paulpower.bsky.social
I like popular maths and science, cricket, trains, sometimes I obsess over videogames. Recently diagnosed as autistic. He/They.
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Arguably, given its job is tearing a path through rainforests, it *is* pretty creepy. Probably creepier now than it was when it was first designed, but even in the show they introduce it like a horror movie monster - including stock footage of real life animals running away from it.
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Example of how I lay out my low density residential areas to discourage mansion building (those giant lawns are so space inefficient!). I try to break up any area that could be 3x3 or bigger using small commercial zones, bus stops, parks, etc. Has the side benefit of making walkable neighbourhoods!
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(explainer: well-educated R§§ Sims work far more in high-tech industry than R§§§ Sims do, as they tend to prefer working in commercial offices. Also R§§§ Sims dislike public transport, so commutes generally are longer for them (R§ prefer public transport, R§§ go with whatever's fastest))
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Of course, if you're an 'orse you can eat A
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I wonder if any part of the U tree is edible...
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Ah okay, sorry, I think I read what you meant the wrong way round. My bad.
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Seems a bit harsh on the idea of communist rallies in Disney parks, tbh.
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Similarly, many other wheeled devices.
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I think lorry's a good word. Consider: without "lorry", you can't have the tongue twister "red lorry yellow lorry".
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I do always wonder why a biometric password is supposed to be safer than the six-digit number I store in my brain.
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Cover the floor in marbles.
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To be fair, area is two-dimensional.
I suppose "from Land's End to John O' Groats" is still a traditional distance measure.
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Looks more like a Darco than a Launch Arco
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I was thinking about the high density of the exhibits primarily (which I do think is a good thing, even if I do get exhausted after a while!), but yes, it is well-captioned and a lot more manageably sized.
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I was going to say, goodness only knows what Stephen Bush thinks of the Pitt-Rivers.
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TBF, I would trust a random professor more than a Tory politician.
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And if you think that's bad, consider: who the heck is the bowling XI going to use as their wicket keeper?
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Smith making 10,000 Test runs adds a potentially useful leg spin option to my mad recurring dream of a match between a 10,000+ runs squad and a 400+ wickets squad (you may laugh, but when your bowling line-up is Kallis, S Waugh, Tendulkar, Root and Border, you need all the help you can get)
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Heck, it even shares the thing with Wheatley where it's so good at pretending to be a human that it makes mistakes that a computer really shouldn't be making, like maths errors, or poor recall of information, or very slow processing.
And at least Wheatley was *designed* to be a moron.
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Like that's the thing, in the 60s we (at least in Britain, I presume it was similar in America) had a functional welfare state that could give artists the time and money to create.
Which thinking about it, possibly suggests another reason for its gutting ☹️
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If I'd aimed my camera slightly higher I might have got Capella in view for a full set of the Winter Hexagon 😅
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Went stargazing tonight, I think this was my best shot #astrophotography 🔭🧪
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At the end of the day though, whatever we think of Pluto it doesn't matter because, as Tom Cardy put it, Pluto knows that it's still Hot S***.
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Sure, but more interesting than Europa, Ganymede, Io or (probably) Callisto?
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Wow, way to hate on Mercury
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I mean, if you kept Earth exactly as it is somehow but made it also a moon of Jupiter, pretty sure it would easily be Jupiter's most interesting moon. And that's not throwing shade on the Galilean moons, just pointing out that a) Earth is bigger than them and b) well, life, liquid surface water...
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Eh, it could maaaaybe beat out Callisto for fourth spot?
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Fair, but I didn't even notice it was there before I posted. Is there no way to remove it now?
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... what. Don't click on that link, I have no idea what it does, it appeared by me typing "oh by" and accidentally typoing a period in between them
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The number of times I've seen a game described as "this is a cosy, comfy slice of life sim!... oh by the way there's combat".
Looking at you too, Stardew Valley. I love you, but don't pretend murder you're not making me murder cute, loveable dust sprites to bulk up my coal supply.
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Made a monochrome version because it felt appropriate:
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All I know is that the person I got the link from scored 80 points, which (since the longest word on this one was 16 letters) seems to be a maximum score. I guess 68 is okay?
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Not to be confused with an antique clock 😉
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An anticlock, if you will.
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I will concede that this might be an edge case though.
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At the same time, I'm reminded of the time in nets when I bowled a delivery so incredibly terrible, it lobbed over into the next net over where the batter was walking forward to pick up the ball and hand it back to the bowler, and hit them on the top of the head - luckily he was wearing a helmet!
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Plus the 3DS was just a larger screened DS with a weird thing hurting my eyes that I turned off rapidly
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The Gemini triplets!
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That was... 2020.
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Took this one on Christmas Day, though they're a bit distant to be super photogenic.
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In my case it was usually tissues. Lots and lots of tissues.
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As the saying goes, pillage, *then* burn.