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Activity for Lundinâ€
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| Comment | Post #292826 |
@#64926 It is indeed hilariously specific. Typical gameplay goes along the lines of: "muahaha I designed a diabolic trap to drown attacking goblin raid parties by filling the room with water" -> "ooh the drowned goblins had nice loot, lets mark that for picking up" -> go do something else -> notice t... (more) |
— | 28 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292844 |
That being said, there will eventually be a boundary for how dark themes most people can stomach. A site might have to draw the line somewhere. I think the [CoC](https://proposals.codidact.com/policy/code-of-conduct) would be an indication of a red line that shouldn't be crossed even for the purpose ... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292844 |
@#53890 My $0.02 is that one likely use of a Worldbuilding site would be to act as a foundation for writing fiction. With no judgment of the quality of said fiction or personal preferences for what fiction should contain - we need not read or interact with posts that we don't like. The very purpose o... (more) |
— | 29 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292826 |
@#53703 Ah, I do remember that it was tedious which is probably why I thought you had to set something manually. Anyways, it works different than the inn where I think you can just make any number of bedrooms in the same area. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292826 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: How do I make a communal crypt? This is indeed a bit confusing. The trick is that you have to form a 1x1 crypt area on top of every single coffin, rather than dragging out a large crypt area. A typical layout for a "communical crypt" could for example be something like: ```text ##### #CCC# + C# #CCC# ##### ``` Where `#... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292781 |
@#64277 The final mission doesn't take very long. And you won't get anything material from it, just the achievement and watching the ending... lots of endings are possible. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #292781 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Does the game's ending lock you out of existing progress and unfinished missions? If I remember correctly, the game saves at a position when you are just about to do the final mission and once you have finished it and watched the ending, it will take you back to that state, as if you never played the last mission. The reason for this is likely that there are multiple possible e... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #292424 |
@#53970 I think when Scientific Speculation was created, they were perhaps overly optimistic about a separation from Worldbuilding, which would mean more users. And if they were two sites, I think they'd get the very same users following both sites anyway. And I think SciSpec might have been around s... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292608 |
The more you study history, the more obvious it becomes that people weren't really any dumber/smarter then than they are now, only restricted to what knowledge and discoveries that were available at their time period. Someone like Tesla or Da Vinci would still be a genius even by modern standards if ... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292580 |
With global warming, this is getting an increasingly important topic and I see reports about new invasive species on the news all the time. I think the general interest in these issues is rapidly picking up and it's becoming an existential issue to anyone working with things like farming or forestry.... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292452 |
I posted an open discussion about a potential merger with the existing Scientific Speculation site here: [Merger with a Worldbuilding site?](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/292583) Feel free to add your thoughts to the discussion! (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292424 |
@#8046 I've now posted such a discussion thread, see the link above. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292424 |
@#8049 I agree with you and posted an open-ended discussion thread here: https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/292583. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291948 |
@#64277 My testing such as it was, involved visiting a big electronics store with a "gamer" department, hitting the keys of every keyboard offered and dismissing pretty much all of them. All of them too slow for gaming or typing. Then I went to the office part of the same store and some cheap Microso... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291948 |
@#61308 Having dabbled a bit with switch mechanics design, I doubt there's anything that can beat a collapsing dome. There are metal domes that give a much better distinctive feel and click sound, but these too require more force to get pressed. PCB mount tactile switches are close, but they don't ad... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291942 |
@#61308 Because we cannot reasonably expect someone proposing a new site to dig through and care about all of the proposals, out which some 90% are half-baked and/or completely inactive and will never get launched. With launched sites it is easier since they are there to stay and easier to get an ove... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291948 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: What is the benefit of mechanical keyboards? One big disadvantage of mechanical keyboards is that they come with more friction and a longer distance for the key to travel. Which means slower typing. This actually makes them less suitable for gaming! Which is ironic since a lot of these are marketed as gaming keyboards. Of course this mainly ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291942 |
I don't think we can start to consider overlaps with other incubator proposals, only with launched sites. Many people are happy to make new site proposals but not as happy to follow up with meta discussions, seeding Q&A etc. So it looks like we are going to have some 20+ proposals that never get laun... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291871 |
Different categories isn't really related to activity - is more a matter of having different rules for different kind of posts. For example the main category might discourage recommendation-type of questions and in that case a separate category might be called for. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291870 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Scope discussion for Sports I have updated and formalized the scope definition of the Sports proposal. This post is intended as a general discussion post regarding site scope. Specifically as of 24-06-27, I would like feedback regarding if these things should be on-topic? I added them but have no strong opinions about any of... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291524 |
@#82754 Since there has been no activity, I took the liberty to formalize your proposal and changed the proposed name to "Sports" as per feedback in comments. Please have a look & if you don't agree with something just bring it up for discussion, the proposal is a "wiki" so anyone may edit it. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291524 |
Post edited: Changed the proposed name to "Sports" and formalized the proposal. Fleshed out scope and community overlaps. |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291658 |
@#36356 And if a crime is committed by a high-ranked officer or general of the army? Or by Napoleon? (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291658 |
@#36356 You can't have one thing without the other. If those who investigate crime and arrest criminals are corrupt, then the principle doesn't work. As for defining the meaning of police, I think you should ask the OP to do that. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291658 |
@#36356 In a modern democracy, the police is not separated from the courts. They may not use certain means of investigation such as searching someone's home or tap into the phone wires without permission from the court. Whereas in the middle ages, the town guard could just smash in the door, tear you... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291659 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Do laws determine societal norms, or vice versa? My thoughts are that morals come from empathy and empathy is something humans have evolved evolutionary as they were forced to act as a group. There has always been strength in numbers, but for that to work, the group must stick together. When humans started living in larger groups, those with em... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291658 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: What is the point of police? It is not so strange. The police as we know it in Western democracies is something that became necessary with the introduction of said democracy. Prior to democracy, the laws would be enforced by those with the power to do so - a King, the aristocracy, the wealthy etc. Often at their own leisure. ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291656 |
Not a philosophical answer, hence a comment - Famously, ancient Rome in the republic era didn't have a police force, yet they had a legal system almost resembling that of modern democracies (though way more corrupt). I think they had plenty of ways to force someone to show up in that court, everythin... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291524 |
Some type of questions I would imagine could pop up: personal practice of sports, training questions, equipment questions. Sports history and statistics seems like two other big topics that might pop up. Would any of that be on-topic?
I agree that identification type of questions should be discour... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291524 |
"Sports" is a pretty good name and I thought that was what was proposed. It is a quite broad title suggesting a broad scope, but unambiguous. (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291462 |
I disagree that license/legal requirements are off-topic at EE. These are often highly technical matters which you need an engineer to understand. Typically the frequency band allocation spec in "legal" documents will go something like: "434,04-434,79 MHz, Non-specific SDRs, 1 mW e.r.p. and -13 dBm/1... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291192 |
You'd have to look at the whole product chain from mining to disposal/recycling to see the environment impact. It also means what you mean with "environmental impact" - killing the local wildlife at the place where you build the mines, or killing it (and/or humans) with chemicals leaking out of batte... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291270 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: What can I do with used disposable batteries? In Sweden (and probably most of Europe?) you simply hand them in for the battery recycling at your local recycling station. People would get shocked if you threw batteries in the normal garbage. We stopped doing that in the early 1980s somewhere and the transition from NiCd to Alkaline and NiMH d... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291190 |
I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be merged with the recycling proposal. There is no user base for super-specific communities no matter the topic. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291154 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Can you always interpose an intermediate effect into any causal chain? Charles Darwin more or less spent his whole life proving this theory to be true and it's essentially what On the Origin of Species is all about. So if you are looking for rigorous arguments in published literature, with plenty of examples, this book is surely it. In order to for his theory of natu... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291116 |
Trackballs, touchpads and so on aren't very ergonomic at all, in my experience. Stuff that's explicitly marketed as ergonomic tends to be the opposite, for whatever reason. I guess the key is that human hands are quite individually sized and shaped, yet this sort of equipment is marketed as "one size... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290999 |
I think this quite clearly belongs on Home Improvement and not anywhere else. We shouldn't use multiple tags if it can be avoided, I think.
Btw the contractor who does flooring must clearly be a _floorist_, right? 🙄 (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291116 |
After having tried an endless flood of mice over the years, my conclusion is that ergonomic = small and light. The more it builds in height, the more it strains the wrist. The more it weighs, the more it strains muscles overall.
Since some 5+ years, I'm using one of the less fancy Logitech gaming... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |