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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t know how to comment when I see this. I want to talk about how this works, but most people know how this works. So I don’t know why its a thing. Its funny though.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

This particular version is more about the characters depicted (Denji and Power from Chainsaw Man), who are famous for being endearingly stupid.

The more earnest versions you tend to see on TikTok are mostly posted by, or at least targeted at, actual kids who don't yet understand how vision works. Nobody on Lemmy is under the age of 30.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (9 children)

nobody on Lemmy is under the age of 30

My brother in Christ why did this turn into a personal attack?! 😂

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too!

I've been 29 for over a decade.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Begone, thot

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ah to be young again

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody on Lemmy is under the age of 30.

Although I might feel 30 sometimes, I'll have you know I'm a ripe 28 & ¾

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also 28 and three quarters. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, we already have enough for an average lemmy community.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Greetings fellow ~~kids~~ adults.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My age has been overestimated but never by 13 year.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Get out of here you literal baby!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm way under the age of 30

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm only 24 but I'm on Kbin I guess so you got me there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm 24, I can't believe you'd accuse me of such a thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Haha ill do you one better I am 22.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would like to hear an actual explanation. I don’t know shit about light physics but my attempt to explain it is that the trajectory of the light is such that it reflects off of the egg into your eyes and that it is this trajectory that is reflected in the mirror.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I mean, yeah, basically. It's really not very complicated.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because reality uses Raytracing instead of Screen-space reflections!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

This is a hilarious and true answer to the question.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for this. I really hate giving that website views. Nobody should be using Twitter in 2023.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It also loads like absolute shit

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I would want to see that but I don't want to give twitter my data

Fuck elon and fuck spez

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought this whole "object behind paper against a mirror" thing was just a meme at first because the result is very intuitive and not at all shocking... But then I guess people genuinely didn't get it? People really can be so stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Having met people, I have to agree.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like the Action Lab guy going through the explanation for this https://youtu.be/ezUmSO_OAxY

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do they have sharpened teeth? That's a little creepy

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're from an anime, Chainsaw Man. Haven't watched idk why they have sharp teeth, but my best guess is that it's an anime where they use their OP chainsaw teeth to make a killing in the lumber industry, that's definitely what it's about.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its an optional illusion. Nothing exists and we are but the stuff of dreams.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If the illusion is optional, how do I toggle it off?

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[–] victron 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

She's the best. Chainsaw Man is great for many reasons, but the powerful women with agency is one of the best. Especially for a shonen manga.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lights a funny thing, innit?

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