[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

semi-related rantI know lots of folks have complained about regular enemies being too spongy, but I feel like I have the opposite complaint for bosses, at least with the few I've encountered so far: they have so little health that I will die a lot through numerous attempts, but then as I start figuring out their patterns a bit, I end up defeating them without actually having gotten good at the fight. The victory feels more like an accident than the expected outcome.
That is to say, I didn't so much defeat this boss and rather stumbled my way clumsily through, so take my advice with a grain of sand.

A general strategy that I used in HK and have repeated with SilkSong when I couldn't defeat an enemy is first going into the fight with the only goal being survival. Learn their patterns, figure out how to dodge and avoid their attacks and don't yet attempt to deal damage yourself. That way you'll get a feel for their telegraphs and their reach, and you'll build up some muscle memory for evading.

This boss specifically is a lot easier when you have the dash (sprint).
The main problem IMO is when it corners you. Depending on its attack you can either try to run through underneath it, or do a quick pogo+dash over its head.
If cornered on the left side (where there's less vertical space) I have had some success with simply edging ever closer to the exit - the boss usually does the digging teleport at some point, allowing you to escape.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yup.
Hollow Knight basically got me into gaming. I struggled plenty and had to redo sections an unreasonable number of times.
Silksong is faithfully recreating that experience, but with even more stunning visuals (I absolutely have to replay on PC), immersive sound and engaging movement. I also started getting lost almost immediately and had to invest in that most OP of all charms.

For what it's worth, it sounded like they're excited to keep adding content and really had to force themselves to stop development just so we could get a release so I think odds are pretty good that we'll get DLC again.
Aaaand they go longer have an obligation to backers to add hornet, so who knows how much they'll be able to add, or what other games they decide to work on after.
The future's looking bright.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

The comparison is somewhat awkward, because the rails example presumably produces a date, while the python one is referring to an interval of time.
Just from the meme it's not obvious which was the actual intended use, so labeling either as inaccurate requires us to make assumptions.

Personally, the concept of "10 years ago" is a bit nebulous to me. If today is February 29th, is ten years ago March 1st? Doesn't seem right. Or particularly useful.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I can see what points you're making, but it's unclear what you're arguing for. It would be helpful if you made that explicit, too.

My best guess is that you don't think that consciousness is emergent. What then, do you consider the nature of consciousness to be? Are you perhaps agnostic on the matter?

I agree that strong emergence sounds like magic and I'm therefore highly sceptical of its existence. I find consciousness one of the most intriguing and mysterious phenomena we know of - I don't really think I understand it to a degree where I can make confident claims about its nature. But dualism sounds like magic too, so weak emergence seems to me the most reasonable and likely mechanism, not least because it's one we actually observe in reality.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yup, Reddit fucked us all after we gave them our knowledge for free.
Trick people into thinking they're contributing to a commons, steal the contributions and run. Very understandable that many people decided to retaliate after the betrayal.
I really hope decentralized knowledge bases take off. Aggregating niche knowledge from experts and non-experts everywhere the internet touches is such a valuable proposition!

I had like one useful comment posted to Reddit. I've left it up, and once every few months I get a comment being appreciative for the info.
Reddit gets the traffic because of Google indexing the original post of a user with the problem. People are going to visit it regardless of whether they'll find the answer or not. In fact, if they don't find it, they're more likely to keep browsing posts in the hope of finding something.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, the data used in that map don't appear to be corrected for population size.
So the high numbers in China and India don't really mean much without some additional context.

The map on Wikipedia is based on deaths per 100k inhabitants, which seems more useful for gauging overall road mortality rate.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Before they knew it, the search had turned into a wild goose chase.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can't just say "perchance"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Can only speak for myself, but bookmarks are not at all the thing I want.

There's more cognitive effort needed when creating a bookmark (not to mention several clicks and key presses) - I need to classify, organize, assign a folder, think about relevant tags.

More importantly: while I expect to need the tab again in the near future, it is likely to be completely useless in a few days. Creating a bookmark for that is going to be wasteful clutter that I need to spend more mental energy cleaning up.
The parent comment expressed incredulity at being able to manage that many tabs. I'm not sure how converting them to bookmarks instead helps. It just seems like I'll need more clicks to get to my site.

Also, I care about the state saved in my open tabs and don't want to reload the page every time I visit it. Many websites are built in such a way that loading the URL again doesn't even restore the same state, and sometimes it doesn't work at all.

Bookmarks are useful, and I do use them, but they are not a workable replacement for tabs, at least to me.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

haha wrong account oops

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

In case anyone else didn't automatically know that means 255g/week:

In March 2025, researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) found that to eat sustainably, individuals should consume no more than 255 grams — or about half a pound — of pork or poultry per week. The study also makes clear that beef, lamb and other red meats are not compatible with a sustainable future under current environmental constraints.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Can we have a list of the default blocks (perhaps divided into political vs NSFW)? I have dozens of my own blocks which I had already imported before knowing you added some by default.

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