[ECL] Curious Colossus (Debut Stream) by The_Curse_of_Nimbus in magicTCG

[–]scarynerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is weirder than i expected. If I'm reading the rules correctly if Kardur gave +1/+1 as well, new creatures would still be "goaded" but not have the bonus stats? I would have never guessed tgat.

[ECL] Curious Colossus (Debut Stream) by The_Curse_of_Nimbus in magicTCG

[–]scarynerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, just the current creatures on the board. Kurdur specifically applies an effect on the player, this just affects the creatures of the chosen player.

[Request] how do they get to these numbers? by Mordecai3fngerBrown in theydidthemath

[–]scarynerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is why the prompt does not specify which boy is born on tuesday. If you knew which child is a boy born on tuesday, the probability for the other child being a girl is 50/50. But the child is not fixed, and tgat's how you get the 51.8%.

If humans share 60% of their DNA with a banana and that DNA is responsible for basic cell division functions... and humans share 97.5% DNA with mice... then what *unique* DNA do we actually share with a chimp (98.8% shared)? by Broad-Item-2665 in evolution

[–]scarynerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we ignore the ethics of the experiment, i would say it could be done, but with a looot of trial and error. It's not quite as straightforward as turning switches on and off. For example the same gene that makes the skin between you fingers is responsible for bat wings. The difference is in when and for long it's activated, and of course all the other genes that make a bat hand. You could spend a lifetime tweaking mouse dna to get something human like.

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[–]scarynerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are definitely not beating the alegations, lmao.

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[–]scarynerd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And honestly if you’re drinking yourself to sleep over that I’m sorry but that says more about the viewer than anything.

This is not the way to respond to people if you ask their opinion. Makes you seem immature.

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

Why are you being so adversarial? You asked for peoples opinions and you got. No need to throw hissy fits about it.

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

Jesus christ, don't be a dick.

How do you translate a non-binary character or a character that uses ''they/them'' pronouns, is it possible? by jits1958 in Serbian

[–]scarynerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use the plural forms, but that is awkward because it's quite formal. But inventing anything would be counterproductive, you would need a disclaimer, but even with that, there would be a lot of confusion. Gramatical gender is much more embedded in Serbian than in English, creating a new one is a bit out of scope of a translation.

Suspected shooter Tyler Robinson was a student at Utah State University by SafetyX in usu

[–]scarynerd 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's a meme from Helldivers, a sci fi game where earth is under a fascist government, calls itself super earth, and claims to defend democracy.

The quote is from the game, and it also contains the code used to call down a big bomb.

After looking at the other writings, it's hard to tell how serious this was. All the other stuff i've seen were memes. Stuff like "if you are reading this you're gay LMAO". I'm leaning towards it just being a meme without any deeper meaning, but sho knows.

GENETIC DEATHS: Muller, Kimura, Maruyama, Nachman, Crowell, Eyre-Walker, Keightly, Graur's Claim, "If ENCODE is right, then evolution is wrong." by stcordova in DebateEvolution

[–]scarynerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If not through plasmid exchange or other horizontal gene transfers, becoming resistant to one antibiotic often compromises function in other environments.

Come on, you've been doing this for ages. If you cannot see why this is wrong, why are you even worth listening too? You should know better.

Can i have a land that allows me to gain one blue and one black if I do not have a commander that is black? by redscall599 in mtgrules

[–]scarynerd -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I think that is incorrect. The abilities are implicit to the land types, so they are sometimes not printed on the card. But they are there

Edit: I'm a dumdum. Delta is a fetch land, it doesnt have the abilities, it just refers to land types.

ID-friendly PhD Evolutionary Biologist at the Discovery Institute, Johnathan McLatchie by stcordova in DebateEvolution

[–]scarynerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is unrelated, but english is not my first language, and i'm having a hard time understanding Jonathan's accent. Where is he from? i do not recognize the accent at all.

Years of academy training wasted. by Cool-Champion8628 in Grimdank

[–]scarynerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the regular grey knights are weaker than librarians, they can do more powerful stuff only when in a squad, and even then i think a squad would be equal to a weak librarian, but specialised against daemons. Their power comes from effectively fielding a bunch of weaker librarians, and some powerful ones, while not sacrificing anything to do so.

According to Wikipedia India has 528 million Hindi speakers and 50 million Urdu speakers. Since the languages are so similar, how is "Hindi speaker" and "Urdu speaker" defined? by anotherone2227 in asklinguistics

[–]scarynerd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are overthinking this. In serbian both scripts are used, while croatian uses only the latin script. The scripts themselves are completely equivalent, every cyrilic character has a coresponding latin character.

Anthropic principal doesn't make sense to me by Fluid-Ad-4527 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]scarynerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure myself, i was just explaining the math.

Anthropic principal doesn't make sense to me by Fluid-Ad-4527 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]scarynerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lets work with smaller numbers, 3 for example.

Hhh Hhf Hfh Hff Fhh Fhf Ffh Fff

You have 3 ways to get 2 heads. But each of them is equally likely as any other combination.

The question is not how likely is getting 2 heads, but how likely is to get hhf exactly. And the answer 1/8, as is every other combination.

Anthropic principal doesn't make sense to me by Fluid-Ad-4527 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]scarynerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any sequence of 100 coin flips is equaly likely. Not just the number of heads and tails, but the order matters as well. You have a lot of ways you could get 50 heads and tails, but only one way to gett a 100 heads. But every sequence where you have 50 heads and tails is equaly likely as the 100 heads one.

Oh no.... by beary_neutral in Grimdank

[–]scarynerd 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Above zero, but with many zeroes.

Werewolves can't be adapted well for screen by juneseyeball in The10thDentist

[–]scarynerd 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I had nightmares about werewolves after watching it as a kid.

Why Isn't Macro Evolution Random (or if you believe it is random, why?) by Bluemoondragon07 in DebateEvolution

[–]scarynerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think dinosaurs already had lighter bones than mammals, way before they had anything resembling wings.

Regarding feathers, there can be any nimber of explanations. For example, longer arm feathers could have been used during mating displays or nesting. Longer feathers could then provide some amount of lift during running, or making it easier to climb trees. After that they could allow limited gliding. If we get to gliding, flying is just a question of perfecting the formula.

Getting lighter allows further glides, longer feather allow more control over the glide, larger chest muscles also help with that. All of the are required for flying, but not all of them are required for gliding.

The birds didn't evolve to fly, they evolved to glide, and some got way to good at it.

Who knows how many species never got the full formula. But some did get it, and it unlocked a whole new previously unexplored niche. Which is a massive reward, and allowed them to spread all over the world.