Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on nuked from orbit 3 hours ago:
Beeristics sounds like an awesome field, too bad Brad is in it.
- Comment on Anon goes to the casino 1 day ago:
Exactly. Videogames are some of the best value for entertainment you can find. There are a couple of games in my steam library that have cost me a few cents per hour of fun.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
but 36 seems like such a big age; I remember him turning 30 & now he’s almost 40 years old. Time flies by too fast.
I’m in this post and I really don’t like it
- Comment on Why don't movies look like *movies* anymore? 3 days ago:
I have a completely different view on this.
I HATE when we take a “camera perspective” instead of an “eye perspective”. I don’t like exaggerated contrast, because that’s what cameras do, not what eyes do. For the same reason, I can’t stand lens-flares and I’m really not a fan of focus-shifts unless they’re natural. It’s especially bad when first-person videogames do it, and then add film-grain on top.
I don’t want to see someone work a camera, I want to see the scene. That doesn’t mean I like grey, because the world has a TON of colour, but it also doesn’t mean I like the unrealistically high contrasts.
- Comment on Xenon 3 days ago:
At the worst, you can use it like people use nitrogen. To get a very brief high from lack of oxygen (and then possibly die)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
There are converters from pulse to tone! They cost something like 40 bucks though, or you can build your own for like 4.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Mine came free with fiber, but I don’t have a device to plug in. Nor do I have a cable running from my entry-point to anywhere in the house, so I’d have to buy a wireless set.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I just realized I haven’t seen a payphone in… multiple years.
- Comment on Anon remembers summer 4 days ago:
There was a whole “satanic panic” and a slew of “ritual child abuse” a few decades ago that was (almost?) entirely based on false memories caused by poor questioning.
- Comment on pew pew 4 days ago:
Not officially, so one wonders how you got this info?
I mean, ICBMs are basically this, just unlaunched, but I doubt that’s your point.
- Comment on pew pew 4 days ago:
This person Kerbals
- Comment on pew pew 4 days ago:
Rendezvous this!
- Comment on i swear 5 days ago:
We’ll publish your lab then
- Comment on Wheres Waldo, for the educated 6 days ago:
I’ve had missing children reports at large fantasy events and they would be 40% “Bobby is wearing a black shirt with a knight costume and plastic sword”, 40% Anna is wearing a pink dress and scarf, with a magic wand". And 20% “Joey is dressed like Flognip the Enmagicer from Flognip visits the Elves”.
- Comment on After Abortion Bans, Infant Mortality and Births Increased, Research Finds 1 week ago:
Oh no, the thing that literally everyone said would happen just happened!
And the perpetrators don’t care, they don’t give a shit about dead babies, they just want women to suffer for daring to have freedoms.
- Comment on Anon has a warning about the ISS 1 week ago:
My autocorrect vastly prefers “it’s” to “its”, regardless of grammer.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 week ago:
A lot of writers seem to have forgotten that scifi uses aliens and new worlds to talk about humans. They just think that scifi uses aliens and new worlds.
- Comment on Anon has a warning about the ISS 1 week ago:
And most supply missions give it a boost before leaving as well. Also, the ISS can “glide” by turning it’s narrow end forward, getting less drag from the atmosphere and reduce the decay rate at the cost of power generation
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
And doesn’t plankton already sequester CO2 on the ocean floor when it dies?
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
Hey, if you can make diamond that easily, we can exchange a LOT of substances for it. Not just windows and glasses, but pretty much every ceramic object, insulators, but also just toilets (slap some paint on it and done).
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
Oil actually comes from aquatic life (mostly plankton) that sinks to the sea floor and gets buried, squeezed and heated. Oil still forms today, but it’s a process of millions of years.
Coal is formed from plants, and that does indeed require something doesn’t eat it first. Swamps, for example, help a lot, letting the fallen trees sink down where most stuff can’t eat it. Peat can also form into coal. Coal forms even slower than oil though, and it’s much rarer, but it also doesn’t require an ocean, so it’s often more accessible for us land-living humans
- Comment on My kids bored out of their minds with a house full of toys, don't know how good they got it 1 week ago:
Or they had little clay horses as well
- Comment on Is this blockchain? 1 week ago:
Most babies eventually turn into productive people though
- Comment on fck yea 1 week ago:
To quote an old teacher “a little benzene never killed anyone, and it’s great for cleaning lab tables”
Turned out that actually, he was half right.
- Comment on Anon achieves optimal testosterone 1 week ago:
What listening to Andy Taytay does to you.
- Comment on imagine 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but you aren’t. I think all IP law is stupid, but until i’m president of the universe, it’s still the law.
- Comment on I made the clues as hard as possible so my teacher won't be able to solve it 2 weeks ago:
I understand none of the hints, except the worst one
- Comment on fck yea 2 weeks ago:
Micropipettes ftw!
- Comment on imagine 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I totally agree with all forms of breaking IP law on ethical grounds. But I also recognise that it’s still breaking the law right now.
- Comment on imagine 2 weeks ago:
Also, most farmers use hybrid crops, which you already can’t save, because they’re hybrids. (You can save them, but they’re not going to produce the same plants you get them from).