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  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoFrance@jlai.luCasus belli ☠️
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    1 year ago

    A true blended language would probably be something like Esperanto. Personally, I prefer the Latin alphabet because it’s easier to write than the Oriental alphabet, or the Cyrillic, which creates so many curves in cursive that you might as well just be writing “mmmmmmm” (the word “teacher” in Russian cursive is a great example).

    Higher K-Scale Civilizations have obviated the need for discrete languages entirely and communicate using brain waves/telepathy. No misinterpretation of any idea is possible when you literally present the exact thought form to another. The speed is also unparalleled: communication occurs at the speed of thought - no need to translate, encode, parse, decode, and conceptualize before information is transferred.

    Refrigerator.


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    It was Chaos War (SC) -> Hero Arena (WC3) -> Attack on the Light v0.1a (WC3) -> Defense of the Ancients v1.3 (WC3).

    Source: I made Chaos War (SC1 Map).

    A multi-billion dollar industry hinges on the fact that an eight year old figured out how to make a map trigger which spawned units with an attack-move command in a custom editor in an RTS.

    P.S: (I’ve seen exactly $0 of DOTA “money”. It was free and clear, for any and all, a source of happiness with no entry fee except Use Map Settings.)




  • I have a folder on my D: called OLDINSTALL.

    It’s my entire hard drive from 1996, including DOS.

    I think it’s a couple hundred megabytes in size, but the vast majority of the files and games were exclusively in floppy disk format.

    I don’t have a floppy drive or any disks anymore.


  • Hello fellow space alien posting on Terran communications boards.

    All of your points are correct with the following exception:

    Matter replicators expend energy to convert it into matter, or do the opposite. It is a lossy process, meaning you do not get 100% as a return. The best S+ or A-5 engineered units are 88-98% efficient.

    • Theoretically, fuel in space is “infinite” as stars and hydrogen are literally everywhere, so going to planets to gather resources to disassemble in replicators is both a literal waste of time and energy. Dilithium crystals in the show are a hilarious example of contrived scarcity for plot.

    1. They have carpets on the TV show. Carpets. On a space ship. That is guaranteed not a warship, because carpets.

    I’ve taken the mass hit and installed gray carpets in key locations of our own ships and instigated a no shoes policy and I’ll tell you what, it’s never been more comfortable :)

    You should definitely try installing carpets

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  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.ml30-50 Feral Hogs
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    That sounds like a relatively new feature.

    The last time I tried Tinder (Tindr, straight people Grindr), it made me both give up on online dating and lose a bit of faith in humanity.

    I’ve rarely been the victim of online harassment or trolling but holy hell - being an attractive woman on Tindr? Absolute win. Pretty much easy mode on any dating site in general.

    Being an attractive man of the same caliber? Yeeehck. Holy shit, some people have absolutely miniscule egos and more time than proper sense. I won’t share personal incidents or examples here because I’d rather just forget and leave it all in the past.

    I went right back to traditional meat-space and in-the-flesh dating. Fuck this noise about online profiles and photography. Let your neighbors find out who you are on their own terms, don’t shout it at them from the rooftops.

    I ended up “settling” (not my opinion) on a girl with a golden soul that I met traditionally, through a friend of a friend. She’s not the best looker, but if the algorithm works as you say, I’d never have even met her, which is a shame. We’ve been together for eight years now, and I still adore her.

    So yeah, in summary, fuck Tindr.

    <3