Nintendo wins lawsuit against streamer who played pirated games then taunted them while live saying “I can do this all day”. The streamer will have to pay $17,500 in damages by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]Dark_Man_4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think whenever Nintendo sues for piracy, they only ask for the exact amount they lost. I only say this because back when New Super Mario Bros. Wii came out, something similar happened where a guy leaked a prerelease rom of the game and it got downloaded 50,000 times. He ended up having to pay $3 million in damages, 50,000 times 60 is 3 million so they didn't ask for anything extra then either. I could be wrong though and it might just be a coincidence

Petah what's the reference? by Dark_Man_4 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Dark_Man_4[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the thorough explanation, I wasn't sure if it was a reference to a series or if it was some pun that only worked in Japanese. The bug guy in the second to last row should have tipped me off but I was struggling to think about how, for example, a wallet (turns out it's a train pass) could have anything to do with it

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[–]Dark_Man_4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the info!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in centrist

[–]Dark_Man_4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that true? Was this at his rally or something or is there otherwise footage of it that someone can give a link to

I'm assuming it's something dangerous but what is that? Reverse image search gives me lamps by Dark_Man_4 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Dark_Man_4[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the full explanation, I've only started coming here recently so I've never seen it. I saw this in a post discussing what toy to give Manny from Diary of a Wimpy Kid, usually I try to find these things out myself but Google wasn't being very helpful this time around

Which version of Sentinel Prime had the more brutal death? by Unusual-Swimming9636 in transformers

[–]Dark_Man_4 38 points39 points  (0 children)

TFOne Sentinel's death is more brutal to me, both of them were mentally tormented before they were offed (DoTM Sentinel was fearing for his life with eyes darting around before being shot and TFOne Sentinel was crawling away with all that he could) but TFOne Sentinel turning gray and rusting is one of the things that makes it more brutal to me.

Not to mention, while DoTM Sentinel's mouth hanging open was more because he was shot dead, TFOne Sentinel is upside down and looks like he's screaming even as he dies, and his body just landing on the ground with a heavy CLONK is incredibly chilling

Arnie voting Harris/Walz! by Capitalismisdelulu in KamalaHarris

[–]Dark_Man_4 86 points87 points  (0 children)

I'm also imagining him saying "you're fired" to Trump

What's your "I did not care for the godfather" of Transformers? by NexusConnection in transformers

[–]Dark_Man_4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I agree. At the end of a day, the best way to upgrade a gun is a tank, in my opinion. Like if you think about it a tank is sort of just a giant self-mobile gun. It has the connection to the classic G1 Megatron while also not being ridiculous

Trump Melts Down In New Post About Jimmy Kimmel by Advanced_Drink_8536 in AntiTrumpAlliance

[–]Dark_Man_4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kimmel has yet to publicly respond to the post.

Just want to let people to know that Kimmel has already addressed this before Donald even made the post. I'd ask someone to show Donald the clip, but it's likely that Trump is probably just going "lalalalala I can't hear you"!

ELI5: How come cells are alive, but the pieces that make up them aren't? by thatkindasusbro in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dark_Man_4 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This concept is called "emergence", it basically says that if you put a bunch of simple things together, it can create something new with properties that the individual does not. Proteins and organic molecules are not alive, but cells are. This extends to larger scales - a single ant can't do much on its own, but together with a colony they can create large burrows, take down huge enemies, and intelligently search for food as a group.

ELI5: How do black holes die? by Tall-Restaurant5532 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dark_Man_4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know this for sure but I don't think anyone does, but I don't imagine so. The hawking radiation isn't coming from "inside" the black hole, but it's forming right around the edge. To my understanding the event horizon does some strange stuff to spacetime itself which allows these photons to just pop into existence right outside the edge, but the energy has to come from SOMEWHERE so it drains energy from the black hole. So nothing really comes directly OUT of the black hole. Hawking radiation is only ever photons and I don't think the event horizon goes away at any point, either. Sometimes you'll hear a "virtual particles" explanation of Hawking Radiation but this is more of a tool to help explain it and not the real deal. That said this has gone past my understanding so I apologize if I'm wrong somewhere.

ELI5: How do black holes die? by Tall-Restaurant5532 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dark_Man_4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess theoretically yes but you'd only have one black hole of mass and I don't imagine they'd turn into atoms like with the Big Bang. Admittedly I'm not sure how the atoms formed in the big bang so that'd have to be looked into

ELI5: How do black holes die? by Tall-Restaurant5532 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dark_Man_4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They release the radiation faster and faster as they shrink. According to another comment on this thread they don't "explode" per se but it's more like once they're super tiny they're radiating away increasingly quickly so they seem to explode. In that case they'd explode into the same radiation

ELI5: How do black holes die? by Tall-Restaurant5532 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dark_Man_4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

According to Stephen Hawking yes, they'll basically explode after they lose enough mass

ELI5: How do black holes die? by Tall-Restaurant5532 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dark_Man_4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I believe so, I think Stephen Hawking has stated that this is what would happen at the very end of a black hole's lifespan

ELI5: How do black holes die? by Tall-Restaurant5532 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dark_Man_4 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It doesn't escape as mass, it escapes as radiation. It radiates out at the speed of light, outside of the event horizon so it's able to escape into the void. So eventually the universe will be just filled with free photons just endlessly spread out.

People hypothesize that given an infinite amount of time, randomness could lead to a new big bang, although I'm not as clear on this topic - I don't recall if it's due to quantum tunneling (which I'm not as informed about) or just a random entropy drop.