The only way to transfer heat through space is radiation. The sun emits radiation while the ISS does not, hence the ISS is going to build up excess heat. It's not cold, it's too warm. Sitting in the sunlight in space will roast you.

Vacuum is the best insulation there is

Thought everyone knew this. Kojima has hated every localization of MGS games.

I credit the US changes with at least 50% of the games success. Kojima is a very dry writer, the localization punched up the script and added military sounding jargon. They knew better how to sell the game to Americans than the Japanese did.

It was in the very early days of Tinder. Nowadays I hear the meat market is actually instagram. Having a couple good photos really improves your chances.

I don't know why men are so resistant to the idea of putting effort into their appearance. I always say that women need to stop complaining and accept reality, but that goes for men too.

I'm not sure why you would think women 'just show up,' they put extreme effort into their photos.

Really, improving your headshot is one of the easiest and cheapest things men can do to improve their odds. Cleaning yourself up and looking presentable is hardly a harsh imposition.

I met my wife on Tinder specifically because of a model-level headshot I posted that was professionally edited with photoshop (Friend of mine wanted some practice editing and did it for free). Every single match I had reached out because they said the headshot looked good, and no other reason. Not saying I'm a super attractive guy or anything but it was clearly looks that got my foot in the door.

I know lots of other guys who never got a single Tinder match and it's because their photos were unattractive. They ended up saying Tinder was a "scam" and that "no one meets anyone there."

I've played tabletop for 20 years and I've never seen a campaign made this way. No one just wanders around and finds epic quests under every rock and leaf. Players start from some kind of safe point and go out in search of adventure based on requests, rumors, and current events.

Landing in a random patch of woods with so much crap going on in a 100 yard radius is absurd. The goblins and druids are 3 minutes away from each other, and yet they "can't find the other's location."

All they had to do was let you find a tavern or inn on the road after crashing and hear rumors about the various quests there, and then made them discreet locations. Like BG1, not MMOs.

I'm not a fan of Larian's level design, 5E D&D, or the plot in general.

-Making the life cycle of illithids the main story, then just ignoring it for plot reasons is really weird to me

-game has you fighting out of depth monsters at level 1 like the mind flayers and cambion, for the sake of "drama" and getting the player hooked. I hate this and think D&D games should start small. If you want to hook players, make the first few quests really quick and easy, don't try to overwhelm me with over the top nonsense.

-After the bombastic intro you are just dropped into some random woods. You spend most of the rest of the game wandering through these insignificant woods and caves to get to the city. It's myopic and uninteresting.

-Small, cramped levels. The whole game feels like a dungeon, which is dumb. It shouldn't be this hard to just walk to the city. I would rather see a proper world map instead of this kitchen sink woods.

-Because you need every bit of XP to survive, you have to comb the woods for every last thing to kill. I'd rather pick and choose from quests and interesting activities than be forced to lawnmow an extremely boring map.

-Backwards quests. Often you walk into an area and there's a bunch of NPCs in the middle of some shit, and you get a quest to deal with it. This is backwards, the PCs should be picking up quests and then going in search of adventure. Stumbling into every random shack and cave that has some epic quest in it makes the game world feel, well, like a video game.

At one point I walked into an area, immediately got like three different quests about duergar and a tower and myconids, and I thought this was all weird and random, and turns out it's all the main quest and you need to do it to proceed in the game. WTF is even this design. I have no concept of a goal or destination and the game is just randomly saying "well this area has to be completed now because shut up, that's why."

Women aren't subtle when they want a ring. The problem is they are subtle when they are stringing you along hoping for someone better.

Some men are delusional. I proposed to my wife over tater tots at a bar. It was pretty much, "okay fine, let's do this, in or out?" and she was super in.

I knew a guy who proposed to his "girl friend" (as in he was friendzoned) on the Vegas strip with a 5k ring he bought. Never even kissed her. Of course she said no. Some guys get way wrapped up in their own heads.

TV and such is part of the problem, selling men delusions about how women and romance work. Most guys usually have some formational experiences that teach them reality but lately more and more guys go through life believing total nonsense about women.

Twenty years of TV and movies are just unwatchable trash. "Captain Planet" comes to mind. Kids are going to ridicule us for this forever.

Educating women was a mistake.

The duty of victims to safeguard the rights of their attackers is insane.

Yep. I have had women flagrantly lie and claim expertise over subjects I know for a fact they are 100% ignorant on. They always take winning the argument itself as the goal, facts be damned.

Eh, show me a quality gaming PC you can buy for $500.

I'm kinda waiting for Steam to end up on PS5, that will be the death of consoles.

Gamepass is a trojan horse to buy your back library. Publishers hate it that you can buy a game once and play it forever, they hate competing with the past. There's no reason for any good third-party game to release on gamepass because it's just throwing money away. E.g. would GTA 6 release on gamepass? That would just be setting Fort Knox ablaze for Rockstar. Hence, gamepass will always be a dumping ground for trash, just like Kindle unlimited.

Subscription services are a raw deal for creators.

Their exclusives are all shit. Who buying an xbox for Starfield? Lol.

Lol. gAmEpaSS iS tHE fuTUrE!!

I've said this before but the modern conception of sexuality is preposterous nonsense:

1. Everyone has a "sexuality" that is either straight, gay, or some flavor of both.

2. Sexuality is innate and immutable. It's a core part of who you are, and can't be changed by yourself or anyone else.

3. Sexuality is also deeply mysterious and unknowable, and must be constantly questioned and tested.

4. It is believed that there are legions of straight people walking around who are secretly gay and unaware of it. This is attributed to societal brainwashing, despite claiming this is impossible.

5. For this reason exposing oneself to gay media is considered especially important and virtuous.

6. It is not believed that there are gay people walking around who are secretly straight. Brainwashing can only go one way, it is impossible to convince a straight person to be gay. To even suggest such a thing is a hate crime.

7. Changes to sexuality are impossible. So when they happen, they are retroactive backwards through time. A straight person with an opposite gender spouse, years of straight relationships, biological children, interest in straight porn and erotic content, etc, etc, who then switches to gay will be described as always having been gay, forever. Sexuality didn't change, it was "discovered."

8. Changing from straight to gay is always considered a good and positive move, no matter how many lives it ruins, children estranged, families torn apart, etc.

9. Changing from gay to straight is always considered a bad thing, even if it patches up families, mends fences, or results in a more stable life. In fact converts of this sort will be labeled as in denial or malicious fakers out to get the LGBT&7^Z3 community.

It's an insane cult, pure and simple. All the contradictions run in the same direction: straight bad, homo good.

They don't though. If the merchant class ruled, we wouldn't have Disney pouring billions into unwatchable sermons. Companies would not be spending themselves into debt to hire priestly commissars; HR would not rule over the CEO. Only priests do that.

I have personally been in the room with rich trust fund managers who spent their money to hire a black diversity consultant who proceeded to lecture them all what horrible racist pieces of shit they were, and all the ways they had to 'atone' for it. Priests.

Merchant class does not rule, the priest class does (we are always ruled by warriors or priests).

Anyway, congrats, you're a Neo-Reactionary (NRx). Likely the hottest underground ideology of the last decade, will probably hit mainstream in the next decade. "Your kids are going to love it."

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets

https://graymirror.substack.com/

https://radishmag.wordpress.com/

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/

https://blog.reaction.la/

Of course, the modern rich-captured "financialized" indentured-service economy is closer to communism than not. It's just the media is adept at framing any attack on banks or wall street as socialism.

Still up https://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

The most succinct summary of BPD ever:

I dated Zoe Quinn. I thought she was the most amazing, kind hearted person in the world.

Turns out she was bullshitting pretty much everything I fell in love with her for, and is actually an unbelievable jerk. She lied to and manipulated me for months — effortlessly — because it was not believable that someone could be that selfish of a person, that convincing of a liar, and that good of a manipulator, while completely ignoring the very principles she so adamantly espoused.

My prediction Since 2020 has been Stalin level blowouts. Expect outrageous vote totals, 90% for Biden, 200% turnout, etc. Those who dare point it out will be arrested.

Anyone who lacks a boots on ground plan to deal with this is doomed. Filing lawsuits and tweeting is a waste of time.

Kinda funny how the left is all pro-establishmen again.. I have out and out commie friends lecturing on fb how the rich and powerful are always right and shouldnt ever be questioned.

The right needs to capture the youth with some kind of anti establishment message that isn't communism. I'm feeling we could get traction with anti-debt or usury movements. Pointing out that it isn't normal to have lifelong debt at 18 shouldn't be a commie message, but any attacks on bankers is always spun that way. Occupy wall street was actually a good idea before it was immediately derailed with wokism.