ZylonBane
ZylonBane t1_jefpxcz wrote
Reply to comment by Turbulent_Winter549 in Most overrated game franchise? by skinnyfamilyguy
>The big thing about HL is that it was the first shooter with an actual story
System Shock would like a word with you. Then Strife. Then Terminator: Future Shock. Then probably another dozen or so early story-based FPS.
There is little that Half Life was the legitimate "first" to do. It just happened to do a whole bunch of things that had been done before but did them all very well.
ZylonBane t1_jefpiiz wrote
Reply to comment by Sabbathius in Most overrated game franchise? by skinnyfamilyguy
>entirely single player
You say that like it's in even the slightest way a bad thing.
ZylonBane t1_jefp69y wrote
Reply to Most overrated game franchise? by skinnyfamilyguy
Oh hey it's today's "Post your unpopular gaming opinion!" thread.
ZylonBane t1_jediamw wrote
Reply to comment by maverickoff in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz
Is a Nazi lol even worse than a regular lol?
ZylonBane t1_jedi9di wrote
Reply to comment by DigNitty in TIL in the 1920s, Coco Chanel accidentally got a tan, and helped inspire the trend of sunbathing. Soon "sunlight therapy" was prescribed for almost every ailment from fatigue to tuberculosis. Before this, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes who work outside, and fair skin was revered. by Pfeffer_Prinz
...okay?
ZylonBane t1_je2hefg wrote
Reply to comment by JimmyDeanSausage in TIL that Chick-fil-A started in 1961, after founder S. Truett Cathy found a fryer that cooked chicken as quickly as a fast food burger. Chick-fil-A licensed the sandwich to 50 restaurants, including Waffle House, until 1967, when the first standalone Chick-fil-A was opened. by jdward01
But hey... still better than Church's.
ZylonBane t1_jdxqxj1 wrote
Reply to comment by Jemmerl in TIL in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a local style of accordion folk music known as Famo has sprung a fierce bloody gang war which has contributed to its high homicide rate. Little-known to the outside world, scores of musicians and hundreds of DJs, fans, family members etc. have been slain. by delano1998
ecksDEE
ZylonBane t1_jdwmv3g wrote
Reply to comment by hatersaurusrex in TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza by FatherWinter
What I've realized now is that Greeks are to blame for both pineapple on pizza and Cincinnati chili. There will be a reckoning.
ZylonBane t1_jdwmgvk wrote
Reply to comment by EclecticDreck in TIL the New York Times, in 1944, Introduced Readers to an Exciting New Food: Pizza by FatherWinter
>A thing to remember about the many questionable recipes from this era is that they were built upon novelty.
Like the Dorito Taco and Crunchwrap of today.
ZylonBane t1_jd1qjl3 wrote
Reply to comment by stewake in Would it work to get 1G in a spacecraft going to Mars using acceleration? by OysteinM
>It takes a lot of fuel to do anything in space.
No it doesn't. It sometimes takes a lot of fuel if you're too impatient to wait for gravity to do the work for you.
ZylonBane t1_jd1q3ct wrote
Reply to Why do we assume aliens have similar technologies or more advanced technologies than we do? by jilljackmuse
>Why do we assume aliens have similar technologies or more advanced technologies than we do?
We don't assume that.
What goofy-ass sources gave you that impression?
ZylonBane t1_jd1puyl wrote
Reply to comment by jilljackmuse in Why do we assume aliens have similar technologies or more advanced technologies than we do? by jilljackmuse
>Avatar is probably one example
You're not sure if Avatar is an example of humans meeting a less-advanced species?
ZylonBane t1_jcyx1fn wrote
Reply to Loot box purchasing is associated with gambling and problem gambling when controlling for known psychological risk factors of gambling by AddictiveBehaviorLab
Title seems a bit unclear. Let's see if I can improve it...
>Loot box gambling is associated with gambling and problem gambling and gambling gambling when controlling for known psychological gambling risk gambling factors of gambling
ZylonBane t1_jcnv4vx wrote
Reply to comment by jthtiger in Where do photons go if they've been emitted but are destined to never be absorbed, and would these photons traveling ad infinitum define the edge of the universe (even if space itself were still larger)? by mysteryofthefieryeye
>So a photon won't redshift into nothing-ness.
It will if the rate of universal expansion is accelerating.
ZylonBane t1_jcnt1c7 wrote
Reply to comment by jthtiger in Where do photons go if they've been emitted but are destined to never be absorbed, and would these photons traveling ad infinitum define the edge of the universe (even if space itself were still larger)? by mysteryofthefieryeye
Redshift has nothing to do with position. Redshift is the photon equivalent of the Doppler effect. Just as sound sources that are rapidly receding sound lower-pitched due to their waveforms being stretched out, light from sources that are rapidly receding appear shifted toward red in the electromagnetic spectrum. So velocity is what matters.
ZylonBane t1_jc0gy65 wrote
Reply to The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA by Davicho77
Describing any astrophotography as "bird's eye" is such a bizarre choice of words.
ZylonBane t1_jb73mq1 wrote
Reply to comment by drygnfyre in TIL that the Convair Model 118, a tentative flying car from 1947, was shelved because its prototype crashed when a test pilot mixed up the flight engine's fuel gauge with the road engine's and didn't see the former run out. While he survived, this killed interest in the project. by ShabtaiBenOron
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Reply to comment by Morbos1000 in Milky way and Andromeda Galaxy colliding in 4 billion years, and Andromeda is heading at a fast 70 miles per second! by Intelligent_Ice_5231
The sort of quality content we've come to expect from a random_word_numbers account.
ZylonBane t1_ja4ybmm wrote
Reply to comment by blahblahrasputan in TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead. by A_Bruised_Reed
Who says "on arcade"? Honestly!
ZylonBane t1_ja4mnoa wrote
Reply to comment by blahblahrasputan in TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead. by A_Bruised_Reed
All these people who aren't aware that Popeye was originally an arcade game are blowing my mind.
ZylonBane t1_ja4mhxg wrote
Reply to comment by rtza in TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead. by A_Bruised_Reed
You know that's a port of the arcade game, right?
ZylonBane t1_ja20sf3 wrote
Reply to comment by Imnormalurnotok in Explosions in space movies? by DemonOfTheAstroWaste
On Reddit nobody knows what paraphrasing is, mostly.
ZylonBane t1_j9qmulg wrote
Reply to TIL NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days between March 1979 and October 1997. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time and his last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer by Ok_Copy5217
Jamie discovered that the real seagulls are the Polaroids you make along the way.
ZylonBane t1_j9g09pk wrote
Reply to comment by shadboi16 in TIL: The domestic cat is a revered animal in Islam and One of Muhammad's (PBUH) companions was known as Abu Hurairah (literally: "Father of the Kitten" PBUH) for his attachment to cats. by ElectroFlannelGore
Mandatory respect. You don't PBUH all over other people you respect, do ya?
It's all just so amusingly performative.
ZylonBane t1_jeg3i3p wrote
Reply to comment by sumpfkraut666 in Most overrated game franchise? by skinnyfamilyguy
Half Life's story isn't that complex. It's basically Doom's story. "Oh no we opened a portal and shit went to hell. Also there are some bad humans too."