TotallyHuman

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[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe more of a mystery story? Just take the "investigative reporter" angle and run with it.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I was a woman I wouldn't have dysphoria, no? Unless it altered my body without doing anything to me.

(I guess if it was a sadistic genie it could also alter the brain but not the body, handing out dysphoria without physical change.)

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't like that the conservative party is using provincial funds to advertise for their political views -- especially with advertisements which aren't rigorously truthful. It feels slimy, but does anyone know if this is legal?

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I think both of these positions are important for coercing Sony. If everyone who was upset left permanently and kept their bad reviews, Sony would have no incentive to backtrack their next boneheaded decision. But it's also true that if everyone jumps back in as if nothing happens, they have no incentive to avoid excessive greed in the future.

Most of the players will come back, and so Sony will be rewarded for compliance. But some players will be permanently alienated, and those permanently lost profits will be a reminder of what happens when you try to screw your players over.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the rest of the criers are children. Except the Silver Rush one if I recall correctly -- he's an adult with an adult voice.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait, what? I could have sworn it was a child.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Part of me is uneasy with the monopoly, but unless they start abusing it I don't think there's really a problem. Besides, they're not the same as a railway: nothing's stopping a game company from directly providing executable downloads, and some do.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Depends on the income period -- I'd do 25% of daily income for a first offence.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see. Would there also be an arc if you put your hand near the generator while it was running, then?

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does the human body rapidly discharge into air or something?

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Okay, so you're insulated from ground. The generator charges you up. You are at the same charge as the generator. You let go of the generator. Why is there a potential difference?

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thing that confuses me is that when you let go, you should have the same charge as the generator. No charge difference, no arc. Unless I'm wrong about something, which I probably am (hence my confusion).

 

Crops can blight, animals can get diseases. I don't know much about hydroponics but I know that bacteria are a concern. What food source is the most reliable, the least likely to produce less food than expected?

 

Since the latest season hasn't concluded yet, let's only look at plot holes from 1990 and before.

 

I'm not great at physics and have no knowledge of aeronautics, so this whole chain of reasoning might be wrong.

A plane stays in the air because air is moving over the wings, which generates lift. However, that air is moving because the engine is moving the plane forward. There is no other source of energy. Therefore, some of the engine's energy is going into keeping the plane in the air, and some is going into accelerating it forwards, or keeping it at the same speed (fighting air resistance).

Therefore, if the plane points straight up, the engine should be able to support it hovering in the air. If it didn't have enough power to fight gravity when pointing straight up, it wouldn't have enough power to fight gravity when moving horizontally, either.

(Okay, some older engines only worked in certain orientations, but I don't think that's a problem for jet aircraft, or any aircraft built after WWII.)

So why can only certain planes fly vertically?

 

Let's make a list of magic items that are flavourful and interesting! I'll start us off.

  1. A fine tablecloth which, when placed on a table, conjures food, plates, and cutlery. The food is different every time, but always delicious and high-quality, conferring a minor rest/morale bonus. The table is always impeccably set. The food and everything else disappears if anyone at the table commits a breach of etiquette, no matter how minor. The tablecloth then has a cooldown period before it can be used again. (Depending on how clever your players are and how much you like watching them suffer, the tablecloth might have the relevant rule embroidered on it until the next time it's used.)
  2. A pair of bracelets which, when worn, make all non-magical animals friendly. They don't allow for communication or taming -- "friendly" does not mean "subordinate", and the animals are still animal-level intelligent. The bracelets also make nearby animals friendly to each other: if you're petting a rabbit, a wolf will just nuzzle up next to it.
  3. A laser gun that does no damage, but which causes its target to believe that whichever limb it hit was destroyed or severed.
  4. A tamper-evident magical lock: fairly easy to pick, but the person attuned to it (or anyone who knows the activation phrase) can tell when it was last opened by touching it.
  5. A clockwork bird that will fly in a path the user sets when activating it, but has no collision avoidance capability.
  6. A fortune-telling implement (marked bones, crystal ball, etc) which doesn't provide any sort of divination ability, but makes other people believe the predictions the user makes with it.
  7. An enchanted flare-gun that will draw a line in the sky between the user and the closest sapient creature that isn't within five meters.
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