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- Comment on Caption this. 2 days ago:
Fig 6. Under the influence of various different psychoactive substances, four adult male homo sapiens demonstrate a wide range of responses to being presented with a few strands of brightly-coloured string. Depicted, from left to right, are the subjects under the influence of ethanol, lysergic acid diethylamide, Brugmansia suaveolens, and cannabis.
- Comment on Black Holes 5 days ago:
Non-classical mechanics includes things like quantum physics and (depending on who you ask) special relativity. They feel extremely counterintuitive but they provide pretty reliable explanations for how things work. That infinite density doesn't make sense in our regular understanding of the world doesn't necessarily mean it's not a useful model. That doesn't mean it's necessarily true, of course, but the fact that it seems weird isn't really important. It might just be that physics inside a black hole permit for something that we can best describe as infinitely dense
- Comment on Black Holes 5 days ago:
The comment above was about the singularity, so "the rest" clearly does not include the singularity
I don't think "no interpretable meaning in physics" is a reasonable description, though. In classical mechanics, sure, but we've got plenty of physics that doesn't work in classical mechanics
- Comment on Black Holes 6 days ago:
The theories on why are a fair bit beyond my knowledge of physics, but I do know that they're not necessarily the same kind of singularity. Inside a black hole (assuming our models are correct), spacetime curvature goes towards infinity. At the big bang, there may not have even been spacetime as we see it in our current universe, or whatever causes the expansion of spacetime may have been so powerful that it caused the earliest spacetime to not curve despite all the gravity
- Comment on Black Holes 6 days ago:
In one, you mean? They get you perfectly fine answers around one
- Comment on One Angry Man 6 days ago:
Crocodile Dundee in El Angel
- Comment on Black Holes 6 days ago:
I suppose cosmic horror elder gods like Cthulhu and such are not all that far removed from the idea of a black hole. Particularly the ones that are less involved with Earth than Cthulhu is. Nobody is ramming a black hole with a fishing boat. But the early writing on them was done at about the same time as a lot of the foundational theoretical work on black holes (not the earliest stuff but I can believe that the writers didn't know about it)
- Comment on Black Holes 6 days ago:
Well, what exactly is inside the event horizon is unproven because we cannot possibly look. All of the rest of the physics seems to check out, though, and we know that there are things out there that behave just like our models of black holes predict. It's an incomplete understanding rather than a necessarily incorrect one. If it is something else, it'd have to be something that looks more or less exactly like a black hole to an outside observer
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- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 6 days ago:
You'll be fine! Especially since you're there with your wife, you've got good company to distract you from whatever anyone else is doing is the show isn't already doing that. All sorts of people show up at concerts, even if they don't always show up in the photos and videos of those concerts as much
I went to a Heilung gig a few years back (incredible experience, by the way) and it was really funny in a lovely way to look at the crowd. It was like a straight 50/50 split of people that looked like the very stereotype of 60s hippies and equally stereotypical metalheads. We all had a great time together
I'm quite a tall guy and a not the most outgoing a lot of the time, so I do understand how it's easy to feel like you're sticking out in a crowd. Thing is though, everyone is there to see the act, not to people-wstch the audience
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 6 days ago:
That's largely limited by ticket sales nowadays, right? Responsible / law-abiding venues (in countries with good regulation on it) don't sell so many standing tickets that the risk gets too high
The wiki page you linked in the other reply has a link to a list page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_crowd_crushes
You'll notice that very few recent ones are at concerts, and those that are consistently involve serious mismanagement of the event and usually something inciting large-scale fear responses
You are right that it's less safe that being seated, and you do need to watch out for your surroundings and be ready to get yourself out if you think it's too much. It is a problem that we know how to handle for the most part without banning all standing areas, though
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 6 days ago:
Feminazgul
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 6 days ago:
I'm surprised to someone say that they don't think standing tickets are allowed any more, what gave you that impression?
Regardless, being in the standing section is exciting and usually a very good view. It's not necessarily the right atmosphere for every person or every show, but if you enjoy the feeling of being in the crowd as everyone moves together it's great
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
I would love to see a screenshot of this creation if you have one
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
That's good to hear! I'm looking forward ot trying it. I used to love mountain biking when I was younger and I was reeeaaasonably good at it, but I've had enough sports injuries in my life so that's at the wayside by now
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
Sim is my preference, but I'm not against an arcade if it's doing something interesting
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
Ooooh, this is a fascinating combination. I had no idea it was a possibility. I already have BeamNG too so I'm halfway there
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
You didn't miss out on much with Fusion. I enjoyed the post-Fusion games on the PSP a lot though
Thanks for all the information on BNG!
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
It definitely was slow compared to BNG. The later games picked up the pace a bit, but never to that extent. The focus was more on trying to race cleanly with very slidey and floaty physics. In the original particularly, touching the walls at all would immediately bring you to a complete halt
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
Watching a couple of videos just now, I do think that Redout has managed to develop a far stronger visual and musical language than most of its competitors outside of Wipeout (and Pacer, to a lesser degree). The long high-precision aerial segments look difficult, but in the kind of way that would be really satisfying to get right
There are things BallisticNG does though that are really interesting, like solo races where your goal is to go as far as possible without exploding from damage. You can’t use the brakes and it gets faster every few sections. Those are probably my favorite races.
That's actually something Wipeout did, it's one of the few things from Fusion that people liked enough for it to be brought back. But it's a lot of fun, so seeing it in in BallisticNG is a selling point for me
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
Oh cool, I've never even heard of this one. Allowing the player some actual control over the z-axis is such an obvious thing to add to an AG racer now that I've seen it, but I've never even considered it before
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
Dirt Rally 2 is a blast! I've actually walked along a couple of the stages too, I was quite impressed by how well they recreated them. The limitations on multiplayer formats annoyed me quite a lot, but I do think it's the only game I've ever played where rallycross felt like it really worked well, and I love the rallycross format
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
I've been keeping an eye out for BallisticNG! Sadly it wasn't significantly discounted in the sale, so it's one to pick up either when it is on sale or when I have gotten through the rest of my unplayed games. I was initially put off a little by just how hard it seemed to be aping early Wipeout, but someone on here persuaded me to take a look
What's Redout actually like to play? I have seen a little bit of gameplay and it looks like it's aiming above all to feel as blindingly fast as possible
- Comment on A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations? 1 week ago:
Agh, I should have checked with it being a new week! Ahh well, there will be others in the future
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- Comment on Especially the Ø... 1 week ago:
To explain more specifically for those that are, like me, curious but unfamiliar:
- Top left of each of those keys is the Danish layout
- Top right is Norwegian
- Bottom right is Swedish
- The Å is the same in all three so it can just be by itself
- Comment on Son of Australia 2 weeks ago:
It's real! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Head_(footballer)
Also, the top American fighter pilot in WWII was Major Dick Bong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bong
- Comment on Scooch over, I’m hoppin in 2 weeks ago:
He's working hard on his PhD in comfiness
- Comment on Metroidbrainia: An in-depth exploration of knowledge-gated games 2 weeks ago:
There's a great video of the Outer Wilds devs watching someone speedrun their game, and at the end of it one of them jokes, "We made a very short game"
This article is about to make my steam wishlist a good chunk longer, I think
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 weeks ago:
There was also a UK petition, which has also cleared the required threshold. Are those the out-of-EU signatures you mean?