Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)

@kasperd @filippo @fazalmajid @dalias back in 2022 there was a short Twitter thread from Ross Bishop¹ about testing four SSDs that lie about fsync: only two actually kept that promise².

For durability, the WD Gold SSDs do include supercapacitors of capacity sufficient to fully flush write buffers to the flash layer, and recently introduced this to their mechanical drives too.

¹: https://web.archive.org/web/20220222012227/https://twitter.com/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056

²:
1. Samsung 970 Evo Plus: MZ-V7S2T0, 2021.10
2. WD Red: WDS100T1R0C-68BDK0, 04Sept2021

#monsterdon I want you all to hold me accountable: if I become an all-powerful evil god-king-monster and inhabit a terrifying monolith built to manifest the breadth and indomitable scale of my eldritch power, and I am slain by some whippersnapper who skips leg day, I want to make sure my architecture doesn't collapse upon my death. Not cool to endanger the lives of all my minions like that, and it would seriously stress the health plan, not to mention life insurance payouts. Hold me to it.

#monsterdon Oop it is boss fight time apparently

#monsterdon Again, pretty cool set design inside the fortress here. That spike pit was pretty ridiculous, but it looked nifty.

#monsterdon Oh no, Liam Neeson has been perforated! Time for some Acting™.

#monsterdon ...cyclops dude is blaster-proof..?

Sure why not

I guess it's narratively convenient, definitely doesn't completely invalidate the emotional beat of the previous scene where the merry band left him to die at the place and time he foresaw for his end.

...and it's all just so he can be stone-ground to cyclops peanut butter in this scene?!? Good lord, what a mess.

#monsterdon Oh isn't that sweet, the ultimate weapon is the power of heteronormative marriage for political convenience

Corwyn used Marriage Palm Fire Blast. It's super effective!

#monsterdon *Corwyn strikes a wide stance, confused about why the glaive is not returning to him after having done so at least once or twice in the last couple of minutes*

pssst Corwyn skips leg day, pass it on

#monsterdon One hit?! Surely not. Second health bar?

#monsterdon This swamp fight is filling me with questions. If slayers can stay underwater, and if they are all armed with ranged weapons, why even bother advancing to hand-to-hand combat range? They didn't need to risk a single casualty in that encounter.

#monsterdon (tower? Temple? I got the word wrong, didn't I? Oh well, alea jacta est.)

#monsterdon "You cannot overcome the power of the beast..?"

"Not in this place, no."

"Then where?"

"The emerald tower."

One short day / In the emerald city..!

#monsterdon Wait, what? Why do they suddenly have horses now? Were they magically dehydrated just-add-water horse pills or something in that burlap sack the quicksand dude was carting around??

#monsterdon "He gave his life for us."

"He... was my only family."

"We're your family now!"

ooooooof, it's not called an emotional beat because it's supposed to feel like being hit with a stick

#monsterdon *cyclops reaches out to shake Corwyn's hand, bobbles the docking manoeuvre, quickly recovers to finish up the handshake* ah, you see, it's because of depth perception problem, nice world-building nod there. Definitely not just a bad take and too little budget for another crack at it.

#monsterdon *horses gallop by in a herd*

_extremely Laura Dern voice_ They do move in herds!

(Are these the fire mares that were coincidentally mentioned in the last scene? Is there a reason they are not apparently fiery in any particularly obvious way?)

#monsterdon Why is Corwyn constantly smirking at completely inopportune moments, it is off-putting

#monsterdon Oh for pete's sake, are we about to have a giant spider scene? I could really do without one of those, please and thank you. (Nev don't read this toot.)

edit; YEP THOSE SURE ARE SOME STOP MOTION PEDIPALPS. Right then, I'll just be behind the couch for a little while, see you all again soon.

#monsterdon The shots of Lissa wandering around this inside of this Black Fortress are very HR Giger meets Labyrinth. Fun set design.

#monsterdon *fire mares gallop straight off a cliff and into the sky* ah OK so now we're in full E.T. / "why don't the eagles just fly them to Mordor" territory

Really missed an opportunity to license Ghost Riders in the Sky for this scene