Tar_Alcaran

I’m pretty sure this is why coop shooters are getting more popular.

If you need to make your own replies, it’s obviously a pretty crappy film

Why make it hard on yourself when idiots self-select into an easy target audience?

Welcome to the new Industrial Revolution, where one person can do the work of many. Sure, mass produced goodscontent aren’t as good as handmade artisanal products writing, but there’s a huge market for it.

Or most comment moderation policies

One jack can hit pretty hard if you’re on a shitload of medication

Massive flooding of whole cities is simply not an insurable thing. Not even with all the reinsurers in the world can you pay out a city of millions. Most sane countries don’t even try.

I live about 5m under sea level. Should de dikes breach and my polder flood (and I don’t die horribly), the insurance company pays fuck all. The Dutch state has a giant mountain of cash sitting by for cases like that.

Of course, handing DeSantis a giant pile of emergency cash would just mean it instantly gets turned into bribes, so that wouldn’t work for Florida.

Quick, but them a pony!

One could absolutely ask what BioWare is thinking straying so far from the original, successful, formula. The answer of course is valuing short-term profit over the creating of something that will stand the test of time.

“SoulsLike games sells well, let’s make dragon age a souls like” is what they thought

Won’t a fire axe work perfectly well?

Who says he won’t keep working there?

And helium is the least bad thing to have leak into your ship

Huh? They launched plenty of Starlink satellites since March, they may not be enough to keep up with the shutdowns, but rockets have been going up.

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-log/

Edit: if you look at https://satellitemap.space/ now, the number of sats has been going up since march, but the number in service is shrinking, probably due to shutdowns exceeding replacement launches.

Launch capacity has kept steady since 2022, and so has life expectancy. We’re coming up on the end of life for the first sats, so it’s likely the total number has peaked, and will now drop to a steady state.

Why’d you have to go ruin my day like that?

Hey, good news is news too!

Wait, are criminals not allowed to vote in the US?

Jesus fucking hell, that is not ok.

Quick, remind me which country Trump’s Aberdeenshire Golf course is in again?

Wow that’s almost 6% of what Microsoft is buying this year for that same purpose.

My (dutch) health insurance covers healthcare everywhere, except in areas with negative travel advisory, international waters, or the USA. So this seems pretty common.

You could even do away with a full skeletal system in the upper section. Could be almost all muscle around some bones for support and mobility.

Having more ribs isn’t a problem for a mammal, those are pretty variable between species, unlike vertebrae. And thats quite a puzzle, how many go into the horse bit, and how many in the human bit? Obviously the horses “neck” and the humans lower back overlap, but it’ll still be a puzzle. You’d end up with a less flexible body.

Now, I would think that with the extra space, there would be something like a stomach in there to begin breaking things down before sending them along but that isn’t mandatory for the basics to work.

Why? Centaurs aren’t ruminants, imagine eating grass with those poor underdeveloped human omnivore teeth, or stripping leafs with human lips, ouch. In fact, feeding a human brain and a horse body with a human mouth is going to be a LOT of work.

If you’re going to do tentacle-arms without bones, the human part would basically need to be all muscle, with some weirdly deformed vertebra for shoulders.

And that leads me to another thing. It must have some very intricate blood-pumping systems, because centaur hands can’t reach the ground unless they bend aaaaall the way down, like head to knees low. In order to actually use those hands, they’d have to be upside down for long periods, but also right side up for long periods. With a very thirsty human-stylr brain.