mercano
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- Comment on Pow-- 5 days ago:
The footage of them in full face obscuring costumes, along with the mecha, is mostly straight from various Japanese shows, overdubbed into English. The US production company got Japan to shoot a little bit of extra content when Mighty Morphin Power Rangers became a smash hit, before they started rotating to other Japanese series to take footage from. You can make more money off of the toys, anyway, if you have new action figures and mechs every year.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 6 days ago:
It’s kind of like Java itself, Sun dropped the leading 1 after 1.4, following it up with Java 5.
- Comment on Bet you didn't know that before Excel, people used Lotus 1-2-3 2 weeks ago:
There’s a long-standing bug in Excel, dating back to the original release, where it thinks 1900 is a leap year. This isn’t a mistake, though, Microsoft coded it this way because Lotus 1-2-3 thought 1900 was a leap year, and they wanted to be compatible so they could import Lotus spread sheets. However, by doing this, they locked themselves in, and they need to continue to have this bug even today to be compatible with old Excel spreadsheets.
- Comment on Baseball 2 weeks ago:
There are also two other ways to see the MLB logo: you’re either looking at the front of a left handed hitter or the back of a right handed hitter.
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing My Time at Sandrock exclusively on my Steam Deck, so controller controls. It’s more focused on crafting instead of farming (you don’t unlock farming until you’re 2-3 in game weeks in), but it’s still very Stardew. I haven’t played the previous game in the series, My Time at Portia, but I understand it takes place in a more fertile area than Sandrock’s desert.
- Comment on Harsh 4 weeks ago:
Make sure to lead your shot. At Apollo velocities, you’ll need to aim where the moon will be at in three days, not where it is right now.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 month ago:
Ah, well, it does have a desktop mode, but it’s Linux + KDE, not Windows. It can probably do what you want, but it would be some adjustment to the new environment.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 1 month ago:
+1 on the Steam Deck train. I’ve been in the hospital the last few days, it’s been a godsend, playing Silksong between doctor visits.
You can get a dock if you want a full sized monitor or a real mouse & keyboard. The deck also has two trackpads, which is sufficient for slower mouse games like city builders while in handheld mode.
Because Valve is selling a lot of Decks, game developers are starting to use it as a watermark for low-end performance when tuning their games.
I will admit the Deck’s CPU is a few years old, you can probably get a faster portable if you really want, but SteamOS makes things pretty easy. Technically I can drop the Deck into desktop mode with a Linux KDE environment, but I can’t remember the last time I had to. Maybe when I was trying Minecraft?
- Comment on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes | Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
20 years on (yes, 20), that opening theme still gets me hyped up. I was really expecting the Battlestar to jump away from the missile in the last shot.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 months ago:
Made from vegetarian cows.
- Comment on Incident 2 months ago:
If you took the highlighter tool and changed the color to black, it may default to semitransparent. It’s useful if you’re trying to highlight something in fluorescent yellow.
- Comment on Incident 2 months ago:
That’s not a very good job of redacting the names. The boxes aren’t fully opaque, I can read the names through them.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 months ago:
Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 3 months ago:
Spider-Man: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 months ago:
Yeah. Line 3 used different rolling stock than the other three lines, unusual linear induction motor powered equipment, which was reaching the end of its service life. The plan was to shut it down in November 2023 and temporarily replace it with bus service while they built a Line 2 extension to serve the neighborhoods Line 3 used to. Unfortunately, a train derailed in July 2023, which resulted in the system shutting down four months sooner than expected.
The Line 2 extension is going to take a different route to eventually arrive at Line 3’s old terminus. I think there’s plans to covert the old line 3 viaduct into a Bus Rapid Transit guideway.
- Comment on Security vulnerability on U.S. trains that let anyone activate the brakes on the rear car, was known for 13 years — operators refused to fix the issue until now 3 months ago:
The big railroads are laser focused on short term profits these days, to the detriment of long-term investment and public safety. A fix would probably require updating or replacing the Head of Train transceiver on every locomotive, and that’s not good for quarterly dividends.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 3 months ago:
As if increasing bicycle throughput isn’t increasing vehicle throughput. They’re vehicles, and can probably achieve a higher passenger density than individual cars can on a city street.
- Comment on Project Hail Mary - Trailer 4 months ago:
There’s also Artemis, a thriller set on a lunar colony. A little less science than The Martian or Hail Mary, but still fun.
- Comment on Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads? 4 months ago:
I think the Switch would be the better example, where up, down, left, and right are four distinct buttons, to be used like ABXY when playing in single Joycon multiplayer mode.
- Comment on What is the canonical version of STVI? 4 months ago:
Of the TOS movies, the even ones are great, the odd ones are much weaker.
- Comment on The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can 4 months ago:
It’s better, but 12’ 4” is still lower than usual, so it still snags some trucks that blow through the warning lights.
- Comment on "I Took Every American Airlines “Flight” That’s Actually a Bus" 4 months ago:
It’s a requirement, as you board / unload on the airside. The one upside is you can do security at a smaller airport like Allentown, bus to a bigger airport like Philly, and unload airside to transfer to a jet.
- Comment on I got a feeling.. 4 months ago:
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Welsh.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 4 months ago:
Could also be thinking of Integrated Development Environment, the program software developers spend most of their days using. (Combining a text editor, file manager, compiler, and debugger.)
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 4 months ago:
The IDE standard was used to connect hard drives and optical drives in from the late 80’s to the mid 00’s. Also known as ATA, it was renamed Parallel ATA when its successor, Serial ATA (SATA) came onto the scene.
- Comment on Challenges accepted. 5 months ago:
I was just thinking more could go spectacular wrong with a pressurized cylinder of propane vs a bag of charcoal.
- Comment on Challenges accepted. 5 months ago:
I’m assuming this is a gas grill, and the lawyers made them include this after some drunks blew themselves up or burned the deck down.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project 5 months ago:
Specifically, this is on the Fredric Douglas Tunnel project in Baltimore, an attempt to replace an 150 year old tunnel that’s become a major bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor.
- Comment on ‘Bridgerton’ Nicola Coughlan Slams HBO ‘Harry Potter’ Project: “Wouldn’t Touch It With A Pole” 6 months ago:
Bridgerton? She’ll always be a Derry Girl to me.
Rowling’s tweet makes me if she’s authorizing a remake to try to spite movie trio’s actors, who have gone against her on trans rights issues.
- Comment on Important information about compatibility of Nintendo Switch games with Nintendo Switch 2 7 months ago:
It also makes upgrading cheaper, though your little brother playing as Player 2 will have to suffer through having an inferior controller. (As is tradition.)