whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on [deleted] 12 hours ago:
It’s more run away/chain reaction type events you want to avoid I think rather than a low % inflation or deflation that remains relatively stable, swing too far in either direction and you going to have problems.
- Comment on Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS 2 days ago:
It’s not his call & an illegal executive order, funding is Congress and the corporation for public broadcast is a corporation not a government department.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 3 days ago:
A bunch of retro games have good couch co-op support & the steam deck can emulate pretty much all of them
Zombie ate my neighbors, smash TV, 2-d brawlers like TMNT turtles in time, double dragon, and streets of rage, Goldeneye, toejam and Earl, bubble bubble
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 5 days ago:
Ligma Balls, cousin to Seymour Butts and Hugh Jass
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
I think they mean forward wrt the direction the sun is moving, like this:
- Comment on I LOVE POTATO SALAD 1 week ago:
The Waldorf salad rises from the depths of its ancient dimension of cosmic horrors
- Comment on What TV series have you watched with the oddest premise? 1 week ago:
Guy with a high school education is the safety inspector for a nuclear power plant and is able to afford a large home in the burbs, vacations, braces, frequent nights at the bar, etc on a single income.
- Comment on On World Book Day, I just have to remind you about the masterpiece of a series Black Books 1 week ago:
“The pays not great, but the work is hard.”
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 1 week ago:
I’ll go with some classics if you haven’t tried them yet. Planescape: torment is a really engaging crpg if you don’t mind old graphics and dig lots of lore and dialogue. Morrowind if you prefer first person for another old school rpg with lots of stuff to discover in a weird surreal environment. Dwarf fortress sounds like another older one you might be into too.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Unity Review 1 week ago:
You could try the original version, they released it for free and the pixelation may help make it feel less disorienting. Or when I used to play some games on the psvr I’d have a ginger ale or something with ginger in it to help with any disorientation nausea.
- Comment on Favorite B-Movies? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah all the Troma stuff was the first thing that popped in my mind too, Nukem high, toxic avenger, etc
- Comment on Favorite B-Movies? 2 weeks ago:
Jennifer’s Body made some money but was critically received, but itis actually a pretty good horror movie that was marketed poorly
Lake Placid is meant to be a goofy comedy horror movie that is a fun watch and made just enough to trigger endless terrible sequels like Hellraiser and Amityville, reviews treated it like it was trying to play seriously but some of the lines are so cheesy
Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still.
Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake Placid, but someone said that name was taken
- Comment on DoubleFine Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary of Psychonauts 2 weeks ago:
Good game and the sequel was solid too, worth a playthrough to meet the milk man and explore the meat circus
- Comment on You Too Can Come to the Theater to Watch 70 Minutes of Just Movie Trailers 2 weeks ago:
Patrons who buy a ticket
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I think the recentness of formalizing infinities into math with Newton’s and Leibnez’s calculus (infinite series, limits approaching infinity) in the 1600s and Cantor’s sets (cardinality of infinite sets) in the late 1800s speaks to the difficulty of even conceptualizing the problems they introduce and the rigor needed to handle them
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I think we’re on the same page there, I was just pointing out a limitation of the thought experiment that draws attention to the fact that infinity only allows what’s improbable possible and doesn’t make the impossible possible. But yeah it doesn’t undermine the idea that introducing infinities gives unintuitive results.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 2 weeks ago:
But they still would be limited to only what monkeys can actually do with typewriters given enough time or monkeys to do everything a monkey will do with a typewriter.
Infinity only allows anything that can happen to happen no matter how unlikely to happen, but it doesn’t allow something that has 0 likelihood to happen like a monkey turning into a cup to happen. If there are any 0 probability events necessary for the task then it wouldn’t happen regardless of the number of monkeys or given time.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 2 weeks ago:
Those are some of the conditions necessary for the probability calculation to result in a non zero chance of writing the works of Shakespeare. From the article:
Consider the probability of typing the word banana on a typewriter with 50 keys. Suppose that the keys are pressed independently and uniformly at random, meaning that each key has an equal chance of being pressed regardless of what keys had been pressed previously. The chance that the first letter typed is ‘b’ is 1/50, and the chance that the second letter typed is ‘a’ is also 1/50, and so on. Therefore, the probability of the first six letters spelling banana is:
(1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) = (1/50)6 = 1/15,625,000,000.
The result is less than one in 15 billion, but not zero.
But if they weren’t independent, say every time a monkey hits b their lack of fine motor skills causes them to also hit yhb all together, then even infinite monkeys with infinite time wouldn’t be able to type banana. Or if after hitting b they keep hitting b and ignore all the other keys they would never type banana. Evenly distributed just makes sure they can hit every key, it can take some unevenness like you mentioned j and some other letters come up very rarely. But if they never hit a or e you’re never going to get Hamlet.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 2 weeks ago:
The defeater is each key needs to be statistically as likely as any other key to be pressed next, i.e. statistically independent events. For example after a monkey pressed S they are then just as likely to press K as W. If there is any reason they prefer a key or sequence you don’t get a normal distribution and they probably will never create any of Shakespeare’s works.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 3 weeks ago:
Use your blinker, return your cart to the corral, and mind your business
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 3 weeks ago:
John Dies At The End. Weird, sci-fi comedy that nobody saw
Budget <$1 million, box office $141,951
The story was originally written as a serial and released on a web site for free before getting sold as a book, the movie cuts out big sections that makes some scenes meaningless or contradicting earlier scenes. I think it’s pretty fun to watch and it has a low budget sci-fi charm, but I get why it didn’t do well. Given another screenwriter/director I think it could be retried.
- Comment on Beauty is still out there 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Which shows have you watched this week? 3 weeks ago:
Watched a few old episodes of AEW and Futurama this week. Also it’s getting late and raining tonight and reminded me of this Joe Pera episode about waking up in the middle of the night when it’s raining, a little niche but if you enjoy it he’s got some good podcast episodes too.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 3 weeks ago:
Do what you think is right, but spend some time to consider whether you want to reward someone or some organization with your hard earned money if you consider what they are doing immoral or bad.
- Comment on This is not the post you're looking for 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 3 weeks ago:
Greenland sharks are pretty amazing
They can grow up to 24 feet putting them at the same giant scale as great whites and basking sharks, but most are usually closer to 5 meters long
They can live for hundreds of years due to extremely slow metabolism and ambush feeding, some individuals found around 400 years old are as old as the Jamestown colony, Don Quixote, and the discovery of logarithms.
They are opportunistic feeders and have been found with polar bear and reindeer in their digestive systems, and can pull/vacuum in water to catch their primary prey of fish, eels, and other sharks.
- Comment on What TV series or seasons you've watched do you think needed a rewrite? Or any TV series taken a writing turn you didn't expect? 3 weeks ago:
The Prisoner was pretty unexpected through most of its episodes if you want a good retro spy type show
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 weeks ago:
There was a game called tribes that combined the surfing/skiing movement with combat before the counterstrike mod levels came out, it was pretty fun the sequel tribes 2 was pretty popular for a minute when it came out too. But the skill ceiling on some of those cs surf maps was wild.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 4 weeks ago:
Crush, puzzle/platformer only released on PSP and 3ds. It had decent reviews but I guess it didn’t make enough money to get any ports. One of my favorites from the PSP along with Joan d’Arc and persona 3.
- Comment on Petty pedantry 4 weeks ago:
Who names a planet after dirt?
