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- Comment on True art is polarizing 5 days ago:
It’s a companion piece to Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 6 days ago:
It’s not that diversity is a negative. It’s a plus and a core part of Star Trek from the beginning. NuTrek has great diversity and terrible story telling that feels like it’s using the diversity as a crutch.
It’s like Ben and Arthur. I totally support the message that gay marriage should be allowed. However the movie is complete garbage because of how bad the story is told.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 6 days ago:
Kurtzman is by all accounts a good person. He is however terrible at making good entertainment and a specially good Startrek.
- Comment on Makes sense 1 week ago:
I know of one instance. Pirate plundered a ship ruining a false flag. It was actually from a nation he was friendly with. Buried the treasurer in the hope they wouldn’t find out.
- Comment on W.a.m.d.i.i. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 2 weeks ago:
Most are older games with sequels or newer games by the developer. So they are probably hoping you like them and buy the sequel.
- Comment on As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people. 3 weeks ago:
My culture is not your costume.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 4 weeks ago:
You mean Taco Bell lied to me!?
Seriously though a good classic street taco is amazing.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 4 weeks ago:
I think the important bits are easy to pickup in context. There is a war and it’s not going well. Sisko is trying to bring a powerful neutral party into the war and is willing to do very questionable things to do it.
As a Star Trek fan I had given up on DS9 during the original airing of the first season. Latter I caught Pale Moonlight by chance and it impressed me enough to watch some more. Then I went back and watched all the earlier stuff. Now it’s my favorite Star Trek.
When I first saw it I knew Star Trek quit well but had no idea what was going on in DS9 and had no trouble following the story.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 4 weeks ago:
And counties that have their own sales taxes. So not even within the state is the rate the same.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 4 weeks ago:
People like porn involving characters they like. Look at all the rule 34 content. Games give you a chance to engage with the characters before the fucking.
There is also a bit of T&D as you build anticipation while playing the game.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 5 weeks ago:
So depending on why you might be able to train it. If you don’t have a lazy eye and have good vision you may want to look into it.
If your brain is just not fusing two good images there is a good chance you can train it to do so. Having done experiments in this field I can tell you it makes a measurable difference in performance.
A good read on the subject is below. The part where she first sees a tree in 3D is a good example of what you are missing.
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R Barry
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. They require stereoscopic vision. When I was doing research on 3D displays about 10% of subjects had to be rejected because they were stereo blind. They had no idea they were that way.
One woman said that explains why she had the nickname clunk in high school. She had a habit of rearending cars.
- Comment on RimWorld - Odyssey expansion and update 1.6 out now! 5 weeks ago:
Custom storytellers. I also like Vanilla Outposts Expanded. Send pawns to form defensive outposts that reduce raid sizes.
- Comment on RimWorld - Odyssey expansion and update 1.6 out now! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve played a lot of rimworld and I think the main problem with it is the developers solution to difficulty after the early game is just more and bigger raids.
Everybody starts building kill boxes to deal with raids being the only challenge after midgame. Developers response is new types of raids that bypass kill boxes (drop, breacher).
Give us some different threats or ways to mitigate raids like paying off raiders or building outposts.
- Comment on Two steam VR game keys up for grabs 1 month ago:
Nope red is the fastest. I have a degree in ork science.
- Comment on Some worms have bones. 1 month ago:
Or one of the world’s great directors. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/verotika
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Same. Heritage Foundation involvement is another red flag.
- Comment on AGI ain't shit 1 month ago:
The Jeff Wayne’s War of the World’s live tour did this. Richard Burton the narrator had died. So they had a giant head hanging over the stage that they projected video of him narrating on it.
That show was crazy in person. The head starts at about 8:30. youtu.be/wqDJiIWhpPM
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 1 month ago:
My problems with the progress flag and the trans rainbow flag are not with the groups or ideas they are ment to express.
First like OP I think they are bad flag designs. To busy and lack the simple design a flag should have. I also just don’t like the look.
Second there is value in a consistent recognizable design like the rainbow. I spot all sorts of variants and often don’t know what they are supposed to mean.
I also don’t think there should be spefic meaning to the parts. Saying this color stripe is this group and that color is another group is problematic.
The rainbow colors were meant to symbolize broad inclusion. Everybody under the rainbow. Red isn’t gay, blue isn’t lesbian, etc. (I know some have tried to add that after the fact).
When you start adding spefic groups to the flag you start having included groups and excluded groups. So as much as I support trans rights and think they belong in the community I don’t want any spefic group in the flag.
You then get groups that are not included and want a new flag to included them. Like we are seeing with the trans flag causing groups to want the progress flag. Pretty soon the rainbow is going to look like nascar with logos everywhere.
A simple consistent flag with the message of broad inclusion is better.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 1 month ago:
I’m of the option that the original rainbow flag is still the best. It was meant to include everyone under the rainbow so trans people and others are already included.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 month ago:
Pie is a set filling in a crust. Cake is a sponge with optional glaze or frosting.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
38 digits of pie gives youv an error of less then a hydrogen atom in the circumference of the known universe.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
Good news for her. Cheese cake is a pie not a cake.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 months ago:
FFT was a DARPA project. It alone probably makes all their funding worth it.
- Comment on is white light "white" because that's what our start emits? 2 months ago:
So white light is when your brain sees a roughly matched signal level on all three color channels. So white would be all of whatever color receptors we evolved for the planet. It’s more of a signal overload than a color.
We actually can’t tell the difference between the mix of primary colors and the actual color. Take Cyan at about 490nm. Looking at it triggers your red, blue, and green receptors in a spefic set of levels your brain reads as Cyan.
However your brain can’t tell the difference between a signal at 490nm and the right combination of 440, 540, and 580 nm. So for example a tv can only show 3 colors but your eyes and brain can’t tell the difference between that and all the natural colors.
We are the most sensitive to green because it’s the wavelength least used by photosynthesis and most plants reflect it. So we evolved to be extra sensitive to it. Camera sensors are usually 50% green, 25% red, 25% blue.
A small number of women have a mutation allowing them to see yellow. So some women can tell the side difference between true yellow and a primary color mix.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 months ago:
Totally. If it wasn’t so fun we wouldn’t be talking about it today.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 months ago:
Galaxina. Low budget space western comedy. Space cowboy wants to have sex with his robot pilot but they have to order the extra parts for her.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 months ago:
What’s your favorite Stewart Raffill movie? Tell me it’s not Mac and Me.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 months ago:
Yeah the budget was cut a lot just before shooting started. I think the director and cast said it’s going to bomb so let’s just have fun.
