MajorasMaskForever
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- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 1 day ago:
Uhhhhhh did you watch the video?
He goes to great lengths to point out that it isn’t an efficiency problem, and despite US residential standard outlets being 120VAC dedicated electric kettles are still the fastest way to boil water given other appliances (though induction cooktops are closing the gap).
The biggest reason dedicated electric kettles are not popular in the US is because we’re either boiling water for cooking some meal (pot is already on the stove so why bother with another appliance) or we’re making coffee. And the vast majority of coffee makers over here have the exact same circuitry and heating elements as an electric kettle. It’s just not standalone
- Comment on You've got to stick up for the little guy 1 week ago:
That’s why there’s a Minecraft port on the Switch and the new Donkey Kong game has you blasting through rocks with your virtual monkey hands
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 month ago:
Reaction time
In the US, using a cord like this will either be harmless or create effectively a dead short. Typical breakers will catch the latter but it will take tenths of a second for a breaker to react in which time the electricity could kill someone.
Depending on circuit conditions a GFCI might intervene as well, they’re typically faster at reacting (needing a few milliseconds) but for a cable designed to handle full residential power, it’s still enough to kill a person in that small window of time
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 7 months ago:
Partially agree. The series as a whole fully agree, game by game is iffy
XC1 can absolutely stand alone and really needs you to go in blind
XCFC doesn’t make sense without having played XC1
XC2 again can stand alone but you’ll catch some story stuff sooner if you’d played XC1
XCTTGC makes no sense without XC2
XC3 is this bizzaro mess I’m still not sure what the fuck happened but I think it does need XC1 and 2 background knowledge
XCFR retains XC3 heavy reliance on the previous games, but cranked up to levels that makes the Star Wars sequels seem almost reasonable
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 7 months ago:
How dare you, you forgot the Ardanian soldier. He was very specific and clear
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 7 months ago:
As embedded dev, the stack trace alone scares me. It would be funny to watch the Java runtime blow the 8 frame deep stack on a PIC18 tho
- Comment on Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise 1 year ago:
They were doing the breast they can 😒
- Comment on Flat Earth is so yesterday 1 year ago:
I’m not really feeling it
- Comment on What Star Trek Mannerism or Phrase Do You Often Use 1 year ago:
I’m a big fan of “Find him and kill him!” along with “Death to the opposition”.
So many great Worf quotes from DS9