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I_-_I  ·  3305 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Nepal earthquake: hundreds of people dead - live updates | World news | The Guardian

Up to 1500. I initially heard about the quake from family back at home, and felt relieved when I found out that the epicenter wasn't nearby.

Now I feel like a terrible person.

I_-_I  ·  3339 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 115th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Motherfuckin' Smash

I_-_I  ·  3344 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Will be moving to a foreign country soon. Advice?

India.

I_-_I  ·  3344 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Will be moving to a foreign country soon. Advice?

I should have made it clearer in the OP, but I'm not from the states.

For money: I'm planning to set up a local bank account, which one would you recommend?

I_-_I  ·  3345 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the first song you were "in to" as a kid that wasn't a "kids song?"

I_-_I  ·  3367 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Contradictions: How much should a 'Good' person think about other people?

Or, In the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi

    Only a Sith deals in absolutes

I don't really think that they are contradictions. Some hold true in one situations, others in other. In an untimed game of chess, no need to make moves quickly but if you are Keanu Reeves in the movie Speed, you'd better act quick. If you are writing an application, you should take time to think through the various functions, but not get stuck in analysis paralysis, for example.

Reminds me of Ring Species. While they may be different at the "closing point" of the ring, they change gradually, not really contradicting one or the other.

I_-_I  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: What are your favorite movie speeches or monologues?

I'm probably showing my age here, but

Its remix is ever better

I_-_I  ·  3425 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My favourite math puzzle

Not particularly hard if you think recursively.

In case of a single blue eyed person, he would see 199 people with other eye colours, telling him the colour of this own eye, causing him to leave on the first night. This is the base case.

If he doesn't leave, there is at least one more person with blue eyes, causing the second blue eyed person to realize that he is the other blue eyed person on the second noon, as he sees that there are 198 people with other eye colours, letting them leave on the second night.

Repeat until all blue eyed people realize their eye colour

I_-_I  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI ANIME CLUB: Akira -- in 7 days!

Its more of a personal preference than anything. One of the reasons people prefer subs over dubs is that subs preserve the original dialogue better, which is lost if the subs are dubtitles anyway.

Dubbing has a particularly bad reputation in anime circles due to the butchering by companies like Harmony Gold and 4kids in their heyday, which makes anime watchers leery of anything that isn't brought over as is too.

There is nothing wrong with glossing over puns that wouldn't work in English or modifying cultural references in a manner that they work in the west, but altering the dialog into something it never was (see: Mewtwo Strikes Back) or calling rice balls donuts is unacceptable.

The timings of the dubtitles match with the dub too, and not the original audio, so it can often make for a subpar viewing experience.

I_-_I  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: English minus the non-Germanic words

I think it succeeds in showing how dependent the language as we know it today is on words of non-germanic origin.

You might take a look at Anglish, a more honest attempt to construct an English that is pure.

I_-_I  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 102nd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

I_-_I  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why a Black 'Annie' Is So Significant - The Atlantic

I'd be curious to see how the data varies across time and societies/cultures. Google returns nothing.

I_-_I  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI ANIME CLUB: Akira -- in 7 days!

The uploader has not made this video available in your country -_-

I'll use this as an excuse to grab the BDMVs for Akira.

Edit: The bluray has dubtitles, while the Streamline dub DVD has horribly butchered audio and suffers from a poor PAL conversion. The US release was handled by Funimation.

Looks like I'll need to use 3 sources (Criterion LD, Siren DVD and Geneon Bluray) to create the optimal mix :\

I_-_I  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US drone strikes – the facts on the ground

Most of my reading has been concerning the history of India, which is a bit hard to cover without going into Pakistan. I haven't read nearly enough to say what is a good account and what isn't, but I would say that going through the books Pakistan Or Partition Of India by B.R. Ambedkar and India Divided by Rajendra Prasad are worth going through, primarily because of their status as contemporary accounts from pre-independence, and hence pre-partition India.

I_-_I  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski the game

ogg is just a container. The main advantage it has is that most of the formats it uses compress well enough, without being encumbered by patents and licenses unlike MP3. Wav is uncompressed, and as such takes up way more space than necessary. In most cases, humans won't be able to tell the difference between the lossless format and a lossy one, so it makes no sense to bloat release sizes with uncompressed/FLAC-like files.

I_-_I  ·  3432 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US drone strikes – the facts on the ground

Actually... the country was named Pakistan after the Hindustani (Urdu)/Persian word پاك (pak), meaning 'pure'. This was backronymed by Rahamat Ali, a prominent Pakistani nationalist, to contain the NW provinces of Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan.

Azad Kashmir didn't really exist until the Indo-pak war, and the entirety of Jammu is in india. Saying that the region consisted of 6 warring mountain tribes along those lines is inaccurate too. While there were a few of them in the northwestern regions/modern day FATA and neighbouring territories, they were ignored by the Britons/used to divide the tribes territory, like with the Pashtuns and the Durand Line. Most of the land wasn't all that different from (the rest of) India, other than being Muslim majority instead of Hindu majority.

On a side note, Jinnah actually disliked the name, because he felt that 'pak' would mean that there was necessarily a notion of 'napak' (impure), but was later forced to accept it.

I_-_I  ·  3432 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski the game

Decided to poke around the directory a bit and "fixing" it turned out to be easier than I expected. Transcoded the 8 bit version of Mysterious destiny to OGG and renamed it to Hiroshi_Yamaguchi_-_Theme_Of_Bayonetta_2_-_Tomorro.ogg, and then dropped it into the folder.

I_-_I  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski the game

Ah. I never expected a self extracting archive containing a RPG Maker project. For some reason I presumed you'd be using SDL or something thanks to the extension.

The only criticism I have so far is that transition to Tomorrow is Mine is extremely jarring and doesn't fit the rest of the music. You could have used

instead

Other than that it is pretty enjoyable.

I_-_I  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what's your favorite sensation?

Especially if you fail multiple times before.

I_-_I  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI ANIME CLUB: Winter Edition

I had >12TB of anime last I checked, so I'm game.

Giant Robo

Inspite of what the name suggests, this isn't about awesome robots fighting each other. This is probably one of the most insane productions I've seen. The operatic soundtrack and the mish mash of Yokoyama's works create something I find hard to describe without spoiling it.

I_-_I  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski the game

PlatinumGames fans unite o/

The Wonderful 101 best game

No Linux love? I'll try running it under Wine after it finishes downloading at the cinematic speed of 30KBps. :(

Depending on what it is written in (and how well it is written), I could try making a native port should you choose to open source it.

I_-_I  ·  3452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Is What Your Face Looks Like to Facebook
I_-_I  ·  3545 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Nine-year-old Girl's Uzi Training Backfired

Well,

    Metal Storm has created a 36-barreled stacked projectile machine gun, boasting the highest rate of fire in the world. The prototype weapon demonstrated a firing rate of just over 1 million rounds per minute for a 180-round burst of 0.01 seconds. Firing within 0.1 seconds from up to 1600 barrels (at maximum configuration) the gun claimed a maximum rate of fire of 1.62 million RPM and creating a dense wall (0.1 m between followup projectiles) of 24,000 projectiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm

No one said that it has to be in production....

I_-_I  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: HUBSKI ANIME CLUB: Madoka Magica DISCUSSION [spoilers all over the place]

Actually....