When I first heard about the Mole Rat, I wondered why the developers would spend time and effort putting something in the game that only a small fraction of players would ever see.* Now I know.

I imagine after it had taken five years, some higher up said, “Okay, it’s releasing in 2016 or it’s not releasing at all,” hence why it feels rushed despite the long development time.

Fighting for justice is a Sisyphean task. We push a boulder up a hill, just waiting for it to fall back down on us when the other side gains momentum. I’m glad to see that the Obama administration is trying to get it as high as possible before it falls. At least this way it’ll be up high, and things will be better,…

RPG Maker (in its various versions) is designed for JRPGs. It can do WRPGs, tactical RPGs, and visual novels with the right know-how and effort, but action RPGs are a bit of a stretch for it. Not impossible, mind you, but it just isn’t designed to allow for the collision detection needed for good action combat.…

How dare you insult one particular writer who I kind of like! I, a person who has never commented here before, will certainly never comment here again*!

So wait... Americans are hoping Germans will save them from a populist leader who wants to scapegoat minorities and eject them from the country?

If Tom fucking Arnold somehow derails the Trump train when everyone else has failed, then everything we thought we knew about reality will have to be reevaluated.

They only did that up through 6; after that, each one has been standalone.

In cases like Keijo!!!!!, where fanservice seems to be the entire point of it, I just file it in the same mental bucket as pornography (with all the moral arguments and complications of it, except without actual people being filmed). Other cases, where fanservice just comes up in a sole episode (the random obligatory…

It’s kind of like, since my car is very, very powerful, I don’t need to put any gas in it. When the car is powerful enough, it can run even when there’s nothing to run on. And when you’re smart enough, you can make intelligent decisions about the world even when you don’t know anything about the world.

I remember seeing a report looking at ways to more humanely kill people, and it turns out there’s a perfect alternative: Nitrogen suffocation (see for instance this article from Slate on it: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/05/death_by_nitrogen_gas_will_the_new_method_of_execution_save…

Since wonder trade came out, I’ve made a point out of trying to get female starters so that if nothing else, I can breed them and WT out starters to people. I might not be far in Moon by Christmas, but I’ll at least be far enough to do that, so I’ll try to spread the joy with lots of adorable Popplio for everyone!

Ah, I remembered it: The more common name for it is “moral licensing.” You can start from the Wikipedia page to find out more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing

I don’t have my hopes up - still waiting on an international release for Breath of Fire VI here.

One theory bounced around about this is what I call the “morality bank.” The human mind acts to some extent like morality is a bank, where it can bank away good deeds and later make withdrawals by performing bad deeds, and as long as everything balances out in the end, all’s good. They can still look at themself as a…

You never even heard of the sketching Gau glitch in FFVI? That one’s pretty famous.

The difference is that Blizzard has to defend against every possible exploit, while cheaters/hackers/exploiters only need to find one. In a game as complicated as Overwatch, there are going to be innumerable ways to cheat, and Blizzard has to somehow defend against them all. They have a lot of clever people with more…

What is it this week with amputated toes? First I learned about the Sourtoe Cocktail, and now this... Well, I suppose this is at least a significantly less gross thing to do with a toe.

The worst part is that it’s a geometric distribution, meaning if you haven’t gotten one yet, the expected time until you do is ALWAYS 341 hours - past failures have no impact on the future, so until luck blesses you, you can’t even justify that you’re getting closer to success.

At some point, you actually will get more energy out. Kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity, is the key here. With a little algebra, you can show that under constant force F, the output power (change in kinetic energy per unit time) will be Fv/2. So, whatever the relationship is between the input…