• shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    90·
    9 个月前

    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.

  • xor@infosec.pubEnglish
    61·
    9 个月前

    i once saw a biologist standing over a dying seal with a clipboard taking notes…
    it was just slowly gasping for breath, covered in some decay, baking in the sun…

    when i walked by again hours later, she was still there, looking amused…

  • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
    30·
    9 个月前

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

          • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            9 个月前

            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·
              9 个月前

              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·
                  9 个月前

                  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·
              9 个月前

              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·
      9 个月前

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

      • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        9 个月前

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

        • shrippen@feddit.deEnglish
          5·
          9 个月前

          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·
        9 个月前

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

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    9 个月前

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

      • Ravi@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        9 个月前

        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
    15·
    9 个月前

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

    • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
      14·
      9 个月前

      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·
      9 个月前

      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·
    9 个月前

    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·
      9 个月前

      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·
        9 个月前

        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·
    9 个月前

    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.

  • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
    1·
    9 个月前

    Surprised nobody has mentioned Seanan Mcguire and the Incryptid series yet. Awesome books

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      9 个月前

      are you putting a license on your comments? first off i don’t think a one sentence comment is covered by copyright, second my brother in christ no one’s gonna cite their sources when copying comments

      • RozaŭtunoEnglish
        4·
        9 个月前

        It’s supposed to be to not let AIs use your posts for training. I doubt it actually works tho.

        • (⬤ᴥ⬤)English
          1·
          8 个月前

          feels like those “i do not consent to Facebook using my data” posts my grandma makes