Flamekebab @ Flamekebab @piefed.social

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I quite like the way How I Met Your Mother handles this - the size of the apartments is the narrator misremembering. There's an episode where the characters have been viewing a house in New Jersey Long Island - they return to the apartment and it's portrayed as the size it realistically would be.

When I've driven an automatic I could only manually set the gears for first and second. I'm sure that's not universal as nothing is, but I can only speak to my own experience.

I would usually use fourth when decelerating up to a junction and then switch directly to second as I get close, as an example.

Esoteric? I've only encountered a handful of automatic cars in my life here in the UK. Having a licence that only covers automatic has historically been rather limiting here. The only person I know that has that has dyspraxia.

For me the appeal of a manual transmission is in engine braking. When driving an ICE car I barely need the brakes because the majority of my speed management is through engine braking. Fortunately my electric car has the option for pseudo engine braking - and it charges the battery too!

I always hated this instruction. When instead I had it explained that one can think of it as fading the clutch out and fading the accelerator in (and that points in between are fine too) I immediately understood and never had an issue again. Admittedly I stalled a few times when switching to a different car whilst I learned its specific tolerances, but conceptually I was golden.

...now I drive an electric car.

I played this on Game Pass (Gamepass? I don't recall how they brand it) years ago and had fun with it. I'd enjoy playing it again, assuming I could forget my previous playthrough.

Red wine just doesn't look like red wine on film - so they use white instead.

Uncensored.

It'd be good if we could get something a bit more left than MOAR NEOLIBERALISM. I'm so done with neoliberal capitalism but it seems that large chunks of the populace still think it's the damn '80s and greed is good.

A party that could seriously offer a decent future could do well. Redistribute some wealth and let's get this shit going. You know what happens when more money goes to the bottom of the pyramid? It goes straight back into the economy.

I don't really get what the point of gargling billionaire balls is. Ruling over ashes doesn't seem like it'd be particularly fun and being able to be bought off with shiny things is frankly embarrassing.

I prefer the version The Corries did.

An image macro is a subset of meme, not the superset.

"an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme" (from the Wikipedia article) seems to be a perfect fit for what's going on in this post.

I don't spoil my dog but I do consider expenses associated with him to be mental health costs.

Is it that time again? Apple considers getting into gaming?

I'm stuck with wall to wall carpets. Please don't drag your outdoor shoes all over them.

Even if I had that luxury, I really don't want to spend my time fixing someone else's UI. I have my own projects to work on.

I used to do a lot of user testing and I think it's something every bit of software needs. I really admire projects that decide to do big pushes on usability and papercuts.

I thought it was just me! I've been using Inkscape for a long time now and I always feel I'm wrestling with the damn thing. I understand the principles behind vectors but I'll be damned if I can consistently achieve what I'm attempting to accomplish.

That's the polar opposite of how I work with regards to manuals. I cannot retain that level of in-depth knowledge without anything to anchor it to. Reading a dictionary for a language before learning the grammar syntax does not work for me at all (and explains why I wasn't able to really learn languages until I was a teenager!).

I see where you're coming from, but I've encountered many things in professional applications where the UX baffles me. I know what I'm trying to get the program to do but it seems to require me to keep notes as to how to achieve the thing. Menu entries with needlessly cryptic names, heavily nested functionality, that sort of thing.

It's entirely possible to know how to use a program and still think its UI is dogshit.

I can't say I've ever found him to speak too slowly, but you do you.

I think it's Gaming Historian that does my head with that, or at least used to. Comedically slow.