Routhinator
@Routhinator@startrek.website
- Comment on So close! 7 hours ago:
Many people have FODMAP sensitivities and confuse them for gluten.
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 1 week ago:
I still have my original PS3. Had to replace the hardrive once.
Still have the Wii, which had a bad disk reader in the first 30 days. I had to send it to the repair shop in Toronto and they had it fixed and back to me within 48 hours for free.
My first XBox 360 lasted 2 days past it’s 1 year warranty date and died. Disk drive thought everything was a DVD. MS wanted $100 for repairs plus shipping. I bought a used 360 instead for $80. That one also died 1 year later, red ring. Next one I bought a replacement, one of the lower end models. Lasted 10 days past the 1 year warranty… Then thought everything was a DVD… This keeps going. By the time 2016 rolled around I had gone through 10 of those pieces of shit. I finally gave up on the games I liked on that system, and I’ve never bought a new MS system since. I honestly wonder what their true sales were if you deduped it by removing replacements from their tally.
I have my original PS2, PS3, PS4, GameCube, SNES, Wii, Switch.
There are quality gaming consoles out there, and then there’s whatever the fuck MS spews onto the market.
- Comment on When you see danger coming 2 weeks ago:
A tale of how a plastic eating bacteria moonlighted as a flesh eating one.
- Comment on ඞ 2 weeks ago:
Haha, nice.
- Comment on ඞ 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft pulls the plug on Bing Search APIs 2 weeks ago:
Well, that will mess with DuckDuckGo, won’t it?
- Comment on Finally a map to show me 3 weeks ago:
C is for Canada.
- Comment on Oh god 3 weeks ago:
Well… it’s a door. At least my ass will be closed for business after that.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I LOVE POTATO SALAD 5 weeks ago:
Yes, good points. I didn’t mean they were exclusive or invented in north america, more that the concept of viewing mayo as a required part of a meat/starch based salad is a very NA perspective.
- Comment on I LOVE POTATO SALAD 5 weeks ago:
Nah, Germans have a delicious hot potato salad with no mayo, mayo salads are a North American thing. The French have a potato salad with no mayo as well.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
I’m not trolling. This is simply not an illusion.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
Ok those rooms are certainly illusions. My mind was tricked and even after reading how they work I still cannot quite see how when I watch the video. A perfect illusion.
I still wouldn’t call the post for this thread an illusion as there is no trick, just pure perspective. You simply tilt your phone, you see what is happening, and you understand it because its basic physics you were taught in elementary.
This is like the amateur magician. A trickster that knows a few party tricks but is so bad at executing them they are no illusionist. But a master magician uses simple things like perspective and skill to create tricks that are such great illusions that the scientific mind cannot quite work out what has really just happened even though they know it’s a trick. This post is the amateur magician, the Ames room is the master. Both use perspective but in different ways on different levels.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
There is nothing erroneous about this perception.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
I have no context for this example, have a link? I’ve seen the crazy kitchen at the Museum of Science and Tech in Ottawa that has a similarly themed illusion, but in that one the floors are level but painted in a way that tricks your brain into thinking its angled, but its not, which is 100% illusion.
Thus what I am imagining for your example is that the floor is in fact angled, but the paint makes it look straight, so the short person is infact elevated above the tall person in a way you cannot tell, creating an effect where perspective due to a physical difference makes you think they are on the same level but the illusion provided by the floor messes with that, creating an illusion that is really just perspective.
But there is no trick in this post. You know you’re tilting the phone, there’s no illusion. Its pure angles and you’re completely aware of what is occuring, thus no illusion. The definition of illusion is pretty clear, what you are seeing must be false or erroneous.
noun
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An erroneous perception of reality.
“Mirrors gave the illusion of spaciousness.”
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An erroneous concept or belief.
“The notion that money can buy happiness is an illusion.” 3. The condition of being deceived by a false perception or belief.
“spent months flailing about in illusion.”
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- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
Haha, ok I can agree with that take.
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
Illusion is seeing something that isn’t there. They can be caused by multiple factors be it one affecting the observer or one that arises from the subject being observed.
This demonstrates perspective and at no point do you see something that is not there. The text is there, it says the same thing. It does not appear to move or distort but rather as you tilt the phone the same light is viewed from a narrower height due to angles and it can be read as though it is not stretched.
An optical illusion makes you see something that simply does not exist, for example this picture that makes you think you see red in spite of there being jo red at all. popularmechanics.com/…/theres-not-a-single-red-pi…
- Comment on woag 1 month ago:
Is perspective really considered an “illision”? While this demonstrates perspective it at no point makes me see something that isn’t real.
- Comment on Wizardry 1 month ago:
Squid or Cthulu Snail?
- Comment on Trump announces 90-day tariff pause for at least some countries 1 month ago:
Lack of respect China has had for global markets?! What a self-unaware egostical asshat.
- Comment on This is a shit post. 1 month ago:
Assume spherical poo in a vaccuum.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
He’s going to make potato chip resistors to get the right number of course.
- Comment on When I finish a delicious bowl of Malt-O-Meal® cereal [Day 89] 2 months ago:
Huh… as a Canadian Ive only ever had Cream of Wheat and Red River cereal. Never heard of Malt O Meal
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 2 months ago:
Guilty Canadian Admission:
In my teens I lived in Brockville Ontario near Ogdensburg New York and watched a lot of US channels. The Star Spangled Banner came on at the beginning of the broadcast day for some channels.
For many years, I thought the first line was “Jose can you see”
- Comment on Checking in 4 months ago:
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Anon degoogles his Samsung 4 months ago:
Wow. In Canada you cannot get prescription renewals any other way
- Comment on Anon degoogles his Samsung 4 months ago:
I’d rather use SMS than sign my rights over to Meta. They can use that if they can use facebook or whatsapp.
- Comment on Anon degoogles his Samsung 4 months ago:
I just don’t communicate with anyone that insists on using products that have user agreements I don’t agree with. The amount of bullshit user agreements are getting overloaded with makes them dangerous legal contracts that can have serious implications on your rights. Just ask the family whose daughter died at a Disney theme park and when they tried to sue Disney tried to force them to arbitration because their son had tried Disney+
- Comment on Boxing Day Status Update 5 months ago:
Hmm, interesting. Looking it up on Wikipedia it seems the entomology of the term is a bit of a grey area.
My definition is what I heard growing up, admittedly this is one of those things I never bothered to read about.
