TheOakTree
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- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 1 week ago:
Yeah, I would say they are intricate (lots of sections and moving parts) but not complex (hard to comprehend). Like, I think with the right manual and some time I could learn to fix it, but I’m never going to do the same with, say, a helicopter.
- Comment on Get on that grindset 2 weeks ago:
It’s real. I knew about him already, but I didn’t know about his tweets.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
Not if you do an ungodly amount of sanding!
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
Maybe not 11 close friends, but I have enough friends to get 11 people invited to place… I think that counts! If I could fit them.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
Lol, give it to a kid and watch the bands snap on the first jump 😔
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 2 weeks ago:
I have used a handful of their mid-to-high end motherboards (relative to their product range) and they have never caused any major issues. This is obviously only anecdotal, though.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 2 weeks ago:
It could be the board, it could be the RAM, and it could be a fauly memory controller on your CPU. Although, if this was a while ago (pre-2003 for AMD, pre-2008 for intel) then the memory controller would be on the ASRock board.
In other words, a nightmare to diagnose.
- Comment on I love science 2 weeks ago:
And then we have things that remap what seems one-dimension into abstract spaces, so that we can draw new conclusions.
- Comment on One subscription to rule them all (Seedbox) 2 weeks 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Also Elden Ring was pirated pretty much at launch because of how simple and outdated FromSoft’s DRM practice are.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. 2 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
This person would answer “not if you drink it all”
- Comment on electricity is honestly eldritch 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 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? 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
It’s an anti-French-Canadian joke I think.
- Comment on Actual theft 5 weeks ago:
Turns out she’s engaged to a man.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Men: “Hell yeah!”
- Comment on Breaking functions down to their constituent parts is nice and all, but this is a step too far. 1 month 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 3 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 3 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
