Comments for Carpe DMM

Comment on Caves of Chaos maps by Tah

Tah — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:08:14 +0000

Great googily moogily. Those are great!

Comment on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan by maarvarq

maarvarq — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:15:42 +0000

Damn, I thought I’d turned off the HTML bold after “supernova”. My bad.

Comment on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan by maarvarq

maarvarq — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:14:47 +0000

I found Ricardo Montalban unbearably hammy as Khan, but obviously that was just me. I also found the Genesis device as portrayed ridiculous on energy requirements alone. Converting rock(=silicon dioxide, near as dammit) into a planetary ecosystem’s worth of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in a matter of seconds? I calculated at the time you’d need a tame supernova to power it. For comparison, I sort of like IV and Vi, but have never been all that impressed by any Trek movie.

Comment on The Intern Menace by Stephan

Stephan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:47:34 +0000

Understood. I wouldn’t dream of forcing someone to publish something they don’t want to.

Comment on The Intern Menace by David Morgan-Mar

David Morgan-Mar — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:14:40 +0000

A condition of convincing the interns to do it was us agreeing not to publish the result. We’ll defnitely try to cajole them into putting the final cut on YouTube, but that’s their decision, not mine.

Comment on The Intern Menace by Stephan

Stephan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:47:07 +0000

That sounds awesome! Will it be shared with the Interwebs?

Comment on Wikipedia’s protest shutdown by Drachefly

Drachefly — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:22:24 +0000

They’re essentially choosing between one day of disruption now, or years and years of disruption later, quite possibly draining their resources to the point of inviability. Existential threats have this way of overriding the usual rules.

Comment on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock by Drachefly

Drachefly — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:19:34 +0000

Keep whispering ‘genesis effect’ over and over to yourself.

Comment on Wikipedia’s protest shutdown by Hops Splurt

Hops Splurt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:09:28 +0000

Perhaps there should be a banner on the protest page: “This is what will happen to Wikipedia if these proposals become law.” And a clarification that it will happen not because of a petty and childish action by the Wikipedia managers, but due to the unavoidable litigation against Wikipedia and other sites with content created by users based on SOPA.

Compare this action to a strike of e.g. cleaning staff at, say, an airport to raise awareness of the reduced standards of hygiene due to lack of staff, poor working conditions and underpayment. Yes, during the strike it will become a big mess at the airport, and that is ironic. Yet the action raises awareness in the general public of what the world will come to if the problem is ignored.

Comment on Wikipedia’s protest shutdown by The Ridger

The Ridger — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:13:38 +0000

Irony? Maybe so. But it’s a point that needs making.