The Town: Feedback?

muniin · 14 days

Dear sir and friend,

I give you both my heartfelt congratulations. You have transcended mere video games and created a truly expressive work of art. It speaks of a level of self-discovery that not everybody will understand, and probably most people won't even "get".

But that doesn't take away from the sad, dark beauty of what you expressed.

Is it difficult to figure out? Puzzling? With instructions that are cryptic, if they even exist at all?

Well, maybe life is like that, sometimes.

We_Are_Legion · 15 days

Are you sure about that?

We_Are_Legion · 15 days

You sound like my wife, lol. Have an upvote. :-)

We_Are_Legion · 15 days

I hear what you're saying, it's not like there's a positive and negative terminal on our skull or anything like that.

But "common sense" logic aside, polarity is important.

Source.

Orientation of the electric field: defined by the electrodes positions and polarity. Cathodal stimulation typically decreases cortical excitability, whereas anodal stimulation typically increases the cortical excitability^2,3 .

We_Are_Legion · 15 days

The only way this would be ethically problematic is if you were doing tDCS to another person, outside of a clinical setting.

Otherwise, it's ethically the same as licking a 9V battery.

We_Are_Legion · 15 days

According to the homebrew tDCS community, the most common side effect (from "doing it wrong") is temporary blindness. (So the old wives' tale is true, I suppose...)

Other problems from doing it wrong include:

Discolored skin (if you're dumb enough to use copper pennies as electrodes, some of the copper molecules will transfer into your skin)
Reversing the intended effect (i.e., worse math skills instead of better) if you switch the + and - electrodes by mistake
Splitting headaches (which, ironically, tDCS can also fix)

d_pug · 16 days

Their tails aren't actually bushy - the hairs are just standing on end.

You see, squirrels are unique in that they have an electroreceptive organ, which stores electricity and discharges it in small bursts throughout the day. That's why they're so twitchy and energetic. When they need a good recharge, they just run across a nearby power line.

Also, have you ever noticed how you never see an old squirrel? That's because when they get old, the hair falls off their tails. The electroreceptive organ wears down, their fur changes color, and then we call them "rats".

S069334761 · 19 days

Your comment made perfect sense to me...

weaver2109 · 19 days

They are usually very brittle, and sometimes hollow. When excavating them, you have to be very careful (like an archaeologist) - the bigger a piece you can recover (without breaking it), the more valuable it becomes.

anutensil · 1 month

Right. Which is why it's such a scumbag move for the carrier to say that they don't know where your stolen cellphone is, when they've had constant positional data on it for the life of the phone.

anutensil · 1 month

I have a relative who, back in the 90's, worked for a telecom datacenter in Tampa. They had a big map that showed the locations of every cellphone, with ID & status, updated in near-realtime, with positional data determined by triangulation of nearby cell towers.

The positions were updated whether the owner was using the phone or not.

(Have you ever wondered why your battery can drain in a few days, even if you don't use it at all? There's a reason for that...)

TheSmartypants · 1 month

Yeah, you're right. That, too. It's the gradient that kills you.

I guess a one-legged squat would be ideal, if you could maintain perfect balance during a lightning strike :-)

Starving_Kids · 1 month

Yes.

That's why, if you have an aquarium, you have to be careful about how much food you give them. They've always got the munchies, so they'll eat until they die.

zerogeesus · 1 month

Actually, it's the other way around. Asteroids hit other planets that had life on them, and colonized the earth.

You know that saying, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Well, it's not just an old wives' tale...

utterback423 · 1 month

Pop rocks are crystallized breakfast:

Red = Crystallized Bacon
Blue = Crystallized Sausage
Green = Crystallized Eggs and Ham

In the middle of frying, these foods are flash-frozen and dehydrated, then shattered into small pieces. This process causes them to lose all of their original flavor. (But if you really concentrate, sometimes you can taste a bit of the bacon.)

Because they were frozen in the middle of the cooking process, and all the water was removed, you just need to add water (or some saliva) to restart the cooking process.

They don't burn your mouth because the pieces are so small.

TheSmartypants · 1 month

No. The best thing to do is find shelter, and pay close attention to your hair. If a potential lightning strike is building up, you will feel it as every hair on your body starts to prickle and rise a few seconds before the strike.

At that point, you're in serious danger. Run and squat down as low as you can, and put your head close to the ground, but do not touch the ground with your hands or any other part of your body (than your shoes).

But for the love of God, do not lay down. I mean, think about it - you'd be placing your head and heart as close as possible to the ground - so the charge from a nearby strike is that much more dangerous.

(Source - My dad, nuke plant SRO)

Crunketh · 1 month

His goal was not to freak them out - he was only trying to keep his own mind sane. The guards were visibly upset when they saw him doing it, so they brought in a translator, and he had to explain what he was doing.

tl;dr: My bad-ass math teacher taught the Viet Cong a few lessons in geometry.

IAMAJossWhedon · 1 month

I've had a long journey.

IAMAJossWhedon · 1 month

Most (if not all) of your works seem to grapple with the complexities of identity, of people discovering and knowing just who they really are.

What has your own journey been like?

Crunketh · 1 month

I had a trig teacher in high school who had been tortured as a P.O.W. in the (Vietnamese? Korean?) War. He didn't give many details about his experience, but this one thing he did say:

To keep himself sane, he would scribble out the formulas & diagrams of an ellipse in the dirt of his cell. It really freaked his captors out, because they thought he was sending secret messages or something.

It's worth noting that he was the best damn trig teacher I've ever met in my life.

LoaDead · 1 month

You, sir, should subscribe to /r/frugal.

Just ignore any haters who say that you shouldn't waste money in vending machines at all, you should be planting your own wheat and milling your own grain with a stone that you dug out of the ground with your fingertips and a small twig, then baking the chips in a rocket stove pizza oven that you made out of clay that you dug out of the creek. Because, seriously, who cares about the creek?

Profix · 1 month

Something strange is going on with your formatting there.

They forgot the "http://" at the beginning of the URL.

sealclubber · 1 month

Awesome! Any cool tidbits you'd like to share, that you didn't see in that link?

Boomer84 · 1 month

Here are some resources I found:

Personally, I'd plink around with a keyboard (the musical instrument kind), and find the combination of notes that you'd like to to play. You want it to still sound good if all of the chimes are hit at the same time.

Now you know what notes to play, so next, use the calculators to figure out the lengths. Cut them a bit longer than necessary - you can always trim down, but you can't add length.

VictusMortuum · 1 month

Some people have a form of dyslexia that is caused by having a thought process that is completely visual instead of auditory. They don't "hear" their thoughts at all, they see them. There's an inner "movie" instead of an inner "dialogue".

When they look at words on a page, they feel disoriented, because they are expecting to see visual representations of concepts. In an attempt to "fix" the problem, Scumbag Brain tries flipping the words and letters around, hoping to find the picture-symbol that everybody else seems to be seeing.

Words that can be visualized are easier to read (like "house", or "running", or "green")... but abstract words that can't be visualized are extremely difficult ("the", "or", "a", etc.)

It's a shame, because if these people had been born in ancient Egypt (with a writing system based on hieroglyphics), they'd be top-of-the-class students, and we'd be the slow learners...

sealclubber

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