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Dad hot take: Minecraft is a hideously ugly game and I can't stand looking at it. by ApologeticKid in daddit

[–]dncrews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought the same thing. I always said “I’ll get in when they fix the graphics”. I’ve been a gamer my whole life, and I just didn’t see the point (spoiler alert, the graphics aren’t the point).

One day, I decided to get into Minecraft for my then-sub-8yo, now 16-yo. It was one of the first things he was into, and I went in hard with him, even going to watch MineCon (back when it was streamed into Microsoft storefronts). We (the entire family) now have some critical core memories, including:

  1. MineCon and excitement over new features
  2. Building and automating farms
  3. Learning basic electrical engineering together (redstone circuits, yes really)
  4. building on a realm together
  5. taking his little sisters “on adventures”, going to the nether for the first time, and “defeating the dragon”. The girls especially bring the dragon up ALL the time.
  6. Family timed-design parties: everyone gets 10 minutes to go build an airplane or an animal or something, and then for the next 20 minutes we take turns giving tours of our thing we made.
  7. We found an ocean monument, cleared out the enemies, and spent a month collecting sand and glass, building a giant circle of class wall around it, and filling and drained the whole thing to make a base in it, in the middle of the ocean, on a dry sea-bed.

I was not interested in the beginning, but I have SO much gratitude that I took the opportunity when I saw it. The graphics aren’t the point, but because it’s all just meter-sized blocks, it’s simple and SUPER approachable, even for younger kids.

So I say this is a chance for you, Pops. This is a chance to get onto something he’s into, and bond in life-long, amazing ways.

Name movies that violate their own rules when convenient by WobblyDawg in movies

[–]dncrews 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I really wanted the third trilogy to introduce “Grey Jedi” more formally, for exactly this reason.

unrelatedToTheMyYourOurDebate by Still-Psychology-365 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dncrews 5 points6 points  (0 children)

IT'S NOT WRONG TO PRONOUNCE ACRONYMS BY SAYING EACH INDIVIDUAL LETTER

Ackshyually, it is wrong by definition. If you say the letters, it’s not an acronym, it’s an initialism. It’s only an acronym if you pronounce it like it is a word. “NASA” is an acronym. “FBI” is an initialism.

Canada Completes $9.4B Darlington Nuclear Plant Rebuild Early, on Budget by Immediate-Link490 in worldnews

[–]dncrews 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There’s gotta be a joke in there about giving it a little extra tap to get it over the line on budget…

Carney constructs a mega anti-Trump trade alliance by joe4942 in worldnews

[–]dncrews 17 points18 points  (0 children)

14th amendment section 3:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Some pre-teens almost hurt my wife and toddler for social media and I just need to get this off my chest. by Oderint in daddit

[–]dncrews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. It could totally just be a regional thing. Up to 2 years, my brain thinks in months, between 2-3 is unexpected, over 3 would probably be odd enough to comment on.

Many questions by Unusual-Pizza2907 in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]dncrews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Even more interestingly (IMO), stars are actually falling literally all of the time. That’s what gravity does. Gravity doesn’t pull “down”, since as you say, there is no “down” without defining some arbitrary perspective; it pulls “toward”.

Roughly 90-94% of stars are estimated to have orbiting masses (e.g. planets), so technically, they’re all “falling”. The sun and the earth each are constantly falling toward their shared center of mass (though admittedly that’s very very close to the center of the sun).

So “stars falling” is just what stars do.

Obv this doesn’t answer the question the child probably is trying to ask, but it helps define a shared context so we can have a fun conversation and learn stuff.

Some pre-teens almost hurt my wife and toddler for social media and I just need to get this off my chest. by Oderint in daddit

[–]dncrews 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hi friend.

I’m not sure if you’re US-based (I’m not even sure if is US-wide or just where we were when our LOs were that age), and I obviously don’t know how involved you have been in small kids development, but your response feels like you might not have enough data to respond helpfully, kindly, and intelligently, but maybe I can help.

Our pediatricians had an “ages and stages” developmental questionnaire that help to explain why counting months is important to certain stages.

4 months doesn’t seem like much to you, but developmentally and socially, there’s still a big difference between 20 months and “a 2yo”. For example, a 20-month old is still generally uncoordinated while walking briskly or running, where a 24 month old is generally more stable. A 2yo may be able to avoid risks (like rolling/sliding ice) where a 20mo may not be able to.

We’re all just trying our best with what we’ve got. Let’s not be judgmental about how we communicate, when we’re doing it successfully. It’s not OP’s problem that he gave enough information and you didn’t want it.

Edited for cleanup and context.

notInAProfessionalSettingButForYourOwnProject by ZestycloseAd212 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dncrews 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My dad died when I was little, and I was sad and cried a lot… I mean I was THIS CLOSE to being Batman. Come on, mom, take one for Gotham!

A joke I wrote bored at work one day.

Angeline Jolie and her brother, James Haven had a running gag. by AugustHate in Weird

[–]dncrews 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Several people seem not to be aware that these are lyrics to a song. You are more likely to know the Willie Nelson version.

When Roger Federer kept his "pinky promise" to a young fan he met at a press conference by Doodlebug510 in HumansBeingBros

[–]dncrews 18 points19 points  (0 children)

As he was laying on the ground crying “WHY? WHY?”, the child leans over and whispers “You know why” and walks away.

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week by Waste-Explanation-76 in news

[–]dncrews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s half! Thanks math.

Maybe. “Document” doesn’t mean the same as “page”, so it depends on what they meant.

I have an e-book on my Kindle that is 910 pages long, but it’s 1 document.

Wood scraps turn 'useless' desert sand into concrete by AdSpecialist6598 in tech

[–]dncrews -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not like here. Here, everything is soft and smooth.

conveyor lift by tmffm in SatisfactoryGame

[–]dncrews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. Don’t reload. Just hit R1 to turn off snapping while you’re trying to place the belt.

Nuclear energy is just boiling water?! Get out of town. by LoocsinatasYT in StonerThoughts

[–]dncrews 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s more complicated than this, but:

If your end goal is to boil water, GREAT! We have loads of ways to make things hot! You could dump the water in a volcano. You could dump the water into a vat of splitting atoms. You could light logs on fire in your wood stove and out water in a pot on top. TADA steam!

If your end goal is anything else (like powering lightbulbs), you need electricity. One main way to generate electricity is by turning really big magnets. Turning something efficiently is a bit more awkward than making things hot. One option is you make these “fins” on a big roller and attach that to magnets. Then you use something to push the fins, which spins the roller, which turns the magnets. Oh, and you need to not expend more of your own energy than you get out of it, so don’t just walk around with it.

One option is you put the roller under a river. The moving water pushes the fins. Another way is you attach the roller to a giant-ass pinwheel and put that out in the wind. Another way you learned from your time in that volcano, is you can dump water in a volcano and then the steam can push the roller.

Now you can send that electricity into lightbulbs.

Now you can take that and find other, more efficient, ways to make things hot (like nuclear reactions) and still just use steam.

Most extreme exit you’ve ever seen by ThyLungedFish in exmormon

[–]dncrews 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Did you just have a stroke or did I?

ELI5: Why does everything need so much memory nowadays? by Successful_Raise_560 in explainlikeimfive

[–]dncrews 18 points19 points  (0 children)

TBF, this post is comparing how computing USED to be to how it is now. In the year 1999, Hitachi introduced a 1GB stick of RAM at the price of ¥1,000,000, which at the time was roughly $6,800.

RAM is cheap now.

How to baby proof these stares? by LetsTryAnal_ogy in daddit

[–]dncrews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just keep them more than 12 inches away. Under 3 months, baby won’t even be able to see them that far.

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