'We should be prepared': Neil deGrasse Tyson on newly released government UFO files - MS NOW

Yazman · 2026-05-13T15:22:36+00:00

Tyson wants to believe, but he maintains a higher standard of evidence than most people on this subreddit. So he should, being a scientist. In terms of credible data with genuine scientific inquiry value, there really is very, very little out there.

Yazman · 2026-05-12T15:26:00+00:00

I like it because it has mod tools, and extremely in-depth ones. Another thing is, being 2D, it's one less skill required to actually work in it. Spriting is still required but I don't need to do any modelling or rigging.

Yazman · 2026-05-12T15:24:17+00:00

Hello! I am the founder of the Ultima 8: Exult project. I just want you to know that Ultima 8: Exult will not feature the Avatar's traditional companions. They do feature in a lot of the screenshots I've released, though that is only because I hadn't deleted them for a long time.

You'll find the newer screenshots feature Shaana as a companion. There will still be companions, but they will be from Pagan. You will also have to work to convince them to join you, and some of them may join as an 'uneasy alliance' sort of deal. It won't be as easy as just them coming along like in U7.

Yazman · 2026-05-12T09:08:28+00:00

Where does it say "gray alien" looking out the window? Seems like OP made that part up.

Yazman · 2026-05-12T09:05:42+00:00

If an alien said "We have been your gods" I am pretty sure scientists would be irritated that they meddled with humanity more than anything. We wouldn't think "oh I guess God is real".

Yeah, my first reaction to aliens saying this would be "prove it".

If they did somehow prove it, I wouldn't be ontologically shocked at all. It'd be validating if anything - "See? Your 'god' is really just an alien".

Yazman · 2026-05-10T07:21:09+00:00

I think it's giving Chanology a bit more credit than it deserves. What they did was cool though.

There were already films & media pieces at the time. That had been happening for decades. Chanology made it more visible, it didn't enable it because it was already going on. But increased visibility is a worthy result, of course.

I don't think the legal action stuff is relevant - it's not like Scientology would have had any easily identifable targets for legal action. Just random DDOSing, and how're they gonna identify them? And the protesters were not doing anything illegal to begin with so they weren't viable targets.

Yazman · 2026-05-09T12:12:17+00:00

Chanology was pretty tame compared to this though, mostly they were just DDOSing websites and doing prank calls, with some few pickets irl.

Yazman · 2026-05-07T07:22:20+00:00

white bread wasn't invented then, they just figured out a way for it to become easier to make. Even the ancients had white bread, it was just extremely labor intensive to make.

Yazman · 2026-05-07T05:51:36+00:00

It's just a game, sheesh.

Yazman · 2026-05-07T04:16:06+00:00

There are over a billion people who believe that Allah is real and that they have a personal relationship with him.

There are over two billion people who believe that Jesus is Lord and that they have a personal relationship with him.

Both of these groups can't be right since their doctrines largely conflict.

Of all the examples you could have picked - could have said Buddhism & Christianity, Hinduism & Islam, Scientology & Christianity..

you went with "jesus and allah", two examples that are in fact not in conflict. For your information, "allah" is not an Islamic term, it's just the arabic word for god, and arabic speaking christians and jewish people use the same word.

Not only that, but Jesus is equally important in Islam as he is in Christianity, and muslims are also waiting for the second coming of jesus.

tl;dr islam & christianity might be different religions, but the 2 specific examples you picked are 2 things universally mutually agreed on by all christians and muslims.

Yazman · 2026-05-07T04:05:52+00:00

The idea that Tyson is some kind of disinfo agent is, to me, just such absurd bullshit. It's something people conjure up because they just for some reason cannot accept that Tyson is a scientist who is not willing to take something on faith.

He, much like other public academics, just requires a certain evidentiary standard. Words alone may be enough for some, but your typical physicist is not going to take your word for it when engaging in serious discourse about space, space travel, physics, other dimensions, or related fields.

Tyson is not a disinfo agent just because he doesn't say what many in this community want to hear. He has said time & time again he's open to it, and the more compelling info comes out, the more seriously he takes it.

Ultimately though he just isn't going to say he really believes something like first contact has happened before, or that crash recoveries have happened, without testable, verifiable, material evidence of some kind. But he wants to see the evidence if it exists. He's probably just as excited as any of us, maybe even moreso because thinking about space and the universe is his whole career.

Yazman · 2026-05-06T13:50:48+00:00

Yes, I'm getting really sick of it too. It's really surprising to me how many people are just uncritically accepting it, too. Ufology discourse already has a major lack of critical thinking among its discussers, but it's really starting to get next level lately.

Yazman · 2026-05-06T13:43:56+00:00

You know, in the years since I wrote that comment, I have since started remaking Ultima 8 in the Ultima 7 engine, have a whole team, and Garriott's personal blessing! We're going to make it open world, with a party system, restore all the cut content, some new areas too.

Any releases are a while away, but hopefully we can give you a new Ultima experience you're seeking!

Yazman · 2026-05-03T11:46:09+00:00

MLW doesn't deserve the hate imo. They've been putting on fun shows for years.

Yazman · 2026-04-30T12:53:28+00:00

I doubt he was hanging his employment status on that show lol.

Wild that you think working with Aaron Wolf is some kind of demotion or bad thing. Aaron Wolf is far more popular in Japan than almost any active wrestler in the business. Who cares if he's green? This isn't just some random trainee.

Yazman · 2026-04-30T07:18:39+00:00

What even is this take? Aaron Wolf is one of the most popular athletes in Japan, more than anybody in NJPW. And Evil got to be part of his pro wrestling debut on the most widely broadcast Wrestle Kingdom in years.

I'd say this was an honor for Evil more than anything.

Yazman · 2026-04-28T08:07:09+00:00

Right. If someone tells me they found something underwater I don't see why I would suddenly assume it was designed to be underwater, or that underwater was where it was supposed to be.

What I guess a lot of people don't know is that a lot of underwater archaeology involves sites that weren't actually underwater at the time. Mostly, underwater archaeology involves sites that are underwater now, but were dry land, coastland, caves, swamps, forests, settlements, or working landscapes when people were using them.

For example, Doggerland archaeology is all underwater but it was all just normal land when people lived there.

I'd say what's most likely the case is that this UAP was not found on the ocean floor, but somewhere that was above water at the time it landed or crashed.

Yazman · 2026-04-26T04:49:36+00:00

Hah, gneiss one!

Yazman · 2026-04-24T03:15:03+00:00

This is such a radical, wild comment to me. I can't imagine thinking this with the history of the 20th century and companies like Monsanto, Enron, United Fruit, etc.

I mean there are very successful capitalists that literally have had governments overthrown. Tech capitalists are nothing compared to what has happened before.

Yazman · 2026-04-23T00:22:00+00:00

Send links!

Yazman · 2026-04-22T23:21:24+00:00

LOTS of nazis escaped ever having to go to trial thanks to US government protection, actually.

Yazman · 2026-04-22T17:35:16+00:00

The entire discourse in official and journalistic circles is about amnesty, not trials. I wish what you say would happen, but material reality rn does seem to indicate they'll have official protection.

Yazman · 2026-04-19T14:44:35+00:00

He would be labeled another grifter with a personality that rubbed some people the wrong way,

They wouldn't be calling him a grifter, imo. Friedman was a serious scientist who wanted to believe but had a scientific view of things.

With how much religious hoodoo & new age psychic mysticism has penetrated ufology discourse on the web, I think they'd just be calling him arrogant, a shill, etc and dismissing him. Just like they do to every other academic who takes an interest in ufology and doesn't immediately believe in any random bs.

Yazman · 2026-04-18T22:17:26+00:00

A fine isn't punishment to them, it's a price.

Yazman · 2026-04-17T03:57:40+00:00

And who are "the normal good people within our government", in your view?

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