the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

for some reason the concept of an "assault trumpet" is incredibly amusing to me

Croc O'Mire

was just wondering why there aren't any references to the shinespark in samus's smash appearances and then i realized wait her dash attack is literally the horizontal shinespark pose

*opens muzzle, emits super metroid item get fanfare*

"apparatus", "device", "mechanism"... all just fancy ways of saying "thingy"

why is there some program called wsappx on our computer using 1.5 gigabytes of ram

pong speedrun 100%

why does everythiing have to use so much ram

there is absolutely no reason discord, a simple chat program, should need almost half a gigabyte

also wondering: why on earth does minecraft end up using over 10 GB of RAM with this modpack even if I set it to -Xmx8G

There's a lot of conflicting information on the internet about this

If we have 16 GB (2x8) of RAM in our laptop and want to upgrade, *and* if we would be fine with 24 GB, would it be fine to replace one of the 8 GB SODIMMs with a 16 GB one? What do I need to watch out for? I'd try to find ones with the same timings and speed rating of course (though i'm not sure what the difference is between the various timings that cpu-z lists...)

I'm considering this because it's much easier to afford than upgrading all the way to 32 GB, replacing all the RAM the laptop came with. It only has two slots on the motherboard, as most laptops do, so unfortunately we can't just add a third 8 GB sodimm

...even if we can it's probably too expensive to do right now anyway

eevblog is a good youtube channel with interesting stuff about electronics but holy crap the fact that "tr*nny" is australian EE slang for transistor really grates sometimes

thorium is good, friendly sort of fissile material

a table is just a quadrupedal quadrilateral

terrible idea for a programming language: language that deliberately breaks literally every programming norm ever

+ is the logical negation operator, all math has to be entered in polish notation (non-reverse), an opening parenthesis is a syntax error but closing ones are required, variables are indexed by the length of their name rather than the actual name so every one-letter name refers to the same variable and you need to use a two-letter name for the next one and so on

ultrawide laptop

cannondorf

it was just pointed out to me how much better a smash character ganondorf could have been if they didn't start him out as a captain falcon clone. he could have had moves that actually reference his source material!

apparently in smash melee if you have young link throw a boomerang and then grab a wall with the hookshot, he'll rocket up the moment the boomerang returns

I can't tell if this is a glitch in smash or if it's an intentional reference to the several wonky hookshot rocket glitches in oot and mm

Specifically, since I feel like talking about it, the book in question is the seventh volume of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a manga by Hayao Miyazaki (which was later turned into an animated movie by him after he founded Studio Ghibli)

we watched the movie a few months ago and really liked it. it's the first time we've ever watched a movie and *then* decided to get the books it's based on actually