Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
Honestly based on the video, I think the best response of the creator themselves is just to ignore these comments.
The best response for other people is to be very pointed: ask them precisely what criticism they mean and why they think it’s a problem. Make them say the quiet part out loud.
If you haven’t already, take a look at Dave Wiskus’s response to it on Reddit, posted elsewhere in the comments.
I don’t speak Spanish, but just looking at the alternative options Google Translate provides when you only input a single word, it’s possible that “tóxico” might be a clearer translation of “poisonous”.
It’s a bizarre and (afaik) unfounded conspiracy theory, but I don’t think this reasoning works as a refutation. It’s still very possible that the experiment got out, and even if not they still needed policies to protect all the people they didn’t want to be affected because the targeting isn’t perfect.
Oh neat. I should get around to watching it.
I’ll admit I’ve never watched Stargate, but I thought it was scifi? I didn’t realise it engaged with Egyptian mythology.
See that Celsius graph is precisely the nonsense I’m trying to point out. 0 ℃ isn’t “fairly cold outside”. It’s literally the definition of freezing cold. 0 ℉ is “dead” if you’re not wearing quite heavy clothing. 0 ℃ is “really cold outside” and still understating things.
I mean, I deliberately avoided using terms like “hot summer days” and “usual winter day” because that’s far more dependent on where you are. Where I am it’s:
So I used words that are about the experience of a person in those temperatures in comfortable light clothing, rather than times of year. And obviously there’s some subjectivity there, with some people being more comfortable in cold temperatures than others. But still, we’re talking about the comfortable mid point varying from mid 20s to high 10s. There’s no reasonable world in which 50 ℉ (10 ℃) is the midpoint.
It’s just the zero that’s absolute
Right, that’s what makes Rankine and Kelvin absolute scales, while Fahrenheit and Celsius are relative.
x_0 - delta and x_0
Lemmy actually supports proper subscript (though not not clients do). Surround with tildes (single tildes, rather than the double tildes of strike-through).
x0 - δ is x~0~ - δ
Edit: and now, at least on Jerboa, the code block version is displaying incorrectly, although it now does support the actual subscript…
I’ve always hated this justification of Fahrenheit. For it to be a good argument, 50 °F would need to be the ideal comfortable temperature. But instead 50 is really fucking cold. 100 just isn’t as hot as 0 is cold.
Also Rankine, being an absolute scale, theoretically shouldn’t be in ° anything, and it’s only some weird historical quirk that is the reason it usually is called degrees.
That’s a good question. I honestly don’t know. When they first came out they said lifetime subscriptions were a temporary thing, but they’ve been available for a long time now.
Yeah, that was a shockingly abstruse solution to the puzzle box. I understand that puzzle boxes often are that way, and it reminds me of old-school point and click adventure games where you just have to be ok with making wild leaps of logic and pressing on everything, rather than the solution being something that with careful analysis you can come across.
But that doesn’t mean it made for a good puzzle on a travel game show.
Apparently Amy showed it to a few friends who all solved it in a few minutes, which is why it was (a) included, and (b) not worth all that many coins.
I think the problem for me with NZ was its linearity and the degree of independence between the teams. It was fun, but there was so much less room for random chance to get in the way, or for teams to interfere with each other.
Yeah I watched The Getaway to the end, but found it obvious by episode 2 that there were big structural problems. The conceit if them travelling along in the van never made sense to me.
The last episode was worth watching just for
the bits with Foreign on the drop ride with Sam
The llama challenge in episode 3(?) was also great. As I said, a lot of great moments and some fantastic editing, it just didn’t piece together very well imo.
I have to be honest, I did enjoy NZ, but I think it was probably the second-worst of the recent (basically, post-Battle for America) seasons, just ahead of Arctic Escape.
If your other bit was about The Getaway, I kinda agree. I loved the premise, and it had some brilliant moment-to-moment bits, even in the last episode. But the arc of the show just didn’t land with me. The ending felt incredibly unsatisfying, and all the weird distractor stuff with Ms Terry and the dressing up in disguises just felt like distractions for the audience, too. A good premise and I think if the show gets more seasons they might be able to do something good with it, but this one didn’t quite work.
I believe that would be against the rules. They have to stay in publicly accessible places.
The problem with that approach is that when they ask that question, they’re performing for an audience. An audience that is as-yet undecided. If you’re outwardly rude to them, that audience is more likely to think “oh wow, this person’s fans are arseholes, maybe the accusations [though the specifics of the accusations haven’t been made clear] are correct”. So IMO it’s better to just prod them into revealing that they, in fact, are the arseholes, and just let that sit. Keep focused and don’t allow yourself to get distracted by unrelated points that they will inevitably try to bait you with.