Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo
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@NeighborhoodButcher said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
I can't tell shit from any image. Is that good or bad?
Good. It means that you can't get your brain infected by corpse-rat advertising as easily.
Oh, wait, you wanted to know what stores are in that shopping mall? Too bad.
Yeah, even I think this is a bad design, and I want to ban store signs outright (because I'm crazy like that). This is a case of something being the worst of all worlds, really.
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@ScholRLEA said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
I want to ban store signs outright (because I'm crazy like that)
I can get behind that. Especially when city council starts taking bribes (sorry, I meant bribes) to break every sinage bylaw on the books and allow this:
http://i.imgur.com/DMMsnKL.png
That's a 40' high LED screen. It's full motion. And it's bright enough to blind me at nighttime. I literally cannot drive in that area at night. Oh, and it's also in the middle of a residential area. If I was a younger man, I would organize weekly paintball attacks on that fucker. I know the town's sign bylaws. It's 100% illegal. But there is magically an exception for it.
And you can bet ad space on it is very, very expensive. Because it's adjacent (but not in) a very affluent area.
Fuck signs.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
I literally cannot drive in that area at night.
I literally do not have a driving license.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
But there is magically an exception for it.
Those things seem to be either banned by a harder-to-flout law or at least really uncommon in the UK. I can't recall seeing any at all despite there being some places which would be ideal. (There are a few places where there are very large screens about, but they're right in the middle of cities and mostly don't carry advertising; sponsored content yes, outright ads no.)
I guess our annoying zoning laws aren't all badā¦
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@tufty said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
admittedly, that's pretty much the worst outlier ever, but hey.
I don't go past anything like that, not on either an every-day or even an occasional basis. There's a few large animated signs about in the centre of Manchester that are visible from roads, but they're running actual content.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Plus the color, size and position are all consistent across all traffic lights.
This isn't true. I've seen traffic lights where the lights were side by side not one above the other. (In Albany, New York, near the Capitol buildings, if you must know.)
And of course the sequence of lights isn't the same everywhere. The UK has a red-amber phase when going from red to green(1), and of course the US doesn't, and nor does either France or Spain.
(1) In best "Starman" fashion: "red, stop. green, go. yellow, go very fast. red and yellow, go now quickly before it turns green!"
And we shall not discuss the ones with multiple green lights, usually with arrows on them; nor the occasional ones with a red arrow alongside a red round; nor the French ones with a red + shaped light on the back; nor any question of where, relative to the junction, the lights are placed - opposite side on rigid poles (UK, some in the US), same side on rigid poles (France), or even on long poles or suspension cables above the middle of the junction.
Apart from all those things where they are different, yes, the colour, size, and position are consistent across all traffic lights.
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Oh, and regarding the thread title:
The dildo should be marked. It should be marked "Louisville Slugger".
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
long poles above the middle of the junction
You see those sometimes in the UK, but only rarely as they're a bit more expensive to maintain.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
This isn't true. I've seen traffic lights where the lights were side by side not one above the other. (In Albany, New York, near the Capitol buildings, if you must know.)
Where I live the red light on horizontal traffic lights should as per regulations be consistently to the left of the green light, but Google images show me plenty of counter-examples. I'm not so invested in this as to investigate whether those are in parts of the world where you drive on the left-side of the road, but there's this:
iOS 9.3: http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/d0/07/d0075d0b0b39afc6acf1b3a870cc100e.png
Android 6.0.1: http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/bf/e6/bfe6700614e348e81095cff77a0f7d8b.png
Windows 10: http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/f3/b3/f3b3d5e4fd8170f2b898069ab1c694fd.png
Facebook: http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/8a/61/8a61e7646010f4d80fadf424690b8d0d.png6 emojis in that page with the green light on the left vs 4 with the red light on the left. (though Android's a bit bluish in my eyes)
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@Zecc said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
though Android's a bit bluish in my eyes
It's not 'a bit bluish', it's actually blue
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@RaceProUK I've had some discussions with people on whether a given color was green or blue, which is why I put it like that.
There's a kind of violet flower* I can see as "blue" or "purple" depending on which eye I close.
*It happens with actual violets too, sometimes.
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@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
What was your reaction when you found out the Dwarf Fortress logo has more colors than the logo for @Lorne-Kates's shopping mall stores?
hmm... let's see if i can recall five seconds ago.......
ah yes. that's what it was.
Dwarf fortress has a logo?! huh... TIL.
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@RaceProUK It's
#40C0E7
, to be pendantic. So sort of turquoise?
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@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
Poop.
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@dkf said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
turquoise
I always thought you were male, now I'm not so sure.
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I just noticed the "default" traffic light emoji in here is horizontal:
If you want it vertical you have to tell it explicitly:
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Apart from all those things where they are different, yes, the colour, size, and position are consistent across all traffic lights.
And their core, the lights are standardized. Or at the very least, there's a consistent framework they're working off of.
The basic three colours of the lights is the same. Go, slow, stop. There are extra variations-- turn lights (though they are still green), amber-green-- but there's no purple lights. There's no place where green means stop and red means go. * Caveat: I'm talking sane places. There might be somewhere in North Koreastan where "polkadot donkey" means go, but we're ignoring them.
The order of lights is the same. Some may have used sideways ones (I've seen those in New York and Michigan before-- no idea why they do that). But the order is still the same. You could flip them on their side (or a regular light on its side). The order doesn't suddenly switch to "yellow on the bottom, green on top, red in the middle". The lights aren't in a triangle pattern. And the lights aren't all combined together into a single tri-color LED. The relative position and ordering is the same and consistent.
The size of all the lights is more or less the same, because a fuckton of knowledge exists to prove what the optimal size of the light is to best be visible by the human eye. The lights are the height they are, and the size they are, because trigonometry says so-- not some middle-manager's "wouldn't it look nice if they were eye level so the lead driver could see them better" guess.
Some lights have add-on features that provide extra functions. Advance green (flashing green light), or turn signals, or segregated left-turn lanes, or countdown-to-amber, or any other number of features. But they are all well documented-- both in terms of driver's courses AND usually some sort of sinage next to the light. Any light I've seen with advance or turn signals also has an sign that says so. "Advance green when flashing". Or "Left Turn Signal". And since they all fall within the same established framework-- again, you aren't going to have a spinning purple arrow above the red light to indicate left turn-- they're self-documenting, provide little to no surprise or confusion.
Compare to literally any website, where between two pages you can have a button that does the same thing-- but it's a different size, shape, position, color and label.
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@Zecc said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
6 emojis in that page with the green light on the left vs 4 with the red light on the left. (though Android's a bit bluish in my eyes)
I wonder if it has to do with the left-to-right reading of the country involved, or the left-hand vs. right-hand driving.
Of course, that is why you can transfer your driver's license between some countries, but not others without re-certifying....
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@Captain said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Not QR codes. Chinese.
Chinese calligraphy is, at least, visually pleasing. Unlike bar-codes and their lookalikes.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Plus the color, size and position are all consistent across all traffic lights.
This isn't true. ā¦
Apart from all those things where they are different, yes, the colour, size, and position are consistent across all traffic lights.And don't forget in Japan they are red, yellow and blue (though, apparently, they sometimes use green too).
@Zecc said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
(though Android's a bit bluish in my eyes)
Actually, it should be blue, because Emoji are a Japanese thing, ain't they?
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@Bulb said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
And don't forget in Japan they are red, yellow and blue (though, apparently, they sometimes use green too).
TIL
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@Zecc the blue colour is actually better than green, because red-green colour blindness is more common than red-blue one. But I believe they are nevertheless switching to green to be consistent with the rest of the world.
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@r10pez10 Is that from drive-on-left or drive-on-right place? It first looked weird to me, because the bike lane is normally on the side, so to the right, but in drive-on-left area it makes perfect sense.
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@Bulb The design looks very similar to the design of British traffic lights, and we drive on the left side of the road; can't say for sure though if it is definitely a British set of lights.
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@asdf said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
I always thought you were male, now I'm not so sure.
It's a (sort of light-ish) blue to me, but I know what colour it is exactly because I looked it up. I've got software for such things. :)
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@RaceProUK said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
can't say for sure though if it is definitely a British set of lights.
Probably not. The cyclist indicators would likely be more visually separated.
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@RaceProUK Australian.
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@loopback0 Had a feeling if it wasn't the UK, it'd be one of the colonies
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@dkf said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@RaceProUK It's
#40C0E7
, to be pendantic. So sort of turquoise?I don't like turquoise. What else do we have?
Teal? Cyan? DeepSkyBlue? Aqua? DodgerBlue? LightSeaGreen? RoyalBlue? SteelBlue? DarkSlateBlue? Cadet? Cornflower? AquaMarine? Powder? Alice? Azure? SkyBlue? DarkCyan?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
The lights aren't in a triangle pattern. And the lights aren't all combined together into a single tri-color LED.
Not on roads. Railways do use different number of bulbs, triangle patterns, and colour switchers.
@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
The size of all the lights is more or less the same
Some countries have red larger than other colours. Size may also depend on location - lights meant for cars may be larger than lights meant for cyclists or pedestrians.
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@PleegWat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Not on roads. Railways do use different number of bulbs, triangle patterns, and colour switchers.
And airplanes use different signals too. :/
@PleegWat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Some countries have red larger than other colours.
That's been my experience in all places I've seen traffic lights. The red light is the biggest because it has to be the most visible because it's the one that keeps the most people from dying if ignored.
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@NeighborhoodButcher said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
I can't tell shit from any image. Is that good or bad?
It's bad if someone asks you to determine whether something is shit or an image.
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@PleegWat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Not on roads. Railways do use different number of bulbs, triangle patterns, and colour switchers.
Well, firstly railroad engineers are thoroughly educated (and tested for color-blindness). Usually they are not even allowed to drive on a random piece of track, before they have learned (under supervision) the locations and intricacies of the signals along that particular section of the railroad.
And secondly, in countries like the Netherlands and Germany there have been reforms to make the signals more consistent. No color switchers anymore, no combinations of colors anymore, preferably just the red/yellow/green from the regular traffic signals (with some modifications, such as the meaning of yellow and the addition of numerical speed indicators to account for the longer brake distance).
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@r10pez10 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Looks like it's winking and blowing a kiss.
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@Grunnen said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
And secondly, in countries like the Netherlands and Germany there have been reforms to make the signals more consistent. No color switchers anymore, no combinations of colors anymore, preferably just the red/yellow/green from the regular traffic signals (with some modifications, such as the meaning of yellow and the addition of numerical speed indicators to account for the longer brake distance).
The UK has done similar things. The only combination light used is double yellow, which means that the next light is a single yellow (and the one after a red). It's not used on all lines; just the higher-speed ones. I don't think there's any of the old signalling system left (outside shunting yards and other very low-speed sections) though that's definitely a change within the past 15 years or so. It took ages for all the ratty old rubbish to be replacedā¦
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Is this the thread where we discuss traffic lights?
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The southern German city of Augsburg has installed traffic lights on the pavement so that pedestrians looking down at a smartphone won't miss the indication that it's unsafe to cross.
If they're too busy on Bookface or Twotter to notice a massive great frickin' road with huge steel boxes doing 30mph on it, how to they expect them to notice a few fairy lights covered in dogshit and Mars bar wrappers?
Don't want to be run over? Put. The. Fucking. Phone. Away.
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@RaceProUK Natural selection FTW.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg They have those lights in more cities, and they're actually helpful. It's hard not to pay attention to them, even if you're distracted (doesn't necessarily have to be a smartphone). Plus, they look nice.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Is this the thread where we discuss traffic lights?
Can't read the article. They block adblocker.
I say let natural selection do its thing!!
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@dcon said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
They block adblocker.
NOREPRO with Vivaldi+Adblock.
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@asdf Well, I'd prove it, but I just got a "Error Forbidden" when trying to upload the 266KB image... (Firefox)
![0_1461694821778_image.png](Uploading 100%)
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@dcon Ben just restarted NodeBB, which probably caused your error.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg
Now if we could somehow power these build in traffic lights with build in solar panels we would be getting somewhere!
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@Luhmann Just put the solar panels in the road?
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@loopback0 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Just put the solar panels in the road?
Why didn't anyone thought of this before! Splendid idea! It's also perfect inline with a flat and minimalistic design