Malgas @ Malgas @beehaw.org

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I mean, if I went 'round saying I was "Usher of the Black Rod" just because some geezer had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd lock me away!

Sorry for the delay, updating to the beta took longer than I would have expected.

It does not appear to be happening on 218.

Yep, every time I switch away and come back for the last update or so.

It's the first What If?, even:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

🔫🌼 Always has been.

I've only ever heard that term used in Cajun cooking, where it refers to onion, celery, and bell pepper.

The version with carrot is mirepoix.

Looking at you Windows 11

Yeah, I got a new laptop recently with no intention of using the pre-installed OS, but I wanted to boot it up once just to make sure all the hardware was working.

It may have actually taken longer to figure out how to create a local account on W11 than to wipe it and install Linux.

Bishlamek gurpgorp!

Hitchcock theme

Funeral March of a Marionette.

Seriously, it's like nobody in this thread even read the seminal paper, "Scrimbling Considered Harmful".

Is that…Bowsette?

I know it can't be, since the character didn't exist when this was made, but it's interesting that her costume looks at least as much like Bowsette's (and not at all like Peach's or Pauline's) as his looks like Mario's.

Hmm. Suppose you were building a nuclear locomotive. (Setting aside, for the moment, whether this is a good idea.) Would nuke→turbine→electricity→motor be more efficient than just using the rotation of the turbine to move the train?

It can't be, right?

I haven't.

The Matchless Kungfu certainly looks like Wuxia Kenshi, but I haven't actually gotten around to trying it.

I had fun with it. Can be a bit slow and grindy, as forming a build involves finding the right (randomly generated, periodically refreshed) techniques and studying them. And there's a big power jump in each area so this process has to be repeated regularly.

I initially got into it when looking for something like Wandering Sword, but as a M&B- or Kenshi-style open world, which it's not exactly that.

Tale of Immortal [...] doesn’t even work if you don’t have your system set to Chinese

I've played it (in English, on a US-English Windows install) and I don't remember having to do anything like that.

It's funny, I frequently find myself configuring native Linux games I legitimately own to instead run the windows version through Proton.

…I'm sorry that that's pretty much the exact opposite of an answer to your question.

The pints thing actually has the same cause as I was talking about above: The British standardized around the Elizabethan ale gallon, while America used the Queen Anne wine gallon.

The long (British) and short (American) ton are both 20 hundredweights. The American hundredweight is exactly 100 pounds, while the British hundredweight is 112. You tell me which of those is more reasonable.

That said, both units did, in fact, come from Britain. The old Imperial system often used the same name for different units depending on what was being measured and for what purpose. Both countries passed laws to simplify and consolidate these measurements in the early 19th century, but in many cases chose different versions to standardize on.

Most literal use of 'ad hominem'.

I felt similarly after Fallout 3. I think that universe just isn’t for me

Out of curiosity, have you played any of the non-Bethesda Fallout games? Because the Fallout-nees of FO3 (haven't played 76 or 4) is a paper-thin veneer composed of random elements from previous games jumbled together in ways that make no sense.