In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
In the RTS game beyond all reason there is a long ongoing debate thread where people would argue for removing the ability to co-op(one of bars unique mechanics)
In BAR you generally play team games up to 8v8 and can instantly send resources to other players. You can also transfer units. This is pretty cool it allows you to work together to get higher tech things faster. 2 people sharing 1 lab is more efficient than 2 people making a lab each. So obviously the higher ranked games devolved into the most fucking degenerate co-op tactics. Cheese or be cheesed. Lanes decided by which good player gets more boosts. You’d end up in games where your role is to be a battery and make energy for the first few mins. You would end up losing your lane at 3mins because the other team boosted your lane then once you die they go boost the other side. You’d have the top players in the team forcing the bottom players to be a boost for them because them getting ahead is far more valuable. It was fun in the beginning but got very bad.
So top players were arguing that there needed to be a fix and tried to discuss what it should be and more casual players would constantly argue that it wasnt a problem, it was a skill issue, it was fun etc, someone just needs to counter it.
The solution people wanted was a resource tax but it required engine work. But its been done now, we got the engine work and its a toggle on setting so those who want it can and those who dont can leave it off. The “coop is a problem” thread is still going but i dont know what the new arguments are about.
I only play BAR in skirmishes, never online. Love the game, but so rarely play as to not know how to co-op well.
That being said, this is how colonial era wars worked. You’re the battery that was India in WWII? Or are you the UK making units?
In Blade Runner, whether or not Deckard is a Replicant.
That one’s pretty fair, each version of the text has pretty blatant differences
I still play a little old school Doom and earlier this year the creator of one of the main engines people use (GZDoom) got some flak for using some AI in his coding, causing a lot of people to switch over to a fork (UZDoom).
I don’t miss many things about the old site but the niche communities are one of them. If anyone wants to dive into years of minutiae covering everything from big drama to slap fights you should check out
https://old.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/Does carbone fiber infused plastic make a difference for 3d prints. Many say its useless, but i do know it make them stiffer. Mot really stronger just behave stiffer. Enough to ne useful in some applications.
but does your hotend cooling fan suck or blow
It blow, i wasnt aware that i should care.
“Should lizard people women have breasts?”
l’ll just say that if I, as a worldbuilder, were creating a race of lizardfolk they would not have mammary glands. They would also not be too anthropomorphic. It would ruin the reason I like coming up with alien races, to solve ergonomics problems that their unique anatomy and lifestyle present.
Warhammer cheated and only created Lizardmen that magically come from spawning pools. Anything else is a distraction from the great plan.
I suppose it depends on whether lizard people are humanoid reptiles or repiloid mammals, or maybe something completely different.
SPN the show, yea people think they were suppose to be a “gay relationship” , but the new writers mde it that way, it was clear that KRIPKE never intended them to have a human-angel relationship of any kind. but people are obsessed parasocially over this.
Castiel was originally supposed to get killed off after one of the early seasons and If I recall correctly, that angel Anna(I might be wrong in which angel, but it was one of the women) was supposed to be the character Castiel became. But the fandom loved Castiel and didn’t like the other angel so they got rid of her and kept Castiel. Then they next thing you know the fandom is shipping all the men together. Even Sam and Dean.
Thats not a debate in LoTR Fandom. Debate would imply one side has a leg to stand on. No wings.
Lots of debates about the internal arrangement of the original series Enterprise…
- Bridge: forward facing or offset?
- Engineering: primary or secondary hull?
- Shuttlebay: short or extending under the nacelle pylons?
- How big is this ship, anyway??
How big is this ship, anyway??
This was a particularly goofy handwave in the Lost in Space show as well. :D
Exactly how planes fly. I studied a bit of fluid dynamics in grad school and my professor was adamant that any explanation is incomplete without discussion of boundary layers.
In short the explanation was a couple things. The first is how ping pong balls generate lift with translation and rotation (or vorticity). Its basically the shape of the wing that helps with vorticity (this is what generates the pressure difference above and below the wing). The second is that you need laminar flow over the wing for vorticity to take place, and this is achieved when a thin layer of turbulent air surrounds it, the boundary layer. It moves the stagnation points towards the back (encouraging laminar flow) and reducing drag.
The same process is the reason golf balls have dimples on them, to help form a turbulent boundary layer, moving the stagnation pounts, reducing drag and allowing the ball to go further.
“Tripping the boundary layer” can be achieved by increasing speed on the runway, a strong head wind, rough spots on the wing, or how you might see windsurfers pump their sail, or someone pumping on a hydrofoil board in the water.
The state of the Halo franchise.
I am not really part of it, but I follow it to some degree.
And it’s sad how M$ mismanaged it.Fr, I bought the entire Halo collection once on sale on Steam thinking “great, I’ll finally be able to finish what I started 20 years ago”, and found out you need a M$ account to play, and you can’t even make up a bullshit one, they NEED your phone number
I’m into metal crafting and you have no idea how competitive it can get, currently the divide is between whether Bessemer or Cathode steel are superior for bintwork, it’s a form of ring chained gavel produced by different metallurgical processes and it is WILD how heated discussions get, it’s ridiculous considering that most practitioners are in their early teens and create the WORST drama, while us who have been at it since the 1960’s have to accept the sudden influx of kids into the mold because of the success of films such as “Steel Piston” and “Hot Rod”, and frankly I’m done with it and have decided to get into Wicca.
Surely there’s an objective answer from a scientific perspective. And if there isn’t, then the answer is “it depends” - e.g it depends on how you’re shaping it.
Woodworking: I have mentioned this a couple times in my lectures on this platform. Festool has a tool called the Domino. It’s the shape of a biscuit joiner but it’s got a router bit that it wags like a dog’s tail. It cuts a deep, narrow, short mortise that pre-made loose biscuits fit into.
This tool is protected under patent so only Festool makes them. They sell two models, a small and a large. The small cost a thousand petrodollars.
It’s very easy to use, it makes strong joints quickly, it’s impossible to afford.
You’ll find there’s a crowd of purists who will spend that much on a chisel and won’t hear anything about it because it’s not “traditional joinery.” Floating tenons are thousands of years old, but okay. You’ve got beginners or hobbyists who can put together the basic tools and are upset when Youtubers use Dominos in projects. Most domino joints can be replaced with dowel joints, but okay. And you get the actual cabinet makers who go “I manufacture cabinets, this lets me do it faster, and time is money.” Which…fair enough.
If you don’t own a plunge router, you don’t care.
In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
Never knew about this debate, but IMO the text is not ambiguous:
suddenly drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall
That’s very literal. Looking into the subject it seems that people think those are metaphorical wings, but I don’t see anything near that phrase that justifies thinking it’s metaphorical.
But also, at the end of the day, it’s a moot debate. Balrogs are Maiar, them having wings or not is as important as the color of the shoes of some other character, they’re spiritual beings that adopt some physical form, which they can change at will.
In that same passage we also get that “Gandalf flew down the stairs”. Literal, unambiguous evidence that Gandalfs have wings.
Gandalf is strong wizard, don’t need wings to fly when you’re magic.
there’s another shouting match in the comments about this already, and i’m of the opinion that he establishes the wings as a simile earlier with “shadows like wings”. so i agree that it’s not ambiguous but in the other direction.
theres one about urgoliants, the entity is very mysterious and powerful, but people are debating how this creature came to be in the lore, other than saying its a “spirit” tolkien dint do much lore writing on this.
Synthesizers: digital vs analog.
Common opinion holds that analog (specifically oscillators, but also filters and even VCAs [voltage controlled amplifiers]) are warmer and more natural sounding while digital are cold and harsh.
The thing is, digital emulation of analog hardware has become virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, but there is a certain segment that refuses to believe their $5000 Minimoog can be so easily replicated by software (realistically I doubt Bob Moog could tell the difference anymore).
Of course some also choose to argue which is better, which is just ridiculous because they both have their uses depending on what kinds of music you’re composing or just what sounds you’re trying to make.
Of course some also choose to argue which is better, which is just ridiculous because they both have their uses depending on what kinds of music you’re composing or just what sounds you’re trying to make.
See, the point you’re missing is that my kind of music is just better. If you prefer <option I dislike>, it’s just because your taste sucks. Try making good music, like <whatever music fits>. Then you’ll see that <option I prefer> is clearly superior.
(I have no idea about synthesisers, but I heard similar discussions among e-guitar / amp enthusiasts. I’m just guessing the above parody fits your case too.)
It fits quite well.
Crabs Vs Anteaters
