the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

of course you pay for this quality, the whole thing cost a total of like $1600 compared to the cheap weller's <$100 but it's not our money, it's the school's x3

so the lab we work in got a really nice JBC soldering iron yesterday and holy crap is it nice to work with

the cheap weller one we had before doesn't even begin to compare

we can change tips without having to wait for it to cool down, it provides a _ton_ of heat to easily solder to big ground planes (it can solder a massive 150-amp rated tab to a super-thick double-sided 4oz copper plane with only a minimum of trouble), and it has really nice specialty tips

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why do we have different weight systems for precious metals and everything else anyway, is it just to cheat people into thinking they're getting more

you know the old trick question, "which is heavier, a hundred pounds of feathers or a hundred pounds of bricks"?

a neat variant is to ask between feathers or gold, because people will say they're the same but they actually aren't: the hundred pounds of feathers are heavier because gold is measured in (lighter) troy pounds

I have no idea whether anyone will actually get this joke or not

do candyland chemists use sixlet extractors

a laserdisc player spinning up sounds kind of scary actually

you keep thinking it's almost done but it's still getting faster and louder and aa

apparently the outer edge of the disc goes at literally like 60 miles per hour or something around there

something I really appreciate about the discworld novels is how pratchett managed to make death an actual well-written character with actual personality

There are two wolves outside of you

I guess you ate all the rest or something?

Irish orthography is _weird_. But also fascinating. But also weird.

*considers udon*

I wonder who exactly manufactures those boxes they put dvds and video games in

How did they mass produce VHS movies anyway

Did they just have one VCR playing a master tape and dozens of other ones on record or something?

I wonder why CDs and other optical media read from the inside out while records read from the outside in

Oh yes, also:

Earthbound
Golden Sun (both GBA entries)
Terranigma
Secret of Mana
The original Spyro trilogy

and if we allow games that were never officially translated to english:

Mother 3
Seiken Densetsu 3

We would say, in no particular order:

Final Fantasy IV, VI, VII, IX, and X
Suikoden and Suikoden 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario World
Super Mario 64
Super Metroid
Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
A Link to the Past
Wind Waker
Pokemon Heartgold/Soulsilver
Tales of Symphonia
(at least one game from the Mega Man or Mega Man X series, I don't know which)
Tetris
Arkanoid (or at least Breakout)
Chrono Trigger

Additionally, @Rosemary would say Dragon Quest VIII as well, but I wouldn't--we agree on most of the rest