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Path of Exile 3.29.2 landed on August 5th, and it looks like a cleanup patch.
It isn't — not entirely. This breakdown covers what actually changed and what
it means for your build, your atlas and the economy.

In this episode:
• The Offerings to the Deep rework — conversion rates jump from 4% to 10%
(and 8% to 20% empowered), but the Altars now appear less often. GGG says
the total is "roughly higher or equivalent", which makes this a variance
change, not a buff. What that means for how you run Voyages.
• The gold-find modifier on Charts did not function — GGG's words, not ours.
It's now increased item rarity instead. If you have gold-find Charts, or a
filter that ignores them, both just changed value.
• Abyss quietly got four separate buffs, none of them announced as one —
including a Trial of Destruction interaction change that makes it stack
with additional-Pit sources it didn't stack with before.
• Crystals of Permutations now charge up to three times for better Vestigial
Unique odds, and you can step off the ladder after one.
• The sleepers: Ruthless Support and Fist of War Support no longer work on
triggered slam skills — a real nerf, shipped as a bug fix. Plus Zana's
Ingenuity now covering charge removal, the Gravebind implicit that did
nothing, and Spell Damage modifier tiers that were displaying inverted.

And an honest note on what this patch is not: there's no skill rebalance and
no Ascendancy tuning here.

SOURCE — Path of Exile 3.29.2 Patch Notes, posted by Kieren_GGG on 2026-08-05:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3994431

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patch notes, and every factual claim in it was checked line by line against
that thread before publication. Where we offer analysis or a prediction, we
say so in the audio.

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Patch 26.15 starts Season 3, and it hides a full champion rework inside a
normal patch. We go through what changed, why Riot says they changed it, and
what it means for the meta — every number sourced from the official notes.

In this episode:
• Aegis of Valor stops reducing LP loss and pays double on wins instead —
and why Riot says the old version asked you to play for the grade, not the win
• Apex duo queue restricted: Master only, and only close in rank
• The Bel'Veth patchwork update, and the one thesis behind all forty numbers:
power moved out of levels 1–6 and into the late game (plus the 75% → 100%
attack modifier almost everyone will scroll past)
• Nerfs to Locke, Naafiri, Riven, Sylas and Mordekaiser — including why
Naafiri's ult is a ~23% cut, not the ~8% it looks like
• Tank buffs for Alistar, Maokai, Volibear and Zac, plus Kai'Sa's scaling
• Bastionbreaker, Terminus and Yun Tal; the Jack of All Trades nerf
• The ARAM: Mayhem systemic modifier change that makes the champion list
below it read completely wrong

Source — Riot Games, "League of Legends Patch 26.15 Notes" (2026-07-28):
https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/game-updates/league-of-legends-patch-26-15-notes/

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An AI-generated companion to Wube's Friday Facts #445 — "The Biters Bite
Back" — broken down: what
Klonan announced, the engineering reasoning underneath it, and what it
means for your factory.

The enemy expansion planner, untouched holistically since 2013, got a
rework. Expansion groups now scale with evolution factor (max size 80, up
from 20 in 2.0), the candidate-chunk heuristic was rewritten so that
exploring early no longer quietly suppresses attacks near your base, and
the base-building cooldown moved from "5 ticks per hitpoint" — which could
make a few worms take over 20 minutes and made late-game nests build
slower than early ones — to a static 30 seconds by default, 10 on
Deathworld. Plus the new "expansion base built" radar alert, the
modding-visible change that lets a unit prototype define what it builds,
and the "Oops! All worms!" bug that killed the Biological caste system.

Source (read the original): https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-445
Posted by Klonan on 2026-08-07.

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Magnetic fields only exert force on moving charges, and that simple fact explains everything from compass needles to electric motors to MRI machines. The episode traces how a sideways push on charged particles—perpendicular to both their motion and the field—becomes the force that spins motors, vibrates speaker cones, and lets magnets stick to your fridge. Along the way, it unpacks why cutting a magnet in half always yields two smaller magnets, why Earth's magnetic north is actually a south pole, and how the same physics that guides a compass needle can image the inside of your body.

Based on "College Physics — Magnetism: Fields, Forces, and Moving Charge" by OpenStax (Rice University) (OpenStax, https://openstax.org/books/college-physics/pages/22-introduction-to-magnetism), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted by Demades into an AI-narrated audio discussion. Access for free at https://openstax.org.

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Circular motion feels intuitive until you examine it closely—and then everything flips. This episode unpacks why constant speed around a curve means constant acceleration, why the force you feel pushing outward doesn't actually exist, and how the same physics that keeps a washing machine spinning also keeps the Moon in orbit. Through conversation, the hosts dismantle the myth of centrifugal force, explain what centripetal acceleration really is, and show how Newton's insight unified gravity from falling apples to orbiting celestial bodies.

Based on "College Physics — Circular Motion and Gravitation: The Physics of Going Round" by OpenStax (Rice University) (OpenStax, https://openstax.org/books/college-physics/pages/6-introduction-to-uniform-circular-motion-and-gravitation), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted by Demades into an AI-narrated audio discussion. Access for free at https://openstax.org.

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Carbon is the element that makes life possible—not because it's glamorous, but because it bonds to itself and forms four strong connections that let you build molecules of almost any size and shape. This episode explores why carbon, and not silicon or any other element, became the foundation of all living chemistry, how the same atoms arranged differently become completely different substances, and how a small handful of functional groups and reaction types explain everything from plastics to fuel to the food you eat. Along the way, the hosts debate whether the word "organic" still means anything at all.

Based on "Chemistry: Atoms First — Organic Chemistry: The Chemistry of Carbon" by OpenStax (Rice University) (OpenStax, https://openstax.org/books/chemistry-atoms-first/pages/21-introduction), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted by Demades into an AI-narrated audio discussion. Access for free at https://openstax.org.

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The periodic table isn't an arbitrary chart—its structure is a visual map of how electrons fill orbital shells around atoms. This episode explains how the table's rows, columns, and even its awkward bottom strip all emerge from the physics of electron orbitals: s orbitals hold two electrons, p orbitals hold six, d orbitals hold ten, and f orbitals hold fourteen, which is why rows have those specific widths and why the transition metals form a ten-column block in the middle. Understanding this electron-filling logic reveals why elements in the same column behave similarly and how Mendeleev could predict undiscovered elements before anyone knew about orbitals.

Based on "Chemistry: Atoms First — Why the Periodic Table Has That Shape" by OpenStax (Rice University) (OpenStax, https://openstax.org/books/chemistry-atoms-first/pages/3-introduction), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted by Demades into an AI-narrated audio discussion. Access for free at https://openstax.org.

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Nuclear chemistry breaks the fundamental rule of ordinary chemistry: that atoms stay what they are. This episode explores what happens when nuclei become unstable and decay—the three main ways they fall apart (alpha, beta, and gamma radiation), how radioactive half-lives create an uncheateable clock for dating ancient objects, and the two opposite reactions that release enormous energy: splitting heavy atoms in fission and joining light ones in fusion. From helium balloons born of uranium decay to the Sun's endless hydrogen burning, it's the story of how elements transform themselves.

Based on "Chemistry — Nuclear Chemistry: When Atoms Themselves Change" by OpenStax (Rice University) (OpenStax, https://openstax.org/books/chemistry/pages/21-introduction), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted by Demades into an AI-narrated audio discussion. Access for free at https://openstax.org.

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A match ignites in a flash while a nail rusts over years—yet both are iron meeting oxygen. This episode untangles why the same chemical reaction can happen at wildly different speeds by separating two distinct questions: whether a reaction happens at all, and how fast it proceeds. Through the lens of molecular collisions, activation energy barriers, and the dials that control reaction rates—concentration, surface area, temperature, and catalysts—you'll learn why a grain silo of flour explodes while a sack of it sits safely, how your refrigerator doesn't stop food from spoiling but makes it nearly impossible, and why your body uses enzymes instead of running a 400-degree fever to stay alive.

Based on "Chemistry — Reaction Rates: Why Some Chemistry Is Instant and Some Takes Years" by OpenStax (Rice University) (OpenStax, https://openstax.org/books/chemistry/pages/12-introduction), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Adapted by Demades into an AI-narrated audio discussion. Access for free at https://openstax.org.

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You can live here for years, have a perfectly fine job, and still have nowhere to be. This one is about the room you work in and the ladder out of your apartment — what a desk actually costs, where the startup scene lives (it isn't a building), and the profession that gets paid to find you a different job.

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