zagaberoo

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I love engaging with pedants like that. It infuriates them as I agree with all their overly-narrow points but then show how they don't support their conclusion. They don't really know what to do so they just keep reiterating the same irrelevant points over and over in slightly different ways. Sometimes the back and forth would go on for days when I was on reddit.

It's my way of having fun and paying penance for my past pedantry at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Naw, the guy's just a slut like that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Wrestling fans know good kayfabe when they see it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Of course, but ignoring such basic physics does look silly as hell when you notice it, especially when it doesn't feel intentional.

Your logic could be applied to make the suit do literally anything, but I'll bet if it had the power to grant three wishes you'd find it silly too. And that would at least be an intentional choice rather than feeling like an oversight.

Superman is even less close to reality, but it still looks funny to me when he picks up a building and somehow it doesn't collapse. Does he have magic powers to give the building walls super strength? Or did the writers not think beyond "Supes strong, Supes pick up big heavy." It felt very silly once I happened to think about it.

Doesn't make either of them bad, just makes me chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd call that a coup!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think the complaint is that the suit accelerates toward the alien when the opposite must be true.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Thankfully it is not a law and congress can't change it. It's the 22nd amendment to the constitution and thus would require 3/4 of the states to ratify a change. A coup is more likely.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Yes, Kabosu was a gem.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

I realize trolling nerds is part of the appeal, but this gag would actually work with heavier noble gases like krypton, xenon, or radon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

There is no* energy stored holding it together, just as there is no energy released when splitting a brick from the ground or splitting two magnets.

*The energy stored in the electrical repulsion of the protons is much much less than the energy required to break the strong force bonds amongst the protons and neutrons, so energy is consumed rather than released in a split.

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