Malgas

@Malgas@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope, not visiting that⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That logic assumes that there is some universal way if measuring the position of the earth, but there is no absolute system for measuring position in space. Location, distance, velocity, and even simultaneity depend entirely on the choice of a frame of reference. And the frame in which the earth is stationary is no less valid than any other.

  Also the type of time machine has a bearing here. The traditional H.G. Wells vehicle-type doesn’t jump, but moves smoothlythrough all the intervening moments in time, so there’s no reason it wouldn’t stay firmly on the surface. And a time portal that forms a connection to the same apparatus at a different time would have no problem either, since the machine itself doesn’t move except in the ordinary way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no we don’t need more anti-Nazi slop. We need the real gourmet shit; anti-Nazi fine dining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because they’ve got everything north of Hudson’s Bay broken out separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Marie Curie was, in fact, a married mother when she did the work that earned her two Nobel Prizes in separate fields.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God's Property⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The numbers are verse numbers, used for citing specific passages, e.g. “Ezekiel 23:20”.

  I would assume that the letters are annotations, and that this is likely an academic Bible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radiating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The contrast of their deaths has always stood out to me: She died of radiation-induced aplastic anemia. He was run over by a horse cart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chilis 🌶⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I have a dal recipe that calls for “whole dry red chili”, “green chili”, and “red pepper”.

  I do my best to interpret this (usually arboles, poblanos, and cayenne, respectively) and I like the result, but I do sometimes wonder what the author intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness to that second post, Peter Pan never said what to clap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sufficiently unfamiliar with New York that I had to look it up, but Rochester and Tribeca appear to be at opposite ends of the state and are presumably not served by the same physical Target store. Displaying the actual price at a location near you seems completely reasonable to me, if that’s what they’re doing.

  But yes, there should be a mandate to explain what data is being used and how.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not enough. Omega, ADoM, Angband, Crawl, and Nethack are roguelikes. Nearly every game mentioned in this article is a roguelite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NeW zEaLaNd 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the z80 specifically, but it’s probably an assembly keyword for a special bit (“flag”) that indicates if the result of the previous operation was nonzero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those don’t seem to address the little girl. Kaguya grows quickly but is nevertheless apparently an adult by the time she goes to the moon. And the moon rabbit just loops back to Chang 'e.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, I thought Chang’e was an adult woman. Is there a different moon-rabbit-lady story I don’t know about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Euler's Meme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems possible that there might also be finite closed rings of memes that all make fun of another. In this case there would be no normiest meme, and dankness would not be well-ordered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the film winds up coming off as campy or even outright silly as the weirdness cranks up. The manga is still incredibly weird, but manages to hold the creepy tone better. Probably mostly due to what you can get away with in drawings vs live action; the screen adaptation probably would have been better as anime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… in some vampire myths you can distract a vampire by scattering a bag of grain or similar in front of them because they are compelled to stop and count it. (And yes, that is why Sesame Street’s Count von Count is like that.)

  So maybe it’s only crosses that are almost, but not exactly perpendicular that cause them pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Of The Best Games Ever Turns 25, And You Still Can't Buy It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I propose “orphanware” for that subset of abandonware that has no clear owner.

  Consistent with the broader term “orphan work”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the Waterworld strat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, 独語, and 仏語 are perfectly cromulent, albeit less common than the katakana versions. And 米語 likewise exists, referring specifically to American English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it does, and it’s written the same in Chinese. I guess if 中国 is technically considered a loanword, then 中国語 is consistent with ドイツ語 and フランス語.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everytime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because “England” has a Japanese style adjective-country formation (英国), which then follows the native pattern for language (英語). By contrast, “Germany” (ドイツ) and “France” (フランス) are borrowed phonetically.

  To your complaint about “Japan-language”, note that Japan’s official name is 日本国.

  What I can’t explain is why 国 comes along for the ride when it’s China. (中国語)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nuculus, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upload Me Into The AI God Hivemind⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Citizen Sleeper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantic Dream’s first multiplayer game is Spellcasters Chronicles, a 3v3 strategy action game | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine you could do something entertaining with that premise, in a Typing of the Dead sort of way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The blunt angles and steel doors look futuristic, for sure

  Do they, though? It’s always looked to me like something from the background of a PS1 game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably asymptotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a decent enough illustration of the sort of thing that can happen when you translate an idiom literally. To be truly accurate that panel would have to be in a language other than English, but then it would be useless to anyone who doesn’t also understand that second language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y = -x²⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clockwise, from “making”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So we’re just going to ignore that he has time-traveled on multiple occasions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Thag Simmons.