ericisshort
@ericisshort@lemmy.world
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
He’s been a meme for over 20 years, and I’m a member of society.
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
Same. Are you from 82, 83, or 84?
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
Steve wasn’t the finale of Blue’s Clues, so I don’t think it has to be a series finale. For me in the 90s, I can’t think of any tv shows that made me cry, but i can think of quite a few movies. Over all, My Girl is probably the only one that completely destroyed me emotionally.
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 11 months ago:
I’m a millennial but too old to have ever watched Blue’s Clues, so I couldn’t give two shits when Steve left.
Also, it’s hilarious that this meme completely ignores Gen X.
- Comment on Toes out 11 months ago:
Great, now I’ve got Credence stuck in my head.
- Comment on How many Star Trek fans will see red because they don't see red? 11 months ago:
Is that Kilo’s blade held by Anthony Hopkins?
- Comment on Battlestar Galactica Reboot Moves Forward at Peacock With New Showrunner 11 months ago:
To me, the show went downhill as the mysticism became the focus, so the reboot handling that aspect differently would be an improvement in my mind.
- Comment on local hunger games construction almost complete 11 months ago:
I do, but I was writing from the perspective that it was invented for the Hunger Games.
- Comment on local hunger games construction almost complete 11 months ago:
The shipping containers make it so much more dystopian, and calling it “The People’s Park” is just bad writing, even for schlocky YA fiction.
- Comment on Why are we putting defibrillators in buildings when we should be installing these? 11 months ago:
Towelie approved
- Comment on It's one improvement at least... 11 months ago:
…and ugly. You forgot ugly.
- Comment on The more you know 11 months ago:
Cylinders prefer to be called thicc circles.
- Comment on Strange Game 11 months ago:
Is there a The Ocho community around here yet?
- Comment on Jack Black Levels Up For ‘Minecraft’ At Warner Bros – The Dish 11 months ago:
JB is busy making sure the next generation grows up knowing he rocks.
- Comment on fart silencer is quality shitpost 11 months ago:
I believe “poop shooter” is the preferred nomenclature.
- Comment on fart silencer is quality shitpost 11 months ago:
Those bullets lead me to believe this is a poop silencer.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 11 months ago:
I haven’t seen any obvious astroturfing yet, but your last paragraph really did have the vibe of a smoothly transitioned paid promotion. Not saying it was, but even the comments that you haven’t fully bought into it made it feel even more like one of the more honest paid promotions.
- Comment on Milking machine 11 months ago:
I’d hope they’d at least be in stalls so that I can only see the feet of the dudes getting sucked off on either side of me.
- Comment on Wait until they get to pineapples... 11 months ago:
Slow clap
- Comment on Truly inspirational 11 months ago:
Yes. The Brits still use feet and miles and stone and a few other non-metric measurements at times. In fact, it was our (American) British heritage that got us into the bad habit of using imperial over metric in the first place.
- Comment on My first time playing Cities Skylines 11 months ago:
I completely read/watched the two links you provided (because I’m more interested with learning where I’m wrong than with being right), but it is now clear from your more elaborate reply that you did not even bother. If you had, you’d realize that your first link specifically mentions the exact situation that I called out.
Your wiki link states that the weaving problem “is most prevalent either where the junction designer has placed the on-slip [on-ramp] to the road before the off-slip [exit] at a junction (for example, the cloverleaf interchange), or in urban areas with many close-spaced junctions.” It makes it very clear that the cloverleaf presents just one example of the weaving problem, and the other example mentioned in the same breath is exactly what I presented to you.
Your YouTube link also explains that the smaller the cloverleaf, the more dangerous it is, and it says making the loops larger is better but not always possible because of the amount of land they take up. That’s why I have always noticed smoother weaving at larger cloverleafs like often exist in Texas rather than at a smaller cloverleafs that you often see in dense urban areas like in the northeast or western US.
Your one word answer didn’t make your ignorance clear, but now it is absolutely crystal clear that you either couldn’t be bothered to check your own bias with the links you shared before telling me “no” or you’re just trying to gaslight me in order to troll my downvoted comments.
Either way, whether you like it or not, the evidence you provided proves my point that the weaving problem is not simply a problem with cloverleafs but with all high speed junctions that are close together. It is not an inherent problem with cloverleafs entirely (as you and others have implied ) but rather more a problem when a cloverleaf’s loops are designed to be small with junctions that are close together.
But whatever your intentions, thanks for your links anyway. I did learn something and more than anything, they showed me that I’m already familiar with some of the alternatives to cloverleafs that I had always thought of as “modified cloverleafs.”
- Comment on My first time playing Cities Skylines 11 months ago:
Why not? Please explain how it’s different. I genuinely want to understand.
- Comment on My first time playing Cities Skylines 11 months ago:
But isnt weaving a problem with all exits and on-ramps that are close to one another rather than an issue specifically with cloverleafs? Pretty much every exit/on-ramp combination in dense cities has this same weaving issue even when there’s no cloverleaf implementation.
- Comment on My first time playing Cities Skylines 11 months ago:
Sounds like the danger you’re describing is a problem with all exits and on-ramps since all allow faster traffic to exit and slower traffic to enter the highway. I’m confused as to why it would be worse with cloverleaf as long as all of the exits are right exits. In my head, the dangerous merges are the left side on-ramps since you’re required to merge into the fastest traveling lane.
- Comment on My first time playing Cities Skylines 11 months ago:
Yes, it is more common to have them be in a single direction, but the extra lane and bidirectional traffic doesn’t make it look any less like a leaf of clover.
- Comment on My first time playing Cities Skylines 11 months ago:
Yeah. That’s how cloverleafs look. Is this the first time you’ve ever seen one? In case it is, they’re incredibly common and the most efficient and safe way to allow cars to go all directions without any stoplights at an intersection of two highways.
- Comment on Positive review 1 year ago:
Yeah, how’d they miss SpongeBob? He’s so prominent in every single cartoon.
- Comment on A useless $100-million copy: When they dared to remake ‘Psycho’ 1 year ago:
It’s no longer a joke. It’s SOP.
- Comment on home made soup 1 year ago:
It’s not “coat = arm,” it’s “coat OF arms,” and I could totally some psychopath making a coat out of other people’s arms.
- Comment on ‘Oppenheimer’ Confirmed For Theatrical Release In Japan 1 year ago:
This is kind of surprising news.