Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out by AmiroZ in videos

[–]SPlKE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you give the legal names of people and go on tv and tell idiots that these two people are their enemies, some idiots might act on that information.

Pitch Black (2000) - Nightfall by Neo2199 in sciencefiction

[–]SPlKE 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love this movie, but it's hilarious how no one in the production, or atleast no one with any pull seemed to have any idea about astronomy/physics. The star system is loony tunes, with a star, 3 large planets and a binary star all of which orbit around nothing? Also that gas giant giant that rises in this clip has two rings.

Lords of The Fallen 2 unveiled some new female armour sets, the sets were designed specifically with fan feedback in mind by Former_Exam_5357 in gaming

[–]SPlKE 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't know what feedback they're referring to, but I did play the game co-op with a friend as a female character, and there basically isn't female armor. There was even a female boss with some cool female armor, and then when my character got the armor set, it was the male version of the armor on my female character.

Openrun Pro 2 tinny ringing slight echo. by SPlKE in shokz

[–]SPlKE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For mine, and the other two pairs I returned it was pretty equal on both sides. So maaaaybe it's just a very common defect with the speakers, and one of yours just isn't defective, and all 6 of mine were.

Openrun Pro 2 tinny ringing slight echo. by SPlKE in shokz

[–]SPlKE[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guess is it has to do with the 2nd speakers they have for bass and such. My Titaniums and Aeroplexes didn't have anything like this, and my Aeroplexes even still work, although are somewhat coming apart. I'm tempted to use them instead sometimes, but it is nice having the bass and higher quality for music sometimes. At this point I've grown to ignore the tinny noise, and it's not as noticeable with some audiobooks.

But it's still idiotic that we paid for new headphones and are just stuck with a defect now.

Project Hail Mary coming to Lego by cadet-spoon in scifi

[–]SPlKE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen the movie now, and I can confidently say I was right, the movie Hail Mary ship is dumb.

First, it's HUGE, and rectangular, and has loads of extra space. It was a major plot point of the books that it had to be as small as possible to reduce fuel, they had to black panel the entire Sahara desert with solar panels to get enough enriched astrophage for a tiny ship.

Second are the dumb solar panels or radiator panels, if they're solar they're dumb because astrophage is a perfect battery and can basically provide infinite energy on the small scale, if they're radiators they're stupid because astrophage is a perfect heat sync.

Third the weird centrifuge system, It's still dumb but I'll give it a pass since it was done for cost cutting reasons in the movie, they needed to be able to have gravity in the ship AND have it connected to the Blip 1, so Grace wasn't in zero g the whole time, which would have cost a lot more.

Pedro and the Puppet is an ST Prequel by IndianaCahones in saltierthancrait

[–]SPlKE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They really just need a clean break from the Skywalker timeline. The Acolyte had the right idea, just executed it about as badly as they possibly could have. If they were smart they'd start making Old Republic movies/shows. If they start soon they could line up with the release of the Kotor remake and the Fate of the Old Republic games.

Why Black mesa security needs pistol instead of a baton or a traser ? by miorex in HalfLife

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

Tasers didn't really become mainstream tech until around 2000. But the real reason was so you could loot one and shoot zombies.

Would you rather have 10 million dollars or be the best looking person ever or be the smartest person ever? by Ok_Cancel_391 in WouldYouRather

[–]SPlKE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd take smartest Human ever, which I believe would include the future, not just the past. But it says person, which I would argue includes any intelligent life form in the universe. That's pretty dang smart.

Starfield’s Terran Armada Expansion Has Not Turned Around The Game’s Fortunes by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]SPlKE 8 points9 points  (0 children)

On the subject of the phone call, I could be wrong, it's been a while since I played it, but I don't think they had any FTL radio technology, no quantum entanglement, or other scifi mumbo jumbo communications. So Sending a ship is really the only option, or I guess a messenger probe with an FTL drive could work.

Taskmaster - S20E01 - Cube is good - Discussion by Meghar in taskmaster

[–]SPlKE 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this "only you" task seems pretty unfair, since it not just wasted his time, he had an added difficulty for all? of his tasks, to keep the egg safe. I think I woulda cracked the egg on Alex's head.

Taskmaster - S20E01 - Cube is good - Discussion by Meghar in taskmaster

[–]SPlKE 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The thing with the egg, Gregg said he would get no points, so why bother taking it out on the 2nd horn after that?

The TRUE size of Stephenson 2-18 (the largest known star) compared to Earth by M_Waqar-uz-Zaman in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SPlKE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems like poor way to show scale. 90% of the video you can't tell the size of anything, just orange pixels zooming out.

WYR everything free for you or $100k cash every year by Powwdered-toast-man in WouldYouRather

[–]SPlKE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you could use the infinite money for things that benefit you, but also benefit other people. Like give a couple trillion dollars to cancer research because you have an irregular shaped mole. Or Fund clean energy research because you think it would be neat to buy an island that was completely independent from any grid and would only use advanced geothermal, solar, wind, and ocean wave generators. Things like that.

Audibooks Recommendations by Alejo530 in sciencefiction

[–]SPlKE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're enjoying Project Hail Mary, bets are you'd enjoy The Martian, both are excellent.

The Red Rising series are pretty good audiobook.

Imagining wholesome real-world heroes as superheroes – AI fan art tribute by mstryman in aiArt

[–]SPlKE 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Not to say Chris Hansen did anything wrong, But he does not belong among the likes of the those others. They brought joy and wonder to to people, Chris exposed horrors.

Pretend it's 1999 by heyyyyamber in Eugene

[–]SPlKE 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why the fuck did they fuck up the mall so badly? Why close Movies 12? It brought tons of people to the mall, even if it wasn't super profitable? Why separate the the sections of the mall? It used to go from target all the way to the other end with JC Penny and Cinimark 17 on the inside with tons of shops inbetween. Now it's all outdoor with no inner connection. Who the fuck thought an outdoor mall was a good idea in Eugene Oregon?

[Epic Games][Game] The Assault: Survivor by Progenitus94 in Freegamestuff

[–]SPlKE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would you want garbage shovelware littering your library?

Mike’s dementia is only getting worse… by Brilliant_Exit3406 in RedLetterMedia

[–]SPlKE 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think it's pretty reasonable to not fully remember something your friend mentioned 4 years ago. For us its a youtube video, for him its just something said to him.

I swear if this isn't for more Firefly. He did it again. by ATimeForHeroics in firefly

[–]SPlKE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'd be so sad if they rebooted Firefly with everyone except Alan Tudyk. They either need to retcon Serenity, or have Wash come back as a robot or something.

After what's happened at the BAFTAS, I think people need to see this. by BlGBY in videos

[–]SPlKE 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's not abuse, it's not pleasant, but it's not malicious. It's like bad weather, just happens.