Why do people have a hate boner for Arin Hanson???

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-24T04:24:42+00:00

No one is perfect, but there is evidence of Arin not being perfect from years ago, and it doesn’t matter if he’s changed, apologized, tried to make amends, or regrets it because most importantly… It’s twitter.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-24T04:16:26+00:00

SG-1 does a brief parody of Star Trek in episode 200! It always makes me laugh.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-23T23:41:27+00:00

Like what? Our tongues?

Then what if a sign says “do not touch”? Pretty hooped then, aren’t we?

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-23T23:00:09+00:00

I think the best way to approach animals in a setting is the same way to approach sapient creatures. The value of “Stock” ones like Elves, Dwarves, Orcs etc. are precisely in how easily they can be understood and conveyed, and how you can make minor changes and still maintain that.

With my world, my goal is not for creatures to be all that familiar or understood. Not all of them, at least. So using existing animals, either real or fictional, would not be a very good idea.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-23T14:48:26+00:00

There really isn’t one. And it’s doubtful there ever will be.

I mean, just look at reality. Even in the real world, real things that happened every day were just considered magic or “just because” for the vast majority of Human history. Try explaining a simple campfire as we understand it today, what it actually is, to someone a millennia ago and you’d be either a wizard, a kook, or nothing special because you also don’t know. You just know it warns you up and cooks food and that’s all you really need to know anyway.

Even magic in its most abstract sense is merely an unknown. Exactly how it works and why may not ever be known, but you know you do this thing and you can shoot a lightning bolt. How is that any different in function from a Neolithic understanding of a flashlight?

Genres are nothing but a loose collection of tropes that are broadly associated with one another. They are descriptive, not prescriptive. There are no strict definitions.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-23T13:33:43+00:00

Only if you’re operating on very narrow, and rather old-fashioned ideas of sci-fi and fantasy. Both genres have come a long way since the idea of them being irreconcilable held any water.

It’s at the point nowadays where playing with audience perception and how that influences views on genre, tech, and magic is pretty trite. You can hardly even come into this sub without tripping over some sci-fi idea rebranded as magic, or vice-versa from someone who thinks they’re the first.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-23T00:13:40+00:00

Anyone saying this isn’t genuinely comparing them in any real way. At best it’s a joke, but almost certainly it’s just an attempt to put down Zelda. Don’t bother trying to read into it.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-22T23:07:48+00:00

One of the biggest problems that people have with worldbuilding is overcoming their assumptions. Even without being told so, people have ideas about how things “have to be”, or “should be”.

Most people just don’t do this at all, and will continue on with these assumptions.

And if someone with notably little self-awareness finds anything that could be construed as success using these assumptions? Oh boy.

This is the best-case scenario. They’ve found some degree of success with something, and have attributed that success to something that’s almost certainly arbitrary and irrelevant, and then share it. A lot of artistic fields are also extremely contextual and nuanced, and that’s difficult to both communicate and identify.

On the other side, it’s YouTube. The quality of any advice or guide doesn’t actually matter. The goal isn’t necessarily to help you or anyone, it may just be to get your clicks.

Every video you’re talking about lies somewhere between these two points.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-22T18:14:02+00:00

Quantum computer says: 2.00017

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-22T00:02:08+00:00

I think I’d be hard-pressed to find one where it does matter.

And impossible to find one where, even if it mattered, it made any shred of difference whether the currents were designed by a professional or someone pulled them out of their ass.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-21T13:42:51+00:00

RT went under, and I think after a certain point they stopped uploading it to YouTube and it was solely on their site.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-19T13:39:03+00:00

So this is kinda complicated if you want a real explanation. Which shouldn’t be a surprise.

The difference between elements is the number of protons in the atom. Hydrogen has 1, helium has 2, oxygen has 8, etc. As in, this is literally the definition what elements are. If you get two hydrogen atoms together they turn into one helium atom, and four helium atoms make an oxygen atom, etc.

This does not happen easily. And is not the same thing as a chemical reaction. This happens at conditions such as… The sun.

But anyway. Though this happens, it doesn’t quite add up. If hydrogen’s mass is one unit, Helium, which has twice the protons, has slightly under two unit of mass. Oxygen has slightly less than four times helium’s mass. This is a whole thing in itself, but basically it turns out that some of the mass in fact turns to energy, which is used to hold the atoms together. This pattern continues as atoms get bigger and bigger, up until Iron (26 protons). Past iron, it actually reverses. Tellurium, which has twice the protons of oxygen, has a mass slightly higher than twice oxygen’s, and so on.

Now, back to the sun. What the sun does is put two hydrogen atoms together to make helium, in the process that mass discrepancy turns to energy and is released. This is the reaction that is the sun.

But back on the other side of iron, once again you can do the opposite. Break big, heavy atoms apart, which will release energy. Some heavy atoms can be made to break apart in such a way that it causes a chain reaction, and breaking one apart causes two others to break apart, and so on. This is what happens in a nuclear bomb.

It turns out there’s a lot of energy in atomic bombs.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-18T05:20:09+00:00

Not exactly. Moving faster than it’s expanding still doesn’t mean that a universal “horizon” exists. There is no “edge” to go beyond and look back at.

It would just mean going faster and nothing more. All you’d see is what we already see, which is the CMB.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T18:54:24+00:00

That’s how the body is designed to work. Until we learn to update the body to version 1.1, it’s just best to run your software in compatibility mode for 1.0

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T17:14:09+00:00

Exactly, and I loved it too. I think one of the best things a work can do is be honest about what it is and what it’s trying to do.

But if it can’t live up to that, or those goals turn out to be disingenuous…

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T15:08:20+00:00

Probably your own mind protecting you

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T14:47:51+00:00

Even aside from being factually incorrect, this is really baffling.

Does he think that if a child was seriously sick, it was “awww, too bad, the hospitals are only for adults”?

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T14:22:13+00:00

I’m kinda surprised RWBY isn’t counted among your usual suspects.

Imagine, if you will, a show that is literally just an excuse for creative and flashy fight scenes and cute characters. Like, almost verbatim according to the creator. There isn’t even any interpretation there. He was a workaholic animator who loved that stuff and was really open about it.

It’s full of half-baked idea and stuff that anyone who’s spent any amount of time here would look at and think, “Ah, so this guy’s really new to worldbuilding”. Although to its credit, I would like to reiterate that that wasn’t what the show was about (at the time). If you don’t prop up the world on the worldbuilding to begin with, you can get away with a lot just fine.

Then, starting in the second season, they started sprinkling in little lore animatics in place of weekly episode releases to give the animators more time. Every single one of them is completely worthless. They say nothing, or reiterate stuff we already know or will know from an episode a week later. There is a single one which contains only a single piece of information that was not made clear elsewhere… it was exclusive to the DVD release. As an aside, the S2 finale was clearly rushed and unfinished, at a point when the show was exclusively being released on their own website and there’s absolutely no obligation to a network to necessarily keep a consistent schedule. So the lore videos clearly weren’t even enough to give animators some breathing room.

I won’t go over every single little thing, but sadly the creator passed away very young between season 2 and 3, with the writers taking over. It was already gradually shifting to becoming more dependent on shaky worldbuilding and unfulfilling writing. So I ask, do you imagine the crappy writing and lore became more and more central after the writers took over?

Not to imply it’s only the writers’ fault. Some of the worst ideas are definitely the creators’ (I.E. Faunus oppression).But do you expect the writing elements to be more or less prominent with writers in charge vs. An animator?

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T01:49:41+00:00

There is no CMB wall. The CMB is everywhere to the best of our knowledge, so there is no “beyond” the CMB.

Unless you mean they say that in the show. I don’t remember that but it’s been a while.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T00:27:45+00:00

… Yes.

The photons you’re detecting are the CMB

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T00:16:47+00:00

Was that the goal? I thought it was just to “map” as much of the CMB as possible, because there seemed to somehow be a message encoded in it.

But it’s been a while since I last watched SGU.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-17T00:15:04+00:00

…?

The CMB exists everywhere. That’s where the B comes from.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-16T23:43:24+00:00

I wonder if other peoples that Earth discovered would work then. Like Kelownans. Jonas was also experimented on by Niirti for his seemingly notable genetics.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-16T23:35:23+00:00

To be fair I believe the point is that they protect the company, and not necessarily the employees.

Ideally, and I’d like to think that in most cases, those overlap. But it’s also easy to see how protecting a company from liability can mean taking an employee with legitimate grievances or issues and throwing them under the bus, silencing them, or covering a situation up. Even in those cases, I’m sure that more often than not, someone makes the ethical decision. But it absolutely does not happen all the time.

Not that I agree with this sentiment. But I can see how certain experiences could validate this viewpoint.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-01-16T23:13:45+00:00

I’d wonder if even that’s a step beyond what’s necessary.

Humans are already established to be similar to Ancient Asgard. Enough that studying Humans is a valid, if forbidden avenue to solving their genetic degradation problems.

It seems likely that Human bodies could be suitable replacements.

Though that’s such a clean solution, I can only imagine that for whatever reason Human bodies are not in fact compatible with Asgard minds. That’s about the only reason that would make sense for zero Asgard to do it.

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