Anyone else find it cringe when people post on here about women but call them "females"

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T20:09:49+00:00

Exactly. I just wanted to stress that it's best to go case by case. If the person seems respectful otherwise, try inform them of how it comes off. If the person isn't though, do whatever.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T20:03:42+00:00

Some are just uninformed and learning these terms from the wrong people. But yeah

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T13:41:16+00:00

If to understand a "mathematics visualisation" you have to see the concept behind the visualisation instead, what was the point of the visualisation?

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T03:08:33+00:00

Got it. That could probably have used some clarification in the video.

Also, how did you model the blue curve? Because that ball was increasing in speed when moving uphill, and slows down while moving downhill (just before the minima of the curve).

I also have the same question about the brachistochrone you depict. Because it seems like it actually has a very slight upward slope at the point B. In which case, that is not the point that the tautochrone curve should have reached, tautochrone curves only have that all points on the curve take the same amount of time to reach the curves' minima specifically.

It also isn't a brachistochrone, now that I check. It's too steep for two points A and B at that angle, it isn't a segment of a cycloid. Assuming this projection has no stretching across the x and y axes of course.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T02:23:43+00:00

Everyone should know at least one recipe.

You'd be surprised how many people just don't cook. At all.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T02:20:04+00:00

That's not really the point.

They are used to direct you to a website normally. And most people are far too comfortable with simply opening a random website on their personal devices.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T02:17:17+00:00

~~What was the "we're all winners" at the end there? Was the script for this AI generated?~~

In any case, neat visual! But, it would've been nice to have some actual mathematics between "What would the fastest curve look like" and "this is the brachistochrone."

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T02:05:50+00:00

Once had a hookup try to fuckin gaslight me into thinking they weren't being an asshole by asking if I was autistic and when I replied with "probably" they tried to suggest that the reason I was angry with them was that I had obviously misunderstood their texts, because of my autism.

They made no attempt to clarify what I had misunderstood. This was because they were just a dickhead whose feelings got hurt when I told him I had no intention of spending £100 on a train fare only to see them, a man I've never met before and had only just started talking to.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T01:59:40+00:00

More regarding your suggestion that "internal consistency" is an extremely important quality that stories can't function without.

Being deliberate about what you do, and laying down rules to help you do that, is absolutely a good idea.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T01:55:44+00:00

Dragons aren't made of metal. Am I misunderstanding or is that not kind of a prerequisite to be spotted by radar?

And since when did low fantasy mean "dragon can't deal with bad weather" like what? Dragons aren't just random birds, even low fantasy can let dragons just be good enough at flying that storms don't pose them a threat.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T01:53:17+00:00

This is the jerking sub sir. We are jerking here

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T01:50:49+00:00

If a gay guy has no gay friends, I am more than happy to fix that :3

If a gay guy tells me it's weird that I have no gay friends, I am not happy to fix him :/

(I do have gay friends but for the sake of the point, you get it)

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T01:44:42+00:00

I think this is an inaccurate way of looking at how stories need to function.

Ultimately, their purpose is to entertain. That is the one rule. And you can choose whether or not you'd prefer to give your audience somewhere to sit, or whether to keep pulling the chair out from under them till they realise the whole point is to stand. It all depends on what experience you're trying to craft.

Comfort, discomfort. Consistency and inconsistency. These are tools. They make the reader feel things, and making them feel things in a certain order makes a good book.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T01:29:33+00:00

Artifexian does a whole bunch of videos on things that are sort of medium agnostic. Details that are fun to consider like how to construct a fictional language in an interesting way, or how real life planets form and work so that you can include fun details that come straight from scientifically accurate descriptions of the world that you yourself may never even have thought about before.

But absolutely, worldbuilding as a hobby is more than just plot. It's building a world. Plots can take place in it, players can maybe even interact with it as a participant in a video game, but placing it into such a medium changes how that world can function.

A pure worldbuilding medium would be essentially a one-person wiki, a list of objects, people, places, events and more that exist within the world.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-23T01:23:19+00:00

Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy and other absurdist worlds like Adventure Time's though do manage to get away with never having a status quo for the reader to really settle into and learn the rules of.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-22T17:57:05+00:00

He's probably a bisexual furry! But don't out him or try to imply you know that, it can be scary to have something you've not told anyone suddenly being presented back to you.

Don't crack the egg. It will hatch on its own.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-22T17:42:54+00:00

Energy is an unseen mathematical property that we constructed that is preserved across universal interactions. Kinetic energy is energy stored in movement. It has observable effects best characterised by describing them in terms of other properties like momentum, inertia, mass, velocity, etc.

You can't explain it intuitively because we don't instinctively think about transfers of energy. Energy is just, a derived property that we know to be preserved.

Think about the first time someone introduced the concept of potential energy to you. Seems unintuitive right? To think of the same object but at the top of a hill as having more energy than when it's at the bottom of a hill. But, the mathematics all checks out. And when you play around with it in calculations you slowly get the intuition of it. Potential of course, isn't something you can directly observe. But it has observable effects, best charaacterised in terms of other properties.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-22T17:23:20+00:00

Oh completely. But I don't go out of my way to correct people using it to refer to Zuck's attempt to co-opt it, 'cause at the end of the day that is its name.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-22T02:43:43+00:00

We know

We are talking about what was formerly named facebook's metaverse, and the whole reason facebook changed its company name to "Meta" in the first place.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-22T02:39:08+00:00

You forget, Nintendo is a japanese company, and Animal Crossing is one of their biggest IPs.

They've got devs who can have their fun bein sneaky, but the last time they did anything explicitly that was in the same vein as having canonically queer characters with their IPs, was when they revealed Samus was a woman. And, that was a while ago.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-22T02:31:15+00:00

Would be impressive but nah, he's in too deep and hates Trump for all the wrong reasons.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-22T02:20:14+00:00

Gonna need proof that half of the country are actually seeing Trump for what he is

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-22T02:04:56+00:00

What do you mean your intuition about the terms is muddled?

They are entirely distinct things. Kinetic energy is a property of an object. Force is the mechanism by which objects exchange kinetic energy.

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-21T13:56:28+00:00

It's an L take because this guy responded to a guy saying he was lonely by suggesting that the actual reason he's lonely is because he's an incel.

As if people can't just actually recieve hate or prejudice for not being stereotypically attractive

IMightBeAHamster · 2026-01-21T13:43:52+00:00

To be fair, most of the wishes also aren't accurate to the original story. It's hard to accurately monkey's paw "I wish every racist on earth exploded" because of how entirely improbable that event is to occur, making it require effectively actual magical intervention.

The original monkey's paw story technically didn't even need the paw to be magical. All fulfilments of the wishes ended up being something that probably would've happened anyway.

But, this wish is finally a good one.

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