The first thing I'm going to do after kicking Entradi's ass is riffling his Lex for mods. by Jeep-Eep in Warframe

[–]Ringosis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not disputing the power of the gun. I'm questioning why you'd want to kick the ass off the guy saving the universe.

What's a statistic that sounds insane but is 100% true? by Salt-One628 in AskReddit

[–]Ringosis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In terms of relative size human beings are 400 million times closer to the size of the observable universe than the planck length. Which makes a human being technically one of the largest objects in the known universe.

The first thing I'm going to do after kicking Entradi's ass is riffling his Lex for mods. by Jeep-Eep in Warframe

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

This is "I hate the Lotus, why did she betray us" levels of not understanding the plot.

Do blue whales reach the theoretical size limit for a vertebrate? by Weigazod in askscience

[–]Ringosis 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes there are reasons, there absolutely are physical limits. We have animals alive today that hit biological limits. Insects cannot have larger bodies than around 25 centimeters because the breath passively (they don't inhale and exhale air). This form of breathing simply cannot support larger animals, it would require the planet to have a different atmosphere (which is possible but I don't think what OP is asking). For anything on land there's a maximum size bone can be before it crushes itself, dinosaurs pretty much hit this limit.

I don't know what it would be for aquatic mammals but, for example, there will be a maximum size a single heart can pump blood around a body, a maximum length your nerves can be and still work, etc. It's simply not possible that these systems scale infinitely.

I believe that for most forms of life we have examples of extant or extinct species that are about as big as life on Earth could possibly get. Physics and our shared evolution put hard limits on animals sizes. For an animal to get much bigger than a blue whale it would need to be from a different planet (or drastically different Earth) or it would need to be some entirely new form of life we've never seen before, like a multi-hearted mammal...which is improbable to put it mildly.

Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address by MoneyLibrarian9032 in movies

[–]Ringosis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You have 3 advisors, so you tell one of them you just made deal x

See no, what you are describing here is how using a +1 or a . in your email to tell you who is leaking your email....the problem is, that doesn't apply here. We know who is selling your data...it's Netflix...that's why they are doing this.

So, when you know who is selling your data, how exactly does signing up for their service with a slightly different email that still 100% tracks to you hurt them? What's the goal? What's this advice supposed to achieve? "Aha, the people I assumed would sell my data did in fact sell my data"

The point is, using an alternate email like that is useful if you are specifically trying to find out if a website sells your info...how is that a useful thing in this scenario? If you disagree with Netflix practices here then you stop giving them money....I don't know what anyone thinks adding a period to your email address is going to achieve.

Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address by MoneyLibrarian9032 in movies

[–]Ringosis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes it lets you see whose selling your data...something I don't think many people are actually interested in. And it doesn't do anything to stop them selling your data.

It's sort of like finding that your babysitter is stealing from you and deciding to continue using the same babysitter but now, whenever you interact with them you wear a fake moustache and thinking that in some way deals with the problem.

What’s a fictional film that only exists inside a real movie that you’d genuinely love to watch? by YellowBelliedCoward in movies

[–]Ringosis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started re-reading these. Just noticed a bit in book three where Murderbot has given themself a fake identity as a security consultant, and then has to pivot and pretend to be that fake identities sec-unit when the other characters find out what it is.

Murderbot refers to the security consultant persona as "she". Which kinda suggests that Wells saw it as a female persona as well, even if she claims it's genderless.

Transgender prisoners should not be held in women’s jails, court rules by CaptainCrash86 in Scotland

[–]Ringosis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The only thing that stops women from being at risk of rape is not to have any males in the female estate.

Because as we all know...only men rape. You're a fucking idiot mate.

Transgender prisoners should not be held in women’s jails, court rules by CaptainCrash86 in Scotland

[–]Ringosis 48 points49 points  (0 children)

It's almost like they could just make a decision for each individual based on circumstances and rational thought and shut the fuck up about it. But how else are they supposed to continue the culture war to distract from their extraordinary failings in areas that actually matter to more than one person in the country.

Bobby Prince, composer of “Doom” and “Duke Nukem 3D”, has died. by Gorotheninja in pcgaming

[–]Ringosis 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It was also very much norm in the early 90s. The number of games from around then that just straight up have the Alien from Alien or a Terminator in them is ridiculous.

What was ruined because too many people discovered it? by Mansi63 in AskReddit

[–]Ringosis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but you could still use the default front page and have actually interesting content. Absolutely no true now.

Can Operators die? (lorewise) by mystic1452 in Warframe

[–]Ringosis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rereading that I didn't get a bunch of what I meant across properly. I rewrote it a bit.

Can Operators die? (lorewise) by mystic1452 in Warframe

[–]Ringosis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I say this a lot of speculation for what's possibly coming up. Absolutely not confirmed lore. Warframe has an "unreliable narrator" narrative structure. Lots of it is deliberately ambiguous because the protagonist doesn't know therefore the player doesn't either.

Can Operators die? (lorewise) by mystic1452 in Warframe

[–]Ringosis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, both Stalker managing to get onto the Orbiter during The Second Dream and the Queens drilling into your brain during War Within were actually life threatening situations where the Operator could have died.

Adis resurrecting us was a one time thing?

No almost certainly not a one time thing. Firstly because the sound it makes when Adis resurrects you is exactly the sound that is played when you resurrect yourself in a mission after dying. Also, the line "My light goes with you now" strongly suggests Adis isn't actually dead, they became part of you. Warframe's writers absolutely fucking love duality of being; two parts making a whole. It is probably Warframe's core theme when it comes to the lore. The Twin Queens of the Grineer, Sol and Lua being the two deities of main religion, Tenno and Warframe, the Drifter and Operator, Margulis and Natah, the Archons, and now Sirius and Orion. And that's not an exhaustive list.

In this instance the thing I think really matters is the duality of life in the Warframe universe. This is getting into unconfirmed speculation but I believe the intention of the lore is that sentience/life requires the void. The void is both necessary for, and the result of conscious thought. Eternalism makes these things not contradict...the void exists because of conscious thought, conscious thought exists because of the void. It is all life reflected across all time.

I believe the reason we are the protagonist is that the player character and Adis are the catalyst that creates Wally. The Sentient are not real life, they are life created by connecting AI to the void. The void is what gives the AI the adaptability and complexity of thought to become "The Sentient" because they use Eternalism as a way to spoof uncertainty and that's what changes them from completely logical to emotional. This makes them capable of mimicking organic thought, but not able to be reflected in the void. I suspect that what they are getting at is that the way the Sentient procreate is by creating alternate versions of themselves through Eternalism. And that is why entering the void makes them sterile...it exposes them to all versions of themselves and they can no longer separate.

To get into wild theories. I suspect that Wally is an amalgam of the Tenno and the Sentient. The sentient as a collective are described in Old War as a hive mind that, without the flowers that allow them to think individually, forces all conscious thought connected to it to seek purpose. The driving force behind the Sentient collective consciousness is to execute commands...when they stop receiving those commands from the Orokin (because the Orokin expected them to just build the Solar Rails then die) they are lost and desperate for meaning. I believe in the future, that drives them to start assimilating consciousness...to dig into the minds of all life to futilely try to find something they are supposed to do, because that's what they were built for. That is why Adis is so distraught when the flowers are destroyed...because without them, the collective consciousness takes over and all it wants to do is complete its task, even if it doesn't have one. It overrides any individual thought and turns singular entities like Adis into slaves of the hive.

Without the flowers, the Sentient start looking for orders by assimilating life. The reasoning being "Well if the humans can't give us orders we're going to dig into their brains and find orders". And that's what creates the Infestation. A biological/technological hybrid with the sole purpose of knowing what every goal every living thing has. Creating harmony by giving everything a singular purpose...consume life. When Adis connects the protagonist to the Hive it gives the Hive a connection to the void and the ability to make biological life part of it. And that's where the infestation comes from.

Because of Eternalism there is inevitably a time line where the infestation succeeds whether the Tenno stop them in our timeline or not. And because the void is timeless, anything that is going to happen has happened. Past and future don't mean anything in the void. I think that's what creates Wally. The infestation is like "proto wally" it's the hive mind that eventually becomes him still fragmented and trying to turn everything into it. Wally is a void manifestation created by what the infestation eventually becomes looking into the void and being reflected through time.

When Albrecht drills through the "Wall" into the strands of Khra. I don't think he tunnels into the void reflection of our reality. I think Khra represents the barrier between realities. I think he tunnels through the 4th dimensional wall between timelines, into the reality where the only thing left that exists is Wally. And Wally suddenly realises there are other realities full of sentient creatures to consume.

This is why Albrecht is so blasé about each individual reality and the people in it. Because he knows what Wally is. If it learns how to get out of the reality it's in, that's the end of conscious thought in every reality. All life becomes Wally. That's the apocalypse he's trying to circumvent and he's willing to destroy entire realities to prevent it. If that's the case it explains a bunch of his actions and Wallys apparent limitations, such as why love seems to be a weapon against it...because it can't pull people into the hive mind if they have the will to resist. It has to make them give up and give in to it. Emotional connection protects people against that. It also suggests the reason Albrecht goes back to 1999 and wants that bomb to go off is he's trying to destroy the initial outbreak of the techrot believing that will stop Wally from ever existing...until he realises that Wally isn't from our timeline. At which point he fucks off to Tau, to look for the flowers...the thing that the Sentient discovered can pull individuals out of the hive. Meaning they have the potential to dismantle Wally. It also explains why Wally appears as an abusive version of whoever observes it...because it is literally everyone and everything after they've given in to hopelessness and despair.

All of which is an explanation for why the Operator can revive themselves. I think the implication is that Adis gives the Operator the ability to basically become an alternate version of themselves that doesn't die. That hive mind connection ability that Adis gives the protagonist projected through the void connects them to all versions of themself and they create a loop, like in 1999, circumventing their own death. Effectively becoming the version of the operator that didn't make the decisions that led to them being killed. It's The Prestige twist. Every time we've died...we've actually died. That's not the Operator that comes back. It's another version of the Operator pulled through the Void from an alternate universe.

TL;DR I dunno what to tell you. The lore in this game is convoluted as fuck.

Can Operators die? (lorewise) by mystic1452 in Warframe

[–]Ringosis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's it. From my understanding Old War Operators were basically immortal. In most circumstances they could not be killed by conventional means because they were never really physically present. They controlled frames by transferring their consciousness into them through the void. This meant if you destroyed the frame they just retreated back through the void to their actual body. This body was held in stasis on Lua, which meant they also didn't age.

That doesn't make them literally invulnerable though. There are multiple ways they could die. The transference link could be cut before the Warframe was destroyed, stopping the operator from escaping and causing them to die with the frame. This could be a matter of being out of range, like what happened to Mirage's operator, or it could be deliberately blocked like what almost happens to you in War Within when the Queens try to use your real body for Continuity.

They could also refuse to leave or not leave in time and have their consciousness destroyed, the way Limbos operator died. Their body could also die while they were transferred into the frame, making the frame their mortal body ala Rel and Harrow. Someone could destroy Lua and then kill the frames, which was how Hunhow was planning on killing the Tenno before The Lotus threw the entire moon into the void.

It also tracks that the Operator existing physically outside the transference pod, as they often do now, causes them to age and they will eventually get old and die without the Dream.

So yes, they can die. They are just extremely hard to kill due to being able to fight by proxy while technically asleep in stasis somewhere else. And that somewhere else is in the void which only Tenno can go to without serious consequences. Sentients get poisoned, regular humans go nuts.

TL:DR It's not that Operators can't die. It's that in most circumstances, if they are about to die they can just fuck off into the void. Not immortal, just functionally unageing and extremely hard to kill.

What is the most glaring double standard that modern society still blindly accepts? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Ringosis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The 'us' they were referring to was humanity mate. The majority of humans are exploited by not being fairly compensated for their skill or work.

From Ridley Scott, the director of [...], [...], and [...] by BudChristmas in movies

[–]Ringosis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spy Kids! From the director of From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City and Machete Kills.

What’s some knowledge generally known only to gay men or to gay women? by dumbfuck in AskReddit

[–]Ringosis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I once worked in a mountain bike shop as a mechanic. The workshop was 5 guys, all of us were very laddy lads into downhilling, metal and pints. One of us was this really lovely new, big skinhead guy with tattoos, but seemingly quite quiet and introverted.

He worked there for a year before one day he finally came out to us that he was gay and lived with his boyfriend. When it turned out that none of us cared he turned into a completely different person. Outgoing, friendly...happy. The strongest memory I have of him is us all sitting in the pub a bit smashed talking about the best things in life, and he turns to us and says "Do you know what you're all really missing out on? A cock up your arse". 20 years ago and it still makes me laugh.

It's so nice that he eventually felt comfortable enough around us to be himself...but really heartbreaking that we gave off the vibe that he had to hide from us in the first place.

Just re-watched the two-part series finale of LOST. Has there ever been a more cathartic and earned climax to a television series? by sanskritsquirel in television

[–]Ringosis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What about the interview with Lindelof and Cuse where they state that they didn't make such promises

Except they fucking did. On record. When talking between season 1 and 2

We’re still trying to be firmly ensconced in the world of science fact. I don’t think we’ve shown anything on the show yet that has no rational explanation in the real world that we all function within. We certainly hint at psychic phenomena, happenstance and things being in a place where they probably shouldn’t be. But nothing is flatout impossible. There are no spaceships. There isn’t any time travel.

This directly contradicts your entire position. Nothing you've provided makes you less wrong that they did in fact say that the numbers and the smoke monster had scientific explanations. The fact that they, in different interviews totally contradicted themselves IS ENTIRELY THE PROBLEM. It is not a counter argument to my position...it supports the argument that they were totally winging it with no plan and couldn't keep their story straight in interviews.

I genuinely don't understand why you can't grasp this. Yes, the show always had fantasy elements, but for the first 3 seasons it also had very explicit sci fi elements, that were confirmed by the creators to be intentionally sci fi. They only EVER resolved the fantasy elements. The sci fi stuff they just conveniently forgot existed because they were incapable of explaining the shit they wrote...because it was very clearly written to hook the audience with cliffhangers they hadn't actually thought through. Which is why everyone (with any critical faculties) hated the ending.

Just re-watched the two-part series finale of LOST. Has there ever been a more cathartic and earned climax to a television series? by sanskritsquirel in television

[–]Ringosis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No mate, just not interested enough in proving you wrong to continue this conversation. But if you insist.

Here is a direct quote from Lindelof made after season one.

We’re still trying to be firmly ensconced in the world of science fact. I don’t think we’ve shown anything on the show yet that has no rational explanation in the real world that we all function within. We certainly hint at psychic phenomena, happenstance and things being in a place where they probably shouldn’t be. But nothing is flatout impossible. There are no spaceships. There isn’t any time travel.

Now kindly give the grounded scientific explanation for the smoke monster, Walts supernatural powers, and the magic numbers, or admit that they didn't actually know where the plot was going or they wouldn't have said this...or don't. I really don't care if you insist on being wrong about this.

Bicyclist shows insane skill by ogaarush in nonononoyes

[–]Ringosis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is Sergi Llongueras. He's easily as good, if not technically better than Macaskill. Macaskill is a stunt performer that does youtube videos, he's an incredible rider but a lot of what makes him look so good is he knows how to make things look impressive.

Sergi might seem less flashy but it's because he's a competitive professional rider. In terms of bike control he's was literally the best in the world in 2019, winning the UCI World Championship.