• shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    10 months ago

    I’ve seen that guy! Kayaking down a lazy river and there’s a dude catching and cataloging turtles. Stopped to chat a bit. No idea how the hell he got to where he was. No boat, no roads near.

    Same trip I saw a couple of teens in the water around a bend. Waved at them, wait… WTF is that in the water? Whole ass horse comes busting out the river.

    SAME trip, we got to where the rednecks hang out on the weekends. It’s a little village of shacks wrapped around a long, slow bend in the river, super cool. Dozens of adults and kids playing around, and a 5’ gator standing on the shore, stiff as a statue, just staring straight ahead.

    I need to go kayaking this weekend.

      • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        It’s certainly worth playing if you enjoy whimsical philosophical narratives.

        • shrippen@feddit.deEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          Excuse me? Whimsical? I did enjoy being a disco infused communism cop with a brain the size of earth that may have been addicted to every substance.

      • NobodyElse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        It is a goddamn masterpiece and absolutely worth playing. I just finished playing it again after so many years.

  • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
    321·
    10 months ago

    No love for the mad theorists huh? The mad philosophers, linguists, mathematicians, …

      • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        10 months ago

        I would also go mad if I had to accept that 83 is a prime number but 1 isn’t

          • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            what i’m mad about is that you can divide by infinity and get zero, but you can’t divide by 0 and get infinity. make up your minds maths people

            • alsimoneau@lemmy.caEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              Oh you totally can (as long as you’re working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it’s a positive or negative zero.

                • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                  3·
                  10 months ago

                  i mean, implicitly it’s just whether you’re approaching zero from positive or negative direction, since we’re working with limits.

                  Like you can shave down a stick however much you want, you can never reach 0 stick by doing so.

            • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              I typed up a very angry paragraph about how you can’t divide by infinity either because infinity is a function within the context of algebraic math, then I realized I was wrong, which made me step back and realize how fucky it is that the only number that is weirder than 0 isn’t in fact a number

    • c0ber@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      if you want mad linguistics you may enjoy agma schwa’s cursed conlang circus

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    So, basically, it’s mad to be outdoors collecting data and not in the lab. Got it ;)

      • Ravi@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I really enjoyed it and just reaatched it a year ago. Great show with a unique approach. Sad that there aren’t any current shows that are similar indeed.

  • ladicius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    10 months ago

    Indiana Jones, anyone? Lara Croft? They were scientists and unhinged and ran around in a lot of fields.

    • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Movie archeologist as a biologist:

      Goes in the middle of a jungle to find the rarest, critically endangered frog

      Sells it illegally for Chinese boner pills

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Layla Hassan, anyone? Literally diving first person into the past via animus, in a shack in the woods on a dig site, studying the bones of who she’s been for the past few weeks…

  • LordGimp@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    This is Tannis from borderlands lmao well the OG borderlands anyways. Tennis never needed to be a full fledged npc, let alone a siren.

    • ilhamagh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      YES! The moment she did the telepath thing in BL3 I knew things won’t be good (story-wise) + idk how they will redeem ava

      • LordGimp@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I really didn’t like her as an npc in 2 tbh. She was best when she was borderlands version of shrodingers cat. Maybe alive, maybe not, but always leaving recordings. Gearbox tried to hard to make her “the funny autistic” and ended up making her a bit character instead of part of the world you’re in.

  • angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    The paleontologists in the Jurasic Park. When I saw the movie for the first time, I thought they were unrealistic and very mad. Who would go straight to a giant herbivore like Brachiosaurus or Triceratops? Surely they would be aware of the huge danger, right? Then I got to know a few zoologists and yes, this is exactly what a field zoologist would do. They would also survive, magically.