Khanzarate
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- Comment on Praise Sheezus 5 days ago:
Nah.
That one was dinosaurs changed gender to male, citing the frog DNA they completed the chain with as having that potential.
So what was supposed to be an all-female park to prevent reproduction became co-ed and then nature happened.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 5 days ago:
I liked tiberium wars.
One of my favorite games actually.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
Definitely are.
In a way it makes sense because the industry loves its acronyms and you’ll be using them.
On the other hand, I have the ability to search. I’m an IT professional, I will have a computer. Let me let the computer do the lookup. Its the old “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” argument that was dated when my teachers told it to me.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 2 weeks ago:
Churm
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but no one just has a kingdom or phylum.
Every living creature gets an entry from domain to species.
Celestial bodies aren’t a hierarchy, a planet isn’t also a dwarf planet or an asteroid.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
Thing is everyone has one of those.
Compare it to non-sentience, sentience, and sapience, to properly anthropomorphize it.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Which is why the deLorean was an amazing time machine, obviously.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 5 weeks ago:
I really think that everyone really had trouble with the DS microphone rather than the flute challenge itself. It came pretty easily to me but I doubt I’m a particularly expert mic blower, so I can only think my mic was a fully functioning one and people like you got a much harder challenge.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
Both!
- Comment on Physical or Digital? 2 months ago:
Disks are for games I want to be able to pull out of a box 10 years from now and go “oh man I remember this”. I have the box from a DSi that I filled with GBA games, and a shelf for Switch and PS4 games that, when they’re retired for something else, it’d be nice to come back to once in a while. My daughter has gotten into my GBA games lately, so that’s been nice.
PC games, they’re so much more available. Steam is steady, GOG is steady, I feel I can leave it to them to keep and I’ll have any particularly treasured games 10 years from now, anyway.
- Comment on The news did it first 7 months ago:
Ah, I avoid tiktok for reasons like this, I thought OP edited it together for reasons I was oblivious to. Thank you.
- Comment on The news did it first 7 months ago:
But what thing is it?
- Comment on Warp drive's best hope dies, as antimatter falls down 7 months ago:
No, this hypothetical drive isn’t just relativity incarnate. It uses a hypothetical source of negative mass. This means it has a gravitational effect the same way the moon does, but the tides aren’t just a relativistic stretching.
This ship would literally push objects away from it. That mechanic is crucial to the concept of the ship. If we were in space, in a box, with that ship near us, we would perceive the ship’s direction to be up, because the repelling effect would be identical to the equivalent positive mass below us pulling us down.
And if one of these hypothetical ships could do this to an extent that allowed it to fold space to cheat out faster-than-light movement, I imagine the gravitational effect would crush us entirely.
- Comment on Warp drive's best hope dies, as antimatter falls down 7 months ago:
I forgot to address the last part. You’d see gravitational lensing. Light would bend with spacetime as it’s compressed and expanded, so you’d see distorted versions of what’s around the ship. That’s well-documented. Imagine those mirror domes in stores or funhouse mirrors. The difference is spacetime bent instead of a fancy mirror reflecting weird, but the visual results are the same.
- Comment on Warp drive's best hope dies, as antimatter falls down 7 months ago:
The compression would be noticeable, and perhaps deadly, depending on how it was done and how much space was warped.
Think of it like the wake on a cruise liner, the waves it creates ahead of it and the ripples it leaves behind. If we had this style of warp drive apply to our seas, that cruise liner would compress water together in front of it to reduce friction and expand water behind it to push the ship along. That’s what could happen to gravity, if we ever find a way to have something with a negative mass. If such a thing were large enough and close enough to earth, it would be about as terrifying as it sounds. Not a lot survives a cruise liner running over you, and not a lot would survive that ship, either. Ships would have to leave earth more mundanely, only using this warp drive once they’re safely away. There’s also every chance earth and other large bodies in space would mess up what would have to be very precise calculations to get the right curvature, so everyone will be happier with that technology being space-only.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 8 months ago:
See, while I don’t like the invasiveness of it, that’s also their business model. If they put it behind a subscription instead, it wouldn’t be right to say “this information is important and needs to be available, stop charging for it,” when charging for it is part of why they provide it. Private companies have a right to not do business with those that won’t pay for their services, even if that payment is your data.
Europeans (and everyone, morally) have a right to privacy that conflicts with the method of payment. This website resolved that, if it can’t get paid in it’s chosen form, it won’t provide its service. That’s fine. I don’t support this decision, but it’s not
If this information is vital to the public, that’s a separate issue entirely, and it needs to be available in some form that isn’t sold. We can’t rely on a private entity not employed by a government to do this of its own free will.
- Comment on Bunch of other empty parking spots and this jerk chooses to park there. 8 months ago:
In the US, it depends on motor size and a few other things. Also varies by state. But that’s often true.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Totally is BS. You could switch to lady/ladies. It’s a bit old-fashioned, but isn’t automatically being taken that way. Dunno if that helps you but if it doesn’t help directly then at least you could then remember that more letters means more people, so ladies is plural.
You could also go full gender-neutral and just use person/people. Doesn’t help if you need to specify they’re women, but I bet most times you wouldn’t actually need to do that.
- Comment on Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff 8 months ago:
Run the debloater every update. Some stuff in there is actual settings, but other stuff will be “repaired” by windows.
Also, a workaround to that screen (so far, at least) is to shut the computer down and start up again and it doesn’t return till next update.
- Comment on Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media 8 months ago:
We need both. Archival services can live on through piracy, but they need to be legal to be useful to the general public. Internet Archive is fighting for the future, and can’t do so by hiding from the bullies.
its library is already torrent-accessible, so really we just need a new face if they do go down legally, a new place to accumulate all those torrents.
- Comment on Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media 8 months ago:
It’s because libraries are being attacked and should have rights and protections. Winning this sets a precedent they can use to win the next lawsuit.
The goal is to have archival services be legal, not just accessible.
- Comment on Fan Ports PlayStation Classic [WipeOut], Dares Sony To Shut Him Down And Make Its Own 8 months ago:
The above was advocating for a 25-year period between publishing and public domain. They’ll have to somehow pay that mortgage with a quarter of a century of profit somehow.
New books get new protections anyway, so a 25-year-old series only loses book 1 to public domain. They can also release new editions of book 1 with new (canon) content, and those new things get new protections, too.
- Comment on Fan Ports PlayStation Classic [WipeOut], Dares Sony To Shut Him Down And Make Its Own 8 months ago:
Yeah but if someone wants to write their own sequel to a first book, before the series is done, that’s fine. Still not canon, just fanfic that can make a profit, and that sounds fine to me.