A rare palace coup, perhaps?

No, it’s definitely religion. Always has been.

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Playing the original Half-Life is like a formative gaming memory for me… It had been such a massive leap from your DOOM 2s and Dukes Nukem. I was super young though, so I don’t know how much I cared about the narrative.

HL2, on the other hand…Now that I remember vividly. I remember having to use five CDs to install it because Steam had literally just been invented (for HL2). Having to create a Steam account and log into a service to play a game was so foreign at the time lol…

Might be time to re-play.

This might only be true for people who played the original when it first came out (or at least, were playing video games at that time, and are used to the dated graphics).

Also, to add to this: if you haven’t played Portal and Portal 2, then you need to do that now. Like possibly even before HL

If you’re gonna start with 1, I recommend playing Black Mesa as the updated graphics and qol stuff make it easier to tolerate in modern times.

But that’s just me. There is probably some crucial reason why Black Mesa is not the definitive version, and I’m about to hear why

Hmmm… I guess it has been over a decade. Maybe it’s time to play HL2 again.

There are guitar pedals that have toggle dials (? dunno if that’s the correct term). But they are dials for things with several discrete settings (usually more than the two or three that a typical dipswitch can handle).

Off the top of my head, the JHS pedals where they pack like 7 or 8 versions of an OD circuit into a single pedal (Bonsai, Muffaletta, PackRat), all have such dials. They click into place and there is nothing in between. And it works just fine.

Old television dials also come to mind. Discrete channels with nothing but dead air in between.

You can get kits online for pretty cheap, and probably make something like this yourself if you really wanted to. Just get a kit to make a fuzz pedal or overdrive, and do some custom modifications to the enclosure.

Fuzz maybe.

I just had a flashback to playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater after school

And here I thought that old “SFW porn gif” reddit sub was an original idea…

That’s actually a pretty sick piece of art though.

Read somewhere that catching is actually dead simple, just “move towards the image of the incoming target”

I mean… there is nothing simple about the calculations involved in something like that lol. That’s like countless differential equations per second.

Pretty impressive. I think they’re underestimating/ignoring the input from hearing, especially with the second one where he probably (subconsciously, of course) heard the ball bounce near his foot. Plus the subtle changes in air pressure around his legs to tell where the ball is, etc.

Cool video, thanks.

Edit: Still watching as they’re analyzing his free kick. Cool shit. The human body is wild.

One thing I don’t really see people talk about is how Ronaldo (and other soccer/football players) use their opposing leg to kind of hop up and dissipate any energy that they didn’t transfer into the ball. Fucking cool. You don’t even realize it’s happening.

I haven’t seen any videos on it, but I remember doing kinematics problems in school involving baseball pitchers and how they throw, and it is actually insane. Each joint and section of the pitcher’s arm is like perfectly timed to provide the most velocity to the projectile. So you add up the momentum from the swinging shoulder to the momentum from the elbow to the momentum from the wrist, to the momentum and spin from the fingertips. Baseball is boring as shit, but the physics behind pitching is cool af.

This is how I was taught as a kid.

Leave it up to a civil engineer to ruin your day.

Plus they have hollow bones and weigh almost nothing

Then you’re getting into things like muscle memory. I’m not a neuroscientist, but I imagine that could also be boiled down to math being done subconsciously and instantaneously in your brain.

Almost like if you do a thing enough times, you just look it up in a chart instead of deriving it from the equation every time…

technology forces us to

Huh? What does this even mean?

How can anyone be this optimistic about “fixing” climate change?