Another version that can work is if you have two pans where the bases are both say 5mm, but one of them is all steel while the other is 3mm copper welded to 2mm steel, the copper one should heat up faster than the all steel one. No idea how well copper welds to steel though.

I wanted to be in the video game industry when I was younger and followed through with it by learning programming and pretty much everything I could with computers.

But then while I was in university, the story about EA’s working culture broke. How they’d say hours were normal but they might need extra hours during “crunch time”, which sounded reasonable until you learned that they just set deadlines such that it was always crunch time. The partners of EA workers did a class action suit against the company and won it IIRC.

That was enough for me to adjust my trajectory. I realized the suddenly obvious bit: people usually go into the video game industry because they have a passion for video games, which sets them up for exploitation like any other job that many people want to get in to.

I might still make a video game but I never intend to be a peon in the video game industry.

Assuming they changed anything about their ideals and didn’t just think “hey does having this here reduce suspicion as intended or raise it when it begs the question of how a tech company could even be evil when they aren’t named ‘Microsoft’?”

Guess he never saw any of those videos out of China about what escalator failures can look like when they turn into meat grinders instead of stairs.

I’m appalled that you just assume it’s normal for your clothes to rub up against the toilet lid at all or that its position when you flush can make that not gross.

Cooking is all made up anyways. Plus “you wouldn’t put it in a fruit salad” sounds like an argument made up purely to counter the pedantry of bringing up botany definitions. Like the first one (“these are actually fruits/berries!”) seems like fun and interesting while “but you wouldn’t put them in a fruit salad” just seems like a lame one up from someone who needs to get the last word in, like they need to warn people against making tomato pies or some shit where understanding the botany definition is dangerous to cooking.

Based on what I understand about feminine hygiene, probably by wrecking the biome of anyone’s vagina that used it such that they were dependent on Lysol to prevent whatever else moved in from taking over after the Lysol killed the good along with the bad the first time, along with manipulative marketing to trick other women and girls into thinking they need to use it so they use it that one time to build the dependence.

Poor lighting is no laughing matter.

“Unfortunately the dog did not escape during the excitement, which is why the cat was slow cooking the matches in the first place. It does not seemed deterred by this failure.”

Something that gets wet and dries in a regular cycle is pretty much perfect for a bunch of microbial life.

Also why the fuck is the OS giving the web browser the option of giving it that access to the hardware?

Homoerotic vibes there. Prefers looking at men. Nothing wrong with that but he’d probably disagree as he protests a bit too much.

Or even better, make waffles instead.

VR’s ability to control the atmosphere more could make for some next level horror games, too. Like something where there’s a reason the player can’t run, like they are wheelchair bound or sailing through a lake of lava.

Star Fox was before that (released 1993). And Pilotwings was even earlier than that (1990). Mario 64 was released in 1996. There was also a Gameboy game, X, released in 1992.

Pilotwings might bring up some argument about whether it was really 3D because it was done purely using 2D graphics tricks, which the SNES was very good at. But it was different from the FF VI/III map view because they did have an internal 3D model that was a part of the render, while FF just stuck a sprite in the middle of the screen that looked like it added height to the flat map it was “standing on”. In Pilotwings you could climb and dive.

But X and Star Fox did use actual rasterization to render their views. Star Fox had an additional chip in the cartridge that expanded the SNES’ processing power to handle 3d rendering, kinda like an early GPU (except this was just attached to a single game).

I’d argue that both are really 3D, just that Pilotwings used a rendering technique that has since been abandoned while Star Fox used a (very simple) version of the 3D renderer pipeline that is still used today.

Mario 64 greatly increased the polygon count, added textures, dynamic lighting, improved z-buffering, and took the camera off the rails that Star Fox forced (but Pilotwings didn’t).

It doesn’t take all that much to make a delicious rice- or beans-based meal. Though you do need to buy a few more ingredients. Bibimbap is a great rice dish. Emerald dal is spinach and lentils, but I’d put dried lentils in the same cost-effective category as beans (wouldn’t be surprised if they are a bean, assuming peas are also beans) and a batch could last you for a few days.

I wish there was a way to quantify the effect caused by my combination of serious posts and deadpan random shit for humour.

Oh and this is another reason that /s tag sucks, as it helps training LLMs determine when something is a joke. Or maybe we should start using it to mark serious posts. /s

Gets hit by a thrown high res texture pack mod

Lol imagine not only lacking the shame to bring one of those out in public but then going to your sex doll gathering and realizing you have one of the shitty models whose heads look kinda like paper mache.

I wonder if the two guys that look like they have the same model get angry at each other about it.

I also wonder how much overlap there is in the venn diagram of people who end up resorting to getting a sex doll and people capable of keeping them maintained so they don’t become biohazards.

But while windows has that grip, more malware and scams will target windows users. I’m getting tired of seeing good things ruined by their own success.