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Cake day: May 23rd, 2024

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  • Calories in calories out is literally just the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of energy. It’s a fact.

    Where it gets tricky is that the actual equation has quite a lot of variables.

    You could, for example, increase your passive energy requirements with this micro dose of exercise situation. Does it raise your body temp (or rather the demands to maintain it at homeostasis) for a longer period of time and thus increase calories demanded that way?

    Or, like a lot of fitness studies, it’s fucking junk because it trusts self reported calorie intakes.



  • The problem is it’s a pretty big genre shift. Nintendo clearly thought it was time after Skyward Sword and the market agreed… But I personally couldn’t stand basically everything they did beyond the base idea of going all in on an open world.

    There was, quite frankly, too much meaningless filler content for me to really care, and the disconnect in tone between the main story’s genuinely emotional attempt at creating a sense of urgency and the open world “take your time bro lmao Zelda’s already been doing this for a century” drove me up a wall.

    I understand why people like it though, they absolutely nailed the exploration and mechanics… If you weren’t already tired of them.












  • Iron has the most stable nuclei because of… chemistry reasons… so it was thought most radioactive decay chains would effectively end there. This is also neat on an astrophysics level because iron is the last element created by first generation stars, so you’d get this grand entropic cycle that ends with a universe made of black holes, neutron stars, iron, and loose hydrogen atoms, more or less. In theory but not practice, probably.

    For all human practical purposes decay chains end in lead though. The time scale in the meme is the difference between “effectively stable” lead and “as stable as possible” iron.

    Tl;Dr everything below iron will get fused into at least iron by stars. Everything above will decay into iron.