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Oh, maybe! I didn't understand how it chose the points, but it does look like the random convergence approach.

Nice, thanks!

I'm disappointed that none of them seem to have gone with the random convergence approach.

Set the three corners of an equilateral triangle. Pick a random starting point on the canvas. Every iteration, pick a random corner from the triangle and your next point is the midpoint between the current point and that corner. While the original point is almost guaranteed not to be a point in Sierpinski's triangle, each iteration cuts the distance between the new point and the nearest Sierpinski point in half.

If you start plotting points starting with (say) the 50th one, every pixel is "close enough" to a Sierpinski point that you see the triangle materialize out of nothing. The whole thing could be programmed in about 20 lines of QBasic on DOS 30 years ago.

I'm just surprised that they've been able to get so much traction out of Sandra Bullock's character going to rehab.

My biggest beef with playing it on SteamDeck was related to network connectivity.

I was playing at home and went a long way from base. Then I had to take my daughter to a class and threw the Deck in my backpack to play while I waited for her to finish.

The game opened, said it had lost the connection to the server and killed me. I respawned back at base, thought about how far I'd need to walk to recover my body and noped right out of there to play Vampire Survivors instead. I never returned.

That was a couple of years ago while the game was still in early access. If it's now possible to play offline, I might give it another go. (It's a nice game.)

Sebastian (the dark-haired guy) spends most of the day in his room. You can't enter a character's room until you reach a certain level of friendship (usually by giving them "liked" or "loved" gifts). On rainy days, he spends some time by the river before returning home.

The player is waiting outside his house to interact with him.

Also, he's one of the potential spouse characters in the game, so presumably the player plans to eventually marry him -- or at least date him. (The "heart" threshold to enter his room and interact with him like a normal person is way lower than that.)

I hope I have sufficiently explained the joke to death. :D

Edit: Oh dang, the teardrop over the player's head is a mineral (I forget the name), which is one of Sebastian's "loved" items. When you're holding something in-game it's held over your head.

I may be remembering incorrectly, but after the 2019 Supreme Court ruling that federal courts can't address partisan gerrymandering, a couple of blue states (New York and Illinois maybe?) tried doing some gerrymanders after the 2020 census. Then their state courts struck them down.

Several blue states -- I think Washington and Oregon are among them -- created non-partisan redistricting commissions before 2019, so they can't be gerrymandered.

FFS, "between Lando and me". Grammar, folks. Use it.

They installed efficiency modules to reduce biter expansion?

The article summary in the post explains that it will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation just before he leaves office. So it won't be available for future presidents.

Hey man, screw you! Carl's awesome!

Oh, we're talking about Carl F? I thought you were talking trash about my boy Carl H.

Yeah, Carl F is the worst.

Seeing "Team A blanks team B" headlines always reminds me of the "censored" Kids in the Hall sketch, "Hitler blanks a donkey": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsHxZ2n0Ig

I find this funny, since I did a Gimp tutorial back in 2000 (early Gimp 2.x maybe, but maybe still 1.x -- I don't remember that part). I got okay with it.

A friend asked me to do some early photo editing a couple of years later since they'd heard that I was "good at Photoshop". I pointed out that I was actually "mediocre at Gimp". I was plunked down at a computer with a (probably pirated) install of Photoshop and asked to touch up some photos.

I hated it. Nothing was where I expected it to be coming from Gimp. If I recall correctly, I closed Photoshop and just downloaded Gimp for Windows.

It sounds like I might hate Gimp 3.