Looking at his mugshot, it feels like he’s leaning into that.

I liked the first one better. I guess I was just looking for the rogue-like fix of “failing forward” on subsequent runs, but the gameplay loop is much wider on the second one and that didn’t quite satisfy me the same way.

I love this sort of video, but the attention-grabber opening segment drives me crazy every time I see one.

I know this is a shit post, but scribble dry erase marker over it.

Seveneves was a wild ride, and I appreciated the way its scope broadened, but I definitely wasn’t expecting it.

Listened to the book and watched the extended cut just the other day. It’s quite funny, definitely part of Andy Weir’s charm, but it’s far more dramatic a story than it is a comedy.

Some of the longer, reflective scenes in the extended cut give it a more somber tone, but they don’t actually add anything to the story.

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I’ve had it installed for a while now, but I haven’t really jumped in. Are there any particular janky bits to be wary of?

Which would actually explain my preference…!

Completely tongue-in-cheek. I just didn’t like his show as much as I liked Bill Nye.

Beakman (and his supposed “world”) was only ever a knockoff of Bill Nye, who himself was just a nice Mr. Wizard.

I think it’s better now than it used to be. Everything they make is good, really.

Okay.

What is it?

The whole Luddite thing is definitely the narrative of the ruling class. That group had a bunch of great reasons for not wanting industrialization, including attempting to maintain the original “cottage industry.”

I love how they changed library sharing, too, so group members are only accessing individual games rather than entire libraries.

I didn’t think I’ve ever seen magic eye poetry, that’s really cool.

What’s the, uhh, symbology there?

I don’t think TNT is used at all, I’m pretty sure it’s some explosive compound, as you said. However, explosives are still measured in terms of TNT, called Net Explosive Weight (NEW).

For example, one pound of C4 has a NEW of about 1.25 pounds.

You’re right that manpower depends on a number of factors, and global tensions were pretty high in the Navy of the mid-80s, so those increases could be entirely attributable to other more mundane reasons.

I can only find mentions of “+500%” Navy recruitment during that time, and stories of Navy recruiters setting up booths at movie theaters, so it seems like even the official story is probably somewhat sensationalized. I did find mentions of an increase in the total number of high school graduates entering the Navy, percentage wise. From sub-85% in 1985 to more than 90% in '86, so that could speak to the overall volume of recruits available during that time, but that might be drawing the wrong conclusions.

I didn’t find any indication of similar things in the Air Force. As far as I can tell things were pretty steady. Either way, it doesn’t really seem to follow that people would watch a movie about Navy pilots and then decide to hit up the AF recruiter.

I had always heard Navy recruitment skyrocketed, but your comment made me curious, so I looked at the Defense Manpower Data Center numbers for the years surrounding Top Gun’s release in May of '86 and…

In September of '86 the Navy’s manpower increase was nearly double that of the year before or after (10k versus 6k). Meanwhile the air force had a more moderate increase and then numbers fell in '87.

I think the overall gains are probably overstated, but there were definite spikes in the Navy E-1 and O-1 numbers following Top Gun, a trend not seen in the Air Force numbers.

Source: https://dwp.dmdc.osd.mil/dwp/app/dod-data-reports/workforce-reports