TheOakTree
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- Comment on PC Master Race 3 days ago:
An ROG 5090 Dhahab Edition is half of the $15k. Add a boutique case, custom cooling loop, overkill RAM and storage, and you just might hit $15k. Definitely a stretch though.
- Comment on Carrot 1 week ago:
Understandable, have a nice day.
I will point out that saying "approximately ~length^2" seems redundant, but that’s neither here nor there.
- Comment on Carrot 1 week ago:
The volume is length^3? Is the carrot a 10"x10"x10" cube?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 19th 1 week ago:
I just wish the combat in XVI had more depth. You kind of have to force yourself to make fights interesting (if you play lots of action games) by doing flashy stuff that’s less than optimal.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 2 weeks ago:
It was Evan and Katelyn being featured on Adam’s channel lol
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 weeks ago:
Funny that you mention this. I replied to another comment about how Gangnam Style is satire about the hyper-wealthy. However, the meaning derived by all of the audiences outside of South Korea was ‘haha dancing man likes horses and yoga women’.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 weeks ago:
You’re pretty much there. Oppa is literally ‘older brother’ but is generally used towards a man who is older but within the same age-hierarchy bracket. It is a term exclusively used by women, except for when men are referring to themselves in the 3rd person from the perspective of women. As mentioned, women often call their boyfriend/husband oppa in casual environments.
The lyrics of the chorus is “오빤 강남 스타일” (“Oppan Gangnam Style”) where the ‘n’ after ‘oppa’ is like a contraction of “오빠는” (‘Oppa nun’ / “Oppa is”). Gangnam is a neighborhood in Seoul where literal 1%ers live. So he’s basically letting the women know he’s a wealthy/noteworthy/powerful guy, since he is ‘Gangnam Style’.
In truth, the way he describes himself and the women he chases are caricatures of South Korean wealth, materialism, and high-class identity. The video starts with him pretending to be at a beach, when the camera pans out it’s actually a sandlot for a playground. More examples of his phony elegance show up across the video, such as dancing on a tour bus and singing in a toilet stall. The lyrics of the song flaunt the lavish lives of the hyper-wealthy, while the imagery points out how trashy and narcissistic that kind of lifestyle can be.
Sorry for the rant, I just remember a lot of stuff I learned about it while writing a report in high school. I hope someone learned something :P
- Comment on It just plain doesn't work, please stop telling people to do this 2 weeks ago:
Thank goodness DE isn’t electrically conductive. It would definitely still be awful - the final boss of getting sand in your phone charging port.
- Comment on It just plain doesn't work, please stop telling people to do this 2 weeks ago:
That 70% is most useful for actual cleaning, whereas 90% is likely better for removing any water through mixing and evaporation. Ultimately it depends on which liquid and much of it you got in your device.
- Comment on negativity 2 weeks ago:
I think we need waffles that are flat on one side. Butter under the waffle on the flat side, syrup in the wells of the top side. Then you get even coverage of butter and also the crispness and syrup management benefits.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 2 weeks ago:
Jump Pretzeldogius
- Comment on I c it! 3 weeks ago:
They said our hands. Clearly they are a conjoined twin with 3+ arms.
- Comment on At 1% 3 weeks ago:
Maybe somewhere in the chain, the 5V from pin 9 is being converted to 5V shared across power and the video signal. So even if this chain worked in carrying a video signal it could be very weak or distorted.
Purely a guess though.
- Comment on At 1% 3 weeks ago:
Even with a data-capable cable I don’t think most microUSB ports have video output capabilities. You’d have to find a cable/adapter specifically designed for video out, and a device with the explicit capability (usually cameras and phones).
- Comment on Updates that don't tell me what is being updated 3 weeks ago:
Your hypothesis is confirmed by “Because nothing says Fall like financial progress.”
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 weeks ago:
BG3, E33, ER, all amazing games that don’t add live service junk, don’t require online connections, and respect the art of video games. They are all worth their price and then some, to me.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 weeks ago:
Honestly a lot of my excitement for BF6 was killed by the PIF acquisition of EA.
Looking forward to EA games becoming even worse than they already are. /s
- Comment on DM me for homemade prophecy stones 4 weeks ago:
They look like frostbite fingers to me lol
- Comment on quiet place 1 month ago:
I’d imagine the main risk of such a location would be the threat of other people looking to control it for themselves. But, of course, that risk is probably never mentioned.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 month ago:
I think one useful comparison would be to convert their measurement of the speed of light to our measurement and vice versa. They will use different units of distance and time, but the values themselves will be proportional unless they live in a black hole.
- Comment on Checkmate theists 1 month ago:
Basically yes. They usually have red bean paste filling, although lately I’ve seen them filled with custard/choux cream.
- Comment on Checkmate theists 1 month ago:
Pineapple belongs as pizza. The great debate is finally over.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 2 months ago:
Fellas, is it gay to value your loved ones and oppose violence?
- Comment on I may or may not have gotten way too in the trees@sh.itjust.works and eaten an entire block of cream cheese 2 months ago:
No hot sauce in the house? Blasphemy!
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 2 months ago:
https://www.protondb.com/app/1903340
Seems like it works out-of-box for some users, with commands for some, not at all for others.
- Comment on Jokes on you, I don't want to work 2 months ago:
IIRC this is because companies will post jobs that they want to hire for internally. Either they are required to post these positions publicly, or they benefit from doing so.
- Comment on Bird 2 months ago:
Sounds like she knows how to seize a good opportunity lol
- Comment on Bird 2 months ago:
Bread is filling and high in carbs, but has little nutritional value. When ducks eat bread, it tastes good and it also encourages them to fill up on it, which can lead to protein deficiency iirc. Also ducks with diets low in certain vitamins develop a condition known as angel wing, which renders the wings unusable due to excessive feather growth (too heavy for young ducks’ wings; developing wings are bent outwards due to weight).
- Comment on US education 2 months ago:
All of my friends who went to catholic school had the opposite experience. Evolution was handwaved away as complete nonsense, and God’s benevolence was the answer for why people exist. My public school taught evolution very thoroughly, though none of my science teachers seemed creationist.