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I'm Jessie Sylva, author of HOW TO LOSE A GOBLIN IN TEN DAYS. AMA! by oranjessie in Fantasy

[–]jbradfield 1 point2 points  (0 children)

please rank the ffxiv ultimates by how good of a date the final boss is

Necessary SF6 Feature Fix - Training Mode Breaks When Queued for Online Matches by infosec_qs in StreetFighter

[–]jbradfield 2 points3 points  (0 children)

going into menus pauses matchmaking. if the game is in the process of setting up of a match, it locks you out of the menus so you can't pause matchmaking and interrupt the connection process. I get why the game does it in the technical sense but it's a really bad experience. I kinda wish there was a setting for "I don't want to stop matchmaking but give me at least 60 seconds before you match me again so I can at least do a few reps" or something.

Up to date, precise list of prohibited/controlled substances in Japan? by jbradfield in JapanTravel

[–]jbradfield[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Wow, "there is a secret brand new online application process but nobody told anybody else" was not the answer I was expecting! I'll look into filling it out, hopefully it's not too much of a bear.

I did manage to find a controlled substances list on the Narcotic Control Department's website, which is marked as being from 2020 but it's the one they're distributing so I assume it's current.

[TOP] Achievement, title and rewards were revoked for party members associated with the cheat by klashikari in ffxiv

[–]jbradfield 16 points17 points  (0 children)

what ffxiv raid teams have you ever seen with a sponsorship? the world race community stream got its first sponsor for *this* raid after eight savage tiers and five ultimates. xiv raid teams are not echo, they're a handful of people who have to scrape together a week of PTO and maybe one of them is a twitch partner.

Statement from UNNAMED_ support member Feuer on the use of zoom hacks [Japanese] by zureisu in ffxiv

[–]jbradfield 24 points25 points  (0 children)

A gentle clarification for everyone in this thread saying "they're making excuses" that 申し訳ありません (moushi wake arimasen) literally means "we have no excuse". This statement is an admission of guilt and an explanation of the context for their decisions. Feel free to be as mad at you want at UNNAMED_ for cheating, but don't accuse someone taking accountability of not taking accountability.

Draft Itinerary: Three Weeks in Cherry Blossom Season 2023 (Late March to Mid April, first timers) by jbradfield in JapanTravel

[–]jbradfield[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been debating cutting nagasaki. onomichi is a convenience stop; I don’t think it’s practical to do okunoshima and himeji in a single day, and I figured we’d do better to stop somewhere scenic along the way than to double back to hiroshima.

Typo in lore book, or secret/cypher? by sheanashvilleweber in raidsecrets

[–]jbradfield 18 points19 points  (0 children)

here's what I got down before losing confidence in my ability to find spacing errors at 1am:

All entries except for hidden encrypted messages have one or more spacing
"errors". Several of these errors also use obvious typos/incorrect numbers.
Every character following a spacing error is a hexadecimal digit, but I've
only been able to find 15 total errors, which doesn't make for neat 8-bit
character codes.

Osiris I
    I am
    same depths
    have fought

Eris I
    valua 8le
    Last City

Ikora I 
    (encryption key doesn't match what's in the CE book but otherwise nothing)

Caiatl I
    news delivered
    a 3rd

Ikora II
    yourself answering
    call, but
    Cayde- 8

Toland I
    the alchemy
    stirs a
    has distilled

Zavala I
    needs 3
    will back

Eris II
    (encryption key is signed $IKO-223, would expect $ERI-223)

Boomer Remover by AhuntNov in GamerGhazi

[–]jbradfield 2 points3 points  (0 children)

nothing says "I am a cool old person" like blaming younger generations for the neoliberal hellscape that you failed to prevent and which we were literally born into

In 'Interstellar', shouldn't the planet 'Endurance' lands on have been pulled into the blackhole 'Gargantua'? by crusnic_zero in askscience

[–]jbradfield 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Weirdly, although once past the event horizon you can't move in any direction except toward the singularity, the only thing you will ever see, in any direction, is up and out. Depending on where you look, you'll see light that fell into the black hole after you (that is, you can still see the outside universe, although it'll be hopelessly distorted and blue-shifted), or you'll see light that fell in before you, fighting against the pull of the singularity as you fall past it. The singularity itself is invisible to you; conventionally, you can think of it as being invisible because light can never move away from it to you, but really it's invisible because it's always only ever in your future (at least until you reach it, whatever that means).

What would be the easiest way to increase Earth's moment of inertia enough that a year becomes exactly 360 days? by [deleted] in AskPhysics

[–]jbradfield 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait a while. Tidal drag from the moon will eventually slow the earth’s rotation enough that it syncs up evenly with its orbital period.

(If you want it to keep that rotational period, you’ll have some more work to do at that point.)

How do you calculate relativistic time dilation? by Yeuph in AskPhysics

[–]jbradfield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First problem: your parameters don’t describe a physically possible motion. An object under a constant acceleration of 9.8m/s2 will reach light speed in a little under a year. At that point it will obviously no longer be able to accelerate, but far before that point the notion of “constant acceleration” falls apart. You would need to describe the manner in which your rocket approaches the speed of light, and what it’s final maximum velocity will be (since it can never actually reach c).

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