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  • megane-kun@lemm.eetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world[Deleted]
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    1 month ago

    Can’t remember exactly why I put a profile picture here, but I guess I was thinking “oh, someone might use the same username I use in some other instance, so I guess I’ll put something to differentiate.”

    Whether or not that actually hurts my own statement, I’ll leave it for the others to decide. I think posting/comment volume + striking username (and profile picture) + unique voice = recognizability. I think only have one of three, so… IDK!



  • megane-kun@lemm.eetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world[Deleted]
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    2 months ago

    Pakalat-kalat lang ako. Kung saan lang mapagtripan. 😅

    Bihira lang din akong magpost kasi madalas wala rin naman akong masabi o maidagdag.


    I’m just hanging around at random places. Wherever my fancy takes me.

    I rarely post too, since I rarely have anything to say or add.






  • This! The only time I had my bard perform (use performance) is when I was trying to solicit help from someone, but telling the plain truth (as my character has been doing so far) would put the party at risk, so I told the DM:

    I will tell the story as if it were an epic tale told across generations of bards. Can I use performance for this?

    The DM allowed it. I rolled the die and got a fairly high roll. The person I was asking help from was so moved they swore they’d help the party with the utmost of their abilities.

    Besides, the DM has just told the table the same story (targeted to my character, but the rest of the table had a listen), and it’s just annoying hearing me recite that same story they just heard from the DM (who is far better than me at telling stories).

    The only time I acted out in character (in the main story in that campaign, and that other time was debatable, as it’s more of a caricature than in-character) was in a fairly impromptu scene between me and another character. The rest of the table, including the DM, was just too shocked at the impromptu act. In hindsight, it played out like one of those romcom anime scenes. And I came out of it all: “wtf was that?!”


  • apat (4), lima (5), anim (6), pito (7)…

    The lip-touching streak breaks for just one number: walo (8) and another streak starts with siyam (9) all the way to siyamnapu’t-siyam (99) by how two-digit numbers are pronounced. For example: labing-isa (11), walompu’t-walo (88).

    (I think) there’s a lip-touching streak that is longer than this: walong daan at siyamnapu (890) to siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na bilyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na milyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na libo, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam (999 999 999 999).


  • But the Earth isn’t a plane.

    Sure, human scaled patches of the Earth’s surface can be approximated by a similarly sized patch of a plane, but if we’re talking about tiling the entire surface of the Earth with buildings, it can actually be done using twelve pentagons or twenty isosceles triangles. We just need buildings whose footprints are roughly 1/12th and 1/20th the Earth’s surface respectively.

    For the pentagon, that’d be around 510.07 × 10^12 m² divided by 12 = 42.505 × 10^12 m². With the Pentagon building having seven floors, one such building would have roughly 297.541 × 10^12 m² of floor space.

    For the triangle, that’d be around 510.07 × 10^12 m² divided by 20 = 25.503 × 10^12 m². Assuming this building has seven floors like the Pentagon building does, it’d have roughly 178.524 × 10^12 m² of floor space.

    The good thing about dividing into triangles, however is that it can be subdivided into four similar isosceles triangles, which can be applied recursively down to a far more realistic scale.

    Doing that, we can subdivide the original triangles sixteen times yielding the following:

    25.503 × 10^12 m² / (4^16) = 5.937 × 10^3 m²

    And since the area of an isosceles triangle is equal to s²(√3)/4 we can rearrange things to find the side length of a compound with area of 5 937m²

    s = √(4A/(√3)) = 117.103 m

    I think that’s a human-enough scale for buildings.

    In total, there’s 85 899 345 920 such buildings, covering the Earth.

    If one such building has 7 floors, it’d have at most 41 559 m² of floor space.


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    Hit enter too soon. Additional proofreading.

    Damn, I discovered a small mistake in the calculations partway through. Corrected.




  • I always found the Gilgamesh -> Holy War conversion far more useful for the Omega Weapon fight, especially if the fight is over before I even manage to use half of the 10 items the conversion gives me.

    With a low enough level, and a powerful enough junction setup, every single fight (even the final boss fight) is complete child’s play. Too bad I didn’t already know that on my first playthrough.


  • I’ve never fished at all, but I’ve seen some people do some sort of fishing (with a fishing pole) along the coast. I haven’t really stayed long to observe what they do, but I saw that it involves a lot of waiting, and I feel increasingly awkward watching a guy do some fishing so I left. It might be that the spot that guy chose (or the area in general) just doesn’t have enough fish, being in the city and all. That, and pop culture (including some anime) characterizing fishing as needing patience and the capacity of being incredibly still while being capable of incredibly fast movements. Like a ninja meditating, only to do intensely quick movements to pull in the fish even before it had the chance to react.

    Thanks for clarifying the misconceptions I had. I’ll look forward to having an opportunity to do some lure and fly fishing.



  • Oh, I know! 😅

    In my current playthrough, I used just a few of the techniques I know to get 3×100 Flare for my party to junction to STR and 3×100 Thundaga to junction to Elem Atk (you can get two of them, and the Siren has the third IIRC–it’s been a while since the SeeD exam and the playthrough proceeds at a snail’s pace) before the SeeD exam in order to defeat the “Crab Mecha” on the first available opportunity. All that, while keeping my levels at a minimum (under lvl 10, ideally).

    I have the patience for it, but it still gets incredibly tedious and dull.


  • Disengagement.

    If I can physically disengage, walking away from the situation, I’d do it. If not, I’ll mentally disengage. Enough times of this, I’ll just default to it: not giving a shit because apparently, no one does.

    If I must engage in it anyways, maybe I’ll return to it once I’ve calmed down. If I must do it there and then (so, no time to compose myself), I’d do minimum I can get away with.



  • Triple triad + Card mod ability = broken game

    It might have had a factor in my not enjoying the Triple Triad mini game, as I sometimes get bogged down in just collecting cards to convert into spells and items. Also, the Queen of Cards is a huge pain. And the CC Club sidequest.

    CC Club side quest and Queen of Cards spoilers

    Completing the CC Club side quest is necessary to complete prior to Disk 4 if you want to have access to them on Disk 4 (they’re inside the Ragnarok). Queen of Cards is available on Disk 4 by default (she’s on the Lunar Pod crash site in Esthar), so you can just play her there for a quicker access to the cards only accessible through her.