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I remember reading that the expected half-life of scientific knowledge, it being the time it takes for about half of the knowledge to be proven wrong or made obsolete by better hypotheses, is nowadays roughly five years. So it can very well be that plenty of what one's learned ten years ago is innaccurate by today's standards.

I know a few people from Tyranny are working on Deadfire, most notably a couple of the lead writers. I know they're implementing a couple of UI elements from Tyranny onto Deadfire, but we'll see how much. That said I personally was not too keen on the 3D portraits, much prefer a more traditional aesthetic for them.

If you look in the Fig updates, the ship will be really customizeable. That is good to know, thanks!

I do hope we still get to see plenty of sea monsters in our travels. Would be a shame to pass on a perfect opportunity to showcase such unique kinds of creatures and encounters.

And how would you know? You stopped listening after 7 minutes because you are so triggered you even cannot listed to someone else point of view. I can listen to other people's points of view, but a bad point is a bad point no matter how much you dress it and that is why I stopped watching. I wasn't 'triggered', I was simply not interested. Care to name the bad point? The first video uses a common fantasy scenario as a basis to define what kind of man *women*, in a generalized fashion, are attracted to. This is incorrect firstly for the way it is construed into a sweeping statement, but on the other hand for not identifying the gulf between sexual fantasy and a desired partner. The second, up to what I've seen, uses a hypothetical example to then make another sweeping statement which states that "any woman over thirty knows sexism in their line of work to be bull****", when that is most certainly not true - I have heard myself from several women the complications they have faced upon acquiring jobs in their respective industries and the kind of dispositions and comments they've had to hear at work, many of them well over the age he's indicating. And remarks of this sort which he makes pretty consistently through either video are in the end not things I think point out to anything particularly interesting or well-observed, hence my opinion about them not being particularly insightful.

lol, I'll just keep going then.

You're projecting. It's the way he comes across to me, but that may differ depending on the viewer. Just calling it as I hear it is all.

When you stop watching a video or listening to a song or reading an article, is it because you are invariably triggered by it? If not, then accept other people don't get triggered by what you want them to get triggered by.

And how would you know? You stopped listening after 7 minutes because you are so triggered you even cannot listed to someone else point of view. I can listen to other people's points of view, but a bad point is a bad point no matter how much you dress it and that is why I stopped watching. I wasn't 'triggered', I was simply not interested nor found it insightful.

I also only lasted to the second video, I started to feel uncomfortable with his characterizations and assumptions I find it hard to believe you found it so insightful.....it started getting tiresome very quickly It is insightful. You just need to actually listen instead of getting triggered every time he says woman or female. It isn't, you just need to actually listen instead of pretending any anti-feminist argument is by its own nature "insightful".

Actually the one who sounds butthurt is Peterson himself, I think there is something pretty resentful to his tone that only makes his sweeping and overreaching statements so much stranger.

Stopped watching halfway through the second video. He makes some interesting points but runs away with them in what are ultimately very broad, far-fetched and frankly quite sexist conjectures.

Is ****ty Ask Obsidian replacing Thoughts and Dissertations by s13ep?

To be honest, so many of the questions are either vague or require answers with asterisks that in the end, as with each of these tests, the results are bound to be innaccurate and thus pretty pointless. That said, here's what I got:

The new wave movement gave plenty of room for bassists to shine and make a splash in the scene, what with the genre's funky influences mixing with the general disparagement of technical display at the time courtesy of punk. John Taylor, Mick Karn, Del Palmer, Tony Levin, Tina Weymouth, Colin Moulding, Sting, Pedro Aznar amidst others all emerged or reached a peak of recognition in this period, and with good reason - an incredible amount of talent here.

We can do with some more french pop, can't we?

You seen this take on it?

So money made him realize he was wrong the first time around? Mmm, the two are not mutually exclusive. See epigenetics for example. True, but gender in particular is a broader term that encompasses more than just biological sex and deals with matters social, cultural, psychological and so on, which *can* be determined by a biological factor as much as it can by others. Anyhow I'll drop this since it isn't the thread to discuss the matter. well, its up to definition, it was usually used as synonym for sex, but it seems people like to redefine this word lately at least in my language there is only one word for sex = gender, we have something which is called 'rod' which is used in grammar (she,he,it) In my first language (Spanish) the matter of "man" or "woman" or "male" or "female" is addressed with far greater frequency as "sexo", but "género" is still a thing and is used to address more specifically the social/psychological/behavioural aspects of gender. All the same the difference between the terms, though slight, exists in English, and while I woudn't mind people using the words interchangeably in a day-to-day basis (because, despite this post, I'm not pedantic about it), you expect them to be used accurately in a context like a science show (or one attributed to a science show anyhow).

So money made him realize he was wrong the first time around? Mmm, the two are not mutually exclusive. See epigenetics for example. True, but gender in particular is a broader term that encompasses more than just biological sex and deals with matters social, cultural, psychological and so on, which can be determined by a biological factor as much as it can by others. Anyhow I'll drop this since it isn't the thread to discuss the matter.

So money made him realize he was wrong the first time around?

Damn. His rockumentaries are amazing. And Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia of course. R.I.P.

I like this video about the matter:

Two things on pretty opposite ends I've been listening to lately... (Spoilered due to slight nudity on the pic)

I'd like a customizable ship.