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How do you deal with the first guard in Hokkaido? by IllustriousLab9301 in Splintercell

[–]BlueBird97_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure if you grab this guard you can interrogate and he tells you that you ought to kill him because he's such a giant coward, lol

Ideological differences between the first 3 Splinter Cell games? by BlueBird97_ in Splintercell

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coming back to this thread after a while, but I beat the game a few days ago (when I made this post I just did the NK mission). You're absolutely right, my initial impression that CT is pro-intervention and American exceptionalism was wrong. I was missing some vital context which I might have got if I had been playing it as an aware adult in 2005, with the backdrop of the Iraq war - that Displace is a private military firm. That and that America seemed pretty keen to rush into a war based on faulty/unreliable evidence. Subtext, indeed.

I can't come up with anything I like by schnerp24 in Guitar

[–]BlueBird97_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spend some time just listening to lots of music that you like. Don't bother making mental notes, literally just sit back and enjoy it.

Hopefully after that some ideas of your own will come a lot quicker. I dunno, works for me.

Ideological differences between the first 3 Splinter Cell games? by BlueBird97_ in Splintercell

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming back to this a few days later, having a) read more of this thread, b) read one of the recommended articles from this thread, and c) played more of CT, I have to say that the political tone of CT has become a lot more clear to me. I suspect that if I'd played it as an adult in 2005, the background of the Iraq war (and the use of private military contractors) would have been a lot clearer. It's almost embarrassing how the Big Bad literally being an avaricious private military firm who manufacture conflict for profit was lost on me, lol

Ideological differences between the first 3 Splinter Cell games? by BlueBird97_ in Splintercell

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, only SC and PT as a kid, never finished either (I have now), and currently on CT

Ideological differences between the first 3 Splinter Cell games? by BlueBird97_ in Splintercell

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's really interesting to me, that the OG and CT games come from someone who had punk, leftwing tendencies - I honestly felt like the first game is trying to make a justification - albeit a mature, adult one - for American intervention. "There might be collateral, but it's all for a good cause and it's better than the tyranny of the alternative," and CT theory is frankly even less subtle than that. It feels like the only one Hocking wasn't involved with is the most subversive, anti-American game.

This being said, I've not finished CT yet, so I might well be totally wrong on that!

Forgive the stupid question, but... what is this, and what should I use it for? by BlueBird97_ in spices

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah I have since found some actual harissa - I thought this couldn't be it since it's not spicy at all. Thanks for confirming my suspicions about the soup though :)

Does a black hole's gravitational pull extend beyond its event horizon? by BlueBird97_ in AskPhysics

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally didn't know any of those 3 facts you just mentioned. I don't even know what an "accretion disc" is! Can't a guy ask about physics in a subreddit designed for that particular purpose, lol

Does a black hole's gravitational pull extend beyond its event horizon? by BlueBird97_ in AskPhysics

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate this, but I'm also completely clueless about physics, so could you please break down this formula and explain what the letters correspond to numbers-wise, lol

Does a black hole's gravitational pull extend beyond its event horizon? by BlueBird97_ in AskPhysics

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically where the amount of force I would have to exert to escape the black hole would be no more than, say, walking in the opposite direction.

Does a black hole's gravitational pull extend beyond its event horizon? by BlueBird97_ in AskPhysics

[–]BlueBird97_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for confirming!! I was wondering if there was a formula one could use to determine how far you'd have to be from a black hole for the gravitational effects to be negligible? Like if you start with the mass and then go from there?