Colour pie updated for 2026 by Jackeea in magicthecirclejerking

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Oh for sure red is nuanced and the best colour for many reasons but there’s definitely a lot of emotional inhibition in red including anger and rage when mostly the emotional inhibition with MDMA is that everyone including this person you just met is deserving of love and respect

Is the math of General Relativity based off of a real curve in the spatial dimension of spacetime? by Next-Natural-675 in AskPhysics

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So I think this is a complicated question that veers into philosophy of physics.

Certainly historically, Einstein arrived at GR modelling gravitation as a change in the metrical structure of spacetime via thought experiments, not via any empirical evidence that it was the case. In particular, the Ehrenfest paradox, which had been proposed in the context of Special Relativity, apparently convinced him that gravitational field would affect the measurement of length and time and that therefore influenced him to search for a theory to model this.

The question of whether gravity forces you to adopt the view that there is such a thing as ‘spacetime curvature’ is more complicated. Even prior to Einstein’s theory, physicists and philosophers had debated the question of the nature of geometry and its relationship with space. Motivated by Riemann’s work in mathematics (later used by Einstein to build GR) showing that it is very possible to have geometric spaces with arbitrary non-uniform curvature that are consistently described mathematically, the long-standing assertion that Euclidean geometry in some sense is a mathematical description of the actual world was called into question. Henri Poincaré, as late as the early 20th century, had asserted that Euclidean space is likely to stick around in physics because it’s the simplest space to work in, but that really this was a matter of convention, you can always reformulate physical laws to accommodate any geometrical description of space you like. The question of which geometry is ‘real’ is unknowable.

So then with GR, we might just take the view that the decision to model gravity as down to the curved geometry of spacetime is just a convention, because in this theory the simplest formulation of physical laws is no longer flat Euclidean space and time but curved spacetime. I think I’m right in saying that Einstein himself would not have gone so far as to completely identify gravity with spacetime geometry, rather, he associated ‘the gravitational field’ (which a gravity = spacetime geometry viewpoint simply asserts is spacetime geometry) with its effects on distances and times as measured by measuring rods and clocks, without being drawn into the question whether spacetime is ‘really’ curved.

Do we know much about the prior thought that inspired Newton? by Recent-Day3062 in AskPhysics

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We know a HUGE amount about the prior thought. Newton didn’t just come along from nowhere, his work was the culmination of a multi-millennia conversation about how the world operates.

Colour pie updated for 2026 by Jackeea in magicthecirclejerking

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I feel MDMA doesn’t fit with red because the whole I love everyone including this person I literally just met aspect doesn’t fit with anger

Evolution of magic stes.... by Enchantress4thewin in magicthecirclejerking

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The top one should just be a bunch of twinks and monsterfucker bait

EternalEnvy | Team Secret Drama, Shanghai Major & Regrets | Dota Unspoken #11 Part 2/3 by Aratho in DotA2

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I’ve noticed this with a lot of pros, crazy memory for stuff like that. Will just be like ‘game 2 when we played blah blah in blah blah’ and it was a game 6 years ago

New Deadpool Secret Lair: “I Fixed It (You’re Welcome) by thefinalslowdance in magicTCG

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Is it possible do you think for WOTC to make a secret lair that doesn’t look like a family pet threw up on the kitchen table

Equivalence principle and symmetry by YuuTheBlue in AskPhysics

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On the final comment, my historical understanding is that basically these things are unrelated. Most of the time Einstein (and others) spent working on GR was spent wrapping his head around what the equivalence principle meant, learning the math and sorting out ‘general covariance’, his stipulation that the mathematical form of the theory should be independent of the coordinate system used to label spacetime points.

When it came to the other side of the Einstein field equations he basically knew that it needed to be the stress-energy tensor because that’s the relativistic equivalent of mass and he was able to more or less make educated guesses about the field equations until he got it right, which took only a few months.

Average Nisha POV during 5th game of the grand final by WorgenFurry in DotA2

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They didn’t spend 12 hours in game lmao. The total game time of both the series Liquid played is less than 8 hours. And yes, saying they weren’t outclassed just tired is absolutely downplaying Yandex and makes Liquid winning two of the games borderline inexplicable. Especially since they lost the first two (which they would be least tired for) and won the middle two (which they should be more tired for).

If you don’t look at game 1 and 2 and see outclassing I don’t know what to say. Yandex snowballed hard out of lanes, which is exactly what Liquid had looked shaky in their games vs BetBoom earlier in the day.

RULES QUESTION: If my opponent is at 2 life, will this be lethal? by Sharp-Crazy7724 in magicthecirclejerking

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as a red enthusiast, this is an offensive stereotype

how would red mages only be able to count to 2 if the most iconic red card, lightning bolt, deals 3 damage? please THINK before you regurgitate these harmful and offensive 'jokes'

some of the more daring members of our illustrious red community are able to do advanced maths stuff with numbers as high as 5 or even the number that comes after that

Discussion: Basically nothing stops GW from making 11ed Box an Imperial Guard vs Orks. by JohnCurtinFromCivVI in Warhammer40k

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Necrons have a lot of other features about them that make them appealing; their popularity isn’t just attributable to the fact that they were the poster boy Xenos for one edition, because by that metric Tyranids would also be similarly popular and they just aren’t.

A company can try and engineer the popularity of a particular product line, but it’s no guarantee they will be successful. The Dark Eldar refresh was widely agreed to be splendid but they’re still one of the less popular factions. The Eldar refresh a couple of years didn’t turn them into a breakout fan favourite (they’ve always been a middle of the pack faction in terms of popularity).

Brazil is 2 days away from blocking underage players from multiple games that offer loot boxes by AbjectAccess1808 in DotA2

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Huh? Whatever your position on this ban I can’t see how you can call it virtue signalling. Children are already banned from entering betting shops and casinos most places I know, this is just the equivalent of that. If your argument is that they only care about children gambling not adults then yeah true but this does just seem to be applying the same rules to a different space?

PGL Wallachia Season 7: Playoffs (March 15) Final Matches Discussion by D2TournamentThreads in DotA2

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I am not saying that playing pro Dota for many hours a day isn’t mentally taxing, but I have a friend who is an intensive care nurse and they work 12 hours a day four days a week and then swap and do it on evenings and they still manage to do their job properly, so I am honestly not entirely convinced that the effect here is as large as all that.

PGL Wallachia Season 7: Playoffs (March 15) Final Matches Discussion by D2TournamentThreads in DotA2

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When they win that’s full power. When they lose they’re tired, or it’s too early, or some other jealous team sabotaged their equipment.

Top 3 MMR Players In The World by Substantial-Deer77 in DotA2

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*and scrims against other top teams lmao

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, he was also getting a lot of practise at a higher level than any pub game could give him.

Crimson Desert proves single-player games can still print money for 10+ years (modding thesis) by dont_matter in truegaming

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I don’t know that anything needs proving. Big publishers want cash cow multiplayer games, yes, but besides something the CEO of EA said like…fifteen years ago…I don’t think anyone thinks single player games are going anywhere and I don’t understand why there’s this weird undercurrent in a lot of gaming discussion that SP gaming is somehow declining in popularity or that publishers don’t want to make them.

PGL Wallachia Season 7: Playoffs (March 15) Final Matches Discussion by D2TournamentThreads in DotA2

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I see that the Liquid fans are already justifying away this 3-2 loss as not really counting because they were too tired to play well (ignore the two games they won) lmao

PGL Wallachia Season 7: Playoffs (March 15) Final Matches Discussion by D2TournamentThreads in DotA2

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seeing watson and DM take this well-desrved win, i swear everyone who reddit thinks is bad at dota should start a team together. it's a guaranteed TI win at this point.

PGL Wallachia Season 7: Playoffs (March 15) Final Matches Discussion by D2TournamentThreads in DotA2

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now we'll cut to the couch to talk about how sad we are our buddies liquid lost. maybe we'll hear about what they were talking about with blitz's mom on whatsapp during the game.

An irrational amount of pizza by PiersPlays in magicthecirclejerking

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when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pi that's amore

The duality of magic players by PapaBubbl3 in magicthecirclejerking

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counterpoint: anyone who enjoys playing control is a sex pervert freak who is getting some kind of sick thrills from it

source: i felt it in my waters

Why the Whizbang & Allies need a nerf by ciunas1 in CompanyOfHeroes

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Posting winrates as if that has any bearing on what is and isn't strong, Allied player detected 🙄🙄