Shit white people say Am I suppose to disagree with what the people in the article said? Ignoring the author's style and specifically the implication that these people were scared of what was happening since those involved were black, the quotes hold true for the most part. For example: "When ...

In watching some video of the protests last night, and someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at a building, the protesters concern me more than the police. I give police the benefit of the doubt due to all the good they do, of course not to say they get a free pass in anyway, just reminding myself to ...

I think this is the first Unskippable game that I've actually enjoyed the opening cutscene not including Paul and Graham narrating. It was actually pretty well put together.

Definitely on board for saying someone should play this

Alright, post time! Here's our CNT coated pieces. This is the only picture we really have of them (I asked probably a dozen times before I got this single one) outside the design. I would want a better one, but oh well. The pics inside aren't really as cool looking since you can't see anything. http...

Hey! I can talk about the black stuff! While not this name brand, my year long project I finished a couple months ago used CNTs on metal substrates to eliminate light for optical telescopes (well, the idea at least). From the place we got them from, a square tube 6 in long cost around $100,000 (luck...

Bleh, I hate how messy quotes can get so I'll just address some things by person since the sections are fairly divided up by topic. J_S_Bach: For that email topic, looking at the actual messages, these things are a paragraph long. I will definitely say they are different tones, but they are structur...

"In a world where computers are as smart as people... well, actually that's very concerning."

I definitely enjoyed this one

Case in point why I don't trust "egalitarians": -denial of patriarchy -bogus assertion that feminism fails to understand societal forces driving pay gap -defence of victim blaming, and invocation of "false claims" in discussion of rape culture. These do not represent the positio...

Feminism isn't strictly about fighting for basic human rights, sure there is some overlap but it's about de-constructing the societal advantages that men get simply because being male is something society approves of. To change the argument to one of Human Rights neglects many of the problems cause...

Alright, hopefully I show and break down how I stand on stuff like this, before more people assume I'm some sort bigot. I would definitely call myself an egalitarian. Basic human rights should not be imposed by some characteristic you were born with. Feminism by definition is the fight to have these...

I read an article a long time ago that antimatter was the most expensive price/kg material in the universe. Is that still the case?

I did see a xkcd about a rare stamp that came out to $30 billion/kilogram, so wondering if that holds.

I'm gonna address a thing or two but then I'm done with this afterwards, as this is not even remotely what this thread started as. The problem isn't deeper than the boy's club, the boy's club is deeper, larger, and more omnipresent than you could possibly imagine, and you've been trained your entire...

I’m going to take it slow, understand how components work, and build the road on facts and reasoning. If there’s counter arguments or improvements, as in a study over a Gallup poll, I will go back and fix it. That’s how I work. You mean, like the scientific field of sociology, which arrived at the ...

I do have a preference for scientific study over sociology, drawing conclusions after the fact is a lot more beneficial, but I have a perfect understanding of how studies work, and have taken classes on statistics. The math behind the type II beta calculation can be fine, that doesn’t make it immune...

I'll do a quick reply about the "favor hiring or mentoring them over equally qualified women" study before I head to work. In briefly looking it over, I see two major faults in the study. 1. Sample Size n=127, and since they couldn't have they same people look at the same resume, it was 63...

For the rest, there are men that are aggressive. There are men who are submissive. Same for girls. Can I note, by the way, that it comes across as passively sexist to refer to "men" (a word we use for adults) and "girls" (a word we use for children) in your point? This is infant...

So the engineers you're talking about probably THINK they're prizing someone's ability to do the job over all other things, but chances are they aren't. The study was specifically designed to debunk the common inaccurate assumption that you're putting forth in your post: that people in various scie...

I know female and male armour is practically identical. I mean, suites of armour were sort of mass-produced to a certain measurement. The only time you could have customised armour is when you commissioned it. Look at Brienne's armour from Game of Thrones. That suite could probably be also worn by ...

How many games are there where you can ONLY play a female character? Off the top of my head I can only think of Tomb Raider, Metroid, Portal and some indies. Compared to the 1000s of games that are male only. Oh, there's Super Princess Peach too Link here There's a list of many, but not just ONLY. ...

We intentionally didn't mention a game specifically. You don't even know what kind of game they're making. It actually sounds more like Skyrim than anything else, which makes the complaint even more valid. Of course, but my brain went to the real life recent issue before I understood the details of...

Love the video, just sad that people keep harping on this. There is a vast difference between a game where you play a static character, like Halo, and a game where you play a dynamic character, like Skyrim. Yeah, I thought the same, but putting that point aside, I did really enjoy the committee dis...

I am told that the height of each successive hill and inversion should be progressively lower. I do not know why it's bad to have a much smaller hill and then slightly higher hill. . To maintain the most energy and to get the most vertical displacement for your buck, it should be in descending orde...

I usually don't notice these threads until the day after lol.


Happy Birthday Paul!

I don't understand this opposition towards classification. We're humans, we can recognize similarities in a factual sense, there is no emotions or opinions attached to this basic idea. The advantage? If you like one game, you can see what is similar to branch out and try new things that you are like...

Merrymaker_Mortalis wrote:I'm torn between collecting my summer sale cards or selling them.
I've never crafted a badge so I have no idea if it's even worth doing it.

The last couple days I would have said sell, but in the last 12 hours, the price has dropped by half, so I would craft a badge.