CodexArcanum

There's a few old cartridges I miss and wish I hadn't given away, but probably none more than my Genesis collection. I had some real good stuff! Who would've guessed that trolls and hoarders would make it impossible to find old physical media?

I truly do not understand my fellow countryfolks' minds. Why toilet paper, again?

A quick search can tell you what goods might be affected, and paper products don't even make the list! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/transportation/2024/10/01/strike-at-the-port-of-ny-and-nj-what-imports-are-affected/75468183007/

Imports into the Port of NY and NJ

• Furniture
• Appliances, machinery and parts
• Plastics
• Beverages, spirits and vinegar
• Electric machinery and parts
• Apparel and accessories, knit
• Rubber
• Vehicles and parts
• Iron and steel
• Toys, games, sports equipment

So as you'd expect: cars, furniture, electronics, fast fashion, some raw materials

In other words, very little that is essential or that you'll miss in the next few months, but a lot of luxury things that cheap importers make a lot of money on.

Honestly, we'd be better off as a country if we permanently stopped importing a lot of this shit and went back to making it outselves.

Yeah, I'm a big G!YBE fan too!

🙅🏻Predrilling on escort missions.

🙆🏻 Predrilling on geode missions!

So photons, the particle of light, can interact with matter (atoms) in different ways. It could be absorbed by an electron, and then the energy transfered could knock the electron off the atom. That's the photoelectric effect. It could also excite an electron into a higher orbital but not dislodge it, and often the electron will emit a new photon when it drops back down to ground state. That's phosphorescence. The photon could also hit nothing and travel straight through.

If you shot a photon (using a laser) through a cloud of atoms, you could watch for these interactions. Normally, light seems to slow down when passing through a medium (air or water) because the photons get absorbed and re-emitted. In bulk, this causes light scattering and slows travel.

In this experiment, the cloud is made of ultracold rubidium. Rubidium is quite reactive and a pretty big atom, but i dont know specifically why it is used. What surprised the experimenters is that they could measure both the excited states of the atom and the emission of the photon. Sometimes, the atoms would seem to stay excited even though the photon had already been emitted, and also sometimes atoms would get excited even though no photon had been absorbed.

This is interesting but kind of makes sense to me. The quantum properties of reality don't disappear when we move up to bigger scales and aggregates. Rather the quantum properties seem to just "average out." But this has weird effects. Electrons, for example, aren't little balls in orbit around the nucleus. They're waves of energy that get probabilistically smeared out over an "orbital", an area around the nucleus where that electron is likely to be located. When atoms combine into molecules, the orbitals also combine into complex orbitals over the entire molecule. And when lots of atoms get arranged into a crystal (like in metals) those orbitals smear out over the entire aggregate. That's kind of what it is to be entangled with other matter, to be bound up in the same quantum probability function.

So to my mind, looking at how one atom reacts with a small number of atoms in a supercooled cloud doesn't make sense, and gives weird results like negative time. The wave function of the photon must account for the wave function of the entire cloud. The single photon has infinitely many possible interactions through the cloud, which in aggregate always amount to taking longer to pass through while exciting some electrons along the way.

Plussy vs Zussy

More game creators should set up impossible situations in their promotional screenshots. I never tire of watching nerds get sniped like this. Bonus, if your game is about the military in any way you can probably collect a fair bit of top secret info this way too!

E. Matricide

Great book, one of my favorites! Can't comment on the movie it (apparently) inspired.

Man, I'd love to play Alan Wake 2. Big Remedy fan; Control was my game of the year for two years. Be nice if they'd release it on a platform I'd buy it on.

The best written games are all indies now. Text and story heavy games are pretty common, with varying amounts of "game" to carry the story. Check out Citizen Sleeper, Disco Elysium, or Book of Hours.

BIG IS BEAUTIFUL BROTHER!