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Something unexpected happening is an "edge case" and therefore doesn't matter. Science bazinga!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:now this is cyberpunk
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Jan 22, 2021 02:36
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Praise the Omnissiah.
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Jan 22, 2021 02:41
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Gripweed posted:self-driving trucks will never be perfected. Within your lifetime you will not see self-driving automobiles that re better than the average human driver in real world conditions. I love that the future isn't going to be cyberpunk but Wile E. Coyote. Roving gangs putting up fake free recharging stations with enormous cages hanging over them, fake roads painted onto cliff faces. poo poo's going to be awesome.
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Jan 22, 2021 03:34
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Gripweed posted:Something unexpected happening is an "edge case" and therefore doesn't matter. Science bazinga! As an experienced QA engineer, I can confirm
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Manager Hoyden posted:Self-driving cars performed better than human drivers five years ago. Wake me when anyone’s self‐driving system goes ninety million miles without a fatal crash. That’s the general U.S. average with human drivers. Last I heard, Waymo was leading the pack and had only logged twenty million miles.
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Jan 22, 2021 06:31
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For being the central MacGuffin for multiple books, the One Ring doesn't even do anything particularly interesting. If I'm an evil wizard with an army of monsters, what advantages does temporary invisibility actually grant me? Getting inside places I'm not allowed? That's what the orcs are for, dummy. It's like the Magic Cape in the SNES Zelda; nice to have, but the least essential thing in your arsenal. Give Frodo a magic boomerang it something. Nameless Pete has a new favorite as of 01:52 on Jan 23, 2021 |
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Jan 23, 2021 01:49
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I always thought that it only gave invisibility because it was being used by a couple of random hobbits and if you were someone more powerful you’d get more powerful abilities as a result
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Jan 23, 2021 01:54
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Nameless Pete posted:For being the central MacGuffin for multiple books, the One Ring doesn't even do anything particularly interesting. If I'm an evil wizard with an army of monsters, what advantages does temporary invisibility actually grant me? Getting inside places I'm not allowed? That's what the orcs are for, dummy. I'm not a lord of the rings guy, but that's what it did for Frodo and Bilbo because theyre just dumb hobbits. For other people it did more stuff.
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Jan 23, 2021 01:55
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The ring doesn’t turn you invisible, that’s a tiny side effect of it’s real purpose of granting you access to the weird shadowy realm Frodo ends up in whenever he wears it. If you’re not a dumb hobbit you gain more powers and abilities. Sauron isn’t invisible it just allows him to fully manifest his power and, if you know the trick, allows him to dominate the minds of other Ringbearers and whatnot.
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Jan 23, 2021 01:59
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Welp, I can admit when I'm wrong. I still find it unimpressive by magic ring standards. Aladdin's ring had a genie who could pick up a castle and plop it ontop of a mountain; that's my baseline.
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Jan 23, 2021 02:04
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This Sauron guy, have you seen this have you heard about this? Guy drops his ring and can't find it for like a thousand years?! What, did it roll under the fridge? Sauron, more like moron!
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Jan 23, 2021 02:05
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Sauron should have just worn the ring inside his gauntlet so nobody knew what finger to cut off.
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Jan 23, 2021 02:30
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Or around his neck on a tasteful gold chain.
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Jan 23, 2021 02:37
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Yeah and Gandalf doesn’t even cast any fireballs! LAAAAME.
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Yeah how come galfdalf says he's a wizard and dresses like a wizard but the best he can do is make a magic flashlight in a cave
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He sets a tree on fire in the hobbit. How would a normal human even do that
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He claims to be not just a conjuror of cheap tricks, but based on the movies that's kind of like me saying i'm good at my job.
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Jan 23, 2021 03:58
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Warm Beer is the best way to drink beer.
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Defenistrator posted:Warm Beer is the best way to drink beer. This disgusts me almost as much as the people that can drink warm temperature coffee without dry heaving.
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Hobbits picking up the One Ring and using it for invisibility is like a monkey picking up a cell phone and using it as a flashlight.
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LotR magic in general is not super flashy, the flashy stuff is mostly the product of the rings, which were created by Sauron's power or methodology. Until the fall the actual magical thing we read about Gandalf (that wasn't a product of his ring) was him attempting to order the door to stay closed with a word of Command, but the balrog is able to break this spell. After the fall though he apparently is near indestructible and just has an innate ability to control the minds and actions of the people around him should he choose. It is inferred in the book that he would have had the ability to stand toe to toe with the Witch-King of Angmar but of course the madness of Denethor kept him from testing that.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Obviously that'll lead to Wells Fargo stagecoach levels of security where the truck will enter "self defense mode" and accelerate through anything and everything in its way until it makes it to the destination. Oh man I can't wait for Johnny Future iiiinnn "The Train Job" 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Yeah and Gandalf doesn’t even cast any fireballs! LAAAAME. Yeah he's the shittest wizard ever but literally everything in LotR is the shittest version of whatever they are. Opinion: the mittens are ugly 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 09:08 on Jan 23, 2021 |
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Jan 23, 2021 08:54
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the rings power is mind control and domination by enslaving others to things they desire
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The biggest hurdle for self driving cars will be getting human drivers off the road. it's all or nothing imo. It'll never work in any substantial way as a mix.
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The lord of the rings films were so much better than the books that the books might as well not exist creating a universe where there is no more lord of the rings
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JollyBoyJohn posted:The lord of the rings films were so much better than the books that the books might as well not exist creating a universe where there is no more lord of the rings the opposite is true
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Sauron should have just worn the ring inside his gauntlet so nobody knew what finger to cut off. In the book he is defeated first and the Ring taken off his corpse. Elendil and Gil-Galad did most of the work but there were others there too like Elrond, Isildur, etc.
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Nobody actually likes Lord of the Rings that isn't an insufferable nerd. Not one single interesting person can rattle off the names of the elves.
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Shibawanko posted:the opposite is true  Christopher Lee: famously an uninteresting nerd
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doverhog posted:In the book he is defeated first and the Ring taken off his corpse. Elendil and Gil-Galad did most of the work but there were others there too like Elrond, Isildur, etc. He sounds like a bit of a pussy tbh
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fizzymercy posted:Nobody actually likes Lord of the Rings that isn't an insufferable nerd. Not one single interesting person can rattle off the names of the elves. Don't even have to google, the Council of Elrond was made up of Galadriel, Radagast, Teclis, Spock, Piccolo, Dobby, Bjork, Nicky Santoro, and Gamora.
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fizzymercy posted:Nobody actually likes Lord of the Rings that isn't an insufferable nerd. Not one single interesting person can rattle off the names of the elves. Not true, I'm not a nerd and I remember Sleepy, Bashful, Dopey, and uhh Happy? E: Grumpy & Doc. Who the gently caress was the seventh elf?
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fizzymercy posted:Nobody actually likes Lord of the Rings that isn't an insufferable nerd. Not one single interesting person can rattle off the names of the elves. Gilenya, Naproxen, Cymbalta, Invokana, Lyrica, Rybelsus, Lexapro, and Xanax
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Jan 23, 2021 13:58
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Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol. C-c-c-c-c-cocaine!
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yeah I eat rear end posted:This disgusts me almost as much as the people that can drink warm temperature coffee without dry heaving. Good coffee can taste really good when lukewarm or even cold. You can taste more of the flavors of the coffee when it isn't hot. Bad coffee is not great though when lukewarm or cold. Just tastes burnt.
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fizzymercy posted:Nobody actually likes Lord of the Rings that isn't an insufferable nerd. Not one single interesting person can rattle off the names of the elves. Same except about anyone who thinks star trek is better than stargate. I can name all kinds of goaulds and whatnot and I have it on good authority that I am very interesting.
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People think Star Trek is better than Stargate? That's silly.
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I don't think anybody thinks Star Trek is better than Stargate. Because that would require being aware of Stargate.
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