JackFrostNCola @ JackFrostNCola @lemmy.world

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Electrical Designer - HVAC switchboards & systems primarily

Ok sir, step this way for your 'vitamin' shot.

For me its the Borderlands series & portal 2.

Well TIL, thanks. I always associated it with the kids who would listen to like deftones and dance like that

Speaking of which, only americans call it 'legos' right?

Using GIMP, getting sucked off while wearing a GIMP suit.

18°C, drizzle & thunderstorms.
But live in a city in Australia that has clear skies 70% of the year, and an average of about 24 annual days of rain.

Pretty much what it sounds like, where people who listen to a certain type/sound of music tend to enjoy it at live events by just low key looking down and slowly shuffling or bobbing their head to show their appreciation (rather than headbanging, moshing, etc.) there is a genre called 'shoegaze' which pretty much encompasses this kinda scene.

Do you not get cricket or T20 in particular?

To put it simply, cricket is taking turns to bat/bowl where one team 'bowls' : where everyone spreads out on the field and on person bowls the ball down the pitch at the current batter.
The other team 'bats' : two players are in the centre of the field and try to hit the ball. After hitting the ball, the batters will run between each end of the pitch and each time they cross over and make it to the other end this is counted as a 'run', however if they manage to hit the ball out of the field boundary - if its in the air: automatic 6 runs, or after a bounce/along the ground: automatic 4 runs).
The batters can get 'out' by 1. They miss hitting the ball and the ball hits the wickets (wooden poles) behind them. 2. They hit the ball and it is caught on the full (before it bounces). 3. They hit the ball, but while they are running between the ends of the pitch one of the fielding team throws the ball at the wickets whilst the batter is still out of the 'crease' (safe zone at each end, like a baseball base). 4. Blocking the ball from hitting the wickets with their body (usually leg), but only IF it was going to hit the wicket if they didnt block the ball.
Once 10 of the 11 players on the batting team are out, the batting & bowling team swap sides and then the winner is the one with the most runs made by the end of the day/days depending on the type of match.

There are some other technical rules and aspects but thats it in a nutshell, but you can see why it would be a slow game where batters try keep the game at their pace to not be rushed and be calculating with when they want to take risks or big shots.

Which is where T20 comes in, each team gets 20 'overs' each (an over is a set of 6 bowls from the bowling side, so 20 overs is 120 individual bowls at the batters). After 20 overs, or all players on the batting side getting out, the teams swap sides. T20 changes the game from a couple batters holding on as long as they can (which can be hours to over a day each for the better batters on each team) to the batters taking big risks - big swings, more 6's and 4's, more risky runs up & down the pitch because they dont have the time for strategic & slow methodical gameplay. This makes the games last only a couple hours total, usually played at night with more intensity & excitement + pyrotechnics, colorful outfits, more energetic commentary, etc.

TL:DR - Cricket is like baseball but played on a much bigger field, instead of running between bases they run up and back down the pitch, each player only gets the one 'out' per game and the whole team gets out before they swap sides.

No you shut your whore mouth.

Some of us rely on windows only software and dont have the option to run linux or other OS's

° ² ₂ ø are my common ones

I would go as far to say that most 'peoples brains' dont remember new names well, unless there is a strong emotion tied to the meeting of a new person (hate, fear, infatuation, etc) then its easy to forget what someone said by the time you have made some introductory small talk and moved on to a conversation topic or had to break off the conversation and go elsewhere.
I find i either have to have somebody else say their name a lot for it to stick or i mentally break off from the conversation when i can get away with it and in mind find a way of remembering their name with a trick like associating it with a similar sounding word, or a famous actor with the same/similar name, etc.

Agreed. The way i took it was "i am going to write 'questions' based on the concerns people are commenting online and give the answers to those things people are interested/worried about"

Finger sweatbands for epic googling activities

I keep hearing stories about falling birth rates, USA, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and on and on.
The articles often pose many questions about why younger generations dont seem to care about having kids, but very few articles actually say the real reasons:

• Being able to afford a house or stable long term rent without either option competing for money to buy food or other essentials
• Further to this the cost of a child once you can get by with enough money for the above
• Climate change & future conditions for their children anxiety

Maybe the potions are finally wearing off

What if they were to have a rule such as 'if a state vetoes a bill that has like 90+% support 3 consecutive times, then they will be unable to veto the bill the 4th time. That way if its obvious all the other people agree on something to hold that strong a majority its not indefinite.

The Factorio one reminded me of trying to get to sleep only to start building elaborate underpasses and routes in my mind for hidden redstone circuits in Minecraft.

Or Fractional composition scenes?