Are you sure that a dinosaur laid a chicken egg? Or did a chicken hatch from a dinosaur egg? When does a dinosaur end being a dinosaur and begin being a chicken anyways?

Vintage Story is nice but fuck those bears. Zero chill and you either have to relocate or do continuous kamikaze charges just to get rid of them.

Funnily enough, some prions like those responsible for CWD will not be killed via cooking, but the infected material has to be incinerated to get rid of it.

Mostly because L4D was mainly Valve’s work, showing off the tech they are capable of. Turtle Rock Studios might be a good studio, but what makes them different to Valve is that Valve is also sort of a R&D company as well.

If they had the same base as Valve, they might have created a great spiritual successor to L4D. Yet in the end they didn’t focus on the technical side, most likely due to publicly traded companies often trying to cut corners on anything that isn’t directly marketable, a downside that Valve does not have.

Because even the official name of the problem contains it.

Honestly it’s pretty sad how Viruses changed from a sort of artform to just a money making scheme / espionage tools.

Linus Torvals talk at the Aalto University. Specifically a segment where he talks about how hard it is to work with Nvidia when it comes to the Linux kernel.

German/Australian version. The german version is uncensored for quite some time now tho.

It could also be an interpretation thing. We often forget how riddled with context our natural language is.

But what about things that do not understand this context? For them, the request to “jump high” is not as easy. What distance is high? You could argue that athletes jump high, but in the eyes of the athlete they jump normal and they are expected to jump that high regularly, so that can’t fit the bill for the wishgranter.

What about jumping to the stratosphere? We already get gimped by context, because you can’t get a good context because jumping up there dwarfs in comparison to the humanly inconcievable distances such as jumping from one end of the universe to the opposite end. So using a distance is also a bust.

The last resort is reference. Frogs can be defined as “an animal that jumps high”, so turning you into a frog is the safest bet to fulfill the wish without violating it through ambiguity, because you can’t deny that you can see frogs as an animal that jumps high.

Isn’t it also that originally captured genies had more superhuman abilities rather than unlimited power? As in they could perform a human could if they were not bound by physical limitations, but materializing stuff out of thin air is impossible for them.

Another thing I heard is that the entities that could actually do that had a witch-like deal to them, meaning that refusing a request from such a spirit most likely had some dire consequences for you.

I don’t think Tony’s mask gets destroyed (at least on-screen), and Tony’s mask isn’t an original one that the other fans are wearing, but it was looted from a dead 50 Blessings agent, so it also switched hands before as well.