means autism and infinite channel creation don't mix.

Seems that if someone cheats in a boss unit, you actually get a big chunk of points for taking it out. Actually looks like it'd make for a fun assymetrical game mode. Bamco should replace ace matches with it.


Also now people are calling in space support fire on ground maps as a normal weapon, and with no cooldown.
https://old.reddit.com/r/GBO2/comments/14ikx4r/honestly_gundam_diff_i_see/

Wonder how long until we hit the next level of shitshow. :I

I'm still trying to wrap my head around an implosion and what that is underwater. Is it weird morbid curiosity in understanding how something like that even happens. It seems a lot of ppl are curious because all titanic videos jumped in views (and flooding my recommendations) life is so fragile and incredible. The fact some creatures can even survive in that pressure is insane.

Even more mind-blowing when you consider if you bring one of those creatures to sea level, they die. We're all built for different things, and while there is some ability to adapt, limits exist^^

And two options exist for catastrophe at that depth- a hull breach that results in almost instantaneous flooding to equalize the pressure, and the vessel "looks" from the outside as normal, or material failure across the whole platform and equally instantaneous crushing. At least the actual moment in both cases happens so fast there is no middle ground between "normal" and "over".

It's the slow suffocation that's the real terror.

It'd just be like this. Structural integrity requires all forces to be static (F=F). When those forces aren't equal, you need an engineer to figure out the materials and analog to make it equal. And in the same way that a bridge can collapse because the gravitational forces of self-weight and traffic on top exceed the capacity of the materials, the massive pressure of the weight of the water can collapse the materials inward to equalize that pressure.

A lot of the engineering in a submersible relies on the round shapes. As the shape is strained, it is automatically made weaker. So upon catastrophic failure, it just accelerates.

Think about it like an egg in your hand.

If you squeeze the egg too tightly, what happens?

Squeeze too tightly from every side and every angle?

An implosion is basically all of the empty space in the sub having surface pressure/basically no pressure compared to the outside of the sub.

The bulkheads (walls) of the sub fail, allowing all of that outside pressure to suddenly fill up that pressure difference.

Everything crushes in, in an instant, because there's no resistance anymore. Everything inside only offers as much resistance to that happening as they do to a steamroller stamping them flat. So humans go squishy squishy.

I strangely am reminded of the 7th grade "Egg Drop" project in Science Class.

Delta P is another crazy underwater thing.
Though I'm assuming everyone has seen the crab video about it from forever ago

TIME FOR CRAB!

POST IT!