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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.worldCardio-mogged
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    5 小时前

    The Greek Gods were said to be envious of mortals, because their single life meant that everything they did was more important, more impactful, more decisive, more meaningful than anything a God would ever do.

    If Pheidippides is in some way looking down on all this… or even if he isn’t…

    He has achieved immortality, in the form of essentially a secular religious tradition stemming from him, that unifies the entire species in the peaceful furtherance and celebration of physical and mental discipline and perserverance.

    I cannot easily think of much more noble a legacy to leave behind… he has transcended the specific cricumstances of his life and times, and become the father of a beloved tradition, dedicated to to the indomitability of the human body and spirit.

    His particular name might not be as famous as say, Achilles… but …

    I feel he wouldn’t mind.

    It was, after all, about the delivery of the message, not the messenger himself.


  • Actually, technically, the way teleportation works in Half Life/Portal universe…

    They are aliens, extraterrestrials, they’re not from … a mirror realm, a distinct and different universe or timeline.

    Xen acts as a kind of … bus stop, for the universe, if that makes any sense. But it does exist somewhere in our Universe, it is not in an alternate/parrelel universe/timeline ala Marvel different universes.

    Xen is a relay, that, for whatever reason, seems to be a spot in the actual universe where transdimensional travel often … ends up at, or traverses through. Like a strange attractor in a chaotic system.

    So this goes for the Combine as well. Xen, Vorts, Headcrabs, the Combine… they are all from our Universe, though they could be from totally different galaxies than our own.

    The teleportation tech/system in the HL/Portal Universe works more like the Webway from 40k, than it is like the Warp from 40k.

    It is a system / series of gateways in … string theoretic 11 dimensional space, that in our 3d experience of reality, appear as basically a complex network of subway tunnels, semi-stable wormholes. The Combine make great use of this, the Human Resitance barely understand it, but use it in different ways, and the Portal tech just most directly punches wormholes through 3d space via … fucking moondust and intensely technogically perfected spite, or something.

    … even in the instances in the series where time itself is … paused or traversed… by G Man or the Vorts … these occurences seem to all take place inside of a single consistent and coherent universe.


  • Cameron is much more into ‘I love the deep sea’, has more senoirity as a legitimate deep dive submersible expert, but Gabe is giving him a run for his money.

    That yacht Gabe has?

    He bought the shipyard so he could direct them to refit the yacht to also have a docking bay and facilities for a submersible, (and also a LAN party room lol) which he has since gone on to use to plumb the deep seas south of Japan, mapping various trench beds in high detail, and possibly capturing some never before seen hadal zone creatures on camera.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=GsbYXGVSPmo

    He is literally playing Subnautica IRL.

    Gabe also funds actual legitimate neuroscience / medical brain implant research. Unlike Elon’s Neuralink… which poached a PHD’s research team and then basically stole and claimed credit for inventing a certain kind of brain implant tech… and then ran around saying he was gonna change the world with this half baked over hyped tech, untill he got bored / came down from ketamine…

    Gabe is a bit more hands off and just actually lets the experts do expert things, try to discover and invent new ways to help people with Parkinsons and such… the goal isn’t primarily to make money, it is to do research.

    https://www.techspot.com/news/108049-valve-gabe-newell-backing-new-brain-chip-startup.html

    He’s closer to an old school American business tycoon… an actual philanthropist who has more money than he knows what to do with, so he throws it at things he thinks are neat and could contribute to society in some way.

    Even Bill Gates, for all the shit he absolutely deserves to be criticized (if not imprisoned) for, he did and does throw a pretty substantial amount of money at cancer research, that has led to very useful research there.

    Now, I still don’t think billionaires should exist, but, they do. And at least some of them do less horribly bad things with some of their money than say, I dunno, directly fund and bankroll fascist politicians.





  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.caAndrew Tated
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    Yeah I agree with you, this just actually does not make sense unless he’s a Ken Doll.

    Bro literally has no balls.

    Yeah, you can tuck, or maybe have a micropeen … but he would have had to actually lose his balls, which is simply too on the nose insane for me to entertain for the serial rapist king of the manopshere.

    And also yeah… any… basically woman that’s actually a woman, that’s gone through puberty, would also have more of a bulge than this.








  • Unfortunately, you’d have to actually make a left and right hand version… ‘hand agnostic’ wouldn’t work with this kind of design.

    Imagine a non reversible hand agnostic glove.

    Hope your thumb and pinky are identical, on each hand, just swapped.

    Mirroring the entire hand isn’t the same as a hand being symmetrical.

    … you could perhaps try to model a mouse around a pistol grip or flight stick… not sure if that would be doable to work out to the correct wrist angles though?

    Hrm.

    Actually, a standard dildo with balls/flared base design might actually work as a kind of basic shape to start from…

    … the balls would be the place the pinky side of your hand rests on… then you’d need symmetrical flaring/indentation where either thumb could go… make the left and right click and scroll wheel be along the … would it be dorsal? side of the shaft, have a button or switch elsewhere that can flip button assignment and wheel orientation between left and right handed use. Scroll wheel is horizontal due to grip angle / both handedness.

    Then I guess add more bonus buttons the thumb could use.

    You’d also have to weight the bottom of this thing to prevent it from toppling, the whole thing would have to be fairly heavy.

    And you’d have basically double the amount of buttons as per a particular handed variant…

    … design is all about compromises, lol.