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Even the person he's talking to doesn't know what the hell he's on about, however I don't think it should be seen as a technical explanation as such, but rather it ties into the main overarching theme of TPM, which is "symbiosis is cool and good". So in that context, the ability to use the...

Apparently no one gives the scripts any love these days. There are a lot of recent movies that could have used one or two more script treatments or drafts to let them figure out what they really wanted to say. In my opinion, this is where the problems in the prequel trilogy really stem from. AotC ap...

Dumb but watchable. Kinda felt that the prologue hinted at a much more interesting movie about a Death Star designer who gets second thoughts about building a planet killer, and his way too ambitious friend. But I guess they needed their winter blockbuster movie with wisecracking sidekicks and whate...

i thought malcolm reed was just Riker's holodream

i have brought peace and justice with my new vote

I have no idea how you got that message from the original trilogy. The first movie ended with the Death Star technological terror being destroyed by a newbie wizard with some magic help from beyond the grave. The second one...ended with the heroes fleeing to lick their wounds. The third one ended w...

i think taken on its own, what happens is a closer allegory for america in the beginning of ww2. They sit around debating whether to do something while the hitlers take over hundreds of systems no one cares about, then they fleet get all blowed up Since the empire was also america (but apparently no...

i think the opening crawl literally said "lol at those bumbling politicians who can only decide to appease the NEW HITLERS. the only hope is for general leia to find LUKE SKYWALKER so that he can create more superheroes to counter the increasing threat of the NAZIWIZARDS" it was really wei...

it was sad to hear that the message of the original trilogy was mistaken, and the people are actually helpless and lost without their supermen to save them from this

I don't even care enough to upset the balance in the poll

Wikipedia has pretty good starting diagrams. Also I had accidentally made the screen and aperture twice as big in the diffraction program so there was an error of a factor of about 4 when I compared to where the maxima in a double slit interference pattern should be (as can be calculated here ). Th...

Why wouldn't you just use a rainbow hologram so you can ditch the laser illumination? That shouldn't be much harder to simulate digitally. A version of my post got eaten by the one-hour relogin, but I had a thought it should be possible to make rainbow holograms by, for each line of pixels in the h...

The theory behind holography is super simple, basically just use an interference speckle pattern to reproduce a beam reflected off an object (not just "a beam" but the full wave front) which will appear in our eyes as an exact replica of the actual object. Look it up, it's simple af (as fu...

i also thought Ghostbusters was a documentary when i was a child who did not understand English nor jokes

then i grew up into a world full of humour but no proton packs

evilsoup wrote:be fair though, it looks like everyone else in that thread is telling this guy to fuck off

this is correct and good

have you tried sperm instead?


it's cheaper so you can use more of it even if it is not as good

it gets better for a while


then turns into a mess of huge broken-up posts and military acronyms because why not


anyway, that's my recent visit to SLAM story

Instinctively, we don't want to put women in dangerous situations because eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap etc. like, read this line a couple times, it came out of a person's keyboard and deserves your full attention "what about the EEEEEEEEGGGGGGSSSSSS :duchess: " - my instinctive resp...

Instinctively, we don't want to put women in dangerous situations because eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap etc. Now, if Ghostbusting is supposed to be intrinsically dangerous (which is how it was protrayed in the originals, albeit in a lighthearted way) then sending attractive women like Jessica A...

Once upon a time in sweden everyone beat their kids because it was the cool thing to do. But then one day god said "but wait that is not cool at all" and the political humans passed a law that said you can't do that anymore under punishment of prison. Everyone was mighty angry and stomped ...

after spending a weekend writing javascript, i conclude 95% of the errors i get are due to ridiculous things a proper language would catch at compile time, or the bizarre variable scope Have you considered playing with TypeScript or Dart? Both of those languages compile to JS but have sane typing. ...

after spending a weekend writing javascript, i conclude 95% of the errors i get are due to ridiculous things a proper language would catch at compile time, or the bizarre variable scope i always find it funny that when a language apologist tells you "now you don't have worry about memory manage...

Nationalism is a grey area for me; it can be easily perverted into terrible things (like Nazism as the obvious example, but that's only one very extreme example), but arguably without it we wouldn't have things like liberal democracy, since many countries that went down that route did so due to a b...

I watched Jurassic Park 1 and 2 again. Verdict: Wow I didn't remember these films are so stupid. And I don't mean "roffle dey think science bad", but everyone is acting like in a dumb scary movie. Especially the second. Are you kidding me that the Swedish guy gets killed by basically twent...

in the books he's actually called ronan dex

so i saw this title for a youtube talk "bringing await to c++" and i thought maybe they would do something neat there but nope it was just a fat guy from microsoft that wanted to add a new keyword (surprise) that would just be a wrapper for a ton of library dependent shit generated behind ...