I never thought about doing it that way, so I counted in binary with my right hand... Tricky but oddly satisfying

Edit: shit, I'm getting faster at this. I might have to convert

I'm physically unable to make 8 in binary with my fingers.

My finger just refuses to go up by itself, it will just go up with its friends.

Help! I was counting and somehow hit negative 15. Is there a bug?

In American Sign Language you can sign at least up to 999~10~ with one hand

great point.. and if after the 12 you start touching your thumb to the other side of those phalanges, you now have 24. now each time you go through the 24 cycle, your other hand can tick along the same cycle like an hour hand. now you are counting to 550+ with 2 hands.

You can technically count to 6000000000 with one hand and a way to measure angles

0..16 if you add fingertips.

You can count up to 99 with your hands if you use them like a Japanese abacus.

When did dramatized tv become misinformation? It wasn’t a documentary…

That's how many historical movies and contemporary shows work though. Like, we all know CSI techs aren't clearing rooms like SWAT in real life. But the story is far easier to follow if we keep it to a few characters the audience knows.

If we're talking about the HBO show, then calling it a documentary is just straight up wrong in the first place.

It's a "based on real events" TV drama that never claimed to be a rigorous retelling of the catastrophe.

There are a ton of immediate differences to reality that anyone even vaguely familiar with soviet history would notice.

It was never supposed to be more than the broad strokes though. Even those were largely unknown in the West.

Oh. People from English-speaking countries don't sink you with downvotes immediately for criticizing that show anymore. Nice.

Even the broad strokes are, eh, how do you say it, eh ... worse than Tom Clancy and that's an achievement I'm not sure everyone is capable of measuring.

It's funny though how such series about "USSR" talk in fact about something American. Reminiscent of the "17 moments of spring" series which were about a Soviet spy in Berlin in the last months of WWII, but mostly explored Soviet ideology and morality issues.

That's a pretty narrow way to cut yourself off from a LOT of great storytelling.

Chernobyl still is one of the best shows I've ever watched. Not a documentary but it doesn't try to be. It tries to be good historical drama and it is. Very gripping.

Yeah, that wording is so misleading. "Inspired by real events" is the more accurate wording, but I feel like I haven't seen anything with that in ages.

Some works will outright lie about it. For example, the TV show and movie Fargo specifically tell you it’s a true story, and even that names have been changed but ‘the rest has been told exactly as it happened’.

To me that’s weird. It doesn’t really add to the end result in my opinion, but would breed distrust when people discovered it was wholly fictional.

Still, even with things that are meant to be accurate portrayal of an event, it’s always good to check the facts. Hollywood just can’t help but fiddle with reality to tell a more interesting story, even when it doesn’t need it.

Literally went over like everyone in this thread

1. The reactor's kill switch worked fine, but another reactor reacted to it
2. None of the Soviet's spoke fluent BBC english at the time
3. All the scientists were squashed into a single organism called "supafrique" who was the main antagonist
4. The level of radiation blasted into the atmosphere was greatly exaggerated by captain planet
5. Superman sealed up the hole in less than 10 minutes
6. Chernobyl is actually pronounced "Churro-nob-yell"
7. Everyone who was underwater and worked to kill the reactor actually gained telepathy later on
8. It was actually hard to write this list. This was a great tragedy.