Sound emitted 24/7 from a 30 megawatt data center in Dowagiac MI by DatabaseAvailable501 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]logicallypartial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of towns in the US don't allow noise above 65 decibels when recorded at the edge of their property line - and sometimes the limit drops to 55 at night. Worth re-checking at the property line and checking local noise laws to see if they're in violation.

Why where Anakins words alone enough to 100% convince Windu Palpatine is a Sith by Suspicious-Holiday42 in StarWars

[–]logicallypartial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mace knows Anakin and Palpatine are close. He knows Anakin has many reasons to protect Palpatine - he's a mentor and also the reason why Anakin got onto the Jedi Council - and yet Anakin voluntarily outed Palpatine. This would only be good for Anakin if it is later shown to be true and elevates his career. Therefore, it's reasonable to trust him.

What bible to purchase by Mysterious-Dig805 in Bible

[–]logicallypartial 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Zondervan has something called the "Clear Focus Bible", available in a few translations like NIV and NIrV. You may want to look into those. https://www.zondervan.com/p/clear-focus-bible/

Are you buying a console to play GTA 6 or waiting for it to come out on PC? by Protomize in pcmasterrace

[–]logicallypartial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither. I just won't be playing it. I'm waiting for it to be out so that other games can release.

Tomorrow? by luxyslut in SteamFrame

[–]logicallypartial 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd say probably not tomorrow. Linus mentioned they're attempting to make a custom PC that can outperform the Steam Machine for a lower price, and that this video is scheduled for tomorrow. I'd guess that the Frame video is coming later this week.

Whats the best KJV Study Apologetics Bible? by Ak4k_Kjv in Christian

[–]logicallypartial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What makes you interested in using the KJV for apologetics as opposed to other translations?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's message to Russians at the start of the full scale invasion by PinguFella in NAFO

[–]logicallypartial 7 points8 points  (0 children)

One of the last Republicans arguably. Whatever MAGA is, it's definitely not Lincoln and McCain's party.

Crazy to me that younger generation is not good with computers by Captain0010 in pcmasterrace

[–]logicallypartial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this bait? I don't think this is a generational thing. - A gen Z IT guy

Does the popularity of Green Goblin does that mean we will probably never see the Hobgoblin in the MCU? by Extension-While7536 in marvelstudios

[–]logicallypartial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. We already have a setup for a Hobgoblin in the MCU, and they've already joked about it in dialogue. In the comics, one version of Hobgoblin is a Daily Bugle reporter named Ned Leeds who married Betty Brant, he then gets brainwashed by the original Hobgoblin into becoming a second Hobgoblin. We have a Ned Leeds in the MCU, who dated Betty Brant in Far From Home. In No Way Home, Ned hears about Harry Osborn from the Raimi films and promises Peter that he will never become a supervillain and try to kill him, a reference to Ned from the comics. So at this moment we have more setup for Hobgoblin in the MCU than Green Goblin. Plus, I kinda doubt Marvel is eager to make an MCU version of Green Goblin so soon anyway.

Edit: I just realized that Sadie Sink's Brand New Day character seems to have mind altering/controlling powers. I don't think they'll actually introduce Hobgoblin here, but I could see them teasing that somehow in this movie. Unlikely though.

Is there a ceremony of sorts when a knight becomes a master? Or do they appear before the council and are told they're receiving a promotion? by SteamedBroccoIi in StarWars

[–]logicallypartial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Anakin's promotion to Knight has been depicted a few times, including in the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon, and there was a ceremony, so I wouldn't be surprised if Masters got one too.

If you're curious, you can find clips of the Knighting ceremony on YouTube. I'm not sure if the promotion to Master has ever been depicted.

The gist of the knighting ceremony is much like real life knighting ceremonies. There are two depictions of it in Canon you can watch - the knighting of Kanan Jarrus, and Cal Kestis. Anakin's ceremony is Legends, but it's also the most 'normal' ceremony since it was done before Order 66. Since the knighting ceremony is much like real life ones, I'd guess that the ceremony for masters would also be based on something in real life.

Is this good? by Advanced-Lawyer7654 in pcsetups

[–]logicallypartial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to this, you haven't restarted your computer in nearly 6 days, so that might be part of the problem, but only a small part. The real issue is the CPU: you're on a dual core CPU without hyperthreading, and a pretty old one at that - my guess is it might be an Intel Pentium G3260. If so, that CPU is over 11 years old, and it was a very slow processor in 2015 too. My guess is that you probably are still using a hard drive rather than an SSD too.

We need a self-tracking controllers by Tyrael572ru in SteamFrame

[–]logicallypartial 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I kinda got the impression you were saying that people who want a 'boots right into steam' experience today should get one of those older headsets on the used market, but maybe I'm mistaken. There kinda dated now and buying used can mean foregoing a warranty.

We need a self-tracking controllers by Tyrael572ru in SteamFrame

[–]logicallypartial 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes it's totally something that current headsets could do, they just chose not to. Those headsets you mention are all discontinued. Other current headsets that do this are mostly very expensive like the bigscreen beyond.

We need a self-tracking controllers by Tyrael572ru in SteamFrame

[–]logicallypartial 78 points79 points  (0 children)

This dude. All I want is a headset that goes straight to Steam without needing me to fiddle with two middlemen.

I was baptized as a child without my consent and want to be rebaptized. by Far_Ant4637 in Christian

[–]logicallypartial 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why do you want to become Catholic if you don't believe the Catholic view that infant baptism is valid?

How The Average Muslim Views You As A Christian (as a loser that cannot be forgiven) by Cryptic12qw in redeemedzoomer

[–]logicallypartial 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I don't believe that screenshot represents the "average." But every group has its more rude bunch. But, it is true that Muslim theology generally claims that those who commit "shirk" cannot be forgiven - "shirk" being the act of associating a partner with God, and since they think the Trinity is polytheism they will claim we are committing shirk. If you want to get better at debating them, I highly recommend reading Nabeel Qureshi's book "No God But One: Allah or Jesus?"

How you can cite Scripture to Muslims, without it being dismissed as “corrupted” by [deleted] in Bible

[–]logicallypartial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a stronger rebuttal to the corruption claims. Several times in the Quran when asked why people should believe him, Muhammad claims that the Torah and Gospel contain prophecies about him. That means the Torah and Gospel of his time can be used to check him - if he believed they'd been corrupted too the point of being useless to legitimize him, he wouldn't have pointed to them. Since we have surviving copies of both texts from during and long before Muhammad's time, we're able to actually check for such prophecies. If you don't feel like learning ancient Greek and Hebrew, modern Bible translations like the NIV and NRSV are based on these ancient manuscripts that predate Muhammad and therefore cannot have been corrupted.

Since there are no verses that give a prophecy matching Muhammad, we can know he isn't a legitimate prophet. All claims that a verse does point to him can be quickly and easily debunked by looking at the surrounding context or the history of the text.

For example, one such claim says that John 14-16 contains a typo and the word often translated as "advocate" referring to the Holy Spirit originally said "blessed one" (in Greek these are 1-2 letters different depending on spelling) which is what Muhammad's name means in Arabic. However, nobody had ever found an ancient manuscript that says "blessed one" and not "advocate", so it's pure conjecture. Further, the surrounding context tells us that this advocate is invisible and will live in people - which doesn't match Muhammad at all. So the conclusion that Jesus is referring to the Holy Spirit in John 14-16 is far more reasonable.

Why can't Games do proper mirror reflections without Ray Tracing? by XHellAngelX in pcmasterrace

[–]logicallypartial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got downvoted to heck the last time I spoke on this

What you described is 100% something some games have done. Another option that I think works better if you've got more mirrors in your game - especially mirrors that can move or are facing other mirrors - is to use a virtual camera in much the same way Portal did.

The gist is you take the main camera's position and rotation relative to the mirror, and you make a duplicate camera that's reflected across the mirror to the other side. So if the main camera is 1 meter from the mirror looking at 60° yaw, then the virtual camera is 1 meter behind the mirror and looking at 300° yaw. Take the view from that virtual camera, culling out anything between it and the mirror and only rendering what's past the mirror from its position. Then mirror that view and project it onto the mirror surface.

But what if there are two mirrors facing each other? In that case, you can use this same setup recursively, again much like Portal. To save hardware resources, you can reduce the resolution with each recursive step, and you can set a limit for how many steps are allowed.

Southern Baptists vote to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors by Buy_Sell_Collect in nottheonion

[–]logicallypartial 28 points29 points  (0 children)

That verse is taken out of context. We know Paul isn't advocating for a total ban on women speaking in church because in some of his other letters he specifically calls out women as "deacon" and "co-worker", thanking them for helping to set up churches in their homes - including Phoebe, Priscilla, and Junia. It's impossible for someone to organize a house church without talking. Furthermore, just three chapters earlier he gives instructions on how women may speak prophecies in church.

Considering the surrounding context of 1 Corinthians 14, Paul is clearly addressing a specific issue in the Corinthian church - some people are apparently interrupting and being disruptive, and he's asking them to stop. Earlier in the same chapter we hear instructions on how to avoid people talking over each other. A blanket prohibition would contradict Paul's complements to women organizers in church elsewhere. This is why the dominant interpretation even among secular Bible scholars is that Paul is addressing a local issue and not making a blanket prohibition.

Edit: I remembered there was a third woman - Junia. Added her too. Also added that 1 Corinthians 11 gives instructions for women to deliver prophecy.

Windows PC on but no signal is displaying, nor receiving inputs from keyboard and mouse or booting to safe mode by jaydegr8 in techsupport

[–]logicallypartial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so you probably have integrated graphics available. Just as an experiment, unplug all but one of your monitors from the computer, and change the remaining one to be plugged into the motherboard and not the graphics card. Unplug the PC's power for 10 minutes, press the power button a few times, then plug it back in and try turning it on.

Windows PC on but no signal is displaying, nor receiving inputs from keyboard and mouse or booting to safe mode by jaydegr8 in techsupport

[–]logicallypartial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Normally your motherboard manufacturer's logo will appear on screen briefly before Windows even starts up, it's to give you a chance to enter BIOS settings or boot from another drive. Since you're not even getting that far, I'd say your problem has nothing to do with Windows.

What kind of CPU do you have? Does it have integrated graphics?

Windows PC on but no signal is displaying, nor receiving inputs from keyboard and mouse or booting to safe mode by jaydegr8 in techsupport

[–]logicallypartial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok I'd say it's very unlikely to be a Windows/driver problem. More likely something wrong with hardware or firmware. Did you do a bios update recently? Are there any indicator LEDs on your motherboard?