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- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 3 weeks ago:
Did you think shadow of innsmouth was warning you about the fish? Nah man. Evil H2O.
- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 3 weeks ago:
That makes one of us. Fluid dynamics gets screwy.
- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 3 weeks ago:
I’m only going to be a pedant because that’s sort of the point of these conversations, that’s not a bad interpretation and I appreciate you posting it.
BUT, it’s not so much that it’s “distributed” as that, so long as the boat floats, there will be a mass of water displaced exactly equal to the mass of the boat. In this case it’s displaced off the bridge (off either end). There is zero force being applied up or downstream (except during the initial transition). That’s the fun thing about incomprehensible fluids, every infinitely small point at the bottom of a water colum ONLY has the force of the column above it acting on it. A pressure gage will read the same for a square mm or square m.
Spot on with the bowl though. The displaced water can’t leave the system in that case so the masses add.
Heres the action lab video BTW! m.youtube.com/watch?v=SUq_tM3yGTM&pp=ygUKQWN0aW9u…
- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a fun fact action lab pointed out: setting aside wind, etc, the load the bridge has to be designed for is only the water that fills it.
That bridge will have the same force on it from a tanker or a kyaker.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 5 weeks ago:
Surely there’s enough for a macro pad in there? It’s like the makers version of a scratch off lotto ticket lmfao
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 month ago:
Ah, I thought the date was announced like two weeks ago. My mistake.
But in any event hope you get some good time in with it this weekend. When the vibe is that unique there’s nothing like a second helping done right.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 month ago:
Yeah, this was one of those games that I could see the craftsmanship but just wasn’t for me.
But strong follow up to a much beloved original IP for a very reasonable price? That borderline shadow dropped? Love it, yall enjoy your suprise Christmas and go nuts. Cool as hell.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 2 months ago:
“cheering for the Chiefs doesn’t make you a football player”
No see THAT makes you a terrorist.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 4 months ago:
I recently talked to someone who’s small family business was in their 3rd generation of making these. What they said is that there was a big market in south east Asia.
Like we learned early covid, a lot of hygienic paper goods are made locally (not worth enough to ship), and they said that there just aren’t as many trees to make paper from there, so despite being very far away, this little family shop made and shipped these.
The person I talked to wasn’t involved in the business directly, so they/I might have some of that wrong but I thought that was interesting. Like I guess it’s enough to keep them in business but probably not enough to attract new comers?
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 4 months ago:
The character drama with Brendan gleeson opposite Colin Farrell set in an idyllic small town in Europe that serves as a contrast to accent sparingly used violence emblamatic of violence on a much larger scale that’s hinted at but not shown featuring a mishmash of strongly acted and intriguing supporting characters?
In Bruges.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 5 months ago:
Not really “pink”, and lacks romance, but very pleasant: Dave the Diver. Cozy-ish game with nifty characters. Only thing would be I don’t know if you meant “no/minimal combat” because you don’t want the mechanics or the vibes. Dave has not particularly challenging combat mechanics, and paw patrol levels of violence levels (although you are catching and eating fish).
If you like park builders, Zoo Tycoon is cozy as hell. Beware the DLC trap though. You can get the base game with a lot of meat pretty cheap, but the DLCs are like $10+ each and not really a good value IMO. But the game has a great vibe with some really neat mechanics that try and imitate real conservation efforts.
What would check the boxes through a “Hot Topic” lens is Promise Mascot Agency. Surprisingly wholesome, completely off the wall, combat is all card/deck builder based… I… it’s a hard one to describe.
Doughnut county checks all the boxes but is rather short. Katamari if you haven’t done it.
I hear good things about, but have not played: Naiad, Tempopo.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 6 months ago:
Similar. I got a vehicle that had android auto, but not wireless. Plugging and unplugging all the time I’d go through a cable every few months. Power would work, but the shielding would break and it would screw with cell/GPS until I replaced the cable.
Got a wireless android auto adapter to stop buying cables. That’s great but I knew I wouldn’t plug in my phone every time like normal, so I use the wireless charging.
- Comment on They did the math 9 months ago:
Listen this isn’t a fancy sport like futbol where they just make up extra time at the end.
- Comment on I never realized this 9 months ago:
Calm down Enoch Root
- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 10 months ago:
I imagine it’s classified, but NASA being NASA, you know a full risk assessment along these lines exists, probably with dutiful updates as it’s still an active program. It would be fascinating read especially with the updates, with how much the world has changed while the probe remained the same.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 10 months ago:
Not going to lie, despite loving the stories about the monkey king, I skipped it entirely because of the notes they sent to content creators. Which would also be why I skip movies and games that take the US’ DoD money. I’m glad it got passed over.
- Comment on Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale? 10 months ago:
I loved FC5. Ubisoft gets a lot of crap because they make the same game over and over but there’s a reason they started doing that. Good characters, and the pacing is pretty solid unless you’re a completions (which is your own fault). There’s some weird mechanics that progress the story that kind of break immersion that they chose because of the open world setting, but it’s a solid game. Enjoy!
If you like it, “new dawn” is pretty OK. Wait for it to be cheap, it’s basically really meaty DLC.
- Comment on FYI: Medieval monks were dumb. 11 months ago:
No joke: Uncle Sam was a real guy and Ive been to his grave. I forget if his wife was there (or if he had one).
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 11 months ago:
It might be? I forget exactly what it is in humans, I just remember the pictures I was shown. Midline disorders are nightmare fuel.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 11 months ago:
Oh I get how it got that way, it’s just unfortunate what that lead to in a clinical setting.
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 11 months ago:
Similar to the meme… godamn did they fuck up by not holding geneticists to something close to… SOME standard naming.
Dated a maternal fetal medicine specialist. She’d come home being like “you ever have to explain to someone they have a mutation in the ‘sonic the hedgehog’ gene of their kid?!” If you’re familiar with what it does in fruit flies (when it was named), it’s fucking horrific in humans. Don’t google it.
- Comment on Little dude ATP 11 months ago:
That’s not me. Thaaaats asbestos.
- Comment on Little dude ATP 11 months ago:
I worked in bioelectrochemostry. We had looked into that to see if we could juice reactors. Turns out it’s not the bugs that limit things, but godamn did that stuff make them boogie.
- Comment on Worshippers of Cthulhum, a Lovercraftian themed town builder where you play the bad guys, released in early access on Steam 11 months ago:
No but it’s got a demo for free
- Comment on Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent 1 year ago:
People who don’t want to use the epic store. That was me. I just don’t want another launcher, another account. I’ll get around to it at some point I’m sure but I didn’t buy AW2 and probably would have if it wasn’t an exclusive.
- Comment on Climate change 1 year ago:
Not as great as it seems. The thing is, everyone’s retirement is tied to real-estate. The numbers my vary country by country, but nearly all pension funds and mutual funds have significant exposure to real-estate that is just ignoring the issue that those properties may become uninsurable. That’s before what happens due to the economic disruption of all those cities slowly, then at an increased velocity, relocating.
It’s not going to be pretty.
- Comment on Climate change 1 year ago:
So yes, I realize this a joke map (honestly, a giant, probably mostly freshwater sea, in the US would be a blessing). But what you’re describing is the main issue with climate change.
It’s not going to be “the day after tomorrow”. It will be coastal cities… which are… like nearly ALL of them… losing all their economic value. In the US when having this conversation I say “what do you do when any building in Manhattan is uninsurable? What do you do when it’s sure to have severe damage?”.
For most people there are plenty of places to go, but the “going” is going to be very, very ugly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
… Damnit. That is dope.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Can you markup pdfs with it? Like if I’m reading a paper can I put notes in the margin etc and save it?
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 1 year ago:
Or just… Don’t make a launcher?