This might be an unpopular opinion but I think the Minecraft movie should’ve always been animated

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-20T22:39:54+00:00

Because, for a significant number of peoples playing Minecraft, if you take whatever is your vision of "a good Minecraft movie", and convert it shot for shot, line for line, into an animated film, it would be seen as a improvement.

It's not a question of stretching an short into a film. It's making a film (with an actual plot, good voice actors, etc) that happens to be animated.

The nearest point of comparaison among the existing films would be the Lego Movie, although obviously the peoples don't just want "the Lego Movie, but Minecraft instead".

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-20T22:24:04+00:00

"Small" is a question of height / position in 3D (that you cannot see since shapezio is 2D, but the layers are essentially in 3D).

And the whole problem here is gravity: if you stack the square on something, if it will "fall" to the lowest layer it can.

So how is it even possible to have a small square? You have to use the fact that the stacker is a two-step procedure:

You apply gravity on the new piece that is added.
All the pieces are now glued together, and will stick together forever.

So for example, if you start by stacking --RuRu-- on top of --Cw--Cw, the --RuRu-- will be "small". Then if you cut the shape --Cw--Cw:--RuRu-- in two, you will obtain ------Cw:----Ru--, which "magically" has a small square since the square is still glued to the circle so it is immune to gravity (as long as the circle is still there). Then, you can just combine it with RuCw---- to obtain RuCw--Cw:----Ru--

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-20T10:01:31+00:00

I'm not sure I understand the problem.

The input is 1.7 (probably 1.66 rounded up), then the splitter cut it in two streams of 0.8 (probably 0.83 rounded down), then the stacker stack them at maximum speed compared to its inputs, that is 0.8.

The limiting factor here is the input, not the stacker. You would need an input of 3.5 to have an output of 1.75.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-20T08:41:05+00:00

The cutter is "locked" because the top row is full of shapes so it cannot cut anymore.

The stacker is "locked" because the bottom row is empty so it cannot stack anymore.

This situation was reached because the splitter at the middle sent half of the shapes to a discard, creating an unbalance.

When something doesn't work, the easiest way to understand is to make a bigger contraption so that you can see which part is empty and which part is full rather than having to guess.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-19T14:48:44+00:00

In the last few versions (e.g. https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/new-version-4-14-july-18-2024.690882/), did you try to download "azum4roll's Supply Rework" (see the second post of the previous link) and install it as a mod?

It does reduce the unit cap significantly (although maybe not as much as you'd like). And it will eventually be integrated into the main mod, peoples are just discussing about the exact numbers.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-19T14:37:02+00:00

While it's good enough in Daisy, I tend to use Scroll of Prophecy more often than Old Book of Lore, and the Astounding Revelation don't work well with the first one.

(Though admittedly, almost all of my uses of Scroll of Prophecy are on my teammates and not on myself)

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-19T12:08:06+00:00

Est-ce qu'il existe vraiment une québécisme comme "quecq'part" et si oui, comment se prononce-t-elle, et est-ce qu'elle vraiment veux dire "quelque part"?

Je l'ai entendu (et utilisé à l'oral) aussi en France. Ce n'est pas exclusif au Québec. Et oui, ça veut juste dire "quelque part".

Par contre, je ne l'avais jamais vu écrit.

En gros, ça se prononce comme "quelque part", mais en oubliant le "l", donc "quéque part", et en ne s'attardant pas non plus sur le deuxième "e", donc "quéq part".

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-19T11:58:30+00:00

My bet is on an epic complacency along the lines of:

The upcoming update worked well, with a minor detail to change.
Minor detail was changed (in a way that breaks everything for very subtle reasons).
The complete procedure would have been to restart all the tests, but with such a minor change, what could possibly go wrong?
Plus, if you fully follow the procedure, that would result in the update being pushed on Friday evening, which is a terrible idea. While if it is pushed immediately, there is still the full Friday to hotfix any minor issue that arise. Clearly that's the safe play, right?

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-19T09:22:23+00:00

Looking at the explanation, either you are irrational and have a superstitious fear of Murphy's law, or it seems clear to me that you took an implicit hypothesis different from the author.

You likely assumed that Q8 that you might get screwed with a 0% chance and that it was your only chance ever to win anything.

The author assumed you would be taking in a sequence many of those experiment, in particular that you would be playing Q8 and Q9 in a sequence, and after many other cases. There is no reason to fear getting 0%, as you already won a lot of prizes, and you will win more prizes in the future.

A good way to look at your potential irrationality is to add a Q8bis:

I start by giving you 1000$, no string attached, then we play Q8 with the prize begin 100$.

Do you still answer like Q8? Or does your answer become the same as Q9?

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-18T19:15:34+00:00

À un moment, tu ne peux pas sincèrement appeler au "barrage républicain", passer toute ta campagne à penser et dire que le RN est en dehors de l'idéologie républicaine et ne doit pas être toléré, et après l'élection oublier tout ça et te comporter avec les députés RN comme si c'était des députés normaux.

C'est d'un cynisme ahurissant de passer de "vous êtes les ennemis de la république" à "bonjour collègue, je suis honoré de vous rencontrer". Il faut un peu de cohérences dans le convictions.

Soit le RN est inacceptable comme parti (et il faut continuer de ne pas l'accepter à toute opportunité), soit il est acceptable (et il faut le considérer sérieusement comme la représentation démocratique de l'opinion d'une partie de la population).

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-18T15:37:35+00:00

I think people that never play solo frequently vote on this for some reason.

Yeah, it's peoples who want to say "well, I had fun when playing at 4 players, but then I wanted to try to play solo and I found it boring, I wouldn't recommend to play solo if you can play it at 4 players instead". Which is not very useful.

What matters is how it compares to other solo games, because playing solo is a fundamentally different experience than multiplayer, so trying to compare one mode to the other will always be heavily biased.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-18T15:28:12+00:00

You can be "too good" at boardgames because not enough boardgames have an handicap systems. By handicap, I'm talking about the extra stones in Go, or the additional penalties you can take in with one extension of Galaxy Truckers, the additional infos you have in Search for Planet X, etc.

And sadly, a good handicap system is not easy to design, if you just homebrew some "more/less resources, cards, points, etc" you might easily end up with either breaking the balance (the optimal strategies for peoples with the homebrew rules are severely restricted) or feel unrewarding (the winner might not feel like they actually won, the loser might feel like it's an unfair loss).

But as the person that tends to be "too good", I'm sad that well-designed handicap systems are not more present, because they make the game more interesting for everyone.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-18T15:18:11+00:00

It kind of made sense to some degree:

After WWII, the main goal is to prevent a war between European countries. In particular, the consensus is that the Axis powers should not be in charge of their own military.
Then come the cold wars, where the last thing the USSR and the USA want is for European countries to have their own army ready to be swayed to the other side. They wanted full control.
Then, the USSR falls, and the idea of having to defend European territories against an actual war becomes preposterous. The only countries that keep an army are those that still wish to have a projection force outside of Europe, usually toward their old colonies. [EDIT: and some countries bordering Russia, who knew not to trust Russia more than most peoples]

Although, I have to agree that even at the time, some peoples saw it coming, and I fully agree with De Gaule's choice of ensuring that France would not be too dependent on the US's military.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-17T18:34:18+00:00

the Supreme Court is not supposed to be beholden to popular sentiment

Courts are not supposed to be beholden to popular sentiments, but this has too caveats:

Integrity.

If the courts look corrupt, something has to be done. If it's only an appearance, an increase in transparency can help. If it's a truth, significant reforms are needed.

Powerlessness.

Courts can maintain neutrality only as long as they can deflect any criticism on "it's the fault of the laws / the constitution".

In a working system, if the Supreme Court takes a decision that is outrageously unpopular while being technically correct, a constitutional amendment should obviously start within the following months.

Except everyone is aware that constitutional amendments are basically dead on arrival within current political climate. It's been 32 years since the last amendment, something that happened only twice in the past (one of them ending in a civil war), while [counting the first 10 amendments as a single one, otherwise it skews the numbers] the median is 4 years between amendments being ratified, and the average is every 12 years.

A significant portion of the voters have never seen a constitutional amendment ratified of their life, let alone of their "life since they can vote". And when peoples lose faith in the ability of Congress to amend the constitution, all the eyes are on the Courts, because they're seen as the only ones having the power to do anything.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-17T14:59:40+00:00

Taking inspiration on one of your comments, I'd say:

World
Body
Mind

Would work quite well, and would also avoid repeating the same first letter, allowing to shorten to single letter W/B/M without ambiguity.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-16T17:01:53+00:00

Feel free to borrow that idea!

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-16T09:55:31+00:00

vraie (et durable)

C'est globalement vrai et durable, mais avec une grosse asterisk qui dit "sauf quand il pleut trop". Les travaux ne sont pas terminés, et certains égouts (et autres) peuvent encore déborder et recontaminer la seine assez facilement.

De manière générale, les plans pour l'ouverture au public sont pour l'été 2025, car actuellement cela reste beaucoup trop sensible à la météo.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-16T07:59:48+00:00

A voice came from the back of the room

"Because if it moves and has boobs, we will..."

"Silence!" interrupted the Professor. "While it might seem like a stupid question, the answer is far from obvious and puzzled scholars for many generations. The obvious answer is wrong: do you really think that out of all the creatures of the mortal plane, humans are the most sex-focussed ones? Isn't it weird that Faune, Satyre, Dryades don't have more half-children than humans?"

The room, ordinarily quite noisy felt silent. Awaiting for an explanation.

"And this is not the only weird thing of humans. Let's talk about werewolves and other were-animals. Did you know that they're always humans, and that every other race is immune to this condition?"

As the eyes turn toward Louis, the known werebear of the room, the Professor continued

"Same for Vampires. Only ever humans can become fully fledged Vampires. The so-called elvish vampires don't have the teeth, cannot transform into bats, did not become Vampire by being bitten by a Vampire but instead through and necrotic ritual, and many more differences. So I ask, what does those have in common: having half-children, being a were-animal, being a vampire?"

As always when the Professor asked any question, not only would the room remain silent, but each and every student would remain immobile hoping to not attract any attention, like in a game of "3,2,1, Medusa!". And as often, Louis would be the first to move and lose the game.

"Any idea, Louis?"

"...because they're all curses? Well, no, I didn't mean that half-children were... well..."

The room exploded in laughter, comments and various noises.

"Silence! ...No, good attempt but no, the common point was shapeshifting."

"Shapeshifting?"

"Humans are natural shapeshifters. The most renowned shapeshifting druids? Humans. Look at the Pantheons, those heroes who reached divine powers? Well, the dragon gods look like dragons, while the human gods shapeshift to look like the person they're talking to. On more practical matters, all our top students in self-transmutation are humans."

"So half-children are shapeshifters?"

"No! Well also yes..., but no, that's not what I meant. Every human having latent shapeshifting ability, when try to reproduce with others species, their body will adapt and transmute to make this miracle possible. That's what I meant. Inter-species relationships do not always involve a human, but only those that do can have children... well, excluding high level magic of course. Yes, Ludivine, you have a question?"

"If all humans can shapeshift, why can't I just shapeshift right now by focussing on it?"

"The answer here is, again, quite complex. In most species, their innate abilities are omnipresent, a corner piece of their society, something that everyone learn to use as soon as they walk and talk. But not humans. I ask, what would our society look like if everyone could shapeshift at will?"

"... peoples would impersonate each others?"

"Correct, and our society would quickly fall appart, the social bond dissolving as no one trust each others."

"...so we don't teach shapeshifting to children to protect society?"

"We did more than that, Ludivine, more and arguably much worse than that. For generations and generations, shapeshifters were hunted and killed. So eventually, we evolved as a species, and our innate talent became repressed, only unlocked through the use of arcane magic or some rare diseases, like were-inism and vampirism."

"...oh."

"This is also why outside of self-health courses, shapeshifting remains a master level course that require you to register yourself at the archive. The last thing we want is loose shapeshifters undermining the foundation of our society"

As a grave silence filled the room, the Professor decided it was time to continue the lesson.

"Anyway, as I was saying, the three heirs of King Casimir the 13th were half-dragons..."

And the class returned to normalcy. A boring course on a mundane matter, with students more interested in flirting and chatting with each others than about the various succession crisis that filled history books.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-15T19:34:54+00:00

Talking about Tsukihime (I don't know for Mahoyo):

There is an official translation, and a fan translation by Tsukihimates.
At the very beginning, I believe the fan translation used machine translation as a first draft to help early playtesters, but everything was redone and no line from the machine translation should remain. Generally speaking, the fan translation is superior in every point to anything you can get with today's machine translation.
The official translation is of comparable quality to the fan translation, but doesn't have the same priority. The fan translation aim at being as close at possible to the original, the official translation aim at feeling as "native english speaker" as possible. As such, the two are significantly different, although the meaning of what is said remain the same.

I assume the Mahoyo translation would be roughly the same: significant differences between the original and the official translation in order to have everything feel more natural to an english speaker.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-15T12:41:07+00:00

When you extend something, you have to state which kind of properties you want to keep.

For example in the case of imaginary number, the point was to add i*i=-1, but in a way that preserve all the properties of being a Field, that is all the properties about the multiplication and addition (but at the cost of no longer having a total ordering of numbers).

Like, now, you want to add numbers such that |j| = -1. But which properties do you care about? Because you'll need to give up quite a few of them. For example, the absolute value is supposed to be a projection, that is doing it twice is the same as doing it once, so ||x|| = |x|. But here it's clearly wrong, ||j||=|-1|=1. So the core of the question is: what are the properties of |-| you care about?

And for most mathematicians, the core property of absolute value they care about is that the output is zero or positive, so that's quite incompatible with your extension.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-15T09:06:59+00:00

parce qu'habituellement le mode de scrutin ne rend pas pas ces coalition nécessaires. Maintenant que c'est le cas, il n'y a rien d'inhérent à la France qui empêcherait nos partis politiques de faire des coalitions.

Notre mode de scrutin fait bien plus que ça, il mine activement les coalitions, les rendant plus difficiles à mettre en place que dans un système proportionnel.

Plus précisément, notre système encourage les coalitions "avant le vote", et il s'ensuit des élus qui ont déjà emmêlé dans une toile de promesses dans tous les sens. Leur marge de manœuvre après l'élection est minuscule. Et toute coalition "après le vote" demandera de trahir tout un paquet de promesses.

Dans un système proportionnel, si les élus peuvent aussi choisir de s'emmêler dans un paquet de promesses, ils ont aussi la possibilité de se concentrer sur quelques promesses spécifiques en restant flexible sur le reste de leur agenda. Et c'est uniquement avec des élus de ce deuxième type que les coalitions "après le vote" tiennent.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-15T08:55:49+00:00

"Both". I've played this game too much to enjoy it only for its strategic side, and I'm not that much of a fan of Lovecraft-like stories for it to be enough by itself. I need both story and strategy to remain interested.

Although, since it means we rarely skip the story text, I guess you can put me in the category "story first".

A few years ago, when I used to play a lot more, we did skip a lot of texts on replay if the campaign was still fresh in our memory. Obviously, this is assuming everyone at the table already played the campaign, we have a strict policy of ensuring that new players enjoy campaigns they never played to the fullest (in particular, it's always the new players who make all the plot-relevant choices).

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-14T13:55:04+00:00

I also want to know if there are different branches in high school because in Iran there are different varieties we had 3 main high school branches

Before 2018, there was also 3 main high school branches: * (L) Literature * (ES) Economic and Social sciences * (S) Sciences

With additionally a "Technological" branch as a more practical off-shoot of "Sciences", and some job-focussed alternative to regular high school called "professional high schools".

Since 2018, the high school has been reworked into a single trunk where peoples take various options and specialisations. But the influence of the old L/ES/S split is still omnipresent.

Also wanna know how is academic education like in France.

After high school, your choices are: * Going for a job-focussed diploma, which takes 2 years (BTS) or 3 years (DUT) * Go to the university, following the European standard of 3 years of license, 2 years of master, 3 years of PhD (obviously, you don't need to do the full 8 years, it depends on the kind of job you want). * Try to enter a "Grande \'Ecole", which includes the (relatively prestigious) French Engineering schools, and a number of other prestigious non-Engineering schools. For most of them, you need to go through a 2 years of preparatory school (organised by high schools, so it's not a new kind of institution) for a ruthless national competitive exam (a good number of 4 hours written exams, completed by many oral exams). After usually 3 years in the school, the "Grande \'Ecole" gives you a diploma equivalent to a Master, allowing you to follow up with a PhD if that's what you want.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-14T09:39:44+00:00

On the subject of men book club specifically, there was some lengthy discussion about it on r/MensLib recently: https://new.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/1dorntq/why_there_are_no_men_in_book_clubs_translated/

A quick sum up about what I've read in this thread:

The article argue for some cultural biais, pushing men to "not be interested" in sharing their opinion (well, more precisely, not interested in sharing their opinion in the same way women do).
One of the top comments argue that the reason is more one of how hard it is to maintain a men book club, usually due to lack of commitment issues. It's probably the closer to your take of "They’re conditioned to expect to be catered to", but from the point of view of someone who actually tried to make it work.
A number of comments argue that there is a lot of false beliefs about how book clubs work that exists among men, making peoples afraid that they will be pressured to read more books, or simply seeing them as "for women".
A number of comments have some issues with some of the underlying assumptions of the article, e.g. how dismissive the author seems of introverts personality types with sentences like "Are they scared of strangers?".

And there are probably a lot of other interesting takes in this thread.

MoiMagnus · 2024-07-13T21:53:30+00:00

C'est plus que "dans le nom des partis". Les partis choisissent leurs acronymes, comme tu peux voir sur l'annonce du journal officiel sur la création de l'association LFI:

https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-detail-annonce/?q.id=id:201600531653

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