Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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    • Wipeout HD/Fury can be played using RPCS3
    • 2048 can be played using vita3k
    • Original/2097/3 can be played using any PSX emulator

    There is also BallisticNG, which replicates the various flight physics of the various titles 1 to 1 (excluding Fusion), and faithfully recreates the PS1 aesthetic (right down to the polygons jiggling, if you want that). It has mods, custom tracks, crafts and campaigns. If the old graphics style does it for you, it’s basically endless wipeout content.

    It’s insanely amazing on the deck. I recommend binding the back buttons to discard/use pickups, so you never have to move your thumb off throttle.

    Other titles worth mentioning are both Readout games. They have an immaculate sense of speed, though have quite different gameplay systems and track design. (No weapons, strafing replaces air breaks)








  • Guy on the right has the biggest (fictional) body-count in human history. Dude gravity-strikes earth (adjusting asteroid orbits so they’ll fall into earth’s gravity well) killing billions and destroying earths ability to support life for tens of thousands of years. Then acts like it makes him the greatest freedom fighter ever.

    He does this in a world where earth is still the only place where agriculture is reliably possible at scale, billions more would have died from the food shortage. Literally the only reason humanity survives his bullshit is that it happens to discover FTL gates and other life-supporting planets right at the same time.

    Winn is bad. Marco is objectively a thousand times worse. He would have genocided his own species to stroke his ego.








  • Heat stroke might’ve been an hour to hour issue. But the human body is 60% water. You’re not going to sweat out the several kilograms of water required to shift that percentage significantly, even within a whole day.

    Yes, a human will die of thirst before hunger, but that still takes days, not hours, and the majority of that liquid loss will be due to urination, not heat related sweating.

    The bad feels of hot weather has more to do with the heat itself, and the salts and those electrolytes you’re sweating out.


  • Cats have a biology that is supposed to extract the liquids they need from their prey. Their drinking is supplementary and opportunistic, so likely doesn’t work through a sensation of thirst the way it does for us.

    Cats who are fed dry kibble, do not drink enough, because of this. Dehydration related problems are by far the most common health issue with pet cats.

    Flowing water devices, or even flavoring the water, to encourage cats to drink more, is a thing because of this.



  • No. It doesn’t. Research that points to it being a good thing to avoid ever getting thirsty in the first place, is funded by companies that want to sell you water. Preferably bottled, at an inordinate markup.

    Most people only notice their thirst due to their busy lives, by the time it gets really bad. But you get thirsty FAR in advance of it being an issue, it just isn’t an insistent feeling.

    Hydration trackers, at best, help people who keep busy to actually slow down for a sec and check the state of their body.

    In reality, most people who don’t get enough water, can solve their problem with one additionall glass with one of their daily meals.

    An app is like downing the entire jar of vitamins when one pill a day would do the trick.

    Hydration isn’t an hour to hour issue. You don’t sweat and piss liters a day. And you aren’t supposed to either. Fad diet plans that actually work by losing waterweight, still show the weight loss over days, not hours.

    Not drinking on a schedule does not risk dehydration.



  • Except drinking all the time also has proven drawbacks. In proffessional sports, drinking too much plain water is known to be detrimental to performance.

    You do not sweat nearly enough to warrant the multiple glasses of water the average school teacher makes kids drink in PE nowadays. Even though you do get thirsty.

    What your body actually needs, are the salts and other minerals you just sweated out, which was the whole point that created Gatorade.

    Also a lot of the research that claims thirst to be “too late” in telling you when to drink, is funded by companies that sell bottled water.