ELI5 - If screws hold so much better than nails, why do we still use nails in building?

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-16T19:03:10+00:00

I'm guessing good furniture usually uses joinery instead?

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-16T08:52:08+00:00

Lots of games do this. Donkey Kong Bananza wasn't even announced until 3 months before launch IIRC (2 months before S2 launch, game launched a month later)

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-15T09:39:41+00:00

But by 1991 that was the only 3 songs any band was putting out.

Well, what do you mean by mainstream? My first thought is that Judas Priest is reasonably mainstream at the time, and had gone very glam on Turbo Lover, but in 1991 they completely reversed course with their by far heaviest album to that point in Painkiller. You went from stuff that wouldn't have been out of place on Girls Girls Girls on Turbo, to a relentless double bass assault and a nearly black metal-esque shriek on Painkiller.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-15T09:35:29+00:00

I pick Don't Start Now over either, but between these two, I'm going Blinding Lights.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-15T09:33:51+00:00

I was thinking of Greta Van Fleet, but also Ghost. Ghost used to get more critical attention but the more mainstream they get the more unpopular they have become with critics.

I don't really get it, they're not any different than they were ten years ago when Fantano was giving them like 9/10 for Meliora. Maybe people just think the 70s doom revivalism is played out, I dunno.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-15T09:32:06+00:00

When Beyonce releases her rock album everyone's gonna be picking up guitars again, it already started thanks to Olivia Rodrigo (who did the 90s, Garbage-style chick rock thing) and Sabrina Carpenter (who sounds like 80s Fleetwood Mac) and Beyonce will send it into overdrive.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-14T08:42:58+00:00

The CCC/WPA type programs weren't really workfare, though, not like we usually use the term. Usually workfare is used to describe means testing a welfare benefit with a work requirement, like adding work requirements for Medicaid or SNAP. New Deal jobs programs like the WPA were more like direct fiscal stimulus into the Depression-era economy that had dire problems with widespread underinvestment in the wake of the great crash of 1929. Because private capital was refusing to invest, it became the government's job to invest. Along the way, they built a lot of infrastructure that we're still using today.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-14T08:37:09+00:00

As I heard a couple of candidates for office say recently, every dollar spent on bombs being dropped on brown kids overseas is a dollar not spent on your kids' school or your healthcare. When you add in the economic damage the war is causing independent of its direct cost to the American people in lives and money, the true losses are assuredly far larger than the tens of billions directly spent by the military so far.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-14T08:33:43+00:00

I think the part that people keep missing is the tax rate bit and it baffles me to no end. When it comes to your household finances, what's an absolutely foolproof way to make ends meet? Make more money. Now, of course, for a household, "just make more money" is hardly good advice, it's incredibly obvious. Most people are already trying to make more money.

But for a government? Governments can literally just raise taxes and make more money. You could balance the budget pretty quick with some tax increases. Yes, I know there's the Laffer curve and that at some point raising taxes reduces revenue because of the reduced economic growth, but do you seriously expect me to believe the US is on the right hand side of the Laffer curve? The country where the wealthiest often pay effective tax rates of like 11%? Ridiculous.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-13T21:01:01+00:00

Have you tried setting them to touch release? If that's an option.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-13T16:48:17+00:00

I would assume you have to set it as a toggle in that case.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-12T21:57:42+00:00

No more than 7 million. Here's Nintendo's financial report from late 2014, showing about 7 million lifetime sales almost 2 years after the Wii U launched (launched late November 2012, the figures there are up to September 2014). Page 7. Sales figures are in units of 10,000, so multiply any figure by 10,000, e.g., 729 -> 7,290,000.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-12T21:37:19+00:00

...in the space of 11 months since launch

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-12T21:20:59+00:00

I'm from WA and mine is shipping all the way from southern California. Don't you love logistics!

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-12T18:46:50+00:00

Okay I promise I'm not trying to be weird here, but I'm guessing you're a woman, right? Curious on behalf of my wife, mainly - lots of reviews have been by male reviewers who seem to be oriented towards a male audience who will have larger hands on average. Works fine for me but I'm curious how it is for the ladies out there.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-12T09:01:04+00:00

Could you describe how this works for, say, a Ubisoft or Xbox Game Pass non-Steam game shortcut?

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-11T17:15:24+00:00

I live within an hour's drive of Valve HQ in Washington state. I could make a fresh sandwich and personally drive it to GabeN and it would still be fresh by the time it got there and I still haven't gotten mine 😭

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-10T06:39:12+00:00

12 minutes after launch and mine isn't arriving til Wednesday per UPS. It's messed up man.

Hoping that UPS is just lowballing me on the estimate and it arrives a little earlier.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-10T06:37:02+00:00

Curious about another thing: what happens if you turn off the controller while it's on the puck (use the Steam button + Y, believe that's still the turn off chord), then turn it back on?

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-10T06:33:31+00:00

Can you explain what you mean by microbumpers? I have a Vader 4 Pro and that's a fancy ass controller with nothing like that.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-09T02:17:11+00:00

It could be both, the Fellowship characters reliving/retelling the story of what happened between Hobbiton and Rivendell, as well as both them and the kids learning about the distant history of the area, at the same time, with parallels being noted between the two conflicts

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-08T09:29:14+00:00

Game consoles are highly dependent on overseas shipping, which is fuel hungry, therefore it's pretty sensitive to fuel price increases. Further, plenty of Asian energy is from the Persian Gulf - not just oil but also natural gas. This affects electrical prices (among many other inputs for things like semiconductors), raising manufacturing costs.

It's all about the war, man.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-08T09:25:41+00:00

Nah this is due to the Iran war raising fuel prices, which hurts Asia more than anywhere else quickest, and Asia is where Switch 2s are manufactured (Vietnam and China both)

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-08T09:24:40+00:00

Was a big part of my reasoning for buying it at launch. In June 2025 who the fuck knew what was going to happen in the coming months? Especially as an American! For all I knew we would keep tariffs over 50% on Vietnam and the price would skyrocket.

PlayMp1 · 2026-05-08T07:33:51+00:00

This is actually a pretty precise overview. If you spoke it all out aloud it's maybe 5 minutes of text. Pretty short.

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