#definitelynotplanetfall

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

The time of meowing is upon us.

*prepares for the looming onset of meowing*

[loving-n0t-heyting]

the real reason anprim is ableist is it's anti-autistic to get rid of trains

The lack of imagination with which you take industrial civilisations threat to the biosphere is damning. Why do you assume the existence of trains necessarily requires extractive oppressive automation? You could also have, for example, ppl ride on the back of chains of roughly train-shaped dinosaurs saying something like “Hey, it’s a living”

[toy-sitting-anon]

hey when i was looking through a bunch of old drawing shit i found the first ever toy sitting thing you ever drew. from back when we were like 10. the mysterious benedict society one. remember that? do you want it back?

stop trying to get, like, fake tumblr clout from knowing me. i still don't want to talk to you.

also, jesus fucking christ you're such a hoarder.

of course i would like it back.

[st-just]

"Average revolutionary steals three priests' clothes per day" statistic is misleading. Robes Pierre,

Look am I saying that taking the biggest and most impressive churches in the country at gunpoint to then use for the Cult of Reason (complete with absurdly over the top rituals and productions) was morally correct or good politics? Of course not.

Was it however hilarious and cool as fuck? Obviously! And isn't that the important thing?

[andmaybegayer]

Let's say, hypothetically, for the sake of argument, that someone wanted the benefits of upgrading their computer but Fucking Hates Hardware, and is also frustrated that lots of major guides hedge everything by saying to Check For Yourself (reasonably! there is a lot of variability), but not how to sift through and synthesize the technical stats gained by Checking For Yourself to get an answer, and also has an eye-glaze-over reaction to the gobbledygook names of different computer parts and cannot trust themselves to remember such a name for even a few seconds. Let's also say this hypothetical person is an idiot partly in denial about their usage patterns but mostly completely ignorant of how to assess what they need, what counts as heavy usage and what counts as dicking about, whether what will count as dicking about in several years will be commensurate with what is considered heavy now, or what the bottlenecks in their current system are. What would you recommend to this person I made up?

You mentioned a few things that get to the heart of the Upgrade Question which is: what do I actually need?

Ultimately, the first thing you must ask is "Does my current system do everything I want to do." In my experience, future proofing is mostly a fool's errand, and I could write a lot about why that is, but let's just say don't worry too much about what you might be doing in five years, don't really look more than a year forward for performance estimates. Whatever you're doing now plus whatever you want to do but can't because of your current system.

(The other question is "where am I putting this", if you live in a tiny Tokyo apartment or you don't want to dedicate permanent desk space to a desktop, or this is going to be your only computer, a good laptop may be a better choice even though you're sacrificing some performance. If you live in a bigger apartment or suburban house, you can probably find space for a desktop. Hell, laptops come with a screen and keyboard built in, that's a cost a lot of people don't price into buying a new desktop for the first time.)

If your current system is doing everything you want it to do at an acceptable speed and noise level, you're done, no upgrade required. If, say, you edit video and you notice that since you moved from HD to 4k it's starting to take forever to render out, or you picked up Elden Ring and it's not running as smoothly as you would like, then it's time to upgrade.

Knowing what to upgrade, especially in-place on an existing system, is unfortunately pretty much impossible without getting into the weeds of performance and hardware, so your best bet if you are dissatisfied with your current setup is probably getting some kind of mid-range prebuilt system from a reputable company within your budget and performance constraints.

In general, most people will be moving from an old mid-range system to a new mid-range system every 3-6 years. You dont want to be upgrading with every new release, and really not even for every second release, unless if the actual tasks you need to do have changed since you got your system. In that case, you'll have to step up a budget increment since you need something faster than you use to have by a significant amount.

Budget-wise in USD, you kind of have these steps and the tasks the correlate with.

$2000: professional, "this is for my dayjob" workstations, performance machines for doing heavy compute

$1500: amateur workstations, high end gaming machines.

$1000: sensibly balanced gaming-optimized machines that'll handle most light workstation tasks, an hobbyist machine.

$500: utility laptops, for handling basic desktop and document handling tasks, programming, image editing, very light workstation tasks.

ABS out of NewEgg and Skytech from I forget who owns them make reasonably priced performance machines with all-new hardware, and while I know people who have had machines arrive with issues, the majority of the stories I hear are positive. The quality of various prebuilt manufacturers varies wildly in terms of cost to performance and level of customer service, but absolutely sight-unseen if I had to recommend some desktops and a laptop for a stranger I've never talked to I would say get one of these and it'll handle almost anything you can throw at it well enough not to annoy you.

These are not the best options per se, even in their own budget ranges, but what they are is solid all-rounders that I would not be mad about if someone told me to use them as the only computer I had for the next five years.

This is the summary of my advice on buying a new computer for people who don't like shopping for computers. The biggest weakness is the price:performance list up there, whcih assumes that you're getting fair pricing on the hardware. Lots of prebuilt companies charge super high markups on old hardware, which is an easy way to get screwed, so I'd advise checking what the latest generation of hardware available is and only using that if you're upgrading.

Annoyingly there's a new CPU release cycle happening right now, so the two things I recommended above will be one generation out of date by the end of October.

[definitelynotplanetfall]

elden ring implies the existence of elden queue, elden stack, etc.

[sigmaleph]

there's something kind of amazing about this. that you can take an obviously terrible design approach on purpose as a challenge and then on some level it turns out there's still a one-size-fits-all solution that is... maybe not 'optimal', who knows, but, highly optimised? the whole factory is in large part the same basic building block stamped one time after another. the design constraint prevents the already-existing standard solutions from working but then you find there's a new kind of standard solution, even more uniform.

and on some level you'd think that was an artefact of this run, but no. i've seen this guy's other challenge runs, like the beltless one and the all-burner one. they all end up with 'yeah turns out there's a standard solution i am just going to keep implementing over and over'.

i am reminded of what @definitelynotplanetfall was saying about how the main bus architecture and more broadly the factorio 'meta' of standard arrays for doing things means it's very easy to just take The One Tool That Solves The Problem and implement it and it feels... a bit like drudgery? idk i don't want to put words in their mouth that's the impression i got from what they were saying. and like at the time i pushed back a little because, like, i am having fun playing.

which i am, but. idk. there's something there. it seems easy sometimes to take the tools that simplify your life in this game a little too far and simplify the fun away. but at the same time it's also the case that i hate it when i grow used to a tool and it goes away, like when i started a vanilla playthrough for reasons a while back and noticed how much lacking simple things like module inserter and autodeconstruct was annoying me.

[triviallytrue]

oh oh do me now

Honestly there's a lot of people I could put here, but the top three have to be definitelynotplanetfall, twocubes, and Ellie (may she rest in peace).

[max1461]

oh also do you associate me with anyone

I think I associate you most with triviallytrue, but maybe also with people like wuggen (on the ground of vibes) and definitelynotplanetfall (on the ground of username shape. just look at it! it's similarly shaped!)

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

How many living merfolk are there? If there are at least two hundred, probably at least one of them is a lesbian. If that's the case, the entire ocean is made of gay mergirl bathwater.

My god, you've gone to the very edge of the known world, I have not! You will note that while most of the oceans are full of lesbians, this is not universal -- the Pacific is full of male and female sea slugs and krill.

I would estimate, based on the fact that there have been at least three mermaids per episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, that there are probably at least 200 of them, maybe 350, and certainly at least 250, because the series is extremely good at conveying atmosphere.

[loving-n0t-heyting]

as a kid i was grossed out when classmates were talking about sex and adults reinforced that this was correct, good people do not talk about sex and especially not children. then instead of the talk they gave me a book which i assumed was a test and i failed if i read it so i loudly refused to read it. then when they did sex ed in school i wanted to not be involved because everything up till now pointed to this being Actually Deleterious And To Be Avoided.

this is the "i cant believe this wife who has been shamed into perpetual abstinence of body/spirit until age 30 did not become a horndog the moment the wedding band went on??" evangelical purity culture thing but for sex ed innit

[st-just]

We haven't really interacted much but I'm going to miss your commentary and all the art you find

Aww, thank you! You usually have a really interesting perspective on things too!

[definitelynotplanetfall]

I posted 1,767 times in 2022

That's 184 more posts than 2021!

402 posts created (23%)

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I tagged 875 of my posts in 2022

Only 50% of my posts had no tags

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#draft folder reblog purge - 73 posts

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#factorio - 30 posts

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#what in tarnation - 19 posts

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Longest Tag: 140 characters

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

logitech being indestructible is kind of a meme but i did just splash some tea on my keyboard and a wooden box and my reflexive first thought was “fuck i hope this doesn’t stain the box”

76 notes - Posted February 2, 2022

#4

of course you have white hair and proverbs

100 notes - Posted February 1, 2022

#3

See the full post

109 notes - Posted July 2, 2022

#2

This is maybe a nuclear take but whenever someone says the reason students don’t like shakespeare is they’re being made to read it instead of seeing it performed I lose respect for them and furthermore want to slice and stab and rend

The big reason shakespeare is so dense is the language is hard to fucking process. Presenting that language in a format where “I didn’t understand what that sentence meant so I’m going to read it again until it makes sense” isn’t an option just makes it fucking harder, do you not just fucking think about these things?

The other big reason is all the gaslighting from teachers, like “shakespeare is modern english!” which is technically true for the definition of modern english used by fucking linguists, so therefore any difficulty with understanding the language is a purely moral failure on the students’ part or pretending to not understand something obvious. And the constant insistence that you have to find willy shakes this fucking comedic genius because he made a joke that had to be explained to you and the content of this alleged joke boiled down to “hoes mad.”

124 notes - Posted June 4, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

gaslight, gatekeep and girlboss all are one in yog-sothoth

305 notes - Posted April 26, 2022

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[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Tell me what it's like there, won't you? Visit me in a dream and tell me what it's like on the other side.

Gladly. As a matter of fact . . . I may have already.