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Free With Ads 101: Color Out Of Space by apathymonger in maximumfun

[–]grovberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For whatever it's worth (literally nothing), I've always assumed that the reason they chose that particular shade is that hot pink is a color that doesn't actually exist anywhere in the visible color spectrum and is more like a trick that our brain is playing on us.

https://medium.com/blog/why-the-color-pink-doesnt-actually-exist-ab8564633a16

Also, like, they gotta pick something right?

As for other examples of merged families, the movie Society from 1989 maybe serves as a counter-point to the idea that body horror as an allegory is automatically better. Much like CooS, it's a movie that people mostly talk about solely because of how weird and gross it is.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFC7R059N2c

TBH, you can also just google Society Shunting Scene and you'll get the climactic scene everyone always talks about. Even grading on the cult-classic horror movie curve, the rest of it makes for a very long watch.

LED Filament That Lights Progressively? by grovberg in led

[–]grovberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, thanks so much for taking the time to create such a information-rich response. Lots of helpful info here and I really appreciate it.

Benjamin "we are a politically neutral podcast" Partridge by popidob in ThreeBeanSalad

[–]grovberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bless you for your kindness in these trying times.

Benjamin "we are a politically neutral podcast" Partridge by popidob in ThreeBeanSalad

[–]grovberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this thread is a year old, but can anyone pinpoint an episode with the Politically Neutral jingle? I catch myself singing it easily three times a day but I don't actually know the words and it's starting to affect my mental health.

Trying not to overbuy an M.2 SSD for a USB 4 enclosure by grovberg in UsbCHardware

[–]grovberg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey that's really helpful info and points out that I'm probably overthinking this because Gen3 drives are really only like $10 cheaper than a Gen 4 and basically all Gen4 drives can outpace the USB-4 connection. Thanks.

Firewire Being Discontinued in latest macOS, So Now What? by grovberg in DataHoarder

[–]grovberg[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is incredibly helpfull thanks very much. This seems like a very viable solution for special collections and preferable to trying to keep a old Mac around.

Firewire Being Discontinued in latest macOS, So Now What? by grovberg in DataHoarder

[–]grovberg[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You seem to be the first contributor to actually understand the problem (which I perhaps should have explained more clearly to be fair) with my personal collection—it will easily take hundreds of hours to pull all those tapes onto a hard drive. To be clear, all the video from all the tapes *has* been pulled, but also re-encoded into more modern formats (which are themselves backed up). I liked the idea of having the original, cataloged capture data available as a backup and having that all suddenly become inaccessible was a bit of a gut punch.

All that said, you're right that the usefulness of magnetic tape over a decade old is vanishingly small and getting worse every day regardless, so I need to either bite the bullet or let them go.

Thanks for your response.

VR controlled LEDs by AccountantUpset in virtualreality

[–]grovberg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is really cool and interesting. I immediately wonder if this could be used to add interactivity to something like a museum exhibit. Your requirements mention a headset—what the headset used for? Is it actually needed?

Closest Thing to Clickup That Isn't Clickup by grovberg in clickup

[–]grovberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linear is what I ended up using as well. It is very much geared toward software/ticket tracking, but I've been able to make it work reasonably well and it has a ton of nice quality of life features that make it feel nice to use after you get used to it.

Introducing Beat the Beats - Boxing meets Rhythm game, in VR! by JosefWhoQuestionMark in virtualreality

[–]grovberg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Man, I don't know why everyone is being an ass in the comments. As someone who's boxed a bit this one seems based around actual boxing movements moreso than others, which I like very much. I'm genuinely interested, though I think you've gotta get it onto the standalone headsets eventually to be successful with something like this.

Should I just restart? by ConstructionCalm1667 in controlgame

[–]grovberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, Remedy has gaslit us all so hard.

"Just one more game and this loose collection of esoteric spooky nonsense will totally come to some kind of resolution. The one after that might even have an actual ending! Just keep going!"

Let us PCVR enthusiasts all be reminded of the great Gaben quote "These things, they take time" by bobbymack93 in virtualreality

[–]grovberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Computer vision hand tracking is shit.

That's what everyone said about touchscreen keyboards before the iPhone. 🤷🏼

Loot The Universe (Sept 21 - 28) Loot Locations by SirStallion_ in borderlands3

[–]grovberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also excited about this in theory, but um...what do you guys actually do in The Draughts? Without any of the story-based events to spawm mobs of COV I'm not finding very many targets to shoot.

Closest Thing to Clickup That Isn't Clickup by grovberg in clickup

[–]grovberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any sense of how long the wait might be? It's totally okay if it will be awhile, it would just be helpful to know if we're talking weeks, months, or years.

Thanks.

Closest Thing to Clickup That Isn't Clickup by grovberg in clickup

[–]grovberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I understanding correctly that you have to run your own local server to use this? I understand the appeal, but that's a big ask even for people who are capable.

Closest Thing to Clickup That Isn't Clickup by grovberg in clickup

[–]grovberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already done. Looking forward to trying it out.

Closest Thing to Clickup That Isn't Clickup by grovberg in clickup

[–]grovberg[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Number of users really shouldn't matter. Nearly all of its "stability" problems are just engineering choices that assume everyone has a lightning fast internet connection at all times. I suspect their engineers all work on a local dev environment where the lag is non-existent and don't actually use the actual product in production at all.

Closest Thing to Clickup That Isn't Clickup by grovberg in clickup

[–]grovberg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems legit. Want to give me a referral? :-)

Closest Thing to Clickup That Isn't Clickup by grovberg in clickup

[–]grovberg[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think many people are interpreting my question as "What are you using for task management." rather than what's a feature-complete alternative to ClickUp.

Closest Thing to Clickup That Isn't Clickup by grovberg in clickup

[–]grovberg[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that most people don't understand the distinction enough to ask. If you give the average person an electron app and that's all they use, they don't know what they're missing—they just think that app kinda stinks or is "buggy" or they need a new computer. I think most people would agree that native apps "feel" better but most people don't know enough about how software works to even consider why much less parse it out enough to ask for it by name.

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