The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXIV

[Takhisis]

straws are like 0.0003% of our plastic waste though

why not start with something significant and not inconvenient

A ban on fossil fuels, SyFy Movies and child labour? I'll take it.

The global problem of plastic marine litter is so immense that it can't be approached by just focusing on single products, but a complete reevaluation of our use of plastics as a whole. All non-essential single-use plastic products will have to go. Straws are not really necessary for drinking out of a cup. For those really into straws can bring or buy a metal one which are cheap and reusable.

+1
screw the like button

Samson and Valka used the words "push" and "movement", but has there been any actual like legislation or whatnot?

At the local level in some parts of the UK, yes.

 

[The_J]

Did you saw that Logic ?

no.
Your explanation makes sense though.

I was more like "first colum = 4 dots, first row = 4 dots... the middle ones are 6... since I cannot ramp it up to 8 for the last column/row, it's probably also 4 (mirrored)".
Your explanation is way more consistent than this .

 

[Hrothbern]

no.
Your explanation makes sense though.

I was more like "first colum = 4 dots, first row = 4 dots... the middle ones are 6... since I cannot ramp it up to 8 for the last column/row, it's probably also 4 (mirrored)".
Your explanation is way more consistent than this .

That one I considered as well.
I treat these gadget riddles very intuitively like playing blitz chess (a few seconds per move)
I grok the 8 positions by staring at them, some logics pop up (like rotating, mirroring, transponing, adding-substracting, many more), I pick the one that feels best to check by logic, if that fails the next one, etc. And if that fails grok again.
Here I got distracted by the positions of the black dots, trying to extract logic from their positions, but there was no logic I saw readily, so I skipped the rotation positions in my mind... only the number of black dots remaining
and then this diagonal mirroring you mention was the first one that popped up. But the logic check failed.

 

[Mouthwash]

Why did Bethesda screw up the running in Skyrim Special Edition? It is now toggle-based so you can't control it half as effectively (and will lose you battles). There is a mod out that corrects this, but it causes crashes. If they didn't even bother to fix bugs, why would they tinker with a core part of game mechanics that literally no one had a problem with?

Anyway, an unrelated question: anyone know an Outremer-inspired fantasy world? There are settings based off Europe, Greece/Rome, Egypt, China, the Middle East, the Americas, Africa, etc. But when you see one of these cultures ruling over others, it's usually in an Age of Discovery/Victorian world with colonialism. I would love to see a Crusader-like setting, or a setting that emulates the medieval attitude towards the wider world (the latter is done in ASoIaF, but it is missing the religious aspect - there's Marco Polo but no Prester John).

 

[Arakhor]

I recall reading a summary of a fantasy Outremer just the other day, but I don't remember what it was called.

 

[Mouthwash]

What do you recall about it? Was it in a video game? Movie? Book? Which site did you read about it on?

 

[Broken_Erika]

Why did Bethesda screw up the running in Skyrim Special Edition? It is now toggle-based so you can't control it half as effectively (and will lose you battles). There is a mod out that corrects this, but it causes crashes. If they didn't even bother to fix bugs, why would they tinker with a core part of game mechanics that literally no one had a problem with?

Because it's Bethesda.

Bethesda:Rather than fix the bugs; Lets focus on making things shiney and sparkley and introduce new and completely useless features while tinkering the code in such a way that overriding these features will destabilize the game!
Mainstream Gamers: Ooooooooh! Shiney!
The rest of us:

 

[Arakhor]

What do you recall about it? Was it in a video game? Movie? Book? Which site did you read about it on?

It was during one of those late-night wiki-walks that I'm so prone to, so I don't actually remember any useful details like proper nouns and the like. It was on Wikipedia though and I think it was a real-world/fantasy-Outremer cross-over novel series. Maybe it involved Ogier the Dane as well.

Edit: The Ogier the Dane story was a Poul Anderson story. Maybe you could go from there?

 

[Lohrenswald]

What does outremer mean?

 

[Mouthwash]

That's what the World Wide Web is for.

 

[Arakhor]

Outremer means "overseas" and referred to the brief Crusader states in the Holy Land (1099 - 1292 or so). That page even comes with handy fiction links.

 

[Mouthwash]

I'm not looking for fiction set in the actual Outremer, though.

 

[Arakhor]

Then try the Poul Anderson link above.

 

[Mouthwash]

Then try the Poul Anderson link above.

I am!

Because it's Bethesda.

Bethesda:Rather than fix the bugs; Lets focus on making things shiney and sparkley and introduce new and completely useless features while tinkering the code in such a way that overriding these features will destabilize the game!
Mainstream Gamers: Ooooooooh! Shiney!
The rest of us:

I had like seventy or eighty mods installed before using the running fix. Never had single crash before it (strangely, the crashes are greatly reduced when I keep Nexus Mod Manager open in the background - I've no idea why, but it definitely works).

 

[Broken_Erika]

A ban on fossil fuels, SyFy Movies and child labour? I'll take it.

That's going too far. How about we compromise and just ban Children.

 

[Synobun]

That's what the World Wide Web is for.

Surprisingly, CFC is a part of the World Wide Web.

 

[Mouthwash]

Oh well in that case every time I want a synopsis of a video game I'll ask for it right here.

 

[Takhisis]

Be careful, Mouthwash. We might do to you what I did to Synsensa recently and answer in excruciating detail.

 

[Yeekim]

hope that helps

Ah, got it.

 

[shadowplay]

Black shoes with white socks. No good?