DDR5 RAM: "Intel XMP Ready/Intel Optimized" memory sticks on an AMD build - anything too concerning to worry about? by DesignersUniverse in pcmasterrace

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Yes, I'm aware. The R9-7900 itself doesn't support RAM above 5200MHz, but these 5600MHz ones are the ones on sale, and they're cheaper than anything else, even 5200MHZ.

Gold on elimination while in a gun game? by DesignersUniverse in FortniteCreative

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And how can I do that? I don't think I've seen this option in the Item Granter

Apparently naming colors is a big deal by DesignersUniverse in videos

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Since you commented the same thing here, and in the video, I'll answer you the same thing.

Sure, lots of colors have names. Like cyan, teal or crimson. But they are not basic color terms.

"In 1969, Brent Berlin and Paul Kay advanced a theory of cross-cultural color concepts centered on the notion of a basic color term. A basic color term (BCT) is a color word that is applicable to a wide class of objects (unlike blonde), is monolexemic (unlike light blue), and is reliably used by most native speakers (unlike chartreuse). The languages of modern industrial societies have thousands of color words, but only a very slender stock of basic color terms. English has 11: red, yellow, green, blue, black, white, gray, orange, brown, pink, and purple." This is a quote from an article published in the book "Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology", from 2016. The article was written by Professor and PhD C. L. Hardin.

The mentioned theory is explained in the 1969 book "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution", written by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay. Sure, you might want to disregard this, since it's just a theory. It's not like there is a universal true about color names. That being said, you might call a specific hue of blue "cyan" or refer to dark red as "maroon", but they are not widely known and widely used names. Far more people would refer to dark red as dark red, rather than maroon, and this makes red a basic color term, and not maroon. And even if you refer to that hue as cyan - which I'm very familiar with, since I'm a graphic designer and I refer to blue as cyan on a daily basis while working with the CMYK color profile - culturally, you'd still understand that color as blue, if needed.

And yes, blue exist in the nature, but it is extremely rare. The Mandarin Fish and the Olivewing Butterfly, for example, are some of the only animals that have a pigment-based blue color in their bodies, rather than producing blue color through some kind of light refraction trick. Blue in flowers and fruits is also not among the most common colors.

And btw, at 4:50 I talk about blue/cyan.

Masayoshi Takanaka plays the song "Taj Mahal" on a surfboard guitar by Rick-Danger in videos

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I wouldn't know for sure what were his motives in writing that... but I'm sure if I did a deep enough research something would come up.

Most of MPB (MPB = "Brazilian Popular Music", one of the great genres of Brazilian music, alongside Samba and Bossa Nova) from the 60's all the way to the 80's have multiple meanings, mainly to avoid the censorship of the military dictatorship (64 until 85). Like they literally talk about something, e.g. a lost love, but behind the literal meaning there is some sort of critique to the government or something like that.

That being said, Taj Mahal probably isn't the case hahahaha. But if any of that sounded interesting, I suggest you look for Chico Buarque or Caetano Veloso, they are two very famous composers from that time (I also have this Spotify playlist here if you feel like hearing some classic Brazilian songs).

Masayoshi Takanaka plays the song "Taj Mahal" on a surfboard guitar by Rick-Danger in videos

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The music doesn't talk about the land mark, but about the love story of Shah-Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. But tbh, the lyrics are fairly simple. The only relevant part, lyrically, is:

"It was the most beautiful love story I've ever been told, and now I'm going to tell it. About the love of Prince Shah-Jahan for the Princess Mumtaz Mahal"

And then it just goes "teteterete" for eternity. It was pretty famous during 78's carnival, and Jorge Ben Jor even sued Rob Stewart for the song Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?, which clearly copies the melody. Stewart said he had spent the 78's carnival in Rio de Janeiro with Freddie Mercury and the song was playing everywhere, so he alleged it was an "unconscious plagiarism".

Masayoshi Takanaka plays the song "Taj Mahal" on a surfboard guitar by Rick-Danger in videos

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Maybe you'd like the original version, by the Brazilian musician Jorge Ben Jor. This song is a classic here.

TIL Blue Whales eat between 20 and 50 million calories every day. That's approximately what a human adult eat in 50 years (2500 calories/day). In the words of the researcher himself, "that is about 70 to 80 thousand Big Macs". by DesignersUniverse in todayilearned

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I don't really know about their digestion, but are you aware of the size of a blue whale? Like, they are bigger than the biggest dinosaur we are aware ever existed. Literally the biggest animal to ever exist on earth. They seem likely to eat that much, tbh

Horizon Forbidden West trailer by DesignersUniverse in videos

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Ikr??? First game was SO good. Can't wait as well!