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2018-11-07, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-07, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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I had a big paragraph on my thoughts vis-a-vis Munroe's political comics, but instead, I will discuss the physics of Dragons: Draconic bones are obviously made out of some anti-gravity mineral. it accumulates on their home plane, and drifts off into space when their bodies decompose. This is why dragons kill and eat their parents.
Okay, what dragons are available in the new super smash brothers?
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2018-11-07, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ridley, from the Metroid games, is reported as to appear in Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. I don't know any of these games myself, but pictures of Ridley look sort of draconic.
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2018-11-07, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Have we reached the point where telling people about their voting rights is "getting political" or "taking sides"?
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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2018-11-07, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Rathalos is also an Assist Trophy.
And Charizard is a character, too. At least, Lance the Dragon Trainer considers Charizard enough of a dragon to have one.
Plus, Alolan Exeggutor is in it. That's a dragon, too, but it can't fly.Favorite sports:
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2018-11-07, 07:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by rooster707; 2018-11-07 at 07:36 PM. Reason: forgot a period. Whoops.
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2018-11-07, 07:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-08, 01:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm being old and forgetful, sue me. Also, I still think he made more comics this time (?)
I'll never accept Exeggutor as a dragon
I lost much of my interest in Pokémon a while ago but I'm still baffled by their ideas once in a while.
Also, what are the odds of us getting a Pong character?
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2018-11-08, 03:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Does bowser count as a dragon, at least in his upgraded form?
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2018-11-12, 06:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Didn't we have a similar joke a month ago? or at least something along the lines of "complaining about things nobody has ever said"?
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2018-11-12, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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This is a bit different -- this isn't imagining a horrible opinion and then looking for it or reacting preemptively to it... this is realizing from someone else's reaction that there's a horrible opinion out there you didn't know about.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2018-11-12, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Favorite sports:
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2018-11-12, 10:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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I love the gag in the alt-text about throwing shade on the wall. I had to think about it for several seconds before I started laughing.
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2018-11-16, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-16: Blackhat, you are a terrible person! Not that we didn't already know that....
What if we redefined the pound to be exactly one kilogram, and redefined the foot to be exactly 33.3333333 cm?Last edited by Lord Torath; 2018-11-16 at 02:25 PM.
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2018-11-16, 03:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-16, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-16, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have a deal for the rest of the world.
We'll switch fully to metric, if you switch to a sensible decimal notation... 100,000,000.00 instead of 100.000.000,00
And while we're at it, let's all agree to a sensible date notation, YYYY-MM-DD.It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
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2018-11-16, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-16, 05:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yes. Causes some confusion on docs coming out of South America, which is where I see it a lot.
YYYY-MM-DD is unambiguous compared to the DD-MM vs MM-DD confusion.
YYYY-MM-DD sorts naturally, without the need for a special sort function, in spreadsheets etc.It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
The Worldbuilding Forum -- where realities are born.
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2018-11-16, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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The nice thing about yyyy-mm-dd is that sorting alphabetically is the same as sorting by date. I have no preferences apart from that.
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2018-11-17, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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So it just popped up on my newsfeed, but They actually are redefining the kilogram.
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2018-11-17, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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So the plank constant is no longer defined in terms of the limits of measurability before you make a black hole? It's now defined in terms of the limits of measurability before you need a better
metermeasuring device?Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-11-17, 02:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think you've confused the Planck constant, which is used to relate the energy carried by a photon to its frequency, with the Planck *length*--although even then, the Planck length is not the minimum measurable distance and never has been, that's an error many people make.
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2018-11-17, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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I thought the idea was that to measure smaller and smaller distances requires more and more energy, and that at the plank length, to get more accurate distances would require so much energy that you'd make a miniature black hole, hence it was the smallest possible distance that could be distinguished.
Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-11-18, 06:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Please make sure you get Japan in on this deal. There's a unit of 10000 (万) to confuse people, and a second date system based on the emperor. Right now, due to his abdication, we literally don't know what next year is going to be called. It's a headache for computer systems and calendar makers.
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2018-11-18, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think the US did try and convert to metric back in the 80s? It didn't stick.
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2018-11-18, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Metric has been an official measurement system in the US since 1866. The problem is that US customary units are also an official system of units.
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2018-11-19, 02:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wait, what? What?! I've never heard anything like that. To the best of my memory Planck length (and Planck time) is just what you get when you take the universal constants and
stick them in a bag and shake them really hardcalculate the smallest sensible unit of length from them. Or am I confusing it with some other measurement?
I thought Japan was really big on the sensible yyyy/mm/dd format since adopting the western calendar? At least that's how I see it in most Anime (which I guess might not be perfect representation of Japanese culture)
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2018-11-19, 08:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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