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Yo, I totally hadn't gotten there yet. You just taught me that piece of the world. Thanks.
Being a huge storm nerd finally pays off!
I'd be glad to continue this in a dedicated thread. Meteorology is great.
Temperature is also an antecedent to humidity, since warm water allows more evaporation (molecules mosh-pitting at the surface of water manage to escape it better than molecules not mosh-pitting) and warm air can contain more water vapor.
It's precisely what is happening to us at the moment in southern France: the Mediterranean sea is warm from the summer months, That's a powerful-ass fuel. Get in there warm air from the Atlantic, another mass of air coming from the opposite direction (creating a vertical force much like two meeting huge pieces of land created the Alps) and you got yourself huge rainstorms that last for days and create flash floods.
Temperature is the antecedent to everything. The only reason we have climate in the first place is because our pale blue dot is round and doesn't get as much sunlight at the poles than it does at the equator. It's the basis to everything.
Tropical cyclones don't exist near the equator.
Cyclones can only exist because of the Coriolis effect (among other factors like sea temperature, tropopause altitude, etc.): because Earth is a rotating sphere, air will not travel around it at the same speed depending on its latitude (same as us). Thus when such air moves up or down in latitude, its speed will remain unchanged but will now be different from everything else around it, and shift to the east or the west in comparison to the Earth.
That effect will naturally reverse its direction at the equator, as rotation speed has reached its maximum and will start to decrease.
The Coriolis effect (which is, by the way, a pseudo force, because it doesn't exist per se but is only a result of inertial laws) is well-known, but it took me a while to be able to visualize it correctly.
This channel is incredible. Lots of music theory and knowledge derived from popular music works, clear explanations coated in a bit of humor (the Lars Ulrich Disdainful Face in the video above killed me).
I may have linked to it in the Youtube recommendation thread a while ago... Probably got lost in the offering of the database to the Gods beyond.
Metallica's Master of Puppets has a recurrent riff that doesn't perfectly correspond to any kind of time signature; the band just plays it by feel.
Did you ever feel like something was off in that song's rhythm? I didn't. The measure feels right and is performed correctly in unison by the whole band, but though it's often transcribed as a 5/8 measure, it's not exactly the case. There's an added pause that permanently shifts the beat onwards.
I personally love that this beat is incorrect from a technical point of view, but the song still feels perfectly right. Something about the instinctive nature of music that can't be narrowed down to technical terms.
I don't know, I mean... If I were driving a truck, my number one concern would probably be if it fits bridges I pass. Aren't the drivers simply a bit careless and/or drunk and/or dumb?
PS: I still feel genuine empathy for the following minutes when the driver has to get out of their truck and witness their error in front of everyone around. Makes me wince.
Still waiting for posts in that thread that go "You know what? This was simply great. Nothing to add here."
Until then I still don't see how I can find the incentive to pick it up again. This show has slowly developed a standard of mediocrity.
Mom, I've become cynical!
WHO YOU CALLIN A LARGE SAMPLE
That's the way I'll be answering my phone from now on.
All metals are crystals.
In fact, almost everything (natural, that is) that isn't organic is a crystal. Most rocks are.
Holy shit.
* removal of Laws pertaining to protecting the environment/fighting climate
This to me is the real dealbreaker. It is absolutely appalling as (2), and in the longer run is a definite no on (3), whatever good he may have done for a certain range of people. Giving aspirine to someone to cure their headache is not gonna change much if they have terminal cancer.
I can't really say more on his policies, as an outsider. But as an outsider, him denying climate change is perhaps his most terrifying trait, matched only by his instability. We're standing here in the middle wondering if he's a tweet away form beginning WWIII.
(it's probably not that simple; but he is unstable, and an unstable head of one of the most powerful countries in the world is fuel for nightmares.)
I didn't even know this was a thing.
What the fuck.
Guys, as said before, you don't owe us anything. Every day I'm surprised this place keeps existing although the podcast stopped years ago, and it's a forum and so belongs to 10 years ago. The mere fact that there was stuff to lost is proof of your commitment, both of you. I'm forever grateful, and losing a year worth of content, though sad it may be (thinking especially of Writhyn), is not the end. It existed, that's already something.
Nothing to apologize for.
Everything for us to be grateful for.
The forum is dead, long live the forum!
PS: I'm still Trey's pimp, everything's as it should.
Running Bladder.
Wait.
An essay in literary witticism.
DeepThought: Don't judge a book-skin human by their leather
Saniss: 11/10.
Writhyn: I have a book-skinned friend. Good guy, but he's a little hard to read
Writhyn: textbook introvert, is all I'm saing
Writhyn: *saying
DeepThought: He's probably filled with drama
Writhyn: maybe, but I like his ideas. Very novel.
Writhyn: he's into politics, and he even served as a congressional page.
Writhyn: While his alignment isn't something I totally agree with, his opinions are justfied
DeepThought: Don't go reading into ideas yet. He'll probably edit them within a day or two
Saniss: He once told me he likes manual labor, but don't take it literally; what he did with his car speaks volumes.
Saniss: I think he's just not my type.
Saniss: That kind of character is a piece of work, I tell you.
Writhyn: give him a second chance, guy's a real font of knowledge
DeepThought: It's hard when he's up for interpretation
DeepThought: His words seem to everywhere
Teague: HE IS BOOKISH
Teague: AM I DOING JOKE
Writhyn: HELVETICA
Teague: HAH HAH HAH
Teague: *eats go-gurt on the slide*
Saniss: Your jokes lack impact.
Boter: (nomination for Best Of Chatbox thread or whatever)
Writhyn: We all know teague's jokes are a little........sans comic
Saniss: You know who this forum's lacking? Italian dudes. Because in this kind of times, new roman people might renew our humor a bit.
Writhyn: my grandma always said those italics are a little bold
Saniss: ... damn, that kid's good.
Saniss: Heard she was in a comma, btw. Sorry to hear it. She was always good at underlining social issues.
Writhyn: yeah, she always had great quotes. Every time we talked, I had a mind-blowing apostrophe
DeepThought: I heard she she only had a semi colon
Boter: oh actually i think i know your friend, tried to talk to him about how he'd hurt his footer but he'd just sorta glossary over it
Writhyn: Yeah injuries don't really phrase him
DeepThought: His outline is top notch
Boter: Sticks and stones and all that, though he does actually get pretty hurt by words - witnessed the rising action myself as he was getting ready to layout someone
Writhyn: fortunately the paranthetics were nearby and kept anyone from dying
Saniss: It's a tough period for him. At some point, next time someone asks him a question - mark my words, he'll make a dash for it and punch him.
Saniss: STRIKE, I MEANT STRIKE. Completely missed the occasion here.
Writhyn: Yeah you brought this thing to a full stop
Regan: What have I missed? I got here as fast as I could. Sorry I can't stay but I've got to, em, dash!
DeepThought: Slash your way on out of here
Boter: and here i was taking "punch him" as a slant rhyme/pun for "punctuation"
(God bless Notepad++'s search and replace)
I'm not gonna stop at like, sorry.
Song: Dryad of the Woods
Artist: Pain of Salvation
Something: This instrumental is my favorite instrumental that ever was. It's become the theme of my relationship with my girlfriend, because I used to play it to her back in '11 (5 years before we got together, that is). It's the first time I ever dared play an instrument in front of someone else (took me a while, yeah). It's the song I've most played in my life, my acoustic guitar could almost play it without me by now. It's the most poetic piece of guitar music I've ever known, full of melancholy and timeless. It puts visions of autumnal trees under a soft rain in my head - it's one of those pieces of music that comment nature.
Organs come pretty close, too. Jump to 00:20. (Right-arrow four times.)
HOLY HELL. This sounds EXACTLY like the MIDI versions of the theme on old Star Wars games.
Superhero movies. Like, all of them. Except Logan.
Liking it isn't enough; here's the post once again. Consider it as a hatchling of the original post; may it spawn many others. We will people the forum with this post, raise a happy little family of superhero-film-denying posts. They will have a loving roof over their heads and a good education, and in a few generations we might hope to have created a genuine House with an actual coat of arms that reads "SVPERHERO MOVIES SVCK".
(it would work better in latin but I'm not sure this can be translated properly)
We watched this in English on one of those days near the end of term where they just shove a film on instead of teaching a lesson.
Ah, the best days. I think we watched Cool Runnings 3 years in a row. Wonder what was up with that.
At some point during my Counter-Strike days my nickname looked something like ~D4C|< 54|\|155~ (before I lost the Dack).
I don't know which is worse, the fact that I used to do this, or the fact that people on CS:GO still do it.
I love the face Boter makes when he drinks it.
I want to have it printed on a pillow.
"Weirdest booze?"
Pickle juice martini.
Oh, dear God.
"Jar-Jar Binks: so bad even John fucking Williams couldn't come up with a cue for him."
This is an achievement, to be honest.
I've said for a while now that listening to the PT's score makes me picture what the PT should have been. Some pieces don't resonate much because they shouldn't have a reason to exist (e.g. Jar-Jar's theme), but others are so deeply meaningful they make me want to cry for a drama that never really existed (Anakin's theme, and its incredibly subtle shift to the Imperial March, is still one of the best pieces of soundtrack music that have ever existed to me).
In that way... Damn, did Williams do everything right.
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