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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • Yes, one of the rules is to never confuse Cyberpunk with Cybergoth. It’s mildly acceptable to conflate it with gravers (Goth Ravers), but not if you want to make friends.

    We live in society. There are rules.

    Nobody has more rules than hyper niche cliques. If your locks had foam, you were very clearly deeply wrong about the actual deep meaning of whatever we imagined ourselves to be about and you’re doing everything wrong.

    You might be hard pressed to find any cybergoths in the wild, though looking at current fashion, maybe I should dig up some stuff.







  • Since the first caveman realized that not standing quite so straight up made it harder to be seen, we’ve been in a nonstop armsrace between the badguy wanting to know where you are, and you working hard to prevent that.

    EW is just the natural evolution of that principle, and we’ve gone from “Ogg look like gras!” to “can’t hit me if I blind you first” to “if we broadcast the signals we normally emit with a slight modification, it will look like we’re slightly over there and they will miss us”.






  • why does heating up two take exactly twice as long?

    A microwave works by exciting the water molecules in an object. They start to vibrate from the microwave energy hitting it, and vibrating molecules is what heat is. The microwave energy mostly bounces around inside the metal microwave until it hits something that has water (which is why you should never turn it on empty), so it doesn’t really get wasted.

    So, if you put twice as much stuff inside, it will take twice as much energy to heat it to the same temperature, so at the same setting it will take twice as much time.

    If you want to get nitpicky, it will require very slightly over twice as long, because by needing more time to warm up, it will give off more energy to the air around it, so you need to compensate. But the question of “how much will my food cool down in 90 seconds compared to 45 seconds” should be answered by “shut up dude” and not with a number.