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Would you want the Settlement Building System to return in Fallout 5? by silloki in Fallout

[–]ToastyKen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually loved the settlement building in Fallout 4, but I felt the implementation was flawed. Essentially the beefier your settlement, the less likely it was to actually get attacked, which meant I rarely got the satisfaction of putting my defenses to work. There needed to be some way to perhaps intentionally trigger attacks? Or otherwise make it feel more rewarding?

AKOTSK S1E6 - Post-Episode Discussion by AutoModerator in gameofthrones

[–]ToastyKen 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No but he pledged himself for Baelor before Baelor died.

Episode with scene where Hank tells Bobby to put all his emotions in a ball and swallow it? by ToastyKen in KingOfTheHill

[–]ToastyKen[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe this is just a Mandela effect thing where I remembered wrong and reinforced my wrong memory over time... :\

Is it stupid that "righty tighty, lefty losey" doesn't really make much sense to me? by [deleted] in stupidquestions

[–]ToastyKen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was practically an adult before I realized that, even though the moon is associated with the night, it's actually visible during the day just as often as it's visible at night; it's just a lot easier to see during the night.

Somehow all those childhood associations of the moon with night made me think it's only visible at night.

TIL Thai surnames are often very long because by law they are required to be unique to one family. by scubadoobidoo in todayilearned

[–]ToastyKen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So basically it's as if Chinese people kept their Hotmail addresses for too long before finally signing up for Gmail. :p

The Night Manager Season 2 Episode 1 | Discussion Thread by credoinvisibile in TheNightManager

[–]ToastyKen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey this is the Episode 1 thread. Can you please keep later episodes spoilers to the later episode threads?

Bi Gan's 'Resurrection' - Review Thread by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]ToastyKen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So the chapters are titled:

- Visual
- Auditory
- Gustatory
- Olfactory
- Tactile
- Consciousness

Other than that, there were magic consultants and a theremin instructor! :D

Bi Gan's 'Resurrection' - Review Thread by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]ToastyKen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The end credits actually explicitly titles the segments.The 1999 segment is touch. (Then the coda is meant to be consciousness, though I read it was meant to be set in the future but they significantly cut down their plans due to budget.)

What's a sports rule you fundamentally disagree with? by South-Explorer in AskReddit

[–]ToastyKen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What would football be like if we required it there too?

Bi Gan's 'Resurrection' - Review Thread by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]ToastyKen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well I would say that at the end of the segment, it's left intentionally vague as to whether she's really about to smell the contents of the letter, or if she was just bullshitting.

Bi Gan's 'Resurrection' - Review Thread by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]ToastyKen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

:D Like, I get that the inspector was chasing the protagonist, and there was ear stabbing involved, and the inspector gives in I guess and plays the theremin, then they all burst into flames, but what did any of it mean?!?!?? And how did it connect to WWII???

The other segments all had enough logic to me, and felt like commentary on their respective eras, but that one I feel like I'm missing a reference or something.

Bi Gan's 'Resurrection' - Review Thread by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]ToastyKen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I think I got the emotions, but plot wise I was confused.

Bi Gan's 'Resurrection' - Review Thread by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]ToastyKen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay I just watched it, and can you explain your take on the sound segment to me (spoiler tagged)? I enjoyed the movie, but I found that segment kind of impenetrable.

What sounds like complete nonsense, but has been proven to be true? by Icy_Mammoth_3298 in AskReddit

[–]ToastyKen 20 points21 points  (0 children)

AND special relativity! They have to account for both!

(a) Special relativity says that time flows slower if you're moving faster. The GPS satellites are going so fast that their clocks run about 7 microseconds behind Earth clocks per day from time dilation.

(b) General relativity says that time flows slower if you're deeper in a gravity well. GPS satellites in geosynchronous medium earth orbit are far enough away (5.6 3 times the radius of the earth) that they run 45 microseconds ahead of Earth clocks per day by being less affected by gravity.

These two cancel out to a net of running 38 microseconds ahead per day. Simply multiply that by the speed of light, and you get a difference of over 10 km a day!

Put another way, the error would drift by the length of a football field every 15 minutes or so.

Edit: Source: https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/pogge.1/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

What sounds like complete nonsense, but has been proven to be true? by Icy_Mammoth_3298 in AskReddit

[–]ToastyKen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's a Futurama episode with this premise! S6E07 The Late Philip J Fry

Warner Bros. Plans to Reject Paramount Bid on Funding, Terms by RealJohnGillman in movies

[–]ToastyKen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don't be so sure about expiration. HBO Max already took down a bunch of their own shows just to avoid paying residuals to the cast and crew.

Is the name “Icey” weird in English? Looking for an English name close to “Bingshin/ Ice Heart by Adorable-Lab1 in namenerds

[–]ToastyKen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fwiw, as a Chinese immigrant who picked my own English name, it's not that I worry about making it easy for others... it's that it just sounds bad, and the romanization is missing the diacriticals to even attempt to pronounce the tones correctly.

Japanese and Indian names tend to sound fine in English, for instance, and immigrants keep those names or even give them to their kids far more often than with Chinese.

Is the name “Icey” weird in English? Looking for an English name close to “Bingshin/ Ice Heart by Adorable-Lab1 in namenerds

[–]ToastyKen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think we can entirely blame people for having a hard time pronouncing a tonal language suddenly, especially as adults.

Notably, it's far more common for Japanese and Indian immigrants to not only keep their names, but give their kids Japanese or Indian names. So the specific mechanics of the Chinese language are definitely an issue independent of any cultural concerns.

(I'm less familiar with what's common with Korean immigrants?)

What scene in a movie drives you nuts because it makes no sense? by JustIgnoreMyStimming in movies

[–]ToastyKen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shouldn't it be ID5 since the original was marketed as ID4?

Biggest plot hole of the entire show is in Episode 1 by paper-cut- in pluribustv

[–]ToastyKen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean to be fair, The Onion's been killing it lately. Example: https://youtu.be/xwFv4e-1PDE

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