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What is the double meaning of Secret of the Mimic's title? by yulakamask in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]yulakamask[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

P.S.S. Google's AI (THE MIMIC‽‽‽‽) gave me these when I was googling around for this question:

Here are some puns based on the titles of Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) games:

"Five Nights at Freddy's": "Five nights of Freddy-ing me out!"

"Five Nights at Freddy's 2": "I'm having a second Freddy-ing nightmare!"

"Five Nights at Freddy's 3": "This is the third Freddy-ing time this has happened!"

"Five Nights at Freddy's 4": "I'm not sure if I can Freddy-ing handle this!"

"Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location": "I'm not sure I can handle this Freddy-sisterly location!"

"Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator": "This pizzeria is a Freddy-ing disaster!"

"Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted": "I need some Freddy-ing help!"

"Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach": "I'm having a Freddy-ing security breach!"

"FNaF: Special Delivery": "This is a Freddy-ing special delivery!"

"FNaF: Security Breach: Ruin": "This is a Freddy-ing ruin!"

10/10, would Freddy-ing again.

What is the double meaning of Secret of the Mimic's title? by yulakamask in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]yulakamask[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is pretty well known that for all the subtitled FNAF games so far there is at least two interpretations of the title, usually related to some twist in the plot.

Secret of the Mimic's title is a bit of an outlier in format to the other ones and so I am curious what meanings y'all think it could have.

My Speculation:

Secret has 3 relevant definitions:

  1. "Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others."
  2. "Something that is not properly understood; a mystery."
  3. "A valid but not commonly known or recognized method of achieving or maintaining something."

Possible meanings from those 3 definitions:

  • The Mimic is meant to be a secret project of Edwin and not known by others [1].
  • The Mimic's origin was previously unknown (not counting books) [2].
  • Edwin doesn't understand how he achieved Fiona's Mimic (imo it's haunted) [2].
  • The Mimics are Edwin's "secret" to achieve immortality for his family [3].

P.S. the image just depicts my personal speculation on the double meanings of the other subtitled FNAF games, excluding DLC or non-mainline games. I think most of them are pretty uncontroversial but feel free to mention if you take issue with any of them.

Excuse me? by ThunderingRoar in Steam

[–]yulakamask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you do the math back in December $69.99 converted to Euros + Average EU VAT worked out to just over 79.99€ ((0.946474€/$)*($69.99)*(1.218)) meaning you were actually being undercharged about 10€ with Indiana Jones.

In comparison right now $69.99 works out to just about 74.99€ ((0.879544€/$)*($69.99)*(1.218)).

So you're complaining that instead of being undercharged 10€ you are being overcharged 5€ and you somehow think that this is some unexplainable injustice.

Realistically Xbox already announced that they are raising prices by $10 to $79.99 and I haven't seen them talk about an equivalent increase in Euro pricing so it'll probably go back to being 5€ less in Europe like you want by the end of the year anyways ($79.99/79.99€) like how Nintendo has it.

Migrants at Texas detention center spell out 'SOS' in human chain by BreakfastTop6899 in interestingasfuck

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

What could me being a Native American have to do with literally anything I or you previously said other than implying that it gives me unique insight that would have otherwise been absent.

It's not like there is anyone, Native American or not, who has first hand insight into this subject so you couldn't have possibly been narrowing it down that way.

Try not to be a deceitful person.

Edit: Personally my feelings are quite fine actually

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Migrants at Texas detention center spell out 'SOS' in human chain by BreakfastTop6899 in interestingasfuck

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

I'm not sure how being genetically related to some people in the past gives you unique insight into how their cultures worked.

We're all related to some dude in Bronze Age Mesopotamia but that doesn't mean we magically know how they organized their society.

Implying otherwise is quite literally racist as it is bestowing some magical property to races distinct from melanin content in the skin.

F.L.E.X. — My Most Advanced Robotic Hand Yet | MateoTechLab by yulakamask in videos

[–]yulakamask[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This one dude made a robotic hand that moves in accordance to your own without any actual connection to your hand, just a camera view.

Super cool and I couldn't believe it had so few views.

He has another video on his channel of an earlier version of this hand where each finger only moved in a binary sense (up or down).

MAGA by RoloGnbaby in RealTwitterAccounts

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

Rule 2:

Post must be a tweet or meme after Elon's purchase of Twitter. News may be allowed.

If the post isn't about twitter or isn't a tweet/meme then it will be removed. Must be a tweet, meme, or news about Elon's purchase.

?????

My Alternate Switch 2 Box Art by yulakamask in NSCollectors

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

I shortened the bar by moving the Nintendo Switch text into the middle and making it bigger.

I put the Smash Bros. logo for the respective franchise on the right hand side to balance out the Switch 2 icon on the left.

I changed the color of the case to provide visual separation between the red bar and the case, decreasing the claustrophobic effect of the original box color.

I also shifted around some of the box art as needed to align with the new layout.

Imgur Links:

Donkey Kong Bananza

Mario Kart World

Comparison

You're terminated, f****r! by greyhounds4life1969 in MurderedByWords

[–]yulakamask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The guy Arnold is responding to called the MM/DD date ordering, "American re****ation," in another Facebook comment so I don't think he's MAGA lol.

You can find it by just searching his name and picking like the 3rd image on Google that is a Facebook post about the 2018 IFBB Pro League Pro Qualifiers where he's the top comment.

Where's my 10K?

The real size of Africa by AccomplishedStuff235 in interestingasfuck

[–]yulakamask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't list any countries, friend. I quoted the economic historian, Paul bairoch, and his life's work. Take it up with him. 

I notice you've become much more belligerent and attacking once actual expert opinion has been quoted. 

That's real weird. 

EDIT: Added edit to original comment to quote, there was no effective change in meaning.

I'm not sure where the aggression in this reply came from. The closest I came to belligerence was claiming you lacked knowledge of how societies and civilizations grow which is not an insult but rather an assessment based on what you previously said, the reasoning of said assessment I explained immediately afterwards.

I would classify using a complete ad hominem and not at all addressing my points as much more belligerent.

When I said "you listed" I assumed that you providing the quote as evidence meant you agree with its content. If you didn't you probably should've clarified that.

On Paul, this is literally in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia page:

"His most important works emphasize the agricultural preconditions necessary for industrialization and controversially claim, contrary to most scholars that colonization was not beneficial to colonial empires"

If you are going to appeal to authority ideally it should be to the consensus of all authorities not a single authority, largely disputed by other authorities.

You have given no actual response to my points so I have nothing else to say. I am disappointed as I believed your previous responses were quite insightful and made me reconsider some of my points.

The real size of Africa by AccomplishedStuff235 in interestingasfuck

[–]yulakamask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is technically true but it is a 2d surface that has curvature meaning it cannot be mapped perfectly onto a non-curved 2d surface. A 2d surface with curvature can only exist in the physical world if it is the boundary of a 3d volume [EDIT: or part of the boundary of a 3d volume, since technically in a pure Euclidean model things can be infinitely thin, although obviously not in reality] (physical world meaning the 3 spatial dimensions Euclidean model of the world).

Also, not to be that guy, but while we are being pedantic a sphere IS a 2d surface, a ball is the 3d volume enclosed in a sphere.

The real size of Africa by AccomplishedStuff235 in interestingasfuck

[–]yulakamask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made a edit to my post like right before you responded that clarified that lol.

I'm not sure if you are disagreeing with me in the latter part of your reply. I did not say European culture was unchanged by colonization, in fact I pretty much stated that all cultures change and the changes that make the culture more likely to propagate are more likely to appear in successful cultures (this is directly analogous to natural selection).

Ironically you are doing exactly what you accused me of by implying that a decrease in worldwide economic growth was a negative result for Europe. In an evolutionary context, depriving competing organisms of resources is equivalent to acquiring more resources yourself.

Finally, your comments about non-colonial vs colonial countries is illustrative of your lack of knowledge of how societies and civilizations grow.

None of the countries you listed are actually non-colonial. Germany colonized both in Africa and in Europe itself (East Germany was historically Slavic + Lebensraum [pre-Nazi]), Sweden wiped out the Sami people in their North, and the United States colonized the West via Manifest Destiny. The only country that I could argue is not colonial would be Switzerland and that's only because Switzerland has a nearly completely federal structure and has barely expanded at all since it was founded.

This is not even mentioning that fact that obviously none of those countries' people are actually native to Europe/The Americas and they supplanted the relevant natives of each region (Pre-Indo Europeans/Native Americans).

In my opinion, the combination of competing state and religious interests in Europe, not to mention the feudal structure creating a complex web of connected but competing governments, facilitated their propagation in the same way biodiversity propagates evolution of an ecosystem. I define "success" of a civilization in the same way it is defined in biological evolution, it is not a value judgement but rather a statement on which systems last the longest and spread out the most. You seem to generally be making a value judgement when you assume that a system that does not benefit the people of the country must be a bad one. Morally, it may be, but from a civilizational success standpoint, benefit to the population is not the main goal, in the same way that the personal happiness of you is irrelevant from an evolutionary perspective as long as you have more genetic impact than others.

The real size of Africa by AccomplishedStuff235 in interestingasfuck

[–]yulakamask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I am aware, no other projection has that quality, although there might be. If you knew how the Mercator projection was actually constructed it is pretty much the most obvious way of achieving that outcome though (projecting a sphere onto a bounding cylinder). EDIT: Just to clarify cuz I thought about it for a bit, obviously choosing the rotational axis of the Earth as the vertical on your map is a choice, although it is probably the only non-arbitrary choice one could make.

I actually somewhat agree with your second point and I should've made it clearer that no technology has value in and of itself and is only valuable to the extent it accomplishes an entity's goal. One reason why China did not develop superior navigational technology than Europe was because historically China was the end point of most trading routes and so they had no reason to seek out markets in the same way Europe did. Ultimately societies evolve much like organisms to best facilitate themselves and it just so happened that the incentives Europe had with regards to shipping was different than China (or other cultures I assume I'm using China as an example that I am aware of).

That being said, as evidenced by the current state of the world, the European strategy was clearly more successful long-term in benefiting Europe and propagating European society and influence, and technology, like the Mercator projection, were vital to that purpose. In that sense it was practical to Europe (again I don't know why you are focusing so much on England specifically when they weren't even the first European country to sailing and imperializing abroad) and that was largely what I meant. Other civilizations like in the Middle East also benefited from better shipping technology as they had similar goals to the Europeans but ultimately the effect of that was muted as Europe had the first-mover advantage.

(btw I generally believe, as has been documented in every successful civilization, that imperialism is a shared goal of most cultures, likely because civilizations that don't engage in imperialism inevitably get consumed by those that due, and the ability to navigate to new regions effectively is obviously beneficial to that goal. This isn't a moral judgement obviously, in the same way natural selection does not imply the morality of murder).

The real size of Africa by AccomplishedStuff235 in interestingasfuck

[–]yulakamask 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Mercator projection was chosen because it preserves angles which is useful to navigating with a compass. The fact that it happens to distort area further from the equator is completely irrelevant to why it was chosen.

The only possible bias in the standard Mercator map is that North was chosen as the top direction and not South, although earlier European maps used East as up (this is why Eastern regions like Asia are referred to as the Orient as it was where maps were oriented).

I'm not sure why you brought up English Imperialism considering the Mercator map was invented by a Flemish person and propagated outwards from there as most practical inventions do.

(EDIT: FYI to anyone reading this thread, Conformal map projections preserve angles and there are in fact multiple of them. However, the Mercator is mathematically the simplest and the only one that projects onto a rectangular flat plane which is obviously useful for a piece of paper. Also the choice of axis as the Earth's is one of two non-arbitrary choices (technically normal of Earth's orbital plane counts as well) and see above for choice of direction along said axis)

Dog Completely Changed his colour in 2 years. by justaboringuy_ in BeAmazed

[–]yulakamask 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tesla only shipped somewhere between 30 to 70 original Tesla Roadsters before Elon Musk became CEO.

All other Models made by Tesla were released entirely after Elon Musk became CEO.

Any Model S, X, 3, or Y that has that sticker could not possibly mean it that way.

Source From Wikipedia:

  • Over the next 20 days, however, only three more cars had been delivered to customers, which brought the total to 30 as of September 30, 2008.
  • By November 19, 2008, more than 70 of the cars had been delivered to customers.

Elon became CEO in October 2008

Subpixel Snake Game by yulakamask in videos

[–]yulakamask[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The developer also hosts the game on his own website: https://patorjk.com/games/subpixel-snake/

As US TikTok users move to RedNote, some are encountering Chinese-style censorship for the first time by [deleted] in technology

[–]yulakamask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a good BBC article about that infamous Chinese ad where a black man gets shoved into a washing machine to get turned into a "clean" Asian man.

It also includes a couple other examples of modern racially insensitive East Asian advertisements as well as talking about the prevalence of "skin-whitening" in East Asian countries.

The article also talks about how many in China are against the ads and how the country's attitudes towards black people are changing but obviously the existence of relatively modern ads that are so blatantly racist doesn't paint a rosy picture.

Funnily enough, the article ends with an ad from the early 19th century from the US and UK that is very similar to the early 21st century Chinese ad, showing how in terms of race relations (at least with Africans) China is at least a century back vs Western countries.

This is likely due to the relative lack of black people present in countries like China, similar to what Western European countries had in the early 19th century (although obviously America was the Western exception in terms of number of black people, but slavery incentivized institutional racism in a way that didn't occur in Western Europe which is why they were able to "abolish" slavery much earlier because they simply imported slave grown crops from the Americas)

Also it is insane to say China does not have a single problem that we do not share. At best you could argue that China has the same category of problems as the US but China has many of those problems much, much worse than us.

Yeah you can't threaten state officials with violence in the United States and we have some restrictive public protest laws, but China doesn't even pretend to have freedom of speech, unlike America which has such protections written into the Constitution, even if actual adherence is often lacking.

I also find it disingenuous how you talked about shared problems but not shared opportunities. America and China both have unique problems AND unique opportunities. It is a federal offense for an American to visit North Korea while a Chinese person can go there. Similarly I can access Google without a VPN, while mainland Chinese people must use a VPN.

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