addie

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

Thought they were running GPT on a Playstation3 cluster, there. Sure, get the PS3 for cheap, but spare parts will be a bastard.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You killing them with artillery, or you just have very small handwriting?

[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Ah yes. I remember preparing a recipe once that included frying up the ingredients in a cup of oil, and that turns out seriously fucking greasy if you use the UK cup size.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 38 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Bear in mind that the gallon we use is different from the US gallon, too:

  • a UK gallon is eight (imperial) pints of 20 fluid ounces, so 4.54 litres
  • a US gallon is 231 cubic inches, so 3.79 litres

The reason that I thought American car fuel economy was so terrible as a child is partly because UK mpg is +20% on US mpg for the same car on the same fuel. But also, because American car fuel economy is so terrible.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

A mace is a tool to defeat plate armour - can still cause bludgeoning damage and concussion just by smacking it hard enough. Regular soldiers would probably be wearing mail, which can be defeated by a piercing sword, and peasants would have a gambeson at the very best, which can be defeated with slicing swords or (preferably) axes.

No, these are weapons for killing aristocrats.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A shame that all the really early 3D games use their own software rendering engines, and aren't so amenable to being "cranked up" like later games when accelerators became common.

Get some of the early freescape games like Total Eclipse or Castle Master, early cyberpunk games like Interphase, or even Frontier: Elite II running in big resolutions with silky framerates and insane draw distances, I'd be so pleased.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 10 points 8 months ago

Safe-for-work Oglaf? You tease. Sure, that first link is okay...

[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'm thinking buy a little cocaine, and then blow the rest on strippers. Treat yourself.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Well yeah, but you can get either or both from a corpse.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Get some Dwarf Fortress-style reanimation on the go. A ghost and a zombie from the same corpse? Why not, one's the soul and one's the body, makes as much sense as anything else.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

Our busses were super cheap anyway; am not sure what benefits the tram brings really except making it very easy to get to Murrayfield a few times a year. Come visit our town anyway though; bit grey, but we're friendly when you get to know us.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At first, the air of mystery suggested hidden depths, but increasing exposure revealed that it was all just woven from thin air and would routinely come out with increasingly absurd stories that contradicted previous statements.

Also, the X-Files.

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