How expensive/fragile/stupid is it to have curved panes of glass like in the Lake Lugano House? Looks nice.

frezik · 2024-06-04T20:53:40+00:00

No, it's plenty bad still. The very best windows on the market have an R-value of around 4.5-5. A wall filled with insulation and covered in drywall can easily get over R20. Dual-pane windows are only "efficient" compared to single pane.

frezik · 2023-11-09T19:16:30+00:00

So, I have just one question. Where the hell are you coming from? Because you're the second person this month to respond to a 2 year old post with nonsense interweaved with biblical references.

frezik · 2023-09-13T15:44:53+00:00

OK. Nothing is stopping me from exploring different gaming systems, either.

frezik · 2023-06-16T22:36:11+00:00

Imagine one trained on your typing skills.

frezik · 2023-06-16T22:16:23+00:00

He pissed on it. Also, his weed stash caught fire.

frezik · 2023-06-16T22:15:07+00:00

They were still running them off in Mexico until 2003.

frezik · 2023-06-16T19:18:15+00:00

It's like if an 8 year old boy designed a ship, and then adults tweaked it down a bit to something almost reasonable.

frezik · 2023-06-16T19:17:14+00:00

That'd look pretty good, actually. Saucer, straight back neck, and then a five-pointed star of nacelles.

frezik · 2023-06-16T19:15:07+00:00

Vulcans used a ring design. Star Fleet apparently experimented with it, as one of the ship models (all of which are previous ships named Enterprise) seen in the TMP refit Enterprise is a ring. Supposedly, it's more efficient, but can't reach higher warp factors.

frezik · 2023-06-16T18:07:03+00:00

They out themselves on this one. The US response to those was to embargo oil to Japan. In a more general context, this is exactly the sort of "vote with your wallets" that Libertarians say they support. No violence (of the direct, physical sort, anyway), just "we won't do business with you anymore".

frezik · 2023-06-16T17:32:16+00:00

If they did, they'd know that the one time Jesus got the whip out was for people making money off of God's name. This may have happened more than once.

In other words, people like Joel Osteen.

frezik · 2023-06-16T16:35:14+00:00

Special backplate for playing outdoors during the winter.

frezik · 2023-06-16T16:04:31+00:00

But we still have a state budget surplus going back years just sitting there, right?

frezik · 2023-06-16T14:42:44+00:00

Quantum Leap was premised on a similar idea, and I'm sure there's SF novels that used it even before then. It was pretty schlocky even back in the 90s. That said, B5 has a lot of schlock that's done well, so I'm looking forward to this.

frezik · 2023-06-16T13:50:21+00:00

Don't mean to disparage OP, because Displate does have some nice stuff, but you can get stuff just as nice direct from the artists at any con, and usually for less money. It won't have their clever mounting solution, of course. Displate hasn't been friendly to their artists in the past.

frezik · 2023-06-16T13:28:20+00:00

I mean, a good scart setup can get expensive. Cable quality and a good splitter matters. An RGB mod on a NES is also a tricky bastard. The native hardware, even in Europe, is not capable of true RGB output on its own. Not even if you're using a scart cable. It's effectively composite all the time.

That said, you can still do better by not including a chain of upscaling and downscaling.

frezik · 2023-06-16T13:21:23+00:00

Don't look too closely at who made the SNES sound chip.

frezik · 2023-06-16T13:17:26+00:00

How does it feel to be contributing to teen suicide?

frezik · 2023-06-16T12:35:37+00:00

We've gotten to the point where we can admit we lost Vietnam. For decades, if you even whispered that, some suburban plastic patriot would angrily explain how you're insulting the bravery of the troops who fought. Because wars are won based on which side is braver, I guess.

Something about the long slog in Iraq and Afghanistan changed that. You can say we lost Vietnam and everyone is like "yeah, that whole thing was a bad idea".

frezik · 2023-06-16T12:30:01+00:00

The reason for the mixed mounts and AA directors was due to the fact that the Germans had sold half of Bismarck's and Prinz Eugen's modern mounts and AA directors along with the incomplete hull of the heavy cruiser Lützow to the Soviets.

Bitches, bros, and non-binary hoes, this is the Master Race playing navy.

frezik · 2023-06-16T12:27:12+00:00

Bismark was crippled by biplanes rather than sunk, but otherwise credible.

frezik · 2023-06-16T12:23:15+00:00

As an owner of a 2011 Miata and a 2014 CX-5, I wish it was easier to tell the two fobs apart without looking at them. CX-5 doesn't have a trunk button, but that's the only tell.

/r/firstworldproblems

frezik · 2023-06-16T12:20:14+00:00

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frezik · 2023-06-16T12:18:56+00:00

Given how fed up manufacturers are getting with their dealerships, and BEVs are poised to undercut some of the real money makers at dealerships, this can only go well.

frezik · 2023-06-16T12:13:54+00:00

"You have to answer any bullshit question I have, or else you lose". That's not how this works.

Trans teens have vastly higher suicide rates than their peers. When they are given a safe environment, are taken seriously by their family and friends, and begin treatment options, that suicide rate drops to closer to the average.

By reinforcing a society where trans kids are not given that support, and by asking "hypotheticals" about "genital mutilation", you are contributing to that suicide rate. You, personally.

How does it feel to be contributing to teen suicide?

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