captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on The Matrix 9 hours ago:
Mouse figured that out but Switch was a wet blanket.
- Comment on heater 2 days ago:
If you look very carefully, there’s four, maybe five pxels between the n in on and the m in my that aren’t a holy shit moment.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 days ago:
Oh now it’s don’t have time/know how? I thought it was “too poor.”
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 days ago:
lol whatever.
Reverse the genders and tell me how women would treat that guy.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 days ago:
Ah, you were a don’t-stick-your-dick-in-crazy.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 days ago:
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 days ago:
Hmm, that’s interesting, I’m thinking like a pilot here but tip vortices increase in magnitude as AoA increasess, adding to adverse yaw of ailerons. I figured birds handled yaw control through wing sweep, kind of like how a weight shift trike does.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 4 days ago:
So, guys don’t care about a girls income that much. There’s an entire subculture of men that prefers or demands being the sole breadwinner of their families. I’m going to say the word “tradwife” and consider my point made.
Guys will go for an unemployed girl. Pretty and nice will get you a man. Which weren’t you?
Mind you, when I was in college I tutored freshman chemistry for an hour on Wednesdays and made more than $25/week at it; how delusional was your business plan?
- Comment on Praise Helix 4 days ago:
We’re in the science memes sub, I talked about the science. I actually have credentials in this subject.
- Comment on Praise Helix 4 days ago:
No it’s more that physics is a fickle bitch.
Those spirals are called tip vortices. They occur because there is relatively high pressure under the wing and relatively low pressure above. At the wing tip, that higher pressure air wants to roll up over the wing tip to get to that low pressure area, which is what sets that spiral in motion. Any airfoil that is creating lift will have a vortex at its tip. Wings, tail surfaces, propeller blades, rotor blades, you name it. The higher the angle of attack, the more significant the tip vortex.
Have you ever seen a jet airplane that has fuel tanks out at the wing tips? Most of the reason they’re there is to reduce tip vortices and thus reduce drag. The additional fuel capacity is a minor byproduct. You might notice most newer airliners feature winglets; the wing tips are turned up. That’s not for additional yaw stabilty, those are there to reduce tip vortices, decrease drag and decrease fuel consumption.
Tip vortices are the main factor in wake turbulence, which is an entire class session in flight school. All a tower controller will say to you is “caution wake turbulence.” And they’re right. It’s the pilot’s job to know what to do about it, because trailing behind and below the wing tip of every airplane is an invisible sideways tornado you just have to know is there so you don’t get thrown onto your Cessna’s roof when landing behind a Boeing.
- Comment on Praise Helix 4 days ago:
The bird flies despite the spirals, not because of them.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 5 days ago:
And none of them are missed.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
Almost all of my memory of the original Avatar:
I went to see it with my girlfriend at the time, and she kept reaching into our bag of popcorn, getting engrossed in the movie and just leaving her hand in there, so if I wanted popcorn I’d scritch at her wrist with my fingertips.
There’s a point in the movie where it does this big heavy fade to black. It’s near or beyond the midpoint of the film, and someone in the theater said “Act two.” and half the audience cracked up.
Jake Sooolly.
People talk about the spectacular CG effects, I really only remember one scene, Native Chick takes Jake Sooolly for a walk in the woods at night and everything’s glowing. That scene was striking. Most of the rest of the movie is stored in my brain as visual sludge.
I also remember the news talking about people being upset that they couldn’t be tall sexy blue cat people.
- Comment on All in one 1 week ago:
It’s just a jug of sodium laurel sulfate. Because cleaning a man is mainly a degreasing operation.
- Comment on New mrbeast video is dark 1 week ago:
Every time I pet my cat, a random stranger somewhere in the world dies. There’s 8 billion people in the world, at least a few hundred are born and die every minute.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
I have a Ryzen 7700X, a Radeon 7900GRE and 32GB of DDR5. I’m gaming at 1440p in Unreal 5 games at reasonable framerates.
It’s getting to the point that…I think I have enough. I don’t think I’ll ever see another jump in capability like I used to. I remember when the N64 could do things the SNES couldn’t. By the PS3 era, things were basically good enough. What else is there to want out of a gaming PC?
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
Idiocrat
- Comment on Keir Starmer raises eyebrows as he proudly declares himself a 'gooner' 2 weeks ago:
It’s rather recent; but the past 5 years or so it’s been more difficult to discuss members of Something Awful.
- Comment on That kid was the WORST 2 weeks ago:
Look, I’d like to see that little shit do better.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 2 weeks ago:
Homestaw Wunnew.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 2 weeks ago:
No lemons, on melon.
Too bad I hid a boot.
Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
War sir is raw.
Was it a car, or a cat I saw?
- Comment on yummy 2 weeks ago:
The all-new Ikea Cjardboord.
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 2 weeks ago:
You’re not going to find an Obama Hope edition firearm out there.
- Comment on Missed call 2 weeks ago:
What’s Merrell?
- Comment on Oh no.. 2 weeks ago:
I once named the disease “The Disease From Madagascar” and it started in Madagascar.
I also killed the world with a bacteria called Red Ass.
- Comment on Missed call 2 weeks ago:
Ugh, my dumbass boomer father.
Okay. 1. My father goes by his middle name. Let’s pretend his name is Christopher James Smith. He introduces himself as Jim. For my entire life, it’s been easy to screen calls for him because “Hello, may I speak to…Christopher Smith please?” That’s spam. “Hey is Jim there?” That’s someone who knows him.
- The dumbass answer the phone “Hello, this is Jim?”
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Co-op is the first thing we knew about Subnautica 2.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Man none of the best game developers can count to three. We’re gonna get a Subnautica 2 Episode 2 Part 2.2.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Subnautica 2 is a co-op game. How they treated respawns in Subnautica 1, where the screen goes black and you pop back into existence back at base agreeing with the game to pretend that didn’t happen, isn’t going to work here. So they need to acknowledge why you’re able to get trampled to death by deep sea wildebeests and then keep playing with your friends. Kind of like why in Portal 2 the co-op characters are Atlas and P-Body. Easier to explain why they can get crushed and then keep playing than Chell and Mel.
So is NoA the respawn bot? Does he/it swoop in and collect our hoofprinted corpse to reanimate, hence why he asks us to find a “convenient” way to die? So it’s easy for him to retrieve your pieces?
Is “You’re going to die here, and that’s okay” That whole line about forgetting everything and just exploring at first feels kind of defeated but she’s trying to talk you into being at peace with it? But if you have a resurrection machine…
I’m going to speculate that we’re the second to arrive, the first were the two women we hear. We’re going to follow their trail of audio log breadcrumbs, at first listening in on them getting settled in and “learning how to survive” but then when all is lost they’ll start addressing the players they know are coming to educate/warn us. I think the French accented woman is still clinging to hope that whatever mission can be completed, I think American accented woman has given up and is just embracing existing on this world, and is likely the one who biomods too close to the sun and wants to “go to the tree.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They did have blue labels though.
