Puberty.

Hondo22 · 2012-05-25T05:57:06.397250+00:00

It's the teeth, it probably wouldn't be as impressive if he took out his fake teeth from the movie.

Osterstriker · 2012-05-25T04:25:45.250797+00:00

Fear is always the first reaction in politics, isn't it.

Jertob · 2012-05-24T23:50:51.992892+00:00

Bears > dragons

DBplatypus · 2012-05-24T12:42:43.001392-07:00

Dunning krueger effect

DBplatypus · 1 day

All I can say is there are a lot of sheltered people in this thread.

DBplatypus · 1 day

I'll get downvoted for this as well, but I really do think it is pathetic even in those situations. It's a small physical gesture to trail a finger up a girl. You have a million options to react - like shouting "what the FUCK!?" or just being freaked out in general. There are lots of avenues you can take to respond to that kind of thing but I guess there are a lot of girls who have parents that never tell them this kind of stuff.

And when I say it's a small physical gesture to trail a finger up a girl, I mean that it doesn't take much physical force to stop it. I'm comparing those kinds of gestures to something like, say, a headlock or a punch to the gut.

alllie · 1 day

Sorry I didn't realize "25 years ago, he'd have gotten a well-deserved beating with a truncheon" was okay, but "It's safer than being at a soccer game" was not.

Shrug

alllie · 1 day

It's safer than being at a soccer game I'll tell you that much.

Yes I know it's called football everywhere else. No, I don't care.

Edit: Random tangent, but I realized it's difficult to tell when a reply is aimed at you specifically or at the hivemind. I suddenly feel I've been taking things personally - as if someone came up to me and replied to what I said - when in fact many replies are like if someone walked up next to a speaker and started also shouting at the audience.

DBplatypus · 1 day

I once went to a biological hazard training session and saw this really cute asian girl there. After the session was over, people were walking off, and we ended up walking next to each other. So I started talking (since other people were talking with each other, it wasn't awkward). Mostly smalltalk, but I was also kind of probing (with words) to see if I was in a position to ask her to hang out. Well, at the end of the conversation when we were parting ways, I asked for her number. She froze like a deer in the headlights - I have never been turned off faster. When I thought back on it, it's actually kind of pathetic how paralyzed some girls get when they are confronted by that situation. I think it comes down to parenting - a lot of parents do not teach their daughters about this kind of stuff or about male/female psychology in general so some girls are just sort of sent out with zero knowledge.

xmido · 1 day

EVE without the spreadsheet grinding would be nice...

From what I remember, Warhammer Online was the closest I've ever seen to having real war mechanics in an MMO. It was so beautiful, until Mythic fucked everything up.

Edit: In response to the criticism of Warhammer below, let me relate to you my one crystallized memory of WAR that I will never forget.

So there we were, 6 of us playing on Order running through a destro zone late at night, taking battlefield objectives and reaping the "PvE PvP" fail that was late night Warhammer. Standing on top of a cliff, waiting for a BfO (battlefield objective) to flip, when suddenly a group of ~20 destro come zerging at us. Our party - 1 brightwizard, 1 warpriest, 1 engineer (me), 1 archmage, 1 knight of the blazing sun. We form up. I aoe knockback about 10 of them off a cliff, separating their party into half. The screen is a blaze of heals and aoe damage, firebombs and grenades fly, choppaz are running headlong into our party flailing away with their axes. We smite the 10 destro as the next 10 come back up the cliff. We kill them too. They regroup, and come at us again. Again, I send half of them off the cliff while we kill the other half. Renown is racking up, people in our party are gaining whole levels, annihilator boots are raining upon us.

About an hour later they gave up. We call it a day, standing on top of that hill of bodies, and leave. Destro immediately zergs the BfO, but we had our hour of glory. 6 organized people vs. a zerg of 20. It was fucking beautiful.

That said, it is difficult to distinguish how much of it was organization and how much of it was imbalance. At that time I think warpriests were still imba, BW not so much. But there was so much depth, SO much potential depth, in that squad based combat system - and it will never be fully explored because Mythic fucking failed to communicate that depth to the players.

amarcord · 1 day

I don't take the voting seriously in r/philosophy, people downvote whenever they don't understand something and there's plenty of young and opinionated 'philosophers' in this subreddit.

Psychopathic behavior stems from solipsistic beliefs, it basically entails that you treat other people as resources rather than human beings. You can also have solipsistic beliefs while not being completely solipsistic.

chinchin3 · 2 days

I really don't care if China want's to buy a movie theater chain at the end of its lifespan. Movie theaters are soon going to go the way of normal theaters - they will die off spectacularly. This is another bad investment for China.

amarcord · 3 days

Yeah but seriously, solipsism is the root of all evil (as far as evil is understood in a layman's context)

amarcord · 3 days

^ What that figment of my imagination said

phileconomicus · 4 days

Was going to link to the wikipedia article for compensatory response, but there is none 0.o

Compensatory response is involved in physical addiction. Basically, what happens when you do cocaine is your heart rate and metabolism changes dramatically in the short term. Your body, however, is always attempting to maintain homeostasis. So the first time you do cocaine, there is a drastic change, but the subsequent times you do cocaine your body compensates by lowering heart rate etc. before the cocaine effect sets in. This is the compensatory response - your body is compensating for the change caused by cocaine. It doesn't require that you actually take cocaine for the compensatory response to set in, you just need to anticipate taking cocaine and it will set off the compensatory response. After repeated uses of cocaine, the compensatory response becomes so dramatic that it will actually cause suffering unless the drug is it compensating for is taken. Hence, addicts who have been clean but look at cocaine and suddenly crave it.

Anyway this was what was explained to me back in undergrad biology.

morgan_reefman · 5 days

What's up with all the gunslinging nowadays

thefightclubber · 6 days

This makes so much sense

Moontouch · 6 days

I'm not a biologist, why do you ask?

Yeah I didn't think so. It's going to be hard to hold a conversation about this with you since you don't have access to the fundamentals needed to understand this.

Moontouch · 6 days

Um no. Lots of animals have pseudo-languages. Even birds have sentence structure and grammar in their calls. Our mind structure isn't very unique.

Quick question - are you a biologist?

Moontouch · 6 days

I don't think that anything is unknowable in the context like the OP is describing. A dog cannot form an opinion on communism now, but if a dog lived long enough it could theoretically be taught language and logic, and then understand the idea of communism. All that is required is self awareness, memory, and time. NDT may be popular on reddit, but his remarks about monkeys and knowledge are kind of naive (it's unpopular to say this because of his idol status). He says that since the difference between monkey DNA and human DNA is 1%, that 1% difference gave rise to all our logic etc. Therefore, another 1% change could be just as drastic. But that's not how it works. It's not just DNA.

I've been trying to write a statement to describe the variables involved but it spirals out into many different directions, it's too long to write about here. I'll just state that NDT's understanding of biology and how logic emerges from self assembling organic systems is incomplete.

limbclock · 6 days

I think DOTA came up with that mechanic years ago. What I see Diablo 3 as is an extension of DOTA mechanics into a classical RPG setting.

limbclock · 6 days

Duration keeps a game alive, and now that Blizzard's motivation is to create long-lasting franchises that they can consistently milk for money, they are more concerned about pay-per-month types of income rather than one time purchases. They are focused on the in-game marketplace as a source of reliable income, and their design decisions reflect that.

cptjmshook · 6 days

They often have misleading or sensationalist titles, and sometimes they misunderstand the impact of a particular research topic.

limbclock · 7 days

A few points about why the logic behind this rant is poorly thought out:

1: Diablo 3 came out 10 years after the original. At the time that they began working on Diablo 3, they looked to Diablo 2 to see what kept players around. It wasn't the story. It's the PvP combat and the shared progression. You can tell this is what Diablo 3 was centered around - the endgame. Items and gems are tilted toward rushing you to level 60. The shared stash, blacksmith, and gem merchant all work with this goal. It's streamlined toward multiplayer PvP and hack'n'slash with friends.

2: There is no surprise that D3 adds nothing to the genre. It's a disappointment, sure, but after Starcraft 2 came out I fully expected D3 to be a D2 clone. Starcraft 2 had a lot of opportunities to add new dimensions of gameplay but they stuck to a very conservative mindset. I'm not surprised at all that D3 development went the same direction. The only qualm I had with Starcraft 2 was that I expected more - this time I expected less and was pleasantly surprised.

3: Who plays single player. Srsly.

Reefer7699 · 7 days

I disagree.

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