2001: A Space Odyssey touched me in that special place between science, religion, and spirituality.

It was always hungry, and now it was starving. When the first faint glow of dawn crept into the cave, Moon-Watcher saw that his father had died in the night. He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness

In their explorations, they encountered life in many forms, and watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night. And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

To me it reads: “Did you know? This level of halo has an elevator so part of it is above another part.” Yes, that’s what elevators do.

Yeah that’s basically it, just a very video game-y thing where environments can be radically different without the player noticing. It’s just the discrepancy between where the game says ground level is.

I opened it in blender to make a better comparison, the difference between the two ground levels is about 150 meters, and close enough that it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Which is fine but it’s just kinda fun to see, like one of the VFX things where if it is a good movie you don’t notice until someone points it out.

The elevators are the big vertical shafts. You start on the left area and take the leftmost elevator (the shaft connected to the gray exterior model, labeled A) down, then walk around that area until you get to the second shaft B. That shaft is the surprise one and brings you down to the lowest level. The third shaft, C, falls apart when you try to use it, and you escape via the fourth one, D, that connects to another gray exterior model and the second (lower) exterior section.

my grandma could beat the game if she saved as much as you

Fidelity and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the budget size

Nah fuck the shareholders, if they do something we depend on and pay for it with tax dollars then we should own them.

The only metric time unit is seconds so km/h isn’t metric (or even powers of 10)

Tangential but you might find TiddlyWiki useful, it’s a single file personal wiki that can be edited in any web browser.

Powers of ten my ass

Smh most of these replies are just memes

That’s why consent of the governed is important regardless of economic ideology

Stop telling young men and boys they are toxic in front of their peers.

oh so you’re just done reading I guess then, because I already refuted that

please define toxic femininity

Traits of femininity that are toxic. Is that the best gotcha you have?

I think my main complaint is that teaching young people graduate level race and gender theories without all the prerequisite understandings needed to take those courses

I think you just have a fundamental misunderstanding of what is being taught to children. We can teach the broad strokes morals and ethics without the collegiate theory. Kids can learn about Martin Luther King Jr and why racism is bad, we’ve been doing it for decades. Adding toxic masculinity would be more of the same “don’t be an asshole” but with gender instead of race.

we’re just telling them that men are toxic rapists

We are telling young boys and men (who don’t even know what masculinity even is yet) that men are toxic.

We are not, though? The idea of toxic masculinity does not tell anyone that men are toxic, or even that masculinity in general is toxic, it’s about specific behaviors.

but teaching kids about academic ideas like the patriarchy and toxic masculinity just makes them feel like they were born with sin or something for being a sexual human being.

I think this is cope tbh, people say the same thing about how teaching real history is just teaching “white guilt,” but this is just low effort denialism to try and say the problem wouldn’t exist if you just stop talking about it. I was a white person in school, and I never felt guilty for being a white person when I learned what America did, I felt like America did bad things.

Similarly, teaching boys that “hey, you know that behavior you might see in old movies that looks kinda cool? it turns you into an asshole if you act like that in real life” is not teaching them male guilt or self hatred.

That’s not disagreeing then: “It’s not a stunt if it’s a good thing”

I disagree. Of course it’s a PR stunt

If you disagree, then why do you call it a stunt?

Came here to post this, or at least recommend it based on vibes. tl;dr very fun physics based combat/acrobatics game

Democrat partisans are not comparable to the MAGA movement

blueMAGA doesn’t exist

I’ve been boycotting CS2 (née CSGO) since November 2019 when they introduced Fortnite skins with annoying voices that you couldn’t turn off or disable.

I don’t think it has worked but I’m definitely never playing another Valve multiplayer game, they always turn out the same way.