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apat (4), lima (5), anim (6), pito (7)…

The lip-touching streak breaks for just one number: walo (8) and another streak starts with siyam (9) all the way to siyamnapu’t-siyam (99) by how two-digit numbers are pronounced. For example: labing-isa (11), walompu’t-walo (88).

(I think) there’s a lip-touching streak that is longer than this: walong daan at siyamnapu (890) to siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na bilyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na milyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na libo, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam (999 999 999 999).

But the Earth isn’t a plane.

Sure, human scaled patches of the Earth’s surface can be approximated by a similarly sized patch of a plane, but if we’re talking about tiling the entire surface of the Earth with buildings, it can actually be done using twelve pentagons or twenty isosceles triangles. We just need buildings whose footprints are roughly 1/12th and 1/20th the Earth’s surface respectively.

For the pentagon, that’d be around 510.07 × 10^12 m² divided by 12 = 42.505 × 10^12 m². With the Pentagon building having seven floors, one such building would have roughly 297.541 × 10^12 m² of floor space.

For the triangle, that’d be around 510.07 × 10^12 m² divided by 20 = 25.503 × 10^12 m². Assuming this building has seven floors like the Pentagon building does, it’d have roughly 178.524 × 10^12 m² of floor space.

The good thing about dividing into triangles, however is that it can be subdivided into four similar isosceles triangles, which can be applied recursively down to a far more realistic scale.

Doing that, we can subdivide the original triangles sixteen times yielding the following:

25.503 × 10^12 m² / (4^16) = 5.937 × 10^3 m²

And since the area of an isosceles triangle is equal to s²(√3)/4 we can rearrange things to find the side length of a compound with area of 5 937m²

s = √(4A/(√3)) = 117.103 m

I think that’s a human-enough scale for buildings.

In total, there’s 85 899 345 920 such buildings, covering the Earth.

If one such building has 7 floors, it’d have at most 41 559 m² of floor space.

EDIT:

Hit enter too soon. Additional proofreading.

Damn, I discovered a small mistake in the calculations partway through. Corrected.

We’ve had a Color Coding Scheme here for years, and no one bats an eyelid at those words even though it could be horrifying for someone in the US.

!Conclave2025@lemm.ee for an instance-agnostic link.

I always found the Gilgamesh -> Holy War conversion far more useful for the Omega Weapon fight, especially if the fight is over before I even manage to use half of the 10 items the conversion gives me.

With a low enough level, and a powerful enough junction setup, every single fight (even the final boss fight) is complete child’s play. Too bad I didn’t already know that on my first playthrough.

I’ve never fished at all, but I’ve seen some people do some sort of fishing (with a fishing pole) along the coast. I haven’t really stayed long to observe what they do, but I saw that it involves a lot of waiting, and I feel increasingly awkward watching a guy do some fishing so I left. It might be that the spot that guy chose (or the area in general) just doesn’t have enough fish, being in the city and all. That, and pop culture (including some anime) characterizing fishing as needing patience and the capacity of being incredibly still while being capable of incredibly fast movements. Like a ninja meditating, only to do intensely quick movements to pull in the fish even before it had the chance to react.

Thanks for clarifying the misconceptions I had. I’ll look forward to having an opportunity to do some lure and fly fishing.

I can’t really explain it, but it is akin to tuning it out. Basically ignoring it as it it were tinnitus.

Of course it can only be done if you can afford not to engage it (or engage in it such that you can fake engaging in it). IDK, it’s really hard to explain.

Oh, I know! 😅

In my current playthrough, I used just a few of the techniques I know to get 3×100 Flare for my party to junction to STR and 3×100 Thundaga to junction to Elem Atk (you can get two of them, and the Siren has the third IIRC–it’s been a while since the SeeD exam and the playthrough proceeds at a snail’s pace) before the SeeD exam in order to defeat the “Crab Mecha” on the first available opportunity. All that, while keeping my levels at a minimum (under lvl 10, ideally).

I have the patience for it, but it still gets incredibly tedious and dull.

Disengagement.

If I can physically disengage, walking away from the situation, I’d do it. If not, I’ll mentally disengage. Enough times of this, I’ll just default to it: not giving a shit because apparently, no one does.

If I must engage in it anyways, maybe I’ll return to it once I’ve calmed down. If I must do it there and then (so, no time to compose myself), I’d do minimum I can get away with.

In real life? Nope. I don’t think I have the patience for that, sitting perfectly still for hours on end. I would probably enjoy the scenery and the vibe though.

Triple triad + Card mod ability = broken game

It might have had a factor in my not enjoying the Triple Triad mini game, as I sometimes get bogged down in just collecting cards to convert into spells and items. Also, the Queen of Cards is a huge pain. And the CC Club sidequest.

The fishing minigame from Breath of Fire 4. There’s just something that’s both simple and relaxing, as well as complex and engaging in that minigame. Even better, it’s not a requirement to finish the game.

And then there’s the fishing minigame on Stardew Valley.

I wonder if answering “I don’t know, I haven’t checked” would count as:

• “Why is this bastard even trying to apply for a job when they can’t even count the number of toilets in their house?”
• “Probably trying to dodge the question, not good.”
• “Homeless motherfucker? REJECTED!”

That’s a great idea! Probably stealing it for when I next play a wizard-like spellcaster.

There was one time I had to play double-duty as utility and party healer. I thought it was a good idea to keep track of everyone’s health. In my head, it makes for deciding when to “switch to healing” far easier. So I had this sheet of paper keeping track of everyone’s total HP and current HP. At some point, I’ll switch to being the medic and physically pull out a card that says “Beacon of Hope” with a description of what it does (full HP dealt with healing spells and potions, among other things), and start doling out healing spells.

Aside from keeping track of everyone’s HP (which, in hindsight, shouldn’t be my job anyways), it was kinda simple. Even before my turn, I already have an idea what to do, usually trying to keep some idiot in the party alive. It’s just a matter which idiot I would try to save first (and for most situations, I just go for the one with the least current HP).

I used to print out spell sheets and put them into some sort of a spell booklet for reasons like this. It also helps that I played a bard when I did that and so there wasn’t a whole lot of spells that I needed to keep track of.

The last time I played a wizard, I just relied on a similar tactic (one-spell sheets compiled into some sort of a booklet), but instead of printing it out, they just stayed as files that I move to a directory on my phone called “prepared spells”.

I always thought “PM” stands for “Personal Message”, which is more or less an okay description. You send a message to someone “personally”, not in-person, but close enough, I suppose.

Those among them lacking in morals would make bank (or influence, whatever is afforded to them) justifying that government’s actions according to US constitutional law.

That daughter is the current vice president (who ran together on the same ticket as the current president: another dictator’s offspring). Seems like the daughter would be gunning for the presidency the next election (since presidents in the Philippines are only allowed one term) and is now have been waging a word war against the current president and their camp.

Anyways, the fear is that this arrest will be used for pity points amongst Duterte’s base. Filipinos in general love dramatics and the underdog. They will milk this arrest for all its worth, painting the elder Duterte as being oppressed, at the behest of “foreign interests” and agitating the base.

• Publish prematurely in an attempt to take advantage of the momentum.
• Notice that there are grammatical, spelling, and typographical mistakes.
• Edit, attempt to explain the edits, while also introducing more mistakes.

Rinse and repeat.

It’s okay if there are patch notes, right? Right??

For those people like me thinking “WTF is a worry stone?”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry_stone

Worry stones are smooth, polished gemstones, usually in the shape of an oval with a thumb-sized indentation, used for relaxation or anxiety relief.

Something one would fidget with when worried, I suppose.