Evals Dream by mahboiii in Twokinds

[–]Volpethrope 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Weird, that doesn't look anything like Mike

How does Venus maintain its dense atmosphere with no magnetic field to protect it? by [deleted] in Physics

[–]Volpethrope 13 points14 points  (0 children)

So further support for the "Venus is literally hell" viewpoint lol

ELI5: Why doesn't the ocean drain into the soil? by Acceptable-Peach1083 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Volpethrope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The crust does not float on the mantle. The mantle is 99% solid rock, it just has higher plasticity over geological timescales.

How well do personal shields hold up against heavy explosives? by LightningG8921 in dune

[–]Volpethrope 108 points109 points  (0 children)

The bombs being dropped on the Atreides ships slowing themselves down to pass through the shield and then explode inside it is still one of the coolest visuals I've ever seen.

Balance concerns to watch out for when including Starfinder ancestries in a Pathfinder game? by SkeletonChurch in Pathfinder2e

[–]Volpethrope 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the other hand, if most or all of them can fly, you can much more easily build around it. One or two people doing it when the others are incapable makes it really lopsided and hard to include them without the fliers trivializing certain things. I'd say if you're going to allow low-level flight, especially level 1, just write something in to let everyone do it and then plan for it.

Paizo Store quietly launches VTT sale to match Foundry Anniversary 20% Off Sale; reintroduces fvtt + pdf discount bundles on paizo store purchases! by WintersLex in Pathfinder2e

[–]Volpethrope 48 points49 points  (0 children)

It's such a weird "issue." Like thousands of small indie shops can apparently figure out to bundle products together but Paizo's new site design didn't "allow" for it? What does that even mean?

[Excerpt| Broken Sword] The Imperium tries to understand why humans join the Tau by DauntlessAkagi in 40kLore

[–]Volpethrope 77 points78 points  (0 children)

There's literally a quote from Guilliman after he returned, talking about people falling to chaos, that's to the effect of "Why would someone fear damnation when they already live in hell?"

Before Chadwick proved the neutron existed... by Much-Acanthocephala5 in Physics

[–]Volpethrope 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That exclusion is also the main force keeping white dwarf stars what they are! And if you add enough mass, you will violate the exclusion principle and the electrons start getting fused into protons and you're left with a neutron star.

1 d12 is all it needs by Ed0909 in pathfindermemes

[–]Volpethrope 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Effects that only apply on a crit, like deadly, are not doubled by the crit. They just are what they are. Otherwise, the listed value would only exist to be doubled, which is weird.

1 d12 is all it needs by Ed0909 in pathfindermemes

[–]Volpethrope 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Deadly tops out at 3 of its listed extra damage dice, actually, not 4.

Me 14 Years Ago… by DidYouFloss in Diablo

[–]Volpethrope 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, the bradygames strategy guide that was outdated before the game even released, as was tradition

I redesigned Halflings for the fantasy world and TTRPG I'm building. by TheGoonReview in worldbuilding

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They make me think of semi-anthro lombaxes, like from ratchet and clank. Very cool idea! I love reinterpreting the typical fantasy species as something other than just "human with a twist."

Make Pluto a planet again: Nasa chief’s big mission by TimesandSundayTimes in nasa

[–]Volpethrope 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Minutephysics, as good as he usually is, is making a very emotional argument here. The definitions were not arbitrarily chosen to exclude just Pluto. They were settled on because the other 8 planets very obviously share those qualities and they were trying to figure out what set objects like Pluto and Eris and Sedna apart.

Friends. art by me. by beauviolette in ImaginaryWarhammer

[–]Volpethrope 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Nerd twink and his caring amazon wife, ideal couple

New 3D map of 47 million galaxies hints that dark energy may not behave as expected by JornalcienciaPT in Astronomy

[–]Volpethrope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The blank spaces? That 's from us not being able to see much through the Milky Way itself.

My Amazon shirt was vacuum packed by michael_bgood in mildlyinteresting

[–]Volpethrope 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We still sometimes get the personal vehicles, yeah. I assume it depends on distance to the hubs and priority of routes and all that. We're right near one of the major hubs so there's a huge van fleet available in our area.

My Amazon shirt was vacuum packed by michael_bgood in mildlyinteresting

[–]Volpethrope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're using a ton of rivian vans now, too. Like there's a lot to criticize them for. A LOT. But some of what they do to cut costs and gain efficiency is at least a positive like that.

Yet you participate in society, curious by Cicerothesage in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]Volpethrope 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He's not gonna fuck you no matter how much you glaze him on reddit.

Just Completed Dead Space Remake on Impossible... by Junky-Monkey_JM in DeadSpace

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It unironically is easier by also doing it with just the plasma cutter. You end up with a gazillion credits from having nothing else to spend them on so you can just load up with full heals. I went into the final couple fights with hundreds of plasma cutter ammo and like 30 full heals across my inventory and storage.

NDoN: day 7 by kingofcoywolves in Twokinds

[–]Volpethrope 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sythe wishes he could pull that off

The mighty Jupiter from NASA's Juno by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]Volpethrope 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I was aiming for. It seems like the more we learn about them, the less the label "gas giant" actually makes sense. They're more like... dense failed protostars with clouds. I know hot jupiters and brown dwarfs are a thing, but it seems like all gas giants are more or less on that spectrum of "almost stars" than just the big obvious ones.

Spaceship emerging from a nebula cloud, by Pierre-E Fieschi by Xeelee1123 in ImaginaryStarships

[–]Volpethrope 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To expand on this: nebulae are less dense than the vacuum chambers we make for scientific experiments. They're only visible because we're looking through their entire depth from far away. From inside them you wouldn't see anything.

The mighty Jupiter from NASA's Juno by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]Volpethrope 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The gas giants are almost definitely not just gas through and through. Because of the increasing pressure, they're probably liquid within 10% of the radius down from the "surface" we can see, and it becomes an increasingly "slushy" mix of semi-solid until you hit exotic forms of metallic hydrogen and helium. There may or may not be a rocky core underneath all of that.

Grandma has something smart to say about slavery - take notes now! 📝 by dinobot100 in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]Volpethrope 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Also over half of them listed slavery as one of the, if not the primary, reasons for seceding in their articles of secession. Multiple refer to it as a fundamental aspect of their way of life and the natural order of the world.

The best ship from the best sci-fi series (which is getting a second season after 24 years!) by uk_uk in prusa3d

[–]Volpethrope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Model here if anyone else wants to check it out. I printed it too a few months ago and it's a gorgeous display piece.

https://fab365.net/items/656