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  1. Just done my 2nd play-through of Elden Ring. Sooo good. Love that game. Hopefully they do more and bigger dungeons for the DLC, and make the game a bit more challenging. I was thinking about doing another Dark Souls 3 run, but then I saw Nioh 2 and Citizen Sleeper in this months humble bundle. So, right now I'm playing Nioh 2. This game is hard af. A lot of the difficulty seems to depend on how well you know all the game systems, and on what weapons, armor, and stances you use. It's not just timing and stamina-management. I love the setting though. And once you get the hang of it, it really clicks,... until the game throws another impossible boss your way.
  2. Napoleon in Egypt: Part 2: Napoleon's invasion of Ottoman Syria and the failed Siege of Acre, and the defeat of the Ottoman Turkish counter-invasion at Aboukir: Learning from Starfish Prime, Nuking low earth orbit would cause a powerful EMP: (Pretty bad for electronics, like satellites.) But it might also cause beautiful auroras, so, worth it. The strength of the 4 fundamental forces (strong nuclear, electromagnetism, weak nuclear, and gravity) is actually different for different distances: For a long time, we actually haven't been able to tell the sex of dinosaurs, or if dinosaurs even had different sexual morphological characteristics: Nuclear bombs and the bad stuff after a nuclear war: (spoiler: Best survival chance in Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand. Maybe.) Boring. (horizontally) Blue LED, almost impossible: Cosmological time dilation (and redshift) caused by the expansion of the universe: RedLetterMedia: Madame Web movie review
  3. Absolutely fucking disgusting this war. An atrocity. How can humans be so full of hatred and utter apathy. And none of our leaders dare to stand up and put a stop to this madness. This world is going down the shitter, isn't it. All downhill from here. A sad fucking shitshow. I'm really losing my belief in humanity... Or maybe I'm just concerning myself to much with all the bad things happening in the world. Just take it as it is maybe. Do small good things. Gotta keep sane and stay happy in daily life in this clusterfuck. I don't know.
  4. I agree. Keep the forum free. It can be done. Otherwise new people would be discouraged too much to join I think. Gotta keep the community alive. (and growing) Ideas: If possible: • Notify subscribers yearly with a pop-up. Some subscriptions might just expire without the subscribers really knowing. • Notify non-subscribers once a year with a pop-up saying that subscribing is a good way to support the forum. • Show a small "Like watmm? Support the forum." or "Keep watmm ad-free? Support the forum." or "Like talking about music and nonsense? Support the forum." line on the top of the 6 main forum hubs if you're not a subscriber. • Give subscribers a subscriber-only reaction-emoticon and/or subscriber-only reply-emoticon. • ...
  5. I want to be excited about new tech... but it seems so very dystopian to me. It almost activates a primal fear in me. Weird. Can't really explain it. Maybe this tech really is inevitable. In that case we better get used to it. Maybe a bit too distracting to use this in public? But then again, so were smartphones. Or will this tech stay more confined to work and home-entertainment, and these are just early adopters testing the waters? Anyone here has this, and willing to share their experiences?
  6. CES 2024 Weird tech: AI tech: Linus: "If 2023 was the year of practical AI applications, then 2024 is the year of grabbing the nearest object, holding it down, and duct-taping that AI to it."
  7. New Shepard flew its 24th mission on Tuesday, December 19. The manifest included 33 payloads and 38,000 Club for the Future postcards from students around the world. More details about the mission can be found here: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-24-mission-announcement
  8. you can skip the 3 minute minecraft intro bit
  9. I read that the creators of the video said the promotional video was heavily edited and not real time responses, but still pretty amazing imo. (scary)
  10. Blue Eye Samurai does not qualify as an Anime according to MAL / weebs / otakus. It's not created in Japan, or made by a Japanese production company. However... Netflix does market it as an anime. And it's influenced by anime quite a bit. And it's set in Japan. And indeed most Japanese people call all animation anime. So ... it's probably ok to call it an anime. Same goes for Arcane, Castlevania, Avatar,...
  11. I must say: I really like the art. I kept thinking while watching the video I really should look up the artist, but when checking the description afterward, it turns out the images are all generated using Midjourney AI. Cool, but damn. Does anyone know the artist(s) on which this style is inspired?
  12. Celebrating James Webb Space Telescope first year since its first full-color image. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-celebrates-first-year-of-science-with-new-image Some images made by JWST over its first year: A special lens within the James Webb's Space Telescope NIRCam instrument allowed the telescope to take a selfie in space. The first publicly released science-quality image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, revealed on July 11, 2022, is the deepest infrared view of the universe to date. Saturn, its rings and three moons stand out against the blackness of space in this james webb space telescope photo. In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust. The James Webb Space Telescope's imagery of NGC 628 (the "Phantom Galaxy") shows glowing dust in this citizen science image. The star-forming Pillars of Creation, imaged in mid-infrared by the JWST in what will surely become an iconic picture. A composite image of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, created with the Webb telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The five galaxies of Stephan's Quintet as seen by the JWST in one of the first images released by the telescope in July 2022. The Southern Ring Nebula, a halo of gas surrounding a star located 2,500 light-years away as seen by the JWST. An hourglass-shaped, multi-coloured cloud set against the black, starry background of space in this image produced on Nov. 16, 2022. This cloud of dust and gas is illuminated by light from a protostar, a star in the earliest stages of formation. This image from Aug. 22, 2022, of the planet Jupiter comes from the near-infrared camera (NIRCam), which has three specialized infrared filters that showcase details of the planet. Since infrared light is invisible to the human eye, the light has been mapped onto the visible spectrum. The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you’d never know it from Webb’s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red.
  13. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_shows_scorching_exoplanet_acts_like_a_mirror https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa46117-23/aa46117-23.html Data from ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has led to the surprising revelation that an ultra-hot exoplanet that orbits its host star (LTT 9779) in less than a day is covered by reflective clouds of metal, making it the shiniest exoplanet ever found.
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