Semjaza
@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 1 day ago:
My fave part was the expired crispr kits, arbitrarily cut off at desired date.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 1 day ago:
Only a few bites because people, understandably, aren’t biting that headline.
Share a screenshot of the article instead and they’ll be all over it.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 4 days ago:
Yes, they enjoy and will happily play me at Mario Kart for exactly the same reasons they won't play me at F-Zero.
Presence of catch up mechanics role of luck.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 1 week ago:
OK, that’s my ignorance. I didn’t realise toruses were usually hollow.
Thank you for letting me know, you’re right and I’ve learnt something.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 1 week ago:
A CD is clearly homotopic to a torus, though…
And the walls of a straw do have thickness…
A straw goes:Gas - solid - gas - solid - gas
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 1 week ago:
An individual doesn’t truly understand and apply the scientific approach and method if they baselessly believe that certain phenomenon are caused by supernatural forces/entities. Ergo, the individual’s credibility in their established field is called into question since they may have applied similar illogic and pretenses to their work and understanding there.
That’s not what you said elsewhere.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
If more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I’m all for it.
Better late than never.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
Might maroon me for fucking up the FOSS though.
- Comment on thicc 🌈 1 week ago:
I think fairly confirmed as not interested in women, but unsure as to what flavour of not into women.
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 2 weeks ago:
That didn’t help (Dodo as friendly inquisitive bird makes me sadder than many other extinct animals), but the primary factor was the introduction of rats to the island, iirc.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 2 weeks ago:
True, but we also tested many other materials across thousands of years and the death rate of contact with dihydrogen monoxide only exceeds the baseline death rate with immersion of the oral and respiratory sections of the visage. A property shared with most other substances, especially in liquid forms.
- Comment on What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week? 2 weeks ago:
Finished series 1 of Bad Sisters, it was a very good, entertaining dramedy.
Hogan great. Claes Bang also continues to be amazing in everything I see him in.
Melodrama reveals went far in the end, and I don’t know what future series that I’ve seen exist are gonna do except probably be less well written and put together. I’ve also not seen the original Belgian show, Clan, maybe one day.
- Comment on science never ends 2 weeks ago:
You know a lot more Maths than I do, and I agree with you (even if my thoughts in it all are more about having a fancy name to get people who claim both Positivism and “Maybe it’s all a simulation man” to recognise the hypocrisy of that).
My whole life-data-mismatch thing is from similar discussions with positivists, as I think life and consciousness is a pretty easy area to show that it doesn’t hold all the answers.
Back to the main point:
The idea that Maths is countable is pretty wild, and I’m gonna need to mull on it. Thanks for sharing. - Comment on science never ends 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and those are rare cases and so far apart from “corrolates with time” it is hard to impossible to know for sure when someone is outside that window.
I was also under the illusion that we’d done a lot of experiments trying to reelecrifiy frogs’ brains we have failed to get anywhere beyond muscle spasms off of the data and measurements we’ve been able to make.
- Comment on science never ends 2 weeks ago:
We haven’t yet been able to ressurect anything by recreating vital signs in a corpse so there’s something we can’t measure or detect of life so far.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
UB are getting all up in my standard and pioneer formats and killing my interest for them/Magic as a whole outside of “limited” precons.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 weeks ago:
Doom
Tetris
Chrono Trigger
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
Still the second largest CO~2~ emitter, so it’d make sense to put it on for the comparison.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 3 weeks ago:
I see the sympathy for the Dalek style episodes more as tolerance paradox and highlighting paralles with the Doctor.
I find that daleks also suffer from the inverse ninja law, and generally the more daleks in an episode the less compelling and engaging they are.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
Could you add the US to the graphs, as EU and West are hardly synonymous - even as it descends into Trumpgardia.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series 3 weeks ago:
Worst parts of Whittaker’s run were:
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- Chibnal told her to stay in the dark about Doctor Who, and she wasn’t allowed to research the role and watch older episodes, etc.
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- The writers for the series being much more capitalism is fine, actually. Most bizarre is The Doctor thinking that Space Amazon is cool and based, and not being very working-folk supporting, and I think there were other less blatant occurrences in other eps. too, where Whitaker’s Doctor acted in very undoctery ways (the spiders episode).
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- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 3 weeks ago:
E1M1 is great, top tier music.
The level clear screen music, E2M8, E1M8, and E1/2M9 tracks are all other top tier track contending for the throne.
Doom II introduced a few more bangers too, but I’m not as able to call the level codes to mind off the top of my head.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 3 weeks ago:
People aren’t used to this as a concept, especially when there are so many terms and conditions screens (that have been shown in multiple jurisdictions courts to not be legally binding) they click through on a daily basis as well as many other “as a service” models that are reliable enough that people don’t realise what the pitfalls are (people playing for Netflix are fairly certain it won’t close next week, for instance), even the more technically minded expect sunset clauses - which would be a pretty good legal baseline to improve the situation.
- Comment on George R. R. Martin's New Announcement Has Finally Made Me Accept He's Never Finishing The Winds Of Winter 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s a similar ending he has in mind, but a better route.
I presume that the Targaryn who has taken Storm’s End topples Cersei (who has to get killed by Jamie) and takes King’s Landing, and having Dany go off at the new King who is less a villain helps sell the fall into madness which ends with Jon being a Queen Slayer.
Don’t know how Bran gets there though, him waring someone and that person getting the throne could make sense.
I’m most miffed about not getting to see what happens with Stoneheart as well as Euron and other at sea Greyjoys.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 4 weeks ago:
Unless it’s infrastructure or something with a natural monopoly.
The main competition with steam is buying physical copies of things. If we want to support retailers selling physical copies of games and bricks and mortar shops, that’s a good thing.
Alas, I think the games industry is chosing to abandon them. And Steam has the ability to add games purchased outside of Steam to it for convenience. Unlike Epic it puts the user close to the top of priorities.
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 4 weeks ago:
But they couldn’t do it for Apu… Cowards.
- Comment on ‘Buffy’ Reboot Finds Its New Slayer: Ryan Kiera Armstrong To Star With Sarah Michelle Gellar In Hulu Pilot 4 weeks ago:
If it follows continuity all potential slayers are slayers… But if it does that why not follow the mess that is the comics?
And your idea of Ms. Summers juggling parenthood and slaying and adulting is very appealing to me, someone juggling two of them. I’d watch it.
- Comment on 1k Subscribers! 4 weeks ago:
Slowly working through Bad Sisters and The Other One.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Developer interview: my Q&A with the creator of Lutris 5 weeks ago:
Lovely interview.
Lutris got Magic: Arena working for me on my Linux machine a few years back and gave me a very enjoyable card game grind for about 3 years until I stayed limiting MtG:A to my phone on the commute.
Amazing work both from the Lutris team, and the interviewer.