the study is setup so that the person taking the pill and the person giving it to the participant who is recording the results both don’t know whether the pill is a placebo, but some other person knows or it’s written somewhere else what the person got so in the end they can know if the result was from placebo. the important part is the researcher at the time of recording/interpreting doesn’t know, because if they know they may be bias in favor or against the placebo.

whew, that’s relieving to hear. good to know I’m not addicted

lots of really good pixel art: Celeste, hyper light drifter, dead cells, etc

list.toSorted() vs list.map(word => word.toSorted())

(note that you can’t actually do string.toSorted() in js you have to convert into a list and back)

I was a big fan of horimiya manga, also think this first chapter is a little suspect but I’ll prolly keep reading anyways.

also 8 year age gap with 16yo is kinda 💀

the hero says he stopped detecting the monster’s precense, so I think jelly can be detected when using slime abilities but since the slimy parts retracted back to her body it’s not detectable anymore

I’m fine with the difficulty, but I’m sure a lot of players bought silksong without beating hollow Knight first, and I feel that the game is too hard for someone just getting into the genre. it’s unnecessary cruel to new players sometimes imo.

someone could enjoy most of the game but be turned away by some of the more frustrating parts, which in my opinion is kinda unfortunate. maybe they bought the game on release and now feel like they are stuck with a game that isn’t worth it.

BlazBlue mention. I think it’s funny how non fighting game people are getting into bb entropy effect (BlazBlue is a pretty old fighting game series and entropy effect is a recent spin off made by a 3rd party)

world of goo…

this is true it rains on the moon

I’ve sold jokers on black deck to make space because I forget that I have an extra slot

“The UK maintains non-science-based standards that severely restrict US exports of safe, high-quality beef and poultry products.”

so now we care about science? but still not for climate change/vaccines

I think it’s more about how testers always run into all the edge cases programmers don’t think about

books have category numbers and libraries sort their books by this

that title… I cant

according to Google, cat purrs are at a specific frequency that somehow helps you heal faster

he’s the model

in fencing left handed people have a slight advantage, since left handed people are used to fighting right handed people but righties aren’t used to fencing lefties. other than that it’s probably worse since it looks like writing left handed is more annoying

it’s like the trolley problem. would you rather have more people die or a smaller but still sizable amount of people die? unfortunately in America there are only 2 viable candidates.

big garlic