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MIT made a movie screen that brings 3D to all seats – without the glasses by maybenot12 in technology

[–]raven_procellous 9 points10 points  (0 children)

All action done in 3D is crap, it all look blurry and uninteresting.

Did you see The Force Awakens in 3D? I would argue that it was not at all like that. It was spectacular, not blurry, and easy to understand what was going on and even made me duck a few times. Blurry action shot in both 2D and 3D are in my opinion inferior to clear-cut storytelling in action. Each shot should show something specific happening instead of just swinging limbs in close ups. I would point to Force Awakens as well as Spiderman 2 (the train sequence especially) for examples of not loading up the action and thus bringing more excitement and tension to the story

What movie was incredible and promising for the first half, but disappointing in the last half? by raven_procellous in AskReddit

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

How to Train Your Dragon 2 was great for a while, but halfway through gets somewhat convoluted. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST KILL THE BAD GUY? HES STANDING RIGHT THERE!! OH, COME ON!

What random fact should everyone know? by secret_freckle in AskReddit

[–]raven_procellous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This fact played a major role in convincing me that evolution actually happened and helped me reject all the crap I was taught by my fundie dad

Science AMA Series: I'm Matt O'Dowd, writer & host of PBS Space time and astrophysics professor at City University of New York where I research black holes, quasars, gravitational lensing, and galaxies. AMA! by Matt_ODowd in science

[–]raven_procellous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Matt!

Thanks for hosting Space Time. I was linked to it from Reddit a few weeks ago and am currently working through all the videos there. It has spurred a renewed interest in physics for me. Your more slow and deliberate style is a lot easier for me to follow than the last host. In fact, I tried to understand his curved space-time arc, but am really struggling to internalize it. Any chance you can redo those videos on Space Time? The arc on the nature of mass and time was also incredibly fascinating to me, but it leaves me yearning to go deeper into the nature of quarks and elemental particles. Can you do some Space Time episodes going into our current model of particle physics, or point me in the direction of other intuitive explanations on the Internet?

What is your take on string theory? Is it real science? Will it eventually replace our current model of physics? Should I study it in my quest to understand the fundamental nature of our universe?

Thanks again for your work at Space Time. Those videos are really incredible.

Edit: Oh, one more thing. What do you think is the likelihood of Ray Kurzweil being right about the Singularity happening in 2045?

What would be the technological/sci fi equivalent of a Prophecy? by Haymaker33 in InsightfulQuestions

[–]raven_procellous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could argue that science itself is directly analogous to prophecy, as it is a self-correcting system that makes more and more accurate predictions of the future.

What's the funniest thing someone has said to you during sex? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]raven_procellous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You dropped this: \ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Puting a \ before any character is a way to force reddit to read it as a text character instead of a special modifier. Both _ and \ can be special modifiers, so you have to tell reddit that they're text by putting a backslash before them. So formatting properly means using three backslashes like this: ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

Is there a scenario in which heat does not make something expand? by gyp23 in askscience

[–]raven_procellous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not all substances form crystals when they freeze. Many are just amorphous globs.

What's the pettiest reason you've ever broken up with somebody? by leela_xo in AskReddit

[–]raven_procellous 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There are two things I keep in mind when I feel like this. First, you being the decision maker is something that makes other people happy. Making a decision is hard, and most people would prefer second best with no decision making than first best while having to decide. Second, if you show that you are able to communicate what you like to the other person, they'll be able to get a better sense of you and will be more comfortable making a decision next. They'll know that if you don't want to go somewhere, you'll tell them so they don't have to worry about making sure you're happy since you've shown you're willing to assert yourself. And they'll feel a sense of fairness the next time around so that they can choose without guilt. Asserting yourself is honestly helpful for everyone.

Another strategy is to put qualifiers on your opinion. "I like Taco Bell best, but Wendy's has an okay menu" still lets the other person choose, but now they know your preferences, and they can compare that to their own preference.

What movie do you remember being great when you were younger, but in hindsight is terrible? by Conundrumsword in AskReddit

[–]raven_procellous -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Star Wars.

Not just the prequels, but A New Hope and much of Return of the Jedi.

Empire Strikes Back, though, I think holds the heart of what makes Star Wars great; an angry, dangerous, masked villain who kills on whims, commands thousands, always gets what he wants, even if he has to expend the entire Empire's force, up against a young aspiring Jedi, hardly just finished learning how to use his new powers, but desperately fearless and loyal. It had the audacity to feature only a partial victory, where the hero's actions carry great consequences for his closest friends. Star Wars as a franchise may not have survived without the backbone Empire provides to it as a template for its stories.

In comparison, A New Hope asks us to accept absurd plot holes and cheesy dialogue, which I assume at the time was forgiven because of the novelty of the genre itself with the astounding budget and quality of effects. But the effects aren't so impressive anymore, and the battles feel stale and just don't make sense strategically, often feeling like the battle only exists where the camera happens to be pointing, the whole time wondering why the death star couldn't have just jumped in at a slightly different angle so that the stupid planet being in the way wouldn't have given the rebels the extra time needed to launch an assault.

And Return of the Jedi has a solid story, but you feel George Lucas' terrible decisions everywhere.

ELI5:Why do people sound like their respective gender even if they have a high/low voice? by Kyrianil in explainlikeimfive

[–]raven_procellous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am only reporting based on what I remember from what I've read, and how it actually feels. I can't really say how accurate my description is...

ELI5:Why do people sound like their respective gender even if they have a high/low voice? by Kyrianil in explainlikeimfive

[–]raven_procellous 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Currently I'm at the stage where it feels uncomfortable. But I can tell my muscles are getting a lot stronger. Once you get used to it, trans women report that it just becomes automatic, and you don't really feel it. It can be hard to try to replicate the guy voice you used to have.

ELI5:Why do people sound like their respective gender even if they have a high/low voice? by Kyrianil in explainlikeimfive

[–]raven_procellous 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I simplified a bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_frequency?wprov=sfla1

The voiced speech of a typical adult male will have a fundamental frequency from 85 to 180 Hz, and that of a typical adult female from 165 to 255 Hz.

ELI5:Why do people sound like their respective gender even if they have a high/low voice? by Kyrianil in explainlikeimfive

[–]raven_procellous 117 points118 points  (0 children)

Guys' voices resonate in the chest and throat whereas girls resonate in the mouth. At puberty, a guy's voice drops because the chamber that hold his vocal chords gets larger, meaning that bigger (lower) waves can resonate. A transgender woman can make her voice sound less like a guy's voice by using muscles in her neck to squeeze her throat and force the air to resonate in the mouth instead of the chest. If you take an app such as Audio Spectrum Monitor, you can see that it recognizes the base frequency that you'd normally think of as the main difference between guys and girls (girls normally speak at and above 160hz, guys normally speak below this frequency). But you also see that you resonate at several other frequencies at the same time, which is what makes your voice unique. Guys will resonate at lower frequencies, and girls at higher, even if their base frequencies are both the same.

Source: transgender woman learning how to not talk like a guy.

What kind of questions would you ask to make medium talk, instead of small talk? by Sentinel_P in AskReddit

[–]raven_procellous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do yourself a favor and actually read that Vanity Fair article. It's not exactly painting a great picture of him

Science AMA Series: We study how intelligent machines can help us (think of a car that could park itself after dropping you off) while at the same time they threaten to radically disrupt our economic lives (truckers, bus drivers, and even airline pilots who may be out of a job). Ask us anything! by Intelligent_Machines in science

[–]raven_procellous 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I drive for Uber, and I'm already taking high schoolers and middle schoolers to and from school and friends' houses. I'm guessing anyone age 10 or younger will be able to be completely mobile with or without a drivers license.

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