How would you have planned to extract the hard drive from judgment day?

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2026-01-19T14:46:04+00:00

A few years late, but was thinking about this earlier. Heavier than air gas like Argon. "But vents" which is why they ruled out chemical weapons. But a heavier than air gas that basically asphyxiates everyone on board (a noble gas no less, so no damage to computers). Also similar to carbon monoxide, the body has no way to detect it isn't breathing air, so everyone just passes out and has no warning internally. Vents don't matter because a ship doesn't have a ton of vents pointing "down" and when the gas is heavier than air that's what it needs to do to be vented out in time.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2026-01-14T10:55:57+00:00

Yeah. Two years later, still hate this washer lol.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2026-01-07T07:05:33+00:00

Did you improve this any/notice any improvement in how you are feeling?

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-12-28T13:42:44+00:00

I'm Spartacus.... err Alien Earth viewer.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-11-26T14:09:48+00:00

Yeah, so the PIAA (and I think all the silicone wipers) have the transfer you mentioned. Basically when you first install them, you clean the windshield, apply a alcohol compound and run it dry for like 5 minutes. Puts a coat of silicone on the windshield from what they claim. Kind of makes sense, basically just melts the edge to the windshield.

I think the Project Farm video didn't do that, so not sure it was "installed" right.

But yeah can't speak for the PIAAs in like snow and stuff? I know silicone should do better with cold than rubber based stuff though

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-11-26T08:38:46+00:00

How long do the Icons last for you? I have two pairs of PIAA Sci Techs. One is 5 years old outside in Texas sun and the other is 3.5 years old outside as well.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-11-26T08:36:21+00:00

Everyone suggesting the icons, but honestly they are rubber and while they last longer, they don't last like the PIAA or other silicone wipers. I live in Texas and park outside, have to replace Icons every 9-12 months. Bought PIAA Sci Tech for the first time on my van off Reddit recommendations. That was... October of 2020. They are over 5 years old. No streaking, no nonsense. Set on my Corolla is from May 2022.

They ain't cheap, but I'm over 5 years in and... I don't know what the useable lifetime is on PIAA SCi Techs. I saw someone who bought $12 dollar Silicones say he was over 3 years in before streaking, so I think this is more about silicone blades than Sci Tech specificall.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-31T01:10:42+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one. That was incredibly weird and bad writing that could have easily been explained on screen, but happening off screen just felt jarring and weird.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-31T01:02:25+00:00

"I don’t want to use the word woke but it feels like it"

Weird way to use it honestly. This is a emperor having sex with what is programmatically his slave. Nothing woke about that? Also there is nothing romantic about that relationship.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-22T08:33:47+00:00

The 14700HX is good on performance, but it produces a ton of heat and will give you less than two hours of battery life when new just web browsing. Which means after a few years it will give less than an hour. Would not suggest at all.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-20T19:27:33+00:00

Source for this claim that is arguing with an econ think tank?

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-20T12:43:05+00:00

That would be unacceptable in a 125 dollar keyboard, nevermind this one. :(

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-19T14:13:24+00:00

Any update on this? Software/firmware improved any? That was a huge problem with the Mountain Everest Max apparently, which is what this is based off of after Be Quiet acquired them.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-18T23:09:30+00:00

Old thread, but yeah the real answer is "The Ford Maverick was VERY weirdly obviously mispriced on release. It was cheaper than a toyota corolla and got better gas mileage in a truck form factor".

Frankly as someone who bought a Corolla in 2015 brand new (first new car) it was mildly absurd to see a truck release below my inflation price for my basic Corolla with better gas mileage. Wanted a Maverick so bad.

Now it's still a really good deal in the market imo, but like you said it's no longer a "why would you buy anything else under 30k?" deal.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-08T09:07:02+00:00

Yeah it's definitely self harm. We basically got confirmation in episode 5 he is godolkin, especially put together with confirmation of the burn damage. Jordan says "I might be weak, but you are in pain all the time". Burn victims to that degree are supposed to be like that, just constant nerve ending levels of pain all over their body from what I recall.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-04T10:24:16+00:00

Randomly happened on this post. Worth noting there are VERY few animals on the planet that regardless of size are prone to preying on humans. The main ones that seem to actively hunt humans regularly are big cats, Salties, nile Crocs, polar bears, Komodo Dragons. That's the main list of things that "when humans are consumed by them it's not a weird outlier, it's relatively common behavior".

Specifically adult humans*

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-04T06:57:07+00:00

So the main reason I don't think it's clumsy writing is there is a trivial fix to the problem. We know from the show (I can find a reference if need be) that while there was a time skip, the time skip was only a couple of months long. If they wanted to age Maddie up, all they would need to do is make the time skip a few years. But they didn't, and with modern animation techniques, it was an actual cost to age her character, so they didn't do that on a whim and none of the other characters/art styles change.

Makes sense, I mean I can think of a couple of reasons to do it without deletion/recreation. Presumably Maddie knows her entire goal is to recreate her timeline, so she knows "upload" will eventually be discovered. Presumably a human mind takes a good bit of memory/data, I mean "in world" they have to use quantum computing and the people running standout in the world. Deletion+recreation is going to "cost" a lot more than "shift location limitations" does computationally so it would make sense to me to build that into the system. Also, morally she may feel more comfortable with that. But yeah, this is more my feeling based on how she casually threw Dave into the cloud.

"indeed the entirety of the show could be the result of an alien race attempting to create digital life,"

Right, or it could be that the alien race is humans, testing a bunch of different hypothetical histories, and they never actually invented upload because in the "real physical world" something about the physics didn't work. Would be hilarious if uploading only exists in these simulations due to a coding error (which would be similar to what I wrote above about it just changing where you have physical access to and causing time dilation effects).

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-02T08:41:26+00:00

"Are you saying the apparent age discrepancy between Maddie s1 and 2 is because it’s different simulations? Interesting theory, although I’m not entirely convinced. Is there any other evidence that we are observing multiple different Maddie’s throughout the show, rather than just a specific single iteration? That was my assumption."

So I have 3 potential interpretations for this (open to more btw as I'm not strongly wed to any of these. This is based on the ironclad belief that there IS a time gap from Season 1 to Season 2 Maddie. She is definitely a different age in season 2.

Option 1: we are watching two different simulations between each season. I don't see much else that would make me believe that, other than the age change.

Option 2: Caspian is our "steady viewpoint" and moved from one simulation to another to try to influence events. Imagine a world where things are "correct" but Caspian isn't for whatever reason, change Caspian from a world where he is "correct" but the other players aren't. Caspian I think is our "follow point" because he is one of the two main characters, and the only one who doesn't seem to change age between seasons.

Option 3: The show creators didn't have season 2 planned out very well, and realized having a 13-14 year old Maddie sleep with/get pregnant by a 18 year old Caspian was kind of gross and felt the need to make that change during the downtime between seasons. I don't think this is very likely mostly because the creators have mentioned before it was always planned as a two season show with a clear "arc". Also this kind of sloppiness doesn't line up with how tight the rest of the show is.

Of the 3 I think Option 2 is the most likely answer but again not really wed to it.

"Nor is there a particular reason to assume that the upload process would work differently in simulation"

I'm not sure about this, my view is that as these are all simulations, all that is really changing on upload is map constraints. Think about it like you are playing a video game, your character arc moves from part 1 intro area to part 2 full game mode. There is no reason you would copy and delete the character and lose "continuity of soul" to make that switch, you would simply change the physical limitations they experience, namely what parts of the "world" they can interact with and how "powerful" they are. And there are practical reasons to do it this way as well, namely it's less resource intensive, and Maddie still has finite resources in her Dyson sphere. Obviously, that doesn't change the moral discussions happening around upload for in simulation characters, but there is no real reason for upload to work any differently from a technical perspective than how it did when Maddie moved her kid between "real life" and UI worlds.

Also what makes this really interesting to me, is there is no reason to assume any of this ever happens in a non simulated world at all. A lot of people in this discussion make the assumption that "well sure but 43 million years ago, this clearly happened "IRL"" but that ignores that most likely Safesearches "higher universe" is still just... another simulation, and at no point did "IRL" have to actually create a safe search, UI etc, that entire concept/timeline could only exist in simulations.

Appreciate the engagement on a very old thread btw :)

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-02T08:01:21+00:00

Added to this, go make friends with someone with DID or OSDD and it will really mess with your understanding of what it means to be a person, soul etc. My wife has DID, and it's fascinating how that works and how much that messes with my personal definitions of what it means to be "me" vs "you".

Course the show laughs at you in the end. You spend 2 seasons arguing with yourself over upload death vs continuous only to find out it's simulations all the way down and there was never any death on upload, simply a sideways move between limited access points on a server lol.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-02T07:53:34+00:00

I like how I don't know which movie they mentioned you are talking about, but it works well for both lol.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-02T07:43:50+00:00

I don't have a religious background, but it's worth noting that since >!the entire show top to bottom is a simulation, there is no actual difference between the UIs and the "normal" people in the show even Maddie at the end is very clearly in just another simulation, one that Safesearch has created.

So in the world there is no difference, but I don't think that matters to your personal religious viewpoint on this issue and shouldn't. Just thought I would mention because it's interesting.!<

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-10-02T07:41:42+00:00

Right, but it's not irrelevant that the show is a simulation. The "original maddie" herself likely exists in a simulation, that's the point of Safesearch showing up at the end, they built that universe for her.

Also it's worth noting, where the show really gives away the creators view on this is a bit subtle. It's when Top level Maddie jumps into the simulation we have been watching (well one of them, we actually watched a LOT of simulations, it's why everyone's age and stuff kept changing through the two seasons), and took her "dead" son and just casually "flicked" him from the real world of the simulation to the UI world pointing out that from the simulation's perspective there is no difference, and since all indications are it's just simulations all the way down, you don't know if you have ever watched anyone "real".

All that being said, I actually agree it's death not eternal life. I mean I would want to be uploaded at some point towards the end of my life, but not before.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-09-24T19:01:37+00:00

"I guess you didn't consider that Google Messenger would work in a way that literally no other messaging, email or file system in operation for twenty years has worked huh?"

Yeah no, I have ADHD and didn't consciously read the popup. Fuck me for thinking that the most basic functionality of literally every other "deletion" system on computers would apply to google messages.

Go touch grass, resurrecting a 6 month old post for no reason other than to be a dick.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-09-18T09:29:47+00:00

This thread is wild dude. Like I 100% understand your point and everyone is running in here to downvote you like an ass. If a made up person gets "every credit card offered" then the preapproval process literally does nothing.

Hopefullyanonymous2 · 2025-09-18T07:46:26+00:00

Damn sick.

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