Yes. It really made me appreciate LOTR a lot more since it's way more explicit about the backstory of the nine rings, Numenor, the elves going west and so on.
It's high production value, good performances. Not great art, but I liked it. Some excellent acting in season 2 especially.
Half-asleep-sex can be amazing, there are different kinds of pleasure when you're only half conscious.
I guess that stuff is based a lot on the Tolkien race concepts. It's an interesting thing when mythical creatures, often understood as inherently evil or chaotic, transform into playable races and fellow citizens in a fantasy world.
What is D&D racism? Orcs are barbaric ace wielders and elves are sophisticated archers?
The difference is that 10 years ago you needed billions of stable qubits, now you need 10k stable qubits.
And 10 years ago you had one or two stable qubits in the lab, now you have thousands.
Feels like a deep urge, short circuiting your brain to satisfy it. Like hunger or thirst. The longer I go without sexual attention, the more my brain starts to interpret everything as an opportunity for sex. When I satisfy it, it brings joy and release and calm. It's fun, intimate and satisfy needs for closeness and touch.
It also feels deeply connected to a bunch of psychological stuff like the need for approval, gender affirmation, power dynamics, competitiveness and more.
I guess that's the joke - this is so stupid and obviously won't work, but that perspective is subverted when it turns out to actually work, causing humour.
I quite like it.
TBF imaginary time is a math trick and not something that actually progresses. It lets us apply results from statistical physics to quantum field theory through a Wick rotation.
It's base 20 like in France, plus the quirk that we have an ordinal numeral way of saying half integers, i.e. 1.5 is "half second", 2.5 is "half third", 4.5 is "half fifth". So 92 is said as "two and half fifth times twenty". We've since made the "times twenty" implicit for maximum confusion, so it's just said as "two and half fifths".
Also, the ordinal numeral system for halves is only really used for 1.5 these days, so the numbers don't really make sense to anyone. When speaking to other Scandinavians, we often just say "nine ten two".
Why don't we just change it to the more sensible system then? Because language is stubborn.
As I'm clearly in the wrong according to downvotes, could you elaborate on what I'm missing?