For any not in the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

I’ve mostly been spending my time working on programming tools for myself, for the experience. Last week, after multiple weeks of work, I finally finished a macro calculator for crafting, which was a fascinating project (multiple caches were needed to calculate quickly). Realized however, that the formulas now use modifiers that must be pulled from the item/ recipe database, so this week I’ve been writing an extractor for the data from the sqpack files.

It’s been a lot of fun, but boy howdy is there not a lot of information out there in documentation form. So, I’ve been dumpster diving existing extraction projects to figure out the various internal structures.

As for 7.1, I’m most interested in hearing about the raid; their combat team has been cooking well, and I’m excited to see what’s next.

Good ol" BobbyB does not miss, thank the gods. Memes aside, his work is indeed phenomenal.

Snilk perhaps?

Man, I’m sure glad I kept my Ixali gloves around, years later.

Probably some programming, some Satisfactory, etc.

Although apparently it’s a lot harder to double communio now with the new addition to the rotation? Should be interesting to see how things settle out now for max dps.

I think I’ll be leveling scholar this go-around. Although not looking forward to healer solo duties. 121111111, etc.

I’ve been playing Heart of the Machine, and really enjoying it. It’s a fascinating 4x ish in a future city, in a bit of an inversion of AI Wars (same developer). Before playing, I was merely intrigued, but now I’m excitedly awaiting where it goes. It was, however, initially difficult to figure out what to do. Perhaps more UX is going to be useful here.

BeneG is nothing but a national treasure. I still find myself laughing at the Lopporit Zenos clip from time to time.

There was an episode of PBS Space Time on the holographic principle in general recently, and I believe they’ve also discussed the black hole thing as well.

I usually play clerics (busted good), but for my current campaign I’m playing a human fighter, and it’s a ton of fun. “What’s your character do?” “Charges into the fray, naturally”

Rather fun to play a character that’s a foil for my typically conservative & trepidatious teammates.

I didn’t see anything in the paper about the rotational speed of galaxies. Was that accounted for?

This is -exactly- what I thought of, seeing this picture. As a side note, there’s a family of Roseate Spoonbills that live near me, and everytime I pass them, I think “This is a good bird to know.” They’re really quite pretty.

Unable to narrow it down to a particular episode right now on this device, but it’s Polygon’s old Unraveled series. Always featuring BDG at his peak.

Not even mad; that looks fantastic!