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- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 3 days ago:
Fair enough, yet unless I’m mistaken most planes don’t rely on people throwing bricks at them (which would be quite risky anyway, for unless they throw them faster than escape velocity they’re bound to come back down eventually).
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 days ago:
In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld the wizards of the Unseen University built a possibly sentient supercomputer out of an ant farm (much faster and more powerful than previous druid-built computers based on standing stones, which were mostly limited to calendar calculations and required regular human sacrifices).
The Agathean Empire at the edge of the disc has little boxes with little imps inside which can paint a picture of what you point the box at in mere seconds.
Later, some Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs trained imps to paint even faster on highly flammable nitrocellulose reels and, moving them very fast and lighting them from behind with excited salamanders, invented moving pictures (and promptly accidentally almost let the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions enter the disc).
Even later, some other Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs created a continent-spanning network of semaphore telegraphs, even managing to send pictures through it.
All while some Dwarves in Ankh-Morpork invented movable type, while getting in trouble with the wizards, who’re well aware that you can’t use that to print magic books, for the type will remember…
And, all along, deep under their mountains, the Überwaldian dwarves have been digging up and using ancient Devices to power whole cities…
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 days ago:
You don’t want guns in a spaceship. Don’t want to poke a hole in a wall and open it to space.
Swords make a lot more sense when fighting inside a spaceship. (Granted, short swords, probably, due to the limited space, but still.)
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 days ago:
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. — Pratchett, maybe…?
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 4 days ago:
Flaps. (As in, the hinged bits at the back edge of the wings, that essentially change the shape of the wing as required, not by flapping the wings; that’d be an ornithopter, as in Dune, not a plane.)
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 5 days ago:
2000, XP, and Vista are NT too.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 5 days ago:
It’s not pressure under the wings, it’s fucking Bernoulli sucking on top of them.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 5 days ago:
Because capitalism!
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 1 week ago:
That’s Sony telling the customers they kicked to the curb that it wasn’t because of the PSN thing.
It was personal.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 1 week ago:
Denuvo
… is expensive. And a subscription service.
Which means there’s an incentive for studios to remove it as soon as new sales aren’t bringing enough money for its cost to be worth it.
That’s when you want to pirate (or buy, if you’re into that kind of shit) the game. With the added benefit that it’s unlikely that the studio will come up with more updates or DLC, and if the game is at all moddable it’ll probably have a mature community patch that’ll fix everything the studio was unwilling or unable to patch. (Also, I’m not sure how denuvo cracking works, but I doubt it removes all of that shit, so a game with it properly removed will probably run better than a cracked one, even if the cracked one still ran better than the original infected version.)
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No, the point is to prevent real democracy by being “democratic enough”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
All the constitutional monarchies started as just monarchies.
Nope.
Spain, for instance, started as a dictatorship.
Then the bastard died of being an old piece of shit, hopefully extremely painfully, and the corrupt fratricidal parasite he’d named as a successor, a descendant of some dude who had been king long before the dictatorship (which started as a coup against a democratic republican government) he’d been grooming for years, was named king.
There was a sham “democratic transition” that defecated a “democratic construction” with the military threatening the elected politicians to make sure the new constitution wasn’t too democratic, and a referendum where the people voted for that thing because at least it wasn’t as bad as going back to the dictatorship.
Then a few years later the parasite (secretly) staged a coup, and then publicly diplomatically dismantled it, enshrining himself as a saviour of democracy and making sure the citizenship wouldn’t push for radical change, lest the next coup succeed.
As the bastard Franco said before he died, he left everything “tied up and well tied up”.
- Comment on Anon describes past 2 weeks ago:
Bone spurs.
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 3 weeks ago:
Photocopy of a photocopy.
It’s always been obvious that this was the inevitable result of them poisoning the Internet (their own source of information for training) with their garbage.
- Comment on it's making the frickin frogs gay 4 weeks ago:
Oxidane, hydric acid, hydroxylic acid, hydrohydroxic acid, hydroxic acid, hydroxoic acid, hydrol, μ-Oxidodihydrogen, oxygen dihydride, hydrogen hydroxide, aqua, neutral liquid… 🤷♂️
- Comment on telecommunications dish 2 months ago:
Does the cone of shame do anything in this case?
Looks like the nozzle would still be able to reach everything it’d reach normally…
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 2 months ago:
A screenplay is part of the (process of making) a film. It’s not an independent work.
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 3 months ago:
Jupiter is quite more flattened than Earth due to how fast it spins and it being made mostly of gas.
If you want spherical, look at Venus… or, even better, the Sun (not directly, though, of course; use some kind of filter or reflector).
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 3 months ago:
The only heptapod killed in the film was killed by Americans…
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 3 months ago:
The original short story is called Story of your life, as from the point of view of Banks narrating it to her daughter.
No love story, no daughter, no Story of your life.
I suppose you could still have a story about aliens, and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and bootstrap paradoxes, but you wouldn’t have this story, and probably wouldn’t have the same emotional impact.
It’d be like taking the war out of Slaughterhouse-Five, if we’re staying with the aliens and alien-related psychic time travel theme. Or the air out of a balloon.
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 3 months ago:
genuinely one of my favourite original sci-fi movies I’ve watched in the last decade
🙄
- Comment on imagine 3 months ago:
the totally not evil company Bayer
Ah, yes, the totally not evil company that (together with BASF and Hoechst, forming the cartel IG Farben) developed chlorine gas for use in world war I.
The same IG Farben which was the single largest donor to Hitler’s election campaign, and main contributor to the construction of Auschwitz, where they produced synthetic petrol and rubber for use in the war and performed all manner of human experiments, including testing their own Zyklon B gas.
The same company that decades after the war was still chaired by well known nazis, and profiting from chemicals developed at Auschwitz.
Yeah, I’m sure Monsanto is in good hands, and feels right at home there.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 3 months ago:
Revenge. 🤷♂️
- Comment on 🎵 🎶 🎵 3 months ago:
Col Do Ma Ma Daqua!
- Comment on spidey senses 3 months ago:
No spiders yet.
- Comment on Anon finds a hidden message in Shrek 3 months ago:
Plenty of donkeys in Aesop’s fables, too, if those count.
- Comment on YouTube not loading half the time. 3 months ago:
Because Google intentionally breaks their sites when loaded on Firefox, so Mozilla have to keep reverse engineering their bullshit and implementing countermeasures, in an arms race somewhat reminiscent of duck genitals.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 4 months ago:
Well, Star Citizen is playable right now (and has been for years), and they recently showed over an hour of supposedly live Squadron 42 gameplay (obviously somewhat spoilery for the start of the game), so there’s some hope at least…
Of course, it remains to be seen how much more of the story is finished to the same extent, and at what point will it be consistently playable on contemporary hardware (I haven’t played Star Citizen in a long while, so I’m not sure what state it’s in, and I don’t know if Squadron 42, being a single player game, will be as susceptible to server issues, or if it’ll even need servers), but it gives a good idea of the state of the main game features and how it’s intended to feel.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 4 months ago:
Well, they recently showed over an hour of supposedly live gameplay (obviously somewhat spoilery for the start of the game), so there’s some hope at least…
Of course, it remains to be seen how much more of the story is finished to the same extent, and at what point will it be consistently playable on contemporary hardware (I haven’t played Star Citizen in a long while, so I’m not sure what state it’s in, and I don’t know if Squadron 42, being a single player game, will be as susceptible to server issues, or if it’ll even need servers), but it gives a good idea of the state of the main game features and how it’s intended to feel.
