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Honestly, no offense, but the number of comments like this in this thread show just how disconnected from reality this site and its users can be.

klyrs 5y ago
No offense taken! And to the sibling, no, I'm not much fun at parties! I've been known to sit in a corner with a furrowed brow pondering a mathematical puzzle that nobody cares to hear about. I'm quite accustomed to being "other" wherever I bother to appear, and I tend to work on abstractions far removed from what people consider "reality", and, indeed, I find like minds here at HN. But I guess we've got an invasion of the normies today, who think that making fun of nerds is cool like it's the 80s again. Been there, survived it, let's move on. But, you've got my curiosity... what deep truth about "reality" is exposed by Gas Pump Golf?
- berdon 5y ago
  >...who think that making fun of nerds is cool... No one did that, here, though. However, your responses _have_ been demeaning and reductive.
- noah_buddy 5y ago
  I think the person you're responding to was making a point that you're not concerned with money if you're not shooting for a dollar value but a liter value. The inferred disconnect, as I understood it, is one of wealth and not quite nerdiness.
  - klyrs 5y ago
    Playing gas pump simulator on your computer is a sign of class solidarity? Only finding that a "little" fun reveals me as the bougie scum? I'm okay with this.
- gattilorenz 5y ago
  > But, you've got my curiosity... what deep truth about "reality" is exposed by Gas Pump Golf? For non US players with little knowledge of the history of prices of petrol in the US, it's a fun way of seeing how it changed (and how incredibly cheap it still is). But that's probably not what they were trying to point out. Update: I think it's also interesting to see the different approach to filling up your tank. Why do you shoot for an exact number of liters? I've only had to do that with two strokes engines, so I know how much oil I need to add for the correct mixture. Otherwise it's either a full tank or a certain amount of money to avoid getting small coins back (if I pay cash).
  - klyrs 5y ago
    The paranoid motivation: prices are in tenths of a penny. Buying exact multiples of 10L is optimal in the sense that rounding is easily verifiable. Though, in Canada today, going $.02 past an exact dollar amount and paying cash beats out whatever games the station might be playing with tenths of pennies. The gamer's motivation: most pumps I see have 3 digits past the decimal. Exact dollar amounts are easy-mode, exact volumes are hard-mode.

klyrs 5y ago

No offense taken! And to the sibling, no, I'm not much fun at parties! I've been known to sit in a corner with a furrowed brow pondering a mathematical puzzle that nobody cares to hear about. I'm quite accustomed to being "other" wherever I bother to appear, and I tend to work on abstractions far removed from what people consider "reality", and, indeed, I find like minds here at HN. But I guess we've got an invasion of the normies today, who think that making fun of nerds is cool like it's the 80s again. Been there, survived it, let's move on. But, you've got my curiosity... what deep truth about "reality" is exposed by Gas Pump Golf?

berdon 5y ago
>...who think that making fun of nerds is cool... No one did that, here, though. However, your responses _have_ been demeaning and reductive.
noah_buddy 5y ago
I think the person you're responding to was making a point that you're not concerned with money if you're not shooting for a dollar value but a liter value. The inferred disconnect, as I understood it, is one of wealth and not quite nerdiness.
- klyrs 5y ago
  Playing gas pump simulator on your computer is a sign of class solidarity? Only finding that a "little" fun reveals me as the bougie scum? I'm okay with this.
gattilorenz 5y ago
> But, you've got my curiosity... what deep truth about "reality" is exposed by Gas Pump Golf? For non US players with little knowledge of the history of prices of petrol in the US, it's a fun way of seeing how it changed (and how incredibly cheap it still is). But that's probably not what they were trying to point out. Update: I think it's also interesting to see the different approach to filling up your tank. Why do you shoot for an exact number of liters? I've only had to do that with two strokes engines, so I know how much oil I need to add for the correct mixture. Otherwise it's either a full tank or a certain amount of money to avoid getting small coins back (if I pay cash).
- klyrs 5y ago
  The paranoid motivation: prices are in tenths of a penny. Buying exact multiples of 10L is optimal in the sense that rounding is easily verifiable. Though, in Canada today, going $.02 past an exact dollar amount and paying cash beats out whatever games the station might be playing with tenths of pennies. The gamer's motivation: most pumps I see have 3 digits past the decimal. Exact dollar amounts are easy-mode, exact volumes are hard-mode.