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It's not about being lazy or lacking creativity, it's about creating a product with known brands that allows the marketing department to make a more precise revenue forecast aka minimizing risk. I'll let you decide if it's better or worse... On the up side, bad and/or generic ideas can make...

That's really what suspension of disbelief is about though. How believable, how internally coherent, is the fictional world that is presented to us. So it's not because there are people with super powers that it's A-Ok to have anything and everything happen in this fictional world.

I guess we'll never get that World of Darkness MMO we could have expected when CCP bought White Wolf... not a big loss as far as I am concerned, as it would have been in the contemporary setting, which I like a lot less than the Dark Age setting.

About the bamboo, while not said, I think it's reasonable to assume it has been brought there by the NASA people. If you don't care about ecosystem purity, bringing bamboo sounds like a good plan as it grows very quickly and provides some material that can be used very efficiently for a number...

God tier: Fanta Green Apple from a fountain distributor at the Ikebukuro station of the Seibu line in Tokyo, Japan, in the '90s. For something more available: fountain Sprite. For nostalgia: Sumol de laranja (basical the portuguese Orangina or Sinalco). That being said I have...

Is Rose injured yet?

The important info I gathered from that is that Dr. Simmons has a problem with her menstruations... More seriously, that was a good episode even if it required a good deal of suspension of disbelief.

Spoiler alert: The answer is no.

I find this Chance The Rapper guy very weak. For some mellow hip-hop with some actual good flow, a classic: And you also get some intello-comedico-experimental french hip hop from 2003, just because:

For the sake of precision, I would like to mention that Douvaine is in fact not in Switzerland (it's in France, close to Geneva though) and that, to my knowledge, it has no landing strip.

The big question with No Man's Sky is how you will feel exploring your 10th planet. Will it be "I wonder what new and surprising things I'll find there?" or will it be "I wonder what slightly different flavor of bland I'll get this time?"

If you use David's plot armor as an argument, it should also be noted that Vader, for all his force induced prescience, has an alarming tendency to have his schemes fail miserably.

1998: Hot shit.

It's not very clear what can kill the T-1000 other than dumping him into lava or some other kind of total destruction event. It's pretty clear what can kill Vader (even if he does not drink milk - or was it orange juice?).

So many good scenes in a 60 minutes episode! A bit of a shame the health inspector died because I enjoyed his character very much, but in exchange we get a promising murder mystery/corruption sub-plot.

On this subject, I recommend you check the romanian film The Second Game by Corneliu Porumboiu. It consists of the director chatting with his father Adrian over the footage of a 1988 Bucarest derby between the Dinamo and the Steaua for which the father was the referee. Check the trailer to...

I always understood it as a thought exercise more than anything else. It's a way to quantify things we cannot understand (putative alien civilizations that master technologies we know nothing about).

Actually she gave a pretty good assessment of the situation. In True Detective she would have said: "My best self is just a little before my worst self." That's also why she asks her friend to assist her: to pull the plug when the worst self appears. Anyway, it feels the pacing is almost back...

I'll assume you are not responsible for one of the 5 million views of that:

The RPG Maker scene is strange.

Still great! I am a little worried about the rapey father in law plot line though because it was one of the few weak things from the first season.

A company with decades of experience designing consumer products is better at designing a consumer product than a startup bought by a software company. Not that surprising really.

Seeing the portraits, it's obvious she is overweight, but it's not obvious that she is morbidly obese. I'll spare you a GIS of morbidly obese, and instead here is a picture of Ad?le who looks a bit like what I expected seeing the portraits.

Photoshoped!

To be precise I said: 'similar topics and/or similar scenes.' The whole tunnel operation really made me think about Zero Dark Thirty (the whole part outside the tunnel probably looks better than anything in ZDT, but the tension and the construction of the action scene is a lot better in...

I feel it's a bit shark-jumpy that Quinn's 3rd target is Carrie in episode 2 of - what? - a 12 episodes season? Especially when you consider they have no idea if she was involved or not with the leak.

I must say I did not like it as much as I thought I would. It's partly because, in the end, the plot does not amount to much (it's not like an investigation where things unfold or like a dive into the war on drugs where you go deeper and deeper into the underworld). Also, it is a little sub-par...

That would work if the false positive created by carbon decay were freak accidents. If they were, you take 100 measures, there is a freak accident in one of them, no big deal. But Furry's argument here is that the false positives due to carbon decay might even be more likely than the actual...

My understanding is that there is a huge quantity of neutrinos that run through the IceCube and very very few that interact with it, so it would be extraordinarily unlikely for the tiny stream of anti-neutrinos produced by carbon decay to create false positives. But this difference in orders of...

You guys are still very good at misrepresenting arguments. Furry's point is that the machines used to detect neutrino are looking for events that can also happen because of the natural decay of carbon that is found in the machine. More specifically, in the case of IceCube, the machine is...

Why a flipped neutrino just won the Nobel Prize | ExtremeTech So... the idea is that it got discovered that neutrinos (or should we say neutrini?) can oscillate between their three flavors (electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino). Apparently, a corollary of this is that neutrino must...

A very promising start, because of the complexity it implies.

Because I was hoping someone with a modicum of knowledge on the subject (read: not me) would post about it!

I am a bit disappointed to not see a post about the Nobel prize for the work on neutrinos

This song is pretty ok really, it's just strange as a Bond theme. Maybe it will work with the tone of the movie...

Listening to it again because I just saw the trailer for Son of Saul:

Season 2 is really the shark jumping olympics. They try to keep the same frantic pace as in season 1 and up the ante, but all they manage to do is a hot mess that breaks the bullshit-o-meter. They still pay for this, because several huge things happened in that season that simply cannot be...

That or they just forgot to apply the "mars filter" to their picture taken in Nevada.

I am not the resident boobologist, but it is nothing new. A little trip on the imdb photo gallery should make it clear.

Is it really what is happening here though? My understanding is that they expected to be able to detect something and did not, sosomethingwent wrong. The way you frame it, it seems the most likely culprit is not the theory, but you still can't rule it out until you actually find the culprit.