Niriel

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Because it's 2016 13 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Darwin Award 2016.
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Because it's 2016 13 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
What does "square up" mean, with and without quotes?
Decent kek 21 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
So people in your area think that skin color and culture are the same thing?
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Help a guy out 3 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
It's.
Decent kek 21 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Meanwhile, in Europe, this makes no sense whatsoever.
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Could you do it? 44 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
No I don't. I've got a Wii, never heard of the miiverse.
No understand 8 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Numbers are only one of the very many types of objects that can be handled by mathematics. In my field of mathematics, numbers are so useless that I recycle the digit symbols to label things that aren't numbers at all.
No understand 8 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Like what? Latin, Greek and Hebrew? They're all still in use.
Mind blown 11 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
This is crackpottery. There is no evidence for it and no theory (in the scientific sense of the term) that predicts it.
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Could you do it? 44 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Oh, so it's a game. I didn't even know what club penguin was.
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explanation 5 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
How is watching an ad a way of taking a break from ads? I haven't seen or heard an ad anywhere since Thursday; how are thirty minutes of ad-free music considered generous? What even is that service/website/app/thing?
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Satan is always helpful 8 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Is from "lux", which in Latin means "light", with no baggage.
My kids 2 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
One day they might hear about bikes or public transportation. Be ready.
Hacking in movies like 1,2,3 "I got access" 11 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
There are pretty cool games riding that trope, though. I liked Uplink, and I just started playing Hacknet.
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This is the Netherlands 8 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
All of it.
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Dear USA 1 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
broken*
What do you think? 5 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Only works if you're rich. If you depend on anyone to eat, good luck.
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Throw away the age 28 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Level 37. But I'm still grinding.
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I wouldn't mind a little bit of homework, but an hour or more per class is excessive 24 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Six hours a day? I had 8, plus homework.
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no really what's up with french 10 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Pine-apple (ananas). Blue-berry (myrtille). Straw-berry (fraise). Lady-bug (coccinelle).
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Pc vs Console 26 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
"that just means you suck at games. like actually". Sure. And I don't even care. How was I supposed to guess that wall-runs and double jumps were somehow supposed to be part of what is mainstream and obvious? I'm just trying to get across the level, and I fail, until somebody tells me that I was supposed to know that physics-violating moves were so obvious they had their standardized key/controller combination. That stuff is obvious only for those who have followed the evolution of everything for the past decade. I was busy elsewhere.
Pc vs Console 26 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
As a PC gamer who inherits terrible console ports, I have no shame playing on easy. Ever tried Witcher 3 or Psychonauts on PC? Their controls and sluggishness make no sense. I liked the NES with its two buttons; my character knew how to do stuff and I didn't have to do it myself. Now I need to handle a controller with 6 analogic axes to just exit the title screen. Gerald is bumping into every door frame and misses every dodge. He's supposed to be the Witcher, not me, so don't make me do the impossible.
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So insignificant 16 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Yes, we are very tiny and fragile and most of everything in the universe can kill us in a nanosecond. Still, we're very complex things, more complex than pretty much anything of planetary to cosmological scales. Most of the universe is an unconscious blob of gases and dark matter, life is rare, and for all we know, we might be the only creatures in the Universe who are able to actually understand this universe. We're tiny, not insignificant.
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So insignificant 16 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
I find this actually relieving. Then again I'm an astronomer by trade; comforting bullshit is way more depressing than truths.
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I love hearing about stuff like this 16 comments
niriel · 8 years ago
Thank you!
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