kamatsu
I would post stuff, but everything I want to post comes from here. Oh well, comments are enough for me.
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Does he really exist? 10 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Now I want to get back to playing KOTOR II.
So true words' 16 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
What is your opinion on using a computer to practically create a voice? Vocaloids are basically pre-recorded vocal clips of a syllable or less that people use to make beautiful songs, such as Circus-P's 'Lie', Neru's 'Lost One's Weeping' and Total Objection's 'Remote Paranoia'. Completely terrible stuff can be made too, but that's the same with anything, from a guitar to the Unity engine.
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You guys?? 21 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
I'll admit that this is my fourth year of Japanese, but its a complicated language to learn. And I do understand enough to survive for a bit in Japan... I think.
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How can we move forward when there are people still holding us back? 57 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Oh, also, of course the temperatures are estimates; you can't very well stick a fucking thermometer in a chunk of 500-year-old ice and say that the ambient temperature was about 0°C, not to mention the fact that there's always a margin of error in any measurement.
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How can we move forward when there are people still holding us back? 57 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
I was going to apologise for calling you scum, but now I see that you actually deserve it. Alas, you have cursed me to join you in ad hominem arguments.
My rage was not violent, but indignant. My "belief system," if it can be called that, amounts to nothing more than what seems to have the greatest amount of scientific evidence and I am willing to change my opinions when more reliable, peer-reviewed research is brought to my attention. Also, while I'm not terribly offended, I'd hardly call Asperger's Syndrome a mental health issue when it's both diagnosed and as mild as I have it; instead merely a condition. Stop being so fucking patronising when you know nothing about the person you're addressing (though I guess I'm being a hypocrite now, aren't I?).
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My rage was not violent, but indignant. My "belief system," if it can be called that, amounts to nothing more than what seems to have the greatest amount of scientific evidence and I am willing to change my opinions when more reliable, peer-reviewed research is brought to my attention. Also, while I'm not terribly offended, I'd hardly call Asperger's Syndrome a mental health issue when it's both diagnosed and as mild as I have it; instead merely a condition. Stop being so fucking patronising when you know nothing about the person you're addressing (though I guess I'm being a hypocrite now, aren't I?).
How can we move forward when there are people still holding us back? 57 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Ice samples can be taken and analysed for oxygen content, allowing for estimation of ambient temperature when that ice froze. Other methods also exist, but I'm too angry to think of what they were right now. I'll admit to not actually giving a source for that information, but you've not even taken the main point of the sentence into consideration. You speak of not knowing what the midpoint is, but the rate of change is only affected by a midpoint if it's not in an isolated system, like a kettle with the lid off. Annual mean temperatures increasing at a ridiculous rate and an unknown all-time mean temperature have a very strenuous connection, if one at all. Now, if you'll excuse me, my phone is dying and I'm shaking with rage so hard that I can barely type.
Apparently, the 'Imagine a new color' is not really impossible 31 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Or rather a substance that is a shade not previously made, given that they're chemists.
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How can we move forward when there are people still holding us back? 57 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Scientists have changed their opinions over the decades as their methods and information have changed, and any report you see today claiming that climate change is a falsehood will have been cherry-picked by either scientists undeserving of the title, or the corporations paying for their 'studies.'
The oceans are becoming more acidic, coral reefs are bleaching, glaciers and ice caps are melting at a rate observable on a yearly basis, and you have the nerve to say this is natural? This evidence and that which was given by others above (some even with sources, rather than an IB student's memory in the middle of the night) is what scientists have used to find the truth in climate change. As I said before, it is referred to as climate change instead of global warming because it's not a uniform warming if the world, and nor is heating of the world the only observable effect.
Humanity has run this planet into the ground, and it is scum like you that make it so hard to even try to fix it.
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The oceans are becoming more acidic, coral reefs are bleaching, glaciers and ice caps are melting at a rate observable on a yearly basis, and you have the nerve to say this is natural? This evidence and that which was given by others above (some even with sources, rather than an IB student's memory in the middle of the night) is what scientists have used to find the truth in climate change. As I said before, it is referred to as climate change instead of global warming because it's not a uniform warming if the world, and nor is heating of the world the only observable effect.
Humanity has run this planet into the ground, and it is scum like you that make it so hard to even try to fix it.
How can we move forward when there are people still holding us back? 57 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Actually, my school does teach critical thinking skills, as the rest should have had the climate change-denying government not cut Gonski funding for I-don't-know-what; I wasn't paying attention to politics half a decade ago. The same government that tried to keep the damage done to the Great Barrier Reef out of a UN report, caused by human activities rendering the waters around Australia unsuitable for coral to live in, calcifying or 'bleaching' them. Yes, the Earth has naturally had large differences in temperature, but the changes occurred over millennia. In the past century the mean temperature of the planet has changed more than in over a thousand years before then, provided I'm remembering my facts correctly. And if I'm not it's barely an exaggeration.
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WWI trench 95 years later 6 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
"the trenches have vanished, long under the plow,
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now"
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No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now"
How can we move forward when there are people still holding us back? 57 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Because that was a more accurate name for how we're fucking up the world? It doesn't cause uniform warming across the world, nor is that its only effect, so it is more accurate to say that humans are changing climates around the world, i.e. causing climate change.
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Who made this watch? 16 comments
fantastic 4 comments
No offense to console gamers 18 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Not the game itself; the parts within the PC, such as the CPU or GPU, must be replaced regularly if one wants to have the best gaming computer possible. Or, if you're like me, don't so much as look inside the computer for seven years and then wonder why it won't run Just Cause 3.
What's your opinion about this? 29 comments
No offense to console gamers 18 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
They cost slightly less, due to having fixed components rather than steadily upgrading them as better bits are available.
No offense to console gamers 18 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
The game seems to be The Crew, pre-UI change. Not a bad game; the driving leaves a lot to be desired, but it does have an open world that is almost all of the USA.
#irishpride 57 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
Mere numbers of slaves do not a worse treatment per-slave make. Yes, what happened to the African slaves was terrible, and there were many, but if Smitty is correct an average Irish slave had a much worse life than an average African one.
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every single MCQ test ever 12 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
For anyone wondering, the Japanese answers say 'drink,' 'sukiyaki,' (a Japanese dish that is absolutely delicious) and 'dessert.'
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Does this trigger you 22 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
You go Kevin. I hate war, the need for armies, and the sheer amount of money that gets chucked by lots of countries into military spending, but have nothing but respect for (at least, most) soldiers who have fought for their country or another's. It disgusts me to how terribly veterans are treated by the Australian government, and I'm afraid that I can't imagine veterans in most other countries being treated much better. Knowing about the tiny amounts of support offered to veterans, so much so that that those with PTSD find treatment in substance abuse just as often as proper psychiatric help, if not more so, sickens me and makes me despise the people in charge of my country.
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Sometimes something good does come out of the Internet 55 comments
kamatsu
· 8 years ago
I read those lines as referencing the creation of the world, with God 'stretching the heavens and spreading the earth' in order to create the world upon which we live. Of course, I've not read these lines in context yet and didn't actually get confirmed into the Lutheran church after a bunch of confirmation classes, so I'm not necessarily the best one to analyse biblical quotes.
This movie and many more 14 comments