Still just confused as to why we needed the Dark Universe version of psych.

Much less effective from an (admittedly brief) look around. The finer filtration you get with paper apparently helps filter it out, but it’s such a small amount that even if you were just chewing beans it doesn’t appear to matter.

As I understand it no, the modloaders will still handle things like file management and conflicts and load orders and etc. Individual mods could implement solutions for that, but it makes more sense to centralize that effort around the modloaders.

What this will do is make it much less tedious to develop the mods in the first place.

(I may be wrong and the role of modloaders may have changed in the six years since I was last active in the modding scene without my knowing it)

I’m sure that will really annoy all seven people that use it…

I mean, sure maybe? The appeal is in someone sharing something they’re passionate about and taking the time to craft images to showcase it (and in a sexy way). If you’re putting effort into doing that, it’d probably work fine.

Ah no I just meant it was a coincidence that when I said robots, referring to my milling machines, you guessed one of the main things I do with them (combat robots). I do technically own an arm, but it’s just a small 2.5-axis tray placing arm, everything else I have is just various flavors of CNC or 3D printing equipment. And as to why I own them: I’m really bad with money and my autistic hyperfocus is robots. IDK man they’re just cool.

What type of bot

(Is there really a difference between a vert spinner and an antweight flipper…?) I have a beaterbar bot, but my local group plays with an arena floor that isn’t flat so the meta has really been shifting towards control bots since they’re the least reliant on clearance for success (looking at you, wedgebots. Looking at you with scorn in my gaze). But! I’ve been messing around with a hammerspinner design that I’m really hoping will bring back the carnage that’s been really missing in the pin-heavy matches lately.

Everyone wants the coveted silicon valley stress for 5 years then retire and coast off your resume position dont they.

Turns out those jobs are really hard to get, damnit…

Like combat robots

Antweight, yep! Though I just meant I own a lot of manufacturing robots, the antweight thing is just a coincidental hobby.

And now you live in a boat off the coast of Costa Rica

God, I wish. Software development pays really well… if you don’t have a specialization that shunts you into the public sector. And then you get laid off because of the political climate in the US.

who just has a horizontal bar running from one side of an indiscriminate room to another sort of thing

Hahaha, totally abnormal - it was real fun to think up an explanation for what it was when my mother just wandered into my room… and it was a real pain to install, let me tell you what. Makes sense about the cabin though, thank you for explaining! I just have access to a lot of 2x4s, hence the amount of wooden construction in the background…

Lol no problem - fudging some of the specific details, but I’m (until recently) a software developer specializing in research database applications, and I teach computer science on the side. The CNC and electronics in general are just hobbies that feed into other hobbies (who doesn’t love robots???), and the vault door was a photo from a dear old friend who works construction and knows of my love for the retro-industrial aesthetic.

(Very curious where the idea I’m in a cabin came from, I think all my posts have been from when I was living in my regular boring old house!)

So the above example is a bit of a special case since it appeals to me specifically because of my love for plants and automation.

But in a slightly less specific niche, you’ve pretty much nailed it. Someone sending something personal that they’re passionate about is hot for a bunch of obvious reasons (passion, sexy naked people thinking about the composition of their photos) and someone sending something creative would be pretty unique in my experience, and it’d be really fun to think they put that much effort into showing off.

Hi I am an autistic chick and yes, please, this would without a word of a lie 100% absolutely work on me.

is a thing just because time always tends towards 5:43 and one we pass it, we use the next 5:43 as a target.

Yes exactly, which is why I said you may be overthinking it when you were trying to interpret it as anything more than this. The Equinox were a critical time for the calibration of sundials, hence why I chose them.

just because you can’t admit that you heard precession of the equinoxes in the past and misremembered it.

But, why? It would have been perfectly valid to bring up in the original context - you yourself brought up the complicating factor of minor celestial events in it’s applicability to the subject - and “progression towards the equinox” is a fine-if-slightly-florid way to describe the passage of time towards a significant event. There’s no reason for me to have done this.

(edit: this time I just forgot to finish my sentence. No cat involved)

The significance of the equinox in premodern calendar systems is pretty well established - stonehenge is an easy example of how it was taken into consideration, and was used to mark out significant dates.

How can time itself progress towards equinoxes, which are points in time?

I think you might be overthinking what I said. To answer your question: One day comes after another day. Eventually, on one of those days the arrangement of celestial bodies we call the equinox will happen. From wikipedia:

An equinox is equivalently defined as the time when the plane of Earth’s equator passes through the geometric center of the Sun’s disk.

We’ll reach that arrangement again as time progresses. The progression of time, will bring us towards the point in which that arrangement occurs. If you would prefer, “progression towards the equinoxes” is a slightly less florid way of expressing the same concept.

(edit: posted prematurely, thanks cat. Finished my sentence, reworded something to sound less confrontational as that was not my intention)

You understand that it’s just a description, right? “The progression of time towards the equinoxes”. It’s not a formal term.

No, I mean the progression towards the equinoxes - historically the equinoxes were a common way to demark calendar dates, and as a result they’re a useful reference point. Not universal, of course, but still frequently used enough to be useful when discussing this topic.

I get you’re arguing because, well, this is the internet and I contradicted you. That’s how it works, our egos are too tied up in our comments alone and it’s too easy to read any tone into a comment that we’d like. We get defensive, our wounded egos make things heated. So in that spirit, let me be explicit that I’m not trying to be rude to you when I say this: You’re oversimplifying the metaphor to make your point.

For example: I’ve been sitting around for a full day, but the damn clock says only twelve minutes have gone by.

You adjust a sundial in the morning every day, and then can read it from there (assuming it hasn’t been jostled) - but you still have to be aware of the rules and conventions of the system, and work within it’s boundaries. If we arbitrarily dismiss critical parts of it’s operation, there will be no meaning in anything we have to say. The territory of things like “clocks don’t measure time, they measure circles and everything we derive from them is thence wild and baseless speculation”; literally true and I can defend that position until we both die of carefully-measured old age, but reduced to the point that it’s completely meaningless.

You don’t know how to read one - you’ve forgotten to calibrate it.

If you don’t do that before use, it’s measurements are meaningless. Correcting for DST and dates and other minor aspects of how time is handled in the modern era is important (blech screw DST), but this issue was present even in the roman era and is why sundials have movable faces. Premodern observatories (eg. stonehenge or the observatories at pisac) have references to correct the measurements for things like change in solar position and the progression towards the equinox for the same reason.

I don’t think we should get rid of analog clocks, I just wanted to point out that your example here isn’t a very good one to use.

No u

My goto is Good Lookin’ - such a generic title and sound that almost nobody recognizes it even if they’ve heard it before. Takes at least a solid minute before someone notices over the bar background noise and complains about it.

Aaaahahaahaha, oh it’s beautiful to see. Yeah, move all our production DBs to the cloud NOW why dontcha? Ohh, Amazon’s uptime is super reliable? well guess what

Eeh, this one has potential. It’s almost all the original crew (inc. the writers and the non Joss showrunner!) getting a chance to go back and tell more stories in a project they all loved and that’s had a lasting cultural impact. There’s a difference between people passionately revisitimg a sequel, and the gutless corpse of something being draped over a generic script and set loose on the unsuspecting villagers to milk them for all they’re worth like has been happening so much with Disney and Paramount lately (fucking Starfleet Academy)

Yes I believe we’re all aware of what it means, but thank you for trying to keep up…