the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

IGBTs really suck for what they're used for

they're really slow and have really high on-state loss
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Vyi3Gi5dE this uses a neat way to emulate the sound of a bass guitar (starting about 2 minutes in)

every note is preceded by like 1 frame of noise, which gives a feeling of like, fingers rubbing against the string before it's properly plucked
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how exactly does peter piper pick a peck of pickled peppers

were they pickled while still on the vine or something? how did they get pickled
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apparently medieval people thought that peasants ate poor-quality food because 1) they preferred it and 2) high quality food would be literally poisonous to them

whee, classism
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did you know: the pokemon tcg game on the gameboy color had a really good soundtrack

here are the three levels of battle music:
Normal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfDxSEc5mDw
Vs club leader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlhyUGOx_oE
Vs grand master: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucQ6rLeRxyg
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please stop doing this people
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*every* time we want to check out a new twitch streamer, *every* time, they have that setting on that means we have to give twitch our phone number before we're allowed to say anything
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHvOPjAfyng&list=PLeqmZIM1MjJ7XyUVztoZThxGx9mlInQnZ&index=4

anyone else remember this game? one of those rare good licensed games, and had some unexpectedly excellent music
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when will we get a "hide this one post but don't block or unfollow the person" button, seriously

mysophobia means that a lot of people's jokes are really bad for us
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Plaidypus
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voltaurb (a capsule-shaped voltorb)
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we don't know his last name, do we?
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what if bill from pokemon is just that universe's bill nye
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last wednesday's xkcd is just us https://xkcd.com/2621/

like all the famous people we do know, we know for weird reasons

like, apparently steward copeland was part of a really popular musical group but we know him as the guy who composed spyro's soundtrack

and one of the examples in the comic itself--we know david bowie as the guy from labyrinth, but i know he was a really popular musician too
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jrpgs were still really big in that time period, the psx and ps2 had a ton, so it's not just a lack of games

did nintendo have policies at the time that limited them somehow? i know tthey were not on good terms with squaresoft at the time
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why are there so few rpgs on the gamecube and n64

the wii didn't have a lot either but it feels like it had at least a few dozen, pretty sure the gcn and n64 had less than ten each. maybe less than ten combined
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it's so weird to us to go to the pharmacy and see omron-branded medical equipment

apparently that's their main business but we know them for making really good electromechanical relays, they're like the #1 or #2 brand of those along with TE
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considering that the original reason given for vampires not having a reflection and not showing up in photographs was because of the use of silver for mirrors and photographic film at the time, i imagine modern vampires would have reflections (mirrors these days are made with aluminum as a backing, as it's substantially cheaper and doesn't tarnish) and would show up in photographs (image sensors contain a negligible amount of silver)
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