Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
Assuming our contestants are fighting in, say, a boxing ring, and aren't allowed to run away or use tools
Feels unfair. Our biggest advantage is our brains and the dexterity needed for tool-making. But fine.
28% of people didn't think they could take a rat, and 40% thought they would lose to a goose. The biggest geese are about 5 kg.
At the other end, 8% of people thought they could take an African elephant. Low, sure, but still...who are those 8%? 9% of people thought they could take a saltwater crocodile. 6% thought they'd beat a grizzly bear.
I binged this show like 3 or 4 times in one year shortly after it ended. It's been a while since I've watched it. I really need to go again, because it's so great. The whole cast is amazing, but Andre Braugher especially just brings another level. RIP.
This is a compilation of three earlier Angela Collier videos:
It was pretty damn cool finally seeing a real Tag win. And the second-place contest is setting itself up to be really cool.
They got so lucky with every single aspect. Starting so close to their zone. Delays that every time meant they were just able to make their connection. Noticing the map on their train showed them they needed to go to a separate station for the cog train. Finding that cog train quickly. Having just enough coins (despite not planning for it!) to take the cog train.
That's probably a big part of why this took so long to be described by science.
Googling that, it doesn't look like it. The first one I mentioned was completely rectangular, not an odd shape. It's the Bandai Digimon toy.
The second one I think may have been Scannerz, which I'm guessing used the same connector as the Digimon toy just because it was what was available. But it's possible (at an outside chance) that I'm misremembering and it was the D-Scanner, a Digimon-branded equivalent to Scannerz. No useful data was being transferred when connecting the two together, just power.
A third possibility is that there was some third toy I'm forgetting about which is what I was able to connect to the Digimon toy to power it.
I never had a Tamagotchi, but the little rectangular Digimon versions of them were all the rage when I was like 8. I kinda miss those things.
And I recall a year or two later getting another toy...may or may not have been Digimon branded...that had the same connector on the top, but was more rounded in shape. I remember after my battery on one died, holding the two together to try and keep it alive through the power the other one was sending it. Of course it only worked as long as I was physically holding them, and would then reset.
Personally I've not bought a WotC product since some months before the OGL crisis...apart from buying a ticket to see the movie. But I don't think it's particularly hypocritical to call them out. Taking an ad is a much bigger support than buying a single product.
But anyway, for me that's a tertiary concern at best. Much more problematic was that they had no indication in the video itself that it was sponsored. Thankfully, on their own platform, they were able to edit in an opening card stating that. Unfortunately, it's only about 4 seconds long, and there's nothing in the title and nothing that someone mostly listening only will notice. Still a lot better than the original upload I guess.
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I'll add, not me personally, but I do know two people who had a similar arrangement. I don't know the precise details of the reasons, but I believe it had something to do with dysfunctional parents or finances. In both of those cases, the couple are now happily married and well-integrated into the broader extended family.
Team Ben getting on the plane with zero drama was a bit of a letdown, after the literal months long buildup to it.
The simultaneous snack zone was exactly what I needed to see.
The end of the episode is so exciting. I can't see Adam and Michelle losing at this point.
They were lax on their disclosure of the sponsorship themselves, with no mention of it in the video or the title. Only down in the description. A lot of anger at that over on Reddit, as well as for the fact that the sponsor is WotC specifically, and for the idea of taking a sponsorship at all. I take the view that I'd rather they didn't take a WotC sponsorship, but it's not the worst option in the world. And that as long as it's a vanishingly small percentage of overall Nebula content, integrated sponsorships are ok. My issue is specifically the lack of adequate disclosure of the ad.
But I only even went to Reddit to comment something entirely unrelated. I don't love that they're back to collecting bugs and moving them around. It just...doesn't sit well with me. They're wild animals. Leave them alone. (I did take the opportunity, while there, to give a soft promo for Lemmy and the fediverse.)
I was once playing in a classical concert. In one piece that my instrument wasn't needed for, I was given the job of controlling the volume knob on the amplifier we used to connect to the keyboard (with organ sounds), so the organist could play a range of dynamics.
I had not turned off my phone.
I got a text during the middle of the concert. Sitting right next to the amplifier.
Turns out a lot of European countries are still buying Russian fossil fuels. Bad because any fossil fuels are bad, and doubly bad because it helps to fund Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
I haven't actually watched The Simpsons in over a decade. So the suggestion that they should end the show, or failing that, let the characters age, doesn't bother me. The latter could actually be an interesting jolt of new energy the show needs to regain interest.
The video had a disappointing lack of clear side-by-side comparisons of the voice though, to be able to really understand the extent that it's a real issue. I assume that's to avoid getting caught in the YouTube copyright bullshit. And though he mentioned Moe and Otto, we got no samples from either of them.
I had to go searching for what you meant by this because I must have missed it when it happened.
From what I could tell, that isn't quite what happened. It was an overblown response to them adding an update detection system, which necessarily calls out to a server to check for updates. It can be turned off in the settings if you prefer. Of course, because it's open source, you would always be able to build it yourself if you want an absolute guarantee that even that is not occurring.
The new Audacity logo:
“hmm so these women abandon their ‘motherly’ duties of raising children and staying in the home
More than that! When Lucy is turned into a vampire, she feeds on children. She turns into the very opposite of the motherly feminine ideal. The same is true of Dracula's brides, who feed on a baby in one of the early chapters. Dracula, by contrast, feeds on adults. He shows an interest in Jonathan (bisexual? Eww, that's not natural!—side note, Stoker himself was likely bi) but most of his attention is focused on women like Lucy and Mina. The expectation of a gentleman being a chivalrous protector of ladies is inverted.
There's also the fact that Lucy, who early in the book expresses her wish to marry all three of the men who proposed to her:
Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?
It's the very sexually-forward woman who ends up succumbing to vampirism and being killed for it. But not before receiving the bodily fluids from all three of those propositioners—plus van Helsing. The sexual undertones of the blood transfusions are hardly subtle, but this also ties into another major theme of the book, which is how powerful modern science and technology can be as a tool to defeat strange unnatural superstition.
We've recently been doing a Dracula bookclub over at !vampires@lemmy.zip, reading through each diary entry/letter/newspaper clipping on the day it is set. We are, as we speak, amid the section between when Lucy has died and arisen as a vampire, but before she has her final death at the hands of the crew of light. In fact, as soon as I'm done with this thread I'm gonna go and do today's reading, and I think that might be Lucy's last. edit: I was wrong. Lucy unlives for another night...or two...
I don't think I had seen him in anything before 99. But he really was great. Top 2 moments for me are the rant about etymology in The Box, and "yas queen" when he pulls the "gay card".