Jan 20, 2019 05:02
Indeed, any straightforward answer to this requires going beyond physics and into philosophy. If anyone is interested in the philosophy around "is spacetime real?", check out plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-theories
 

 The Restaurant at the End of the Univ

General discussion for scifi.stackexchange.com, both on-topic ...
Jul 16, 2017 21:02
souls are not particularly well-defined
Jul 12, 2017 00:24
probably still a dodgy quiz though
Jul 12, 2017 00:23
@amflare iirc, house sorting often works on the traits you value, rather than the traits you have
Jul 10, 2017 19:03
presumably the goal is to convince whoever's reading that you actually know what you're talking about and have some basis for believing there is no answer, rather than some random guy posting the equivalent of "I dunno"
Jul 9, 2017 14:28
but one does have to be more more specific
Jul 9, 2017 14:28
well, it is fun to theorize about some of this stuff
Jul 9, 2017 14:26
I don't think it's off topic but it's definitely too broad. There are a toooooon of unrealistic things about Spiderman (and every other superhero) so you'd have to be pretty clear which things you'd like to make up an explanation for.
Jul 9, 2017 14:19
@Randal'Thor with that font and layout it's completely unambiguously British
Jul 9, 2017 14:11
I swear we've answered basically this question at least a few times on both sites now
Jul 8, 2017 19:59
lol
Jul 8, 2017 19:58
I had heard that statistic about Bollywood before
Jul 8, 2017 19:58
I'm probably doing the standard dumb foreigner thing here
Jul 8, 2017 19:55
oh, "Tamil Nadu" is one of the states so my brain took a few too many shortcuts
Jul 8, 2017 19:54
these Indian states sound a bit like Pokemon names
Jul 8, 2017 19:52
kk
Jul 8, 2017 19:51
or does the South make all the movies?
Jul 8, 2017 19:51
@AnkitSharma Ok I have to ask: you keep specifying South Indian when I bring up the stalker thing. Are North Indian films different?
Jul 8, 2017 19:51
@Randal'Thor oh let's not get into that debate, lol
Jul 8, 2017 19:50
but that's all I can come up with really
Jul 8, 2017 19:50
and there's a brief chunk of the first movie where he's kind of a stalker
Jul 8, 2017 19:49
the worst thing you can say about it is that they accidentally made the backstory about the protagonist's father more interesting than the protagonist's own story
Jul 8, 2017 19:48
Hail Mahishmati!
Jul 8, 2017 19:47
unless you have something against gravity defying kung fu fighting action movies
Jul 8, 2017 19:46
@RomainVincent it is absolutely ridiculous and a total cliche storm (from a non-western culture!) but also tons of fun
Jul 8, 2017 19:45
no idea, and I'm in the UK anyway
Jul 8, 2017 19:45
I enjoyed it
Jul 8, 2017 19:44
</runs>
Jul 8, 2017 19:44
Star Wars is silly archetypal fun the same way that Baahubali is =)
Jul 8, 2017 19:42
if we wanna get philosophical about it, yeah
Jul 8, 2017 19:41
Big Lebowski happened to be above it, for example
Jul 8, 2017 19:41
@NapoleonWilson I think it got on my list alongside a bunch of other ridiculous comedies and I was out-comedied by the time it got to that one
Jul 8, 2017 19:40
it's not like Casablanca where I'll actually forget stuff after not seeing it for a decade and genuinely want to rewatch it
Jul 8, 2017 19:40
though Star Wars in particular is so culturally osmosified I feel like I'll keep seeing it again without ever actually seeing it again
Jul 8, 2017 19:39
but me sitting down and going "I wanna see Star Wars again"? I actually have not done that yet
Jul 8, 2017 19:39
at least one of the Star Warses I have seen many times if you count all the parodies and clips and other people watching it and so on
Jul 8, 2017 19:39
@RomainVincent I am excluding "rewatch by social movie event thing"
Jul 8, 2017 19:38
I just mentioned that lol
Jul 8, 2017 19:37
a "true classic" is anything I rewatched ever =)
Jul 8, 2017 19:37
I almost never rewatch anything
Jul 8, 2017 19:36
e.g. some people I know like to watch exactly the movies that Dizzle dislikes
Jul 8, 2017 19:35
when you know the human, you can guess how their opinion will translate to your opinion
Jul 8, 2017 19:35
this is why recommendations from real human beings are infinitely more valuable than review aggregations
Jul 8, 2017 19:34
same for me
Jul 8, 2017 19:33
on the plus side, I did finish watching the AFI Top 100 not long ago
Jul 8, 2017 19:33
there's so much it's better to just watch things on impulse
 
Jul 8, 2017 20:34
the only part of this particular "incident" that's not fine was some of SSD's comments just now being tantamount to "you're not allowed to criticize mods", although I doubt that's how he intended them to come off and it's still small potatoes compared to the stuff that drove us away from SE chat in the first place so I'm not gonna waste everyone's time by flagging them or anything
Jul 8, 2017 20:32
the deletion of this chat's transcript is entirely fine tbh
Jul 8, 2017 20:32
we really need to stop going on rants in SE chatrooms about the least offensive things mods have "done to us" lately