No.455
>>454this was a nice video. thank you for sharing fren
No.457
>>456I really wish they would make a new Armored Core game. Armored Core is easily to the mecha genre what Ace Combat is to arcade flight games.
No.459
>>458>does anyone know what causes the lightning storms inside of the eruption cloud?From what I've heard, the particles than get thrown into the air cause a lot of static electricity build-up, which then arcs to ground like lightning typically does.
No.464
>>458super heated dust particles rubbing against eachother as they try to escape from a narrow passageway.
No.466
wouldn't mind engaging in some superheated rubbing in a narrow passageway
No.496
>>495Surface area is simply, as its name entails, the area of the surface of an object. The volume, is everything underneath the surface.
No.497
>>496So how does a small block of Aerogel have the surface area of half a football field?
No.498
>>497If you imagine aerogel as being like a sponge, the individual pores inside of the sponge also add to the surface area figure. Aerogel has such a great density of pores, and they are so small that the combined surface area is quite large. To draw an analogy, if you had a piece of cheese and cut it into many very thin slices, you could undoubtedly make a very long, albeit thin, continuous piece of cheese. Similar to how the pores of air contribute to the surface area of a piece of aerogel, the over all volume of something you could imagine as having a potentially very high surface area if it was drawn thin.
No.517
Not sure anyone else here is old enough to recognize this song, but it's cool to see it live.
>>512I can never see these presentations as different from the "it's a meme you dip" kid and really that's what it boils down to.
No.528
>>522piercing needles for jewlry are hollow which helps their piercing. I guess a straw is like this too
No.529
>>522Someone needs to call up the Queen and tell her they've found a way to get around the knife ban
No.702
>>700I really don't like the idea. Part of the advantage of a car over Public transport is that you are the only one that uses it. You don't know how many fat, balding, sweaty, farting old men have been in those cars before you. $40 a day would end up costing more as well.
No.703
>>702>You don't know how many fat, balding, sweaty, farting old men have been in those cars before you.Well... He covered that in the video. For the company he talked about, the cars would regularly get cleaned and because people would rather not be fined, there's a pressure to be as clean as possible. $40 per day was just the cost of cars near by me when I checked a similar app. In the Netherlands because it's pay per minute, he showed one cross town trip that only cost a few euros. Mainly, his pitch was using a car sharing service only when necessary and then using public transit otherwise; in his case, the cost of using a car sharing service presented an advantage because there were lots of things he wouldn't have to pay for like gas, insurance, maintenance, etc.
I think it's an interesting idea.
No.704
>>703I still would not trust it and I still would not like to sit somewhere where the sweaty old men have been just because they say they cleaned it. That's if it even can be cleaned, you can;t clean the old man sweat the seeps into the seat itself...
It's an interesting idea if you like old man sweat and you don't need a car. Sure, if you want to travel a short distance once a year with a car ant not just ride a bike that one time for some reason then I agree it makes more sense. Gas, Insurance and Maintenance would simply be added to the cost of rent itself. I don't like public transport either.
No.705
>>659This sort of thing must have been so ominous and terrifying to people living in the far past.
No.706
>>704It's definitely not for everyone, but it makes a lot of sense for people who live in urban areas that don't need a car -- because public transit and walking/biking alternatives are more robust -- but may need to use a car every now and then, like going to the store to pick up a piece of furniture, or taking a family day trip, or needing a car for traveling in a different city after taking a train/plane trip somewhere for business or vacation.
No.752
>>751It doesn't look that hard. It's just chopping voice lines and using an audio program to change how they sound. The visuals too are simple, just a man dancing over a sideshow with some filters really.
No.818
>>816He's just jumping up and down and moving side to side. All the enemy attacks are too slow to do anything.
No.824
>>822That's very similar, only this time he does not have to jump or move side to side so much, he can just run straight ahead, also the enemies are mostly further away which makes their slow moving projectiles even harder to hit, I think you would have to actually intentionally stand still and let yourself get hit for them to hit.
No.825
>>818They're not too slow, and they're coming from all directions. But more he makes it look easier than it is by having good awareness, just randomly jumping about would eventually land you in front of an attack, if the HUD were there you'd be able to see more of how chaotic that run is. Also he's making precise shots to parts of the enemies extremely fast to disable some of their more dangerous weapons, all while managing ammo, health, armor, and swapping between weapons to deal ideal damage to each individual enemy before it becomes too much. This is all to say, it's a whole lot harder than it looks.
No.826
>>825They are slow... I could throw a tennis ball faster than that. Do you know how fast bullets are? I don't but probably at least twice as fast. It is just random, because they aim at him and they are so slow, all he has to do is just not be where he was a minute ago and they miss.
No.828
>>827He's doing exactly what I said... Only he seems to get hit a lot by enemies that he is not looking at too, he probably should move in a more circular pattern so the enemies at the side miss when they shoot at him as well as those in front.
No.830
I can't believe you would compare this kids game to Touhou... Touhou is real, it's visceral, it's deadly. Fairies don't mess around, they attack in formations and saturate the area so you can't just side step from the one spot where you were before, they are trained killers, they work as a team, they are not playing around and that's just the fairies, the bosses saturate the whole screen in precisely executed attack patterns meticulously designed solely for the purpose of killing the player, they don't just account for side stepping they account for forwards, backwards and diagonal movement as well, they are bloodthirsty cannibals that think of you only as their next meal. And you can't just get shot 10 times and then be back to full health 10 seconds later because you get a health pack, this is real life you die if you get shot and you can only come back to life 3 times.
No.835
>>830Aaah~
Getting murdered by an organized group of killer fairies~
No.836
>>827Pay him no mind, he's doing the same as those who watch DMC combo vids and complain that the enemies don't do anything.
No.873
I've found some good second monitor fodder that eats up a lot of time!
GDQ, the speedrunning event isn't nearly as good as it was back in the day, but the channel at least added some novel "shows" that happen between the events and I think some of them are pretty good. "Super Boss Brothers" has two people compete in old game mini-events (like "gather the most coins in SM3 in 10 minutes") and the commentors are Big Jon (my favorite speedrunner) and TheBlacktastic and they're really entertaining.
This is a link to it in playlist format:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtwdC_ADSAA&list=PLz8YL4HVC87UYYIKNGEKw3sZp3c0oDtZU&index=1 No.875
>>873>Big JonI think I remember you mentioning this guy looking like he potentially might have had a stroke. Is he doing better?
No.877
>>876
Oh, yeah that was a theory of mine but it turned out to be that his jaw was partially paralyzed in a rare side effect from covid vaccination. He's not on camera, but I think he seems to have recovered judging by his speech being clear.
I really wish him the best because life has given him so much terribleness and yet he's the friendliest guy you'll see at those events
No.1029
Decided to split my post into two separate threads.
>>996I loved Rift so much. I'm not much for the competitive stuff, but the soul system and the amount of non-combat stuff for a modern MMORPG was really good. Alas, it didn't last long and people started getting fired and... well, I actually saw a video about this that you've now reminded me of.
I vowed never to go back to those addictive theme park MMORPGs and Rift was the last one I played, but I can acknowledge that it really got some things right.
No.1108
>>1101That's a fucking hideous thumbnail.
No.1109
>>1108the video author is a bit of a herd follower so it's about expected. He presents the content well and offers the perspective of a grass grazing troglodyte.
No.1129
>>1109Unfortunately, crappy thumbnails like that are one of the easiest* paths to professional youtuber money. Ideally you'd also include a title that gives no concrete information, but offers a tantalizing hint to something significant.
*It's still extremely unlikely that any given channel will be successful
No.1130
Anyways, Mozilla is working with Facebook now to try and create an advertising system that can get around privacy laws.
https://www.xda-developers.com/mozilla-meta-interoperable-private-attribution/ No.1131
oh wait, this isn't the news thread
No.1188
>>1187Holy heck is the battleship version of those AMVs of characters that died in Final Fantasy?
No.1189
>>1188First off, that's a destroyer. They're very different to battleships. You can tell from the smoke stack that that is Obviously nothing less than a light cruiser. Do you see those gun caliber? That is nothing less than Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns. Torpedo tubes were not mounted to battleships, they were designed for long range bombardment.
Now on to your main point. No. These are World War Two ships. Final fantasy did not take place in Japan. Final fantasy takes part in various worlds called Gaia. Gaia, though it may look like it is not Earth and there is NO Japan. Therefore, no there is no resemblence between this video and Final Fantasy
No.1190
>>1189Oh yeah?
Final Fantasy games have the Earth elements, Earth dungeons and even Earth crystals. Gaia Magic? Never heard of it. Not only that, but there's earthquakes! Who's ever heard of a gaiaquake?
No.1191
>>1190Many battleships did have torpedo tubes as well, he is talking nonsense.
No.1192
>>1191Also battleships float in the sky with propellers
No.1221
>>1219He should get a job.
No.1244
>>1242>>1243He's mad. But it seems that some people are like that, they just don't care about heights at all.
No.1247
>>1246brilliant pebbles was an amazing and rare success of the star wars program and had it been deployed would have been a really formidable missile shield
one worrisome capability the US has with the new generation of large, reusable spacecraft is the ability to quietly manufacture an entire skys worth of brilliant pebbles. and then quickly dump them all into LEO at all at once without warning. which would be a huge pain in the ass for anyone who relies on ICBMs for nuclear security.
you can see from starlink how quickly huge constellations can be placed into orbit.
No.1251
>>1247From what I've heard, I would imagine these are not nearly as much of a concern as they would have been at their inception due to the recent development of hypersonic missile systems which would largely travel through the upper atmosphere rather than low earth orbit, which also makes them considerably more difficult to identify in time for an adequate response. On the one hand, I would say, "hopefully some counter can be found for them," but on the other hand a technological arms race for nuclear weapons isn't exactly something to champion either...
No.1363
>>1330I don't think these things ever went away. I remember my imouto getting one of those things in the early 2000s. I'm pretty sure it was pink and advertized to girls as a Disney thing, maybe? You're still an oji-san, though.
No.1365
>>1364I don't like this... don't lower rimuru with gross tiktoks..
No.1367
>>1365his character was already lowered by that comedy spinoff
No.1368
>>1365They did it with precure on /qa/ as well... It's a problem.
>>1366That doesn't matter!!
>>1367No it wasn't!!
No.1370
>>1366>SheIt's a he. Also, I don't care. I don't want to see or watch stupid tiktoks.
No.1382
>>1381i think i made this webm...
No.1400
>>1399That's a lot of time for three tiny little potatoes
No.1405
>>1400Well, yeah. The growing season is from Spring to Fall.
No.1406
>>1400In addition to what the other guy said, the growth might be inhibited by the size of the container, too.
I guess he stopped it because the potatoes weren't even visible so there wasn't much to see at that point
No.1426
>>1425sleep tight, lizzer
No.1469
>>1463Why do these people feel the need to stick their ugly mugs in the thumbnail?
No.1478
posting it before watching
>>1469Because streamers and youtubers are brands as people. Just because you're a broke loser doesn't mean you need to make other people feel bad for trying to sell themselves
No.1480
>>1478>Just because you're a broke loserRude, also highly presumptuous.
Anyway, I
understand the youtube meta, but that doesn't mean I have to like or even respect it.
No.1481
>>1480dont mind him, hes a dumb argumentative shitposter
No.1494
I wonder how much of that "brand" money goes towards paying "broke losers" to white knight for them in obscure niche anonymous message boards.
No.1495
>>1494I find their content more interesting than your angry sages
No.1496
>>1495So you just white knight for them for free? Makes sense that you're a broke loser then. There are people who get paid to do this, you know.
No.1497
the angry sage
No.1498
I like knights a lot, I wish I could become a knight one day. Maybe Santa will give me a knighthood for Christmas.
No.1501
>>1496Don't make me post the spreadsheet
No.1502
>>1499I genuinely thought it was a /secret/ meme and not an actual grievance
No.1550
>>1511I don't understand the point of any of this
No.1553
>>1550just imagine the possibilities of being able to control a your home appliances from a Windows Server 2000
No.1588
>>1587I got that too, even though I dislike him and don't watch his videos...
No.1664
>>1663I remember watching that a while ago, and I don't disagree with him.
However, having mum often watch TV while I am cooking or something else. I think that it's TV in general that is bad rather than just Japanese TV.
No.1665
>>1664For live action TV, there's a reason people cherish the same 20 series or so
No.1666
>>1665I don't think he talks about that, more the studio kind of TV like breakfast TV and game shows.
I don't really watch 3d series but I think Japan probably produces similar content to what most TV series are as well, they have their own crime and drama shows.
They have a historical drama series every year called a Taiga drama, I have seen two of them. They have fairly interesting topics, I saw Yae no Sakura which is about a Samurai's daughter and Gunshi Kanbei which is about a strategist in the Sengiku Jidai, I thought they were both quite good. But it can be difficult to find them online in English and in good quality.
No.1668
From what I have seen on japanese TV, studio television just seems like an excuse to have pretty girls do mundane things under the guise of "comedy" rather than ogling
No.1672
PBS put a documentary on youtube on the much-maligned Pegasus spyware software used by governments and it's pretty great. It's not happy news, so be forewarned.
There's a part two as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYMWTXIkANMOn a related note, does anyone have any good channels for documentaries or educational stuff in general? I'm guessing it's pretty rare to see hour-long stuff since google doesn't reward it
No.1855
>>1854Sorry, cant trust anyone that has a NA (or british tbf) accent like that on anything regarding the former warsaw pact countries
No.1856
>>1855i don't think it's all that deep. It could be summarized in a single line.
Oil extraction in Siberia provided a lot of profit when people most needed it. But the extraction came at a cost.
Then he gives numbers to back up his opinion
No.2023
>>2021I want to learn to solder one day. Well, I guess it's not really that complicated, but you need confidence and respect for the dangers and I'm not sure if my hands are steady enough
No.2024
>>2023Yes it's not complicated. I learnt to do it in middle school, I even made some stick figure people with it but then somebody in my class came along and soldiered pen*ses to them...
No.2026
>>2025That guy drooled while he did it and he used to stare at my crutch in class, so I hope not...
No.2027
>>2026I'm staring at it right now.
No.2079
Don't really want to make a thread for it and it's live instead of youtube, but the European Speedrunner Assembly is going on. It's like GDQ, but closer to the old versions instead of the modern sanitized version. (I think it's heading that direction though)
https://www.twitch.tv/esamarathon Someone is doing a blind Breath of the Wild run right now. 15 minutes into a 2 hour estimate
No.2153
>>2101I only hear an engine. What's it supposed to sound like?
No.2155
>>2151She's actually too optimistic. She thinks particle physicists could be doing something better whereas the most likely issue is there being not much left to discover within the energy scales humans can feasibly reach. In particle physics this pessimistic scenario is called the "desert."
No.2166
>>2164thats a lot of chlorine bonds
No.2204
>>2165Well, that's sad. Looks like the eggs aren't going to hatch and they're abandoned. I wonder if they were duds to begin with or if the extreme weather put a damper on things
No.2349
>>2348He makes an offhand comment that the 11 exit path is the most direct path to Bowser's castle, reached by beating every secret exit in the levels that have them. Never realised that the shortest path has that property, it's really elegant and feels like something the designers put there on purpose.
No.2350
>>2348The ABC stuffs are really good, covering the whole history and mechanics extensively. Sadly it's already outdated...
His videos aren't really sleepers for general retro game audiences in my opinion, unlike RGMechEx.
No.2363
>>2361You may want to repost this on /spg/ soon
No.2400
Don't want to make a thread for it and don't know where else to put it, but Japan's version of GDQ/ESA is going on:
https://www.twitch.tv/RTAinJapanIt's kind of funny that the game I see right now is a Western one
No.2401
/spg/ - Sports General
No.2836
>>2835He used to speedrun Battletoads and other NES games before, people who speedrun usually do it for the challenge or because something could be possible, even if it sounds insane. I know him because his name used to pop up in the speedrunning community which I used to follow back then
>>2763I think this is the appeal of GamecenterCX, the editing and charisma of the host helps to make it fun.
No.2918
More modern YTP stuff along the lines of
>>2886. This one's a bit more traditional, but it's a similar style of humor.
I'm glad to see the format survive beyond people like me that grew up with it. This isn't someone making a high-effort YTP in the grand tradition of poops; it's someone throwing together a stupid shitpost for fun, and in my mind, that's the truest form of YTP.