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| Topic | Anyone Know How They Calculate... |
| Sahuagin 01/17/20 5:21:36 AM #4 | this old site has a short explanation of how HP is determined (wayback machine link) https://web.archive.org/web/20050308211159/https://www.rustyiron.com/engines/rig/horsepower.html DETERMINING THE HORSE POWER OF AN ENGINE. probably not that useful --- |
| Topic | Anyone Know How They Calculate... |
| Sahuagin 01/17/20 4:48:27 AM #2 | not sure but looking it up I get something like 15 cc = 1 horsepower and 1 hp = 745.7 watts. so 1 cc ~= 50 watts the cc to hp number varies a lot though. seen between 14 and 22 cc = 1 hp. that gives a range of something like between 34 and 53 watts per cc. I think the 745.7 number is pretty consistent though, so if you have hp you can convert more reliably. --- |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: Ehhh... no reason musical playlist |
| Sahuagin 01/17/20 1:32:59 AM #5 | I've never heard that one before, but I've definitely seen some Kevin Macleod music here and there I guess these would be "background music to 50% of good youtube videos" (Dr Dre beats): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYxqZDt1on8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO3YeCXGP2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR5uT4k-QRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCq9o6fkz5k --- |
| Topic | whats your preferred font for a spreadsheet with data - headings and numbers |
| Sahuagin 01/16/20 12:45:59 AM #4 | I use Verdana the most these days Consolas or Segoe UI Mono is good if you want fixed width --- |
| Topic | Is Mario Kart just becoming Nintendo kart? |
| Sahuagin 01/15/20 9:20:20 PM #8 | Lokarin posted... I wish there'd be a new F-Zero... it has a lot more actionyes please recently tried out Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the switch... was not impressed... --- |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: Ehhh... no reason musical playlist |
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| Topic | Video Game Scavenger Hunt! |
| Sahuagin 01/14/20 9:55:54 PM #5 | Name a boss weak to poison hmmm. poison is effective on a lot of bosses, but seems maybe unusual to specifically be weak to it. I vaguely recall wanting to use Poison or Bio type spells on some boss in some FF game. feel like it would be cheating to look it up though. Find an FPS with critical zones that aren't the head fallout 3 or 4? but I can't think of any specifics offhand... A game where you go to the Moon Wolfenstein: The New Order A game with brand-deal items in it I dunno what that means. like real-life brand name items? or? A talking sword. Lilarcor I think it's called Red barrels dont explode. feel like I've seen that somewhere but can't think of it You must eat to survive. Exile games You must blink. no idea for that one --- |
| Topic | Boardgame players, Are there games that use a lot of currency other than monoply |
| Sahuagin 01/14/20 9:25:46 PM #16 | hypnox posted... Sorry, I should have specified :) Its the Iron Clays from Roxley games so denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and 500 :)note that the denominations may not matter, as long as you can build the same amounts and not run out of bills. in monopoly you start with 2 500s, 2 100s, 2 50s, 6 20s, etc.etc. but who cares, what matters is that you start with $1500. (a much simpler way to start the game is to just give everyone 3 500s.) for a game like Masterpiece where you have $1M bills, probably you can just scale things down (divide by 10,000 or something). --- |
| Topic | Boardgame players, Are there games that use a lot of currency other than monoply |
| Sahuagin 01/14/20 3:44:30 AM #2 | stock ticker there was a game about auctioning art. looking it up it's called Masterpiece, and it looks like it uses huge denominations ($100k-$1M bills) stock ticker uses $25-$5000 --- |
| Topic | Is the Empire State building strong enough to actually support a great ape? |
| Sahuagin 01/12/20 7:07:38 AM #2 | roughly sounds like it, yes, maybe excepting specific things like hanging on ledges or the spire, or jumping around on flimsy surfaces, etc. supposedly he would weigh a few dozen tons a building can support hundreds of tons per floor --- |
| Topic | What is the oldest working (when last used) video game system you still own? |
| Sahuagin 01/12/20 6:02:31 AM #19 | I have a working NES and SMS. I have owned older things in the past, but I guess they were all sold away at garage sales or something, can't remember. --- |
| Topic | Rank Star Wars movies from best to worst |
| Sahuagin 01/11/20 4:08:24 AM #13 | are your #s episode number or release order? something like (best to worst): Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi Attack of the Clones Phantom Menace The Force Awakens A New Hope Revenge of the Sith (I like A New Hope less than most people, and Attack of the Clones more than most) Haven't seen The Last Jedi or Rise of Skywalker yet --- |
| Topic | My winter coat is broken... |
| Sahuagin 01/10/20 4:06:08 PM #2 | apparently it's about to become insanely cold. not looking forward to it. haven't really stocked up much on things. wonder if it's considered evil to order pizza when it's -30C and colder out. --- |
| Topic | Ow, my eyes! GameFAQs is too bright in 4k!!! |
| Sahuagin 01/10/20 6:06:06 AM #26 | I think he's trying to say that if the game is running faster at higher FPS then technically it's still "frame-locked". ie: you haven't "bypassed it". bypassing it would mean (I guess) that the game isn't running faster despite high fps. --- |
| Topic | Ow, my eyes! GameFAQs is too bright in 4k!!! |
| Sahuagin 01/10/20 5:11:37 AM #19 | what monitor did you get and what did it cost etc? --- |
| Topic | Ow, my eyes! GameFAQs is too bright in 4k!!! |
| Sahuagin 01/10/20 3:24:55 AM #14 | Lokarin posted... Ya, I had little white sides... but in 4k they were MASSIVEin 1080 I zoom in to use up all the space --- |
| Topic | Best Avengers movie *possible MCU spoilers* |
| Sahuagin 01/09/20 2:20:46 PM #5 | Infinity War I enjoyed the most. I think I've seen it three times so far. (others I've seen twice). Civil War in close second (better the second time) and Endgame in close third. on a different day I might swap these two. --- |
| Topic | It's Monday! Pizza or Healthfood |
| Sahuagin 01/06/20 6:54:43 PM #2 | I would say pizza, but I've been eating too much pizza myself lately --- |
| Topic | Are the shittiest nukes still stronger than the most powerful alternatives? |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 10:32:55 PM #4 | the smallest tactical nuke is something like 10-20 tons TNT (not kilotons, tons) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device) the largest non-nuclear bombs are between 10 and 40 tons TNT. (MOAB is 11, FOAB is supposedly 44 but may be exaggerated) so I guess, the tiniest of tiny nukes is roughly comparable to the hugest of huge conventional explosives. --- |
| Topic | I spent over $1000 on anime in 2000. How many have you heard of or watched? |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 8:53:47 PM #42 | I saw Princess Mononoke. It was weird. --- |
| Topic | Edge of Tomorrow is such a good action movie |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 8:14:21 PM #17 | I liked it except maybe until --- |
| Topic | I Regret purchasing FFX/X-2 on the switch eshop |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 5:38:13 PM #35 | is this a wifi or wired connection? absolutely use a wired connection if you can. even then make sure it's a good cable with good ends that are seated properly. (if you must use wifi, check the line of sight to the router, and clear the path as much as you can. make sure there's no sources of interference near either device or in between. make sure that the edges of any antennae are aligned towards the target device.) beyond a bad connection to your router, you might need to forward a port. reading nintendo's instructions on how to do this is not very reassuring though... other things can be IP conflicts on your network, network cycles, etc. but it's not easy to diagnose this kind of thing without actually being there. (another possibility could be space requirements or something, but I don't know how the switch works. maybe there's not enough space for this game, but there was space for the other game? I would hope this wouldn't be what happens in that situation, but who knows.) --- |
| Topic | Whats a good way to replace sugary drinks/snacks |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 4:48:51 PM #41 | Wanded posted... It contains artificial sweeteners instead of sugar which are just as bad."just as bad"? 0-cal, no sugar spike, and no tooth decay, so while maybe not great, they're way better than sugar sodas. Smarkil posted... la croix makes my soul wanna diesometimes it tastes somewhat chemically, I think due to not enough flavor and too much CO2. but I love the carbonation enough for it not to matter too much. the one time I've tried Bubly, it seemed a lot better at having a tasty flavor. --- |
| Topic | A middle eastern/russian Coalition airstrike kills Charles Manson, what a do? |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 4:46:40 PM #9 | Zeus posted... The fact that they're convicted makes it a bad parallel as well. The US killed an active general in good standing with his government, which is why the assassination can be viewed as an attack on the government itself.I'm not actually up to speed on this current situation which I didn't realized Lok was implicitly directly referring to. I was just looking for things that were the mirror image of "western country assassinates middle eastern terrorist" (with a loose interpretation of "terrorist" so that there'd actually be someone to choose from). --- |
| Topic | in retrospect, grade school managed to teach me some skills that I remember now. |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 4:41:34 PM #10 | acesxhigh posted... I always heard that children can learn languages more easily. Maybe not true.as far as I know, technically not true. children don't have any more ability to learn languages than anyone else, they just have way more free time, and have been fully immersed in their primary language since birth. supposed to be that it takes approximately 30 years of immersion in a language to become maximally proficient in it, regardless of age. --- |
| Topic | in retrospect, grade school managed to teach me some skills that I remember now. |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 2:37:17 AM #2 | well, it's not surprising that university covers significantly more dense material than elementary school. it's also not surprising that you're more capable of learning as an adult than as a child. --- |
| Topic | A middle eastern/russian Coalition airstrike kills Charles Manson, what a do? |
| Sahuagin 01/05/20 12:01:48 AM #2 | terrible person to pick... no one cares if charles manson dies. (died in 2017 actually). better pick might be someone like Edward Snowden (not a terrorist but at least maybe ideologically controversial). or maybe the unibomber, Ted Kaczynski, who at least has a possibly sympathetic ideology, though his means of expressing it were unfortunately extreme. another possibility might be one of those military personnel who were convicted of abusing iraqi prisoners? then you at least have a western individual terrorizing middle easterners. --- |
| Topic | What's the slowest, most methodical, intelligent game you've ever played |
| Sahuagin 01/04/20 11:55:22 PM #8 | I dunno if anyone would agree, but I think I would say Kerbal Space Program. Maybe I suck at it, but without looking up tutorials or walkthroughs, it's probably the single most challenging game I've ever played. can't even access 75-90% of the game (in career mode) since I don't have the ability or knowledge to. --- |
| Topic | Any of you here really want to be a manager at your work but..... |
| Sahuagin 01/04/20 11:49:27 PM #3 | the opposite. I don't want to be a manager, but those kinds of skills are a lot more in demand. --- |
| Topic | BEST OF 2019: PC ~ Missing Entries |
| Sahuagin 01/04/20 1:27:35 PM #9 | KiraResari posted... My vote goes to Age of Wonders: Planetfall.yay, yes it is a surprisingly good game. I think I would say Sekiro is better though, but those are the two best games of the year for me. Judgmenl posted... 2019 was a terrible year for gaming anyways.also this --- |
| Topic | I'm now discovering Rammstein |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 10:51:36 PM #7 | |
| Topic | Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 10:45:18 PM #5 | can't remember --- |
| Topic | Are there any characters who dual wield a 1 and 2 handed sword? |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 10:11:40 PM #2 | if I recall, for "giants" in 3E D&D, 2h weapons become 1h, so they can dual a 2h and a 1h you could also do this in dark souls games, but it wouldn't be very effective --- |
| Topic | Marvel Phase 4 will feature GAY AND TRANSGENDER CHARACTERS!!! |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 7:10:04 PM #34 | I noticed there was an unnecessary "here's a trans person" and "here's a gay person" scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Avengers: Endgame respectively. I suppose it will be more of that? I find it mildly irritating at worst. --- |
| Topic | If you could play one IP forever - Day 11: FINAL |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 6:58:03 PM #9 | Warcraft. WoW + RTS Warcraft is a lot of variety and gaming. --- |
| Topic | What's your favourite use of (nearly) instant death in video games? |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 6:56:07 PM #7 | Death Spell in BG2 is one of my favorites. It's AOE with no saving throw and no limit on the number of enemies affected. Only restriction is that it only affects level 8 enemies and lower, so enemies that it works on it will always work on. --- |
| Topic | Hypothetical: If a 99% popular bill is shot down in congress... what do? |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 3:22:27 PM #10 | Mead posted... unfortunately most of the legislators needed to make that kind of reform really love that moneyan article V convention can bypass congress to make a constitutional amendment. still need to convince 2/3 of the states to agree to the convention. 5 have signed so far. --- |
| Topic | Whats a good way to replace sugary drinks/snacks |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 3:13:08 PM #6 | definitely suggest sparkling water. either La Croix or Bubbly are good. they're 0 cal and also no artificial sweeteners. just as satisfying to chug down with a hot meal or to sip while relaxing, etc. --- |
| Topic | Hypothetical: If a 99% popular bill is shot down in congress... what do? |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 2:59:22 PM #6 | get money out of US politics so that decisions aren't guided by money and corporations --- |
| Topic | Weird, I just got perma banned on r/feminism for my first and only post there. |
| Sahuagin 01/02/20 12:43:02 PM #9 | you said there isn't a problem a lot of the rules there boil down to basically "agree with us or else" --- |
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