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Published: May 21, 2026 04:56

ā€œHow could they not know thatā€ is the wrong question. The real path to an answer is ā€œhow would they learn that.ā€ Genuinely! By considering how someone would learn something, you can arrive at answers like ā€œthey probably havenā€™t done this,ā€ or ā€œthey failedā€¦

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Published: May 21, 2026 04:03

"Fallout New Vegas fans should just be glad for new Fallout, whatever it's form! Now to watch the Bethesda direct like a TRUE Fallout fan." "Hi, I'm Todd Howard. For Fallout 5, we've decided to embrace Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for the XBox as the oneā€¦

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Published: May 20, 2026 22:17

When I am of sufficiently adequate spirits, few things seem to raise those spirits as well as responding calmly and politely to those who are anything but. "YOU FOOL! You think BLAH?" "I apologize if I have mistakenly given the impression that I thinkā€¦

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Published: May 20, 2026 20:10

I donā€™t really have romance planned for my novel, which Iā€™m not sure is a point for or against it in terms of marketability, really. Granted, if Iā€™ve learned anything, itā€™s that you donā€™t need close relationships in fiction to be explicitly romantic forā€¦

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Published: May 20, 2026 20:06

In my experience, forums (and their equivalents) full of strangers arenā€™t great for starting new discussions. What theyā€™re excellent at is you saying a whole bunch of stuff that will inspire the same old discussions to happen.

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Published: May 20, 2026 15:33

Iā€™m still amused that I once saw the recommendation ā€œwrite essays to help with your thinking,ā€ thought ā€œthatā€™s a good idea, I should do that,ā€ only to almost immediately realize I was already doing that on a daily basis via social media and comicā€¦

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Published: May 20, 2026 06:59

I hadn't considered the Amazing Digital Circus theatrical release creating additional potential for early leaks, but I probably should have considered the Amazing Digital Circus Theatrical release creating additional potential for early leaks. The onlyā€¦

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Published: May 20, 2026 06:11

Easy to learn, difficult to master - https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-141 Can something be difficult to learn, but easy to master? Something that's easy once you've learned it, maybe, but if the learning was difficult, is that not part of theā€¦

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Published: May 19, 2026 19:54

Sometimes when LLMs comes up, responses make me think there's a belief that LLMs will make mistakes in grammar. What it's more prone to is mistakes in information, consistency, and logic. The grammar and spelling should be fine. It makes me worry thatā€¦

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Published: May 19, 2026 19:24

Writing adviceā€”and, indeed, a lot of adviceā€”is tricksy because of how general it is while being presented as absolutes. ā€œYou need,ā€ ā€œyou have to,ā€ ā€œyou mustā€ and the like get thrown around while giving what is general advice, and general advice is notā€¦

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Published: May 19, 2026 19:01

Me: Why did they even put Ariados into PokĆ©mon Champions? How silly. First big tournament result with over 400,000 players: Ariados victory! Me: ā€¦I beg every pardon? (I love being proven wrong about this. Thatā€™s awesome.)

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Published: May 19, 2026 16:32

I find the assumption that someone who does something well is ā€œshowing offā€ troubling. As a general rule, I mean. A specific exception in which someone is obviously showing off can be less troubling, but those generally involve someone doing somethingā€¦

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Published: May 19, 2026 15:18

I wonder how many people are like me in that they never used to even notice em-dashes while reading their novels, but now they do thanks to ā€œspot the AIā€ tomfoolery. Which is a decent enough check in most comment sectionsā€”half of which are full of otherā€¦

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Published: May 18, 2026 18:49

Entertainment appeals to what people like. If it appeals to a lot of people, it is a reflection of things they want or care about. Entertainment that attempts to control what people want by mere virtue of providing what they think people should want willā€¦

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Published: May 18, 2026 14:58

I feel two things contribute to a lot of arguing in fan bases: 1 - Anger gets clicks. If someone is pointing out a silly flaw, they might exaggerate and treat it like a big deal for clicks. 2 - Many people assume hostility when they see someone point outā€¦

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Published: May 18, 2026 04:25

I maybe didn't mention this - https://www.egscomics.com/comic/falsekings-140 This page was posted 83 minutes late after I'd warned it might be as much as 90 minutes late, meaning it was 7 minutes early. This logic is irrefutable, and it would be a wasteā€¦

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Published: May 18, 2026 02:18

I don't think I'll be posting very late, but given my poor estimation skills, I'm going to say up to 90 minutes late. Thus, anything less than 90 minutes late is early! Don't think that logic through, it's best taken for granted.

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Published: May 17, 2026 23:40

Perhaps the strangest thing about Fallout (okay, probably not the strangest) is meat storage. I know there are fridges in the games, but that's more exception than rule. How many settlements have figured out salting and smoking, and if they have, where areā€¦

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Published: May 17, 2026 16:25

Talking through our feelings is important and healthy in general, but men might need an extra push to do it thanks to societal norms. One of the few feeling some men arenā€™t criticized for sharing is anger, and I hope most of us can understand why thatā€™sā€¦

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Published: May 17, 2026 04:54

I made a character in #Fallout4, a reporter I named Jenny Olson. Her one true goal has been a character analysis of Piper with an assessment of her abilities as a reporter. This was to challenge my own assessment of Piper, and it has managed to revealā€¦

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Published: May 17, 2026 03:59

Huh. YouTubeā€™s not recommending me anything on Main. That used to happen with an empty history and history paused, but having anything in history would keep recommendations. My history is paused, but not empty. This suggests a temporary blip inā€¦

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Published: May 16, 2026 14:59

I donā€™t mind the Star Wars prequels existing, but I basically reject all Star Wars canon not in the original trilogy on the basis that it is overly silly and nonsensical. The original trilogy was silly, too, but a self-contained sort of silly. Just a funā€¦

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Published: May 16, 2026 03:01

Rules of flying - https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/paraphone-003 "Rule the first: Penguins can't fly." "How's that a rule? Penguins can't fly anyway." "Oh, they could, but we shan't allow it." "What?" "Rule the second..." #egscomics #webcomics

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Published: May 16, 2026 02:25

"I'm going to convince people something they like is bad, actually! Step one: Insult them and what they like. Step two: Say a bunch of things while assuming they have the necessary context to understand. Step three: There is no step three, for Iā€¦

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Published: May 16, 2026 02:05

A thing about forming logical arguments with premises is it can be FUN, and part of that fun is you've organized your thoughts on something and can share it at any time. You don't need to gather your thoughts and figure out how to put it, you don't needā€¦

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Published: May 15, 2026 19:44

I think Iā€™ve figured out a trick to help writing believable dialogue: Strawmen! Wait no come back thereā€™s more to this When we talk to people we donā€™t know very well, we make certain assumptions about who weā€™re dealing with to give us context. We canā€™tā€¦

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Published: May 15, 2026 15:56

This is making me imagine a shopping experience in which a simulacrum of yourself manifestsā€”either by magic or technologyā€”and does the shopping for you while you wait. Your shopper is a doppelgƤnger so everyone knows by sight and sound whose shopper isā€¦

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Published: May 15, 2026 15:36

Hypothesis 1: Humans default to the expectation that others know what they know, but work around this assumption to realize otherwise thanks to knowledge and context. Hypothesis 2: This is connected with, or used by, social instincts, and it is at timesā€¦

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Published: May 15, 2026 03:26

Have you ever had someone disagree with you about something fictional and ultimately trivial, and you actually looked forward to seeing what their counterarguments were, but they're just... Nothing? Assumptions, fallacies, and personal attacks? SHOW MEā€¦

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Published: May 14, 2026 17:44

Me in Starfield: ā€œIā€™m going to suggest we not engineer and spread a disease throughout the settled systems. However targeted we make it, thereā€™s the risk of mutation, especially on so many different worlds. Also, Iā€™m playing after 2020. This feels right.ā€ ā€¦

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Published: May 14, 2026 16:57

For fun, and to practice logical arguments, I intend to play through Fallout 4 with Piper as a near constant companion. Iā€™ve recently raised the question of how good a journalist Piper is in terms of general reporting, information finding, andā€¦

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Published: May 14, 2026 14:09

My hypothesis is humans, by default, have the expectation that others have the same information they have, and what actually changes is they acquire the context and thinking skills necessary to realize otherwise. Less "we grow out of this defaultā€¦