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  1. iannis

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Point considered. Counterpoint: this shit just sucks. Sometimes women are mean and ugly.
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    Barry

    I couldn't like anyone in the show except the russians. As much as I like hader, I actively dislike all the characters enough that the rare noho appearance wasn't enough. I know they're doing self satires. That's kinda the problem. Wasn't for me. It was well constructed, at least.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    I'm sure wormie will call me an uneducated goy idiot. It's actually helpful in pointing out where the conceptions go wrong. The main one seemed like mass and density. It's interesting to me, but I have to think it through every time, since I really don't think about it all that often.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    1)yeah. It's why they talk about solar masses. It's also important to think about energy density. There's a thing hypothesized called a kugleblitz black hole that is formed out of energy or radiation, not matter. If a substance interacts with spacetime then in theory there is some...
  5. iannis

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I only need to spend 6. Brienne and Tormund, they go fuck in a hotsprings cave while the night king kills everyone. A new race of hermaphroditic bearded she-giants emerges. The night king, having the benefit of the wisdom of an eras-long undeath retreats to the north and rebuilds the wall.
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    Everquest AMA with Holly Windstalker

    Dear Holly, How you doin?
  7. iannis

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    What I remember most about Thrawn is that it was very very obvious the author intended it to be a screenplay. All the beats were movie beats. It wasn't written as a book is usually written. Other authors do that too and when it hits it hits big. I've only read one book by that Angels and...
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    Health Problems

    Sickness isn't a contest. The shit you're dealing with is worse than cancer in a way. Cancer is worse in another way.
  9. iannis

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Rian killed off their bigbad trilogy villian in #2, a full movie early. And he even did it halfway THROUGH the movie. It's like if Tolkien killed sauron in the 12th chapter of Two Towers. I'm not sure what any writer could do to clean up that mess. Bringing back the over-used and already...
  10. iannis

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    They brought back palpatine? Stunning and brave. Rich Evans called it years ago. They've just got nothing.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Yeah. You can't blame them and an honest man doesn't want it anyway. That sounds like a not at all contentious situation.
  12. iannis

    MMA Thread

    Epo is pretty serious business. I'm surprised captain Auschwitz didn't stroke out. I'm impressed by that. He's a specimen. They do need a clean division and a dirty division. Not for chuckles, because these athletes WILL kill themselves doing it. But they need it so they can have an actual...
  13. iannis

    What does it mean?

    It means DTF, Klingon style.
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    Tiny Malicious Dinosaurs (Bird) Thread

    Yeah, I'm not down with bigbird. We'd have to genocide them or they d eat us. I'd be terrified of a bird as big as I am. In the body. A bird with a six foot wingspan is already a monster. I'll let the parrot on my shoulder. He goes through phases of preferring to ride that way, and...
  15. iannis

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah, I guess math is just logic. It has to be self coherent, but just that.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Let me guess, and I'm serious. She's the prettiest girl on the team. We may like to think we're above that... But we aint. Teams smart to pick the one that fits best and send her.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Not arguing that point, but computer science is applied math, isn't it? So is physics though, and we're comfortable calling that science. Completely comfortable. The entirety of physics is nothing but force equations. And I guess some structural models to derive the equations. Coding has to...
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    I hang onto netflix for the occasional comedy special that I like. I liked Dana Carvey's, Norm MacDonalds, a couple of others. That and I don't keep up on their release schedule. Every few months they'll put out a series that I like. Altered Carbon, The Umbrella Academy, The Last Kingdom...
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    Health Problems

    It's not lumie-tier at all. Nutrition during chemo is incredibly important. The fact that you aren't going to feel like eating anything is not helpful. And the fact that even if you choke it down you may have trouble with digestion is also not helpful. None of it is helpful. It's all a...
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    It is a sort of impressive list. They'll do alright. It shows me how out of touch I am though. Malcom in the Middle was fun, but it ended and I don't need to watch it again. I haven't watched the simpsons in probably ten years. I've seen an episode here or there and been impressed that...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    There's no particular reason to shit on her JUST because she's female. It's how group projects work. They're all listed as contributors. She couldn't have done it without his code. He wouldn't have done it without her organization. It's a communal effort, but someone gets the glory. Works...
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    Cheated out of my youth

    Rhode Island has ABC stores? Except even more hardcore? TIL I expect that in the south. Yeah, it's silly, but it's tradition. They talk about changing it every so often and haven't yet. I guess I'd care more if i drank. Most gas stations sell beer. Some don't.
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    Aliens and imploding simulations.

    It's a really sneaky way for an atheist to make a non theological argument for an afterlife. Which is fine with me. It really is. They might be right. I can't prove they arent. It just doesn't matter, is all. It's when they start claiming to be able to see the other side, that's when you...
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    Aliens and imploding simulations.

    There is no hypothesis when your assertion is untestable. It sounds like an argument but it's not. It's just a statement. Adding what if you're n front of it isn't objectionable, but it's still a statement. This is not even testable as a thought experiment. It's very silly philosophy...
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    Aliens and imploding simulations.

    That's not a raw insult, you know. These sorts of questions do serve a purpose in the refinement of our questions. I still can't remember the word. It's greek.
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    Aliens and imploding simulations.

    It's enchanting because it sounds so deep. But if you take time to think it through, simulation theory is just meaningless at best and an abdication of moral responsibility at worst. Even if the objective truth is that we have no agency, we must act as if we do. We must act that way because...
  27. iannis

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Aww, I liked the ewoks. I saw all three in theaters with my parents. Tbh, return is the only one I remember but ewoks were cute and retUrn was legit a good children's movie. It was just fun. Since I saw it as a child, the math checks out. If you watched them on vhs it was probably a worse...
  28. iannis

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah, it's literally because the angle is bad. The milky way is giving us a duckface.
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    That would have been a much better movie. It's the lack of a villian. We were supposed to have the reveal of the primary villian in 2, not his reveal and immediate defeat. E9 has to be about 5 people in an escape pod going up against The First Order and their 5 ( -1) star destroyers now. How...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    I had a woman recently ask me for an opinion about some medication. So I gave her an opinion and she goes "well, you're not a doctor". At what point in this minding my own business and being asked a specific question about my personal opinion did i claim to be a fucking doctor? And what does...
  31. iannis

    The Astronomy Thread

    Well, I mean. Sometimes?
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    Path of Exile

    As a new player and an intermittent one what happens is that you don't really even try. You roll a witch or jugg and just head for mapworks. You ignore almost everything. Their base game with the plot was very well streamlined. The rest of it is even more of a mess than it used to be.
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    Hodj Proved Salty: A Tranny's Victory Thread

    My cmos screen has usb on the boot order.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    The real space photos are, at best, the grey pixelated ones. Sometimes there's not even an image, there are reams of data being plotted to a graph that are then rendered. It really bummed me out when I realized most space photography is renditions. It's not fake, but it's not exactly a...
  35. iannis

    Hodj Proved Salty: A Tranny's Victory Thread

    I've been leery of water cooling. 8 case fans is ridiculous, true, but it one goes out it doesn't ruin the whole. If your water cooling setup goes bad (I don't even mean a leak) you're rebuilding the whole thing. But if you can count on them to last 2-4 years then it is moot.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    It's unfortunate, you can't usually know until after the fact. The difference between interesting and interesting also useful is a different branch of science.
  37. iannis

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Well then you just make it clear that you require a hot testicular bath when you're working on the WEENIS
  38. iannis

    The internet as it was in 1996

    Yeah, you had to have a pentium for UO. I don't even remember the manufacturer of the CPU but I was using old crap, obviously! And they were pushing a new pentium every six months. It wasn't JUST me being poor... I was thinking that the spurt would level off and if I waited a year I wouldn't...
  39. iannis

    The internet as it was in 1996

    We called all of our Bards "Big Gay" But it was just a superior class to enchanter if you were willing to cripple yourself for the glory of uber. Our really good bards all burned out pretty fast. The playstyle was just too punishing.
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    The internet as it was in 1996

    I couldn't play UO. This was back when computers came in 33/66 and they had a TURBO BUTTON. A turbo button. lol. My hardware was just too trash for UO. It would load. Almost. But it was unplayable. I think I had like 1 entire meg of ram, too. So I was like "drop 600 bucks on new parts...