I'm just barely geeky enough to find this interesting, but here goes. The first reason is that logarithmic scales show up in science all the time, and are frequently misunderstood by layman and media, they just aren't at all intuitive.

The second is that those shows were written over decades by smart science-literate people who put in all of these careful details that totally flew over my head, it's fun to look back and see it was deeper than I knew at the time.

When Sci-fi is written with a good understanding of science and physics, it makes the fantastic parts seem more plausible because the rest checks out. The alternative way to do Sci-fi is to just say "Screw it, it's all magic!". Which works for Star Wars but isn't compelling in the same way.

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It's actually a really interesting game design question.

There are basically two approaches here: enemies are either fixed level or scale with the player.

Fixed level enemies mean it's possible to remove all challenge from a particular encounter by being waaaay OP for it. Scaling the enemy stats fix that issue, but you then miss out on the fun of going back through an area and roflstomping previously challenging foes.

Mark Brown of Writing on Games did a great video on this recently in relation to the design of Dark Souls


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*science

With no explanation, there's no education or learning to be had, certainly no electronica, it has not been debunked, it's not magic, and it's probably not geeky.

A simple explanation that the electrodes interact with the acid to create a small electrical charge would have made a few of those tags proper, but this was more like "magnets....how do they work?" level education.

*doublepromote the cheeky geekiness of it all ... brilliant chap I say!

Wow...I thought I was geeky...that is geek project extraordinaire.

It is one thing to understand a processor but to build one on a massive scale is impressive.

Nevermind. I replaced it with a YouTube video. You can still go to http://www.dorkly.com/video/78736/10-geeky-easter-eggs-you-can-find-in-real-life to try its brightcove embed code.

Pretty cool how this awesome pedal also transforms his geeky mug into true "Guitar Face" once it is activated.... Two independent effects for the price of one!!!!

Thank you for posting it. I just read about it in a week old paper and quite honestly was going to look it up after I sifted through what was sifted and low and behold here it is. You saved me work, I also thoroughly enjoyed the show, no laugh track like that other sciency big bang, I hate laugh track but like the story of the show so I keep up with it, this is my new favourite geeky show.

Sounds like your life is like playing "Dayz" or "7 days to die"... Perhaps without the zombie Apocalypse scenery...

Was that too geeky?

Because singing medical geeky guy that saves lives.
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In case there are, well, any folks out there as besotted with a love of obscure, geeky airplane videos as I am...
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No worries! I was more "geeky uptight" bothered by it then anything approaching being upset.

I find it baffling that this is an actual issue (the whole "fake geek girl" thing) for geeky women and girls. I had no idea.
Anyway I approve this message *quality

Very geeky, by which I mean awesome.

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