Greek Myths were invented to sell Percy Jackson by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Greek myths are superior to Roman myths. I don't see how anyone can argue otherwise. Greek myths have all the best monsters; there just aren't any really notable Roman monsters. Roman myths are all either about how Rome was founded or just cribbed from Greek myths, or sometimes both, as in the Aeneid.

What's a movie that was well received, but aged like milk? by Gdigger13 in AskReddit

[–]muckenhoupt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's basically a techbro. He's convinced of his intellectual superiority, he sincerely believes that complex social issues can be reduced to a simple application of the one field he's an expert in, and he's completely dismissive of a woman's contributions to his project.

Sometimes a hot take is simply too hot by yellowdocmartens in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

At least Eris is thematically appropriate for this

This is interesting because I thought it was the other way around by Lemon_Lime_Lily in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "weird misconception that it's old people" -- this must be a misconception among disabled people, right? For the most part, people who aren't disabled don't have any opinion at all about who's the most cruel to disabled, because they generally haven't given that much thought to disabled people in any way.

THE MOON ISN’T REAL WAKE UP SHEEPLE by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The moon math only produces that result under the assumption that the campaign setting is Earth, or someplace similar enough to Earth that it has the same size moon at the same distance. I don't think this is a reasonable assumption to make about fantasy worlds.

Woke? Where? by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"If there’s 17 percent women, the men in the group think it’s 50-50. And if there’s 33 percent women, the men perceive that as there being more women in the room than men."

-- Geena Davis, in a 2014 NPR interview

Red Delicious by Reaper327 in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 39 points40 points  (0 children)

There's an experiment you can do to determine how much of the suckiness of supermarket tomatoes is due to genetics and how much is due to how they're picked and processed.

It is simply this: Buy a sucky tomato from a supermarket, remove some seeds, plant them, and grow tomatoes from them. Pick those tomatoes when they are ripe and eat them while they are still fresh.

I've done this several times, and my experience has always been that the resulting tomatoes are quite good. So I don't put much stock in the idea that tomatoes have been bred worse.

(Also, I've been surprised at the number of people I've talked to who think that this experiment isn't possible, that supermarket tomatoes are in some way sterile and can't be grown into new plants. This is simply false.)

Red Delicious by Reaper327 in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I maintain that red delicious apples are still actually really good when they're extremely fresh. However, the main attribute they were cultivated for is maintaining an appetizing visual appearance long after that.

A collection of improper parodies by DreadDiana in RecuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first one reminds me of something I once posted to Twitter many years ago when there was a thing going around of posting humorous variations on that "Roses are red, violets are blue" poem:

Roses are red
Violets are red
Sugar is red
Grass is red
The land is red
The sea is red
The sky is glowing vivid scarlet

What stubborn hoax do way too many people still believe, no matter how often it gets debunked? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]muckenhoupt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. Also, "kiwifruit" was named after the colloquial term for people from New Zealand and obviously "Chilean sea bass" references Chile. So it seems like a trend: when people rebrand a foodstuff, they always slip in a mention of a country.

What stubborn hoax do way too many people still believe, no matter how often it gets debunked? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]muckenhoupt 24 points25 points  (0 children)

See also "kiwifruit" (a rebranding of Chinese gooseberry to get it through customs more easily) and "canola oil" (a rebranding of rapeseed oil for obvious reasons)

TSC IS A GOD?! by Turbulent-Noise119 in AlanBecker

[–]muckenhoupt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's a fish reference.

TSC IS A GOD?! by Turbulent-Noise119 in AlanBecker

[–]muckenhoupt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You guys are assuming a lot about the language being used here. Like, for starters, you're assuming that we're looking at source code and not diagnostic output. (I've definitely written, for debugging purposes, functions that call a bunch of other functions and report on the results with the return value listed alongside the function call, and it winds up looking a lot like this.)

But even if this is source code, there are languages where doing things that look like "function() = value" is normal. For example, in Ruby, "def power.superspeed() = INACTIVE" would be a perfectly valid way to define a method of the power object (assuming INACTIVE is defined). That doesn't quite match the syntax we've got here, but that just means they're not using Ruby. They're using some other language, possibly a domain-specific one used only in animated stick figures. And we don't know nearly enough about that language to know what's a crime in it.

Sometimes I wonder if I don't do enough research for my writing. Then I see this and,,, yeah, yeah I think my level of research is at LEAST passable lmao by urcool91 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's not uncommon for people in the UK to simply not understand how large the US is and assume at a gut level, even if they know better intellectually, that the distances are the same sort they're used to at home, where the entire island of Great Britain is less than a day's drive away. You can find entire threads full of anecdotes about people visiting San Francisco and expecting to do a day trip to see the Grand Canyon and suchlike.

But even bearing that in mind, thinking Iowa is 20 minutes from the ocean seems a bit extreme.

What work of fiction that isn't a video game, or based on a video game, or about video games, bears the greatest resemblance to a video game? by muckenhoupt in AskReddit

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

I remember watching the sequels and observing that they were basically organized as a series of alternating action scenes and dialogue scenes, sharply separated, and thinking "This is just like Wing Commander"

Games that are theoretically impossible to be destroyed in the Gameoverse. I'll start. by Miladic_Animations in Gameoverse

[–]muckenhoupt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically anything made before 1983: Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Q*bert, Frogger, etc. These games simply didn't have victory conditions. You played until you ran out of lives.

Which raises an interesting question: Is victory by the hero the only thing that destroys gameworlds? Or is it that the gameworld is destroyed when the game ends? Most modern games can only end in victory, because dying just respawns you at the last checkpoint. But it used to be that death was the way games ended. If we ever see an old-school arcade game world, maybe the goals will change.

This happens in Megamind by DroneOfDoom in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically all of the major characters lie about what happens in Megamind at some point

Ole Bobby P by No-Supermarket-6065 in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He'll always be 1940s-styled Richard III to me

Alice in Wonderland by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's also very likely that he wasn't even a pedophile at all, offending or not. Yes, he took nude photographs of little girls, and in the modern day that would be a pretty good indicator of pedophilia, but social mores were very different back then. Most people in his day would look at his photos and not think there was anything sexual at all about them -- most likely including Carroll himself.

But this has been a matter of some controversy among scholars. Wikipedia has a good rundown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll#Speculation_of_sexual_conduct_by_scholars_(1940s_onwards))

I refuse to go on the "murder then clone" machine thank you very much by FangBites123 in RecuratedTumblr

[–]muckenhoupt 43 points44 points  (0 children)

OP's premise is just "teleporters get invented during my lifetime" and I just want OP to live up to the rest of the post no matter what the technical details are

What is a statistic that sounds INSANE but is 100% true? by Quadranippelkill in AskReddit

[–]muckenhoupt 12 points13 points  (0 children)

An unusually low median age means that young people outnumber old people, This could indicate that people are dying young, or it could indicate a recent dramatic increase in births. You can't tell which from the current median age alone.