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Capcom Will Promote Steam Deck With Street Fighter 6 in Japan
  • I initially questioned whether something like Monster Hunter World (now that it’s been stripped of Denuvo) would also make sense for whatever they’re doing with it, and then I realized this might be in a convention setting, so maybe better to not run a demo of a game with an hour of setup (character creation + progressing far enough to save and quit)

  • Nintendo Support: Discontinuation of X (formerly Twitter) Integration and Social Media Integration for the Friend Suggestions Feature on Nintendo Switch
  • In a roundabout way, you could argue both were factors.

    Twitter’s echo chamber becoming cacophonous with spite and worse means less people visiting the site, and refusal to support the site would be a better look, but that pr move might be easier on the corporate wallet as well.

  • Do we have any estimates as to how long it takes for a species of bacteria to go technically extinct entirely via genetic drift?

    So, let’s say there’s a species of bacteria that is known to dwell in Greek yogurt. How long would it take before that species of yogurt-dweller only has modern descendants different enough to qualify as one or more new species?

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    How would you go about determining where you’ve already been in 1.20 caves?

    I’m tempted to start making oddly specific small statues made of random materials, maybe with limbs pointing to the previous statue in a sequence. Is there a better method?

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    If nuclear fusion were to become useful for residential heating, could the plasma be useful for fake fireplaces?

    When I say “fake fireplace”, I mean something like those structures fueled by fossil methane that produce flame and heat but obviously don’t burn actual wood

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    How do some animals (or at least humans) manage to generate more force than their own muscles are rated to handle?

    Just as an example, there were evidently reports during the 2007 Glasgow airport attack that someone attempting to subdue the assailant and assist police kicked said attacker in the testicles… but somehow managed to do so hard enough to injure one of their own foot tendons.

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    What's the coolest reflavoring of a spell/ability you've seen?
  • Yeah, you could easily reflavor component-requiring Animal Friendship as “just feeding the animal and somehow flawlessly avoiding harm”, just to make it ambiguous whether this is actually magic or just mundane.

  • What's the coolest reflavoring of a spell/ability you've seen?
  • I haven’t actually seen this being used, but since Hypnotic Pattern in DND5E can require a stick of incense as a component if you’re using spell components, I imagined someone casting that by twirling a thurible (incense burner on a chain) above their head, and somehow physically throwing the scent into the targeted area, and then a (mostly) harmless explosion of colorful, sparkly gas charms any affected targets through sheer fascination.

  • Soon to be a dead one
  • Yeah, I think there’s a vast difference between what we have now (ChatGPT and whatnot), vs the theoretical possibility of an AGI (artificial general intelligence), or even an AI based entirely off of human neural patterns. Mind you, brain uploading sounds hard, so maybe I’d see a completely synthetic AGI as more likely.

    But if we were ever to develop an AGI, we’d better start giving those things humanesque rights fast.

  • Men only want one thing and it's wholesome
  • I mean, I agree with the meme completely, but I’d also want to turn around in their arms and cuddle them right back. I’m a fan of both hugging and being hugged, and it might be a sensory thing.

  • Nevermore go smash
  • The first sentence made me think “alright, Kingdom of Loathing”, but I don’t know if goblins in that universe imprint on people.

    Come to think of it, there may have been one character in West of Loathing that popped, respawned, and had no memory loss at all, so never mind.

  • Switch 2 Rumors Swirl As Major Nintendo Games Go Out Of Stock
  • One one hand, I don’t trust Kotaku articles as far as I can throw them. On the other hand, I’m hoping the “major games going out of stock” part isn’t gonna be a problem in terms of historical preservation of these games.

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    How does one calculate the necessary surface area for a laser-propelled light sail for a spacecraft, so it doesn’t get shredded by the beam?

    Edit: I assume we’d at least have to take intended acceleration and the mass of the spacecraft into account, at least, right?

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