You might want to try a service based on XMPP instead of Matrix due to how Matrix caches all the chats its users are in. If you want to go the XMPP route, Movim is the most similar to Discord.

For streaming, I’ve heard of Owncast as a FOSS alternative. I don’t stream nor do I watch them, so please don’t consider this more than pointing out what’s available

As someone with a similar hobby, I personally hate this clip. It’s obviously choreographed, but I just don’t find concussions funny anymore.

Depends on what era. In Europe, coats of plates didn’t really appear before the 13th century and full plate armor wasn’t developed until the late 14th century. Before that you mainly had people wearing chainmail and a helmet if they could get it, or gambesons (cloth armor).

At that time, weapons were still somewhat effective against armor. Spears, axes, and arrows could punch through chainmail.

When full plate armor was developed, only the very wealthy had access to it, and everyone else continued to just wear chainmail and gambesons. Fully armored knights effectively became tanks that could slash their way through all the peons.

The only realistic way the foot soldiers could stop them was to have several guys swarm an isolated knight, each grabbing a limb, and hold him down. Then they would either stab the knight through the gaps in his armor (like the eyeslot of the visor) or more likely would drag him off for ransom.

That being said, there are plenty of instances of 2 armored knights fighting each other, with them often half-swording or grappling each other to the ground and stabbing each other with daggers.

But my earlier comparison to tanks still stands. Most of the time, tanks are actually supporting infantry units, with tank v tank encounters being relatively rare. Similarly, knights spent most of their time in relatively small units killing a lot of unarmored opponents

I had an engineering professor who grew up during the Iranian Civil War. He was interesting, and while the anecdotes were rare, they were crazy

Sony is a close second, BTW 😁

Crunchyroll had a major security breach earlier this week

Atmospheric scattering would make that effectively impossible, even if you could rotate the mirrors quickly enough. The light rays would be too unfocussed to properly heat up anything in orbit

You are correct

Wait, how did they get a season 2 approved? Wasn’t the first season a giant dumpster fire?

And fyi, I’m a fan of the manhwa, the anime just looked awful

Published on April 1st

Announced? Aren’t there already a couple episodes out now?

but nuclear armament is a far cry from Earth shattering!

You forgot about Project Sundial

My point is that the “small difference in temperatures” where it’s worthwhile to run a heat pump is still wide enough to run an air-exchange heat pump cost effectively damn near anywhere on Earth outside of the poles. You’re arguing the finges when almost nobody would be affected by it.

And if you’re using a geothermal heat pump, your thermal sink continuously sits around 50°F (while homes tend to be kept at 65-75°F), which means it should always be efficient.

Quit this conservative-esque route of arguing. It’s bullshit and you know it.

The sunlight spent just to get the water up to temperature is also wasted, so the maximum extractable energy per day gets kneecapped

Plus, you get a lot of lag when heating water with concentrated solar. Overnight your water cools down, so you need time to get it back to boiling temperature before it can generate any power. That lag gets worse during winter and cloudy days

You need a giant asterisk there. That “small temperature difference” is -40° to 120°F

Damn!

Re:Zero, Reincarnated as a Slime, and Ascendence of a Bookworm?

I’ve been disappointed in the offerings the past few seasons, so we’ve been overdue for a lineup this good

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Is it really the final movie? Because I thought the series ended years ago already but it’s apparently still going

Why bot both?

No, it’s a conscientious objector