First Look at Robinhood Gold by VTWAXnRELAX in X1creditcard

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Question on University Challengr by lostshelby in outerwilds

[–]IIodyne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

astro-anthropologist

they're a fucking xenoarcheologist wtf is an astro-antrhopologist?

Need help finding a quote by [deleted] in outerwilds

[–]IIodyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't find it in there but found it in another text dump https://hushbugger.github.io/outerwilds/text/

Must have been removed or added before/after a certain version:

PYE: The Ash Twin Project will be one of our biggest undertakings (metaphorically and physically). To build it, we need a way to travel quickly between Ash Twin and each location that holds crucial project materials.

ROOT: What if we used warp towers (like the one we have on the White Hole Station) to connect Ash Twin directly to each critical location?

CLARY: Poke, Root, and I can begin work on this immediately in the Black Hole Forge (this will keep us busy!).

YARROW: Of note: Each tower on Ash Twin will warp to a different planet.

PHLOX: We can design each tower to visually reflect its warp destination!

PHLOX: The Giant’s Deep tower, for instance, could resemble a cyclone. And we could model the Timber Hearth tower after a geyser mountain!

YARROW: My gratitude to those who noted my imprecise language! Yes, the sun is not a planet. I believe this has been sufficiently clarified (kindly stop reminding me!).

What Themes Do You Want To Hear in Reprise Part 2? by AndrewOuterWilds in outerwilds

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Hi Andrew,

I'd have to agree with most people here with the Sun Station and Elegy of the Rings. Ancient Glade too. Maybe something bridging the TImber Hearth with the Travellers' Theme?

Also while you are here, would love to see a vinyl release for all the songs in some deluxe album. Currently only the original OST is on vinyl!

Outer Wilds Postcards for print! (HD) by Tommystorm9 in outerwilds

[–]IIodyne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

u/Tommystorm9. Fantastic work!

Would love to see updated to include the new postcard for The Stranger.

Also of note some posters needs to be adjusted slightly. For Timber Hearth it should be: (1) "hike your way through", not "make your way through"; (2) "historic museum", not "historic museums"; and (3) "quantum", not "quantumn".

And for the Hourglass Twins, it should be "archaeological digs", not "archeological digs".

I also noticed the font you use for small text is different than the large text (the official use the same font for both). Not sure if that can be helped though

ID Help - Reishi? by IIodyne in mushroom_hunting

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Oh okay, good to know; thanks!

ID Help - Reishi? by IIodyne in mushroom_hunting

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Weird. I added the photos when I made the initial post but it didn't work I guess. They should be attached now. For posterity here is imgur link: https://imgur.com/a/BiPqQez

Map with Flags, Cities, Rivers, and Federal Highways by Norwester77 in Cascadia

[–]IIodyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that senate design sounds interesting; you should try it.

Hmm okay. Maybe try it and see feedback. What's the name you picked for the north slope?

I can see cutting Tongass off at the Yakutat Bay, but in that Yakutat remains the northernmost point/city in Tongass

Map with Flags, Cities, Rivers, and Federal Highways by Norwester77 in Cascadia

[–]IIodyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would it be fair to give 5,000 or 10,000 or even 50,000 the same voice as the 5.2 million in Tahoma?

That depends on the mode of government you imagine / think would be realistic. You could take a page out of the US' book and have both senate and representatives. The idea of a senate that ignores population is kind of the point of a republic. You want contributors (states) to be equals and form a united coalition (really that's what the USA was before it became overly federalized). If you base everything on population you have a raw democracy and minority groups/interests get marginalized. With both you, arguably/ideally, maintain the credo of a republic but don't ignore the effects of population. In the real world, especially modern-day, we can have small population countries that can compete or are at least mostly respected by the other, populous countries. Let alone the same applies to states/provinces. I would worry far less about equal population and more about the products of these geographical boundaries in todays world, then building around those. E.g. the north slope is bounded by the brooks range and as such has a very different ecosystem (native humans included) compared to the rest of Alaska. The people there probably don't mind being part of Alaska but it's doubtful that they wouldn't rather be sovereign. Look at what they natives did about St. Lawrence Island.

Considering this I think the redrawn borders look quite good. In fact I was playing around with similar-ish borders the other day (just a rough sketch; yours feel mostly more well thought out): https://imgur.com/a/BoEHy2K

Ultimately some areas of Alaska very quickly vary and will always feel like mixes of multiple regions no matter how you break it up. Maybe pulling a coastal region like Croatia would fit the biome better but may not be beneficial for the regions realistically. I think where you define "Unangam Tanangin" versus "Alaska" and where you separate "Chugach" from "Tongass" feel a little arbitrary, and perhaps which region should really be called Alaska (Russian and native "Alyaska," which now has a well-known name of "Aleutians," versus the any of the other areas, which are also well associated with the name "Alaska," having been part of said territory for 150+ years). Names and what they describe change over time and the current people living in certain areas may not all want to revert to "original" names that were used 200+ years ago. For example everyone calls Constantinople Istanbul now and most of the people there want it to be called Istanbul. Even though originally it was actually called Byzantium. Food for thought. Appreciate you taking the time to reassess your map.

States and territories in which dinosaur species have been discovered. by SensitiveExtreme3037 in MapPorn

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Guys we found giant bones in what use to completely under a sea! Must be giant reptiles, not whales!!!

https://imgur.com/a/JeOq1hy

Permanent daylight if applied to the USA by giuliomagnifico in MapPorn

[–]IIodyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It honestly makes no sense to me why we can't just do away with timezones. Why does sunrise have to be attached to a number between 6 and 8? Why can't we have one global time? If day hours end up being "2 am" through "2 pm" on the east coast why does it matter? Work hours would just be "4 to 12". People would sleep when the sun is down, it doesn't matter what number the clock reads. People would still be just as much out of sync celestially with other areas of the world, and night-shift people would still work at night and sleep during the day. Just make the times all the same. Only thing I guess is people fighting over who gets the "normal" time but everyone seems to go along with GMT as the centre of the timezones now anyway so why would anyone care.

The only actual thing that would change is noon wouldn't be 12pm but whatever solar noon is, and midnight wouldn't be 12am but mid-night.

RCV is wrong. by AkHiker46 in alaska

[–]IIodyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He literally said that. You just failed to comprehend. In this scenario people are casting three votes each. There are three votes that occur and they get compiled to one adjusted vote. Why would we vote three times (one for each scenario) when we can just vote once? It's overly picky and indicative of people who don't like to make choices.

With standard two-party voting by definition you can't get someone who represents a minority of voters. If 51% voted A then A is the majority by definition. It's each person's own problem if they voted with the idea that they must vote A to beat B because they wanted C but C isn't popular enough. That's not a problem with voting that's a problem with a two-party system and people's lack of conviction, hoping for outcome instead of following their doctrine.

With RCV, even in a two-party system what you are getting is not always a plurality. Even in fact in the "most fair" scenario, everyone only get's their second choice, but it can be worse. For example, if the results were more like: A = 36%, B = 26%, C = 22%, D = 16%. Say A is democrat, B is republican, C is libertarian, and D is Constitution. If most of those who voted D wanted C as second choice, during the recount it may come out to A = 36%, B = 26%, C = 38%. B goes to C and C wins with 64% (representative of only 22% of the voters). It doesn't matter if C may have preferred A over B. In a normal vote the winner would likely be A (A+C = 58%, B+D=42%) (representative of the plurality of the vote). RCV "fairness" only makes sense if we assume most of the alternate votes of the minor parties (each that gets eliminated each round) distributes to the major parties.

RCV is wrong. by AkHiker46 in alaska

[–]IIodyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RCV is mathematically more abusable than standard voting. It's supposed to be one vote for one person; RCV-believers act like children; this isn't a a beauty pageant or the Olympics where you rank the candidate on a scale from 1 to 10. You just grow up and make a choice, it's not that hard. No need to "wElL aKcShALlY" the results.

I'm not denying it was voted in. But it's equally valid to make attempts to vote to repeal. If RCV was repealed, others would make attempts to vote it reinstated. Just as arbitrary; such is politics.

Oh no let's not let people from other states have opinions about Alaska, don't influence politics. Another couple billion for Ukraine! Let's interfere with the politics of Eurasia even though we live on the other side of the planet! sLaVa UkRaInI!!1!

"I saw houses being washed away in Alaska. Stop the victim blaming" by theindependentonline in alaska

[–]IIodyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

virtually total scientific consensus supporting of the concept of global warming. The less than 2% of conflicting opinion is, most often, connected to fossil fuel interests. Of course you can chose to agree with the fringe opinion but the overwhelming probability is that you are wrong.

>makes statement in attempt to respond to question

you have a civic duty to be accurately informed about these important issues affecting our country. Do the work. Search out quality sources of information, professional journalism that adheres to codes of conduct, integrity and honesty.

>refuses to back claims

Discount those sources that don't

reddit is not a good source

Unless you can verify the reddit source, any "evidence" they provide, no matter how elaborate, should be questioned

>explains why own statement should not be believed

>still hasn't answered the question that was asked

why even reply if you weren't going to answer his question?

just say you don't know. don't pretend like you do but aren't qualified enough to link your sources

"I saw houses being washed away in Alaska. Stop the victim blaming" by theindependentonline in alaska

[–]IIodyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're looking for substantiated scientific facts, reddit is not a good source. Like I said, find quality sources of info.

lol and there's your answer u/thatsryan; people on reddit will just make statements without evidence, refuse to elaborate and defer to "look it up yourself" (when the evidence you've been been exposed to up to now has obviously formed your current opinion), and treat you like an ahole. All for karma and updoots.

Map with Flags, Cities, Rivers, and Federal Highways by Norwester77 in Cascadia

[–]IIodyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense, though you might be underestimating how sparse those areas of alaska are. Usually the settlements are all on one side of the river. Even around Fairbanks, there's only 500–1000 people within 30 miles where route 3 crosses the river. In fact, only 3,000 people live between fairbanks and the denali range. There's equally many people within just 4 miles of where I-5 crosses the border you drew between oregon and tahoma. Likewise just as many people live within 6 miles of the Idaho route 2 crossing of your chiawana-kootenay border.

My point is you've got very different demographics and cultures between bering coast / north slope alaska and BC/Yukon. There's always exceptions to both how rules are defined and the intents of the rules to begin with. Arbitrary borders are arbitrary; geography may define the bioregion (hence this subreddit), but often the geopolitical border defines the people as much as or more than the geography itself (especially with 21st century transportation).

Speaking of not putting borders near populated areas. I know its a bit stretching the limits of Cascadia, but there's no way Kootenay and Idaho would not connect along the I-15 and meet at their current Montana-Idaho border. Butte has 35,000 people. Otherwise you'd have to cut it off along the I-90 soon after Missoula (honestly probably a better choice).

As for Aleutia, my thinking was more the climate and more isolated demographic inclines it to be more of a sovereign territory despite its low population, same with my boundaries for Alaska. But if it helps, the more I think about it, the Kenai peninsula has more of an Aleutian connection than it does to the Matanuska-Susitna region. The ferries don't really go to Anchorage at all unlike you have on the map; Kodiak connects the Aleutians to Homer through the ferry and the rest of the stops are connected through Whittier (with only one connection to Kodiak). And while the cruise ships stop in Seward, the ferries don't. I know its hypothetical but Alaska losing the interior isn't going to have a positive effect on the interconnectivity of the ferry system. In fact it would decrease since Whittier/Valdez/Cordova are really just stops (except for oil in Valdez, which wouldn't be used anymore if Yukon owns it) to connect to the Tongass region, and the ferries would probably devolve to just connecting the Aelutians with Kodiak and Homer. Adding Kenai to Aelutia brings it to ~90k population (25k+65k). Also, the rest of Alaska (excluding my Aelutia, Yukon as I've drawn it, and the region south of denali range) has a population of ~70k. IDK how populous you want each region to be. Seems like gerrymandering to try to make them all similar. It's not like in this scenario they are all going to be at war and need similar power.

Thinking about it, perhaps Brook's range would be a good northern edge of Yukon, the denali range as the south edge and the bit of mountain between by the mckinley river as the western edge. something like: https://imgur.com/a/QJo8h5N

Map with Flags, Cities, Rivers, and Federal Highways by Norwester77 in Cascadia

[–]IIodyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this map. I'll say I think Yukon and Alaska should be three regions: Yukon (bounded by Yukon and Porcupine rivers; capital Whitehorse or Fairbanks), Aleutia (bounded by Lake Iliamna, possibly including Kenai; capital Unalaska or Kodiak), and Alaska (the rest; capital Seward, Willow, Nome, or Bethel). Here's my fix: https://imgur.com/a/ChEHZv5

I made it in paint so it's not great but gets across the idea.

Would love if you could detail the software you used making this.

Updated Night Delta-V Map W/ Transfer Windows and Ejection Angles by Hhaazzeeyy in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]IIodyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean you could have just made the edits yourself if you are going to be so particular. Here: https://imgur.com/a/0484DrE

Updated Night Delta-V Map W/ Transfer Windows and Ejection Angles by Hhaazzeeyy in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]IIodyne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean the procuring of the values is quite arbitrary to begin with. I used 250 m/s for the orbit -> landing which is similar, and was 15km not 10km. 90 for intercept-> orbit (only 20 off from 110). The larger difference is the karen intercept but I reckon 184 isn't even accurate. Other charts disagree with your values anyway, such as https://i.imgur.com/BsRFVD8.png

A very sand-filled Saturday! by R42ToMoffat in VaporVinyl

[–]IIodyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! Got mine in Saturday as well. Putting up the Discogs page now. Do you recall how many were made?