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AstralPath

@ AstralPath @lemmy.ca

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  • What turn of phrase do you hate?

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  • I hear this all the time in business meetings.

    Any kind of business lingo and buzzwords trigger the fuck out of me.

  • What's a popular opinion on Lemmy that's unpopular in the real world?

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  • How old are you (roughly) and how long does it take you to recover from illnesses and injuries compared to when you were younger?

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  • I'm in a similar boat. Can confirm that this is the way.

    I've had the most injuries in my life this year. Its just been one after another, but I think I've learned a lot about how to deal with them; especially the running injuries.

    I'm just very stubborn and I tend to overdo it and that backfires every time it seems.

  • What's that noise...

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  • Yeah, that video about catalytic converters was excellent.

  • What's that noise...

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  • It could be something as simple as your gas cap not properly sealing anymore.

    You can buy bluetooth OBD II readers on Amazon for like $20 that can scan the check engine codes and tell you exactly what the problem is.

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    What's your favourite niche website that is still running and hasn't changed much in 20~ or so years?

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  • I still use this site almost every day.

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  • How would the united -stans be bigger than Russia, or even China?

  • USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.

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  • 100k CAD to be fair. And yeah, I don't know exactly what they paid, but it's the dually Super Dutys, the Denalis, the Longhorns, etc...

    Maybe they're a few years old too. I don't give two shits about trucks so take my words with a grain of salt I suppose.

  • USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.

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  • Pavement princesses. The North American Man®'s gender affirming vehicle.

    I lnow multiple dudes that work as box throwers in Walmart warehouses that drive $100k trucks, trucks that will never see any kind of work that's appropriate for their size. Might haul a few 2x4s from home depot every once in a while.

    They want to own a home, but they're making massive payments on a huge truck instead. 🤙

  • The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised

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  • A good gaming monitor with something like the Framemeister, RetroTINK, or OSSC can give properly unnoticeable amounts of input lag.

    Ok, so wait a second here. You're suggesting that buying a "good" gaming monitor (hundreds to thousands of dollars) and an upscaler (the cheapest of the options you mentioned I found for $369 USD is a better option than buying a CRT?

    I found a perfectly good 28" Panasonic CRT on Kijiji for $200 CAD.

    It makes the retro noises, it displays the games the way they were meant to be displayed, and there's no perceptible input lag. It also just fits the visual aesthetic if you have a retro gaming area/room in your house. There's no way I'm paying anywhere near 5-600 USD (up to 1k CAD, basically) to play retro games on a modern monitor when I can have a setup faithful to the experiences I had as a kid in the 90s for $200 CAD.

  • The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised

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  • It's not wrong. You can feel it.

    My wife is not a gamer and even she can feel it. She hated playing on our living room TV. Said she felt like she got really bad at Mario Bros over the years or something and was disappointed.

    Bought a CRT; she loves the game again and is still quite good at it actually.

    Reacting to stimulus is completely different than timing inputs in a video game. A few ms of delay isn't really going to register in a reaction test, but if you're using constant time sensitive information on screen to accurately time your movements in a game, you can easily feel lag in the sub 5ms range.

    As a guitarist, I can feel latency down to 2ms if I'm playing through a modeling amp on my PC, especially if I'm playing at high tempos. The faster you play, the greater the percentage of time between notes that latency becomes. The effect is the same in high speed video games.

  • The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised

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  • A modern TV is a really bad example.

    Not when it comes to console gaming.

  • The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised

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  • The look of CRT is important to retro gaming but do you know what the most important characteristic of CRTs for retro gaming is?

    No input lag.

    Play OG Super Mario Bros on a modern TV and let me know how long it is before you wanna smash the controller in frustration. The game just feels incredibly sloppy.

  • Nopin' Right Outta There

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  • And the apps can report your phone's sensor info back to their servers so they can build a profile on you to sell to data brokers.

  • What music tempo/BPM is considered fast for you? (examples welcome)

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  • If you're into fast music you might find certain subgenres of metal are up your alley.

    I can tremolo pick 16th notes at about 240bpm on guitar before the wheels start to fall off, so to speak. I'd consider anything over 225 to be fast. Anything crossing 16th notes at 300bpm should just be considered 32nd notes at 150bpm+ IMO. The bars fly by too fast to matter anymore if not.

    Honestly I don't really jive with anything over 300bpm because I feel it loses all sense of groove or vibe-able rhythm. Its fine for little bursts here and there but a whole song at 300+ tends to bore me pretty quick.

  • Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

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  • You don't typically pay to run Linux distros. They're open-source. I can't imagine they'd be subject to this.

  • Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

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  • Morrowind also runs really well on Android!

  • How to deal with wasps in fallen fruit around pear tree?

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  • You were 100% right! They were basically all gone and the few that were left didn't seem to be interested in me at all. What a pro tip this was! Thank you for your help! :)