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Donebrach, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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No idea what the movie’s actual title was but there is a wonderfully poorly dubbed kung fu movie by the American title “Shaolin V Ninja”

The voices are terrible, sometimes the characters answer their own questions, music is stolen from Star Trek II at points and it features probably the best “I’ve been stabbed” sound in cinematic history at about 1 hour, 13 minutes. Highly recommend. youtu.be/h6iYROUoHUE?si=6h7DzxRMD6x4YSLl

Also it’s that specific dub, there seems to be a more shared version on youtube that is better translated (and not as stupid).

hawgietonight, in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

Quantum entanglement. Having two particles latched in the same state even if separated by light years distance is something I currently cannot believe. Maybe too dumb, but my belief is that it ‘has’ to be some experiment error.

doctorcrimson,

This is a good answer to the prompt, I wish people would stop downvoting the good ones like this so they could get sorted a little higher up in the comments.

brain_in_a_box,

It’s a great demonstration of why people are saying this prompt is indulging anti-science cranks. This person has not done any research and doesn’t understand the concept of entanglement, but they’re declaring that one of the most vigorously tested and fundamental ideas in modern science is wrong.

doctorcrimson,

Yes but it’s also easier to discuss with them so long as you’re not a total asshole about it. Take for example concave brain_in_a_box’s comment insulting them and offering no insight in stark contrast to naevaTheGOAT’s comment explaining Quantum Entanglement in a concise manner.

brain_in_a_box,

Concave brain_in_a_box and naevaTheGOAT? Really? That’s the level you decided to go with while trying to argue that your prompt led to meaningful discussion and not lowest common denominator anti intellectualism.

Notice that they didn’t bother to reply to neava either. More to the point, it’s pretty unreasonable to have to craft long explanations to people basically saying that their ignorance is better than the entire scientific establishments knowledge. Especially when it will likely either get rejected or ignored. Just look how many times people have tried to explain dark matter in this thread.

brain_in_a_box,

“I don’t understand it, so almost a century of experiments must all be wrong.”

naevaTheRat, (edited )

An incomplete but better than most pop science explanations is as follows: Suppose I have 2 envelopes and 2 letters. We have a stamp that has A and B on it next to each other. Without looking we put the letters next to each other, randomly Orient the stamp and apply it. Then we fold the letters up and put them in the envelops. Now we look at the stamp as see it has A and B on it.

We know that one letter contains A and the other B but not which, you take one and fly to Siberia while I enjoy a nice holiday in Tasmania (sorry but this is the sacrifice of science). I open my letter and see a B, instantly I know that in Siberia there is a letter containing A.

Light speed etc isn’t violated here because we travelled below light speed when setting it all up, I haven’t affected your letter just gained some insight about the overall system by inspecting one part of it.

Now there are a lot of things I’ve glossed over but it’s much closer to opening letters than psychic woo particles.

edit: as to keeping them latched it’s hard. The coupling is like conservative laws (e.g. spin up and spin down so no net overall spin) but any interactions destroy the coupling (or rather extend it to whatever just might’ve swapped spin with a particle). AFAIK nobody has maintained a system over lightyears for that reason among many, but like shipping pineapples to England the barrier appears practical rather than theoretical.

RBWells, in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?

Is it guaranteed? I’d much rather lift everyone up to at least my standard of living, than squash everyone down to the lowest common denominator. But if you told me every family on earth could have what we do if I alone lived on the street, begging from them for the rest of my life, sure, I’d do it

Karcinogen, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

My “Learn to Play Didgeridoo With Gram Doe” CD. 1000028618

TheDeepState, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

Perma bans

Rooki, (edited )
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perma bans him (joking of course ;D )

TheDeepState,

If only Reddit would do the same thing that FB does. I would gladly take a month ban from time to time to stay on Reddit. But, they got me and like lots of other people, I didn’t say anything bad. Oh well, hopefully Reddit will go down in flames in 10 years or so.

yamanii, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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Not really a particular piece of media, but I saw an artist on twitter that made anime style art but with a Tex Avery twist, it’s very strange seeing it but it intrigued me so much.

Warning though some of it is NSFW: twitter.com/acrylictoon

KinNectar,
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Woah, that embed opens their entire Twitter feed within kbin. Also pretty interesting art style.

otp, in Why do people not understand that you can agree with one thing someone said or did while disagreeing with the majority of what they stand for?

If a shitbag says the sky is blue, you don’t need to say “Hey, the shitbag was right about the sky being blue”. You can just say “The sky is blue”.

These types of shitbags take advantage of psychological techniques to gain followers. Getting people to agree with them is a sort of a “foot-in-the-door” technique.

The moment you say “I don’t agree with everything Jordan Peterson says, but…”, he’s got his foot in your door in turning you into a supporter.

“But I’m smarter than that,” you say. “I’m just an independent thinker who can separate the argument from the individual”. Jordan Peterson has a PhD in psychology, and has made his living off of manipulating people. He’s better equipped than you. And as you may know, thinking “it won’t/can’t happen to me” makes you more likely to become a victim.

Other phrases these guys love to hear people say are things like…

“I don’t agree with him, but I like to listen to arguments from people that I disagree with.”

“I know he’s making shit up, but he’s just funny. I listen just to laugh at him.”

“He’s absolutely wrong, but he makes people so angry. I listen to see what people are raging about.”

These are all foot-in-the-door scenarios. And that’s how they make their eventual “sale”.

yamanii, in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?
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That somehow the dozens of microphones all around us aren’t listening at all.

somewhiteguy,

But my google home tells me that the microphone is disabled when I say the magic phrase. How can you not trust that?

Octopus1348,
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Also Siri

doctorcrimson,

Pretty sure the science is very clear that they are. Research papers about smartphones are enough to make the KGB Blush. A study not too long ago looked at the data being collected and sent by TikTok app, turned out the app’s installed data is more spyware than it is the app itself. I like using CalyxOS, which was built up from way back when Android was Open Source, personally because I can disable Microphone and Camera use with the slide-down screen.

Abucketofpuppies, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

There was a game from my childhood for the Dreamcast called E.G.G. (Elemental Gimmick Gear). I’ve never heard anyone else talk about it, but I remember it being super cool

argueswithidiots, (edited ) in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

There was a game I played on my grandma’s TurboGrafx 16 many years ago. I cannot remember the name, and searching over the years still has me befuddled.

It was a racing game, but with an RPG element where you had to continually upgrade your car and take on local race champs. I loved it and cannot for the life of me find the damn thing.

Edit: holy shit I think I found it. Final Lap Twin

yamanii,
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I’m more shocked that someone actually had a turbografx back then, here I never saw a live one in my life, but it’s a fun little console with some underrated gems, I’m having so much fun going through it’s anime inspired library.

argueswithidiots,

I don’t know where she got it, probably ToysRUs back then. I would play it for hours. We only had an NES at home so we were always blown away at the graphics. Now you can find them in used game shops every once in awhile for 200 bucks, at least around here.

TheDoctorDonna,

We had a TurboGrafx when I was a kid! We had Shinobi 3 and some game that was supposed to be like Punch Out! But I don’t think it actually was called that.

That machine was a beast and I loved it.

argueswithidiots,

Bonk was great!

sizzler, (edited ) in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

ZZT, I think the game that completes “Ready Player One” is loosely referencing it.

Edit: Holy cow, I had no idea

howtogeek.com/…/before-fortnite-there-was-zzt-mee…

OK I’ll have to go harder. Jet Set Willy or Reptilion

Brb

www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=266

plantedworld, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

Everyone knows Oregon trail and Amazon trail, but I don’t see Yukon trail mentioned as much. Similar game but up the coast of Canada.

Also we had a game called Power Pete that came with this old powermac we had.

And a game called Stay Tooned! Where you get sucked into a cartoon hotel. Each room had cool puzzles and you had to escape

genodeftest, in Is there an artist so horrible that no matter how hard you try that you cannot separate their art from them?

@pendulum_ Richard Wagner. He was a very talented composer (e.g. „Ritt der Wallküren“), but also antisemitic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8IQeLNBp-Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner

randon31415, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

My dad brought home “Xexyz” for NES one year. I have never heard anyone ever reference this game in any nostalgia reviews and had to actually go look up the name myself after vaguely remembering it as that side-scroling NES game that started with an x.

morphballganon, (edited )

Reading through these answers and two people posted Xexyz lol

Edit: not seeing the other one anymore, maybe they deleted it

Battle_Masker, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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sometimes I feel like Nintendo’s Custom Robo series counts as only 2 games ever existed outside of Japan: Custom Robo [Battle Revolution] for Gamecube, and Custom Robo Arena for DS. Luckily there’s been 3 spiritual successors since then: Cyberspace Colosseum, WizardPunk, and Battlecore Robots.

There’s also this B-movie from the 60s called The Creation of the Humanoids. It’s not that spectacular per se, but it is the source of the “You are a robot” sample used in Powerman 5000’s When Worlds Collide and the Metal Arms: Glitch in the System theme music.

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