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Martman posted:Words seem to be getting automatically switched in some absurd way. Beryllium = be, lawsuit = case, successfully = surrounding or something. WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!
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Android Apocalypse posted:https://twitter.com/qudachindia/status/1523643707001643008?s=21&t=FS4QmHalLzITP0JJ2Lpuxg I clicked through to the article, hoping for an accessible explanation, but realizing it's probably down to weird physics bullshit I'm not equipped to understand: quote:The intrigue astir achromatic holes is thing that fascinates each abstraction enthusiast. The physics down it has troubled scientists for decades. These mysterious abstraction elements are known arsenic almighty cosmic engines due to the fact that they supply the vigor for quasars and progressive galactic nuclei. We whitethorn beryllium discussing the magnetic tract of achromatic holes, but achromatic holes don't person a magnetic tract of their own. Well that clears everything up.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Well that clears everything up. Those Finn's are really serious about NATO membership I guess
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I think all the issues is that this is translated from Hindi as the original site is from India. For those that don't want gabled English: https://twitter.com/cosmos4u/status/1522302756719144962?s=21&t=FS4QmHalLzITP0JJ2Lpuxg Mods please change thread title to We whitethorn beryllium discussing the magnetic tract of achromatic holes
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Android Apocalypse posted:Mods please change thread title to We whitethorn beryllium discussing the magnetic tract of achromatic holes
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Android Apocalypse posted:For those that don't want gabled English:  You're not making this any easier.
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May 9, 2022 23:43
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Well over 10 years ago while at university I came across this abstracthttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00926239508404399 posted:This study of 197 college student participants found that marital injidelity is signajicantly more unaccqtabk than dating injidelity. Mentended to be more lenient in their ratings of injidelity than women. Selfesteem scores were signijicantly higher fm individuals who did not become involved in dating injidelity than for participants who did. Howmer, self-esteem was not found to be a signajicant factor in whether a person remained in a current relationship in which the partner had been unfaithful. Of course it's been poorly scanned from text. But it's never been corrected! Every time I find that this still exists I have a good giggle at signijicantly and howmer. Unaccqtabk
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I clicked through to the article, hoping for an accessible explanation, but realizing it's probably down to The universe is, of course, very large, with lots and lots and lot and lots and lots and lots of charged and magnetic bits that swirl around and collide and interact constantly forever with whatever is nearby. Given all of that, some day if you’re floating out there your anus will likely prolapse too.
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This seem relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k3Ip7Uqw6k
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Otteration posted:The universe is, of course, very large, with lots and lots and lot and lots and lots and lots of charged and magnetic bits that swirl around and collide and interact constantly forever with whatever is nearby. Wtf why didn’t they tell us this on career day in high school
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May 10, 2022 05:13
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So it's true what they say: in space, no one can hear your anus prolapse.
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May 10, 2022 05:20
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I can. It makes a gentle, almost comedic "pop".
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May 10, 2022 05:26
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Almost comedic poop. If you’re lucky.
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RandolphCarter posted:I have a magic eye vhs somewhere, it was very fun to watch while high. 
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Please do not post gifs of said magic eye videos without putting them behind spoiler tags though. Turns out my epilepsy translates regular magic eye images just fine, but video magic eye stuff where its a moving pattern? instant nausea at best, couple of hours worth of postictal hangover recovery at worst. Either way, just dump some spoiler tags on it and give a heads up about not pressing it if you are epileptic. Other than that, go for it.
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Neal Stephenson novel about a dude who figures out a way to crash people's brains by exposing them to particular audiovisual stimuli based on ancient sumerian or something. Been a while since I read it, also it takes a very long time to get there and is "about" a lot of other stuff too. Somewhat similar premise to the short story BLIT
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May 10, 2022 20:04
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Imagine the libertarians won reality
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Milo and POTUS posted:Imagine the libertarians won reality That too, honestly the book is not really "about" its main plot as much as that is the long term narrative thread in between many cases where the book goes "look at this incredibly hosed up world"
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May 10, 2022 20:08
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Oh yeah that thing! I've been meaning to read that at some point. Just completely forgot about due to life happening. But yeah, living with the wonders of involuntary unconscious breakdancing incidents is surprisingly chill, aside from the times where video games or the internet randomly try to kill me.
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We all wanted to live in Neuromancer but we got Snow Crash. It's extremely funny to me. Google earth owns tho
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Snow Crash is mostly still a fun romp even if the libertarian dystopia is seeming a little less funny and a little more prescient The pattern was something that could crash the brains of HACKERS though because they have trained their brains to see code or something, like the Matrix operators
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SerthVarnee posted:involuntary unconscious breakdancing incidents Gotta be the most whimsical term for epileptic seizures
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The Bloop posted:Snow Crash is mostly still a fun romp idk what book you read but Snow Crash spends half its pages on a huge extremely historically inaccurate exposition dump about ancient sumeria. also it's got a lot of questionable bits w.r.t. its portrayal of women and racial minorities. especially the portrayal of the teenage girl who gets sexually assaulted by a middle-aged man. "fun romp" is definitely not the phrase I would've used. If you haven't read Snow Crash, don't.
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I tried reading a Neal Stephenson trilogy,it was the one around the napoleonic wars, and even though I am a voracious reader of such fiction, I had to give up half way though because it was so goddamn windy and bloatedly written. He's a good writer but he needs an editor so so much.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Gotta be the most whimsical term for epileptic seizures Gotta have some fun with it. Otherwise its just a perpetual sense of dread and doom.
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SerthVarnee posted:Oh yeah that thing! I've been meaning to read that at some point. Just completely forgot about due to life happening. You reminded me of that one video game journalist who pointed out that Cyberpunk 2077 literally uses patterns designed to induce seizures as part of their mandatory Brain Dance sequence, and totally normal and balanced human beings responded by sending her more.
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DontMockMySmock posted:idk what book you read but Snow Crash spends half its pages on a huge extremely historically inaccurate exposition dump about ancient sumeria. Seems like your red text is pretty prescient. You mean to tell me that a fiction book, set in "the future", has some historical inaccuracies in order to move the plot along? Shocking! I don't disagree with the questionable bits, but I'm not going to cancel a novel because it has questionable bits in it. Here, have a badass picture instead of my ramblings  This is a cobbled together machine used to literally blow out oil well fires.
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Uses the jet engines off a mig strapped to the chassis of an old T34 iirc. Also I know nothing about the sumerian history stuff but yeah the sex bits are... pretty weird and gross and the book would be greatly improved without their inclusion.
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slothrop posted:Seems like your red text is pretty prescient.
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OwlFancier posted:Uses the jet engines off a mig strapped to the chassis of an old T34 iirc. There is literally no book where sex stuff has improved the book, and the scifi/fantasy genre would be better off if editors replaced every weird author fetish sequence with "fades to black". I will not be taking further questions at this time.
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IshmaelZarkov posted:There is literally no book where sex stuff has improved the book, and the scifi/fantasy genre would be better off if editors replaced every weird author fetish sequence with "fades to black". I will not be taking further questions at this time. Chuck Tingle would like a word.
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IshmaelZarkov posted:There is literally no book where sex stuff has improved the book, and the scifi/fantasy genre would be better off if editors replaced every weird author fetish sequence with "fades to black". I will not be taking further questions at this time. no
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slothrop posted:You mean to tell me that a fiction book, set in "the future", has some historical inaccuracies in order to move the plot along? Shocking! 1. the part in question, in fact takes place in "the past" 2. the fact that it's a hundred-page-long exposition dump was my main complaint, meaning the plot is in fact NOT moving along seriously, the middle 1/3 of Snow Crash is so loving boring
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DontMockMySmock posted:1. the part in question, in fact takes place in "the past" Next you'll try telling us that the Mesopotamians song by They Might Be Giants isn't accurate and the ancient Sumerians didn't drive around in Econoline vans?
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marshmallow creep posted:You reminded me of that one video game journalist who pointed out that Cyberpunk 2077 literally uses patterns designed to induce seizures as part of their mandatory Brain Dance sequence, and totally normal and balanced human beings responded by sending her more. Oh yeah I had a talk with accessibility activist Ian Hamilton about that not too long ago, here have a link to the post I about that conversation in my little epilepsy thread (I'm very proud of having managed to turn my biggest weakness into a niche skill, sorry for the shilling/weird flex) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3987999&pagenumber=3#post522720536 The part where people kept sending her more of that stuff could be due to either malice or ignorant referrals to similar content. Malice because she showed a way for anonymous people on the internet to harm someone with repercussions (jokes on them, this can count as attempted murder if it hits her hard enough). Ignorant referrals because people who don't "get it" won't realize that they are basically asking if it also hurts if they get punched in this similar but slightly different manner *punches*.
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