TheOakTree
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- Comment on One subscription to rule them all (Seedbox) 4 hours ago:
Also Elden Ring was pirated pretty much at launch because of how simple and outdated FromSoft’s DRM practice are.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 4 hours ago:
This is why I can’t discredit faith, but I still do my best to point out how organizational religion has always exploited people. Not that all of it is bad. But there needs to be better safeguards for people to have the opportunity to find or reject faith for themselves, and instead it’s mostly indoctrination.
- Comment on If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death? 1 week ago:
This person would answer “not if you drink it all”
- Comment on electricity is honestly eldritch 1 week ago:
In the eyes of the charge, your heart is just the path to your legs, like a driveway!
It’s like a really flawed idea of love!
- Comment on electricity is honestly eldritch 1 week ago:
The largest portion of current travels through the path of least resistance, so it’s almost there. But not quite.
- Comment on Teenage Jehovah's Witness can receive blood transfusion, judge rules 1 week ago:
What’s wrong? God saved him in the end.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 week ago:
Have you considered why “Call of Duty” is 38 in Reduction, Single Reduction, KV Exception, and SKV exception?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that all of those ciphers having the same mappings for all letters except K, S, and V… Each of which don’t appear in the phrase “Call of Duty”.
“The nimble red fox ran around the lazy dog” is 38 in Reduction, Single Reduction, KV Exceptuon, and SKV Exception!!! This means it’s related to murder! And I didn’t even have to calculate the cipher at all, I just had to look at it and see if it had the right letters!
- Comment on My PSP Scrapbook: Part Retrospective, Part Collage 1 week ago:
The shell I got was mediocre. It all comes together, but there are definitely some weird gaps and bad tolerances. I had to trim down some plastic to get everything to line up half-decently.
I’m glad you like the transparent shell as well, as I was a bit on the fence about it at first.
- Comment on My PSP Scrapbook: Part Retrospective, Part Collage 2 weeks ago:
Love the PSP! Grew up with it and loved the more mature titles available compared to Nintendo’s handheld game library. A couple years ago I purchased a faulty PSP for dirt cheap and replaced the display, shell, and UMD drive. Unfortunately the clear analog stick I purchased is quite rubbish and needs to be replaced, but I haven’t gotten around to it.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 2 weeks ago:
I also remember Windows 10 being annoying at first, but I think it mostly gets overshadowed by how many issues I had with 8/8.1
- Comment on Glass 2 weeks ago:
If water could no longer break surface tension (surface tension becomes infinity), wouldn’t all non-reactive production of gaseous water cease to occur?
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 2 weeks ago:
It’s an anti-French-Canadian joke I think.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
Turns out she’s engaged to a man.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Men: “Hell yeah!”
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 4 weeks ago:
What kind of work do you do?
I’m in the process of wrapping up my degree and I work a lot with signals and controls. I agree that Laplace is much less of a headache than Fourier.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago:
It was Evan and Katelyn being featured on Adam’s channel lol
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Jump Pretzeldogius
- Comment on I c it! 2 months ago:
They said our hands. Clearly they are a conjoined twin with 3+ arms.
- Comment on At 1% 2 months 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% 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Your hypothesis is confirmed by “Because nothing says Fall like financial progress.”
