frank
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- Comment on i'm gonna need directions 9 hours ago:
You’re right, according to online calcs. But man I can’t remember how to count these myself.
Wanna explain for someone who didn’t have to do much chemistry?
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 4 days ago:
I think the ideal argument is both. Have a grid that’s (at least vast majority) green, and work towards using said green energy to recapture some CO2
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 5 days ago:
My friends and I loved your demo and can’t wait to play the whole release
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 5 days ago:
I love FFT ad FFTA but come on, give us a new one sometime. We’ve had like 10 remakes and ports of FFT
- Comment on Uniquely American 1 week ago:
Surprised to see Japan at ~40
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 weeks ago:
He probably couldn’t explain it well if he didn’t know how to code at all imo
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd 2 weeks ago:
We do a lot of archipelago (A9O as we call it, cuz it’s shorter to write and there’s 9 letters between… Hoping it catches on).
Factorio is a staple in it. Minecraft too!
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 weeks ago:
Denmark checking in, it was like $3 USD for 10 eggs yesterday, and Denmark isn’t cheap
- Comment on Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? 2 weeks ago:
Well there’s lots of ways to measure speed. Some use a worm gear in the transmission, some use a sensor on the wheel hub. But all of them take tire diameter into account, unless you count like GPS, which afaik (though probably some really shitty privacy invading car may prove me wrong) isn’t a thing for speedometers and odometers
So yes, all production cars, I believe.
- Comment on Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? 2 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right!
I don’t know of a single car that it wouldn’t affect, but there could be some using a gps speed instead? Sounds like a bad idea to me
- Comment on Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? 2 weeks ago:
Well, I’d argue it’s not a blanket “no”. I’ve owned 9 crotch rockets and all? Of them had speed sensors on front sprockets. A lot of similar or the same designs within, so surely it’s off ABS rings if they’re newer, but a fair few of them have had speed deviations because of that
- Comment on Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? 2 weeks ago:
Hi! I was a controls engineering in the automotive industry in the US for a while.
Yup. You sure should! Some cars even have tire dimensions and quick selections of winter/summer tires for exactly that. Some cars make it much harder/impossible to do.
Same with motorcycles if you swap sprockets of course (a common modification)
- Comment on It's been years 3 weeks ago:
Fun fun fun fun fun
- Comment on It really is like this 3 weeks ago:
I do feel for you, I know life in the US has gotten much worse recently and I feel that’s accelerating.
I’m not so sure life in China is better per se, but it is different.
I will probably blanket statement this and say life in the EU seems a lot better than in the US now, though with plenty of problems depending on where you go. I say this as someone who left the US for the EU.
- Comment on It really is like this 3 weeks ago:
I lived and worked outside Shanghai for a bit, but it was a while ago and probably has changed a good bit. What makes you think their lives are far better off than those in the states?
Not necessarily disagreeing, but it absolutely was not the case 15 years ago. American life is on a downhill though, zero argument there.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 26th 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s 1.0 now and has a lot of content for the price/dev count
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 26th 3 weeks ago:
Just grabbed Thronefall and have been playing on the Deck a lot. It’s really fun; tower defense meets RTS with great economy. You’re always debating defenses vs scaling and some of the challenges are downright hard
- Comment on Gaming on controller & "typos" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, especially switching between Xbox and Nintendo mapping with A and B swapped
I don’t have a solution, just pain as well
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 4 weeks ago:
We are but I’m gonna have my phone on vibrate cuz I have a shred of self awareness
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
I mean the DS was pretty radical at the time.
I feel like Nintendo does a huge innovation, then an iteration or two(or a bunch of little changes), then back to a big change. Wii/WiiU, GB/GBA, DS/3DS, switch/2
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 5 weeks ago:
“it’s current not voltage that kills you”
High voltage: “Por que no los dos?”
- Comment on The concierge when I check into the love hotel with my waifu pillow [Day 34] 1 month ago:
Ah the link up there, The Room
- Comment on The concierge when I check into the love hotel with my waifu pillow [Day 34] 1 month ago:
Oh man you’re in for a great time.
See if there’s a live showing of it near you. It’s kinda like Rocky Horror Picture Show? Cult classic, lots of audience interaction when shown live. It’s earnestly bad but that’s what makes it good
- Comment on Hubris 1 month ago:
Totally fair!
- Comment on Hubris 1 month ago:
Surely that attachment is significantly stronger than the sidewall. Even if you tried I think you’d just split the sides along the spiral impression and couldn’t launch the top
- Comment on Hubris 1 month ago:
They’re self rising Pillsbury biscuits (or similar). Not what Americans call cookies that Brits call biscuits
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 1 month ago:
I totally get that, I have a few suggestions since I’ve been in the same situation for years and have recently improved it.
Our Yamaha stereo takes many HDMI inputs, and has a single TV output, so the TV never needs to change inputs. It’s quite easy and quick on the Yamaha.
I bought a Raspberry Pi 500 for ~$100 US and am loving it. I think it could use a speed upgrade (I hear the SD card will do it). Of course it’s mouse and keyboard, but we only use it for Netflix, YouTube, etc, so it was easy to make shortcuts and get a small/nice living room keyboard/mouse combo.
It’s led to zero ads, and the household discussion was like “would you trade some ease of use to not see this stupid ad?” And we both agreed that it’s worth it. So far it’s been really nice.
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 2 months ago:
The second Ori game’s story is so good and absolutely had me and my wife bawling during it
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 2 months ago:
Wow, that’s very fast imo. Good for you!
Great randomizer out there for it. And it’s Archipelago compatible so you can mix it in with other randomizers alone or with friends, in case you want more!
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 - Official Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
They also introduced Watcher late. No guarantee the 4 characters here are the only characters
