WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Accurate 14 hours ago:
Sure. But if civilization collapses in the meantime, then there won’t be anyone enforcing copyright laws. Or copyright could be abolished entirely. IDK what the future holds. Obviously things can radically change between now and then. The best predictions we can make of the future are just extrapolating the present forward.
- Comment on Accurate 15 hours ago:
Bert and Ernie appeared in the pilot episode of Sesame Street in July of 1969. They will enter the public domain on January 1, 2065. In approximately 40 years, it will then be legal for anyone to create and publish hardcore gay pornos featuring the Bert and Ernie characters.
- Comment on Leaked White House Document Reveals Monster Budget Cut Proposal For Federal Health Agencies 15 hours ago:
I’m sure that will get the birth rate back up real quick.
- Comment on Anon plays old games 17 hours ago:
This man isn’t wise, he’s just Grandpa Simpson.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 2 days ago:
Yup. I’m pretty sour on Bethesda RPGs after getting burned hard by Starfield. But I have a hard time imagining even they could fuck up a simple remastering of a game I already loved in the past.
- Comment on I hope she found herself 2 days ago:
We should start a club. Get 30 people together. Select a house in town at random. Then, we all show up at their door at 2 in the morning on a random weekday. We ring the doorbell until they groggily answer. We tell them we’re here to help them find themselves.
- Comment on I hope she found herself 2 days ago:
I mean if i was just chilling in the woods having a good time
That’s my kind of party.
- Comment on I hope she found herself 2 days ago:
You sure? Maybe someone stole it without you knowing. :D
- Comment on I hope she found herself 2 days ago:
Not all who wander are lost.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 2 days ago:
An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.
I see you also follow the life philosophy of, “if you’re not on at least one watch list, are you even really living?” :D
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 2 days ago:
I still remember my first playthrough. Low level character. I save scummed until I could sneak into the tower in the heart of the Imperial City. in the council chamber was a mage with an incredibly powerful staff. I pickpocketed it off of him, again using save scumming. I then traveled to Bravil and entered the castle there. As the Count of Bravil was giving a speech, I pulled out the staff and shot him dead on his throne, right in front the of the whole court. I then got away from the assassination through the brilliant escape plan of running out the front door, murder weapon still in hand.
Damn I loved Oblivion.
Muuuuurrddeeerrr!!!
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 days ago:
IDK how to feel about rising video game prices. On the one hand, prices were stagnant for decades. On the other hand, companies can sell far more copies of games than they could back in the 1980s and 1990s. The cost of games is all in the development. The more you sell, the cheaper the price can be. They cost next to nothing to package and distribute (or are distributed digitally.)
On one hand, games are a lot more complex and expansive than they were back in the day. On the other, game devs now have tools the creators of old couldn’t even dream of. No one is hand coding the next Mario game is assembly.
There’s a lot of variables here. And it’s really just hard to make a fair judgment about it.
- Comment on Stuck 3 days ago:
I mean, there’s always small beer.
- Comment on Proton 1 week ago:
Atomic Nucleus (n): the roiling maelstrom of insanity at the bottom of reality.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 week ago:
Do you…need a hug?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 week ago:
In One Hundred Years of Solitude we see generational cycles of behavior blah blah blah, which characters fit this pattern, which characters do not, and why?
Proceeds to write an essay about Goku.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 week ago:
What if the pussy being eaten is one that belongs to a post-op trans woman?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 week ago:
I think it’s simply due to stress. Most people care about people other than themselves. They worry about the effect of their actions on others. They worry about not living up to their potential. They worry about letting people they care about down. Narcissists by contrast get to live blissfully ignorant low stress lives. Look at Trump. That bastard has not a care in the world. In his mind, he’s already perfect. Notice how the presidency tends to rapidly age people, but it didn’t seem to affect Trump? This is why.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 2 weeks ago:
There’s radioactive and then there’s radioactive. It beta decays with particles that would only penetrate 5 cm of air or .01 cm of tissue.
You could get a thousand of these batteries, grind them up into a powder, explode them in a crowded place as an improvised dirty bomb…and you would still cause less harm than if you did the same with countless chemicals you can buy at the hardware store.
There are many forms of radiation. Something like this going into a landfill is perfectly safe.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 weeks ago:
The language of scientific literature is not the same as the language of everyday use. There’s a reason grad programs have entire courses dedicated to scientific communication.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 weeks ago:
Funny how trans people never have religious rights in these discussions. Or how they refer to “trans ideology” rather than trans religious or philosophical beliefs. If I were to opine on my beliefs of the soul/spirit, I would say I was created with a female spirit in a male body. If I have any religious belief, then it is a religious worldview where such a thing is possible. Yet trans people never seem to have their religious rights acknowledged.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 weeks ago:
Hell, a business or industry run primarily by men in their fifties and older can be referred to as “a boys club.”
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 weeks ago:
I know, use the worst of all options, “lawyeress.” /s
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 weeks ago:
There are obviously still contacts where the distinction is important.
- Comment on Christian the devil 2 weeks ago:
I think “fight wagon” is probably a better descriptor than simply “tank.”
Although, it’s funny in a way. At least in American English, we don’t really use the word “wagon” much anymore. And when we do, we’re usually referring to something like this:
So the idea of one of those bristling with guns is quite humorous.
- Comment on Christian the devil 2 weeks ago:
My favorite incidents of bungled auto transcription:
- On a a voicemail, the caller said, “this is _____ over at Rice’s pharmacy.” The transcription read, “this is _____, overt racist pharmacy.”
I mean, I suppose if the pharmacy is racist, at least they’re overt about it so people can avoid the place.
- I have some lecture videos on YouTube, and in one course we used a text by Hibbeler.. A few times in the video I will say something like, “this is problem so an so from the Hibbeler text.” The captions have me referring to “the Hitler text.”
Apparently I was referencing Mein Kampf while teaching undergraduate mechanics, for some reason.
- Comment on Clean butt 2 weeks ago:
Why is my ass always itching?
Because you don’t wash it, you dumbass.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Oh, and for added physics fun, that extra 40 mph represents a 62% increase in vehicle kinetic energy and stopping distance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That’s 186 mph. In the US, the highest posted speed limit anywhere is 85 mph, on some stretches of highway in remote rural Texas. So you’re looking at more than 2x the speed limit of the highest posted speed limit in the country. A lot of cars come preprogrammed with some speed governor in them. They usually top out at an already absurd speed of 125-155 mph.
So 300 km/hr is absolutely insane. That’s enough to get jail time in most states.
- Comment on Petty pedantry 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. So if we want to be pedants, earth or Earth would be fine here. Even if he’s in a building, that building is still on the soil. Even if he’s flying in an airplane, that airplane is supported by air, which it itself supported by earth. The only way you can’t be “on earth” is if you’re in space and/or in freefall. And Musk is too much of a coward to climb aboard one of his own rockets.
