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Josh D | Award Losing Author
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Josh D | Award Losing Author
@Unenthuser
Sometimes I write and design cool things for TTRPGs | Contributing writer to Liminal Horror and the Afterthought Committee | occasional Actual Play host
Katılım Mart 2011
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@Ulysses_Wept @BlackIshgvm @MattWalshBlog Construction of the Hoover Dam resulted in the death of 100 workers. 5 died during the construction of the Empire State Building, which was considered a miracle for the time. That is why we have regulations.
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@BlackIshgvm @MattWalshBlog I think you’re unintentionally making Matt’s point…
If the way we used to do things had those results, we should just do things that way again.
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The Hoover Dam was built in the amount of time it has taken California to construct a small bridge for cats and butterflies. The Empire State Building was built in about a quarter of the time.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
EXCLUSIVE: Gavin Newsom promised to build a bridge for cougars and butterflies in the middle of Los Angeles. The project has turned into another boondoggle, with broken deadlines and costs exploding to $114 million. This is Newsom's bridge to nowhere. city-journal.org/article/califo…
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@Luan75937152 @DreamLeaf5 The "New-Age to Alt-Right Pipeline". Right wingers used conspiracy to infiltrate and influence the New Age movement. It's been ongoing since the hippie movement, but gained steam during the Obama administration when the Alt-Right was still relatively fringe.
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@Che_MyBae @JuniperFolly The vast majority of environmental management is done on the state level. Federal laws are the baseline but the states tend to be more stringent, or have strange policies that need to be navigated. Environmental work also takes *forever* to get done, outlasting administrations.
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@JuniperFolly Do you have a degree in environmental science? I have a family member graduating with an environmental sciences degree with a minor in public policy. They had a certain direction they were going to go after graduation but DOGE and the Trump admin kind of killed that
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I used to work in sustainability consulting. I'd have to pitch everything as a cost saving measure and some guy from an oil company with a thick dallas drawl would tell me "sweetheart, we'll just pay the fine"
Jerome Foster II@JeromeFosterII
“Research has found that one wildlife crossing can prevent about 1,400 accidents over accidents over a 70-year lifespan, which translates into billions of dollars in savings” pewtrsts.org/4k2RTQO via @pewtrusts
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@Otaku_LaRue @bataille_chris It’s a model to predict future behavior built using that previous data. Why would a predictive model of this type look back in time? It would just match the data used to build it.
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@Unenthuser @bataille_chris This model is incapable of using previous data? A model doesnt care if the data was collected for a time period before its inception. We have extensive records of atmospheric gaseous contents dating back over 100 million years.
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It’s almost like climate science was a … science, with testable and nullifiable hypotheses, not vibes. And that anthropogenic climate change, and its rate and drivers, are actually supported by observed data …
Jerome Foster II@JeromeFosterII
It's very remarkable how well climate predictions from decades ago have held up. Retrospectively comparing future model projections to observations provides a robust test of accuracy. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
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@Otaku_LaRue @bataille_chris It starts in 1970 because the first model to describe the influence of CO2 on the earth’s atmosphere was published in 1967 and the chart is titled “climate model predictions versus observations” so it’d be a little silly to include a time period before the models even existed.
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@bataille_chris Why does the chart start at 1970? Is it perhaps because if it started at 1900 your supposed trend would be an obvious fiction?
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@SCentralized This was a very interesting case where the book was great if you’d read Bloodline, Aftermath, and Lost Stars, but probably wouldn’t hit particularly hard if you picked it up alone as like 75% of the plot is driven by character references.
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@SCentralized If it was live action, it’d also either look like dog shit or be the single most expensive piece of media ever produced given the shear scope of the conflict. It would also require complete commitment up front, as you could basically never stop production until it’s finished.
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I am sorry but I seriously do not think the New Jedi Order could feasibly be fully adapted into live action considering young actors aging.
It could, however, work as a long running 2D animated series.
Gabriel@jadexskywalker
Please share your ideas for how you’d go about adapting the EU. What stories and how? Unlimited budget, no restrictions. I’ll share my ideas, too!
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@Linksgeflauscht @honeybunwife It largely links back to the GamerGate situation which pre-dates TFA by a bit. While GG itself was almost certainly stoked by outside forces, that’s where Steve Bannon learned you could weaponize that nerd rage and basically just lie to people, which shaped the Trump campaign.
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@honeybunwife Well I'd argue it's fascists using nerd rage to influence young men to become fascists while our governments followed in becoming more fascist.
It's one of many parts. Nerds and Star Wars are not important enough to change the world alone.
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you can almost draw a direct line from “star wars: the force awakens” to January 6
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
It's easy to say Avatar has no cultural impact, but are you brave enough to say Star Wars has had no cultural impact since 2005?
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@Crystal_Descent @DireRavennn We can look to RE's light gun shooter games for this same type of dynamic shift. As part of the Gun Survivor line we'd even get Dino Stalker, which kinda incoherently bridges the RE and Dino Crisis series.
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@DireRavennn I can think of one, Final Fantasy, it has made much wilder changes than Resident Evil has, considering one canon game isn't even an RPG, it's a third-person shooter.
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Insane thing to say about Resident Evil, because I can’t think of a long running series that has switched up its gameplay mechanics and genre more than this series.
Blader@LocalBtnMasher
If you are tuning into the 31st entry of a long running cash cow expecting anything different, I got a bridge to sell you
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@cosminDZS Based on the current exchange rate, this is about $21 USD or ~$7/lb. The average price of cheddar cheese in the US right now is about $6/lb. Not much of a difference there.
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Canadians really do pay $30 for a block of cheese just because it says “Product of Canada” on the label
They genuinely believe there’s a magical superiority that has been enchanted into it that American cheese simply cannot replicate
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@InfinitRealms17 @jtimsuggs Vader did not “almost die” from his attempt. The crystal initially rejected him and caused a moment where his conviction wavered, showing him a vision of a potential future, but it didn’t cause him much physical harm.
Dagan’s arm loss also had nothing to do with the bleeding.
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@jtimsuggs Could be one guy lost his arm and Vader almost died doing it, Osha just had a mood ring. Not quite the same.
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Still really fascinates me just how many people claimed Osha bleeding a Kyber Crystal in The Acolyte supposedly “broke canon” or blindly went with that narrative, when the same concept has been shown numerous times in various other projects.
Like…it literally just took one search to realize that wasn’t the case at all?
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@MiddleRights @esjesjesj The dog filled in and mailed the ballot all by itself?! Shit, if that’s true we’re missing out on the real story here!
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How did a dog vote successfully? Did it fill in a circle?
Nick shirley@nickshirleyy
Hahaha I figured you guys would say something stupid like this Goes to show how unserious you guys take issues… why would you justify a dog who registered to vote successfully and did vote successfully? Idc what party it was. Fraud is fraud, require ID and this doesn’t happen
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@PharoahAshseti @smgstryker @just_a_pagan @5ducks5 You’re thinking of Muir Woods, which is an old growth redwood forest just north of SF.
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@smgstryker @just_a_pagan @5ducks5 That must be it. I think i recall an associate talking about camping among the redwoods in/near Frisco, once
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@f0w0xxy @FredbearDelamat @PurplePanda394 @jtimsuggs Alright, let’s see here. Vader struggles to bleed the crystal because it’s a moment where his conviction wavers. The act of the bleed in this story is more a metaphor for Vader reaffirming his commitment to the Dark Side. But it also doesn’t really come close to killing him.
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@FredbearDelamat @PurplePanda394 @jtimsuggs Vader went into isolation to bleed his, it almost killed him. Its not as fast or easy as it was in the acolyte
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@JacobBoushh @MaceAhWindu It lead to the change in perception for sure, but it’s weird tribalism and “wars” helped set the stage for the proliferation of the post-2016 culture war within the Star Wars fandom. You now have a community that engages with the memes and not the actual media.
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@MaceAhWindu /r/prequelsmemes is simultaneously the best and worst thing that happened to the fandom. I 100% believe it greatly contributed to the change in perception
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People were so fucking weird about the Prequels a decade ago it was so annoying
I can kind of get why a lot of prequel fans nowadays take their victory laps because the forums were hell back then lol
PJ • Andor Vibes • 🟢 •@matpolloy
Watching a TFA Press conference where JJ Abrams goes on a tangent about how the prequels don’t feel like real Star Wars lol
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@JennyENicholson Can’t have the “Finn was setup as a Jedi by the ads trying to conceal the actual story” arguments if you show absolutely nothing of substance about the film!
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I'm ngl I sense much fear in the way they're marketing this one
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
New teaser for ‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’ In theaters on May 22.
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@MikeXEverson @Nick_HBS @BestMovieMom The Volume is just the name of the soundstage in which the StageCraft video wall tech is staged.
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@Unenthuser @Nick_HBS @BestMovieMom I don’t think video windows on a practical set count as “the volume”. Gilroy has said they didn’t consider using a volume because it flips the way you have to write / direct / produce. All the visuals have to be DONE before you shoot.
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Unlike other Star Wars series, Andor (2022) famously avoided using "The Volume" digital stage. Showrunner Tony Gilroy insisted on real-world locations and practical sets to give the series its signature "prestige" and grounded aesthetic.
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@Nick_HBS @BestMovieMom Sure, but that’s an entirely different conversation than “famously avoided using the Volume”. They didn’t avoid using it, they just better utilized it as a tool.
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@Unenthuser @BestMovieMom Yeah but that’s different than like how Mando etc would have entire environments of just Volume
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@ShirokaneChoja @MarcoJM164 @lunarleahhhhh It is certainly not relative. The left-right political spectrum is a specific classification system based on political views in regards to social equity versus social hierarchy and has fuck all to do with where the median voter lies.
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@MarcoJM164 @lunarleahhhhh It is all relative. Center is defined by where the median voter is on the political spectrum. In some countries Sanders and AOC would be the center left.
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