frank

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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

This is great, that machine has some funny weird details on it. The weld going over the bolted-together frame at ~5 o'clock on the photo is so silly. All the handles, levers, wiring, pullies going to nowhere

And in a few days, the gym will be nuts!

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

And they were made inoperable in the laziest way possible. Like someone bumped a cabinet and ALL of them broke. Easy, no more time travel.

Fine enough for a kid's book, but it tried to take itself WAY more seriously than that, just to continue to pick up and drop plot points and ideas constantly. I wouldn't mind it if a fair few people didn't hail it as if it's a great work

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

I have the J Saux dock. I hate how aggressive their marketing is, very astroturfy, but it has been good for my deck with some peripherals.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

You had me with LOTR for a sec 😂

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I'm just gonna hop on to say that there is zero world building in Harry Potter. I know that's because it was written for a youngish audience, but like the only things that are ever built on are used directly for the story in that book, then mostly left alone.

No one comes back years later with a Time Turner and wrecks havoc, for instance.

The few comparisons to Tolkien I've heard of her works are so unbelievably unfounded and off base.

Not to mention she's a TERF

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not to mention, the lightning plug was decent when it came out but stats wise it's WAY shittier than USB-C now. It's slow in charging speed and crazy slow in data transfer, and it's predatory in that only apple can make/use them.

480 Mb/s vs 40 Gb/s, wild

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz -1 points 8 months ago

Oh shit I completely forgot about that. So dumb, absolutely love it

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago
[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

The Kingdom Rush series and the (totally different) Kingdom Classic/Kingdom Two Crowns series are both excellent. I don't need them on steam (though if given them I will find a good regift home for them) but just to anyone looking!

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 76 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (21 children)

Interstellar. That ending was so unbelievably dumb that I can't even stomach the rest of the movie thinking about it.

I know it's got rave reviews, a stacked cast, Nolan directing. Plenty was pretty, cool concepts, high stakes scenes. But that ending... shudders

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Surely that attachment is significantly stronger than the sidewall. Even if you tried I think you'd just split the sides along the spiral impression and couldn't launch the top

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I live in another very bike centric city, Copenhagen, and bike theft is ~0.5% of bikes every year. Many people lock the bike wheels here, some lock them to a rack/something else as well. It's a lot less locky than the US (where I used to live), but theft still exists.

Since everyone has more support and means here, there is a lot less incentive to steal a bike. It's of course punished harshly but rarely caught.

No clue how Amsterdam handles it or how prevalent it is

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