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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Why are you being so condescending in this thread and still missing the root of the point? The sun’s emission spectrum has more green in the visible band than the other colors. The emission spectrum you keep mentioning. By wavelength distribution, the sun would be “green”. But, because our eyes are terrible spectrometers with bad wavelength resolution but we still like to use crayon descriptions, all the red and green gets interpreted as a combined yellow. You made a snobby comment about how all your art students understand how paint (subtractive) color works, but are you aware how light (additive) color works? Like why an RGB light can make yellow with red and green? Because that’s what makes our yellow sun “green” by certain metrics.

    So it stands to reason that if plants were predominantly green on Earth to reject and regulate green-wavelength energy from our sun, a red dwarf, which has more red output, could cause red plants to develop.

    A red dwarf isn’t exactly red. Our sun isn’t exactly yellow. Our sun isn’t exactly green, either.







  • Crying enough to interrupt my breathing with the quivers and and all? When I was 13 at my grandparent’s funeral. That was the first death for me. Emotional tears? Like every other day. Happy, sad story, movie, moving article, beautiful community moment, a good song at the right time, whatever. It’s been like this for over 30 years.

    You don’t have to cry. Hopefully, it’s just a sign your brain has readjusted how it ranks stressful situations and not anything more serious than that.




  • Sometimes I feel similarly about Elite: Dangerous. Disclaimer: I haven’t played NMS because E:D gets all my spacetime tokens and I’m fine with that. “Community goals” (high payout limited time events) get me to play because it gives me purpose for a week. For the most part though, I like coming to it for an hour or two when I want to take a break from story-laden games. Hunt pirates for an hour, fly out of inhabited space and explore for an hour (well, an hour out, an hour there per session, an hour back next time), or just chill with music and asteroid mining.

    So I do wish there was a plot at times, but I do appreciate it for mixing up the routine with simple cruising


  • This ain’t quite what you’re asking about, but I think this is an underlying factor. I’m guessing you’re in your 20s. It’s not an exact age bracket, as life can make this happen earlier or later.

    Games change over time. So do your responsibilities. The market is bigger than ever. You likely have less time than ever. You’re struggling to get into the hype and lore of an unfamiliar game with a community divided among other hot titles while, presumably, working full time, commuting, making food, cleaning, laundry, exercise, and doomscroll loops. To add onto it, so many games are artificially demanding attention by way of limited time events.

    I have a few comfort games. I have a few long term campaign games pinned at a time. I have a couple new games pinned at a time. While that applies to PC and console, I also keep about 4 discs sitting at my console at a time. Narrowing down a large library to just ~8 on hand makes it easier to get into something for an extended length of time. Even if it’s been sitting for years, pinning it helps remind me. It helps me get into the lore and enjoy the game more when I’m not spending 30 minutes deciding how to best spend my time, then getting too late for proper immersion in the hour left.

    Don’t feel bad playing a game that’s not right, not the best use of time, not the hottest, part of the “game industry problem” as defined by random commenters, whatever. Just play. I may be bummed I haven’t finished some 2015 era campaign yet, but at least I’m not bummed I sat and did nothing if I manage to get some game time.



  • The music part is so obviously this. OP, check an older season’s musical guest list. Gonna take a guess you know every act from a season in 2006-2011. The acts are always relevant to pop culture in some way (2026 references incoming), either being a current trending artist (Anita), an older one that’s touring or releasing an album (Gorilla), and/or someone continually famous (Cher, Paul McCartney) . It’s not SNL’s fault you don’t know them. If you were this age in 2006 (so, your parents maybe?) would you (your parents) know Nelly Furtado, Shakira, Akon, AFI, Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Snow Patrol, or Death Cab for Cutie? Those aired 05-07.




  • Project Hail Mary doesn’t do that, from what I recall. I think it’s just the US government/military collecting a bunch of scientists. Maybe it’s cut from the adaptation. The mission has a lengthy timeline of decades while the existential threat is already harming the planet. It doesn’t really paint the Earth in any kind of dreamy co-op light from what I recall.

    It’s a beautiful movie. I like hard sci-fi drama. My SO does not. We both enjoyed it as it split the difference. It has some beautiful visuals along the way. It’s far from “men being dicks in space” like Ad Astra and it doesn’t do the Armageddon thing with the global livestream. I’m not saying you have to watch it, but it’s just a nice, well done movie worth the time IMO.


  • I was also uninterested until seeing the astronauts out there. I saw a comment that sums it up: “turns out, I’m not tired of space. I’m tired of Musk and Bezos and corporate bullshit in space.”

    I’m still bummed that the mission was reduced to a photographic flyby without any meaningful interaction. There’s nothing especially triumphant about this trip as it was already known to be achievable. That makes me assume there’s something hidden, such as secret probes, positive PR for the US government in the most heinous of times, more cover up for the epstein files, slapping the orange name on yet more activities despite robbing the NASA budget, etc.

    But, for an hour or two spread across the last few days, it was still beautiful seeing 4 humans being genuine people. They even got the “end of vacation” sad feeling 24 hours before return. I can’t decry the loss of NASA funding and be disinterested in this. I have to beleive this mission will inspire the next generation there’s still something valuable in bigger projects with cooperation and scientific endeavors. I don’t think we’ll match the power of the first lunar landing anytime soon, but from the Apollo and Shuttles to now, we’ve just been subjected to corporate spaceflight and dick swinging competitions about whose craft docks more often. For just one more time, we don’t have a billionaire’s name visibly attached.