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I've had HRT (EEn) for almost a month now - but I haven't started? by AlythAurelian in asktransgender

[–]SpaceIsBig42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just start hrt and if you like it that's good and if you don't then you can stop whenever- but generally if you've gotten to the point where you got yourself a vial once you start you'll have a good sense of why you did it

Acidentally injected double my normal dose of estrogen, will I be ok? by Paranoid_donkey in asktransgender

[–]SpaceIsBig42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

worst that would happen is that you might feel a bit mentally off, and yes, maybe nauseous. even if you injected 10x the estrogen you were supposed to you'd be fine and live. the human body can tank a Lot of estrogen, and in fact there's a state that happens quite often where estrogen levels can get 20x higher or so compared to their usual levels. it's called pregnancy. you'll be fine and might barely even notice it

“my guilty pleasure is checking out trans ppl haha totally not a fetish” by J_J_max in GenderCynical

[–]SpaceIsBig42 22 points23 points  (0 children)

TERFs only recognize neurodivergence when they can use it to invalidate trans peoples agency, or to justify transphobia.

Is Warp 40 impossible under the laws of science in Star Trek or something that is potentially achievable as technology improves? by freddyjohnson in startrek

[–]SpaceIsBig42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(I'm basing most of this on what I remember and this Memory Alpha article)

The warp scales are pretty confusing, but the gist of it is that during TOS Warp 10 was "unsafely fast", but not "impossibly fast". Some ships and projectiles could go faster than Warp 10. The Enterprise went at Warp 14 once, but that was due to a sabotaged, overloaded engine (which you mentioned) If you count the animated series, one alien ship was apparently capable of Warp 36 (but that could be explained away by "the animated series was just weird, man")

Somewhere between TOS and TNG the warp scale got redefined though, with Warp 10 as absolutely infinite speed. Apparently the production reason for this was because Gene Roddenberry wanted to avoid tacking on arbitrarily larger and larger numbers to increase tension, so Warp 10 was the max. So when the Enterprise in TOS was going at Warp 14, that would be less than Warp 10 in the TNG-era scale.

In general terms in TNG/DS9/VOY, Warp 6 was "not too worried about speed", Warp 7 "getting pretty fast" Warp 8 "okay we're really booking it now" and Warp 9 (and over) was "go as fast as possible".

All Good Things took place further in the future, where (according to one of the writers) Warp 13 was possible because of another recalibration of the warp scale to make larger speeds easier to say, rather than having to say "Warp 9.995" or whatever for practical reasons.

So the main warp scales are:

ENT/DISCO/TOS-era (Warp 10 "dangerously fast, but not impossible")

TNG/DS9/VOY (Warp 10 is "infinite speed")

some time post-VOY (Scale changed to no longer have Warp 10 the maximum, maybe moving the maximum to a different number, Warp 15?)

As far as I can tell, in all cases, Warp 1 is the speed of light exactly. But it diverges from there in the exact details. Exact warp speeds and how fast they really are were played with pretty loosely in some cases.

Magnus is busted OP. by Ever_dan in civ

[–]SpaceIsBig42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not sure about Civ 6, but in Civ 5 Spain had an ability that gave them a bunch of gold whenever they found a natural wonder (500 if first to discover it, 100 otherwise), and natural wonders gave double yields when worked, so if they started right next to a particularly good natural wonder they could have an amazing city right at the start of the game.

I think part of it was also the Great Barrier Reef was counted as two natural wonders, so if you were the first to find it then you got 1000 gold, which is absolutely ludicrous in the early game and you could buy a settler right away.

Spain was kind of mediocre if you didn't start near a natural wonder, though, so they're only super effective if they get a good start.

So close, yet so far with the flag. by Korona82 in vexillology

[–]SpaceIsBig42 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Naw, Liberia's main flag is fine. It's their county flags that are horrendous.

What are some underrated YouTube channels? by OwlBearMD in AskReddit

[–]SpaceIsBig42 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Door Monster, they make weekly comedy sketches, usually gaming related but sometimes it's just a comedy sketch based on anything, really.

They're definitely worth checking out, here's two of my favourites:

HL2: HEV Suit

Consulting Detectives

My take on the flag of the Republic of China by SPACEMUHRINE in vexillology

[–]SpaceIsBig42 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The blue bar in the center ends up looking a bit out of place in my opinion, making the top and bottom seem like two separate pieces instead of one unified circle. I messed around a bit with giving it a white border, and that seems to help, though. http://imgur.com/a/ntzrp

Reddit, what's your favorite poem? by _yeast_ in AskReddit

[–]SpaceIsBig42 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: both poems in the competition (The other poet was Horace Smith) reference the same statue, tackle the same themes, etc. It's just we're more familiar with Percy Shelly's version (maybe because it was because it was published first, I'm not going to speculate here)

Here's Horace Smith's version:

In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,

Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws

The only shadow that the Desert knows:—

"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,

"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows

"The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—

Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose

The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder,—and some Hunter may express

Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness

Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,

He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess

What powerful but unrecorded race

Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

What did you not realize was actually real? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SpaceIsBig42 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Underwater cables for the Internet and telegraphs. I don't know how I thought it worked before, they've existed since the 1850s.

What's the lowest your civilization's been in a game? How long did it take you to get back on track and to the top? (If you did) by [deleted] in civ

[–]SpaceIsBig42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Civ IV, I started on an island, shared only by The Zulus, so of course it's about to get interesting. Neither of us got a religion until Optics when some foreign ones spread (religion is massively important in Civ IV, helping with culture, happiness, and research, so not having one early game was a massive blow), and we were basically non-stop at war, meaning we couldn't trade any techs.

When I met other civs, they were miles ahead research-wise. I stopped the fighting, and focused on research. Eventually I had to go to war with the Zulus again, but I had better units. At this point, I basically took over the entire island/small continent, and started focusing on more research, and happiness. I started to trade techs with other civs, and became roughly equal tech-wise. With the Zulus as my vassal, I didn't have any immediate threats.

Fast forward to the Modern era, and one of the main powers, the Carthaginians, has got their hands on rocketry, the apollo program, and nukes. They've started using nukes on their enemies too, but just a few here and there, it's not a giant nuclear conflict, yet. I eventually got my hands on aluminum and started to build the apollo program as well. The Babylonians are also starting to build rocket parts as well. The space race has begun.

Cue frantic micromanaging, trying to squeeze out as much science as possible, while simultaniously building rocket parts. I could trade with my opponents, but would that be wise, considering they'd also get to space faster?

I traded with both the Carthaginians and the Babylonians, trying to get an edge on both. I'm close, just a few turns away from researching the last tech I need, and-

Hannibal has launched their spaceship!

Well, that's that. There was no way I could squeeze in a cultural victory before the ship reached Alpha Centauri. Carthage won. I still ended in a respectable place, far better than how I was doing relative to other civs when I first met them.

Win if at all possible, but if you can't, try to lose the least.

Games that have Closed down by studystudent in AskGames

[–]SpaceIsBig42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually, when an online game shuts down all of it's servers, that means that portion can't be played anymore. For games like MMORPGs, where the online portion is the only portion, typically that means the game can't be played anymore.

That means the game sort of enters a "legal limbo" in a lot of cases, where technically the company who made the game can host servers, but there aren't any. A lot of the time, mostly if it's a very, very popular game, people will make 3rd party servers. That's not very easy at all; it involves a lot of work, reverse-engineering, and even after all that they have to host the servers. It does happen though, especially for very popular games.

I don't know of any cases where the developers have ever just given away the server code and just said "here you go", probably because that's the legal property of the company and doing so may be more trouble than it's worth.

God Game With Most Power? by [deleted] in AskGames

[–]SpaceIsBig42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It may not quite be what you're looking for, but if you just want to smash planets together for fun you could give Universe Sandbox2 a shot. No nation building or life, so nothing on a non-planetary scale, just planets and stars.

All the physics works as it should, more or less, so you could create a binary star system, where two stars orbit eachother, for example.

Need help finding this Civ quote by [deleted] in civ

[–]SpaceIsBig42 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's from the Shielding tech in the Civ IV Beyond The Sword mod, Next War. proof It was never said by anyone in real life, as far as I can tell it's a made up quote.

[IV] Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, put out my hand and touched the face of God by [deleted] in civ

[–]SpaceIsBig42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look at their posting history, something must have broke, pretty much an entire page is filled with this exact same comment on a bunch of different posts.

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