the difficulty comes from having to figure out the rules for any given attack and being able to deal with the situation accordingly

bonus weird thought: I just realized thatffxiv raid difficulty scaling is just different levels of “ok but can you handle THIS??”

I just seen a music theory video analyzing jevil’s theme and saying the chords go from “dark to darker” …… yeah man

has anyone ever thought about doing calculations on the derivatives instead .

@ikeWren bonus thoughts: order and chaos also feel like some of those Essential Rules for Existence. order always begets chaos, and chaos always begets order. it's like how game of life can be created in game of life infinitely

@ikeWren It all basically boils down to complexity emerging from much more simple systems, which are all basically designed to Continue Existing i.e. keep being alive & don't die. and it all keeps going until you reach chemistry which is, as far as I'm concerned, a set of rules for How Matter Can Change which exists on top of quantum physics, and that, in turn, is just a set of rules for how The Infinite Energy That Has Always Existed is allowed to move around. we exist as a result of all this

@ikeWren no you're basically spot on, please do not fuck yourself without a trained professional nearby. the "spectrum" I was envisiong is essentially just. complexity. how much complex behaviors have arisen in this Creature. the idea is that Dunkin, The Dog That Likes To Watch Fish In A Specific Way would be more alive than, say a Ants. because Dunkin is experiencing more emotions and much more complexly

I think perhaps that "life" is something very hard to define. but it does however exist on a spectrum.

bram stoker's dracula is about how gay men are evil and the reason it works so well is because it's true

sitting on my ass and having some thoughts

I think I understand the balloons in VS clockwork at least a bit more now. you get your hot air from… somewhere and then just like. send that straight into the gas nozzle. and you just gotta turn the thing by tiniest amount to tweak the target temp which it will either slowly drop to or rapidly increase to. the sweet spot for just enough lift (i.e. won’t immediately fly into the fucking mesosphere) seems to be somewhere under 300K, but it’ll depend on how heavy the thing is. need to do more research into actually generating hot air though … I think steam boilers can do it? do compressors affect temperature or just pressure?

FUCK I KEEP FORGETTING REDSTONE POWER DISABLES PHYS PULLEYS I JUST DROPPED THE ANCHOR IN THE OCEAN 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

it's a nice anchor

well

lowkey kirks me off though it's gonna make this ordeal Stange

ugh what ever I guess if nothing else I'll either use one a those weird anchor blocks from eureka OR just tie the thing down with ROPE

fucking piece of shit this mod hasn't been touched for over a year why the fuck is it fucking my shit

fuck

I don't fucking know man just try it again maybe??