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I think it's wonderful that there's an alembic emoji.

These hot bowls of miso soup exhibit absolutely beautiful convection cells. You can watch small cells form and gain energy, slowly growing and merging until the whole bowl is convecting as a unit.

🦊⚗️

I just learned you can make nuclear weapons in Factorio.

What the fuck mate.

...who am I kidding I get winded after jogging a couple hundred feet.

Okay I've literally never been interested in running a 5k but the name and premise of this is so funny it's almost tempting.

"Worst Day of the Year Run"
http://www.worstdayrun.com/wa----details.html

Noticed this by seeing the street closure on google maps.

(this was was going great until I scribbled in that ridiculous dogleg in the center)

Example: I was really aggressively recycling found clothing to keep my own gear in top condition which was *fine* and maybe even correct, but bit me in the ass when an animal attack destroyed my rather nice hats and gloves in a -20C windchill with no shelter nearby and no backup clothing.

It's not "path A or path B" type decisions, but more "will doing this thing to help a short-term need cause massive problems in the medium to long term?"

So a thing about this game is that the time between "make a decision" and "realize if it was a mistake or not" can be anywhere between like 30 seconds to a couple of hours. And even when you do get immediate feedback on a mistake, it's often another 10min or more before you can figure out if it's actually recoverable or not.

That's *way* longer than most games.

And it means second-guessing everything in a way that's pretty cool but also kind of intense.

heck I played some of that game to try and relax and now I am actually way more tense.

Holy fuck though getting attacked by a bear is legitimately horrific.

Unlike with wolves, you can't even try to fight back. You just gotta experience being knocked to the ground and mauled, in first person.

And it goes on for a *really* uncomfortably long time.

Oh right I forgot my cd drive only operates via paperclip

This is a world whose economy is partially built upon literal manifest gods, and partially built upon a magical capitalism (Craft) that's rapidly reshaping everything. Kai builds sub-sentient god-figures for the rich and powerful to use as financial instruments, and Teo is a potential client.

Also as a sidenote, Kai is my favorite trans character in fiction.

Okay so here's the scene from Full Fathom Five about creation myths that I've been talking about. It's so, so good.

https://pastebin.com/mfU3e39Q

@indi​ very kindly grabbed this scene from his ebook and took the extra step of editing out extraneous stuff and cutting it down to the main conversation.