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| Topic | What is your favorite streaming service? |
| Sahuagin 12/05/21 4:35:22 PM #20 | out of those I guess netflix but the only service that always has what I want available and will play in HD is iTunes. youtube has good selection too, but IIRC won't play HD without special hardware (possibly it works through the app though not sure). --- |
| Topic | Why is trying to link images from google such a dang chore? |
| Sahuagin 12/04/21 1:51:44 PM #4 | yeah I can't find a way so far. you have to visit the site it's on, find it if possible, and then use copy image link. (you could use 'copy image' which will copy the image contents to the copy buffer). on bing it's similar, but there is also a "view image" option that will give you the direct link to the original file. --- |
| Topic | robot uprising |
| Sahuagin 12/04/21 11:22:20 AM #7 | the end result of this isn't robot uprising, it's grey-goo basically, once you have a nano-bot that can self-replicate, and do so in a normal earth environment by making use of the available resources... then theoretically they will self-replicate exponentially consuming all available resources and spreading across the globe as a "grey goo". it's actually plausible (in some sense that's already what animals/life are, but this would be at a microscopic scale; and they would reproduce asexually only by building more of themselves.) --- |
| Topic | Is ask you now. |
| Sahuagin 12/04/21 12:07:05 AM #9 | Bulbasaur posted... me<throws applecore> --- |
| Topic | In the Metroid canon, is Samus' identity supposed to be a secret? |
| Sahuagin 12/03/21 9:32:58 PM #9 | I think the "true form is shrouded in mystery" part is just about the reveal at the end. before then, the player would wonder if "he" was an alien, or a robot, or what. --- |
| Topic | In the Metroid canon, is Samus' identity supposed to be a secret? |
| Sahuagin 12/03/21 9:31:03 PM #8 | The relevant text (surprisingly long but interesting): In the year 2000 of the history of the cosmos, representatives from the many different planets in the galaxy established a congress called the Galactic Federation, and an age of prosperity began. A successful exchange of cultures and civilization resulted, and thousands of interstellar spaceships ferried back and forth between planets. But space pirates also appeared to attack the spaceships. --- |
| Topic | Good Songs: Episode 5 |
| Sahuagin 12/03/21 9:08:25 PM #94 | |
| Topic | Is anyone actually looking forward to the Morbius movie |
| Sahuagin 12/02/21 10:50:31 PM #14 | after much reading I think I sort of get it. I'm thinking of "undead" to mean like a reversing of death (like animation of a corpse). that is actually close to the concept, but I guess it's more like a reversing of (or nullification of) mortality, regardless of whether you are dead or not. so, making oneself immortal basically. it's not necessarily undoing a death that has already occurred, it's removing oneself (or a creature, w/e) from the normal bounds of mortality. apply it to a corpse, you get a zombie, since the body is no longer "dead". apply it to someone who is alive, you get something more like a vampire since they are "alive" but having had their mortality removed are now "immortal". (I guess... who knows... and then I wonder... why are ghouls undead?) --- |
| Topic | Is anyone actually looking forward to the Morbius movie |
| Sahuagin 12/02/21 10:10:31 PM #8 | Kyuubi4269 posted... The lack of blood? They literally take the life essense of other creatures to sustain themselves as they themselves do not have life in them.don't vampires have blood? I guess supernatural vampires are a bit different. usually sci-fi vampires have blood and basically just have a contagious disease or something. --- |
| Topic | Is anyone actually looking forward to the Morbius movie |
| Sahuagin 12/01/21 10:04:16 PM #3 | ParanoidObsessive posted... they called him the "living vampire" (which doesn't really make much sense when you think about it)doesn't that actually make more sense? vampires being undead is what doesn't make sense. vampires aren't dead; what exactly makes them undead? --- |
| Topic | Lufia 2 speedruns are down to 51 seconds :D |
| Sahuagin 11/30/21 11:03:59 PM #26 | Revelation34 posted... Glitches are fine since it's in the game. Outside tools are not.I guess it's not a speedrun, but one of the best feats ever is beating Doom 2 Icon of Sin pacifist, which can basically only ever be done tool assisted (only watch last ~30 seconds or so) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpmPLrpGSos&t=8m45s --- |
| Topic | What is your favorite mech? |
| Sahuagin 11/30/21 10:14:30 PM #54 | hard to pick a single favorite (all from BattleTech), but probably the Timber Wolf/Mad Cat other favorites include the Atlas, Dire Wolf/Daishi, and Summoner/Thor for a smaller mech, maybe the Nova/Black Hawk I feel like these are all obvious picks though --- |
| Topic | Which of the following was NOT an AMERICAN INVENTION??? |
| Sahuagin 11/30/21 9:54:22 PM #6 | Muscles posted... I'm gonna guess 9, since the sport basketball was invented in Canada I'll assume the basketball was toobasketball was invented by a canadian, but in USA (this includes the ball as far as I know, though it says he originally used soccer balls) --- |
| Topic | Which of the following was NOT an AMERICAN INVENTION??? |
| Sahuagin 11/30/21 9:36:04 PM #4 | #3 could be Japan or USA depending how exact you want to be #4 was Europe and/or USA #5 is Sweden, and then rediscovered by USA #10 is unambiguously not USA so I suppose that is what you're going for --- |
| Topic | Good Songs: Episode 5 |
| Sahuagin 11/30/21 2:26:18 AM #88 | |
| Topic | Do you think Jesus was married or had kids? |
| Sahuagin 11/30/21 2:19:29 AM #21 | Lokarin posted... I'm starting to think Jesus never existed... I mean, supposedly there's a secular source of an execution record, but I can't find it captpackrat posted... There are numerous references to Jesus in ancient writings, such as the works of the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historian Tacitus. from what I've heard, something like there's no record of Jesus's execution despite Roman's keeping thorough records of that kind of thing, and the one Roman that does mention him is referring to him as a phenomenon or concept not an actual record of someone. like us talking about a famous person. we could be talking about George Clooney or George Jetson, it's just evidence of the idea not of the historical person. though, I think I would say he probably existed (maybe, who knows). it's much easier to imagine the way things went if it was spawned from an actual set of events rather than just made up from scratch. also, if you read the new testament, to me parts of it paint a pretty clear picture of the sort of "scam" operation that you would run in those days. "magic" in ancient times was the same sleight-of-hand tricks that we know today, and that's exactly the kind of parlor tricks that he went around doing (water to wine, bread and fishes, walking on water, "healing", etc.etc., exactly the kinds of things you would do to convince ancient people (and some modern people) of magic). (and then, after he was executed, and supposedly resurrected, they have a guy that no one recognizes (not even people who knew him), and waltz him around telling people that even though they don't recognize him it "must" be him just because of similar injuries he has. (it's easy to imagine him with impossible wounds or something (which is why this can be convincing), but it's also easy to imagine him with mundane "wounds" that still convince ancient people despite not actually being impressive.)) (the point here is, IMO the NT inadvertently describes this whole thing as the scam operation that it would have actually been. I see that as evidence that it's really describing (to some degree) what they were doing since a purely fantastical story "shouldn't" have that and could be way more far fetched. another way to say it is that it does seem to be grounded in some reality despite trying to be a magical story.) --- |
| Topic | if you think your english is so good, write a word that begins with c and ends |
| Sahuagin 11/29/21 11:48:21 PM #51 | Bulbasaur posted... it's certainly not "type" though now is itand I don't "type" code (or emails, or other electronic documents) I write it --- |
| Topic | What is your favorite card-game-based video game? |
| Sahuagin 11/29/21 9:19:29 PM #3 | Slay the Spire I don't usually like card games, but that one is fantastic another one that was pretty good but I've only played it a bit is Culdcept Saga (it's actually kind of like Monopoly, except instead of hotels you have monsters and if you land on your opponent's monster you have the option of fighting it) --- |
| Topic | if you think your english is so good, write a word that begins with c and ends |
| Sahuagin 11/29/21 9:11:44 PM #48 | Bulbasaur posted... and yet you still got it wrongI don't know what the point of this thread is other than to make yourself look silly, but if you're actually serious about the "write" thing, there's nothing about the word "write" that necessitates pen and paper --- |
| Topic | how do unfrosted strawberry poptarts have more calories than frosted strawberry |
| Sahuagin 11/29/21 12:54:49 AM #17 | Bulbasaur posted... they have the same fatunfrosted has 5g total fat per 52g poptart frosted has 2.5g total fat per 48g poptart your serving sizes are different than the ones I see though --- |
| Topic | how do unfrosted strawberry poptarts have more calories than frosted strawberry |
| Sahuagin 11/28/21 11:09:12 PM #3 | because whatever extra calories the frosting has is less calories than whatever they omit unfrosted seem to have twice the fat. I suppose that means they have more pastry. --- |
| Topic | Solve this here math puzzle (recently on Presh Talwalkar) |
| Sahuagin 11/28/21 10:01:03 PM #22 | Lokarin posted... we did the start of parabolas in Grade 4"the start of parabolas" could mean a lot of things, but you did not do the quadratic equation and solving polynomials in grade 4. quadratic formula and parabolas are touched on in grade 11, and then expanded upon in grade 12 for goodness sake. that's high-school math. grade 3s barely know what fractions are. --- |
| Topic | Solve this here math puzzle (recently on Presh Talwalkar) |
| Sahuagin 11/28/21 8:22:27 PM #19 | Lokarin posted... the logic is that the kids are learning how to figure out HOW to figure out the nature of the puzzle. Since the outputs display exponential growth then the quadratic formula is a good place to startyeah but that's like grade 10 math, not grade 3. grade 3s are learning things like fractions and multiplication and division for the first time. they won't even do something like squaring until grade 4 or so. --- |
| Topic | Solve this here math puzzle (recently on Presh Talwalkar) |
| Sahuagin 11/28/21 7:55:09 PM #17 | I was going to say, the right answer here would be that it's a typo and f(3) should really equal 15. then we would have a proper grade 3 level question. the video says this and then just says "I don't think we can say it's a typo". at this point I think it's pretty obviously a typo. the video should just be seen as a hypothetical "how could we solve this problem anyway even knowing that it's not the intended question". --- |
| Topic | Do you think Active Noise Cancelling makes a huge difference in headphones? |
| Sahuagin 11/28/21 5:33:06 PM #3 | yes it makes a huge difference. I have some fairly cheap ones and just that effect alone is enough to make things more relaxing. even if the cheap ones don't make things completely silent, it softens everything and is just instantly relief if you're looking for peace. more expensive ones are better still and block a ton of sound. (testing some expensive ones is what convinced me to buy some cheap ones. the cheap ones still let a lot of sound through but it's all softened. the expensive ones only seemed to let the loudest and lowest-frequency sounds through, like if you bang your hand on the table you can hear it faintly.) --- |
| Topic | Solve this here math puzzle (recently on Presh Talwalkar) |
| Sahuagin 11/28/21 5:25:42 PM #14 | another option I guess is to not really think mathematically and just think in terms of a pattern f(1) = 5f(2) = 10f(3) = 55f(4) = 100f(5) = 555f(6) = 1000f(7) = 5555f(8) = 10000f(9) = 55555f(10) = 100000problem is these are all equally valid answers (maybe this one is simple enough for grade 3 though) although a problem with the way this is asked is that you said "what is f?" elementary school students do not know what functions are. you only learn about functions in high school, and that's if you take the higher level math classes, which not everyone will. so yeah, asking grade 3s what "f" is makes no sense at all. --- |
| Topic | Solve this here math puzzle (recently on Presh Talwalkar) |
| Sahuagin 11/28/21 4:30:51 PM #13 | Nightwind posted... Could be base 3, trinary, with the didgets in the number set being 5, 1, and 0.I was thinking of that but it doesn't really fit you could say that the numbers are binary, with for some bizarre reason odd numbers using 5 as the '1' digit, and even numbers normal binary. f(1) = 5f(2) = 10f(3) = 55f(4) = 100f(5) = 505f(6) = 110f(7) = 555f(8) = 1000f(9) = 5005f(10) = 1010that's way too complicated for grade 3 though --- |
| Topic | Solve this here math puzzle (recently on Presh Talwalkar) |
| Sahuagin 11/28/21 12:37:11 PM #8 | it's kind of ambiguous since there's something like an infinite number of functions that can generate that very short sequence. let's say f(1) = 5 is constant, f(2) = 10 is constantand then f(n), n > 2 = f(n - 1) * f(n - 2) + f(n - 2)then f(3) = 10 * 5 + 5 = 55and f(4) = 55 * 10 + 10 = 560but that's just one option --- |
| Topic | Have you ever gotten covid or personally know someone who got it? |
| Sahuagin 11/27/21 10:10:26 PM #13 | the closest I'm up to so far, not including online people, is knowing someone who knows someone who had it --- |
| Topic | if you think your english is so good, write a word that begins with c and ends |
| Sahuagin 11/27/21 7:10:50 PM #4 | hmmm creosote? I wouldn't have thought of it but just heard it the other day and didn't know what it was dunno if this is a trick question, but I guess a simpler word would just be create --- |
| Topic | why do the topic list button text have shadows on the letters |
| Sahuagin 11/26/21 11:55:30 PM #5 | because the css says so --- |
| Topic | Who are these guys? |
| Sahuagin 11/25/21 9:38:26 PM #3 | ? ? Bob Hope ? ? --- |
| Topic | Which of these is NOT an AMERICAN BURGER??? |
| Sahuagin 11/25/21 9:31:52 PM #63 | LinkPizza posted... Nothing wrong with itthere's a little wrong with it. I can make a homemade hamburger and say you can't buy it in USA, that doesn't make an interesting question to quiz random people about. there must be 100 or more restaurants in my city that make hamburgers that you can't buy in USA, that's completely meaningless. and that's not even to mention the fact that you can actually buy it in USA since there is apparently at least one USA Moxies. --- |
| Topic | ITT: We play First letter, last letter - Gaming Edition |
| Sahuagin 11/25/21 1:14:34 AM #315 | ... --- |
| Topic | One post = one video game song |
| Sahuagin 11/25/21 1:13:42 AM #47 | |
| Topic | Which of these is NOT an AMERICAN BURGER??? |
| Sahuagin 11/24/21 9:21:34 PM #50 | eh... that so dumb, it's just a hamburger. any particular restaurant will have a particular hamburger, who cares? (heck I even work somewhere that has a particular hamburger that you can't buy in USA, who the heck cares?) --- |
| Topic | Which of these is NOT an AMERICAN BURGER??? |
| Sahuagin 11/24/21 8:48:06 PM #48 | Full Throttle posted... only 1 is a burger from CANADA. i'll give you that much. it has chains nationally in the country but i believe only ONE in dallas, texas. and this restaurant burger was started in alberta. that's the only hint i'll give on the burger that isn't americanI was thinking it might be Harvey's but looking it up Harvey's seems to have a distinctive bun that I don't see in the images (though I don't really recall that bun when getting it myself; but then I don't see one that looks like what I think it should look like either) --- |
| Topic | 4 > 3 > R p2 = 1 > 2 > 5 > R p1 |
| Sahuagin 11/23/21 11:57:54 PM #34 | you said it's a show. does that include anime? I could maybe guess a tv show but not an anime. Entity13 posted... Think Robin Hood, or something like it.that would make me guess Archer but I don't think the seasons match. --- |
| Topic | Which of these is NOT an AMERICAN BURGER??? |
| Sahuagin 11/23/21 11:33:02 PM #7 | my guess was the fried egg burger since I know some asian restaurants that like to put fried eggs on things, but looking it up it seems like an american thing so who the heck knows (is there something else with the fried egg? I can't tell what it is.) --- |
| Topic | So that Brian Laundrie guy killed himself. |
| Sahuagin 11/23/21 11:25:54 PM #20 | PeterPumpknhead posted... wtf dudethe OP is advocating that one control their own anger, and that even if someone (who he angered) attacked him, it would not be his fault for making them angry. IE: one is responsible for controlling their own anger and their actions that result from it. --- |
| Topic | egg rolls are a pinnacle food |
| Sahuagin 11/23/21 11:20:18 PM #30 | lumpia seem to be spring rolls not egg rolls. egg rolls are a lot different than spring rolls, even chinese ones. --- |
| Topic | No reason I'm sharing a video I made |
| Sahuagin 11/23/21 9:24:32 PM #3 | maybe still need a tripod or something but the shakiness is a lot more bearable than before. extremely good picture quality. --- |
| Topic | egg rolls are a pinnacle food |
| Sahuagin 11/23/21 9:16:00 PM #16 | I'm not sure I've ever liked specifically an egg roll. the best one seems to be vegetable spring rolls. --- |
| Topic | a calzone is just a hot pocket |
| Sahuagin 11/23/21 9:12:05 PM #45 | I remember having one and I think I remember thinking basically the same thing. (very similar and equally terrible.) --- |
| Topic | My Amazon didn't arrive today... should I throw a hissy fit? |
| Sahuagin 11/22/21 10:38:06 PM #5 | I ended up with two of one item one time I think because of that. it was "guaranteed 24 hour delivery" or something, and failed to arrive the first day and then the second day I got 2 (I assume because the failed delivery caused another to be sent or something, but not sure.) (which reminds me of the time I ordered oven mits. do you get 1 mit or 2? I assumed you get 2, but got 1. so then I ordered another one, and got 2, which is why I have 3.) --- |
| Topic | Games where you can destroy your save file (that still work) |
| Sahuagin 11/22/21 10:31:56 PM #29 | Cruddy_horse posted... That sounds like what every indie game tries to do and be "meta" and I think it's the stupidest thing ever, Undertale made me cringe harder than I ever have and I used to read a shitload of crappy fanfiction as a teen.yeah almost any implementation I can think of seems like it would just be dumb in practice. (not familiar with undertale). the main thing I would want to do something about or at least call attention to is the overpoweredness of the save system. the player has basically literal time-travel at their disposal and it's always just glossed over. --- |
| Topic | Games where you can destroy your save file (that still work) |
| Sahuagin 11/22/21 9:19:55 PM #27 | I guess you don't mean for gameplay reasons but I always toy with the idea that the game-world should be to some degree aware of your ability to save/load because that is really the ultimate power that the player has at their disposable and is essentially time-travel as far as the game-world is concerned. if you really wanted a boss to mess with the player, it should start to be able to "break the fourth wall" or whatever and really attack the player themselves in some way, but it's hard to see how you could get away with that without it just being a pain in the ass or even basically malware. --- |
| Topic | Trump is awarded a BLACK BELT and PROMISES to WEAR it if he WINS 2024!!! |
| Sahuagin 11/21/21 11:24:43 PM #4 | likehelly posted... and now black belts mean nothingI was thinking that too, but it's an "honorary" black belt, just like there are honorary degrees, etc. it does indicate that it was not earned in the normal way. --- |
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