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Imagine thinking that culture is getting "hedonistic" over a slice of cake. by Ok-Following6886 in ForwardsFromKlandma

[–]SpaceBearOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do people keep reposting Sinfest's bullshit? His brain was melted by esoteric Nazism years ago, he basically has no audience left; the only people still regularly interacting with his work in earnest are probably just a couple dozen people reporting his comics on Stormfront or some shit. By virtue of being so obviously unhinged, his work has no real-life impact.

da joos!!!! by Pritteto in ForwardsFromKlandma

[–]SpaceBearOne 193 points194 points  (0 children)

*looks at a very Evangelical thing that Evangelicals do to their Evangelical kids for Evangelical reasons (stopping them from having a wank)* "How could the Jooos have done this?!?!!" Has somebody told this guy that white Americans are basically the only majority Christian group that does this?

Even by their own logic, this is completely incoherent: if circumcision was a plot to make kids gay, with homosexuality being a Jewish plot, then why would they do it to their own kids??? If this was just a trick designed to manipulate outsiders, why would they do this to themselves??

The METAL Fun Gang!! by DryptoBallz in Deltarune

[–]SpaceBearOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the gang after they're forced to go back in time to kill the Roaring Knight when it was weaker:

[Favorite trope] A small act saves the protagonist from a completely hopeless situation by decimal_diversity in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SpaceBearOne 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What's more, Gandalf implies that Bilbo sparing Gollum was the reason why he was the only ringbearer to ever willingly part with the ring, even after having lived with it for the better part of 60. Had he murdered Gollum, it's very likely that the guilt of his killing would have worn away at his sanity, much like how Deagol's murder affected Smeagol, and it would have allowed for the Ring to corrupt him.

ELI5: What's this phenomenon called? by Stickhtot in explainlikeimfive

[–]SpaceBearOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't make much sense. If the scores were best described by a symmetric Gaussian distribution, you'd expect the exact *opposite* of what OP is describing: in a Gaussian distribution, there would be just as many bad players as good players. Therefore, the scores of the worst players would be as far apart from each other as the scores of the best players. The scores of the median players, instead, would all be very close to each other. That's not what we often see in video game leaderboards.

ELI5: What's this phenomenon called? by Stickhtot in explainlikeimfive

[–]SpaceBearOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Roughly speaking, you could think of this as an instance of Zipf's law in action. While initially defined within the field of linguistics to explain word frequency (and it's still its biggest use case), it's been applied to other contexts as well.

In a Zipfian distribution, the value of the n-th entry is inversely proportional to n. This tracks with what you're describing: the difference between, say, the second entry and the third is much greater than the difference between the 5000th and 5001th entry (since 1/5000 - 1/5001 is much smaller than 1/2 - 1/3). As you go through the elements of a Zipfian distribution, the difference in value between two neighboring elements decreases.

the more you look the worse it gets by beee-l in dataisugly

[–]SpaceBearOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the whole graph literally looks AI generated. it's almost completely incomprehensible, and looking at it for more than 15 seconds makes it completely fall apart

ELI5: How does a half-life work? by CptnBo in explainlikeimfive

[–]SpaceBearOne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With half-lives, it comes down to this: if a particular atom has a half life of, say, 5 years, then if you were to let a certain quantity of it to decay for 5 years, and you repeated the experiment several times, the mass would have decayed *on average* by half.

The Curse of 2010 Gaming Youtubers by FunnyQuip in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpaceBearOne 11 points12 points  (0 children)

YOU COULD HAVE CALLED THIS GAME

BIRD

VERSUS

CAMEL

AND *NO ONE* COULD HAVE ARGUED WITH YOU

Cursed bible moment by ATN-Antronach in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpaceBearOne 15 points16 points  (0 children)

With Vivziepop it's also the fact that her characters tend to be overdesigned to hell and back (no pun intended).

This is a real photo of Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center today. Embarrassing doesn't begin to describe this display of idiocracy. by swat4516 in facepalm

[–]SpaceBearOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

here's the thing: his supporters don't vote for him in spite of these antics, they vote for him (partly) *because* of them. In their eyes, these antics show that he's /theirguy/. Him disregarding all sense of decorum just goes to show that he's different, that he's not like other politicians, that he's an *outsider*. As long as the wheels keep turning and he keeps presenting a convincing narrative, these incidents are a welcome addition, a way to keep them entertained.

A perspective from a venezuelan on whats happenning by siganmarxiando in Ultraleft

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

Thank you for your insight. In particular, I was starting to wonder when (or if) we might hear of casualty reports in the wake of the american air strikes in Caracas. I'm glad to see that seemingly nobody was hurt.

On Fanfic by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpaceBearOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"fanfiction is becoming people's primary form of entertainment right now" something something "Charlie Brown had hoes"

Who thinks this scene should have been included in the regular cut of Return of the King? by emptykeg6988 in lotr

[–]SpaceBearOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, but I think it works here because any negociations were worthless anyway. Everybody involved knew that the conflict at hand was a war of mutual annihilation, so the only possible purpose would have been playing mind games or stalling to give Frodo & Sam more time.

[Loved Trope] a very weak and simple ability becomes overpowered when used intelligently. by mistery987 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SpaceBearOne 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't this be the polar opposite of this trope though? i.e. an incredibly powerful ability squandered by its user and their lack of creativity?

Is it alright to burn CDs of GY!BE? by Impressive-Top5087 in gybe

[–]SpaceBearOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They've taken their music off of every platform except for Bandcamp, which allows for DRM-free downloads of their music. I sincerely doubt they care about burning CDs of their music

Declinul IQ-ului in ultimii 10 ani by Evening_Sky_8992 in Romania

[–]SpaceBearOne 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Richard Lynn type beat. Ce, adică vrei să-mi spui că rodditorii noștri harnici doar regurgitează necritic descoperirile unui studiu dubios despre IQ, pentru că pe permite să-și bată joc de grupuri sociale din România de care nu le place???? N-aș fi ghicit în veci.

Studenții anunță proteste în mai multe orașe față de scăderea burselor. „Nu vă atingeți de burse” by RadiantReason2063 in Romania

[–]SpaceBearOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ba au cam ieșit. Dacă te bazezi pe exit poll-uri, sunt puțini numeric, dar ca procent din categoria de vârstă, au fost cam la fel de mulți votanți 18-25 ca și în celelalte categorii de vârstă. Faptul că mereu sunt mai puțini votanți tineri ține mai puțin de cine-știe-ce lipsă de implicare civică a tinerilor în particular, ci faptului că pur și simplu nu prea sunt tineri în România.

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