cobysev

I feel like Pedro Pascal is this generation’s Burt Reynolds.

When I was a teenager, “whipping shitties” was what we called spinning donuts in the parking lots with a car.

Although you’re correct, it could be attributed to the same shenanigans on a frozen lake.

I remember one intersection near my high school that always got extremely icy every winter… Some buddies of mine with drivers licenses loved to “whip a shitty” through that intersection. Basically, crank their wheel hard as they’re driving through the intersection and spin in a few circles while sliding through the intersection. I dunno how we never crashed a car doing that.

As a Minnesotan, I have to agree.

Judging by the comments here, I’m assuming “fent” is referring to fentanyl?

My gaming setup at home is currently Neutral Good, with the regular monitor being a 48" 4K OLED monitor and the tilted one being a 28" DualUp monitor (one tall almost-square monitor the size of two small monitors stacked on top of each other). I used to be Chaotic Good, but with three regular monitors side-by-side and a tilted one instead of just two and one.

My next goal is Chaotic Neutral, but with three monitors on the bottom row (maybe 27"-36" each?) and my giant 48" monitor on top, wall-mounted above the others.

When I was in the US military working as an IT guy, I once worked for a Weather Squadron where every computer on the Operations Floor had the Neutral Evil setup. All four displays rarely worked at the same time; us IT guys were always fixing them. The only real fix was to unplug their monitor cable and plug it back in over and over until the computer finally detected it. Truly an evil setup.

Some of those computers also had a fifth monitor. The Lead Desk for each section, who needed to update a digital status board, which was just a giant monitor on one wall of the room.

Most places I worked in the military were arranged like Lawful Good. If you were really lucky, you might get a third monitor too.

American from the Midwest here. We alternated between pillbug and roly poly.

Ugh… It’s almost 3 AM here and I have a 9:30 appointment in the morning. I guess this is the universe’s way of telling me I should finally go to bed. (-_-)…zzZZ

The “movies” are actually 4-part episodes each, for a grand total of a 16 episode season. They released as films, but they officially counted as four 4-episode story arcs within a season of the show.

The casing on the outside of my air fryer is plastic, but the inside, where my food cooks, is all metal. 🤘

The 1980 one is the original. The 1994 one is called *Drunken Master II", but was renamed for Western audiences as The Legend of Drunken Master. Because the first one didn’t make it to America originally.

That’s very interesting. I learned the history of my name through living descendants of my ancestors in Norway. (Two brothers immigrated to America, while a third brother stayed behind in Norway) They were the ones who told me Norway was conquered and ruled by Denmark for a while.

Perhaps it was a mistranslation between us; I had wondered how Norway was able to preserve their country’s heritage and language while being ruled by their neighbor.

My family is originally from Sauda in Norway. Norwegian tradition used to be that your family name was the name of your home. If you moved to a new farm, you adopted the name of that farm as your new family name. They don’t do this anymore, as it got really hard to track genealogical records with families changing names all the time.

When my ancestors immigrated to America, Norway was under Danish rule, as Denmark had conquered Norway at the time and was forcing Danish pronunciation on the Norwegian language. So my family name’s pronunciation of “saw-duh” became “sov-dae.”

When my ancestors got to America, no one could pronounce my family name correctly, so they changed the spelling to be more phonetic in the English language. And that’s how I got my current family name!

I mean, this is my public username. It takes a very quick Google search to dox me. Most of my name is in my username already.

In my 40+ years alive, I’ve never met anyone with my first name, although I know they exist; a quick Google search shows me at least a handful of people who have it.

My last name is an Americanized spelling of a Danish pronunciation of a Norwegian farm name. There are very few people who have my exact last name, and every one I’ve ever spoken to has been a descendant of my ancestral family who immigrated to America a century and a half ago.

Combine the two, and I’m pretty sure I’m the only person on the planet with my specific name. I’ve never had a problem making accounts with my first.last name anywhere.

How the hell am I way older than these guys?! When’d that happen? I was a child when I first played these games.

Considering its “run time” was from 2009-2016, the actual dates of the webcomic, I’m assuming it’s just categorizing it as a show because of all the flash animations included with the comic.

There are other web series that show up as TV shows on IMDb, like The Nostalgia Critic, which has never been an officially licensed show, but have enough serialized video media to constitute a series of sorts.

That’s BSoD.

Lots of good explanations here, but one thing I’d like to clarify. WHY we add digits together to represent larger numbers. Understanding this helped me to count in binary when I was a young IT technician.

In base 10, we have 10 numbers we use to count everything, each represented by a single digit 0-9. There is no single digit to represent the number 10, so we add a digit to the left and start over at 0 on the right. Hence, the number 10. Then 11-19 in serial.

But we’ve run out of digits to use again. So we add another digit to the left and start over on the right. Thus, 20.

When you get to 100, you’re now starting over at the right-most digit and have to fill up both right digits before the left digit moves up one.

Same goes for binary, where the only two digits are 0 and 1. Once you’ve counted to one, you’ve run out of digits to use, so you add a 1 to the left and start over on the right. So 2 is written as 10 in binary. Then 3 is 11. Then you’ve run out of digits again, so you add another one to the far left and start over. 4 is 100. 5 is 101. 6 is 110. 7 is 111. No more space, so add another 1 to the left and start over. 8 is 1000. 9 is 1001. 10 is 1010. 11 is 1011. 12 is 1100. And so on…

With computers, we sometimes use a hexadecimal numbering system, also known as base 16 (hex = 6, deca = 10). In this case, we need 16 unique digits before we start reusing them. So we borrow from the alphabet. We use 0-9, then go through A-F before we add a 1 to the left and start over at 0.

You can literally create a base-anything and use that to count numbers. Once you figure out how we add digits to count, it’s super easy!

In case you didn’t know, correcting someone’s syntax is considered unprofessional. 🍆👊

I got my first DM from “her” today as well! I was feeling left out.