nyahlathotep @sh.itjust.works Not a sentient pile of alley cats in a trench coat. You ask a lotta questions.
if I can get a solid 60fps with ray-traced reflections, I'll take that over 144. Reflections and shadows do a lot for me
immediately what I thought of when I read this post. Even when I was 10 I was like "this is weird..."
I won't go so far as to use the word "normie" like this is 4chan, but I will say: I think it's fine. I'd rather have slow growth, thanks. I'm not the arbiter of what kind of users we should attract or anything, but if they have a problem with our silly name I don't want to hang out with them.
He has US citizenship, at least according to wikipedia. Much as I hate him the government can't just revoke that afaik
What I love every time I see this comic is that Alex knew he would be persecuted for his art, and has accepted it.
They fought each other all the time.
Right, Europeans have never fought each other or others for frivolous reasons
spoiler
- red
- no gender
- just an outline, maybe a bit tall?
- it was around the size of a softball
- the table was circular and small for a table, like maybe two could sit at it. I didn't imagine a material.
- I imagined more about the ball than anything else, it was made of a spongy material like in those sponge brushes for painting, and it was red. The person was a complete blank slate. The table was only circular, nothing else.
give the supreme court more time to backslide
I think it's saying the third little pig (the rich one) is in league with the wolves. It literally has blood on its hooves
This is at least the third time. FFXIV was terrible at launch and was fixed a couple of years later with the release of 2.0
the whole "Deckard's a replicant thing" is lame because it ruins his character arc if he is. IMO the whole film is a comparison of the human Deckard who coldly murders replicants without mercy (like a machine) vs the replicant Roy who kills with passion, and eventually grants mercy to his enemy. The replicant is "more human than human", and the human is more machine-like than the machine. Deckard's story is going from a robot-man to someone who actually feels alive and concern for someone other than himself at the end.
"You childless losers probably spend all your time rescuing cats from trees!" Vance reportedly yelled as he ran off stage, mascara streaming down his face.
AFAIK it's donations, and some companies charge for support if not the base software
Reminds me of this genuine photo of bison skulls from the late 1800s
The US government encouraged mass hunting of bison to force Native Americans to give up their way of life that depended on them and move to reservations where they would be "allowed" to live. Unless something valuable was discovered on that land later.
When colonists first started arriving there were upwards of 60 million bison in North America, traveling in vast herds that provided much of what various nomadic tribes needed to live on. At the lowest point in the late 1800s there were around 541 known animals in existence. Now there are around 500,000 in NA, the vast majority of which live on ranches and are farmed for meat. There are around 20,000 living on conservation lands.
It's great when dystopic defense contractors take names from the things I love! Palmer Luckey started one called Anduril, and I just can't tell you how much I love these fucking shits co-opting Tolkien's words in their endeavors to profit on oppression and murder.
The Things by Peter Watts
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Things by Peter Watts
Companion to the John Carpenter film The Thing.
Should we set a 24 hour voting period on c/Agora?
Currently there is no rule for when a vote is over, or when the vote is tallied. I propose we allow 24 hours from post creation to allow everyone in the community to have a chance to see and consider a proposal and vote. After 24 hours from post creation, the 'polls' would close and the votes can be tallied. Any votes cast after 24 hours would be invalid.
Edit: some good points made, I withdraw this proposal