Yes - the episode was called "Dough Ray Me", after the titular Dough Ray that could make money from the sound of bells. Scrooge McDuck, as you expect, actually realized how bad an idea this was (since inflation would kill the value of his swimming pool full of gold coins) and told them not to use it, but he was the only one not blinded by greed at the start of the episode.
If it makes you feel any better, they also called Idaho and Montana for Trump with 0% reporting. None of those states are exactly a surprise.
My advice would be to make blueprints of the basic stuff; anything like a steel furnace array or a set of electric miners etc., figure out once, and then make a blueprint of it. It's way easier to place stuff down to fit a blueprint than it is to just place things down off memory, even for obvious or simple things, and that gets you to the point of automating construction bots that much faster.
I'd say it's entirely reasonable to have bots within four hours of starting the game, even if you don't really know what you're doing. And the bots of course solve the 'single unit' problem.
Same here. I'm typing this while waiting for my railgun prerequisites to finish so I can build a fusion-powered spaceship and reach the edge of the solar system. That "Beat the game in 40 hours" achievement is going to be really tough to get.
You’re not aware of this because you just came here from Reddit.
Wrong - he's been on this side of the Internet for a while; he showed up from time to time on KIA1 back when we were all on Reddit circa 2015. And he's been pushing for censorship the entire time. He knows exactly what he's saying and for some reason chooses to say it anyway.
The situation's exactly the same as in Asimov's short story "The Machine That Won The War". Everybody knows that the numbers they're getting from other sources are fake, so they have to fake up their own numbers to try to compensate...and soon enough, the greatest computer in the history of the world is more-or-less useless because it has no real data to work with.
I understand why those phrases originated, what with YouTube's audio auto-censorship algorithms. But it worries me that a lot of people use the terms and censor themselves even when not on YouTube, because it means that they're learning their speech patterns primarily from YouTube.
I have written articles that debunk:
1- the "photo electric effect" , for which Einstein got the Nobel prize.
This explanation doesn't make sense:
Atoms are all like spheres. The electron-shells form a sphere around the nucleus. These shells themselves all react to light. If the shells receive a certain frequency of light, they will start to resonate. If they resonate for some time the shell can reach the next state, or even release an electron.
Like a glass resonates at a certain tune. If the resonating takes long enough, the tune can even break the glass. Different glasses react to different frequencies of sound. Just like different atomic shells react to different frequencies of light.
Wineglasses only break at the specific frequency (well, a range of frequencies), and if you raise the frequency too much, it'll stop resonating and won't break anymore.
So if we saw that metals emitted photons only when light was at a specific frequency, resonance would make sense. But what we actually see is that metals emit photons only when light is at or above a certain frequency, without an upper bound on the frequency that will cause photoemission. That simply isn't resonance, not for wine glasses or mercury or any of the other examples you give.
Agreed - the episode "Heaven Sent", which is just a Capaldi monologue, is phenomenally good. But then the very next episode falls flat as soon as the Wild West standoff is over. For one shining moment we got to see what he was capable of as an actor when there was nobody else getting in the way.
I quite liked every episode with Nicholas Prentice (played by Alex Diakun and somehow made to look like an uncanny lizard-man), a time traveler who (among other things) showed up at the assassination of Obama, in an episode aired fifteen years before Obama was elected.
The reason u/ModsAreAIDS is arguing with you on this is that last year, there was a high-profile case in which a juvenile was declared incompetent to stand trial after two armed robberies, and then let go, after which point he shot someone else in the head.
It looks like this is specific to Minnesota law and specific to juveniles:
Since the law requires cases to be suspended – even when they involve violent crimes – judges can’t order juveniles to be held in detention or released under law enforcement. Judges’ hands are also tied in these cases because they have no authority to order children to get treatment to restore them to competence. Even if they did have that power, there are no competency restoration programs in Minnesota tailored to juveniles.
But you might see why others are worried that "ward of the state" isn't as permanent as in your experience, given that it's already happened once.
It's amazing that the best adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" remains unironically a five-minute cartoon starring Darth Vader and Homer Simpson.
Dobson's comic, you can read here. The ComicCon picture of the cosplayer is here; allegedly, the guy in the tan shirt is Dobson, but from just this picture it's hard to tell. The original Twitter post this all came from is from a suspended account, but it was archived here.
There's a bunch of plot and character development that happens throughout season 1 that impacts the rest of the series, and it ends on a four-part cliffhanger going into season 2.
So, if you want to watch SG-1, I'd recommend to start with the pilot episode and then skip to episode 10, "Thor's Hammer". You'll have missed all but one of the cringe episodes (14, "Hathor"...it's bad), but won't miss much of the good stuff.
Please don't ban Imp again, or at least not for months like his last ban. By starting with the conclusion every single time and working backwards, he makes it clear how ridiculous identity politics can get. If anything, he helps all the rest of us think through situations individually and not in terms of stereotypes...if only because, in the back of our minds, we have a little voice saying "That reflex assumption you just made sounds a bit like Imp".
Yes. Great show, a lot of the core plotlines and characters still hold up today. The writers originally made Samantha Carter an insufferable feminist, until midway through season 1, her actress (Amanda Tapping) went to the writers and told them that genuinely capable women don't talk or act the way Carter did. The writers then not only changed course, but made it so that losing the feminist chip on her shoulder was in-universe character progression.
I genuinely cannot fathom this happening in a mainstream TV show today.
I liked Jonas Quinn, in part because it was hilarious that 'Jonas Quinn' is a way less alien name than 'Corin Nemec'. I was disappointed in SG:U that they had an entire episode on Langara and - after mentioning in SG:1 that the Ori had occupied the planet - didn't use the excuse to bring Nemec back for a cameo. Or, if he wasn't available, at least have an offhend mention of "Oh, Director Quinn's not gonna like this..." at the end or something, just to confirm that he's doing okay.
The special effects budget doesn't yet exist to do Lensmen justice.
Still, good to see a fan. Hot jets and clear ether!
The answer was in front of us the whole time...
Hey, Deepness in the Sky has plenty of good moments too (the capitalists and the spiders teaming up against the communists at the end), and Nau realizing who Pham is, is way up there. You could definitely get a paranoia thriller with the need to avoid omnipresent intelligent surveillance of every word you say and every step you take.
Not to worry you, but the sun just went out.
would be an amazing moment to see on screen.
Sector General. I want to see it with a hundred million dollars of special effects for the alien surgeries and medical dramas.
He was, and Samatu Haido was the assassin of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.
Imp! Good to see you again!
If it's a male shooter, how far back does the woman have to be to count as 'female-backed'? Wife? Employer? Employer's wife? What degree of separation are you expecting between the shooter and a woman somewhere?
I can't imagine a faithful adaptation (in $CURRENT_YEAR + 10) that keeps the speech about government "being reduced to its proper place", or portray the giant coup to take over the planet in Triplanetary heroically.