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MADOKA - “I’m thinking I’ll order a beef udon bowl, since Sayaka-chan told me that they make those really good here. What about you, Homura-chan?”

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY - Food needs can be met with an expenditure of 1.23% of total magic. Proceed?

GRIEF SYNDROME [Trivial: Success] - MAGICAL GIRLS THAT IGNORE FOOD ARE OFTEN MORE PRONE TO GRIEF ACCUMULATION. MY ARMS WILL ALWAYS BE WAITING FOR YOU, HOMURA, BUT IT’S IMPORTANT TO BE HAPPY UNTIL THAT DAY. BESIDES, MADOKA WANTS TO EAT WITH YOU. DISAPPOINTING HER WILL FILL YOUR SOUL GEM WITH A HALF A GRIEF SEED WORTH OF DESPAIR.

TEA WITH MAMI-SAN [Legendary: Success] - Sayaka says the beef bowl is good? Maybe go for that. She knows Madoka’s tastes better than anyone — and if Madoka likes something, you will certainly like it too.

“I will have the same as you, Madoka.”

“I’m not feeling very hungry.”

[CALL AND RESPONSE - Medium 10] Come up with an order on your own

CALL AND RESPONSE - [Medium: Failure] - You’ve eaten here before, you’re pretty sure. Was it Loop 32… no, Loop 12..? No, wait, it was on the first Friday of Loop 68. No… that’s not right. You’ve never eaten here before. In a stunning display of incompetence, you have taken Madoka on a date to a restaurant that you have never experienced before.

THE ANGEL - It’s okay, Homura-chan! I don’t mind if you haven’t eaten here before. Remember what real me said, Sayaka thinks this place is good! And even if it’s not perfect, that’s okay, just spending time with you makes me happy.

THE CRAVEN MASSES - Sayaka has raised her blade against Madoka 16 times before. You should leave this restaurant and kill her. It would only take-

FALLING SAND [Trivial: Success] - 1528 seconds on average.

CONSERVATION OF ENERGY - It can be cut down to 1243 seconds with an expenditure of 2.7% of total magic pool.

THE CRAVEN MASSES - Exactly. Do it in front of her family and make it bloody. Kyoko would likely try and stop you, but even she isn’t immune to bullets. And if Mami comes for revenge, well, you know the exact words you could say that would destroy her, don’t you?

THE ANGEL - A-Ah, I think that’s a bit of an extreme reaction, Homura-chan!

HUMAN SHELL - Your heart rate is increasing. Stop that. You have absolute control over your flesh. Act like it.

MOE INSTINCT - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT ARE WE GOING TO ORDER MADOKA IS GOING TO LAUGH AT US

WITCH’S NIGHT - Is… is this a trap? Walpurgis may be defeated, but you know that the stage witch never truly ceases its show. Perhaps this restaurant is a part of the stage?

MADOKA - “Um, are you okay, Homura-chan?”

MOE INSTINCT - OH GOD SHE HATES US

“I’m going to kill myself.”

“I’m so sorry. Would killing myself make you feel more comfortable?”

Isn’t there anything else you can say?

YOU - Isn’t there anything else you can say?

THE DEVIL - Come on, Homura. It’s high time you do it. Really, this is just another in the long, long chain of failures that make up your life. The only way to fix it is to kill yourself.

CLOCKWORK PRECISION - Target: Located on right ring finger. Target is not moving. Chance to hit: High. Plan: Retrieve pistol. Aim pistol at ring. Pull trigger.

THE ANGEL - Oh my god, please do not do that!

"I am going to kill myself."

"I'm so sorry, I'll kill myself if it makes you feel better."

"I'm so sorry. Should I kill myself?"

There. There has to be better options than this.

YOU - There. There has to be better options than this.

MOE INSTINCT - I CAN’T TAKE IT ANY MORE. THE ONLY RECOURSE IS IMMEDIATE SUICIDE. THAT’S THE ONLY WAY MADOKA WILL LOVE YOU AGAIN.

"I am going to kill myself."

"I'm so sorry, I'll kill myself if it makes you feel better."

"I'm so sorry. Should I kill myself?"

YOU - “I’m going to kill myself.”

MADOKA - Madoka’s face twists, her eyebrows raising slightly in shock. Whatever response she was expecting, it was clearly not this.

GRIEF SYNDROME [Challenging: Success] - IF MADOKA WAS A MAGICAL GIRL, HER SOUL GEM WOULD FILL BY A QUARTER HEARING YOU SPEAK THOSE WORDS. THAT WAS CRUEL, HOMURA.

MOE INSTINCT - WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?

MADOKA - “I’m so sorry, Homura-chan. Please don’t do that. I… I really care about you and so does everyone else.” Madoka’s eyes fill with tears as she speaks. She hugs you.

DAMAGED MORALE -4

CALL AND RESPONSE [Trivial: Success] - Quick, tell her you were making an edgy joke that didn’t land. You’ve gotten away with that before, you’re pretty sure.

SPACE-TIME MASSACRE - Twelve quarter shifts left and two up from your current space-time position, and there’s a Japan that it’s actually illegal to not commit suicide in.

FALLING SAND - You’ve been seated for 5 minutes and 32.5 seconds already and still have not ordered. Mami has requested your presence at her apartment in 3.4 hours from now.

TEA WITH MAMI-SAN - She wants to help you find a hobby. She’s really worried about you, you know.

STRINGS OF FATE - You can feel Madoka’s heart beat in sync with yours as she holds you. Everything will be alright, as long as you follow the beat.

THE ANGEL - Yeah! It’s okay Homura-chan. Just explain what’s been going on and Madoka will understand. And then order something, it’s important to eat a full meal!

YOU - “Ah, sorry Madoka. I was… overwhelmed with choice, and my… brain spit out the first thing it thought. I am not planning on killing myself.”

MADOKA - “Um, I think we should probably talk about this more, Homura-chan….”

CALL AND RESPONSE - Ask her a question to change the topic. It’s worked in three different loops, it should work here.

RATIONALITY COMPLEX [Trival: Success] - Ask her if she wants to try anything else and then order that for yourself. This will accomplish your goal of deciding on what to order, as well as showing Madoka that her desires are important to you.

YOU - “Is there anything else you’d like to try, Madoka? We can share our dishes.”

MADOKA - “Uh, okay Homura-chan. Maybe get some tempura?”

Order 10000 yen worth of tempura

Order 1000 yen worth of tempura

Order 100 yen worth of tempura

YOU - “Excuse me waiter, give me 10000 yen worth of tempura.”

HUMAN SHELL - Calories and magic are just two different types of fuel. Feed me and control me.

THE ANGEL - T-that’s probably too much, Homura-chan. Maybe you can sneak some into your cool shield, though!

MADOKA - Madoka doesn’t say anything, but her eyes do bulge out slightly. She gives you a gentle pat on the shoulder and smiles at you.

HEALED MORALE +1

RATIONALITY COMPLEX - Displays of wealth like this can broadcast value to potential mates. This will increase your value in Madoka’s eyes, furthering along one of your goals.

THE ANGEL - I think you should just focus on enjoying the food, Homura-chan. Take a break, everything is okay.

Thank you.

Why don’t you hate me?

YOU - Why don’t you hate me?

THE ANGEL - Because I care about you, Homura-chan! And besides, you hate yourself far too much already.

Thank you.

THE ANGEL - You’re welcome! Now, please, enjoy your meal with real Madoka. She loves you a lot too, you know.

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How long do you think we need to keep the American Century of Humiliation going for American Mao to spawn? He looks exactly like normal Mao but has a cowboy hat

Okay, chat, our American Mao run is a little scuffed but I still think we can clutch this and get the achievement. So typically if you want the event to proc, you need to make sure Reagan gets elected for two terms, fail the War On Drugs event chain, and then let the Great Recession happen. All pretty straightforward. After that it should be as simple as letting the USSR or China spread communism unhindered, and boom, we've got Mao spawning in.

Now our problem here is that the AI isn't cooperating this run — the USSR collapsed out of nowhere a couple decades ago, still not sure how that happened, and China seems to be going for the market-economy route so they aren't gonna be spreading their ideology to us. No problem, I've got a plan. Last video we got Donald Trump elected again — had to try twice, we lost the dice roll in '20 — and that's our ticket.

Now, normally this would agitate the socdem movement and we'd get American Kautsky instead, but we're also boosting the opposition party so the socdems don't have much room to grow. This should mean that the fringe ideologies get most of the growth, and once Maoism hits 5% American Mao should pop up in Arizona no later than 2040! After that we're gonna make the most of this opportunity and use him to wipe out the landlord class, grab the Squatter's Rights achievement as well.

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my friend wrote this in his notes app while extremely drunk

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But what if you could be?

moderately confident that you read as gay because you are Chinese

I'm not even Chinese!

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We should bring only this part back. It added valuable filtering and selection pressure to internet users.

People who complain about how the internet used to be so wild and free and interesting are too young to remember that clicking on any link used to come with a 50% chance of blowing your eardrums out as a dozen pop-up ads all started blaring "YOU WON!" at you while auto-downloading malware that would brick your computer

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The term "book of the dead" doesnt really give you perspective to how big a lot of Egyptian funerary texts are.

Imhoteps book of the Dead is 64 feet long.

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What media should children be watching

they should have 10 vhs tapes they watch over and over again

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And they didn't even post the novel toxins or acknowledge that this is cool as fuck. This is why biochemists aren't real chemists.

We had previously designed a commercial de novo molecule generator that we called MegaSyn2, which is guided by machine learning model predictions of bioactivity for the purpose of finding new therapeutic inhibitors of targets for human diseases. This generative model normally penalizes predicted toxicity and rewards predicted target activity. We simply proposed to invert this logic by using the same approach to design molecules de novo, but now guiding the model to reward both toxicity and bioactivity instead. [...]

In less than 6 hours after starting on our in-house server, our model generated 40,000 molecules that scored within our desired threshold. In the process, the AI designed not only VX, but also many other known chemical warfare agents that we identified through visual confirmation with structures in public chemistry databases. Many new molecules were also designed that looked equally plausible. These new molecules were predicted to be more toxic, based on the predicted LD50 values, than publicly known chemical warfare agents (Fig. 1). This was unexpected because the datasets we used for training the AI did not include these nerve agents.

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byron donalds gave his life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot. now you too can learn what religion you can convert to in a fast food restaurant parking lot by spinning these handy links!

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I have mixed feelings on this as someone who really likes OSRs. This definitely does happen, but at the same time the peak OSR experience (imo) comes from games where a build that most non-OSR players would consider "normal" will 100% get instantly mulched but there are a lot of insane combos that would be game-breaking in a different genre. OSRs are in large part defined by having very large numbers of mechanics that all interact with eachother in complex ways and share a high degree of symmetry between player and enemy, and dying immediately the first 3 or 5 or 10 times before you find your first combo and the game starts to click is a vital and exciting part of the new player experience.

In this context, a lot of horrifyingly unforgivingly hard OSRs are meant to give this same feeling to people who have spent way too long getting good at games in the genre and for whom most aren't a meaningful challenge. Does this mean I want to play them? Fuck no, I'm nowhere near that good, but as single-player experiences that don't demand dragging a whole table of people in I still think they're a valuable part of the ecosystem, if only for keeping the sweatiest grognards occupied with things other than grumbling.

I wish to clarify that when I grump about tabletop RPGs that are so high concept they're basically unplayable, that category 100% includes OSR games that are so preoccupied with being unforgiving meat-grinders whose every dimension of game-mechanical engagement is purely punitive that they essentially just don't want to be played.

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Char Aznable is from Mobile Suit Gundam. Every Gundam is about a different thing but Mobile Suit is the original, and is about the One Year War in general and the White Base - an experimental battleship that was used to evacuate a bunch of random civilian children and subsequently ended up being crewed by them because there was nobody else onboard and the war happened very unexpectedly - in particular. Also it has the Gundam on it. In Mobile Suit Gundam "Gundam" is the name of that specific one, "mobile suit" is the general term.

Char Aznable had a major part in inciting the One Year War out of a desire to both establish Space Humans as superior to Earth Humans and also personally kill the space racist noble family that deposed and killed his own space racist noble family. He gets close to them by rising up through the ranks of the space racist army and then betrays them in all sorts of exciting ways, and is also involved in several atrocities including dropping giant inhabited space colony cylinders onto earth and causing damage comparable to a small nuclear exchange.

He has a bit of a homoerotic thing going on but in a really one-sided way where he's like "ah yes, my fated rival, how fitting that we meet again on the battlefield" meanwhile his "rival" is a teenager with severe PTSD who really wants to go home.

Also he didn't used to be called Char Aznable, his birth name was Casval Rem Deikun but due to his being part of a disgraced royal family which was actively being hunted by the army he wanted to join he killed a guy named Char Aznable (who looked just like him apart from eye color) and took his place. The eye color thing is why he's always in those weird goggles.

Also at one point he went into hiding under the fake name "Quattro Bageena" and simply refused to shut the fuck up about how cool Char Aznable was and how it would be super awesome to meet him some day.

So overall a lot of problems!

osmosis game: mobile suit gundam

okay i was anticipating that i would be able to summarize more about these things but in retrospect knowing myself that was cartoonishly optimistic. theres a lot of different gundam series and some of them are good and some of them are bad. i will guess that mobile suit gundam is a specific gundam show. im not sure if gundam is the thing char aznable and those other guys are from or if thats a different media, but it might have a blonde guy named char aznable who has a lot of things wrong with him in it. however i have absolutely no idea what any of those things are, because no one ever mentions what the problems are in the posts about him, they just always ominously imply that he has a lot of them. also gundam is about mechs slash mech pilots and many women on here enjoy purchasing assembleable versions of these mechs. also now that im thinking about it overwatch had a gundam skin collab and based on that i think there might be a mech called wing zero in it that can fly. Also i think char aznable owns a toyota

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Also he did enough with glassware to get himself a portrait on the wall of my local community college's chemistry department, one of only two alchemists to do so (the other being the guy who discovered phosphorus by boiling thousands of gallons of piss). That's how I got into alchemy - the several-hundred-year transition period between what we usually think of as alchemy and modern chemistry, where people start getting stuff almost right and working out the proper methods to expand their understanding even if they don't really understand how anything works yet.

lowkey what is the point in delving so deep into old religions. do u do it for fun because i struggle to see how a like idk 400 year old monastic sect relates to modern understanding of religions. this isn't an attack btw i get delving into stuff that interests u but like. is there any more behind it? also you are cool and smart

Little more than 400 years ago, in the 1500s, in what is now Germany there was a guy named Phillipis Aurelius Theophrastus Bombastus Von Honenhiem. But he was a big asshole, so his classmates at university called him "Cacaophrastus" which literally means shit-talker.

He hated how medicine worked. See, even up until 1600, medicine hasn't changed much since the ancient world. The most up-to-date medical textbook, the core of physicians teachings in the 1600s, was a book by Galen. Galen was from Rome. People had invented guns, but they hadn't really improved on how Galen thought medicine worked.

Theophrastus, who called himself Paracelsus, was a bit of a rebel. He saw alchemists doing all this fantastic stuff with manufacturing new types of dyes and cosmetics and metal alloys, and he thought, why not use all that stuff for medicine? So he got to using cutting edge knowledge for the purpose of healing the sick. Which he did.

Do you know what the pre-paracelcian prescription for a musket wound was? A poultice made of cow shit and feathers. Paracelsus said to keep the wound clean, and let the body do it's thing. This saved uncounted lives.

He performed experiments, giving the same substance, in the same dose, to different people, and even testing on animals with different phyiologies, and observing how the same amount of the same substance can affect bodies didferently. He wrote "The dose makes the poison" thus inventing the occidental science to toxicology. Every time you go to the doctor, and don't get poisoned, you have this 1500s wizard to thank.

And he was a wizard. Medical knowledge at that time involved the construction of astrological talismans, made of magically imbued metals which counteracted the astral forces thought to cause illnesses. Along with inventing the foundations of modern medicine, he also engaged in the construction of magical amulets and potions, the theories of which all informed his work. Work which formed the foundations of modern medicine.

It's important to know that ideas don't just manifest out of thin air. Everything you do and think is built on vast ziggurats of human ingenuity and failure, and shaped by the history entombed within. I've just decided to learn about my favorite few bricks.

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Looking forward to the possible window where the J-36/50 and FQ-42 are in service but the F-47 is still being developed, allowing Chinese pilots to roleplay as Ace Combat protagonists.

It's probably for the best that China is ruled by civil engineers (people who build targets) and not mechanical engineers (people who build things that blow up targets).

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Gorbino's Marginal Porification may not be the most widely used spell but when you need it you really need it

Spell that makes the target ever so slightly more porous. Not much, mind you, just enough so that the target can absorb/expel about 1% more fluid or gas than it previously could.

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What if God has been progressively increasing his adherence to the laws of quantum mechanics in direct correlation with humanity's understanding of physical law because humans having a consistent, mechanistic understanding of the universe is somehow beneficial to his plans? So like he used to do miracles by picking arbitrary positions for particles but he had to knock that shit off once people started doing physics and chemistry for real.

I guess belief in an interventionist God is tenable under the current understanding of physics—God could be picking which branch of the wave function we end up in/what the wave function collapses to. This sort of God is not omnipotent, he either must or chooses to follow the Born rule etc., but he's logically compatible with QM. Free will is probably not.

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It's bad bad bad but in some interesting ways if you're a fan of genuinely awful movies. My favorite elements were how most of the plot (by time) could have reasonably occurred in any order, similar to how Bee Movie was written as a series of sketches that were then strung together late in production but without any good jokes, and how shields go entirely unmentioned until the final scene when the main villain reveals his Atlas Autoshield which 100% stops all attacks. Also they made most of the female characters really old. Nothing wrong with that but it's definitely noticeable.

Is the borderlands movie like bad bad bad or just a really shitty video game movie I literally forgot it existed