corvi

@corvi@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Politics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consistently picking wrong is just as useful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no side-stepping this one...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the comedic value, have you tried He Who Fight With Monsters? It’s my most reread series by far, and is what I always give people after Carl.

  Cradle is the other big one. The first half of book one is a bit of a hump for me, similar to reading Kal’s perspective in Way of Kings, but it picks up fast. The audiobook is magical; just about anything read by Travis Baldree is worth the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no side-stepping this one...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dungeon Crawler Carl reference with a Way of Kings username? I’ve found my people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole We Were Here series is marvelous. Asymmetrical co-op puzzle games. My friend and I’s recent games list looks very similar to this.

  We also do a lot of single player games with one of us streaming over discord. When it’s a slow-burn puzzle or mystery game, it doesn’t really matter who is actually controlling.

  For those types, I really recommend Return of the Obra Dinn. We’re currently working our way through the entire Frogwares Sherlock Holmes collection. The old ones are so terrible, which is a greatness all by itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linguistics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna go on Countdown with the line “Dictionaries aren’t rule books, they’re record books” and fight Susie Dent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gotdamn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant xkcd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star dates – is one day equal to 0,07 SD in TNG?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose it could go either way. That would be true if we see stardates as a universal system that applies anywhere and everywhere. If we instead imagine them to include encoded information about local space time, it makes sense that they might be inconsistent but always moving forward.

  I am, of course, using “makes sense” extremely loosely here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star dates – is one day equal to 0,07 SD in TNG?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess when you’re traveling around faster than the speed of light, time and date stop meaning the same thing as they do back home, so it stands to reason that you couldn’t map stardates to any standard calendar.

  At least, that’s my new headcanon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Props to teenagers getting out there and making things, but I’m skeptical of fact checking with the same technology responsible for making up half its output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Sign Language have puns?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know historically “deaf and dumb” meant deaf and mute, but, at least in the classes I took in college, I was told we don’t use that terminology anymore, for hopefully obvious reasons.