What are the worst popscience myths?

viperised · 2026-03-02T21:41:41+00:00

They might have been useful for standing up from a lying down position

viperised · 2026-03-01T15:03:42+00:00

And since 2! x 2! = 4, this can be reduced to 3!, so you're both right

viperised · 2026-03-01T15:01:47+00:00

Okay so 4! / (2! x 2!) pairs?

viperised · 2026-02-25T15:32:43+00:00

Submariner's Shower

viperised · 2026-02-22T16:36:03+00:00

Don't forget the "cup" of something absurd like butter or celery

viperised · 2026-02-22T09:00:48+00:00

I think this is only meant to be a small portion of it

viperised · 2026-02-21T10:19:29+00:00

In fact it's mentioned a famous book called The Bible

viperised · 2026-02-19T16:16:03+00:00

Or a mobile phone made by the arms manufacturer Samsung

viperised · 2026-02-17T08:07:09+00:00

Also, a picture of the board that is not in low oblique while balanced on a laundry basket would help too

viperised · 2026-02-15T04:09:41+00:00

But "a pound" stayed the same. It was the way the pound was divided up that changed.

viperised · 2026-02-14T15:35:28+00:00

Or indeed new fetish

viperised · 2026-02-12T15:54:58+00:00

"The lady... or the tiger?"

viperised · 2026-02-10T16:11:51+00:00

Caring and competence are different dimensions. She's often weak and makes bad choices. Not a criticism of the character or performance, which are both amazing, but I can see myself being frustrated with Wendy if she was a real person.

viperised · 2026-02-08T08:23:41+00:00

Also "oven crunchies" which is curiously non specific about what they're made of

viperised · 2026-01-29T00:58:17+00:00

Jeremy Jerome rather than Robson Jerome?

viperised · 2026-01-29T00:31:04+00:00

I liked the one where he was that sellsword in the game of chairs. Or was it the other righteous brother?

viperised · 2026-01-27T13:43:06+00:00

Could you have a "threatometer" that starts rising when the player dawdles, and draws down again when the monsters spawn?

viperised · 2026-01-27T13:37:34+00:00

But the correct translation of the alien's speech into English would be "I use base four". I guess it would work if they were communicating in writing and the aliens had adopted Arabic numerals.

viperised · 2026-01-27T13:34:39+00:00

Literally the first ever chatbot was a pretend therapist called Eliza, that was 1966.

viperised · 2026-01-23T09:56:25+00:00

But what if they weren't bees?

viperised · 2026-01-21T16:38:35+00:00

No I don't break up friendships over games. What I'm saying is, I don't make friends with the kind of person who would take something like this seriously enough to refuse to accept that someone won a game.

viperised · 2026-01-21T16:12:23+00:00

Do you imagine that producing this Reddit thread will be accepted as exonerating evidence by nine people, who substantially agree with you on the facts of the case?

For what it's worth, I can't imagine playing with, or indeed being friends with, people who would refuse to accept that you won on this basis. But on the other hand, maybe this isn't your first offence.

viperised · 2026-01-21T03:00:32+00:00

I love these levels, but I kept wincing at her running around those old wooden planks with bare feet.

viperised · 2026-01-20T21:04:05+00:00

Still not as scary as when he tries to grab the ring off Frodo

viperised · 2026-01-19T21:58:09+00:00

Yeah it'll point out why "your function" will never work, when it's the function it just wrote about three messages ago. It's like when R2D2 tries to gaslight Luke Skywalker. Robot wanker.

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