leftzero
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- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 19 hours ago:
Favourite of all time?
Wing Commander (2 if I have to pick one, otherwise 1, 2, and secret missions).
Monkey Island (3 if I have to pick one, 1 to 3 otherwise).
Third is difficult, but… Disco Elysium, I guess…?
(What games I’ve spent the most time playing, though…? Definitely Crusader Kings 2 and 3, followed by Stellaris.)
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 20 hours ago:
SCSI ain’t weird!
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 20 hours ago:
Good flash memory might last a decade, maybe a bit more.
Average flash memory probably won’t.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 20 hours ago:
The standard (and tested for decades) answer is tape.
M-Disc might also be an alternative.
- Comment on I should call her. 1 day ago:
DRR… DRR… DRR…
- Comment on Black Holes 3 days ago:
graph function singularities exist as physical features in our world
Do they, though…?
As I (mis?)understand it, as a massive star begins to collapse, getting denser and denser, the gravitational gradient gets steeper and steeper… time (from the perspective of an outside observer) gets slower and slower… to the point that, from our point of view, the full collapse (or maybe even any collapse below the Schwarzschild radius?) hasn’t happened yet, and won’t happen until the extremely distant future, beyond the end of the universe…
So, in that sense, from the point of view of “our world”, no singularities (except possibly the big bang) would ever exist (yet), all of them being censored not only by event horizons, but by being shoved into the perpetually far future, beyond time itself…
And, speaking about event horizons, isn’t the whole “light isn’t fast enough to escape” concept a misinterpretation of sorts…? As I (again mis?)understand it, it’s not a matter of speed, but of geometry… The way space-time is twisted in such a gravitational gradient, once you get past the event horizon there are no longer any directions pointing towards the outside.
Which is another from of cosmic censorship (or a different effect or interpretation of the above), preventing anything inside the event horizon from causally interacting with the outside universe…
So, if these singularities are hidden beyond sight, causally, visually, and geometrically isolated from the rest of the universe, and perpetually shoved into the far future… can they really be said to exist in our world…?
(Of course there’s always the big bang, but we can’t really observe that one, only its effects, and it’s not necessarily exactly what the original post was talking about anyway…)
- Comment on You have one job. 3 days ago:
The right Unix-like OS
It’s always been BSD, it’ll always be BSD.
- Comment on You have one job. 3 days ago:
I believe last time I saw it it was hanging from Donnie’s diaper, like a forgotten strip of toilet paper…
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 5 days ago:
It’s not even selection, though.
We grafted those citruses into existence.
They’re delicious Frankenstein style abominations unto nature.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 5 days ago:
In the coconut.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 5 days ago:
It installs and activates itself stealthily, slows down the computer, and eventually makes it unusable.
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck…
Bitlocker works as intended
Oh, definitely. If it was intended to be malware.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 6 days ago:
You can die due to having too low morale, too.
Or killing yourself as an intimidation tactic during an interrogation, regardless of your stats.
Practically all versions of the detective are susceptible to self-inflicted demise in one shape or another.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 6 days ago:
Nah, Measurehead is adorable. A native Revacholian playing ur-racist out of what he’s learnt on the radio while dating a “Kojka” he can’t have sex with because his own racism prevents him from getting an election in her presence.
Evrart (and Edgar, though we never meet him) Claire are downright terrifying.
Extremely intelligent, constantly ten steps ahead and in control (except for the tribunal, the entroponetic phenomena underlying the events of the game, the deserter, and, possibly, the Detective) even over the Wild Pines woman, extremely charismatic despite their appearance, and yet absolutely malicious and self centered.
They’re like sharks, perfect, cold, inhumane, apex predators evolved to completely dominate their territory.
Measurehead can never really hurt you. Evrart Claire can kill you by making you sit on a chair, and he’s fully aware of it.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 6 days ago:
They aren’t continents; calling them continents implies a planet, but the planet is long gone, broken apart into isolas (containing both land, including full continents, and sea) floating in the Pale, which is very much not fog.
The Pale isn’t… anything, really. A literal lack of being. Not matter, or energy, but space-time broken down into pure entropy where direction and time lose all meaning.
- Comment on heaven 1 week ago:
Well, it’s supposed to transmogrify into (human) flesh and blood once it gets in your mouth.
Alcohol might be a no-no, but cannibalism is apparently a-ok. 🤷♂️
- Comment on heaven 1 week ago:
Short people will not go to heaven.
Well, obviously. They can’t reach.
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 1 week ago:
Is the first one a siamese…?
Extremely chatty critters, those…
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 1 week ago:
Kittens meow to their mothers.
But yeah, cats have evolved to meow in just the right tone that makes us go all “aww, I need to help this cute little varmint, even if it will scratch me for the effort”, so you’ve got a point there.
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 1 week ago:
Because amongst cats grooming is an act of dominance.
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 1 week ago:
Cats have standards.
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
Mehdi, is that you…?
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
Thor’s the god of thunder, not lightning.
- Comment on TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear" 1 week ago:
Indeed it is!
- Comment on TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear" 1 week ago:
The multi-bear!
- Comment on Worldbuilding 2 weeks ago:
60
More like three hundred (unless you mean how long it lasted).
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
that makes things almost filmic
His early books literally started with a visual description of the reader’s imagination “camera” gradually focusing on Great A’Tuin, the Disc, whatever region the action was going to happen in, and so on.
Filmic is exactly what he was going for.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 3 weeks ago:
Too late.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 3 weeks ago:
in like sg1 which is more realistic to use, we would need aliens to give us the tech, because we would never be able to conceive on our own.
Excuse me, we stole, I mean salvaged, most of that tech by ourselves, and we used it to kick goa’uld ass all over the galaxy (and, to be fair, they had stolen it first).
Sure, some aliens did give us some tech, but only because we saved their scrawny hyper-advanced asses from their own hubris because, unlike them, we could conceive of hitting things with a big stick, or shooting small but fast metal pellets at them using barely controlled explosions (you know what, disregard the metal pellet and controlled explosions part, just throw C4 at the problem until it goes away!).
Damn, I miss that series.
