chaonaut

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you would rather get no Starcraft games than get a Starcraft game that is not an RTS?

  This is such a wild take. We are absolutely drowning in bland games built on IPs that the new devs had no care for and were simply cashing in on. In what world are you thinking we need more blatant cashgrabs with a coat of StarCraft-tinted paint? And that we’re hoping for good things from Microsoft at this point? Nah, I’m good, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because there’s a hidden system of measurement change hiding in the middle. Inches, Feet and Yards are familiar 12:1 and 3:1 conversions, and Rods, Chains, Furlongs and Miles. Their conversation rates are generally nice conversion, with rations of 4 rods : 1 chain, 10 chains : 1 furlong, and 8 furlongs : 1 mile.

  So where do we get 5,280 with prime factors of 2^5, 3, 5 and 11? Because a chain is 22 yards long. Why? Because somewhere along the line, inches, feet and yards went to a smaller standard, and the nice round 5 yards per rods became 5 and 1/2 yards per rod. Instead of a mile containing 4,800 feet (with quarters, twelfths and hundredths of miles all being nice round numbers of feet), it contained an extra 480 feet that were 1/11th smaller than the old feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone else remember?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pepperidge Farm remembers what Nintendon’t.