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little bit too sweet, corn flakes by themselves are probably better

well I was gonna say that with wheels maybe you'd have center of mass issues, but then I remembered we already have pretty awesome bipedal wheeled robots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c

I do think footed bipedal robots have the advantage of being able to move their feet to balance, whereas wheeled bots have their feet more or less fixed and have to move their arms and torso to balance.

footed bot for comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk

it does still need to use its arms I guess but maybe not as much

Robert Pattinson, Idris Elba, or Michael Fassbender

I guess I don't know what is meant by "bipedal tank"? do you just mean battlemechs? battlemechs are bipedal, tanks are not.

well, that's the premise. what if... very large bipedal vehicles became the dominant military asset?

Zeus posted...

Now, is that fishing with magnets or fishing for magnets? I have so many questions!

as far as I know it's fishing for metallic objects using a strong magnet

sodium-chloride posted...

you have no idea what you're talking about

please elaborate

if I recall he's a bit not-great mentally in his middle years

Stephen Fry or Jeremy Clarkson

mirrors aren't a rotation. they invert everything along their normal axis (into/away-from the mirror).

so your reflection is not you having rotated around to stand facing yourself; it's you with your nose inverted with the back of your head. everything from the front has been push through to the back and vice-versa.

so in the image, notice that is what is happening on the right. everything is inverted through the axis of reflection.

I'd shovel my own driveway

by which I mean I wouldn't shovel it and would just hope general use would keep it flattened enough, and once my car was for sure going to get stuck (or actually stuck) then I'd shovel it

I only know him from Fight Club but it still sucks

that's way too broad, you would have to be more specific

apparently not, that is precisely what happened to Star Theory who were working on KSP2. Take-Two wanted to buy them, but they refused, so Take-Two just created a new company Intercept Games and hired a chunk of Star Theory's staff and rescinded their contract.

I would almost say they're underrated. everyone says they're crap but they're actually not that bad depending what you get and how fresh it is.

pionear posted...

Well, since they still have Atmospheres, Magnetic Fields, etc I think they fall into the Category of 'Planet'...whereas Brown Dwarfs, Suns, Nebulas, etc all have different properties

I feel like a "planet" should be something I can land on and get out and walk around on, at least in principle. something with a surface. a giant ball of gas is something else.

this makes me wonder about liquid planets though... you could have an oceanic planet, but you could also have a nearly entirely liquid planet.

I guess the question always is, where do you draw the line? a planet with so much atmosphere and so little "ground" that the atmosphere itself is eventually solid?

I guess to me, it has to be a "world". there has to be something that it is like to be on it. I can stand on the surface and experience its surface. or I can at least swim in its surface. a gas giant is so far removed from that it's not the same thing.

I guess we want hard categories with clear distinctions, but in reality everything is in a very granular spectrum and the more we explore the less clear the distinctions become.

2009 is not 2 decades ago

although, that just makes it worse...

friendly reminder that "Atari" is really Infogrames

seems interesting but obviously would have to have good games/software to make it worthwhile, like any system

mrduckbear posted...

Are you one of the low percentage of people who does know how to ride a bicycle?

what? ok, you confused me there for a bit. so 6% of people _don't_ know, ok.

for a second I was thinking it was only 6% that _did_ know which seemed more than a bit odd

rode a bike all over as a kid and a little as an adult. fantastically better than walking.

I was thinking the other day, why do we consider gas giants to be "planets" if we don't consider something like pluto or ceres? gas giants really do seem like a categorically different thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwb8k95l-h4

hmmm either noodles, spaghetti, or just tims, not sure yet

cool the weather program says "Snow Squall Watch"

10/10 that's possibly the single best one

I have allergies/sinus problems so it's not always easy to tell for sure if I'm sick or not. I have some symptoms the past few days that could be it. they do include partial loss of taste. I am double-vaxed.

I like it but I rarely eat it

cool looking cloud formations, sunrise/sunset, trees and snow/ice

definitely meatballs. maybe chicken for alfredo.

why is Anachronox in that list? it definitely needs a followup, it left off on a cliffhanger and probably will never be continued.

thanks to this thread I found that I can order Ichiban on amazon. got a 24-pack box of yaki soba delivered in 1 day and have a similar pack of shrimp noodles coming on the weekend.

two that come to mind are

Fantasy Zone (NES/SMS)
King Arthur's World (SNES) (I feel like I'm the only one in the world that likes this game)

this is actually something I would like to know more about but I don't think talking about it here would be very productive

the issue between Paul and Fauci is that Fauci said they "were not funding gain of function research there", and then it was learned that yes, USA was funding research there, but then Fauci says "yeah but it's not gain of function", and then Paul says "it's gain of function by your own definition", and then Fauci says "nuh-uh", and that's as far as I've seen that go so far. (haven't seen video in OP yet.)

I guess Winter by a lot. I never really cared for "track and field" stuff.

Hockey, Luge, Bobsled, Speedskating, Ski jumping, Snowboarding, Alpine Skiing

I think a lot of winter related events are a fair bit more exciting than summer because almost all of them tend to have speed as a major component (also makes them more dangerous though).

I guess that's a yes

it's weird how it all feels like I'm looking at something but it's actually all just noise and gibberish. there's almost not a single discernable thing.

is that an ai generated comic

the things that makes me think of are Minecraft (specifically walling up and defending a village), or Rimworld.

Lokarin posted...

You notice the town is unlikely to survive the next attack but you don't exactly have the resources of the king to upgrade towers yourself, so it becomes a trading game; You grow plants, or mine material, or hunt monsters (basic survival caz stuff) and realize it will never be enough, not by yourself. So you start to build roads, arrange caravans, trade with neighbouring tower towns.

After that it just is a matter of scale...

that there sounds a lot like RimWorld.

another game it makes me think of is Majesty. basically, there is an RPG town beset by monsters, but you don't have direct control of the RPG characters; rather you build up the town which gives the automated RPG characters the resources they need to go fight the monsters. the money the RPG characters spend in your town you use to upgrade the services further, etc.

sucks. he was good friends with Norm and posted a very heartfelt response to Norm's death and now he's gone too...

Elden Ring
Kerbal Space Program 2
maybe Starfield
System Shock 3... which is apparently now System Shock 1 remake

the only game I can think of in which I can hug anything is WoW

/hug

"truly great" is maybe hard to say, but there are some good ones. they basically all have some lower-quality/annoying issues though, so no, I can't say they're "truly great", though I might think differently if I had just watched them in the past few weeks/months.

Encounter at Farpoint
Where No One Has Gone Before (except for Wesley)
The Big Goodbye (I think I liked it more as a kid)
Datalore
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
Conspiracy (this one could maybe be great but it's not perfect either and one might think it's silly too)

11001001 is supposed to be good but I don't think I liked it that much

Kyuubi4269 posted...

That's a feature? I've never known one without.

there are other mechanisms that can be used to distribute the heat more evenly. and even a turntable or other mechanism doesn't do a perfect job either. so the pocket thingy I guess just helps add even more evenness. the more evenness the better, but once you have enough you have enough.

could be it distributes the heat, but if you have certain features in your microwave, like a turntable, maybe you're already getting that

if you microwave something stationary and then look at it with an infrared camera you can see that the heat goes through it like a very thick laser only at specific points, leaving other points completely unheated

Dungeon of the Endless

it's not pure tower defence, it's just a part of the gameplay. plays like a rogue-like RPG where you open doors and each opened door has a chance of spawning a wave that you need to take out.

will have a sequel soon too now that I recall

streamofthesky posted...

Spitting on someone is assault (and yes, it was before COVID, too)
Throwing a beverage on someone is assault

you don't even need to make contact. just making someone worried that you might hurt them is assault. harmless contact that carried some threat of harm would also be assault. actually harming them would be battery.

Lokarin posted...

https://www.livescience.com/chinas-1-trillion-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-just-got-five-times-hotter-than-the-sun

even if that's a lie I hope it at least spurs other countries to work even harder in that direction

the second one I think

first is cold on warm
third is warm on cold
both of those feel weird
second is cold on cold

I did play it yes

based on recommendations here, I've tried oven, and it works but you do end up with a tad overcooked very crunchy pizza.

Revelation34 posted...

Everybody knows verbatim means "not at all".

I guess it must have been sarcasm, mocking the way Fauci says things/lies. I took it too literally.

I was wondering what "shorts" were and why they were always vertical