Arrath

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by Arrath 3y ago
Lose Singapore?
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by Arrath 3y ago
Presumably these infinite brake pads are part of the regenerative energy generating portion of a perpetual motion machine as well?
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by Arrath 3y ago
> Given its population and economy, the NYPD should have the resources of similarly-sized nation-states. I just can't say I agree with this statement. NYC itself being part of an even bigger nation-state should mean that a number
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by Arrath 3y ago
Look, the detectives on Law & Order regularly get the perp to confess to their crime with just a little unorthodox investigation or roughing them up in the interview room, if that's what it takes that's what it takes! /s
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by Arrath 3y ago
I was in a multiple rollover accident and wanted to get a scan because, well, I was hanging upside down by my seatbelt for a while so I thought it would be prudent to make sure my neck or something didn't get fucked up. The ambulance r
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by Arrath 3y ago
Yeah, those.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Yeah sorry I meant from, like, 2000-ish and on.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Honestly it seems like it always has: there are a handful of dev houses using their own engine for a spread of games (e.g. EA with Frostbite, Ubi with Anvil, Rockstar with RAGE, Bungie with whatever they call the Halo/Destiny engine th
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by Arrath 3y ago
And it is, actually, a pretty decent game! Like the little-known console sequels to Far Cry, you later get infected with the gunk you're dealing with and it opens up the game a bit by adding extra abilities.
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by Arrath 3y ago
>(sometimes, rarely, clothing) As it turns out, the various aspect of making cloth and clothing took a massive amount of the Peasant's labor.[0] [0] https://acoup.blog/2021/03/05/collections-clothing-
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by Arrath 3y ago
I'm glad I wasn't the only one perplexed by that.
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by Arrath 3y ago
South Korea in particular has massive shipbuilding capacity which I expect would translate into expertise that could allow the US to modernize aspects of their industry.
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by Arrath 3y ago
> For normal construction tasks, I don't care one bit about this one bit. The only thing about it that I care about is the sheer amount of time wasted as a kid standing around the lumber yard as my dad rummaged through the entire bi
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by Arrath 3y ago
Oh yeah I totally get it, but we were hourly rather than salary so it was the best of both worlds. We were working out of town so what's a couple extra hours a day on the site getting paid when your alternative is primarily the hotel r
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by Arrath 3y ago
Yeah some of the best times of my life have been on 4-day work weeks. Added bonus, they were 10 hours days so we not only got our 40 hours a week but a chunk of that was OT!
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by Arrath 3y ago
> just like the American gas stations I grew up with: you pump, then go inside to pay Within the similar timeframe I've always encountered the three-step process: you go inside and pre-pay, back out to pump, then back in to get your
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by Arrath 3y ago
Are you posting from an alternate universe? Or the 1950s?
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by Arrath 3y ago
That's really impressive!
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by Arrath 3y ago
I loved the first season (watched it last month) and was blind sided by the ending, I thought they were just getting set up for the conclusion and I had two more episodes to go! So I googled when the next season was coming and got gut punch
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by Arrath 3y ago
> Modern games are mostly unmoddable. Its a sad state of affairs. There are moderns games with vibrant modding communities (Factorio, Rimworld, Minecraft, Starsector, Battletech, Bethesda games, to name a few) so clearly the demand and t
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by Arrath 3y ago
> If latency is consistent you get used to it and learn to deal with it. Too true. I played so much WoW on 56k that when I finally moved into an area that had high speed internet I basically had to learn to play all over again. IE stop c
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by Arrath 3y ago
Even in states where you can't legally keep roadkill its often with a wink and a nudge that the officer/trooper on scene will say "I've taken my report and I'm going home. If that deer vanishes before fish and game
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by Arrath 3y ago
Haven't some studies found that donating plasma helps scrub your blood?
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by Arrath 3y ago
I expect it was flying on such razor thin margins of lift thanks to the sparse atmosphere that it needs all 4 to have a hope of liftoff.
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by Arrath 3y ago
> Holy fuck. We never shipped these using commercial couriers, but transported them using company trucks and company labor. We'd also have a heavily armed security person escorting them at all times. The manufacturer shipped them to
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by Arrath 3y ago
Well that was fun. I appreciated the warnings to wear goggles and be careful were I to do that at home, as if everyone just has a spare laser lying around. ...I can confidently state that I would be an absolute menace if I had access to suc
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by Arrath 3y ago
> because consumers granted permission to do so when entering into a business relationship Do we have an actual choice?
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by Arrath 3y ago
Yeah it really seems the market has bifurcated into "DIY build-a-computer" targeted towards gamers, bedazzled with RGB and all that jazz, and "Buy a used/refurb Dell mini-atx office desktop computer", assuming they
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by Arrath 3y ago
> properly seasoned pan Important operative words in a world where the unknowing are too quick to apply dish detergent, scrub brush, and elbow grease.
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by Arrath 3y ago
> just keep the parcel at the depot for a week until they have a driver who can actually make the trip. Depot workers can get up to the weirdest stuff. One time I was returning unused product (oil well perforating guns, a UN 1.4D explosi

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