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Game designers figured this out decades ago and it cost millions in failed launches. Will Wright built SimCity with a fully accurate traffic simulation. Testers hated it. The cars behaved realistically, which meant nobody could build a functioning city because real traffic is an unsolvable nightmare. He had to make the simulation dumber before the game became fun. The tension is permanent: the more accurately you model a system, the more it punishes the participant. Real medieval economies kept 90% of the population in subsistence farming. A historically accurate fantasy world doesn't produce heroes. It produces serfs. Tolkien solved this by making his economy deliberately vague. No one knows what a gold coin buys in Gondor. That ambiguity is a design choice, not a shortcut. The Reddit post is funny. The lesson underneath it is one of the hardest problems in simulation design: fidelity and fun are opposing forces, and you have to pick which one wins.

Thinking about how Greek already had loanwords from Chinese as early as AD 150 (κολανδιαφόντα)

@BigolWave Errors of this magnitude are never made innocently

Why is EVERY single meme health food TERRIBLE for you.. it’s actually diabolical. Salmon. Avocado. Hummus. Kale. Broccoli. It’s all thyroid nuking bullshit it’s insane. Normies just get one shotted by ONE uber retarded rendition of eating “healthy” and.. that’s it. No saving them

By the time the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Squanto had crossed the Atlantic, lived in England for 9 years, went back to America, then was captured and taken to Spain. He lived in Malaga for 4 years. He went back to America and was there when the Pilgrims landed. Squanto knew English, certainly knew Spanish, likely knew a good bit of Latin, and was a baptized and confirmed Catholic. The Virginia settlers had been in America so long already that Squanto may very well have met Pocahontas in London (they were there at the same time). American mythologized history acts like the Plymouth Pilgrims practically beat Columbus to the New World.

I like how in Danish "to save" is "at gemme" so everytime Twitter asks me if I want to save a draft it asks me "Is this post a gem?"

The actual truth, which people have repeatedly refused when I explain it, is that roughly 25–35 generations back, you are descended from ***every single*** person who was alive in your ancestors' entire region of the world so long as they have any surviving descendants today.

Another funny example of AI language confusion: I was asking ChatGPT about the Neolithic in the Middle East, and it decided to throw in a random Arabic token

The fact that it is common knowledge that salt quickly reliefs migraines should make you question how carelessly scientific institutions attribute salt to pathology, let alone the countless others examples

wow

Small amounts of vigorous exercise provide the bulk of the benefits of all exercise. Exercise volume is really unimportant for fitness. This is true for cardio fitness, for mortality and longevity, and for strength. This particular paper shows that <10 minutes of vigorous exercise* per week (yellow) gets you more than half of all the longevity benefits of much longer periods. It's probably an even lower amount at higher intensity. * - Vigorous exercise here is defined as roughly 6 METs or above, which is jogging, moderate cycling, hiking, etc.. Sprinting is ~4x that intensity.

@wylfcen Wow

In Old English, a cat was called a “cat,” which meant “cat.”

Origen on the day of resurrection:

Adolf von Becker (1831 - 1909) - The Cat on the Pillow. Oil on canvas.

This is the kind of geography Americans forces would have to deal with if they put boots on the ground…

The prophecy...