the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

currently having the usual soulslike problem in elden ring: i have no idea how to distribute levels properly

and also having the usual open world problem: i have no idea what to do next
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some of the quotes in this game (resonance of fate) are just really good

just used a particularly strong attack and the character said "Life's short; yours is about to be shorter"
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today we learned: apparently there are places in the US where conduit ground is still legal

why. this is a terrible idea. do not do this.
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this game (resonance of fate) has an interesting mechanic where there are two types of damage--some weapons do large amounts of "scratch damage", which can't kill enemies and is easier to heal (and heals on its own over time), while other weapons do small amounts of "direct damage", which requires different (rarer) items to heal and is capable of killing enemies.

not a mechanic we've seen before, but an interesting one
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you know those can duster things? the ones that are just aerosol spray cans full of nothing, pull the trigger and they squirt "air"?

what they're actually full of is liquid butane. Butane is a gas at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, but when compressed in a bottle like that it's liquid, except for a gaseous layer on top. If you open the valve (pull the trigger) the gaseous butane on top will rush out the nozzle, while the liquid part of the butane rapidly boils to keep the pressure constant

this has two immediate consequences: one, you should absolutely never use one of these near a source of heat or flame, because butane is very flammable; and two, if you turn the can upside down like it tells you not to do, you can get liquid butane out (because with it upside down, the liquid part is what's next to the nozzle)

A neat thing about physics is that when a liquid boils, it absorbs heat energy from all around it. Quite a lot of heat, in fact. Liquid butane, of course, will rapidly boil when not pressurized, and this boiling will quickly cool anything around it to the boiling point of butane at atmospheric pressure, which is approximately 0 °C/32 °F.

This is a very convenient way to rapidly cool something down if you ever need to do that.

As a warning: some spray dusters will use propane instead, which has a boiling point of around -42 °C/-44 °F, which will very quickly cause cold burns or frostbite if sprayed on skin. Do not do this on skin.

Other spray dusters use things like R-134a or other refrigerants, which have a variety of boiling points and generally should not be put on your body anyway
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this video game (resonance of fate) has needlessly edgy end-of-fight quotes. "hell just got a little more crowded" is pretty good though
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i know i asked this at some point before but our memory is bad, could someone explain what exactly a "sovereign citizen" is and why people say that as though it means laws don't apply to them

we saw mention of it again and i don't remember what we were told about it before but it feels like we're going to just get a whole lot of nonsense/garbage if we search it
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sudden extreme sleepy
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concept: fantasy universe where magic is heavily instinctual and actively resists being studied, but physical combat has realistic levels of required training, swapping around the usual "anyone can swing a sword but you need to be really smart™ for magic"
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you ever think about air? it's pretty nice
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having never seen either, we kind of just assumed that judge dredd and judge judy were the same show, constantly thinking we were misremembering the name whenever someone mentioned one

but apparently they're different
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i was just linked to this elsewhere and, you, you all need to see this it's adorable

https://twitter.com/mochiri_work/status/1499033059693408256?t=jQOh_NDpZohggJMb28x9AQ&s=09
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a surprisingly narrow poll, i thought horse with paws would win by a lot
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❌ vulpine
✅ foxoidal
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when and why and how did the word "avatar" or "icon" turn into "pfp"
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choose one
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transportation: when you're trans and you carry something
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ma crow march, time for motherly corvids
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