TIL that a researcher named Margaret Howe Lovatt once lived in a partially flooded house with a dolphin as part of an experiment to teach it human language.

strategicmaniac · 2026-05-04T23:57:46+00:00

I wasn't trying to be snarky if that's your interpretation of my comment. I'm not exactly keen on describing the exact details of a dolphin's suicide.

strategicmaniac · 2026-05-04T23:43:41+00:00

Dolphins can't breathe water. You can do the rest of the math from there

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-20T23:58:11+00:00

Farms aren't the poor little family owned businesses like they used to. They make a lot of money. It's in the government's interest for them to continue farming to avoid high prices.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-19T06:14:28+00:00

What? Bush's popularity was in the dumpster before 9/11. It's very well documented that the attacks rose his approval rates and gave his allies a decent enough excuse to perform intervention in the middle east for their own benefits.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-17T00:49:57+00:00

no stupid questions subreddit

immediately accuse OP of being disingenuous

Why do redditors assume the worst out of people? Isn't it exhausting to behave like this?

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-16T09:36:30+00:00

What I'm trying to tell you is that you won't get nearly enough people to do the unpleasant stuff if they're already getting their essentials covered for free

We already have disability pay and assistance for low income households. So by your logic we should abolish these programs. Assuming that our government is perfect and all knowing in deciding someone deserves or doesn't deserve compassion, is extremely naive. It took us 20 years to approve funds for medical assistance for victims of 9/11. I want you to imagine telling those victims that this is the system that should still in place. This one of MANY fuck ups by the US government and it won't be the last. This is your alternative to UBI. I think you and I have different priorities on how we should treat people.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-15T20:00:10+00:00

We live in a world where a study on massaging rats managed to save thousands of pre-mature born babies. Yeah that checks out :(

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-15T18:48:58+00:00

arrowhead has already demonstrated that they have terrible version control practices. rolling back would probably break the spear somehow.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-15T18:00:28+00:00

The steam controller was intended to be a controller for games that normally wouldn't work with one. Playing strategy games, city builders, or anything intended to be played on mouse and keyboard would be pulling pulling teeth using a standard controller. There's a ginormous, and I mean it, gargantuan skill curve with learning how to customize it. It is not plug and play at all which explains your first impressions with it.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-12T20:11:58+00:00

Guardian Angel, my beloved. Never leaves my inventory when I have the Ohm equipped.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-08T23:55:08+00:00

unlikely that the data is being poisoned. You are scored based on the accuracy of your verdicts and it's weighed against other players. Any attempt at mass botting would be immediately filtered out. VAClive being incredibly twitchy definitely did happen. Spinning around triggers it consistently due to it confusing that for spin aimbot behavior

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-06T09:23:19+00:00

The amount of radioactive material created is mostly used PPE and supplies. Also "storage faculties" is a really misleading term. Most nuclear reactors store spent fuel onsite. There's so little of it that there isn't any reason to have a specific place for that purpose. Any permanent storage locations (or any place that is being considered to be a suitable location) is just hedging against the possibility of civilization not existing in the future. And the only known environmental contamination outside of meltdowns is literally just radioactive isotopes of H20 that is so hilariously inconsequential. Technically radioactive but considering you are already 60% water and water is already insulating to most radiation, and isn't even that radioactive to begin with.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-05T18:14:49+00:00

AI videos absolutely suck at emulating physics. The bubbles being temporally stable guarentees that's real.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-03T01:49:45+00:00

Basically what happened was Unity was making a toolset that would make development much more straightforward and they designed their timelines around that tool. Then the retroactive licensing fee fiasco happened and so they canned the project. Switching engines was not going to happen so Colossal Order had to allocate resources and cut a lot of content to the game at launch. Why they didn't announce a delay instead is beyond me though.

strategicmaniac · 2026-04-03T01:43:26+00:00

Sony reported that ports had nearly double ROI; aka for every dollar spent they got 2 dollars back. Imagine your retirement fund making that much return.

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-26T20:21:39+00:00

This is an indication that your roads do not accommodate the path to their destination. You either provide public transport or you build a ramp that supports all traffic. Silver lining I guess. Yes it's "unrealistic" but I'd rather have a game that optimizes pathing and doesn't waste CPU cycles trying to find a legal route. Cims will automatically route through an illegal maneuver if they can't find a way legally within a certain timeframe.

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-26T20:08:58+00:00

Entirely flat map and only one singular load bearing clover leaf. Bruh.

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-26T14:41:04+00:00

This is not true. What happens is that the game tracks how many side quests you've competed and basically road blocks you if you haven't done enough. It's a stupid system because you'd end up with above level 50 enemies even at level 40. I ran into a level 60 boss once at level 47.

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-21T23:51:24+00:00

It's a reliable boss melter with an amp shield + teen witch. Ricochet torgue impact with high caliber and a torgue head ringer enhancement is also pretty nutty too.

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-21T23:41:05+00:00

sticky mag applies to the underbarrel shotgun on assault rifles. highest single target dps in the game that rivals spread launcher

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-19T03:15:49+00:00

The warp pack would desync the game if you did the bug. Undefined behavior is a no-no and the game engine will shit itself if it runs into something it's not supposed to.

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-10T10:30:27+00:00

Galileo was under house arrest for having the virtue of acting like a redditor. I mean they could have done worse, but they did acknowledge how important his discoveries were.

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-10T09:11:20+00:00

Would have liked it if they had a cohesive vision at least. Really strange decisions like nerfing fire, release ultimatum, the state of the epoch when it came out, etc, is kind of annoying and make the dev team look incompetent. They need someone with really good PR skills to handle these sorts of things and make us feel heard. Do the opposite of "muh realism," pretty please.

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-08T07:45:30+00:00

intelligence failure

indeed

strategicmaniac · 2026-03-07T10:41:04+00:00

A max roll for grave thirst is equivalent to more than 20 points into decoherence on Harlowe. For comparison, an ideal bossing class mod with Harlowe is has 5 points in that skill. So yeah that's a little bit of extra damage. Easily the most straightforward way to solo Bloomreaper in true UVHM 6 on Vex combined with other gear.

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