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GraniteM

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  • What is the most quintessential 90s movie?

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  • There's a filter that I apply to these kinds of questions, and it's that there are some works that are of a particular time, but they ascend beyond that time and just become a part of culture, broadly. Like, Wizard of Oz just IS, Bohemian Rhapsody just IS; they aren't bounded by their decades of origin.

    I'd argue that at least Jurassic Park, and arguably also The Matrix, are above and beyond the '90s in ways that other movies can't quite achieve.

  • What is the most quintessential 90s movie?

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  • Clerks is a lot closer to real people's experience of the '90s, as opposed to quintessential '90s fictions, like Pulp Fiction or Hackers.

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    Do bugs "clean" themself?

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  • Most bugs do groom themselves, but here's a fun fact! Bed bugs don't groom themselves, and this makes most standard insecticides ineffective, because they won't ingest any of the poison they might get on their bodies!

    Another fun fact: bed bugs are the fucking devil and I don't hate them, I haaaaaaaaaaaaaate them.

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  • Not GPS, but I found myself waking up in the back seat of a car when some friends and I had driven all night to catch a Violent Femmes concert in Pittsburgh. The sun was coming up and they hadn't found our motel. This was in the days of printed MapQuest directions.

    I asked "Did you follow the directions from where they started?"

    They said "We don't need to start from there, we've already been there!"

    I said, "Let me fuggin drive."

    So I get behind the wheel and start back tracking to the previously established starting point while they say over and over that we don't need to start from there, they already know that spot, they just need to drive around a little longer and they'll get there eventually.

    And then I followed the directions, to the letter, from the starting point on the directions, right straight to the motel.

    So the moral of the story is always follow the directions and don't try to improv that shit, because you'll find yourself lost in Pittsburgh.

    Also, holy shit, Pittsburgh is laid out on a triangle rather than a rectangular grid, and that will throw you right the fuck off your sense of direction if you're not familiar, which none of us were.

  • xkcd #2972: Helium Synthesis

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  • For cooling purposes, is nitrogen not as good?

  • 🎵 We don't talk about red shirt, no no no

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  • By the TNG era, red was for command and gold was for engineering and security. By that time, goldshirts were the ones most likely to die.

  • He came highly recommended.

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  • "Job search is proving difficult? Have you tried becoming a slave?"

  • He deserves better

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  • Say, for example, Kubrick and The Shining or Ridley Scott and Blade Runner or Jackson and The Lord of the Rings, as opposed to Shyamalan and The Last Airbender or Jackson and The Hobbit.

  • I'm with McCoy here

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  • My crackpot theory is that aliens showed up, told the Egyptians at lasergun-point to build them pyramids, but then didn't give them any help at all. The Egyptians had to work out all the trigonometry and engineering entirely for themselves, while those lazy fucking aliens hung back and contributed absolutely nothing. Fuck those goddamn lazy space aliens.

  • Are transporters the fountain of youth?

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  • Let's not even address the fact that transporter enyouthened Picard would presumably still have his cybernetic heart. Was it an adult-sized cyberheart in his kid-sized chest cavity? Did the transporter know how to resize the prosthesis to fit his changed body? So many questions!

  • If you could make any "simulator" game, what would it be?

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  • I read an idea a long while back that I'll repeat:

    A spy game in the style of Splinter Cell, except you aren't the guy, you're his handler. You tell him "crawl under that laser," or "wait a moment, there's a guard... okay now go!" or "input the following sequence to disable the doomsday device," and he more or less listens to what you tell him to do. The issue is that the more you fuck up and get him hurt or killed, the less likely he is to listen to you. So you have to build up a relationship with your spy by giving him good instructions in a timely fashion and getting him to complete missions successfully. Over the course of the game, as you progress, you'd be able to tell him to do more dangerous things because he'd trust you more. Playing the game successfully would make you feel like you and your spy were a well-oiled machine, working together to take down supervillains and criminal syndicates.

  • What cheap tool/gadget do you use that greatly improves your daily life?

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  • Driving gloves. Some halfway decent calfskin gloves make it nicer to drive, whether the steering wheel is hot in the summer, cold in the winter, or if you're going to be driving long distance. Not sure if real leather will be less than $20, but seen some cheap fingerless work gloves make driving more comfortable.

    Clip on sunglasses that fit on my eyeglasses. Super easy to clip on, cost about ten bucks. So nice to not have to squint as much.

    Dim light bulbs. Nearly every bulb in my house is as dim as I can manage. Some are salt lamps and some are those flicker fire bulbs. Either way, it makes the light at night a little warmer and a little dimmer, and all around a lot more cozy, which really is what one wants. Keep a couple of the overhead bulbs at the brighter end in case you need them, but dimmer bulbs make me a lot happier at night.

  • What technological mega project is practical to build today?

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  • You didn't ask if it was bad, you asked if it was practical.