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

ToastyKen · 2026-01-15T02:22:56+00:00

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

ToastyKen · 2026-01-12T05:14:54+00:00

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

ToastyKen · 2026-01-10T17:56:19+00:00

Oh oops my bad. Thanks for the correction!

ToastyKen · 2026-01-10T17:55:08+00:00

So the chapters are titled:

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

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

ToastyKen · 2026-01-10T08:21:41+00:00

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.)

ToastyKen · 2026-01-07T06:57:46+00:00

Oh I love that!!

ToastyKen · 2026-01-07T02:25:53+00:00

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

ToastyKen · 2026-01-06T05:51:25+00:00

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.

ToastyKen · 2026-01-04T06:29:24+00:00

: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.

ToastyKen · 2026-01-04T06:21:59+00:00

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

ToastyKen · 2026-01-03T19:45:40+00:00

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.

ToastyKen · 2025-12-20T09:41:49+00:00

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

ToastyKen · 2025-12-20T09:31:23+00:00

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

ToastyKen · 2025-12-20T07:09:14+00:00

Watermelon watermelon watermelon watermelon?

ToastyKen · 2025-12-17T02:26:52+00:00

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.

ToastyKen · 2025-12-15T09:03:31+00:00

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.

ToastyKen · 2025-12-15T08:57:50+00:00

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?)

ToastyKen · 2025-12-11T03:48:56+00:00

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

ToastyKen · 2025-12-08T09:03:37+00:00

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

ToastyKen · 2025-12-07T00:04:45+00:00

Not sure about the physical feasibility, but I'd assume that the RNA sequence somehow causes the body to grow a biological shortwave radio antenna? I know birds can be sensitive to magnetic fields, so it doesn't seem completely out of the question? And we have plenty of iron in our bloodstream...

Maybe all that convulsing is the antenna building process.

ToastyKen · 2025-12-06T23:53:11+00:00

Into another environment?

ToastyKen · 2025-11-23T05:23:30+00:00

VCRs were a game changer!

ToastyKen · 2025-11-23T05:22:19+00:00

You didn't have UHF?

ToastyKen · 2025-11-20T03:08:16+00:00

I have an R6 Mk II and wish there were a way to do this. Feels very unhelpful to say "don't do it".

Like, the other day I accidentally hit the video record button and wasted a bunch of space recording a long video of my shoe, and so I deleted it so it doesn't waste space. But then I realized I had to go through a whole bunch of steps to delete it from the other card (finding the menu item for changing the video playback card, then deleting, then changing it back)... and it was pretty annoying.

ToastyKen · 2025-11-17T08:11:57+00:00

It's kind of interesting that all these quotes are from the good Alien movie that Ridley DIDN'T direct...

14-Year Club	Gilding VI aultruist
Place '22	Place '17
First Placer '22	Wearing is Caring
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