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- Comment on USA President term limits 13 hours ago:
A rare palace coup, perhaps?
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 22 hours ago:
Playing the original Half-Life is like a formative gaming memory for me… It had been such a massive leap from your DOOM 2s and Dukes Nukem. I was super young though, so I don’t know how much I cared about the narrative.
HL2, on the other hand… I remember having to use five CDs to install it because Steam had literally just been invented (for HL2). Having to create a Steam account and log into a service to play a game was so foreign at the time lol…
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 22 hours ago:
This might only be true for people who played the original when it first came out (or at least, were playing video games at that time, and are used to the dated graphics).
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 22 hours ago:
Also, to add to this: if you haven’t played Portal and Portal 2, then you need to do that now. Like possibly even before HL
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 22 hours ago:
If you’re gonna start with 1, I recommend playing Black Mesa as the updated graphics and qol stuff make it easier to tolerate in modern times.
But that’s just me. There is probably some crucial reason why Black Mesa is not the definitive version, and I’m about to hear why
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 22 hours ago:
Hmmm… I guess it has been over a decade. Maybe it’s time to play HL2 again.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 22 hours ago:
Read somewhere that catching is actually dead simple, just “move towards the image of the incoming target”
I mean… there is nothing simple about the calculations involved in something like that lol
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 23 hours ago:
Pretty impressive, but I can’t help but think that they gave Ronaldo an extra split second than the first dude. Regardless.
Also, I think they’re underestimating/ignoring the input from hearing, especially with the second one where he probably heard the ball bounce hear his foot (subconsciously, of course).
Cool video, thanks.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 23 hours ago:
This is how I was taught as a kid.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 23 hours ago:
Leave it up to a civil engineer to ruin your day.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 23 hours ago:
Plus they have hollow bones and weigh almost nothing
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 23 hours ago:
Then you’re getting into things like muscle memory. I’m not a neuroscientist, but I imagine that could also be boiled down to math being done subconsciously and instantaneously in your brain.
Almost like if you do a thing enough times, you just look it up in a chart instead of deriving it from the equation every time…
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 4 days ago:
The reality is so so so much worse.
- Comment on WILD 1 week ago:
It’s super Maynard-coded
- Comment on WILD 1 week ago:
Always the egg.
- Comment on WILD 1 week ago:
I’ve never read this, and I don’t know if it’s even a song or a poem or what… and yet somehow, I get the feeling that they’re lyrics to a TOOL song.
- Comment on WILD 1 week ago:
I came here to say this… that shit is insane.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Going against the popular narrative? What would that be, that progressive tax brackets are the very fucking least we can do?
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
You’re equating wealth with intelligence. Bad take.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
There is none.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I was gonna say… Pretty sure nobody is gonna force you to use “Dr”
- Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns" 3 weeks ago:
I mean… It’s also sad
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 3 weeks ago:
So they were both spoilers.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 weeks ago:
Except we already know that they were doing this.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
24 is the highest number.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
Brilliant satire. This is how you do it, folks.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 weeks ago:
I use it for porn still
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 weeks ago:
Aren’t there tax benefits to incorporating in Ireland? Conventional thought would suggest that the tax/regulatory environment in the Netherlands would be less attractive? Maybe that’s wrong… I wonder what their reasons for moving were. Is that where Steve Huffman wants to build his new doomsday bunker? Gotta spread out just in case. Maybe connect it to the one in CA with a massive underwater tunnel lol.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 weeks ago:
I mean, unironically… from an evolutionary pov, yeah kind of. I don’t know specifics about how hands evolved, but knuckles seem to be shaped a certain way for reasons. I imagine big, boney knuckles was a trait that got successfully passed down due to its usefulness.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 weeks ago:
What about the nipples? WHAT ABOUT THE NIPPLES???