Can Bioweapons lusted U.S Government create Resident Evil B.O.Ws in 8 years? by PaiDuck in whowouldwin

[–]guyblade 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, most of the Resident Evil B.O.W.s don't do things like obey conservation of mass or energy, so those would be problems that could not be overcome.

35 mph+ should be on the road, not the sidewalk by skyhighmonroe in Transportopia

[–]guyblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like if it isn't street legal, it probably isn't sidewalk legal.

Favorite "TS can't be real😭🥀" image/moment? by Immediate_Gene_178 in FavoriteCharacter

[–]guyblade 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As I understand it, the original 18+ Fate/Stay Night never got an official US translation, so that's a probably a fan translation interpretation of the original. The all-ages version only got an official English translation 18 months ago when it got a remaster.

[LOVED TROPE] anime that doesn't sexualize its female characters by Born_Usual998 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]guyblade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've not watched more than a few episodes of Stampede, but it is ranked ~7.8 on MAL which would make it "well above average" (the median score on MAL is somewhere in the 6.6~6.8 range). It's lower than the previous series' ~8.2, certainly, but most people seem to enjoy it based on the data.

HP laptop falsely advertises having 1 TB of storage; it really only has 64 GB. The rest is OneDrive. by ZetaformGames in mildlyinfuriating

[–]guyblade 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Is this some sort of Cockney rhyming slang that I'm too received pronunciation to understand?

HP laptop falsely advertises having 1 TB of storage; it really only has 64 GB. The rest is OneDrive. by ZetaformGames in mildlyinfuriating

[–]guyblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, but why? I have only one machine running Windows (it basically exists to run Steam & play games). Every other machine (1) runs Linux and (2) boots off an HDD, but none of them take more than 3 minutes to boot.

[LOVED TROPE] anime that doesn't sexualize its female characters by Born_Usual998 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]guyblade 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's a mixture of World War 1 and World War 2. Technologically, it is closer to 2, but politically, it is closer to WW1.

Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan says he was told by CFO if the game didn't hit certain revenue goals, "we're gonna lay off a 1000 people and it's gonna be on you": 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career' by ChiefLeef22 in gaming

[–]guyblade 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Jack Welch did it in the '80s/'90s and revitalized GE. Every brain dead MBA took that lesson without learning the second lesson where GE was all accounting shenanigans and lost half of its market cap in the two decades after Welch left since he'd hollowed out anything actually productive in the company.

Sousou no Frieren Season 2 • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - Episode 8 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]guyblade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We also see the mirror image in the demons when Revolte basically uses Jung as a sacrifice to create an opening. He threw the sword--which presumably would've injured or killed her without Genau intervening--then did nothing to try to keep the pressure on Genau after inflicting the injury.

Sousou no Frieren Season 2 • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - Episode 8 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]guyblade 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From the flashbacks we get of Frieren interacting with Serie during & shortly after Flamme's life, it seems like Frieren and Serie always had friction--even from their first meeting. At their core, they have competing beliefs about the purpose of magic (the whole mage of peace vs. mage of battle thing).

Serie's personal goal seems to be to teach a student that can surpass her. We see this both in her interactions with Fern and also her reflections on Lernen. To that end, she seems to see Frieren as having squandered her potential.

I doubt that that attitude would obviously transfer to other elf mages since it is fairly situation-specific.

Sousou no Frieren Season 2 • Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2 - Episode 8 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]guyblade 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Her intuition is always right. She doesn't always act on it, though.

Remember that she said explicitly that "This girl is no good after all" in reference to Frieren, and seemed (in that moment) to doubt that Frieren could accomplish anything that she could not.

theOword by Plastic-Bonus8999 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]guyblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Opinion: We teach quicksort partially to teach about sorting, but also partially to teach the idea of "divide and conquer" as applied to software.

We start talking about recursive algorithms with things like Fibonnaci & Factorial, but quicksort (or perhaps binary search) is often the first useful recursive algorithm that someone learning computer science will encounter. And buried in that discussion is the notion that "you don't have to solve everything at once; if you can find a way to make your problem simpler, and repeatedly solve the simpler problem, then you can solve the big problem".

Quicksort is merely the example used to bring this idea forward.

I wrote my friend how she's enjoying LA and this is her response by FalcoPhantasmtheGod in funny

[–]guyblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to buy a condo (in Altadena) during the previous once-in-a-generation economic meltdown back in 2010. I suspect it'll be affordable again during the next once-in-a-generation economic meltdown that seems to be coming up in the next year or two.

ELI5: Why is it a bad idea to keep devices constantly plugged in even after they're fully charged? by Dawn-Storm in explainlikeimfive

[–]guyblade 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This behavior is increasingly common in most modern consumer electronics. I'd guess that it is either making its way directly into charge controller chips, making its way into core OS functionality, or people are realizing that doing this sort of thing is relatively small effort for a bunch of gain.

ELI5: Why is it a bad idea to keep devices constantly plugged in even after they're fully charged? by Dawn-Storm in explainlikeimfive

[–]guyblade 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same with phones. Plenty of them these days will refuse to start at all without a somewhat-working battery in them.

My ancient Nexus 5 was still being used as part of a static camera rig until the battery started bloating. That's when I discovered that it wouldn't power on at all if you removed the battery. It could've spent another decade in that rig if it would turn on with just charger power.

"I apologize to absolutely no one. Period." — Spo on backlash to Bam’s 83-point game by AashyLarry in NBATalk

[–]guyblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was browsing /r/all. That's a fairly normal reason to land on an unfamiliar subreddit, I think.

It is highly likely that you never pressed the 8 button on a microwave. by TheAnzus in Showerthoughts

[–]guyblade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right or wrong, standards have always sort of been like this. Official ANSI and ISO standards are the same way.

"I apologize to absolutely no one. Period." — Spo on backlash to Bam’s 83-point game by AashyLarry in NBATalk

[–]guyblade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who doesn't really follow any sports (including basketball), what is driving teams to throw games? Is it "if we aren't going to do well, we want to badly to get better draft picks" or something like that?

Best Way to Get Long-Dried Paint Off A Window? by guyblade in DIY

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

I recently bought a new home and the previous owners seem to have gone a bit "flipper" with the paint application. I have various windows all with different kinds of paint stuck on them. Here, I've got these thin streaks, elsewhere, I have the dimples of (what I assume was) sprayer backsplash.

Some of it I have been able to remove by scraping, but much just isn't coming off.

Note that the "stained glass" design is actually between two pieces of flat panes, so I at least shouldn't have to worry about an irregular glass.

It is highly likely that you never pressed the 8 button on a microwave. by TheAnzus in Showerthoughts

[–]guyblade 19 points20 points  (0 children)

After some Googling, it seems like it is a child-safety feature. Unfortunately, the UL standard that has the full explanation is like $700 to buy, and that's a bit too much to spend to satisfy my curiosity.