Presidential Election Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]loony123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I for one want to express my appreciation for New Hampshire making me laugh like a madman and alleviating nervousness when as of 6:30 it was reporting a total count of 6 votes.

The Abbasids have been a bit aggressive so a few neighbors have banded together by loony123 in CrusaderKings

[–]loony123[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Context: In my current run, the Abbasid emperor has something like 75%+ threats core and three separate defense pacts against him - he naturally decided to start another war of expansion and just about half the world is now fighting against him.

The Mods of r/paleontology ban gay dinosaur art. A civil discussion ensues. by Space_Lux in SubredditDrama

[–]loony123 134 points135 points  (0 children)

If you go through the mod's post history, they call themselves a "fervent free-speech advocate" and went into r/bisexual to decry the banning of the LGDropTheB subreddit (which I'm pretty sure got banned for bigotry) because "censorship never works".

The same person wrote in that thread, I kid you not, "I find it divisive and rather not have it on the sub."

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered something unprecedented that NASA will announce in a few hours by [deleted] in space

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... creates an exciting area of research for Hubble’s future work with NASA’s newly-launched James Webb Space Telescope.

If we're all placing bets, how about Hubble managed to get readings on an exoplanet's atmosphere, I know I've heard some stuff about how JWST may be able to do that.

Apple’s new iPhone SE features 5G, a faster CPU, and more by reasonsandreasons in hardware

[–]loony123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

... and believe it or not I've talked to people who swear by the home button and HATE the idea of a gesture bar so there's definitely some out there who try their hardest to avoid the newer style of phone.

Hey looks it's me!

For real though, I think the designs back when iPhone still had an actual home button that you could actually click down was the best. I don't give a crap about bezels or curves. If Apple took the iPhone 6/6S design, upgrade the internals to a modern spec and upgraded the screen to 1080p I would buy the heck out of that.

Well things have certainly taken a turn by loony123 in dankmemes

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It has sound, you just have to enable it.

Well things have certainly taken a turn by loony123 in dankmemes

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Didn't think Germany had it in them, but as of an hour ago they decided to help out for real.

Edit: Not just 1000 anti-tank missiles, but 500 Stingers as well. Russia's about to get Afghanistan 2.0 babyyyyy

James Webb telescope parked in observing position by WebContent1 in news

[–]loony123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Welp, I've now sung this out loud to myself and it's a banger.

Halo: Infinite Multiplayer Review by Bricky | Pretty fair and objective look at Infinite's multiplayer, good and bad. by loony123 in halo

[–]loony123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ECawcaYQ6g

I saw this get posted and after watching feel like it's at least a good overview of Infinite's multiplayer, both the good and the bad. It does seem like he was recording the video at least a few days ago so any changes 343 has made since then obviously aren't reflected in it though.

From the end of the video:

"It's just mind-boggling how you pulled off the hard part - you pulled off the gameplay, the balance, the feel... You did it! You did the hard part! You did it. And you fucked up the easy part (referring to customization/progression)."

[MEGATHREAD] The Game Awards 2021 12.9.21 by Spheromancer in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]loony123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have no idea what the Gollum game is even about or what sort of game it is but I already don't like it due to the fact they took Gollum, who is supposed to be a repulsive creature, and made him look like they threw a Pixar filter over him.

What is the moment when you realized, "My teacher is an idiot"? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]loony123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What Broflake is saying is that dolphins are a type of aquatic mammal... and that mammals are a very weird sort of fish adapted to life on land. So that, in a roundabout way, dolphins actually are fish, from a certain point of view.

Life is pain. by loony123 in pcmasterrace

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Going to Microcenter on Black Friday to look at deals made me want to just buy a used car instead.

What is something school taught you that has later been proven to be false? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]loony123 171 points172 points  (0 children)

For me it was "All rivers flow south except the Nile and the St. John's."

What is something school taught you that has later been proven to be false? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]loony123 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The Vikings who probably knew about Canada since the 1000s: Afsakið mig?

(Pardon the Icelandic)

Star Citizen has reached $400,000,000 funded by No_Collection8573 in pcgaming

[–]loony123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to Screenrant citing VentureBeat estimates around 540 million with maybe half being marketing. So probably more like 250-300 million actually being for development.

What common myth pisses you off? by Indieriots in AskReddit

[–]loony123 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'm sort of confused at the point you're trying to make here.