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[Loud Whispers]

They know where they're coming from

[scriver]

Beautful

I hope they show it in Fittja folk theatre

[Rockeater]

Not intentionally funny, but comparing this to some modern internet congestion is just hilarious

[Naturegirl1999]

Not intentionally funny, but comparing this to some modern internet congestion is just hilarious

I liked this video.

[Rolan7]

So four years ago Shut Up & Sit Down played a Goddamn Megagame.  About 60 people in a community center, split into 4-person nations (and an alien faction), had to navigate Earth's first contact.  It was *glorious*.  I've shared it before but I will spoil nothing, and I randomly went back to rewatch it today.

Turns out they released a sequel just last month!  And good gravy, the scale has ramped up... maybe tenfold, literally.  The chaos and difficulty of basic communications is just sublime.  Major props to the camera crew and editors for forging a narrative from a game where the prime minister basically shut down from the sheer amount of information to process.  The same team played Japan again, along with some new cabinet members, in:
Watch The Skies 2

It got weird.

[pisskop]

hey, this is really intertesting.

[dragdeler]

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[TD1]

I think you mean Cathy, not Kate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-4lXLM34g

[dragdeler]

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[wierd]

This was recently posted to a discord I lurk in.



My reaction?

"If I want to eat a rat with a stick up it's ass, that's my right as an American!"

[Naturegirl1999]

Sime Drawing Shenanigans

[Iduno]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Reelya]

Apparently there's a big blow-up on Twitter because of astrology.

A NASA article has pointed out that because of precessions of the axes and the general movement of the Earth and sun, the path of the sun is different through the constellations now. This includes different start and end dates for the official 12 star signs, but not only that, the sun now spends a good 3-4 weeks in the constellation of Ophiuchus (the snake). So, technically anyone born in that period should be of the Ophiuchulian star sign. Astrology fans are furious and refuse to believe it, which is odd for apparent believers in the power of the stars.

[Egan_BW]

Well that's lame, the stars changing is cool.

[IcyTea31]

Isn't that old news by decades? I'm pretty sure it predates me.

I've always found it funny that even though birth date can actually affect a child's development of athleticism*, horoscopes are always about things like romance or business. It's as if they haven't done any actual science on how the stars might affect one's life. Just guessing, maybe there are more than 13 different lives a person could live? At least it isn't like the Chinese zodiac, which is based on years rather than months; it should be easy to prove that you had very different lives if you call your old schoolmates, but somehow people still believe in it.

*The athleticism is due to social reasons. Since we group school sports by birth date, those who are born just before the cutoff date are almost a year of physical development behind those who were born just after the cutoff date last year. This leads to a feedback loop of the older child being good at sports against the younger and thus becoming interested in it, becoming better at it. This can't be explained by the movement of the stars, because the exact prediction by birth date varies on whether the country has decided that the cutoff date is the start of the semester in spring or fall or the start of the calendar year in winter.