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- Comment on Ubisoft think gamers need to get comfortable with not owning games 3 months ago:
Unless it’s bought on gog, no one own its games already anyway… But ubisoft still manages to invent something even worse for the customers!
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 3 months ago:
The metter is not determined by the average height of the eiffel tower. The average height of the effeil tower is measured with the meter. That is the important difference. The meter is also based on constant of physics, and has a very precise definition. You can’t say the same of IQ.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 3 months ago:
It’s still matter, with a mass and a velocity, and thus kinetic energy.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 3 months ago:
Nasal developed a reactor, orion iirc, that was basically nuclear pulse propulsion: a directed nuclear explosion would propel a jet of plasma on a shield on the back of the ship to propel it, and the ship would use regular explosion for propulsion.
I don’t know the exact dynamic of the nuclear explosion. The temperature turns a lot of things into plasma indeed. But I suspect some construction of the bomb (specific layers with specific materials) could make some kind of frag work.
At the very least you can have an efficient plasma bomb anyway. Your frag is simply plasma in this case. Plasma is still matter that can have high kinetic energy, but it’s very hot too and with specific electromagnetic properties.
In this case, the atomic explosion replaces your powder, and what matters is everything around it.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 3 months ago:
It’s plasma, not gas. It’s a different state of matter.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 3 months ago:
With a heavy dose of radiation you are sick extremely fast, and dead soon after. You may survive for some hours if you have medical care.
If the bomb explode next to the ship, the ship will need solid protection for people to survive.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 3 months ago:
That is largely true, but there are still 2 things : first, the plasma is still a super hot ball of matter with very high kinetic energy. Second, the radiations are still deadly at short range, unless you have specific protections, and radiation protections are heavy and bulky. At worse, the plasma can violently accelerate the target ship and damage it with this sudden acceleration.
But you can also easily turn your atomic bomb into a more refined atomic shell. The you can have projectiles propelled by the explosion (so it’s now an atomic frag bomb), or a penetring shell with a delayed explosion so the explosion occur inside the target ship.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 3 months ago:
It’s only my interpretation of it, so be wary. My idea is that after ww2, USA was terrified of USSR, so they did their best to avoid countries “falling” to it.
This best was of two categories: if it was an old power, feed it with all possible money, so they can can develop an industry to get all of the modern commodities (home, car, a fully equipped kitchen…) If it was a colonised or USSR friendly country, forbid all trade, and feed civil war with all means possible, so that this country stop being communist.
Then, democracy had that people had to be listened to a bit, or they would vote communist. Car industries were favoured because it can be converted into a war industry if it needs. Roads and trains are also war assets. Healthcare and food are priorities to make people happy. Education and research are priorities for any country that want to stay relevant, and these benefit from co-operation with other countries.
The way I see it, the west built solid infrastructures and invested in the people in order to fight USSR, while USSR progressively fell into an oppression that prevented these progresses. The third world countries were left alone because no side would allow them to join the other side.
Now the world is full capitalist, so no one will invest in the countries that were left behind. With less investment they progress more slowly.
- Comment on Excuse me, René 3 months ago:
And then we’re surprised fascism is rising…
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
I hope epic game store burns in hell, personally.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
When the god of money took the place of Zeus during the 18th century.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
Steam has always been rather bad on performances, but epic somehow managed to do worse.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
Epic is the worst of the 3 platforms for a user. It is a drm like steam, but with less games on it, and even less optimized (so even more wasted resources and time loading useless advertising).
Steam has it that is makes game run on Linux smoothly, and the biggest library of games. Gog is drm free. Epic has absolutely nothing a user may want, except for free games so that you are now captive of their shitty platform.
- Comment on Why is alcohol measured in percentages? 4 months ago:
I think alcohol can’t be kept pure in normal conditions, it would turn into a gas. So it is diluted by necessity. Knowing the full volume of the thing is certainly better than knowing only the quantity of alcohol without knowing the degree of dilution.
It is not the only product to be indicated this way. All diluted chemicals are. I think syrup is also?
- Comment on Anon plays GTA V 4 months ago:
There are two or three things at the base : the story/narrative, the mechanic itself (gameplay loop), and the choices. What you describe is the gameplay loop. To make it interesting, it must renew itself, so be varied enough and have some depth.
In a single player game, the renewal relies on the encounter design. The depth is the mechanic for the gameplay loop (in skyrim that would be the various weapons and spells first). MP games have less problems for renewal because players invent new tactics and play differently. But game balance and dlc are still used to renew the gameplay anyway.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
That’s because you don’t realize the stupid things you’re doing or thinking.
The scientific method is the only way we know to reliably discover actual facts, and even with it it can take decades to see through some bullshit we consider as facts.
If you add manipulation, déception and lies, you can’t blame people for being mistaken or stupid. You can blame them for being assholes though.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss 4 months ago:
On steam you can try for a few hour and get a refund if you don’t like it. Maybe on gog too.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 4 months ago:
Forgotten realms is basically the IP for standard fantasy. This is an enormous strength for an IP. Divinity doesn’t have this strength, it doesn’t speak naturally to everyone like this.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 4 months ago:
Yes it is. Pathfinder made for builders who want to create a character with hundreds of options to choose from. It is rule heavy in the tradition of dnd 3rd edition. Pathfinder 2e is much more refined, but I doubt they went away from this philosophy. It’s still very rule heavy.
- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 4 months ago:
I get what you’re saying, but I can’t help but think quantum physics is a weird beast. Somehow it is the opposite of relativity that’s purely geometric, although in 4d.
To go in your direction, I think the probabilistic nature it the biggest weird thing of quantum mechanic. And you can absolutely admit it and live with it, but for many people, that will be a tough thing to do, and they’ll rather think that our knowledge is too limited to understand the reality of things. And it’s hard to blame them for that.
IMO we lack some good sci-fi to explore and familiarise these things.
- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 5 months ago:
What about the Copenhagen interpretation debate? What about the non-locality?
These are academic debates, not people ones. Saying that quantum mechanic is intuitive is arrogant at best. You may have a perfect understanding of the current theory and how to use it, and you maybe comfortable using it everyday, but then you should be aware of the limits shouldn’t you?
Otherwise it’s like alchemy.
- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 5 months ago:
So the fact that quantum physics is non-local, and thus is not compatible with general relativity, is perfectly fine for you?
- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 5 months ago:
It has been proven that the entengle particuls are modified instantly together. Which means an information does travel faster than the speed of light.
This is the EPR paradox by the way. Which was proven true a bit less than a decade ago.
- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 5 months ago:
The problem of quantum mechanic is that the physics it shows us is not intuitive, and it sometimes breaks other laws of physics.
Quantum intrication means that information travels faster than light for example. Counterfactuality also breaks causality.
It’s not the maths that are the problem, it’s that it doesn’t make physical sense in the world we currently understand. And the equations explain nothing. They merely describe a a world that doesn’t make sense.
Quantum mechanic is like having a machine from the future that does cool things, but you don’t understand how it works. It’s like people did chemistry before they understand what chemistry was. We do uber cool things with it, but it is a spotlight on our ignorance at the same time.
- Comment on Slap a "quantum" on it = Instant flux capacitor 5 months ago:
My teacher had a good comparison for this: observing macroscoping reality like we do microscopic reality would be like throwing a car at another car to measure its speed or position. Obviously you alter the course of events this way.
Fortunately light doesn’t do much in the macroscopic world, so we can use it to observe stuff.
- Comment on What happens if flat Earthers go to space? 5 months ago:
They will say they’ve been abducted by aliens of course!
- Comment on At some point, you start to forget how old you are 5 months ago:
I usually forget which year we are at.
- Comment on Tax time 5 months ago:
We had the same in France until not so long ago. It is a democratic principle that you voluntarily and freely pay your taxes, rather than the state take your money without you hvving a say in it.
It is both a principle of transparency and consent for taxes.
- Comment on Take me back 5 months ago:
The time was very different. Most people lived and worked in the country, not in cities, so de facto they couldn’t control them however they liked. Christian Church was also imposing morality over everything, which means they couldn’t enslave people as easily as today.
We are living in neo-feudalism. Your boss is a lord, and your only freedom is to choose a lord, provided this lord accept you.
- Comment on Take me back 5 months ago:
A source from an institute called Adam smith? This will certainly not be a liberal interpretation of history…