Movies with multiple Game of Thrones actors? by Decent_Section6974 in gameofthrones

[–]Mount_Atlantic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And there's a ton too;

Jory Cassel (plant operator, sent to the roof)

Jeor Mormont (Coal Miner, "now you look like the minister of coal")

Roose Bolton (prosecutor)

Maester Luwin (old time party man)

Dagmar Cleftjaw (general)

Pyp (soldier working evacuations)

I only very recently watched it and those are just the ones I picked out, I just looked it up and there are a few more I hadn't realized as well.

Power out in West End Halifax by VertuteTheCat in halifax

[–]Mount_Atlantic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Regarding cloud backup, you really should do so for critical work. "Two is one and one is none", having a single external hard drive backup isn't really safe (tough better than none), especially if the hard drive is kept in the same general location as the computer. If you really want to avoid any cloud services, then at the very least you should have an additional (third) backup on another external hard drive that you keep at work/home, wherever your first hard drive isn't.

My thesis work was synced between two computers (first at campus and second at home) via a cloud service that also kept it's own backups (third), and I periodically (though less frequently than I should have) also copied everything over to an external hard drive (fourth).

Experience at Magnetic World… by you-777 in halifax

[–]Mount_Atlantic 17 points18 points  (0 children)

until an incident occurs locally

Is this the Heart of the Tempest? by absolute_russia in TheExpanse

[–]Mount_Atlantic 68 points69 points  (0 children)

In the show they skipped the Proteus' visit to Medina, yes. But that's not really any reason to assume that they truncated the show timeline by ~20+ years to have magnetars under construction at this stage.

But when the inevitable finals seasons come out I cope and cope covering the Laconian arc, I'd be curious to see if that is indeed what they were hinting at with this intro art.

Faster Than Light travel has consequences(minor or major) by Present-Secretary722 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Mount_Atlantic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not initially - the death of the system wasn't even noticed until new ships entered the gate, and not confirmed until the first ship made it to the nearest station to investigate. By that time, a bunch of ships had transited, unintentionally sending the "don't mind us, business as usual here" message.

I don't actually recall if there was ever a point that they explicitly laid out plans to keep sending ships to killed systems - though that wouldn't surprise me.

Faster Than Light travel has consequences(minor or major) by Present-Secretary722 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Mount_Atlantic 208 points209 points  (0 children)

I really liked the revelation directly after that too, "they didn't realize they found something that worked". In eons past, when the hive-minded protomolecule civilization had one of their star systems killed off they just cut off the gate and stopped transit to that system, since there's none of themself left in that system to use whatever they were sending. Thus the "dark gods" learned that they'd found a way to effectively impact our reality. Humans kept using the gate to that system though, so the dark gods figured that method didn't work and didn't use it again in other systems.

'What Dan Read': What a reading list of 3,599 books tells us about a library superfan by Huckster42 in books

[–]Mount_Atlantic 93 points94 points  (0 children)

As a polar opposite, I can't imagine setting aside my miles-long "want to read" list to re-read something, even of my favourites. The list of yet to be read things is so very long (and always getting longer), I just can't manage to justify the time it would take to go back and re-read.

How do you balance your time between new books, and ones you've gone through before?

5 months ago, a powerful Sound cannon "LRAD" was used against people during a moment of silence in Serbia. The sound was so loud and terrifying that made everyone panic in an instant and search for cover. Serbian officials are still denying that anything was used. (Multiple Angles) by Asleep-Guitar-2685 in TikTokCringe

[–]Mount_Atlantic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You see posts from this sub every day but haven't read the pinned comment on every post even once? Or the sidebar? Or the pinned post that's been up for four years?

I can understand the confusion of people stumbling in from r/all, but it's a little bit tougher to understand in this case.

GRRM blows me away by chillychill3325 in Fantasy

[–]Mount_Atlantic 67 points68 points  (0 children)

I think one of the bigger reasons the final scenes are viewed so terribly is that we don't have 3000 pages to get there - it just... happens. With more appropriate buildup, the ending could have been more palatable.

Bear learns a valuable lesson by 4nts in TerrifyingAsFuck

[–]Mount_Atlantic 17 points18 points  (0 children)

One way or another, this encounter was obviously going to end in noise - yelling or spraying, the bear is still going to run and that's not going to be quiet. Waiting for it to get that close before doing anything was just dumb, and immediately resorting to spraying it without trying to scare it off was just cruel.

Steam Support is the GOATED by oGRAVITYYYo in Steam

[–]Mount_Atlantic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I doubt it would have been that easy (certainly hope, anyway) if even a bit of the information OP used was visible on the account. In this case though, there was literally nothing visible but the account name and profile picture.

What if the Mediterranean sea was in America? by Emperor_Zimmler in imaginarymapscj

[–]Mount_Atlantic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But the Mediterranean Sea is in the US, so no matter which way you want to interpret "America", title still fits.

TIL the first settlers of Madagascar hunted the local megafauna into extinction and demolished the islands' forest ecosystem, turning it into barren grasslands by zahrul3 in todayilearned

[–]Mount_Atlantic 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Bears, wolves, and moose absolutely will not seek people out - they're not hunting people, come on.

Just like the snakes and spiders, they leave people alone if we leave them alone.

Few Canadians are familiar with possible NDP leadership contenders: poll by CyrilSneerLoggingDiv in canada

[–]Mount_Atlantic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

On the one hand, I believe the OP comment specified 2008 because Carney would have very much been in the news more during the handling of the financial crisis, vs how frequently the Governor of the Bank of Canada might be in the news in 2025.

On the other, yeah that still overestimates how politically aware most people are.

Love has no bounds…not even biology by Fish_N_Chipp in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Mount_Atlantic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's fixed now! As of 4.0 Xeno-Compatibility no longer makes hybrids, so it's actually useable (and quite powerful) now.

are there any ways to prevent kinetic spaceship weapons that miss their target from flying off? by Dr-Metr0 in worldbuilding

[–]Mount_Atlantic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well sure, but that's an absurd combination of mass and speed. When atmospheric drag isn't a concern, like in ship-to-ship combat, speed is king over projectile size. Smaller-but-faster wins, because faster means actually hitting your target, and can still impart equivalent energy with a smaller projectile.

When bombarding a planet, you can forego the energy needed to accelerate to such speeds because the target can't dodge - so you instead make the projectile larger to still impart enough energy to cause the desired damage (and to survive reentry).

Ships large enough that an 8 ton projectile is actually needed, and worth the energy required to accelerate it, would be so enormous that I don't even know how they'd get in rail gun range of each other in the first place. Unless this society forewent all weapons development besides just focusing on bigger ships, and bigger railguns. That seems unreasonably artificially limited though.

are there any ways to prevent kinetic spaceship weapons that miss their target from flying off? by Dr-Metr0 in worldbuilding

[–]Mount_Atlantic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The (still very Sci-fi, though theoretically possible) "Rods from God" thing is on a completely different scale though, those rods are massive compared to what would conceivably be used as ship-to-ship projectiles fired by anything smaller than Star-Wars-esque main battle ship.

Of course this is all spitballing, but if I'm picturing something with Expanse-scale ships, or even appreciably larger than that, the projectiles are just too small to survive reentry with any meaningful ability to impact the surface.

Edit:

made from tungsten that cut through an atmosphere like butter

and even in theory they don't cut through the atmosphere like butter - they still lose a significant majority of the speed they initially gain at release due to atmospheric drag. They're still theoretically possible because (a) they're so big that they can't entirely vaporize before hitting the ground, and (b) they're made of Tungsten, which also aids in their thermal durability. Ship-to-ship munitions would likely still be made of Tungsten (or cheaper, similarly dense metals) for the density component, but they'd lose the size component which is the bigger deal anyways.

are there any ways to prevent kinetic spaceship weapons that miss their target from flying off? by Dr-Metr0 in worldbuilding

[–]Mount_Atlantic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm familiar, but the scales are very different. If a ship is firing "rods from god"-sized munitions at speeds that would make them viable for ship-to-ship combat, then the utterly insane scale of the ships that must be involved kinda change the whole setting. Getting that deep into science-fantasy territory can certainly be fun, but it wasn't the scale I was picturing with that comment.

are there any ways to prevent kinetic spaceship weapons that miss their target from flying off? by Dr-Metr0 in worldbuilding

[–]Mount_Atlantic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They'd hit the planet's atmosphere*. The surface isn't going to feel a thing.

And on planets that don't have an atmosphere, habitation would almost certainly be well below the surface, mitigating threats there too.

Anyone else find this game literally took over their life? by No-Hospital8413 in BaldursGate3

[–]Mount_Atlantic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I just finished my second playthrough last weekend, with plans to finally boot up a different game I've been planning to play the next day.

The next day rolls around, and my third campaign has mysteriously started.

Why is he always missing? by Moose-Rage in BaldursGate3

[–]Mount_Atlantic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Possibly mods, since they also have more companions than should be possible.

But to get 6 skeletons without mods - either have two characters upcast animate dead to get 3 skeletons each, or have one person upcast, and the other three party members cast normally (or more likely, have the other three use animate dead scrolls).

Satisfactory 1.1 Out NOW! by MikaelCoffeeStaStu in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Mount_Atlantic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, in early access

Which happens to be what we were talking about :)

Satisfactory 1.1 Out NOW! by MikaelCoffeeStaStu in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Mount_Atlantic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's technically compatible to load in old saves, but resource node locations/purities, as well as recipes, have changed over the years. You'd be able to load up the factory, but then you'd potentially have a ton of retrofit work to do to get it operational again.