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Quote from: Starver on August 25, 2020, 11:45:28 am

Would the 'smallest part of an idea' be considered a m(emory-c)odon? Or a m(emory-b)ase?

(Cue frantic scramble to shoehorn something into "moron". Or, indeed, just "base".)

I don't think ideas really have "smallest parts" in any concrete way and we shouldn't overthink this. 

Sure they do, or at least as concrete as anything to do with ideas. The term's just "axiom". It's the point of a concept where you can't chip anything else off and you're stuck pulling something out your proverbial ass.

There's other terms when dealing with linguistic expression and whatnot, though. I don't remember them, 'cause most of the time I just don't care, but they exist. People have been talking epistemology and shit for centuries, there's words for this stuff if you care to go looking for them.

Quote from: LordBaal on August 25, 2020, 07:31:03 am

What if they wanna charge taxes on pi units, or lift raise limit of the speed of light in their state?

The first would de incentivize precision, the second is physically impossible

I mean, you can raise the limit of the speed of light all you want, actually? Anyone can say light can go faster than it does. It's just not going to make light actually go any faster.

Raising the speed limit to 20,000 miles per hour wouldn't make people drive that fast, either ('cause they, y'know, can't). Same concept.

I think that means they've achieved integeral immortality, and your best operation plan is to throw them into every conflict you can until they reach overflowlightenment and produce The Biggest Number. Good luck!

More seriously I seem to vaguely recall that just being a bug. Not sure if there's any fixing it, you can try letting them sit around for a bit and seeing if it clears up by itself.

I mean. Prices would tank, but you'd also have a glut of resources, that might even be casually locally acquired. That's... not just as deadly. It's not deadly at all, even. More like really, really good. Businesses would get reorganized and there'd be disruptions, sure, but it's way, way better of an outcome than depletion, which just leaves you fucked with no particular recourse if there's no substitute...

I mean, there was a point there weren't any humans in north america, so probably at some time during that period it was honest. Been hella' conditional ever since we showed up, tho'.

I mean, I remember spending a week downloading a ~200 meg demo. What was once huge is no longer huge.

Part of it's probably to blame on bigger harddrives and whatnot, yeah. Other parts on constant pressure for higher fidelity and whatnot, probably a good bit on better internet infrastructure. When 50-100+ gigs only takes a day or two or whatever and takes up less than a tenth of your available HD space, excess isn't seen as quite so excessive.

... it's still totally excessive and devs should probably have that shit be a free launch DLC or something if they really bloody must have it, but people are more willing to tolerate it when the imposition isn't much, if at all, worse.

E: Seriously, a lot of games these days could learn from the fairly regular old practice of installation options. It used to be pretty common to be able to choose how much fancy bloat or extra cruft you wanted prior to actually installing it. We could use more of that on, like, Steam or whatever.

Quote from: MrRoboto75 on August 19, 2020, 07:02:54 pm

I can go outside any day of the week and find people not wearing masks correctly or not distancing correctly.  I've literally seen it every day.

Whereas I rarely have, if at all. Like I said, bad extrapolation — actual *studies* find compliance rates around 90%.

Could you cite that one? 90% compliance rate is certainly staggering horseshit for pretty much the entirety of North Florida at a minimum, and a quick google A) couldn't find reference to it and B) did have mention of around a 65% consistent use rate for masks when going into business, among adults. It's be interesting to see how the hell someone's getting that number.

Just found out about Hazbin Hotel.

Watched the pilot and suddenly I have a new addiction.

Timeline:

*sees post, scopes pilot*

Wow, that has porn.

*checks*

Ho yez. Yez, eet do.

Also totally digging the art style and character design. Thing's got moxie. Not sure about the whole song and dance thing, but the pilot was pretty entertaining even muted, ha. Something to keep an eye on whenever the series hits, I guess...