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ELI5: Why is cheating in online games seemingly so prevelant?
  • As someone who played exclusively ARAM because I just don't like the main game, even in LoL, that mode is pretty chill.

    Either even salty people can calm down when the stakes are lower, either that mode mostly attracts the non-salty people, but yeah, I would rarely encounter toxic people.

  • ELI5: Why is cheating in online games seemingly so prevelant?
  • All of those issues sound like things the game developers should figure out solutions to. If there's a boring behaviour that results in boring gameplay and people can't do much against that unless they have overwhelming skill... Yeah sounds like a problem that they need to solve somehow.

    Because games should be fun.

  • Can you safely heat people with microwaves?
  • Holy crap, i was imagining some sort of microwave bag or belt you could put the freezing body part in.

    Your thing about metal objects made me think about what would happen to a hand full of rings stuck in there. Yeesh.

  • Can you safely heat people with microwaves?

    Sometimes, when I'm really cold, it can take over an hour to warm me up, even with a heating blanket. The quickest solution, a hot shower, feels really inefficient with all the heat going down the drain.

    That got me thinking about microwaves. They heat food (partly) from the inside, contrary to simple infrared radiation.

    Could we safely do that with people?

    I found a Reddit thread where a non-lethal weapon and people getting eye damage because they stayed too long in front of a radar dish.

    Could some sort of device be made that would warm specific areas (say, a hand or a leg) without endangering sensitive areas like the eyes?

    Would it actually warm someone up from the inside? Would it be possible to make it safe?

    Would it present advantages in cases of hypothermia, compared to heated IV fluids?

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  • You're motivating me to start looking into pans again. The only one I have is a warped The Rock ceramic non-stick pan (that absolutely does stick) and it has basically the disadvantages of Teflon (although I don't think it's actually Teflon) without the advantages.

    I've wanted a quality, rivet-free, stainless steel pan for a long time. Maybe it's time, instead of waiting for my crap pan to finally die.

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  • Oh I'm not worried about microbes. I'm worried about a gross greasy film that I'm not allowed to remove. If it gets on your clothes it can be a real pain, and sometimes you need gasoline to clean it off your hands.

    As for eggs... I go crazy trying to make eggs in any pan at all without lots of oil lol. I've never used a pan, no matter what it's made out of, where eggs wouldn't stick. At least, when it inevitably sticks, i can go ham scraping a stainless steel pan.

    And yeah we're together in wanting teflon pans dead.

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  • No thanks. I don't really need to sear anything I'm the flames of hell, care is a huge pain, you can't ever fully clean it, it stains dish towels, and it weighs a ton and a half.

    Stainless steel all day for me.

  • Seconds
  • There are two possibilities I can think of:

    • Orbit duration can be used to calculate mass
    • The diameter of a star or the parallax distance on the sky (in arcseconds) can also be used to evaluate mass
  • ELI5: Why is high frequency trading allowed?

    I don't see how it's a benefit to capitalism or companies or, well, anyone, really, to allow people to make thousands of trades a day for minute profits on each.

    My gut feeling is that the stock market would not suffer, and less resources would be wasted, if trades and updates to stock prices were limited to, say, one batch per hour.

    There are probably reasons the system is the way it is though.

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