the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

turns out a problem we've had at work for several days is because philips's semiconductor division (long since divested) decided that pin 1 on a TO-92 ought to be the rightmost pin

why would you *do* that
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!!attention!!

Cute spider! they want uppies!!

https://imgur.com/gallery/q4gi3T7
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why is blue tack blue, anyway

and why is it still called blue tack when it's white
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*why* is the fluke 720A so expensive? it's just a box full of resistors!
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i find it kind of funny how much of europe fought wars over access to intense spices and flavorings and then the instant those spices and flavorings became affordable to the lower classes, all the high society people (especially in france) decided that nope, unspiced food was the *real* good stuff, the blander the better, don't want to be like those *peasants* with their *tasty* food, do you?
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i am rather curious what currants taste like

we see them referenced a lot by british people but they just, aren't grown here or something? we've never tasted one
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who is will smith and why do people keep mentioning the name
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i was linked this elsewhere and *immediately* thought @owashii@plush.city should see this
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46505656/
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(i would appreciate a hint as to where to begin, but no answers)
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the postgame puzzles in patrick's parabox are so much harder than the pre-credits ones

i don't even know where to begin on inner push 5
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wow, i just saw footage of okage shadow king used in a youtube video about turn-based combat design

that game never gets attention at all

the same video also used footage from radiant historia, which also is often forgotten

and!!! several interesting-looking games we don't recognise, if anyone could tell us what game it is at 2:50 here, right before bug fables? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktogjiX3eI4
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tails..... wanna hug
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you ever think about how in greek mythology, the god of death is basically the only deity with any sense of morals
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if you had to pick one AAA video game to call a true work of art, which would it be?

(i'm aware there are far more indie games that are very clearly deep artistic works, that's why i want to restrict it to AAA games to see what people think is particularly artistic in that area)
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just saw someone on youtube pronounce weißwurst as "weeburst" and

agh
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neat thing we just learned: part of the reason betamax failed is because sony had weird stipulations about who was allowed to sell betamax VCRs

unlike the various manufacturers of VHS VCRs, they didn't allow anyone to rebrand their machines, whereas in the 1980s it was apparently popular for video rental places to rebrand VCRs that they would also rent out (because buying one was expensive), so they weren't interested in the sony ones they weren't allowed to rebrand

also, stores that *sold* betamax VCRs had to do so under a contract that said they would also sell other sony electronics, which meant that for retailers who weren't already selling sony tvs and stuff, getting into selling betamax was a more expensive proposition than getting into selling vhs or even v2000
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all that comes together to mean that sony basically ruined their chances of success by being too greedy, which is something they've done more than once
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now that we've started collecting physical copies of soundtracks, it'd be neat if they came on little minidisc cartridges instead of CDs
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minidiscs are pretty neat

i kinda wish they'd caught on outside of like, two countries
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well, that turned into a nap of some sort apparently

feeling better now, but hungry
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