Random thought of the day
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Give me your wallet or I'll breathe on you!
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
I have an idea of what the "word of the year" could be.
Alas, not "impeachment".
Phrase of the year could be, "Attempted coup".
Is this garage-y? I have no idea what you're referring to, am I missing something?
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@topspin said in Random thought of the day:
Is this garage-y?
Probably. Maybe ask in the "Trump Bites" thread?
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Because of panicked overbuying of toilet tissue by hoarders, the first symptom that will begin to appear in even those uninfected with coronavirus is skid marks in the underpants.
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@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
And fries are boiled (in hot fat).
It's called deep frying. Boiling means water (or things similar to water, such as milk).
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@da-Doctah Found on social media:
I know why people are buying so much toilet paper: when one person coughs, 20 other shit their pants!
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@remi They need all the toilet paper because they're huge assholes.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
because they're
hyuge assholes.
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If GitHub is acquiring all of NPM, it's going to take them ages to download it all!
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
And fries are boiled (in hot fat).
It's called deep frying. Boiling means water (or things similar to water, such as milk).
Correct. It's people attacking a castle who get boiled in oil.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
If GitHub is acquiring all of NPM, it's going to take them ages to download it all!
How many packages in npm don't have their source code hosted on github already?
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
If GitHub is acquiring all of NPM, it's going to take them ages to download it all!
How many packages in npm don't have their source code hosted on github already?
Reading WTF bites, found one:
Repo is
404
. But it allegedly used to be.
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@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
And fries are boiled (in hot fat).
It's called deep frying. Boiling means water (or things similar to water, such as milk).
Correct. It's people attacking a castle who get boiled in oil.
Too to sort through dozens of videos right now and find the specific one, but in one of his many talks about real-life castles, Shad Brooks mentions that basically they'd never waste a resource as valuable as oil by pouring it on invaders; boiling water works just fine and is far easier to replace.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
@boomzilla said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@PleegWat said in Random thought of the day:
And fries are boiled (in hot fat).
It's called deep frying. Boiling means water (or things similar to water, such as milk).
Correct. It's people attacking a castle who get boiled in oil.
Too to sort through dozens of videos right now and find the specific one, but in one of his many talks about real-life castles, Shad Brooks mentions that basically they'd never waste a resource as valuable as oil by pouring it on invaders; boiling water works just fine and is far easier to replace.
@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
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I think Interspecies Reviewers has given me the mental image that @error is a hobbit.
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Has someone actually told Batman that most people aren't really afraid of bats?
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@anonymous234 At least, until they end up setting off a global pandemic...
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It's like 1918 all over again.
Or should that be 1347?
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Saying "daddy" in a sexual context is weird and cringy, but shouldn't saying "baby" be even worse?
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@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
It's like 1918 all over again.
Or should that be 1347?
I think more like 1918. It's not expected to have the same fatality rate as the Black Death.
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@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Saying "daddy" in a sexual context is weird and cringy, but shouldn't saying "baby" be even worse?
It used to be very cringy.
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@jinpa said in Random thought of the day:
It's not expected to have anywhere near the same fatality rate as the Black Death.
I really hate it when people compare COVID-19 to the plague. Seriously, there's no reason to believe that this will get anywhere close to being similar. The plague is estimated to have killed 1/4 of the European population. Comparing that to the maybe very worst case a few percent COVID-19 may do is, frankly, offensive.
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@ixvedeusi said in Random thought of the day:
IThe plague is estimated to have killed 1/4 of the European population. Comparing that to the maybe very worst case a few percent COVID-19 may do is, frankly, offensive.
Emphasis mine. Who are you, the god of the black death?
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@jinpa I find it offensive because IMHO it comparatively belittles the pain and suffering the people had to go through at the time, and inflates the seriousness of the current situation. Comparatively, mind. I really wouldn't want to imply that the deaths and suffering caused by the current pandemic aren't a tragedy, just that that tragedy was way, way worse (at least as far as Europe was concerned).
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Frankly, I'm a little surprised one of our "journalists" hasn't gone (more) off the handle with:
@ixvedeusi said in Random thought of the day:
the pain and suffering the people had to go through at the time
OMG!!! And they're all dead now! 100% mortality.
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I think armpit pads should be considered a normal undergarment, like underpants and socks.
Probably 2/3rds of sweat could be stopped from pointlessly going into shirts.
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My generation is both the first and the last one for whom the most popular video games of their childhood were visually stunning.
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@Gąska How do you figure?
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
Wax off...Wax ON!
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@Applied-Mediocrity this water looks soooooo 2007.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska How do you figure?
I don't know how @Gąska figures, but I figure a large part of it is psychological.
At some point in time even 8 bit art was visually stunning.These days it's like "photorealitisc huh? yeah, it's been done".
For kids born now it's as impressive like, say, a stone sculpture.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
At some point in time even 8 bit art was visually stunning.
Any style (defined broadly enough) can look great. Every single one can look awful too.
I see the most photorealistic images every minute of my life and it's not as if I'm being constantly blown away.
Just more of this encroaching trend where the only good games are the most stringently realistic, which is missing the point of games entirely – utmost realism has never been at all difficult to come by.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska How do you figure?
I don't know how @Gąska figures, but I figure a large part of it is psychological.
At some point in time even 8 bit art was visually stunning.It was a different kind of stun though. It was "whoa, I didn't realize computers are even capable of doing that", not "whoa, this looks much prettier than anything I've ever seen in real life!"
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@Gąska said in Random thought of the day:
@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Random thought of the day:
@Gąska How do you figure?
I don't know how @Gąska figures, but I figure a large part of it is psychological.
At some point in time even 8 bit art was visually stunning.It was a different kind of stun though. It was "whoa, I didn't realize computers are even capable of doing that", not "whoa, this looks much prettier than anything I've ever seen in real life!"
I recall two different walkthroughs for Riven that described the same setting as "a landscape of eerie beauty" and "a blasted-out wasteland".
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@da-Doctah Riven was released in 1997. Edit: and it was cheating, but that's less important.
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Vidya graphics development is defined by several things:
- Nostalgia - why fucking bother if just mentioning Nintendo makes lots of people wet in the knees
- Online Multiplayer - why fucking bother if money printing machine runs on its own
- Uncanny Valley - why fucking bother if it's not even possible
Also, regarding nostalgia for old times: I wonder how nobody thinks 96kbps MP3s encoded with 1999 version of LAME are super artsy? Perhaps like with E.T. vs Krush Groove, time will tell on that one...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder how nobody thinks 96kbps MP3s encoded with 1999 version of LAME are super artsy?
I'm pretty sure there is some equivalent of Rule 34 for music, and such people actually exist somewhere.
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@Applied-Mediocrity You'll take away my chiptune music from my cold dead ears.
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@Zecc said in Random thought of the day:
@Applied-Mediocrity You'll take away my chiptune music from my cold dead ears.
Played using foobar exclusive mode at 96k 24-bit through S/PDIF to high-end Onkyo and KRKs, in a room padded with bass traps, so that every bit of blippeti-blop is reproduced perfectly.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Also, regarding nostalgia for old times: I wonder how nobody thinks 96kbps MP3s encoded with 1999 version of LAME are super artsy? Perhaps like with E.T. vs Krush Groove, time will tell on that one...
Yes, this article is from this year.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
Vidya graphics development is defined by several things:
- Nostalgia - why fucking bother if just mentioning Nintendo makes lots of people wet in the knees
- Online Multiplayer - why fucking bother if money printing machine runs on its own
- Uncanny Valley - why fucking bother if it's not even possible
You forgot the most important one:
- Diminishing returns - why fucking bother if you can get a game that doesn't look much worse for quarter of the money.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Random thought of the day:
I wonder how nobody thinks 96kbps MP3s encoded with 1999 version of LAME are super artsy?
If lossless encoding ever becomes the mainstream digital standard, I'm sure people will wax nostalgic for old crap-qualiy MP3s the way they do for records nowadays.
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@hungrier said in Random thought of the day:
If lossless encoding ever becomes the mainstream digital standard again
There were those things called audio CDs...