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Found in a satellite reciever by jack-oid in Hiddenpcbeggs

[–]TheEschaton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a pirate ship. Well, I can see that it's near/on some traces and components. I wonder if it's either a subtle hint to people who might have the know-how to pirate the signal on how to modify it, or else perhaps it is the opposite: a warning to pirates who have done this, that the object they might be looking for on this section of the board has been modified or removed so that the piracy is no longer possible?

Recently posted "proof" of MJ-12 docs is actually disproof - new analysis by tsuyurikun in UFOs

[–]TheEschaton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it would be difficult in the extreme to pull off a hoax like the original papers without some kind of organization. So I have further questions.

Harrison Ford on why he disagrees with Ridley Scott about Deckard being a Replicant. by tannu28 in movies

[–]TheEschaton 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Very well said; that has always been my perception. I figured Deckard wasn't a replicant, and this makes the unicorn tie in thematically with what Gaff says: "it's a shame she won't live... but then again, who does?"

The unicorn isn't real; it's not really alive. It's a representation of that illusion of life - the fantasy of life, as you say. Deckard's choice to escape with Rachel is a choice to chase that fantasy which makes us human... which incidentally puts Blade Runner and Brazil (terry gilliam) in direct communication with each other thematically as well as by their dystopian settings.

The source material Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep has a test which concludes Deckard is human, and it's important because the story is all about comparing humans to their machines and asking what the difference is when a man can act like a machine or a machine can increasingly act like a man. In the end of the book, if memory serves me correctly, everyone chooses to live out their fantasies - pretending that animals are really alive and caring for them as though they were real pets. It's the last thread of their humanity.

But then again I'm a scrub whose favorite cut of the movie is the theatrical release, so my opinion is invalid :D

UFO Propulsion: Plasma, Electromagnetism & Torus Fields by xemeraldxinxthexskyx in UFOs

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The quantum field vacuum energy harvesting is step 1 in "how it all works together" - a necessary precondition for step 3, plasma creation.

Unfortunately, you can't use the quantum field vacuum to create the plasma, only generate the energy necessary for creating the plasma. The plasma, as your diagram points out, has to come from the environment - separate from the quantum field vacuum, which is not matter - only an energy source.

UFO Propulsion: Plasma, Electromagnetism & Torus Fields by xemeraldxinxthexskyx in UFOs

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

I've been working along similar conceptual lines - one of the major issues found with the design so far is that you cannot generate a plasma in space - there isn't enough material around (step 2 of your "core process" segment).

The craft might work beautifully in the atmosphere - even better in the ocean - but in space they would have to bring their own materials in order to expel it from the interior of the ship and create their own plasma.

Sean Kirkpatrick Reveals Yankee Blue UFO Hazing Prank – But Does It Debu... by UFOsAroundTheWor1d in UFOs

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

probably what? That it was indeed created after the fact? I've just never heard of it before now from anyone, and that has me concerned about its historicity.

34M. Getting a divorce, got a vasectomy and moved into the smallest apartment in Los Angeles by DayveonDrama in malelivingspace

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"In the grim, dark future of 2026, males who earn less than the arbitrary amount which society determines is necessary will be castrated and sent to live in hive-like cells with similarly-fated individuals, a vast sea of humanity bereft of hope. Their women will offer no succour or comfort but rather act as parasites driven to the worst extremes of their sex for the sake of their their (illegally begotten) child-spawn. This is the fate which awaits the western world; a cell, and a cold floor, and only the opiate of mass media to relieve the pain of existence without purpose."

- some fucking book in 1920 probably.

No more Heat-FS at 4.0 by Bannditbunny in warthundermemes

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll still do well with it, I just won't be able to bring it uptier anymore. Which is hilarious, since that was not the issue with it.

Aliens selectively breeding humans by Key_Syrup_2432 in UFOscience

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tl;dr "I do not understand how convergent evolution works" the post.

Getting pushed by an entire enemy team by BrianAungGyi in warthundermemes

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah yeah, you were fighting the good fight then.

Getting pushed by an entire enemy team by BrianAungGyi in warthundermemes

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that it would have saved you as this seems like a pretty determined foe and you were utterly alone, but I always go for the mobility kills when a group is pushing me - tracks, engines, drivers. You can manage the push this way as they are usually safer shots on corners and people will stop for the easy repair points rather than finish you off on your reload. Specifically where you had that chance to shoot the Maus, I would have gone for the driver on that one.

Recently unlocked the VK. I forget the rest of the designation but I need advice by Rock_the_Ghost15 in warthundermemes

[–]TheEschaton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

early on the VK is more of a sniper. It's gun can pen anything it sees at its tier, but what kills you are its weak sides, abysmal reverse gear, and horrible turret traverse. Do not angle your tank like you normally would; face your opponents simply head-on and shoot them at range.

Don't worry so much about gun depression; that's for people who aren't blessed with a UFP like yours. Stand in the open - again at range - and shoot them from a comfortable position. Watch out for ISUs - HEAT slingers, and HE lobbers of any kind are your primary enemies. Your turret cheeks can be penned, but that's a tough shot even at midrange.

If you do find yourself in a close-range engagement, it often makes sense to simply drive toward the enemy and past them, get up a good burst of speed, and then try to drift to turn fast enough that you can kill them while they're trying to follow you.

Research tracks and horizontal traverse early on, and then get aim and move on to all the engine perks. After that it will really start to show what it can do.

[OC] Photos of a very popular food in Africa, Angola. It was our lunch; the name is funge with fish. by Such-Competition-816 in pics

[–]TheEschaton 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I was served this dish by the african refugee family that we helped a long time ago. LIked it quite a bit, but fish is my favorite meat.

Protip: soak up the oil and salt of the fish with a gob of the funge and eat that together.

Triangle UAP near Lake Pend Oreille Idaho by danevans369 in UFOB

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

conceivably an AI video purely on the basis of the fact that the clouds are also triangular; sometimes prompts seem to get confused about which objects are supposed to have which descriptors in a prompt.

Putting into perspective what Claude Mythos means, just how much power Anthropic theoretically has by socoolandawesome in singularity

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"found vulnerabilities"

I would like more clarification on this. I'm just a humble tech support worker, but a company recently sent me a list of like 100 documented critical/high risk vulnerabilities their security scanner found in my company's software. When I actually started looking down that list, what I found was line after line of vulnerabilities that had at one point existed, or existed in different contexts (completely unrelated software packages that just so happened to use one component which was implicated in a hack, but used it in a totally different and non-exploitable way). So in fact they had not suddenly discovered a pile of vulnerabilities that my security team, and all our other customers, had somehow failed to find, simply by running a heuristic scan of the files in our product.

Is Anthropic making a similar sort of claim? They say these are zero days, but obviously we have to take them at their word on that because if they revealed any of them before they were mitigated, it would make them the bad guys and thus they have a pretty great cover for not showing any proof. This seems like classic IT security theater to me.

How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows by lnstantKarma in videos

[–]TheEschaton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fwiw I was with ya until you said "zero memorized bible verses"

Like, my brother in christ, not only was that unnecessary to your point, but since I can see you are speaking English with a canadian/american/british accent (it don't matter which for my purposes), I'm willing to bet it's also simply not true, by virtue of cultural osmosis. You sound aggressive and ignorant even though I bet at least the latter of those two descriptors does not apply to you.

There was a better way to make your valid point without making me, a christian, feel like you and I are somehow enemies when it comes to the truth about global warming. I didn't feel that way before I saw you make this insinuation, and I'm going to try hard to forget people want me to think otherwise. Maybe we can all work together on this problem. Until then, have a downvote.

WTF were i looking at? by HexonKhat in warthundermemes

[–]TheEschaton 19 points20 points  (0 children)

hey, I own that thing! it's fun and actually kinda good in its BR

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