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An e-sports career is only slightly more realistic than 'winning the lottery' as a career.
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# ? May 26, 2024 12:20 |
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50,000 hours of gaming at a respectable 6hrs a day is just short of 23 years, a determined kid with supportive parents could get that dream job by age 30.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 05:40 |
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DO YOU LAUGH IN THE FACE OF KILLER GOOMBAS?
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 05:43 |
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FMguru posted:DO YOU LAUGH IN THE FACE OF KILLER GOOMBAS? it didnt work out for billy batts
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 05:57 |
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TOOT BOOT posted:An e-sports career is only slightly more realistic than 'winning the lottery' as a career.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 11:57 |
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Do Androids Dream Of...
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:03 |
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did you lift echi's phone or something?
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:04 |
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:09 |
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tfw u give the captain a compressed air captive bolt pistol
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:11 |
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also to get back to aliens for a sec i genuinely believe there's probably a lot of life out there on other planets but 99.99% of them are the space equivalents to like dinosaurs or bugs or something and just don't have any ability or interest in communicating or traveling outside of their planet. life could be common even if intelligent life isn't
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:12 |
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Kenny Logins posted:pretty sure saying heated gamer words doesn't gently caress up your lottery win though Remember when that NASCAR driver had a Gamer Moment during a livestreamed iRacing event last year early in lockdown, then got fired, then managed to stay under the radar enough all summer to get re-hired by another team and is currently back racing Just saying, it's not always career ending if you're profitable enough! Shoot for the moon!
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:14 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:also to get back to aliens for a sec i genuinely believe there's probably a lot of life out there on other planets but 99.99% of them are the space equivalents to like dinosaurs or bugs or something and just don't have any ability or interest in communicating or traveling outside of their planet. life could be common even if intelligent life isn't this tbh there's also the possibility there's a whole bunch of intelligent life and we're actually just the furthest along technologically the other fuckers could still be burning witches n poo poo
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:15 |
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I believe there's a lot of life out there but we'll never know because communication between star systems is entirely infeasible, the power and time requirements are too high
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:17 |
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also if we ever make contact it'll be looooong after i'm dead lol
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:22 |
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I think they're out there, and they hate us, and Independence Day was a physically accurate representation of what's to come.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 14:50 |
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including a redneck fighter pilot flying a nuke right up a giant ufo sphincter
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 15:31 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:also to get back to aliens for a sec i genuinely believe there's probably a lot of life out there on other planets but 99.99% of them are the space equivalents to like dinosaurs or bugs or something and just don't have any ability or interest in communicating or traveling outside of their planet. life could be common even if intelligent life isn't yeah there is almost certainly bacteria of some sort that feasts on geothermal vents or mineral diffusion into a fluid on any sort of planet with water (or any liquid). earth probably had some soon after it stopped being a molten magma hell a couple billion years ago. and when theres bacteria that feasts off heat and minerals, theres bacteria that then feasts off other bacteria and then larger ones. theres probably a lot of life as being almost as common as water. intelligent could range but also like dolphins, whales, and monkeys are intelligent and likely somewhat common; insanely galaxy brained species are probably quite an exception
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 16:04 |
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Xaris posted:insanely galaxy brained species are probably quite an exception those are all on alien twitter
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 16:05 |
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Xaris posted:yeah there is almost certainly bacteria of some sort that feasts on geothermal vents or mineral diffusion into a fluid on any sort of planet with water (or any liquid). earth probably had some soon after it stopped being a molten magma hell a couple billion years ago. and when theres bacteria that feasts off heat and minerals, theres bacteria that then feasts off other bacteria and then larger ones. theres probably a lot of life as being almost as common as water. intelligent could range but also like dolphins, whales, and monkeys are intelligent and likely somewhat common; insanely galaxy brained species are probably quite an exception lol remember when fishmech (or stymie?) had some weird definition of life that basically meant only life on earth counted, and whatever is out there didnt count, so therefore there is not and never will be extraterrestrial life qed
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 16:39 |
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Xaris posted:yeah there is almost certainly bacteria of some sort that feasts on geothermal vents or mineral diffusion into a fluid on any sort of planet with water (or any liquid). earth probably had some soon after it stopped being a molten magma hell a couple billion years ago. and when theres bacteria that feasts off heat and minerals, theres bacteria that then feasts off other bacteria and then larger ones. theres probably a lot of life as being almost as common as water. intelligent could range but also like dolphins, whales, and monkeys are intelligent and likely somewhat common; insanely galaxy brained species are probably quite an exception i expect there to be bacteria like species elsewhere in the cosmos. there's probably also some kind of algae or maybe plants. higher life i think is probably not as common as we hope it is, though i'm not suggesting it's impossible
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 16:42 |
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given the sheer scale of the universe theres probably a whole shitload of intelligent life but I am in the camp of the great filter being any species that rises to the top of their local area will just kill themselves off because of local resource wars. were almost there!
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 16:53 |
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I just finished the collected war dogs trilogy by greg bear, it was overall entertaining but it really feels like he had a 2 book story he was contractually obligated to extend to a trilogy because genre books come in trilogies now. the story stalls for a couple hundred pages in the third book before wrapping up in the last 75. it was decent as a military scifi page turner coupled with some high concept stuff until about 1/3 of the way through book 3
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:01 |
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I havent read much by Greg bear except for the halo books he did (lol) and Eon, which I Fuckin loved. Ive always been into Cold War era sci fi just to get a peek into the anxieties of the day and its always those god damned Russians.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:11 |
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Eon also had the cool administrator dude who doesnt even think about sex, but whose first order of business when visiting earth is to hire a sex worker and also constantly gets horny around several of the female characters but he doesnt care about sex that much
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:25 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:Eon also had the cool administrator dude who doesnt even think about sex, but whose first order of business when visiting earth is to hire a sex worker and also constantly gets horny around several of the female characters i don't remember that at all. i think i block out all the weird sex stuff sci fi authors throw in as a defense mechanism
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:26 |
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tbh it was more lol than gross because its so hamfistedCarthag Tuek posted:reading Eon by greg bear & this character Lanier is repeatedly described as not caring about sex but earlier he hired an escort as the first thing after returning from space and now he's super horny again. seems like he cares a lot about sex to me
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:28 |
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Fart Sandwiches posted:given the sheer scale of the universe theres probably a whole shitload of intelligent life but I am in the camp of the great filter being any species that rises to the top of their local area will just kill themselves off because of local resource wars. were almost there! this is a common argument but it relies on a lot of assumptions about how readily life will evolve from abiotic environments. the scale of the universe means nothing if the chances are excruciatingly small. if life has a one in one trillion chance on average of developing from a sterile environment then you'd expect one planet to have life for every ten milky ways (and we're being generous with this; only 6 billion planets are thought to likely be considered earthlike of the approximate 100 billion thought to exist in this galaxy, many of which are unlikely to ever be able to support life). and that's life period, not "intelligent life", by whichever metric you want to judge that. even then, huge parts of the galaxy may simply be utterly inimical to life if it does arise and quickly snuff it. sure there are many billions of galaxies but even then every step in the evolution of life on its way to what we'd consider intelligent aliens is going to further cut down on that number. i'd revise the chance upward if we find life elsewhere in this solar system. and if that life doesn't share a phylogeny with earth life only then do i think life could justifiably be described as likely common.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:28 |
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Aliens are out there and are a key peoples in the workers's struggle.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 18:00 |
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mediaphage posted:the scale of the universe means nothing if the chances are excruciatingly small at the same time, the universe is excruciatingly large, and we really know very little about how life began and how life becomes complex and/or intelligent the numbers involved are way too far outside the bounds of human intuition to even guess at and as a result the drake equation only says what the reader's biases are
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 18:07 |
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i wonder if we'll ever see what's under europa's ice in my lifetime
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 18:08 |
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my favorite theory about Where Are They is the rare earth hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 18:21 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:i wonder if we'll ever see what's under europa's ice in my lifetime its Finns, op e: sorry i misread
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 18:23 |
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haveblue posted:at the same time, the universe is excruciatingly large, and we really know very little about how life began and how life becomes complex and/or intelligent yes no poo poo i only take issue with everyone throwing out stuff like "space is so big life is clearly everywhere"
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 18:34 |
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screenshots of the new evangelion https://imgur.com/a/EPHSwTZ
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 18:56 |
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mediaphage posted:this is a common argument but it relies on a lot of assumptions about how readily life will evolve from abiotic environments. the scale of the universe means nothing if the chances are excruciatingly small. That's also assuming a right-now timeframe. Given the billions of years that have elapsed it could be intelligent life has sprung up, we just missed them by a billion or so years.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 18:59 |
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mediaphage posted:(and we're being generous with this; only 6 billion planets are thought to likely be considered earthlike of the approximate 100 billion thought to exist in this galaxy, lol no, more like 40 billion conservatively they're constantly revising earth analog estimates tho, the kepler telescope and that's just "earth-like," there's also superhabitable planets, places that are presumably better than earth for life
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 19:11 |
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mediaphage posted:yes no poo poo otoh (what we consider) intelligent life has definitely evolved once, and it would be super weird if that was the only case. Most things in the universe appear in vast numbers, so I'd kind of expect life too as well. Of course, there's always a biggest black hole, most stable orbit, but it would seem weird if intelligent life was a singular event.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 19:38 |
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time and distance mean that even if life is super duper ultra common we're probably just too far away from anything to meaningfully interact with it
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 19:43 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol no, more like 40 billion conservatively Isn't most of our search for other lifeforms like us? I imagine it's perfectly reasonable to think that intelligent noncarbon based lifeforms, or ones which have evolved to suit the needs of their planet exist.
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# ? Mar 12, 2021 19:45 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:time and distance mean that even if life is super duper ultra common we're probably just too far away from anything to meaningfully interact with it Imagine just detecting it though. What would that do to society? Are there any short stories about us detecting something like the arecibo message. I feel like it has the potential to be super frustrating as well as cool.
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