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Cake day: October 13th, 2025

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  • As one of the Americans, home of useless made up measurements, I’ve made an effort to get used to using Celsius at least, mostly just by using weather reports that use it. And while it hasn’t provided much utility living here other than understanding comments made by foreigners occasionally, I do like the system so much better.

    This next year I’ll start trying to familiarize myself with length/distance.

    I love how metric works so much better. It definitely hits a happy spot in my brain for organization.

    Due to living here I can’t just forget the murican system, but it would be nice not to try to need a conversion lookups every time I hear a story about something that happens somewhere else.








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    Are gonna really a leftist thing? That doesn’t sound right to me.

    I’ve enjoyed the few times I’ve been at a range, but I don’t ever plan to own any.

    And I also enjoy a few FPS games, but I wouldn’t say I enjoy guns. Not enough to fit in the common part with conservatives. They fucking jizz their pants if they hear the word “Glock” or “Remington”.

    I don’t have a clue what company made the guns I’ve shot.




  • I had “Country Cornflower”.

    I also saw a bunch of #4 somewhere. It was either at one set of grandparents’, or one of my friends’ houses.

    Mom actually still has the pictured kind, still being used to this day. I was there just last week and there was some of it still drying in the dishwasher. I stole a few plates and bowls when I left, and it’s still the only glassware I’ve ever really used more than a couple times. I’m not particularly find of it, but I have these pieces and I don’t give a fuck what it looks like if it works.

    At least it doesn’t have Jesus on it or something. I would draw the line at that.



  • I mean, based on my observations, I think the only people organizing these at all are straight white cisheteronormative types (and further, almost always women).

    Maybe that’s just how I’ve seen it, but I’ve never witnessed them, I usually only hear about them at all if a video pops up of a compilation of bad reactions or mistakes (as in wrong color reveal, accidental early reveal) pops up. Maybe that’s just me but I haven’t personally seen much of any other group doing them in the first place. Occasionally there are others, but almost always done by them.


  • For one, as far as I know that’s a single player game. Anyone with other players around means constant slight readjustments, and having everything you do held back (even if only a tenth of a second- I don’t know the actual number, that’s a ballpark guesstimate) really adds up.

    For almost every game it doesn’t matter a whole lot. But when it does, it really matters. Bluetooth headphones pad the audio a smidge too, to the point of rather play without sound instead of late audio. It causes constant sending guessing, and if you’re using both your leaky playing in a game state that’s already past (although when online you always are anyway but cutting as much out as possible is miles better).



  • I realize that. But that’s just for that machine, but I’m speaking for arbitrary devices.

    The protocol hasn’t gotten faster in the last few years that I know of.

    I’ve used several with different devices, but most of my direct comparison experience is with an Xbox series X controller paired to the Deck via BT and by dongle, and it’s very noticeably more laggy with Bluetooth. I’ve only occasionally tried others, but every Bluetooth-connected controller I’ve ever used definitely has a noticeable delay.


  • No one says that you have to explicitly plug it in to whatever you’re playing on.

    You do if you want it to connect to the thing you’re playing on.

    Unless you’re ok with a shitty Bluetooth connection. But I’m guessing few people comparatively are using that, at least as their primary use case.

    You can’t tell me playing with a Bluetooth controller doesn’t actually hurt you. The constant latency is excruciating.

    Then again, I use it for mostly real time- based games.

    If you’re playing something like Balatro it probably doesn’t matter. But for almost everything else it sure does.