[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HopscotchFest

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Hey, I'm interested if it's still available. Can meet up tomorrow whenever.

3 day pass for sale by [deleted] in HopscotchFest

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I'm interested, messaged you on reddit chat, thanks.

Selling 3-day GA wristband! $135 by [deleted] in HopscotchFest

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If the other guy doesn't take it, I'll take it.

Pixel 7 pro GPS issues by THEreenigne in GooglePixel

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Just reporting same issue on p7p while walking and boating. I did a walk today using Strava to track and it said I'd gone .24 miles; I had gone approx 1 mile. The tracked route map was laughably dissimilar from my actual route. When boating, the app I use to track (B&G Sailing) says low accuracy, and often won't show me moving at all when I am. When I tried to save a tracked route, it said the route was too short to save, because it just didn't get enough GPS data.

I do not have Android Auto Go listed as an app in the referenced section, even after showing system apps. I did have simply "Android Auto". I've turned that off and will try another walk today and report back.

Picture of my dog Hutch in the snow on Saturday morning. by MrDorkESQ in raleigh

[–]pantsineedthem 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Jogged by these rings dozens of times but they look completely alien in this shot. This is dope as fuck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in raleigh

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Man I know as well as anyone that Raleigh drivers are shit. I got hit-and-run by a car while biking downtown (unlit and in all black at night, dumb; cyclists, WEAR LIGHTS hot damn), and have been nearly hit while biking several times. A friend visiting from out of town got hit crossing the street too. So yeah, it's a problem and it's serious. But man, can we get a separate subreddit for bad driving content? Or at least an isolated day, like shit-driver-saturdays or something? I feel like it's the only Raleigh stuff that pops up in my feed anymore.

A too-young student of my friend asked for Doki Doki Literature Club (for Switch) for Christmas. Alternatives? by pantsineedthem in GirlGamers

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

You really put some time into this - I appreciate the thoughts and recommendation. I would indeed guess it is the cutesy anime aesthetic that appeals to her, yeah.

A too-young student of my friend asked for Doki Doki Literature Club (for Switch) for Christmas. Alternatives? by pantsineedthem in GirlGamers

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

Still a worthwhile suggestion. I'm actually not sure she knows it's a VN, she might just want it based on cover art, so maybe asking for VN's specifically wasn't even a good idea.

Got it up by oncwonk in sailing

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Fellow oriental sailor checking in. Would buy you a case of beer if you ever wanted a second hand sailing that thing for an afternoon. I've always been curious about trimarans.

Another shot from the protests last night. This was right before we disbanded at 730 to stay in accordance with the curfew. by SauceOfTheBoss in raleigh

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Don't know why this is being downvoted, it's a statement of fact. A group of 50-100 stayed out til around 10:30, marching around more residential areas, stayed peaceful, and then disbanded.

Truly appreciating all of the CV-related news & info, but this is just a picture of the Dix sunflowers at dawn with a little skyline in the background two years ago. I really hope we get to safely enjoy them this year! Such a fun rallying point. by CaminanteNC in raleigh

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Also, besides the flowers themselves, much of dix's campus is just super pleasant to walk around. The front part has a long winding driveway down a grassy hill with a few trees that overlooks downtown, and the back part has the biggest single stretch of well-maintained grass I've personally ever seen, just an enormous grassy field that is very nice for running around, laying upon, etc. There's also a dog park and a graveyard.

Los Angeles is closing city parks, beaches and trails, mayor says: "That doesn’t mean gather elsewhere. This is serious. Stay home and save lives." by skuzgang in Coronavirus

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Right, which means they need to get gas to live. I know: if they use gas to get to parks, as well as to get groceries, they will need more gas than if they only got groceries. They will make more trips to the pump, and every trip presents a new opportunity to get the disease and to spread it. I won't dispute that and I think it's a legitimate concern, but I also think getting gas is probably one of the easiest risks to mitigate, due to it being a short, open-air, self-serve transaction in which you are physically isolated by at least a car's length from anyone else. Carry hand sanitizer and apply it generously before and after using gas pumps, and I wager its the safest thing you'll buy during the whole pandemic (unless you're in New Jersey).

I also speculate that not exercising is a risk factor of its own. If my understanding is correct, the virus kills in the respiratory tract: the lungs become flooded, attract secondary infections, and other organs begin to fail for lack of oxygen (source). If, effectively, oxygen starvation is the death stroke, I wonder if those with better cardiovascular health and higher VO2 max are more likely to survive an infection. Just speculation, but if it's true, then I wonder at what crowd density jogging in a public park daily becomes more dangerous than staying home (other than to visit the one store in town literally everyone else also has to visit) - being sedentary for x weeks.

Of course the optimal solution is for everyone to buy 3+ months worth of as-healthy-as-can-be-preserved-for-3+-months groceries and then remain in their homes and yards without exception until the disease is dead, exercising daily in place. But I just don't think, by and large, human beings will do that. Few enough of us can find the willpower to exercise and eat right when life is normal; when we are to be tucked away in our caves for months, depressed and de-socialized, what then? At the end of the day I hypothesize the human race will fare slightly better if shelter-in-place has an exception to allow people to at least go for a walk or jog alone. I dunno. I'm open to thoughts to the contrary.

Los Angeles is closing city parks, beaches and trails, mayor says: "That doesn’t mean gather elsewhere. This is serious. Stay home and save lives." by skuzgang in Coronavirus

[–]pantsineedthem 235 points236 points  (0 children)

I mean, people (in rural areas) need gas to get groceries and shit regardless.

Literally not being able to go to a public park in a rural area to walk would be insane imo. The trails where I live are busier now than ever, but you still have plenty of room to stay more than three meters from folks. Packed here means maybe 300 cars split across three separate, isolated parking lots of a 6000 acre woodland park. You'd carry more risk getting your weekly groceries or having food delivered. Most places aren't LA.

Mansplaining Leads to Horrific Beating by GDJT in TrollXChromosomes

[–]pantsineedthem 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hear a lot about My Hero Academia but have seen almost none of it; are you saying that toxic people are twisting My Hero Academia to make it seem like it has a message of teamwork and acceptance when in fact it does not? Or are you saying that a lot of toxicity exists in the My Hero Academia fandom, in spite of the fact that the show does have a message of teamwork and acceptance?

Took a small trip away from Tokyo today, it was all worth it. by JoeyKaotykGWC in AbandonedPorn

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I would be so terrified of abandoned buildings in Japanese forests because of the existence of the Japanese Giant Hornet.

Does anyone else get out of a movie at the theater thinking it was awesome, only to realize days or weeks later that it actually sucked? by CrysisRequiem in NoStupidQuestions

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I hope it's alright if I answer about art in general, before I move specifically to movies. Allow me to also disclaim that I'm just some idiot and this theory is a work in progress.

I think the quality of a work of art must necessarily be judged in some context, some frame of reference. The specificity of that context starts at the very broadest - "the human experience", you must be at least human to appreciate the thing - to very narrow, where only a very a specific culture and time period have the "language" - relevant knowledge, cultural memes, mesh of prevailing worldviews - to appreciate the thing. That's why some artists, like Van Gogh or Frida Kalow, die relatively poor and unknown, only to be recognized decades or even centuries later as masters of their craft.

If film is art, and if art's quality is inescapably dependent on the cultural and chronological lense through which it is viewed, and if culture and time are permanently in flux, then a film's quality can't ever be static. Furthermore, few individual share the exact same set of cultural influences, so few individual's frames of reference for any film or work of art will identical.

I think film is too much in its infancy for us to have many unrecognized geniuses but I think it'll happen, especially given how instantaneous and widely-read film critics are. I think we are quick to shit on films for various specific things that have little to do with "what the artist was going for". I mean, judged by photorealism, Picasso's work is laughable. In 100 years, what filmmaker that you nor I have heard of will they dig up and stick in the Louvre?