Hey, have you guys heard about this Linux thing?
[autistic hyperfixation noises intensify]
Me whenever someone mentions anything vaguely resembling measurement
Tad
Dash
Smidge
A bit
Just a moment
Monarchical Inch
A peck
A hobbitOkay, I’ll bite. What does “a Hobbit” mean as a unit of measurement?
Two and a half imperial bushels
If [I buy wheat] at Wrexham, [I must order] by the hobbet of one hundred and sixty eight [pounds] [76 kg]. But, even if I do happen to know what a hobbet of wheat means at Wrexham, that knowledge good for Flint is not good for Caernarvonshire. A hobbet of wheat at Pwlheli contains eighty-four pounds [38 kg] more than a hobbet at Wrexham; and a hobbet of oats is something altogether different; and a hobbet of barley is something altogether different again.
Measurement is an interesting field, I was just reading about Atomic clocks
You fool, what have you done
Yeeeees, yeeeeess, feel the units flow through you. >}
Heh heh heh. Unit. Hehehe.
But seriously, gauge blocks are fascinating; as are fine micrometers. Changes in temperature causing expansion drives home the inexactness of size. At certain scales it all becomes relative.
I know right? Who would have thought the decay rate of Cesium-133 was so regular…except when it isn’t!!!
I just spent my afternoon doing volume calculations… each unit is 3 oz, I need 300 units, 900 oz, but I can only buy in 1 gallon which is 128 oz, etc. For this one, each unit is 10g and 600 of those, I can buy in 1.25 lb or 2.6 lb let’s convert that and see what the cost per gram is and go with the cheaper, okay I can buy in 1180g how much do I need again?
Repeat that 57 times and you too can have a job in supply chain.
Reading that made my brain hurt. It’s times like this that I really wish America would go metric.
But what I can say? That’s a 570-liter dream.
So a linux user
I don’t even try limit myself
sure, I’ve played Dark Souls. never dug too much into the lore, though…
I never… don’t do that!:-P
“What do you mean you don’t want to hear the extensive history of outdoor warning sirens? There are so many models and companies and types and designs! No? Well… how about locomotives? No…? Shame.”
Sounds like a YouTube video I’d love to watch.
Fun locomotive fact: In Egypt, many mummies were lost because they were used in locomotives instead of fuel do to then being dry and burned well.
Being an introvert homebody and having to hint to coworkers that you’d like that dune bucket if they go see movie.
I haven’t watched the movie but I thought it would be so much cooler to have it be the “pain box” Paul has to put his hand inside instead of a worm lol
Prove you’re a human if you want the popcorn!
I haven’t watched the movie but I thought it would be so much cooler to have it be the “pain box”
We already have that at the theater. Its the Concession Stand cash register when you pay for the popcorn and drink.
This happened to me when my wife and I went out with a group of her friends and they brought up “sounding.”
OK well… Idk what that is so… Here I goooo–!!
Edit: OK well I looked up the word and stopped at the entrance to this cave. Don’t bother.
The normal amount in that case is not knowing anything at all
Several people have learned if I warn them an explanation will be long, I don’t mean “oh I like long walks on the beach but after 2 minutes I want to turn around” long. I mean “heat death of the universe” long.
Example: someone asked me to explain something while playing halo. I told him to make sense of it I need to explain some history, do you want the long version or short version. Long version is long. They said long version. 3 hours later, they fully understood their answer and never asked me to explain anything again.
Well now I want the complete and unabridged history of whatever that Halo thing is…
If I remember correctly, the question was “why don’t the covenant want the halos in this one (Reach)” or “why aren’t they in this one” or something like that when we had just started playing.
So I went back and explained the history of the rings from 120,000iah years ago during the height of the Forerunners power, as well as where the flood came from, why the planet has only just been discovered by the covenant, and how the game (Reach) differs from the books and spoken lore established in games 1-3.
Funny thing is, I’m slightly wrong. He did technically ask me one other question, but it was an open question to the group “why do the Spartans look different except Jorge?” and I immediately went “are you SURE you want a full explanation?” to which others jumped jn and said “NO!” which was a little disappointing but not everyone enjoys lore dumps.
For a full explanation, read the forerunner series of books, the novelizarion of combat evolved, the fall of reach, the in-between book that tells us how anyone escaped to halo 2, and the Ghosts of Onyx. That last one isn’t super necessary, but it gives you a neat look at one of the Shield Worlds from the forerunner books.
I think lemmy has a character limit so I can’t get into a 3 hour typefest lmao
People sleep on the Halo books, but they were damn good. Makes me really sad the TV show was hot garbage and made up it’s own story entirely.
I view the show as an alternate universe kind of thing. “there but for the grace of good storytelling go we” because holy shit how do you get so many fundamentals wrong.
To me, it was clearly a generic scifi show that got rejected by studios until someone slapped the Halo logo on the front page.
It could have been watchable on its own, but as a Halo show, I’ll pass. No hate to anyone who enjoys it, it’s just not for me.
Are you my best friend? Because this sounds exactly like a conversation he’s had with me.
Unless you live in Ohio or Kentucky, lolno
People like you really found their niche making 2-6h video essays, and I’m here to eat em up like cookies.
I hate my own voice but I love explaining things to interested people.
No way I’d be able to make lore videos, especially when people like Installation00, Luetin09, Geetsly’s, MetaNerdzLore, Eckhartsladder, and Nerd of the Rings exist.
Nothing new for me to add, really.
I could probably talk for hours about Stargate SG1 and it’s spinoffs, there are a few channels dedicated to Stargate stuff but… Content is lacking, in my opinion. One does a podcast though, and uploads hilights of the podcast which I don’t watch/listen to so they probably do a lot more explaining of things there that don’t make it into clips.
While I’ve gone through all of Luetin09’s videos while awake, I like to throw a playlist on shuffle sometimes to sleep. Something about a British guy talking in a smooth low voice about tyranids attempting to overrun a location only for the whole planet to essentially split in half (CADIA STANDS/THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD) is just relaxing. Also FUCK Erebus.
This is exactly my problem. I love explaining things, as a kid I wanted to be “that guy” you’d see on discovery channel (before it was all mermaids and reality TV bullshit.) but I can’t stand pretty much anything about myself lol
I hate hearing my own voice and I think I look like Peewee Herman after going through a wood chipper and getting pummled in an MMA match. No one should have to suffer through watching me lol
Come on, you don’t have to show your face, and I bet your voice isn’t that bad, it’s just how you feel about it. Even if it’s bad, I’d prefer it to the AI voices that are starting to become ubiquitous, because those tire my brain to no end.
Also, my job is literally recording voice actors, and I can tell you you can improve your narration, your timbre… whatever thing you think is holding you back. Just need to focus on it and practice ;)
“Bro, c’mon, don’t leave… you’ve only listened to 3 hours of my 10 hours dissertation on Lord of the Rings. What do you mean ‘how’s that relevant when we were talking about Skyrim?’ - I need to make sure we’re on the same wavelength before I start my 53 hour exposition on why The Elder Scrolls is a brilliant work of art.”
ES lore can definitely lend itself to 53 hours of exposition
Then you’re acting casual but let slip ‘oh that’s the b type they use coaxial threading so won’t deharmonize until you get upto 8000hz… uh, I mean yeah looks life it’ll go real fast!’
An Acquaintance: “Oh my goodness and they said that people could actually be living on Mars soon! Isn’t that just neat-o?”
Me: Having watched enough hours of “Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur” to qualify for a doctorate
Me: “Yep. Sure is super neat-o.”
Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
How can I have read dozens of books by the guy and not know he did a TV show?!
Isaac Arthur, not Asimov. Though that is his namesake.
How can I have read dozens of books by the guy and then confuse him for another? Mea maxima culpa.
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For anyone unfamiliar, “Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur” is a prolific YouTube channel. He’s out of dozens -of not hundreds- of hours about everything from building archologies to settling what’s left at the end of the universe. What that guy does is genuinely a public service and he’s gotten awards for his work.
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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I had a half hour meeting with a coworker today. 2 minutes in, he mentioned he was thinking about building a new PC. Almost an hour later we decided we needed to start talking about the meeting topic.
