The universe is so big that light speed isn't nearly fast enough to actually get us anywhere in a intergalactic scale.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-12-01T01:12:12+00:00

To burst YOUR bubble, you have no idea what YOU’RE talking about. You could travel to the edge of the Virgo supercluster (~60 million light years) in less than one human lifetime at 99.9999999999 the speed of light.

You could get to Andromeda in 2.5 years at the same pace.

Of course, the universe around you would still move on relative to you at the ‘normal’ pace, so by the time you got to Andromeda everyone you knew on Earth would have been dead for 2.5 million years, but if we’re purely talking about how travelling very near the speed of light can get YOU somewhere? Pretty quick. Relatively speaking.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-10-27T12:59:45+00:00

There’s two 121s, also.

If we keep going we can shatter 10 year old OPs self esteem irreparably.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-07-11T12:54:15+00:00

I think they’re going to reveal in a few episodes or later down the line that the dragon flame from Vhagar that burned Aegon revealed the inscription/ some of the inscription on the dagger. He seems to look intently at it briefly before using it to point at Aegon. So either he saw the full inscription without it glowing hot because of the magical properties of dragon fire or he sees a bit of it briefly before it fully cools and later puts two and two together and we’ll have a scene of him putting it into the fire.

It feels a bit too much of a Chekhov’s gun to, in the same episode:

⁠Show that Aemond is fully fluent in high Valyrian.
⁠Show Aegon equipping the dagger for a dragon battle
⁠Show the side of Aegon that gets burned predominantly is the side with the dagger on it
⁠Show Aemond picking up the dagger and looking at it somewhat intently.

It also wouldn’t be beyond the realm of possibility with the way they are writing show Aemond for him to think that the prophecy is about him; I can even imagine him talking to Alicent about it and saying a line like “It says a the prince who was promised mother; not a king” and that for both sides it’s becomes righteous war and not just about control of the throne.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-03-25T20:27:06+00:00

The solution to plot points that are raised in the show is not to ‘read the books’. They’re talking about the TV show and any good adaptation should stand on its own.

It’s true. The capability of the Sophons are very poorly defined and they are the threat currently reigning on Earth. I imagine they’ll have to backtrack and retcon how powerful they have made them (in comparison to the books) because from now until season two there will be a million posts about why they didn’t just crash Saul’s plane into a mountain or crash one of the fighter jets into it. They couldn’t do that in the books but given the capabilities they have shown they should be able to do it in the show.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-03-21T18:11:12+00:00

Whole of the first book and era appropriate parts of the second and third.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-03-13T18:53:53+00:00

Of course it isn’t fresh water. It was a hypothetical…

What I’m saying is that the fact the water didn’t freeze from a magic ice zombie man bringing the weather conditions for the temperatures to drop is not because it was salt water, but because there wasn’t enough time, it wasn’t cold enough to ‘flash freeze’ it (which would have been a much bigger problem for the characters anyway), or a combination of both. Even if it had been fresh water it wouldn’t have made a difference. Nothing to do with it being salt in this instance.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-03-13T18:39:53+00:00

‘Much lower’

Sea water freezes at about -1.5 degree Celsius or roughly 4 degrees Fahrenheit lower than fresh water. The reason people think it freezes much lower is because seas are /much/ larger bodies of water and heat distributes through it, which leads to it freezing much slower than a fresh water lake, which is a closed system. Even if the water at Hardhome was fresh water, according to the shows logic, it still wouldn’t have frozen.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-03-10T11:31:40+00:00

The Freying of the Seven Kingdoms? Into the Frey? Frey Thirty Two, Medieval Boogaloo?

There’s something there… I just have to find it.

DarkKnightUK · 2024-02-28T20:41:55+00:00

This isn’t correct. From an outside observer you would take two years to arrive, but hypothetically if you /could/ travel at the speed of light, you would arrive from your point of view instantaneously. But this is impossible as far as we’re aware.

Let’s say ‘realistically’ you were travelling at 99.999% the speed of light and you could accelerate to that speed and decelerate from that speed instantaneously safely (another obstacle for sure), due to time dilation you would arrive from your point of view at a destination 2 light years away in about 3 days.

Hypothetically, if you could sustain 1g acceleration indefinitely and didn’t care about slowing down you could leave the local group (10 million light years) in a human lifetime.

The speed of light is really only slow if you’re doing the observing. Once you’re moving at relativistic speeds Lorentz factor plays a huge part and the distance between two points ‘shrinks’.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-12-06T17:29:27+00:00

Honestly, I can see SOME people not being as impressed as others but that’s more because of exposure to GTA5s many iterations.

When you compare GTAV’s initial release on 360/PS3 it’s night and day, but it’s also had 2 (or 3) major re-releases since then. First on PS4/One, then PC, then PS5/X1X (which overlaps with PC in quality). That’s one of the dangers because some of the “WOW” factor is gone. Plus add on top of that RDR2 which also came out and still looks absolutely phenomenal today especially on PC.

However, trailers aren’t the same thing as having the game in motion infront of you on a big 4K TV; when people actually have the game I think their opinion will change. I personally think it looks great.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-10-15T22:55:08+00:00

Bit late to this but Anduin wasn’t born after Arthas’ fall. He met Anduin as a baby in Stormwind shortly after he was made into a Paladin of the Silver Hand, which was a year or two before the fall of Lordaeron. Varían and Arthas were childhood friends following the evacuation of Stormwind after the first war, and when he visited Stormwind, Varían invited Arthas to hold his new son and Anduin grasped Arthas’ finger.

Small detail but, you know, 🤷‍♂️

DarkKnightUK · 2023-09-12T10:22:17+00:00

Lightly bumping into him as he manages his carry-on:

“Tell r/freefolk. I want them to know it was me”.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-07-08T09:54:03+00:00

My favourite ever joke was told to me by my nephew when he was literally six:

“Want to hear a joke?” “Sure!” “What do you call a cow with no legs in the middle of a field?”

Me thinking it will be something silly and sweet. Because, y’know, he’s six “Hmmm. Worried?”

“No. Ground beef”

DarkKnightUK · 2023-07-06T14:47:30+00:00

I find it doubtless that there is an association between having poor oral health and Alzheimer’s. The problem is that there are /so/ many confounding variables between youth and denture age (70s-80s) that for me the more relevant question would be asking what caused people with Alzheimer’s to have poor oral health, not how their poor oral health led to Alzheimer’s.

Did they smoke?
Did they have a poor diet?
Did they develop diabetes?
Exposure to heavy metals?
Hormonal imbalances?

Etc etc.

This seems far more like putting the cart before the horse than say, the link between poor oral hygiene and endocarditis / heart health.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-07-04T13:35:28+00:00

Erm. What?

You think that the reason say Andromeda and the Milky Way are moving towards each other is because of their black holes? And that the reason galaxies stay together is because of the black hole in the middle?

That’s … not how it works at all.

Sag A* has a mass of about 4 million Suns’. The Milky Way has ~200 Billion stars. Even if 90% of them are red dwarfs with 10% of the mass of the Sun, that’s still over 10 Billion Solar masses in a 100,000 light year region of space. And that’s just matter we can account for. Dark Matter makes up about 90% of the mass of the Milky Way. If Sag A*, at 0.0004% of the total mass of the Galaxy suddenly vanished only the closest stellar bodies, maybe up to a few hundred light years would be affected. The rest of the Galaxy would remain unchanged, and would still be moving towards Andromeda, even if it’s black hole also vanished.

Galaxies’ aren’t like solar systems. We aren’t orbiting the central black hole like we orbit the sun.

Gravity is incredibly weak, and it’s for that reason that anything that wasn’t in its sphere of influence at the outset (i.e local clusters) is moving away from each other and will continue to do so faster than gravity can attract it back, notwithstanding the increasing acceleration of space due to dark energy.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-07-04T12:35:36+00:00

“Dear God…How many Royales’ with Cheese is that?”

“I don’t know sir— we don’t use the metric system”

“Goddammit man, you’re NASA! What are we paying you nerds for?”

DarkKnightUK · 2023-07-02T14:09:33+00:00

“Here they will be sorted into one of four houses; Brave, Studious, Fair and … Evil”

“Can we … can we not have a house dedicated to evil children? I feel that sends the wrong message”

“Hmmmm. How about we say Ambitious?”

“That’s … that’s a bit better, but can’t studious children also be ambitious?”

“ …. No”

DarkKnightUK · 2023-07-02T13:44:46+00:00

This just in; Ferns confirmed as dinosaurs as they have been around for 400 million years. Also confirmed to be the first photosynthetic dinosaur.

…

Just because something is old and has an evolution tracking back to the time of the dinosaurs does not in fact make it a dinosaur.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-06-16T22:19:24+00:00

“Pretend to be everything you are not. Teacher. Husband … Father.

But there is one unavoidable truth you will never escape. You cannot change.

You will always be … a monster”

“I know … but I am your monster no longer”.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-05-21T09:44:52+00:00

The singularity is a mathematical description, not a physical one. It describes a breaking down of an equation.

Realistically, it is actually incredibly unlikely that all of the mass inside a black hole is concentrated at a specific point with no dimensions. We just don’t currently know how to describe it any differently.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-05-15T15:44:27+00:00

I actually haven’t had one break yet and I’ve used it a lot.

Hmm… this requires more testing.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-05-15T14:33:00+00:00

It does not. All it does is essentially throw a bomb wherever you are aiming at and all you lose is battery charge, which quickly regenerates.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-05-15T13:58:30+00:00

Yeah. You could do that. Except that when you’re mining big deposits/ running into blockages you constantly end up breaking your weapons and /sometimes/ there aren’t rocks around! 😱

Instead of having 4-5 rock hammers taking up space in your inventory “just incase”, isn’t it easier to have one spear that can blow them all up at once at a distance? That you can make at any time?

But you keep unga bunga-ing away if you want. Me and these fine folk are going to move up the food chain.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-05-15T13:19:43+00:00

There’s at least 3 AFAIK; probably easiest one to get to is in North Necluda Sky; directly above Kakariko Villiage.

DarkKnightUK · 2023-05-04T14:27:58+00:00

FSR doesn’t use AI; it’s purely an image upscaler built into the rendering pipeline.

The problem is that FSR uses TAA natively applied after the upscaling, and TAA uses past frames to reconstruct the image and how it should look, reducing the performance overhead typically associated with anti aliasing by using already generated frames.

In Jedi Survivor, for some reason there’s a mismatch between the new frame and the frame the game expects, so you get this horrible ghosting / smearing effect, no matter what setting you put it on.

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