I would argue that Bioshock is one of the few video game franchises that would probably do well in a non-interactive story medium. It's a very story driven video game. As long as they trust the writers to respect the source material and come up with a compelling story, I think it could be great. There's always a chance that it's a disaster though.

I don't get it, but I assume there's some obscure historical or philosophical joke going on here. Can someone explain?

Or maybe it's "read" as in "read his book" and the drag term "read him for filth" lol I hope it's that one

Yeah I figured it maybe also had something to do with the distribution of matter throughout the universe. We assumed when we made predictions of the distant past that the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies were the same mass as they are today, but if they were less massive then it might help explain why black holes didn't gather as much material into it's orbit as we would have thought.

I think you're right though that it has more to do with the negative pressure that space and the black holes seem to exert although I must admit I don't really understand what that means or how you would get a negative pressure from a black hole or from space.

I saw a paper on here recently that basically said they've explained dark energy through what they called "cosmological coupling" of black holes. Basically, black holes absorb space over time, and since space has a base level of energy and energy is kind of a form of mass then the black holes are gaining mass over time and so they are less massive in the past than they are today. I don't 100% understand why that explains dark energy, but it is a very new paper and as far as I know hasn't been peer reviewed yet, so who knows!

Here's the paper: https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/2023/02/first-observational-evidence-linking-black-holes-to-dark-energy/

Light is pretty fucky. Like taking the shortest route to it's target through TIME! What the fuck light?!

"dark" in scientific terms just means unexplained. We're very, very, very, and I cannot stress this enough... VERY sure that dark matter and dark energy exist, but they will remain "dark" until we discover what they are/what's causing the effects that we see. Aether was just unfounded non-sense that was based on practically nothing.

Cool animation! 10/10 style points!

For those unaware, Adobe changed their terms of service recently to say that if you agree to the terms then they officially own anything you create using their software and can use it however they want. Specifically this line:

you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.

This probably means that Adobe has built some kind of backdoor into their programs to access your files and send it off to their servers. Pretty shitty of them!

Finally a native Linux mod manager. It's a pain trying to run Windows mod managers through WINE or Proton.

For example, carbon dating took discoveries including counting tree rings to determine a tree's age, the origins of all the radiation on Earth -- spoiler: it was the Earth itself, but also cosmic rays which was the important bit, nuclear half-lives and creating a chart of specifically useful half-lives for historical dating, the discovery of a rare isotope of carbon which can only be made by cosmic rays (carbon-14) as a near perfect clock for human timescales, how to build a sensor that can read faint carbon-14 radioactivity while filtering out all the radioactive noise from the environment, making another chart of expected radioactive readings based on geographical location including the depths of the ocean, and of course not to mention all of the archeological data used to calibrate all of the charts and devices used in the process.

I believe their reactions might be slightly different depending on the person, but if you simply asked them if it made the comment made them uncomfortable they'd say yes 100% of the time.

No, it's about your relationship to that person. Are you on friendly terms? Are they comfortable around you? Do you have some kind of established rapport?

Or are you a complete stranger making a weird comment about another strangers physical appearance out of nowhere?

imo Shadowheart was the most unbearable companion at the start. But I think the point was that they're all deeply flawed people that are forced to come together and face their trauma. Tadpole therapy works, I guess!