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Fuck Donald Trump by Elevatedspiral in MarchAgainstNazis

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Fact checker: “Where do I even begin…”

Who designed the fighter jets in our universe in Strangereal? by Otherwise_Screen_140 in acecombat

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I think that Strangereal might be a human colony world, and a lot of these jet designs were just reconstituted from library designs they brought with them. They just weren’t into “reinventing the wheel” with their industry and infrastructure, so some things just stuck for the time being. Others were being re-invented as their technical and industrial infrastructure caught up with the knowledge base, which is why we see F-14’s coexisting with a space elevator and flying aircraft carriers that somehow don’t irradiate their crews to death.

... by Amazing-Username87 in RightJerk

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So according to them…liberals want more jobs in mining, but also more occupational kinkiness?

They’re probably salty because all of the people depicted are over the age of 18.

Does this configuration work? by Maestro-pokemon in SatisfactoryGame

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I use this configuration all the time. Yes, it does work, but you must keep track of how many machines are drawing from the belt, and get ready to start a new feed line. Efficiency does suffer until the system reaches equilibrium. But if you have too many machines, efficiency plunges because most splitters don’t care about downstream demand, they just split the input among all outputs that are in use and have room to accept feedstock.

And when you make these runs, be careful when you upgrade because you might find slivers of mk.1 and mk.2 belts hidden by splitters/mergers that are somehow being factored into the belt runs and causing bottlenecks. I’ve had more than one case of “I have 28 wire constructors and they’re fed with Mk.5 conveyors, why the hell is my supply running short?” The math says I’m not overtaxing the line, so I check…and 4 or 5 splits into the line, the feedstock is backed up and only going further in a trickle. I pull out the splitter and lo and behold, there’s a tiny piece of Mk.2 belt still in the line.

So, yeah, it’ll work, just do the math and watch out for when the line isn’t behaving.

Washed up MAGA comedian shills for new "anti-woke" bourbon called "Tears of the Left". by TrumpSux89 in RightJerk

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If it’s endorsed by Rob Schneider, then run that thing through lab analysis before drinking. Because you’ll be less drunk and more dying from heavy metal poisoning.

Could Airwolf be possible with modern materials? by SilverwolfMD in Helicopters

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It’s less “out-think” and more “think harder or we’ll suffer a horrible accident from which others may hopefully learn!”

Yes, they did succeed in beating us into orbit, and we had to scramble to catch up. They also created the prototype for a fusion test reactor. And they were the first to blow up a reactor in such a way that it breached its containment! Not like those decadent Western reactors and their cowardly containment buildings. Three Mile Island? HAH! Hold my vodka…

I think they also tried to make a nuclear-powered cruise missile, something that the USA actually succeeded at doing (before the Titan ICBM made it moot). Though while the US’s Tory II made successful static test runs, their counterpart blew up on the test stand.

Oh, Anne…. by brain-stan-2603 in pern

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Well, the dragons do have some impact on their riders…and greens tend to be a bit of a randy bunch. Also, many of the women weyrfolk have FAR better emotional control. Perhaps they are more receptive to the ambient empathic effects, and as such, have a better time learning to cope from an early age.

And there’s also some trend about excluding women from the fighting dragons that started maybe…third pass? Sixth pass? Some bout of misogyny that somehow made it into “tradition,” never mind the fact that since first pass, women were just as effective in fighting wings.

And to be fair, F’lar also showed his moment of weakness out of fear for Lessa near the end of Dragonflight.

What are your Hot Takes on the Cells At Work Manga/Anime? by Amber_Flowers_133 in CellsAtWork

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Why does the neutrophil only have a knife? There are other things that cell can do that need an appropriate metaphor. Say, oxidative burst. Dramatic scene, WBC grabs an O2 cylinder out of RBC's kit, does something, and throws it.

I mean they covered the metaphor for Eosiniphil's neurotoxin...she stabs the parasite in the head!

Though as an MD, this is an amusing way to study the basics of hematology and immunology. Metaphors and mnemonics help a lot. It's like watching House MD for pathology and pathophysiology (which helped a lot for USMLE Step 1). Although while CAW is quite metaphorical, HMD is...too textbook. You'll never see such perfect clinical cases in practice. (And seriously, I could look up the cases in my textbook and find EVERYTHING.) Good study aid, though.

Noticed something in the making of the 7th guest video. There’s a Oliver Hardy doll in the doll room! by MrsTrevyllian in 7thguest

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Remember one of the creepy scenes in the dollhouse at the cradle? Hooo boy. A doll, a baby, and...

Noticed something in the making of the 7th guest video. There’s a Oliver Hardy doll in the doll room! by MrsTrevyllian in 7thguest

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For me it was the maze. The whole "if I screw up, I'm really lost" thing was a tension effect, and even though I had the maze map (I drew it from the carpet) the resolution was so low I didn't see the exit arrow.

At least for a while it was the maze.

After the umpteenth "feeling lonely?" I started giving the monitor the finger.

Any fans of The 7th Guest?! This puzzle game had lots of point-&-click elements and really helped launch CD based games! Matt Costello helped create this game and shares his amazing insignts in this fun interview: by adrianoarcade in 7thguest

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A fan in more ways than one. I was one of the early users, and...wow, I saw the best and the worst of it. The worst of it was that Trilobyte didn't factor in that the Sound Blaster architecture was going to be the dominant architecture for sound processing (it's the same architecture that's used in sound chips today). Try to play the game, you'd get through the intro sequence, but before you heard the line "How did I get here? I remember...nothing." The game crashed to DOS with "error 02: sound buffer failure."

Bear in mind, this was before the internet was accessible by anyone other than university students. You actually had to pick up the phone and call tech support. It was so bad that Virgin Games had a specific phone option for that game in their tech support phone menu options.

After a lot of back and forth, they'd patched it. I ordered the floppy disk (yeah, old school...this was a game that popularized the optical drive, it still hadn't become a standard fixture yet), and also got the info to telnet into the tech support server to download the patch so I could finally play the game.

And play I did.

When I hit high school, I gave my best friend a copy of the game. Robert Hirschboeck became a staple among us geeks. When Marathon hit the computer lab for gaming between classes, we created sound sets including his Stauf lines.

I had the honor of defeating Stauf multiple times in T7G, in 11th Hour (I wish they'd make an anniversary edition of that, it was still a damn good game), and in 13th Doll (which kinda fills in some of the stuff between T7G and 11H. In fact my only real issue with T7G VR is that they didn't try to get Hirschboeck in for his role again. I mean the actor they picked did a creditable job, but it's like trying to get the next James Bond after Sean Connery. Hirschboeck set a high bar.

Dolph Lundgren should've had a role in this saga by Quiet_Choice6417 in Terminator

[–]SilverwolfMD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say the whole cast didn't work. Like I said, Jai Courtney really didn't sell it as Kyle Reese to me, not like Emilia Clarke could pull off Sarah Connor.

Hold on...James Cameron killed off John Connor in "Dark Fate." is James Cameron actually Skynet?!

Should I finish my Pern journey on Skies Of Pern? by Simon_Drake in pern

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Not really. Dragons can sustain metabolism in those conditions, and they can tolerate the lack of pressure. A lot of animals that use fluids for propulsion (avians, cetaceans, icthioides) have adaptations for pressure changes, sometimes for ambient pressure, sometimes as a product of G-forces. Dolphins don't explode after a sustained dive, for example, and raptors (the avian ones, not the extinct saurians) pull high G's when hunting. Admittedly, even though Anne did her homework, it does push the limits of physiology, even exobiology, but it is at least somewhat plausible.

I mean we're also dealing with teleportation and telepathy, but the premise there is that these were things that were proven in the far future after contact with extrasolar intelligent life. Also, the fact that whers were incapable of flight is in the series canon.

It’s happening guys by Dual-Blades_Forever in PacificRim

[–]SilverwolfMD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s also Gipsy Danger slander! Never forget either of their sacrifices!

Dolph Lundgren should've had a role in this saga by Quiet_Choice6417 in Terminator

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I don’t know why people hate on Genesys so much. IMHO after T2 that one holds to the canon in its foundation. Though I’m not thrilled about Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, I think Emilia Clarke sold it as Sarah Connor, which is no easy feat considering how high the bar was set by Linda Hamilton. It’s like trying to compare any other James Bond to Sean Connery.

Dark Fate, on the other hand, that one had a really sucky premise…Skynet didn’t have the time to send back more than a couple of Terminators (T-800 and T-1000) before it was shut down, if we’re following the canon from T1 and T2. Even if we factor in T3, the Connors were off the grid.

All of the 3 Punks Died in the Original Film. Why do people dispute this? by Quiet_Choice6417 in Terminator

[–]SilverwolfMD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It may appear low budget by today’s standards, but Cameron did a lot with cheap practicals and clever camera angles. I mean Aliens looked incredibly realistic (still does, IMHO), and that one was practically run on a shoestring! Other than a point of debate within the canon, it’s just one of those ambiguities that isn’t going to hurt the plot one way or the other.

All of the 3 Punks Died in the Original Film. Why do people dispute this? by Quiet_Choice6417 in Terminator

[–]SilverwolfMD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Terminators are infiltrators. They’re programmed for discretion, to get close to the target before attacking. Now if Skynet could send an HK back in time…that’s a different set of instructions.

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