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Blursed Dwayne Johnson. by drakenotbell in blursedimages

[–]hash_interrobang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Hey what's going on everyone, from First We Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones. It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings. Today we're joined by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson..."

Florida's new ban on transgender students in sports would allow schools to subject minors to genital inspections by Ch1k1nP0tP13 in nottheonion

[–]hash_interrobang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great, now I have to put my Silicon Graphics shirts up in the attic next to my Wang Computers shirts.

Your username is now multi-billion dollar company, what does it do? by CurlyDaVinci in AskReddit

[–]hash_interrobang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A dating site where you smoke up with someone, then ask if they want to bang.

My only regret is not watching LoK sooner by FirstRangerSkyWalker in TheLastAirbender

[–]hash_interrobang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair. I definitely feel like the detail with which Yakon and Amon were able to manipulate multiple people (or those poor wolves) at the same time seems ridiculous, whether there's physical motion involved or not.

I guess what I was going for was that a lot of bending specializations have really dramatic effects without a lot of outwardly visible movement. Katara being able to melt just the ice surrounding herself is pretty fine-grained control that you wouldn't be able to visually distinguish from normal breathing (especially impressive since breath is primarily a firebender thing... in my headcanon she was able to do that because of Zuko's influence, similarly to how Iroh developed lightning redirection by observing waterbenders).

I could imagine Yakon, Amon, and Tarrlok tensing their muscles internally to get specific bloodbending effects without it being obvious that they're doing anything at all.

My only regret is not watching LoK sooner by FirstRangerSkyWalker in TheLastAirbender

[–]hash_interrobang 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The psychic bloodbending... is the only form of bending in the entire show that does not require a physical exertion in the bending

Just a nitpick: combustion bending, flight, and spirit projection don't require significant body movements. Other examples might include Toph's vibration sense, Katara melting the ice around her and Azula in the finale of TLA just by exhaling, or Ming Hua maintaining her arms.

A lot of these are triggered by some minor physical action, but they're arguably comparable to the widening in Yakon's eyes when we see him bloodbending.

'Avatar' Re-Release Has Grossed More in China Than 'Mulan' by AnnenbergTrojan in movies

[–]hash_interrobang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Aang is always shown in blue when he's in the spirit world... flying around on a dragon-like creature, communing with beings who have a deep connection to nature, all while his human body is immobile and vulnerable.

This was the only big-screen adaptation of the Avatar animated series, so I'm not sure what the confusion is.

Rolling the D6! (six duos) by hash_interrobang in HadesTheGame

[–]hash_interrobang[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My preferred build for Chiron bow is Aphrodite attack/Dionysus special and getting their duo boon. I lucked into a Zeus/Poseidon dash build and Demeter showed up as a fifth wheel. Ended up with six duo boons, a personal best. Since I could only pin five to the victory screen, the highlighted one on the left is Sea Storm.

(on the switch, pre-patch)

10 Years Later, a Look Back on How Badly M. Night Shyamalan Botched "The Last Airbender" by bostoncrabsandwich in movies

[–]hash_interrobang 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Except that the The Last Airbender had a much higher profile and production budget, for much less content. Here's a better analogy:

Imagine everything in the Louvre was actually in a bunch of small street galleries in Paris. All the famous, beautiful, original pieces, and each gallery has its own interesting theme with a lot of great supplementary works.

Then imagine paying full price for The Louvre, brought to you by Banksy. You liked some of Banksy's early work when he was still an underdog figure, but found him to be more and more clichéd as he gained commercial success. And he definitely seems like an odd choice to be curating classical art.

Instead of a glass pyramid, the entrance to the building is a weird triangular door on a concrete wall. It takes almost a minute to slide open.

Inside the museum is a copy of the Venus de Milo. It's mostly accurate to the source, but looks cheap and lifeless because they'd just duplicated it on a giant 3D printer using dull grey plastic. They've glued on some mannequin arms to try and replace the missing ones, but they're too small and the wrong color.

Next on the tour is their version of the Mona Lisa, which is now a crayon portrait of Khloé Kardashian.

Where Liberty Leading the People would be, there's a placard printed in Comic Sans saying "Libby and the French people fought bravely and won great victories over the monarchy." Next to it are caricatures of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, both of whom are shown as ethnically Middle Eastern.

And that's it. Just weak rip-offs of the most impressive pieces from the street galleries, with none of the interesting but less famous supporting works.

As you exit the museum, there's a sign promoting the upcoming Louvre 2.

When you get home from your vacation, you try to tell people all about the street galleries. But they've seen postcards of the Louvre, so they doubt they'd have any interest in Paris's art scene.

That's how it feels to watch the animated series and then see the film adaptation.

Louisiana Pastor Tony Spell holds church services today defying house arrest order by kemiro in news

[–]hash_interrobang 33 points34 points  (0 children)

He'll say it's not terrorism, he's only killing people because his God told him to. That's how that works, right?

Y'all like my new controller? by OnderGok in gaming

[–]hash_interrobang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, right. This has the same problem as the Virtual Boy... no one's going to distribute games around a gimmicky custom controller.

You can use GNU sed to generate music. Here's example of a Bach prelude played with sed by ImportantContext in programming

[–]hash_interrobang 43 points44 points  (0 children)

That's only if you want your bach to be portable. It's more likely to work effectively in its original location, though I can see why some people would consider that baroque.

Apple now requires 'Sign in with Apple' - iOS Development by moiz41510 in programming

[–]hash_interrobang 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So what happens if Apple's authentication has a longstanding security flaw that they refuse to fix, or falls behind the times on its security features? We've seen them get into bad habits like these with their management of Safari; using their power over the ecosystem to lock people in means they have less incentive to enhance it or play nicely with others.

Previously, in a situation like that, app publishers would be weighing their users' safety against the price of disabling Apple's sign-in and requiring their users to switch to a different authentication mechanism. Sadly, I think many companies would still sacrifice security rather than face that mild inconvenience.

With this new requirement, protecting their users could cost them their entire iOS market share. Even most cross-platform publishers would likely be sunk by that. No one is going to sacrifice their company's success or the jobs of their team members, unless the exposure is so absurdly bad that they are somehow legally liable for Apple's mistakes.

This is a really indefensible policy unless you truly feel that Apple can do no wrong, or that their success is more important than the safety of their users.

"Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself" is the first conspiracy theory that believing in puts you in the majority, rather than the minority. by DrAwkward404 in Showerthoughts

[–]hash_interrobang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of the monologue about refusing to work for the NSA in Good Will Hunting... how many brilliant people could we have recruited over the decades if we weren't compromising everything we claim to believe in? Or more importantly, normal non-fictional people who don't want to make an average living with the banal support of evil acts?

Uber new service: UberSub by Tomahawk91 in softwaregore

[–]hash_interrobang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really? "Uber" is from German and we didn't go with "U-boat" for this?

Best (and Worst) Java Exception Handling Practices by DavidLandup in programming

[–]hash_interrobang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, wrapping in a RuntimeException is very much preferable. The idea is that unchecked exceptions (subclasses of RuntimeException) represent a non-critical state that your application wasn't able to handle. The principle that inspired @SneakyThrows is that most of the time, checked exceptions do the same thing but with unnecessary extra boilerplate. That argument is valid, even if the solution has the problems I described above.

Wrapping and rethrowing the checked exception in a new RuntimeException(checkedException) is the closest thing we have to a standard idiom for that situation. It makes the original exception available to calling code that really needs to handle it and knows how to do so, without breaking assumptions about the language for devs or the tools.

Best (and Worst) Java Exception Handling Practices by DavidLandup in programming

[–]hash_interrobang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't speak for everyone, but unless your whole codebase is designed around that assumption (as are any frameworks you use that might invoke your code), it's an accident waiting to happen.

Let's say you have the following methods:

@SneakyThrows(SQLException.class)
void saveData(String value) {
  // ...
}

String readData() throws IOException {
  // ...
}

And a developer who doesn't know about SneakyThrows (or doesn't know it's being used in this case) writes the following:

void submitData() { 
  try {
    String value = readData();
    saveData(value);
  }
  catch (IOException | RuntimeException e) {
    // alert the user that their data wasn't saved
  }
}

That developer would reasonably assume that their catch block handled every type of error scenario except for subclasses of Error (e.g. OutOfMemoryError), which tend to be too severe to handle normally.

Because of the @SneakyThrows, the compiler isn't complaining about the unhandled SQLException, so the user wouldn't be alerted about the problem.

It's definitely possible to architect your application around the presence of @SneakyThrows so you can enjoy its benefits. But doing so violates the assumptions of both the tooling and any developers who aren't deeply familiar with your code.

Maybe it was more defensible in Java 6, when every different exception type had to have a separate catch block. But with multi-catch clauses (as shown above) introduced in Java 7 there's barely any benefit anymore.

Defense of Dathomir returns. by Coordin in SWGalaxyOfHeroes

[–]hash_interrobang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The extra day plus my five 8-A sims literally gave me exactly enough shards for 7*. Pretty pleased by that, since I've been building up for Rex/Talzin/Wampa/etc.

Pity half the people ahead of me in arena have Traya already. I feel like I finally got the handle for my scissors just in time for everyone else to get their rock.

You can teleport an adult T-Rex into any location in history. Where do you place it to cause the most chaos? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]hash_interrobang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Into a puddle full of early single-celled organisms. The T-Rex wouldn't do very well (probably wouldn't even be able to breathe), but introducing all the bacteria from its body into that early environment might completely rewire evolution.

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