ooterness
@ooterness@lemmy.world
I’m an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 4 days ago:
You’ve got the important foundational elements. The other big event is the Horus Heresy, where about half of the Emperor’s sons fell to Chaos and started a huge civil war that left the Emperor in his current half-dead state, but the imperial bureaucracy keeps on chugging.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the world of Warhammer 40k has been evolving over decades of novels, tabletop games, and video games made by multiple authors. As a result, the canon is vast and occasionally self-contradictory.
If you want to know more, I highly recommend the Ciaphas Cain books (novels with a comedy streak) and a silly fan series called If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech device.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 2 weeks ago:
The CA law is a prompt for self-reported age or birthdate. (1900 Jan 1, obviously.) This is not at all equivalent to “age verification” using ID or face scans.
- Comment on Nomenclature 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Whoever thought it was a good idea to let me legally own a welder should not have done that. 1 month ago:
Be the change you want to see in the world. Image
- Comment on Currency 1 month ago:
The word “fluctuating” implies the price of gold has been going up and down. That is not what has happened since the Commander-In-Thief took office.
Market price of one ounce of gold over the last five years: Image
- Comment on Relevant game of Risk 2 months ago:
Except Greenland is a part of Denmark, so it should also have pink figures?
- Comment on The shrinkflation 2 months ago:
What is this? Fast food for ants?
- Comment on It's New Year's Day and you want something entertaining to watch. You NEED Auralnauts' Star Wars remix. 2 months ago:
The clockwork man, was built of wire and tin
His eyes shone bright in the night
Bereft of soul and cast without a skin
He shambled, and cried a plaintive plight
- Comment on I hacked mars! 2 months ago:
3.14 acres of enclosed space, and still barely enough to support a crew of eight people. I think OP is going to need a bigger bag of plants.
- Comment on I hacked mars! 2 months ago:
Remember how Biosphere 2 went so badly that the crew nearly starved to death, but no one bothered doing a Biosphere 3? That might be a good step before attempting long-term Moon or Mars missions.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 months ago:
Relevant song: Just Glue Some Gears On It and Call It Strampunk
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 months ago:
ISO8601 / RFC3339 gang represent. You’ll have to take four digit years from my cold, dead hands.
- Comment on Cursed worm by Stitchywithliviee 3 months ago:
Pretty sure I fought one of those in Silksong.
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 3 months ago:
Maybe it’s like Toy Story. Batman figure just found out he’s a toy, drank a bunch of Jäger, and then reverted to the dormant state because someone was looking.
- Comment on what would happen? 3 months ago:
How is this a science meme?
- Comment on Piano man 3 months ago:
Harmonica intensifies
- Comment on The German company that built the forklift used in the Louvre robbery uses a photo of the heist to advertise itself: “When things need to be done quickly. 4 months ago:
- Comment on What happened? Huh? You lil bitch? 4 months ago:
That was when they replaced all the birds with bird-shaped drones. People think it was for surveillance, but it was actually to contain the Bermuda Triangle threat.
- Comment on A roundabout 5 months ago:
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 5 months ago:
- Comment on oui oui 5 months ago:
It’s a bread knife.
- Comment on geography is neat 5 months ago:
How is this a science meme?
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 5 months ago:
Imagine a large rock, suspended by helicopters a few miles up in the air.
Now drop the rock. How fast is it going when it hits the ground?
The same thing is true for a rock falling from space, but more so. Regardless of initial conditions: if it ever contacts the ground, it will be moving at least 11 kilometers per second.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 5 months ago:
Weak. You want to stop a train quickly, just suplex it.
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 6 months ago:
To be clear, this glassware isn’t for the lab worker, it’s for chiral molecules that are left-handed or right-handed. As explained by famous chemist Walter White. /s
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 7 months ago:
Where are they getting batteries for $115/kWh? Going market rate for LiFePO3 seems to be at least 10 times that.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Yes, they were organic dyes. At the time, those were the only kind. Maybe it’s gotten better over the years.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
This is terrible advice. Writable DVDs degrade quickly, even if they’re stored away from sunlight and heat. Every single one of my burned DVDs from more than s few years back is completely unreadable.
- Comment on My foot found the worst Lego that can be stepped on. 7 months ago:
In this case, I knew it because of a “botanicals” set that I assembled recently.
Those sets use a lot of pieces in creative ways, often in unusual colors. In particularly obscure cases, like this crown or the rose petals that were originally from a car fender, the manual will include a brief trivia callout.
I remembered the callout, and that was enough to find it by keyword on the fan database sites.
- Comment on My foot found the worst Lego that can be stepped on. 7 months ago:
Ah yes, the 39262 minifigure crown, also used as a flower.
