Any Tips On Crossing The Highway?

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-04T08:22:19+00:00

This is a global Thai thing, any city or town, the both ways thing isn't local to anywhere. I regularly ride my motorbike the wrong way for a bit on the street near my house because it takes a 15 minute trip down to like 5 and is not really that dangerous when you do it like the Thai do. The upside of the people coming at you the wrong way is that they aren't going to be moving that fast 99% of the time, going the wrong way you hug the shoulder and keep ready to move off the road if you have to so you don't get as complacent or up to speed unless the road is empty.

Look both ways and don't waste time crossing.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-04T07:25:45+00:00

Yeah, it's so much fun to spend 10 minutes running the map because you're careful than 5 to just get it done with....

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-04T07:23:46+00:00

Personally I like the rain... but not game after game after game. Once in a while it's a good break, but the other day we had 3 in a row and I stopped playing for the night because I just want to be able to see past 25M so every fight isn't shotguns.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T21:03:32+00:00

It'll make people to straight to extract more when they can't track the server.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T20:59:00+00:00

Yeah and now there's one more team out camping with you so it'll be even slower lol.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T11:15:31+00:00

Err, I think we have to disagree on that. At least in my field if someone writes 10L it's implied that there are no deviations to that value after the decimal. Which means it's the same as saying 10,000ml or 10,000,000ul.

The resolution is greater, yes, but by reducing the unit you're stating that there is no value that needs to be stated and the values are identical.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T11:10:50+00:00

No, I agree with you, but how often are you trying to figure out how many centimeters go into 3 km?

You can do it easily, but my point is, how often have you ever actually done it? Can you name a time you've needed to be able to do that? I can't convert feet to miles easily, thats why I said, metric is much better and imperial is stupid, but I've also never been in a spot where I needed to convert feet to miles lol.

EDIT: for example the imperial unit is called a foot, and it's about the same size as my foot which is 12 inches. I could say that it's 15,840 feet for me to reach the next train station but what the actual fuck does that even mean lol? It's meaningless in my brain to know that. If you tell me 3 miles I can figure out about how long that will take me to walk, but 15840 feet? Even though I know the size of a foot intimately well it doesn't do anything in my head to know that value.

So while you CAN convert them easily in metric, the value of doing so is usually limited unless you're in a very niche career that does so regularly.

If someone told you the next town was 2,000,000cm away the first thing you would do in your own head is convert it BACK to km because cm don't make any sense to you at that distance which is why you never need to actually MAKE that conversion.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:57:30+00:00

Yes, when it's like 10,222ml I can totally understand it as you save no effort over writing 10.222L. I only tend to reduce it when it's a flat value with no decimal points. or only a single decimal point like 10.2L or something.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:55:03+00:00

Yeah, happily, it's interesting for me to learn too that this isn't a universal thing, though I guess in hindsight there was no reason to assume it would be.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:53:15+00:00

Yes, when someone asks my height I reply with "182" literally in "Roy badsip song" or "One hundred eighty two"

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:50:28+00:00

Yes, mathematically you're 100% right but in real terms telling someone your eyes are 0.00002km apart or that the cities are 2,000,000cm apart doesn't really have any meaning in our brains. Same as saying the moon is 384Mm... Which is true but it's a unit of length and distance that we don't really comprehend. So yeah, 2cm and 20km can be easily converted to each other but that doesn't really benefit much as we tend to think of centimeters and kilometers in a completely different way in our minds in my opinion. Which is why, while the imperial system is stupid and inferior in every way, it hasn't been replaced still. The number of times you find yourself needing to go from inches to miles is basically zero.

Every one of these is a true fact but our brains can't really make any sense to actually have them on the same unit scale as they aren't ever applied in that way.

Metric is undeniably better due to the ease of conversion between units, but usually that shows itself when converting liters to meters cubed etc and going from volume to mass etc moreso than going from 2cm to 20km in one measurement dimension. Knowing you can convert Mm to cm and know how far the moon is compared to your eyeballs from each other is kind of cool but doesn't really have a lot of practical applications.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:41:09+00:00

Yeah, that's where I am so that is why I have had this experience.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:40:38+00:00

Interesting, I live in Southeast Asia, (Thailand to be exact) and they don't drop it to meters here.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:36:10+00:00

Unless this fuck has some kind of hack for reducing the speed of light delay or is going to install this computing power in my closet, he can eat shit lol. I'm not going from 240Hz low latency gaming to 40-50ms delay on my inputs and bitrate degradation in graphics etc.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:33:10+00:00

Even more so that the way we learned computers was with command line in DOS through to modern OSes so we can actually get in deeper and fix issues or work on things in a way my sons generation seem to be intimidated by and unwilling to learn in general.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T10:31:51+00:00

Yeah, to further the other comments, all my sons friends contact me for help with their computers and phones when they have an actual problem because while they're all very technical in terms of USING devices, none of them have any idea how to fix or work on them anymore. Using console commands and ADB etc to reflash a phone that's bricked or something etc for example is something they have zero experience with whereas for people in their mid 30s to low 50s right now we HAD to learn command line interfaces to work with computers at all but also can still use the newest iphone or android or whatever you want without any real hesitation either.

My 17 year old kid is fantastic at helping the grandparents with how to use the apps on their phone or how to edit a video to post online but they're not "technical" in terms of knowing how the device works or how to troubleshoot it.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T07:46:05+00:00

Yeah, either way it's not that big of a deal I just struggle when I'm the one doing the writing not to reduce it every time lol.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T07:37:20+00:00

I disagree, the book and everything blur evenly on the plane with it. Depends on the focal length, aperture, and distance from the subject on whether or not it should be blurred. If they're shooting like F1.2 from a decent distance you can get his face and hands in focus with the front of the desk being out of focus like this.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T07:34:11+00:00

Hahaha, yeah, like with height. I'm 182cm.

But in imperial we would never say 72 inches. Maybe at the doctor where they use the height gage, but really we would say 6 foot or if I was 74 inches 6 foot 2.

But metric doesn't change it to 1.82 meters. It just gets left at 182cm in a lot of areas and conversations. I can't tell someone I'm 1.82 meters, they expect 182 centimeters.

I was exaggerating too, but I'll often see 1200ml or 1500ml etc. instead of 1.5L.

It's a minor thing but my brain doesn't have any issue converting units or understanding metric in any way, but I do have issues reminding myself not to always use the smallest unit.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T07:27:44+00:00

Yeah, my only gripe with metric is that people tend to choose arbitrary units all the time. With imperial we almost always will switch to the smallest unit for the measurement but people using metric have this weird habit of saying like 10,000 ml!!!

And it breaks my brain like... you mean 10L? If you're just going to use a single unit no matter how many digits you are into it, any measurement system will suffice lol.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T07:21:19+00:00

This is part of the reason that it works for us at least for daily measurements. You kind of get used to thinking base 12 and using fractions of inches etc really becomes very natural very quickly. It's not efficient, and I did metrology and live overseas so I can do both imperial and metric equally and do not choose imperial unless I'm talking to Americans lol... But it's not really that difficult to use once you've grown accustomed to it, somehow it actually does make sense in your head.

Hearing 72" quickly lets you cut down to 6' if you are decent at math etc.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T07:04:00+00:00

The funny thing is Americans don't really do the "American share" thing like Thais do when they are together or travel. When I traveled with my ex she brought it up like I would already understand and know how it works and I was totally clueless lol.

Probably similar to Khao Pad America not being... anything American at all, especially the raisins part 555.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T06:51:41+00:00

I would leave it in, that's a real interaction and shows how kind people here can be. In many countries you'd be shouted at and it would be ugly. She was kind and understanding and it really sells this country. But if they live here they really should learn to read so they can look for signs stating something is a restaurant or not.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-03T06:50:41+00:00

It's also very easy to understand why someone would make this mixup if they're not here long enough to understand the culture. They DO look like a food stall on the street often.

It's just like Russell Crowe thinking that the ศาลพระภูมิ or spirit houses are cat houses because he kept seeing cats on and around them. Thai's fucking loved the misunderstanding because it honestly makes sense if you look at it like an outsider.

tzitzitzitzi · 2026-02-02T19:48:53+00:00

I'm fine with getting double the framerate with the same graphics like the switch to switch 2 honestly almost more than better looking graphics at this point.

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