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What's your stance on "donating" blood plasma?
  • Donate to a non-profit organization, that's well audited and regulated, that's not a problem.

    Donating to a for-profit organization is a huge problem. The incentives are all misaligned. And should not be encouraged.

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    Why are the webcam/microphone switches red when the component is disabled and black when enabled (instead of the other way around)?
  • Fully agreed. The highlighted color should indicate a dangerous state.

    Being locked is not dangerous, you attempt to use the microphone or camera and it doesn't work, and you remember it's locked. So it's a self-solving problem

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    In what videogame you're currently stuck and you gave up or drop it for a while?
  • Sunken City... it just drags on and on and on. I want to finish it, but every time the main mission gets interrupted by a side quest or I can't find the "trigger" for the obvious next step clue I lose the will to play the game.

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    What are some words you swear people use to try and sound smart?
  • I think the common goal is not to sound smart, but add variety and diversity to the language, so it doesn't sound so boring.

    example https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken

    This gets really boring and repetitive

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    Steam Families is here
  • just have him login to your computer, then log him out, then add him as a family member, steam will see both use the same ip/computer, and bam, your good

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    Babylon 5 - Watch Mega Thread
  • This concludes all the Babylon 5 videos created.

    Even with all the other content, its hard to beat the shadow and vorlon war arc in the show. Seasons 1-4 are absolute peak science fiction.

    I feel a little exhausted, but very up to date.

    The reason nobody listens to Zathras is because Zathras leaves out important information...

    A really good retrospective: https://youtu.be/7jUNB-o463w

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    Babylon 5 - Watch Mega Thread
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5:_The_Road_Home

    Comments and Thoughts

    Zathras and the great machine transcend realities time and space. Zathras is probably the most important creature that exists.

    The Power of Love is a little cheesy especially to solve quantum tunnel effects.

    Since we are talking about parallel dimensions i wonder how that compares to third space, hyper space, and quantum space.

    The joke about lost in space being something they couldnt say was a little oddly meta.

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    Babylon 5 - Watch Mega Thread
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5:_The_Lost_Tales

    Thoughts and Comments

    This feels super low budget, only a few actors in any scene, all cgi, no real sets.

    The first story is introducing god and the devil, but its a weird fit since we have the vorlon and shadows in those relative positions, but this is going full god and devil in addition to vorlons and shadows. Felt forced

    The second tale about the young prince, was nice, hopeful. Good to see sheradon returning to the station.

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    Babylon 5 - Watch Mega Thread
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5:_Thirdspace

    Third Space Thoughts and Comments

    Interdimensional psychic space crabs!

    Normal space, Hyper Space, Third Space... Many dimensions to explore for FTL travel purposes, not all of them will have space crabs that the vorlons are ashamed of.

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  • Let's suppose we could dump enough "breathable" air (whatever that means for humans) into the solar system that it filled the spaces between planets.

    What would happen?

    A - I imagine it would then become possible to fly airplanes between planets, perhaps balloons? Would space travel become easier or harder?

    B - According to another lemmy post, we would start to hear sound waves from the sun (A constant jackhammer sound - delightful)

    C - Each each planet become the center of some mega cyclone (like the Jupiter storms, but bigger)?

    D - At some point the air above us wouldn't be pushing down onto the earth at sea level, could we survive the additional pressure?

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    I've decided to do my first Babylon 5 rewatch!

    Lets have a binge thread to talk about B5!

    I would love to find a 4k remaster of the series, there are some great demo videos on youtube, but on the streaming sites I can only find 720p. If you have any trouble choosing which streaming service to use just search for fmhy and they will have a curated list of options.

    TV shows were wild back then, 22 episodes per season, 45 minutes each; 1000 minutes per season!

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    Watch the film, don't read the plot synopsis!

    Scifi, future, humanity themes

    Excellent Film, well worth watching and thinking about.

    7.5/10 on https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6499752/

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    Now that Borderlands has hit the "streaming" services in high quality, I've watched it.

    It's reasonable for a second screen show at 2x speed in the background. It might even get some popularity over time.

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    a exhaustive exploration of gta4 power delivery networks

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    Concord is very polished. But it still seems fairly contained, a bunch of heroes, a handful of maps. Where did the 8 years go?

    Firewalk studios has 169 employees as far as i can tell.

    They use unreal engine, no single player campaign

    Where did the time go?

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    Linking directly to a very relevant time stamp.

    Let's not tempt fate....

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    From the YouTube channel of spaceman, 34k. A very thoughtful analysis of the magic behind the movie.

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    If freezing salt water produces freshwater ice, why is desalinization such a difficult problem?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2wafIzuvlI

    I was watching the above minute physics video, and they indicated in a brief one sentence line that saltwater freezes into freshwater ice. That got me thinking.

    Under what circumstances could you actually freeze salt into ice? To make salt ice?

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    The game got a lot of hate online, but I've generally found when a game is hated on, there's usually something more. So I decided to actually play the game. I'm 5 hours in

    Honestly I like it, for telltale like walking simulator, it sets up the story pretty well, it has some nice sci-fi beats. It's good for what it is. It isn't anything it promises not to be. I think it's a good game, I'd recommend waiting until it goes on sale for $10 maybe. At that price point it's about the cost of a movie and That's where I put it in terms of value pricing.

    Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTUVJp25g44

    Steamdb https://steamdb.info/app/721180/info/

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    Ryan George

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    I've recently rewatched game of thrones seasons 1 through 6.

    What is your favorite moment? Memory? Plot? From the original game of thrones?

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    > So I have to admit, I was cautiously optimistic about this one. The trailer promised a stripped down, back to basics approach to the Alien franchise, with a fresh new cast and a talented horror director at the helm. But does it live up to the promise?

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    Yet another community to discuss shows and movies

    !showsandmovies@lemm.ee

    Standard don't be a troll moderation policy

    Happy to have any discussion there.

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    A four season TV show, focusing on the inexplicable births of super powered children, and the family they make along the way.

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