underisk
@underisk@lemmy.ml
- Comment on 2/5 5 weeks ago:
The moon wrote this
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 1 month ago:
fake is just an easy way to communicate the idea without going into a bunch of complex color terminology. extra-spectral is a name for them if you really want to split hairs about it.
- Comment on amazing!!! 1 month ago:
There are humans with a fourth color receptor in their eyes who have a wider color range than your average person.. Women only though, sorry boys.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
that is an extremely debatable, incredibly hot take. i wasn’t a fan of cloud and surface spam but lets not pretend that 5e’s combat is universally loved, either. larian made it work pretty well by sanding off some edges here and there but it’s, at best, a sidegrade.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
Yeah I agree. They deserve a lot of credit for elevating D&D rather than relying on it to elevate the game. The result is grater than the sum of its parts; both D&D and Larian reached a wider audience through the collaboration.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
Anyone who played Larian’s previous titles can tell you the only thing DnD brought to the table was a popular license.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
Continuing to be amazed that the Pinkertons both still exist and are still up to their old tricks. Nothing is ever learned.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs) 1 month ago:
- Comment on bioluminescence 1 month ago:
UV tattoo ink is one of the only inks that have been approved by the FDA (for animal use). They’ve been used for a long time in livestock. Not that that should make you comfortable with sticking into your skin or anything, but it’s probably not quite the same as powdering your face with radium.
While we’re on the subject of historically misguided applications of radioactive materials: ever heard of uranium glass? People get real weird around spicy rocks.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs) 1 month ago:
they probably got a lot of people to buy the first couple battlepasses. a success for that quarter, maybe, but probably not the long tail they were hoping to get from transforming it into the GaaS model. they probably made more money from OW1 lootboxes, overall
- Comment on bioluminescence 1 month ago:
There are UV reactive tattoo inks. Not exactly the same but pretty close, and probably safer than trying to manipulate your genes.
- Comment on the sensory biology of plants 2 months ago:
I’m making a joke about The Happening, friend. It’s a movie where plants make people kill themselves.
- Comment on the sensory biology of plants 2 months ago:
M Night Shyamalan did a documentary on this I think
- Comment on Atoms 2 months ago:
lol this guy has never shared a toothbrush with friends
- Comment on weaponized nerdery 2 months ago:
That would make more sense if Wikipedia was a profit generating enterprise that needed to satisfy shareholders. It’s run like a charity through donations , though. Nobody is gonna replace Jimmy unless he steps down willingly.
- Comment on weaponized nerdery 2 months ago:
Thinking one guy deserves that much salary for the work of millions of volunteers over decades is what’s hilarious. Do you think those giant pleas that they post when they need money would be as convincing if they listed his salary?
- Comment on The duality of particles 2 months ago:
Eyes are a measuring device and using them here would not result in two lines. Using a different measuring device produces a different result. Nothing I’ve said is counter to anything you’ve said.
- Comment on The duality of particles 2 months ago:
Yeah, if you alter the experiment to try and prove duality then of course you can do that because light is both. The classic double slit experiment, as commonly understood and illustrated above, just proves the wave part though. You’re not going to see just two lines from shining a flashlight through a couple holes.
- Comment on The duality of particles 2 months ago:
It’s just proof that light behaves as a wave. The second picture is how it would theoretically behave if it was (only) a particle, which it isn’t. The proof that light is a particle comes from a second experiment proposed by Einstein dealing with the photoelectric effect. This article is meant for kids but it explains things pretty plainly. The duality is unexplained, but the experiment is well understood.
- Comment on weaponized nerdery 2 months ago:
that’s the spirit
- Comment on How does delisting a game make/save money? 2 months ago:
unintended consequence is the definition of perverse incentive.
- Comment on weaponized nerdery 2 months ago:
i dont think anyone is ignoring that. the meme is talking about how it was built, not hot it’s currently maintained. it definitely didn’t start off spending that much, and all that money isn’t what made it popular
- Comment on How does delisting a game make/save money? 2 months ago:
so it’s essentially a perverse incentive at work.
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 3 months ago: