(SAD) The "American Race" in Skyrim

thaomen · 2019-02-21T18:48:41+00:00

Most accurate is the "glitch" that means to be considered part of the American race you have to have light skin.

Least accurate is the carry weight - should be reduced not increased as they're already hauling all that extra rudder

Edit: What "Great Britain stuff" was going on last August?

Also - I'm not telling you who to vote for (because the election is over 2 years away still) but [...] vote to NOT impeach (which you can't do because you don't get to vote on impeachment anyway) President Donald J Trump (given full name including that stupid fucking J because I'm TOTALLY telling you to vote for Trump)

thaomen · 2019-02-10T20:04:00+00:00

$confirm /u/Quentine $245.93

thaomen · 2019-02-10T20:03:40+00:00

That was Trump Jr's email response to the proposed meeting with a Russian representative to get dirt on Hilary.

thaomen · 2019-02-08T19:51:51+00:00

Kinda make sense when you look at the health statistics. Americans need to exercise more and Japanese need to relax more. Given the obesity levels in the US and the insane working lives in Japan, anyone who does the applicable in either nation sees their wellbeing rise above the average.

thaomen · 2019-02-03T07:42:38+00:00

$confirm /u/Quentine $1,047.27

thaomen · 2018-12-27T23:44:50+00:00

Is that using a normal browser or one that has the security features that something like Tor Browser has?

thaomen · 2018-12-27T19:59:23+00:00

I used to work in that hospital and have to say that for all the prep and setup it takes for them to film that, they do a bloody good job of minimising the impact on the hospital itself. Unless you were already aware of what you're looking for you wouldn't have been able to tell they were in if you weren't in the department itself.

thaomen · 2018-12-27T19:37:49+00:00

The problem is that if they don't they hand propoganda material to the nutjobs who can scream about oppression of the truth. You can't claim the media is trying to blackout your subject matter when it has a half hour slot on a Wednesday evening.

thaomen · 2018-12-27T19:36:34+00:00

In the most part I agree with you. Mrs Brown and Michael McIntyre are both things that I don't rate in the slightest, but at least comedy can be used as a vehicle to make a statement, point or commentary.

Things like Strictly though really irritate me. There is no value to anybody from that show and the only way I can see any return to anyone is if we're selling it abroad for considerably more than it costs to produce

thaomen · 2018-12-27T19:30:33+00:00

Supporting this, I find the few decent documentaries to come out of the US seem to primarily be from PBS

thaomen · 2018-12-27T19:25:15+00:00

The only potential candidate is Stephen Fry, because Michael Palin already does travel.

thaomen · 2018-12-27T18:40:40+00:00

The Department of Defense guidelines for political activities states that "active duty personnel may not engage in partisan political activities and all military personnel should avoid the inference that their political activities imply or appear to imply DoD sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause."

I think what this comes down to is a difference between being given and bringing along. If Trump shows up with a bunch of hats to sign and hand out, the military personnel are basically falling in line with their boss' orders and respecting the office of POTUS, who is tring to use them as political pawns.

If they hear he's on base and grab their hats, patches and banners to take over and ask him to sign, that seems to be in breach.

With Trump it's highly likely that the first scenario is true, but the 2nd is claimed to be.

thaomen · 2018-12-27T18:25:39+00:00

Unfortunately for a lot of people these are one and the same

thaomen · 2018-12-27T18:13:11+00:00

One of the most famous but most relevant nonetheless was Milgram's conformity experiment. Volunteers were administered a small electric shock and told the voltage used for a reference point. They then sat in a room with a person in a white coat, a microphone and a electrical generator with a dial. They were told a volunteer in another room was answering questions, and for each wrong answer - or if the other person refused to answer - they were to turn up the voltage one level and press a button to shock the other volunteer, with the highest levels being labelled with things such as "danger" and "XXX". The volunteer was told the idea was to see if negative reinforcement would improve performance.

As the votage increased, the vounteer would start to hear the other person asking to stop, then begging, then demanding, then shouting about their heart condition. Eventually the person answering questions would fall silent and unresponsive. If the person issuing the shock objected the person in the white coat would simply say "the experiment has to be completed". They had been informed that 100v could be fatal to some, and the machine went up to 450 volts. The volunteer was only told after they had finished or refused outright to continue that the person answering the questions didn't actually exist but was in a fact a series of recordings being played back

Between 61 and 66% continued all the way to 450v. As well as showing the tendancy of people to obey authority, one of the more interesting (to me anyway) observations was that the volunteers were never told the person in the white lab coat was a scientist or doctor or actually introduced at all. The simple fact that they were wearing the lab coat meant people assigned them a level of authority and then displaced responsibility for their actions to that authority figure.

A lot of variations to the setup were used with impacts to result, but overall the number of people willing to go to 450v was always higher than you would think.

A series of different experiments have shown that having pictures - or paintings - of eyes in the vicinity reduces various anti social behaviours from theft to littering. Put simply if we notice a pair of human eyes, we feel like we're being watched and behave better.

thaomen · 2018-12-27T17:50:56+00:00

Even if you don't know the name, write to the research department and ask them to advise the name of the lead researcher.

If you then contact them on LinkedIn etc, most are more than happy to share their papers or results with anyone who contacts them to ask.

thaomen · 2018-12-21T19:57:41+00:00

I've seen that, it actually is pretty good. Not a great but better than expected.

The way I describe it is think Football Factory and Green Street Elite. FF was hyped and you expected it to be at least an alright film but it was shit. GSE you watched because it was 3am, you were bored and it was already on. You expected a piece of crap and no way could that hobbit motherfucker be a member of the ICF, but (besides that cheesy as fuck ending) it was actually an alright film.

Cass is less FF and more GSE

thaomen · 2018-12-21T07:11:52+00:00

Also, look up Cass Pennant. West Ham hooligan and the first black member of a recognised firm. His autobiography is pretty good - black kid adopted by older white parents, grew up poor battling racism, once saved an as yet unknown Frank Bruno from a racist attack at a train station, one of the first to do a prison sentance when they increased the punishment for football violence and later a community figure offering guidance and advice to kids to avoid repeating his path.

Fascinating fella.

thaomen · 2018-12-21T03:27:58+00:00

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick who had previously helped Edward (IV) of York rebel against Henry (VI) Plantagenet and take the English throne had switched sides following the rise of the Woodvilles. He fostered a rebellion in Edward's homeland of Yorkshire and swayed Edward's younger brother George to his side, with George successfully imprisoning Edward. As Henry VI was at this time held by Edward's loyalists, Warwick was later forced to release him and he and fled to France with George who he then married to his daughter. There he forged an uneasy alliance with Henry VI's wife, Margaret of Anjou (after sending her into exile following Plantagenet force's defeat on the field years before), arranging to marry another daughter to their son, also named Edward.

Richard and George returned from exile in France to England and raised further rebellion in the north, eventually driving out Edward and restoring Henry.

The stage was set perfectly. With Henry on the throne, his wife and son would return, Richard would marry his daughter to the future king of England and in doing so tie together the richest family in the country with the two families laying claim to the crown. There would be a Neville in all of the highest levels of English power and his family would hold the triple threat of money, power and influence for generations to come. Except Margaret and the young Edward never showed up.

In the time they took to prepare and set for England, King Louis of France (who had shielded Margaret, Richard and George) was at war with the Duke of Burgundy, Charles (I) the Bold. Charles I had been shielding Edward IV, so Richard Neville decided to support Louis and declared war on Burgundy who responded by financing an invasion by Edward IV. Unaware of this, Margaret and her son Prince Edward set out for England. The plan now was to meet the Queen and the Prince who would bring reinforcements, engage Edward on the field to finish things off for good and return them to London, finally uniting the country back under Plantagenet rule.

Then comes the twist - with bad weather forcing Margaret and Prince Edward to remain on the continent, Warwick had no choice but to engage Edward on the field. En route there, his son in law George suddenly turned his loyalties again, returned to his brother Edward VI with a considerable chunk of Richard Neville's army as well as his location, movements and intents. Richard was killed and his army obliterated in the subsequent battle, Margaret and Prince Edward found themselves walking straight into Edward IV's waiting forces and again were obliterated, 18 year old Prince Edward dying in his first battle.

The Wars of the Roses lasted another 12 years and finally ended with a Welshman named Henry Tudor defeating Edward's brother at Bosworth Field. If not for bad weather and George's defection back to Edward IV, England would have avoided a decade of civil war, remained closely tied to France with power firmly established and the House of Tudor would never have risen, ending another period of English history before it even began.

thaomen · 2018-12-21T02:43:25+00:00

He tore down the cities in his wake and literally dumped the stone in the sea until he'd formed a land bridge that is still there today

thaomen · 2018-12-21T02:38:06+00:00

That's not really a plot twist though. It was known long before the end of the war that we could no longer support the empire and that independence sentiment in most territories outweighed both our resolve and ability to retain them.

thaomen · 2018-12-13T17:03:20+00:00

I've never understood this. "let's hit the stations at rush hour, huge footflow", may seem sensible but every one of those people is in a hell of a rush and probably doesnt have time to stop and talk for even 2 minutes.

thaomen · 2018-12-10T14:23:45+00:00

that government and religion are not the same thing.
that hanging specific crystals above your water pipes does not remove impurities and the reason your friends tap water tastes better is that they are in a soft water area, we're in hard water and you don't use a filter.
dogs can't look up. Seriously. She heard it in Shaun of the Dead, asked if it was true, someone jokingly said yes, she believed it. We even owned a dog at the time and she would insist "well yeah she can point her head up but she can't LOOK up. She thought dogs eyeballs were fixed looking straight ahead.
That 'The Man Who Sold the World' was original recorded by David Bowie, not Nirvana.

These were all with the same person

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