HenryWong327

joined 1 year ago
[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I'm Chinese, I've never seen a map like this before. We usually just use Mercator but split along the Atlantic ocean instead of the Pacific. This map is just kinda bizzare. Why is Antarctica so prioritized? Why's it in portrait orientation? I think it's just intentionally weird, which is still cool.

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Wait your signature is supposed to just be your name in cursive? But then wouldn't that defeat the point? I thought in the olden days it was supposed to be like a proof that you were the right person since you knew how your signature was written.

Anyways, for my signature I just kinda designed it. It was ages ago so I forgot my process, but it was deliberate and I remember making a whole bunch of sketches before finding one I liked. And since then I've incrementally improved it.

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought this was going to be some math thing, turned out to be so much more straightforward.

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

The Youtuber Brandon F has a 4 part series talking about why they fought like this. Spoiler- it wasn't because they were stupid.

Part 1

TLDR- if you split up you just get run down by enemy cavalry.

Part 2

TLDR- a close formation lets you concentrate your firepower at one point.

Part 3

TLDR- a close formation makes communication and controlling the army much much easier (or even possible at all).

Part 4

TLDR- the formation makes the troops less likely to run away.

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I was curious about Alert's name, and assumed it was because the town served as an alerting system for something, but I looked it up and turns out it's cause a ship called HMS Alert wintered there.

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

From what I've heard (back when I used Reddit) they aren't linked, there's apparently a bunch of people who have one but not the other.

Someone said that it's cause they're almost opposite effects- car sickness is when you feel movement but don't see it, whereas vr sickness is when you see movement but don't feel it- but I'd take this with a grain of salt since it's just some random person on Reddit guessing at the cause.

Personally my experience is mostly the same as yours, I don't get either.

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 23 points 9 months ago

Aww that's a shame, the real Neptune looks really dull.

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They're not contradictory. All other headsets' passthrough is just so bad that even though the Apple headset isn't good it's still way ahead of them.