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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 28, 2022, 07:50:08 am »
Quote from: voliol on April 28, 2022, 07:24:46 am
What is a drill’s lifetime in the first place? If the battery is separable, shouldn’t it be a mostly mechanical device with minimal decay if not used? Or do changing standards for wall plugs or drill heads force the consumption of new drills?
Eh, they rust and whatnot without much difficulty. You can use one for well over a decade if it's decently built, but they can also break or wear down pretty quickly, even if you're taking okay care of it. Just depends.

Quote from: Il Palazzo on April 28, 2022, 07:14:38 am
I'm always wary of such numbers. They look plausible at a first glance, but then you start asking yourself how this could ever be measured with any degree of reliability.
I'unno, if it's off it's probably not by a huge amount? If it's just driving screws that generally takes like a literal second, if that, so that 3 minute upper bound is in practice talking nearly 200 screws took care of over the course of the drill's use. It can take a while to have that many screws needing to be drove in. General household use isn't going to be actually running the drill very long, I don't think.

Most of the other uses generally just take a few more seconds, too. They're pretty damn efficient devices in terms of run time.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 28, 2022, 07:10:52 am »
Quote from: martinuzz on April 28, 2022, 06:26:07 am
Sometimes simple numbers about wastefulness are stunning.

Take for instance, the drill.
The average drill bought by people to drive a screw somewhere is used.... 0-3 minutes of it's total lifetime. The rest of it's life it's left to gather dust in storage.

Private ownership of household powertools should be banned. Rent the darn things for the few times you need to use them.
Eeehh... I don't think it's quite that simple? You're discounting the extra time involved with renting, I'd say, suggesting that to get more use out of a drill, we should add 20+ minutes or more to every issue where it's needed, on top of an unexpected cost (which likely wouldn't be particularly cheap) and whatnot. You'd be adding a great deal of other sorts of waste to mitigate one sort, on top of adding that much more potential problems in regards to loss during transit and whatnot and probably making things even worse on the tool access front for poorer areas.

There might be something there for communal tool access, but renting would be a staggeringly shit method for it and there'd be pretty serious implementation issues in regards to unequal access.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you laugh today: 1223237 views lol
« on: April 27, 2022, 09:58:33 pm »
I'unno, I hear it's transitioning folks dragons need to worry about. I'm told many of 'em eat spiro regularly :P

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 27, 2022, 05:19:18 pm »
News I could find on it suggests the amount of people actually effected was less than 1% of the folks using the carriers involved... something like 40k people in a relevant area larger than paris? Reports seem to be saying there wasn't a huge effect in terms of actual impact, due to available redundancies and whatnot.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: April 26, 2022, 07:29:46 pm »
Pretty sure it's millennials -> gen x -> wait no gen x -> millennials -> gen z

They're apparently calling what's after z gen alpha, according to quick google.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 26, 2022, 05:49:19 pm »
Starting to read something* I saw mentioned elsewhere, a few chapters in and they casually mention property management companies having main battle tanks.

And I'm just like.

HOA equivalents having an armor division is possibly the most dystopian proposition I've read in years. Holy hell.

*Title is Oh My God! Earthlings are Insane!

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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: April 26, 2022, 01:25:19 pm »
I thought that thing looked RPGmaker, but couldn't find explicit mention on the store page. It's the gameplay's kludgy or whatever, that's probably to blame, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: April 26, 2022, 01:15:08 pm »
Not just carry, a lot of us participate in interlibrary loan systems, so if there's something you're after that's not on the shelves, we can get it in from somewhere else. Might take a bit to show up, but it's pretty likely to show up eventually.

I haven't called in manga, yet, but I did get in an old TMNT comic book a bit back, and I've occasionally scoped out what's available (basically everything particularly well known is available, and what isn't can be requested from outside our immediate system if it comes to it). Between the entire library systems of significant chunks of the planet, odds are good somethin' can be arranged :P

One secret to library collections, though: They tend to grow based on what people are using. Much easier to read circulation data than patron's minds. The more you check out and request manga, the more they're probably going to carry. Hint hint, heh.

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General Discussion / Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« on: April 25, 2022, 10:49:05 pm »
Recommendations for what, twitter replacements? As far as I'm aware they're all basically twitter, but worse.

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General Discussion / Re: If Bay12 had a Spaceship, what would it look like?
« on: April 25, 2022, 01:15:34 pm »
As with all internet spaces, it would probably end up a giant rocket dong. B12's contribution would be to have it spew magma somewhere appropriate.

I'd find time to stick a hypnotoad sticker on it somewhere.

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Other Games / Re: Oooohhhhhhh, Elden Ring. Bay12 Group Password: MAGMA
« on: April 25, 2022, 01:08:20 pm »
Quote from: nenjin on April 25, 2022, 12:18:33 am
But after all the extra this game has, I figured they'd have done more with the endings. Like shown the effect your choice had in a few areas of the world, even just visually. Had a visual effect related to your ending in the post-game walk around skybox. Hell, even some NPC commentary of....any kind? But nope.
Uh, possible spoilers here, but how many of the endings have you seen? Some of them do some of that, I think? The
Spoiler: ending spoiler is spoiler (click to show/hide)
one is fairly visually spectacular, if not super lengthy or whatever.

E: It's weird, but I think if like the entire OST of this game was replaced with like old big band/swing jazz (stuff like this) it'd make for an awesome experience. Maybe as an optional mode or somethin'. One of the playthroughs I've been watching, I've started running that in the background, kinda' low, enough you can hear it but not overpowering the in-game sounds and, like. It's pretty great? More games need a speakeasy mode or somethin' like that.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: April 24, 2022, 08:25:57 pm »
Eehhh... I'unno about that. They weren't exactly amazing twenty years ago, either. Plenty of places they've mostly gotten better relative to back then, just... not better enough, ha.

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General Discussion / Re: Have you ever used the :kiss: emoticon?
« on: April 23, 2022, 08:16:40 pm »
Quote from: Kilojoule Proton on April 23, 2022, 06:07:22 pm
This one: :-*
Pretty sure only accidentally. I mostly use  :P and  :-\, with  ::), :(, :D, and :'( at some distant vaguely second place.

Sadly, if there's a way to search the forum for emoticons to check, the three or four seconds I took checking couldn't find it.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 23, 2022, 07:32:28 am »
Quote from: Telgin on April 22, 2022, 11:40:11 pm
Does anyone have a simple summary of what the actual consequences are for Disney and Florida as a whole if this goes through?  I read that there are existing laws that may make it easy for Disney to fight this, and saw something about Florida tax payers being on the hook for $1 billion as a result, but I'm not really sure I follow how or why.
The $1 billion dollar thing specifically is the tax district in question's bonds, from what I understand. If the district dissolves, those get passed on to the state, so... florida taxpayers ultimately end up with the bill. Dissolving the district like a dumbshite instead of rearranging things more gracefully also means the 100 million-ish annual tax revenue it's currently generating on top of its other tax obligations just goes poof, with whatever it was paying for getting dumped on some part of the state gov't, most likely the (heavily democratic) local districts.

For all disney's kind of an asshole overall, make no mistake, this is pretty certain to end up shitting on a lot of people that's not them (and especially not their decision makers)... which, y'know, GOP being GOP is probably part of the point, the hateful shitsacks.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 22, 2022, 11:31:33 pm »
Quote from: martinuzz on April 22, 2022, 10:40:03 pm
Disney's special status in Florida has been revoked by the govenrnor, because they protested against the 'don't say gay' regulations.


In b4 Disney's Snowwhite and the 7 gay dwarves protest anime.
Hell, they didn't even protest so much as cut political donations across the board instead of getting involved when folks noticed they were lining the pockets of some of the scumshit bigots supporting the bill in question.

Retribution for cutting back on the bribes was good enough for the GOP.

... though disney kinda' sucks, so there's definite "let them fight" vibes. If there's a problem (well, other than it being deshitis and co doing it, which is generally problem enough in practice), it's that the repercussions of this is more likely to directly damage folks in the area surrounding disney than disney itself, so.

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