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If I am right, this is basically what drove Boltzmann nuts. He calculated out that it requires less complexity / energy for the universe to be a simulation than it to be actual. Wonder what he would have tought of universes as simulation? He might have concludd it was the more likely situation...

But given Dyson spheres, is energy an issue?

Goes back to If a species reaches a point at which it is capable of simulating a universe, it will mathematically prove there is an equal chance it itself is being observed as a simulation, or that the observers are a simulation... And so on and so on and so on.

wow! just for the record I do not believe my shitposts. Look at my avatar. I may shitpost, but that is only because I live in a world where, mmm, heh, ahehe, apparently Clouseau is regarded (sniffled laugh) as a (plz, I need another Quaalude) genius!

Some of this stuff is always weird. Way back in orginal, Fall of 1999, I tried to enter the last name of "spinechewer" and got turned down each time I tried. I finally caved and hit on "spinegnawer." No problems. I am not sure you can easily decode how their red flags go off.

Hey Borzak - I would def check out if you can sell that cassette player. There collectors out there who LOVE hard to find stuff. I had no idea a cassette carousel player even existed. You might have a really rare item on your hands there ;)

I have found the hipsterish thing of vinyl to be alright by me. I got the vast majority of my vinyl from a relative leaving me their rock collection which covers up through the early 90's, then an ad in a newspaper like around 90 -- an old gentleman just wanted to give away his classical...

Imagine the rule lawyering. On the one hand you can't just let it go to pot, or people will just not do it. But the amount of rule lawyering that will go on from day 1 will be so brutal.

I remember the first season of Kojak, when they introduced the character of Crocker. They kept calling him "green," like what did this guy know, he's green. So the deal was, p99 was going to start a new server. A "Green" server they called it. So Kojak says to Crocker, you better go check this...

Bleach

^^^ this speaks wisdom to the question we have asked.

Nick Bosa is going to have a hard time being an obvious racist moran in SF. But good luck to him. Or rather, to his knees. Welcome to the NFL Nick. Enjoy getting turned out lol.

I think one idea that was never fully explored was the ability to play an npc. It would be fun to be able to log on and be randomly assigned to be an npc. Most of the times you pop into the world as a drybone skellie in lavastorm, or a giant kodiak in commonlands. But every so often you maybe...

At some point, too, the tastes of younger players start to impact the ideas of what is "good design." I always felt the ability to get around the world, traveling from zone A to zone Z, was part of the skillz. Who ares if it took an hour to get to the raid zone or to a group? But that is very...

I think being an audiophile means, you just like music and listening to it. I love driving down an interstate listening to AM radio. But if I try at home, I always just try to have fun. I still love cd's as you can see from my earlier pics. I also love vinyl. Done decently, vinyl is pretty...

Browns get a dude named "Greedy," who plays corner. I love this.

Give me one legion and he still said no.

persistent world mmo's used to be able to thrive just because they were absolutely new -- as if D&D turned into a 24/7 online comunity. IMO, given how used to such a world so many are now, a real question arises how to throttle content. EQ2 introduced the need for item repair, for example...

Which Deadwood character are you? http://www.quiztron.com/tests/character_from_deadw_quiz_44929.htm I was Doc Cochran

Youtube is also posting strats. Fuck Zuckerberg.

You guys do not get it. You are already in the MMO. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. I admit it is disorienting, though. What are the raid objectives? What are the guild rules? What race am I? What class am I? Who is keeping track of loot? And is there really no one here who can give my...

New neighbor moved in across the street, a decent dude with a family who is not a family of meth heads (yech, bad neighbors). I helped him move some trash out of the back yard the other day. He has his Browns flag flying off the front, the classic colors, the helmet, and the caption "It's ALWAYS...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war It's like, how can we fuck up advanced musical recording? The technology is mature, the physics are understood, engineering and acoustic engineering are gtg. And yet they still have figure out how to fuck up. Ah well, PLENTY of good recordings...

If I had oodles of cash? Sure. But I don't. And I think you mentioned DIY tube amps. I hear if you have the basic skills, you can easily buy a kit to assemble yourself. I mean, most of these designs are 60+ years old. I hear the tranformer is crucial, and you need it to be the best item. I...

Someone took "sadre" on selo's. Good thing for you I know the grapes are sour! Go go Aesop!

This thread kicks ass. Thnx for the Tegman recommendation Cpt. Suave. As to the singularity vs event horizon thing, I can understand the event horizon somewhat, but the singularity just baffles me. The event horizon is an expression of the mass and density of the black hole, the radius where...

I have always viewed math as (allegedly) the best way to model empirical phenomena. So applied math is the premise that most everything can be mathematically modeled, and then managed, manipulated, or predicted most precisely using that language -- the language of maths. You say you can do...

I was trying to find a graphic about just how mammoth m87's black hole / EH was. Found this vid which just TURN OFF THE SOUND. It is very nicely done except the cretin though we needed to here his tunes. But the scale issues are amazing.

good lord guys, must we?

GG Allin makes me pause. That is so far gone. But wait a sec. If I thought GG Allin was fine and dandy, I'd be a psycho path. Ok, now I get it. God he was one of a kind. Him and Darby Crash.

We went for a super-luminous / energetic region. Virgo A. It's famous. A highly energetic point source that is prime discovery territory ;) just check it's current following on ... oh wait a sec nevermind. Also, I think the reason includes, the accretion disk is more or less perpendicular to...

Go outside. Look at the sun. Put your thumb up so that it blocks the direct disk. Take a picture. You just took a picture of the sun with a primitive light sink, namely your thumb. The black hole is doing the same thing by sheer force of gravity. Your thumb cannot touch that.

So is the deal here, that the accretion disk of the M87 anomaly is nearly perpendicular to us as observers? Hence why a ring shape? And would other active black holes take a different look based on their orientation to us?

What is your view of eq2 as a sequel to the "classic eq", with its new mechanics, gameplay, etc.? If you could stop eq2 at its "peak expansion" what would that be? Does this company even have access to era-appropriate code for that expansion? Asking for a friend.

Problem with Dallas is it just won't let you be

The history of excellence in TLP servers is unimpeachable.

And nearfield is, imo, a great way to listen. Just to experiment, you need to move the speaker and make a triangle, even if it is just for serious listening. I listen real quiet most of the time b/c I like to save my ears. But hell, the point of stero is, equilateral triangles are you friends...

When push comes to shove, how much do you think the IP of everquest is worth and, given that dismal number, how do the gamesters in charge plan to exploit and build that value? Or it where we are at the end game plan? Nostalgia servers ad infintum.

Ya, I ate lots of greens. Fortunately, sautteed greens with olive oil and some garlic is a huge favorite of mine. Pair that with a nice cut of protein, oh yeah ;) You are right though. I oversimplied the diet. I never got down to the weight I was working toward, so kinda forgot. As to my...