the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

all our favorite games are ones we can't tell anyone anything about why they're so good without massive spoilers

baten kaitos, the entire trails series, live a live, tales of symphonia,
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why is it that every now and then you get people asking on stackexchange ridiculous questions like "why isn't my free energy machine giving me free energy" or "should my warp drive be powered by AC or DC"
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if there are manticores, there are probably also womanticores and nonbinary ticores
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hang on

how come the dreamcast controllers have what appears to be an actual dpad? that was during the time period nintendo had a patent on dpads--both the playstation (before the dreamcast) and the xbox (after it) had to make compromises on their dpads to avoid the patent
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we just had someone tell us that a game that came out in 2007 was retro

we still can't see anything newer than psx/n64/saturn era as "retro"
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hey @ziphi, we finally got around to doing this like we said 💚

Still love this piece, thank you for giving us permission to get it printed
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yes thank you ebay for sending that email telling us that our order shipped, some three days after it arrived.

this was shipped *international* by the way
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why do people talk about pears being amazing when they're always full of sand
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i am feeling species dysphoric and would like some affirmation if possible
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tails.........
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so, what time signature is c64 tetris even in?

we listened to it and realized parts of it sound clearly 4/4 while other parts sound clearly 10/8 but there's nowhere that it seems like it actually changes time signatures

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is it a polyrhythm?? -F

happy taursday, the day for being taurs
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a world where there are only finitely many possible (consciousnesses / identities), but population growth has outstripped the supply of (consciousnesses / identities), so some (bodies / people) have to share, ending up with (many people having multiple bodies / multiple instances of the same people)
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(i did not miss a word there by the way. it did actually say our estimated wait time is "ten". not ten minutes or ten seconds just "ten")
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oh, and then we just got "you are caller number: 1. your estimated wait time is: 13 minutes"

how does this work
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on hold with a doctor's office

"you are caller number: 31. your estimated wait time is: four minutes"

about five minutes later: "you are caller number: 27. your estimated wait time is: two minutes"

about five more minutes later: "you are caller number: 1. your estimated wait time is: ten"

?????

about five *more* minutes later:
(hold music and intermittent useless information about the radiology department continues)
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can someone explain what "quiet quitting" is and why we're seeing a lot of people mention it suddenly?
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why do clocks go that way anyway -R

fun chemistry fact: when working with concentrated (70%) or fuming (near-pure) nitric acid, it's generally recommended *not* to wear gloves, not because the nitric acid is safe (it's very much not), but because common lab gloves make it *so much worse*

nitric acid at these concentrations will react very violently with both latex and nitrile, setting your gloves on fire. This is not good for your hands.

It will also react very quickly with skin and cause chemical burns in short order but nowhere near as bad as the burns you'd get from your gloves being literally on fire

i'm not sure if you can get any gloves that are resistant to fuming nitric acid, but i'm pretty sure neoprene can withstand small amounts of concentrated nitric acid. so that might be better than nothing
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"electrowinning" does not sound like the name of an industrial process, but it is in fact the name of an industrial process
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