ryven

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[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I had the good fortune to be influenced by the slackers of the preceding generation, so my plan was always to do the minimum amount of work and take on as little as possible.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We built this Geocity on rock and code!

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)
  1. They are all thinking short-term. Get through this next election, this next quarter, etc.

  2. When they do think about the future, they assume it's the Prisoner's Dilemma. They don't believe it's possible to cooperate to improve the situation, so they want to ensure that they're personally in the best position possible when everything goes to hell.

  3. Some of them think they won't live long enough to have to deal with it.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, the exact question they're studying is:

“When you used alcohol during the last year, how often did you use it in each of the following situations?…When you were alone.” Response options were 1 = “Not at all” 2 = “A few of the times” 3 = “Some of the times” 4 = “Most of the times” 5 = “Every time.”

And they're comparing the "not at all" responses against all of the other ones. I understand they're analyzing data that already exists, so they don't get to go back in time and start asking a different question in 1977 when the survey begins, but I'm not sure how useful this is to the current analysis without some qualifier like "When you had three or more drinks in one day."

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 5 days ago (6 children)

“Roughly 4 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol report drinking alone at least once in the past year,” said lead author Kasey Creswell, associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon.

Only 4 in 10? 6 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol never have a beer or glass of wine on a cozy evening in? I would have expected it to be the other way around.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I swear the cane sugar Dr. Pepper tastes different from the HFCS kind. Maybe it really is possible to differentiate 50-50 glucose-fructose from 45-55 glucose-fructose? Or maybe the corn syrup carries other flavor molecules?

Or maybe there are other differences in the recipe.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's the twist they went with? Isn't that just the plot of Dragon Ball?

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think therapists should be turning in their clients, either. Criminals deserve effective therapy as much as anyone else.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And if everyone voted, his popular vote margin would have been larger. According to the latest analysis, non-voters leaned toward Trump.

When asked how they would have voted, people eligible to vote who did not do so were fairly evenly split in their preferences: 44% said they would have supported Trump, while 40% said they would have backed Harris.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

First, you have recreational use turned off, right? If it's on, they'll take it when they want it AND when it's scheduled.

If they're only taking it on schedule, try adding an extra day.

That said, I try to be careful about smokeleaf use because it has a big negative effect on productivity. I try to save it for managing mood crises.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

I know the official term is "legacy Umamusume" but everyone I've seen talk about them who played the Japanese release calls them "parents."

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry I didn't mean to imply that, let me rephrase: I am surprised that ChatGPT can hold convincing conversations about some topics, because I didn't expect it to be able to. That certainly makes me more concerned about it than I was previously.

 

The Myth girls are playing some games to send Gura off, starting with Minecraft on Calli's channel. It's her last day, be sure to drop in if you have the chance. After the relay, Gura's last stream will be a 3D Mini Live on her channel.

I wish I had gotten into Hololive earlier, so that I could have spent more time watching Gura's streams. I can really see why the Chumbuds are so passionate about her. I don't know if her last original song, Ash Again, got posted here, but definitely check it out if you haven't seen it, it's freaking amazing. 💙🔱

 
 

I just started playing OSRS recently and have been just drifting around from one activity to the next, as I find stuff that catches my fancy. Currently I'm about 20 games into Fishing Trawler and haven't seen a piece of the angler set yet; I ended up liquidating some of my food and crafting materials on the GE to buy more rope. I notice a lot of people prefer to play the lower deck even though swamp paste is so expensive; what's the appeal?

Previously I spent a while in Camdozaal because I liked that it was a pretty self-contained grinding area; I stayed long enough to unlock all the buffs, and get the barronite mace and the Imcando Hammer. I like the concept of the Vault but it seems like the actual loot is worthless compared to how much time you spend mining to pay for vault runs. The best drops are adamant armor that you could buy on the exchange.

What's everybody else working on? Grinding skills, making money, minigames, bosses? Having fun?

 

Yes, this is a 4 hour long review of a hotel that's already closed.

 

UPDATE: Ahoyoo has confirmed that Trimming the Herbs was uploaded with TAS tools, meaning that The Last Dance was the final legitimate level all along! Congrats to kazeihinn on the Last First Clear! The journey continues in Super Mario Maker 2...

ORIGINAL POST:

Team 0% is attempting to clear every level in Super Mario Maker before the servers shut down on April 8. (New level uploads have been disabled since 2021, so there is no danger of new levels appearing at the last minute.) As of a few days ago, only a single level remains: Trimming the Herbs, uploaded in 2017 by Ahoyoo. (See also Ahoyoo's original upload video.)

The level is short but extremely precise, requiring Mario to use Bob-ombs to precisely remove Piranha Plants and collect coins while navigating a tight space filled with spikes. There have been over 200,000 attempts so far! If you have a Wii U and feel like you might be a Mario master, this is your opportunity to pick up the final First Clear in Super Mario Maker history.

 
 

The system:

MSI Raider GE67 HX 12UHS

Intel Core i9-12900HX

nVidia GeForce RTX 3080Ti (laptop)

32GiB RAM

Win11 Pro 64-bit

The problem:

Once in a while (usually 2-3 times per day), the system crashes, usually resulting in a blue screen with one of various error codes. Codes I've seen include:

HYPERVISOR_ERROR

CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Sometimes the system hangs but the blue screen never comes, and I have to power it off manually. When this happens, the fans go to full speed and yet the laptop quickly becomes incredibly hot if I don't power it off as soon as possible, suggesting that the CPU or GPU is maxing out for some reason.

Checking with Event Viewer shows nothing out of the ordinary in the lead up to the crash.

Things I've ruled out:

I initially thought it only happened while plugged in, and bought a new power supply. That didn't seem to affect the frequency of the issue, and I also have now seen it happen while on battery. I also initially thought it was more frequent while playing games that use the dedicated graphics card, but I'm not sure that's actually true; I have seen it happen even while just watching Youtube. At one point I felt that it happened more when I moved the laptop or plugged in USB devices, but I think that may be magical thinking; I have never been able to make it happen on purpose by doing those things. It does seem to be true that after it happens, if I let the laptop restart automatically, it often happens again in a short time, but shutting down and then turning it back on gives more time before the next incident.

Solutions I've tried:

I tried updating the BIOS and the Intel firmware to the latest available on MSI's website, but that doesn't seem to have helped. I also updated my nVidia drivers.

A possibly related issue:

A week or so before this happened for the first time, I updated the BIOS to fix a different issue. What happened then was: I was playing a game on battery unintentionally, and didn't notice until that "low battery - switching to Super Battery" warning appeared and began throttling system performance. I plugged the laptop in, but performance didn't improve. I restarted and performance was terrible across all applications, even Firefox. I checked Resource Manager and noticed that the CPU was being throttled down to around 0.16GHz. Event Viewer was showing warnings about this that said the processor was being limited by system firmware.

I tried using various Windows and MSI power management settings to resolve the issue, which persisted across restarts, fully charging the battery, etc. In the end, I solved it by updating the BIOS (to a version that is now one version back from the most current one).

It was a while, maybe a week, after running the update that the crash happened for the first time.

Current theory:

Is it possible I screwed up the BIOS update somehow? I noticed that it instructs you to return clock speeds to stock before doing the update. I don't think I've manually adjusted them, but MSI's "MSI Center" software seems to offer automatic adjustment. It was set to "Balanced" when I did the most recent update, but it may have been set to "Auto" when I did the first one, which I guess could be a problem if the CPU was automatically overclocked.

 

I'm crouched in an empty room, stealing everything. My stealth meter randomly changes to Detected so I stop for a while and wait for it to go back to Hidden. I steal the next item and get a notification that a bounty has been added. I'm still Hidden.

I finish looting and stand up. Suddenly: "You're under arrest!" A cop charges into the room and starts giving me a spiel. I unload my fully automatic Grendel into their chest at point blank range. Somehow this attracts less attention than quietly picking up comestibles did; no reinforcements arrive, and I remain free to wander around.

I come back to this room about five minutes later for an unrelated conversation. Everyone politely ignores the dead body.

I know this is all, like, just Bethesda game things, but for some reason this time it seems funnier than usual.

Also, minor companion spoilers:

spoilerIf all the companions get as mad as Andreja did every time petty theft escalates to murder, my ship is going to get real empty real fast.

 

Spoilers for the WyrmwayIn the room where you must demonstrate insight by striking down a representation of one of three writers, Amaps is represented as a tiefling:

Image of Amaps being a tiefling

However, the book he wrote clearly indicates that he was a halfling:

Image of book description that says Paul Amaps was a halfling

This is halfling erasure!

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