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Pentium100

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  1. If moderating the Debate Pit is too difficult, perhaps there could be a "debate lobby". No discussion would be allowed there, other than arranging to debate some topic in some other place. Basically someone creates a topic "Is XYZ good?", people, who want to talk about it sign up and then they figure out where to go - discord, use private messages, 4chan etc. That way people could still debate, mods would not ned to police the topics so much and it would not make the site look bad on searches.
  2. There is no unbiased source of information for things that are subjective and a lot of things are subjective. Computers replacing humans can lead to something good (something like the society in Star Trek where it is possible to make pretty much everything for basically free) but it could also lead to something like the Matrix or something even worse. Well, it would be nice to not have to work and still have stuff and now free time to do whatever I want, but I somehow think that if it ever happened in the real word it would be similar to the worst outcomes seen in fiction.
  3. What would happen? 1. Earth becomes Equestria and everybody turn into ponies? 2. Equestria appears in some place (middle of the Pacific or whatever) and now humans and ponies can visit each other? 3. A portal opens that I (or anyone else who knows about it) can use to visit Equestria, with ponies being able to visit Earth (similar to the mirror in EG)? 1. Definitely no, I do not want to go live in Equestria permanently. 2. I don't really know, there's a potential for a very big war between ponies and humans which would most likely end badly for me, so most likely not. 3. Probably yes, visiting Equestria would be cool and as long as pony magic did not work on Earth and the portal was too small to fit a tank through, we would be safe from an invasion.
  4. Fashion trends were made for exactly this reason - panned obsolescence. If they made clothes that would wear out quickly, people would stop buying from that company, but if they managed to convince the people to just "update" to "keep up", all is good, since now people want to do it themselves. This applies not only to clothes, but other things as well - cars, cell phones etc. That's the reason why the new thing has to look different from the old thing - so that everyone would easily see who's "outdated".
  5. I dislike heat, so any place that is hot is out. Also, I would rather live in a democratic country that has a normal standard of living and the culture is not too different from mine as otherwise I would stand out and possibly annoy the people living there or they would annoy me. I also like guns and steam engines. So, it could be Poland (close by, food and gas is cheaper), the UK (especially if it was close to a heritage railway) or the US, specifically Alaska (guns and specifically Alaska because it's colder). In reality, I have only been to Poland as a tourist, so no idea if I could actually live in any of those countries and not be annoyed by something.
  6. I like elemental weapons, especially fire. If the weapon stats are decent, I will choose a flamethrower or similar over a regular gun. Lightning or acid based weapons are also cool. The Borderlands series of games have it even better in that there are lots of guns that shoot bullets (or plasma blasts etc) that sete enemies on fire, electrocute or melt them.
  7. 1. Well, without internet, I probably would be able to be a network administrator, there would probably be some small networks, but most of what I do now would not be needed. 2. Yes, I am used to quickly looking things up instead of having to remember them. It was more difficult without the internet. 3. Well, my profession would be somewhat useless, but I don't think it would be that bad. OTOH, I could start creating the internet there. I know how some of the stuff works and with the help of smart people we could make it. 4. I lived without the internet (not really knowing what that was) until I was 11 maybe, then I only got a limited connection (dial-up, paid by the minute), then later I got the unlimited connection. Still, even when I had a good connection at home, I did not have internet (or even a PC) on vacation for a long time, then I got an old laptop (486 50MHz) and no internet. I used to read more books, I was reading books all the time. We go on vacation and after a week, I bring a stack of books (already read) home. I used to listen to the radio all the time and sometimes record good songs from it, or I would just record everything that was broadcast. When I was a kid, even when I had the internet connection, I did not use it that much. Sure, I would use it to download games and later movies, but there was no Youtube and a lot of internet was not accessible to me because I did not know English that well (still in school learning it). Then we moved into a house and I did not have internet for 6 months, later I got dial-up (this time unlimited, but only in evenings/nights or weekends) and used to download games (a CD image takes a long time to download at 4.5KB/s).
  8. A video tape I recorded of my grandmother, a very old lady (she was 98 or 99 at the time, she died one month before her 100th birthday) and the daughter of that lady. We were visiting them and I just filmed them talking. Sadly, the tape got used to film a vacation video and all that remains of the recording is probably less than a minute right at the end of the tape. None of the three women I filmed are with us anymore, it would have been so nice to have the full tape of them talking. Another is a funny song that I recorded of my friend singing on my PDA. I then copied it to my PC and also, I think, recorded it to a CD, but I cannot find it on the PC or the PDA and I think the CD. has degraded beyond recovery. An audio tape of some wedding musicians - I accidentally recorded over it. All that remains is, I think, a part of the song that was playing during my birthday one time dad was filming us. I actually have a chance to have it, since it was released at some number of copies, so maybe I'll find another copy at some time when I buy used tapes.
  9. They probably wanted a villain who could not be "reformed", someone who is evil and wants to stay evil (or, from her perspective, it's Twilight who is evil). Not everyone can be reformed by just making them understand that "it is better to be good".
  10. I have watched the show and really liked it. Surprisingly (for new TV shows or movies) I found not too much politics in it, which was great. The actress who played Wednesday did really well (and it does not hurt that she's attractive). I am looking forward to Season 2, but I hope it has less romance than Season 1. There are multiple ways to detect it, for example (I do not know if Netflix uses any of these methods, I do not work there): 1. Is the user logged in from different IP addresses? If you share a password with your family members who live with you, you most likely have the same public IP address, however if you share your password with someone who lives elsewhere, now you have two IPs. Bonus points if the other person lives far away. You have a different IP when you use mobile data, but Netflix can probably tell that it is the same device. 2. Is the user watching two shows on different devices at the same time? I do not know if Netflix even allows that, but it can easily limit one account to one show at a time and make password sharing much more inconvenient. 3. Is the pattern of what the user watches different on different devices? I can use my account on multiple devices, but I'd probably be watching the same stuff on the device that is most convenient for me right now. However, if device 1 is used to watch detective shows almost exclusively, while device 2 is used to watch romantic shows almost exclusively, then it may be that two different people use these devices.
  11. Assuming I retain the knowledge that I have now. Otherwise it would just be a repeat with no way to fix my mistakes etc. Yes, at least I would meet my grandparents again and have many years with them. Of course, I would be able to make more money as well, but that is secondary. On the downside, I would have to build my collection of recordings etc again, but that does not matter.
  12. I think that my singing could be used for interrogation when waterboarding is not enough to get the prisoner to talk.
  13. Considering the amount of tapes, records and CDs on my shelves and the amount of various equipment - I am the opposite of a minimalist.
  14. I would rather buy physical media instead of files. The two exceptions are books (a pdf is easier to read) and games (most of them need online activation anyway, so I might as well just use Steam). When I buy music on a tape or CD, I get to keep it. On the other hand, someone may be paying for a streaming service for years and then an artist he likes gets removed from the service (because the artist said something stupid or some other reason).
  15. A device for playing and recording audio.
  16. The ones that affect me. If it does not affect me then while I may care to some extent, it still does not affect me. I do not know how much I can elaborate to not make my post political and against the rules.
  17. I do not remember ever dressing up as some character or something, unless it was for a school play (and I was forced to participate).
  18. I started with Logo, pushing the turtle around, but did not really do anything. Then it was Turbo Pascal and I made some stuff with it, some basic utilities. Then I used Delphi for a longer time, because it had the same syntax (I especially liked that variable and function names are not case sensitive) and I could make Windows programs with it. Again, it was mostly utilities, like bulk renaming files and such. Now when I need to program something, it's usually on Linux, so I use either C or php, depending on what I need to do. Or I just write a bash script. I also sometimes make custom devices, but usually they do not involve coding.
  19. Maybe she found the human Sunset and killed her, taking her place. Then she could fake amnesia or something and nobody would suspect anything, unless the body turned up.
  20. I eat ice cream in winter. I usually don't eat it outside though (but that is mostly true in the summer as well). Beside, my room is usually slightly warmer in winter than in summer, so why not? I also dislike heat, 20-21C is pretty much my upper limit for room temperature, hotter than that I may need a fan.
  21. For me, there should be some changes, hopefully fixing the annoying parts of the previous game and improving it, but mostly it should be "more of the same". I want to see the continuation of the story with the game not being substantially different. I think the Borderlands series, for example, got it mostly right - each new game adds to the story and usually fixes some annoying parts of the previous games.
  22. Dark red. Pros: rust is not very visible Cons: rust is not very visible
  23. Turning children into soldiers is wrong, but the fact that they exist means that they are effective enough and probably cause more damage to the enemy than themselves. Desperate times, desperate measures. Probably in that universe, giving a weapon to a 13 year old is better than not giving them a weapon and being less armed against zombies or criminals. Also, children probably get trained to use guns at a young age because of that, similar to child soldiers IRL. Also, AFAIK, in the past it was OK for children to have guns in the US. In the past, in some countries, 12 year old was considered old enough to marry and children as young as 7 operated dangerous machinery in the factories (given more dangerous jobs that the adults could not do because of their size). The laws eventually got changed for the better though.
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