Man I haven’t thought about kkrieger in a looooong time. Thanks for that!

I agree though. I think it’s been happening for years. Hardware has gotten so fast compared to where we were a few years ago. But it hasn’t caused rapid innovation like everyone thought it would. It’s just made devs lazy and we get massive unoptimized piles of shit released that take hundreds of gigs of space, require 8gb of vram and 16gb of RAM and still run like trash.

I’d love to see another era where we have game developers truly innovating and really trying to get the most out of hardware but I wonder if things have gotten so complicated that those days are gone.

The movie, despite being unrelentingly bleak, actually isn’t quite as soul crushing as the book. At least it wasn’t for me.

I don't get it.

Is raisins in Mac n cheese like, a big thing in other countries and us Americans just don't get it? If so I guess more power to you, that is news to me. I'd try anything once but I don't really like raisins to begin with so it's a bit of a tough sell.

And yes, pineapple on pizza is delicious. I've seen some truly abhorrent pizza toppings from elsewhere in the world, so I don't think we have some kind of monopoly on those crimes.

Hate to tell you this, but they both do it. I have the experience to know.

That sucks. It was like that here in the US about 5 years ago with IPAs. Every micro brewery made like 10 IPAs and nothing else. They are still the most prevalent style but there is a noticeable shift toward making lagers or less hoppy ales the past few years and it’s been a really nice change.

I don’t get it.

I don’t even like IPAs all that much.

But like… Pumpkin Spice is a seasonal artificial flavor that is I think annoying to people because it’s made its way into everything from marshmallows to crackers to milk.

IPA is a style of beer. That’s it.

Pushy, ignorant, reactionary, racist, isolationist, nationalist. Stick our noses into the matters of other countries where we don’t belong. Assume everything is centered around us. War/military happy. Arrogant. Loud.

Not sure if I’m missing any, but these are the prevailing things I see when people are talking about the US and the people who live here.

What is hard is that there are of course people (many people, even) that match one or multiple of those descriptions. But the same as it is silly to generalize all of Europe (or even any one European country), it is silly to generalize all Americans.

Maybe people are downvoting because it’s just not a very good meme?

I think most of us on the internet hear about it constantly and it’s pretty hard not to understand how we are perceived.

As with anything I feel like it’s a bit silly to pit the US as a whole against individual European countries. States are a much more logical comparison from the standpoint of physical size, population, and cultural regionalism.

It’s no surprise to me that the US as a whole is nowhere near the top. We have multiple states that are nearly entirely dry.

Check those numbers against drinking states like Wisconsin and I think the comparisons are much closer.

Not sure if you’re looking for an honest answer but the funniest/dumbest thing about this picture is that no, the “rules” are that anyone can baptize someone else. So it definitely doesn’t need to be a priest. This entire scenario is completely unnecessary.

Those signs were awesome and whoever decided they should change to what they have now should be ashamed.

People are definitely strange creatures lol

Ah the old “it’s what everyone does so it must be better” argument. A classic.

Agreed, though if you are measuring it via instrument then what difference does it make how “round” the number is?

Why would you talk about metric as a whole in response to a question asking about Celsius in particular? I very openly stated that I understand why metric in general is used for measurements of length, weight, and volume and asked specifically why people argue that Celsius is superior when its weaknesses in comparison to fahrenheit are similar to imperial’s weaknesses in comparison to metric.

I would have thought that was obvious.

The crossover is so fascinating to me.

Like you just nonchalantly use it for pools and ovens and nothing else. Kind of like we use liters randomly for certain soda bottles and basically nothing else.

How often do you convert temperature to different units? Isn’t that what we are stupid for doing?

And I would like to know why precision is irrelevant for temperature but relevant for other things.

I’m being genuine, I’m not trying to shit on you. I’m pretty open about liking the metric system, and I think the reason we don’t use it is largely the extreme administrative costs of doing so more than anyone thinking imperial is actually better. I think most agree it’s pretty clearly worse.

But I legitimately don’t understand how people can argue Celsius over fahrenheit when the arguments for fahrenheit largely match those for the metric system.

They aren’t, which makes this meme even funnier because in my experience Canadians and Aussies are pretty likely to understand both systems and wouldn’t have a problem identifying either.

I’d put money on this having been made by a European.

I was taught both.

Just like I was taught both metric and imperial.

I use both temp scales, though fahrenheit is more common.

I use both measurements scales, though imperial is more common.

One thing I’ve never understood though. Metric is more precise for measurements (at least without needing to involve fractional measures). I totally get why it’s superior for a lot of things, and indeed it is used in many places for this exact reason.

Why would anyone say Celsius is better? Apart from freezing and boiling temps seeming somewhat arbitrary with fahrenheit, does it not allow for much higher precision with regards to temperature identification without resorting to decimals? Isn’t this the same rationale used with metric vs imperial? It seems like a double standard to me, because remembering two temperatures (for boiling and freezing) seems like a small price to pay for a more precise system.