frank
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- Comment on TIL about dating 3 days ago:
Southern Scandinavia checking in with 13 and sunny with a light breeze
- Comment on America is fucked 2 weeks ago:
They’re efficient and have no sense of humor
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 3 weeks ago:
I do basically only play indie games sans like, 2-3 Nintendo games per console generation. but yeah, sure feels like you get it all in the worst way
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 3 weeks ago:
Okay, fair enough. Just appreciating the lack of shit and (for something like an Animal Crossing or a BoTW quality Zelda game) I’m super happy to pay that much for a game I’ll sink hundreds of hours into, and I’d rather reward that price hike than any other form of monetization by them.
I’m real enraged by like 99% of things on the internet and in the world these days, but this pales in comparison to the rapid pace of enshittification I feel like I’ve had in virtually every other place in my life.
Still don’t love it.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 3 weeks ago:
Okay, here’s a slightly hot take.
I’d rather the price go up and the games remain ad free and high quality (not you, pokemon, you can get fucked) than become enshittified with micro transactions, ads, etc
I don’t like it. But it’s much more acceptable to me
- Comment on Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA? 3 weeks ago:
I live in Denmark. I’ve met a few people who don’t speak any English but they’re not Danish :D
Also it’s a fun language learning trope here that it’s hard to practice because people will just reply in English if your pronunciation isn’t good/it’s obvious you’re not Danish. It’s not ubiquitous but it definitely exists sometimes
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 4 weeks ago:
All I have to add is be careful investing in a Roth if you plan to leave the US. Some countries don’t acknowledge it as a retirement vessel and tldr it’s a pretty bad investment if that’s the case
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 4 weeks ago:
Cash travels, sell your non -heirloom stuff.
Doesn’t need to be a lawyer, relocation companies are amazing at this stuff. They can help with taxes, government registration, all of it
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 1 month ago:
The cool part is you can double and triple dip. Buy bitcoin, promise to make a US Crypto reserve, sell it during the boon, make your own memecoin and profit off that as well
Then maybe do it again when you maybe waste money on a Crypto reserve
- Comment on If society goes completely cashless, bank robberies would no longer be a thing, which means there would no longer be "bank robbery" plots in future Movies/TV shows. 1 month ago:
Shooting the mailbox twice is a line that gets me laughing every time
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
Sure did. Repairable ones. I strongly prefer wired headphones and will keep using them as I can, and I ain’t buying earbuds.
But I’d rather not let perfect be the enemy of good. I am not giving up a cellphone, so I’d rather have Fairphone trying (ans sometimes fucking it up) than give my money to anyone else in the market.
Them not being perfect in my eyes doesn’t qualify as a hostile relationship between their corporation and me.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
I have VERY few and I cherish them.
Fairphone feels great to me. I think My coffee stuff is the same (Profitec, Eureka Mignon); no app or wifi or anything, fairly available spare parts.
- Comment on What's the Standard Operating Procedure for if someone steals your phone while you were using it and its unlocked? 1 month ago:
I’ve had a false positive walking around the other day. False positive is no big deal of course, but it’s interesting that I’m seeing a post about it now
- Comment on Fruit 1 month ago:
For the uninitiated
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
I would agree in places with good infrastructure. I lived somewhere with rampant power outages, sometimes for 5 days at a time.
Gas was sure nice then.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 months ago:
I didn’t realize there was AdGuard available. Is it an extension or like a standalone app running in the background?
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 months ago:
It’s the opposite. On Android I have an adblocker. On my work iphone I have to raw dog the internet
- Comment on i'm gonna need directions 2 months ago:
You’re right, according to online calcs. But man I can’t remember how to count these myself.
Wanna explain for someone who didn’t have to do much chemistry?
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 2 months ago:
My friends and I loved your demo and can’t wait to play the whole release
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 2 months ago:
I love FFT ad FFTA but come on, give us a new one sometime. We’ve had like 10 remakes and ports of FFT
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 2 months ago:
I’ve been struggling without public transportation in Organic. It kinda works? Like it shows the path but doesn’t actually show the stops or station names
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 2 months ago:
Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate ans that’s a little boring :p
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 2 months ago:
二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda
Same with 三(San)
- Comment on Uniquely American 2 months ago:
Surprised to see Japan at ~40
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 months ago:
Denmark checking in, it was like $3 USD for 10 eggs yesterday, and Denmark isn’t cheap
- Comment on The concierge when I check into the love hotel with my waifu pillow [Day 34] 3 months ago:
Ah the link up there, The Room
- Comment on The concierge when I check into the love hotel with my waifu pillow [Day 34] 3 months ago:
Oh man you’re in for a great time.
See if there’s a live showing of it near you. It’s kinda like Rocky Horror Picture Show? Cult classic, lots of audience interaction when shown live. It’s earnestly bad but that’s what makes it good
- Comment on Caffeine content in filter coffee brews as a function of degree of roast and extraction yield 5 months ago:
That was an interesting read.
My takeaway is that there’s a bit more extracted caffeine in lighter roasts typically, but that it doesn’t have to be that way since you can extract more out of a dark roast?
- Comment on Petrichor 5 months ago:
Absolutely, if you’re serious about sensory science!
At the large craft brewery I worked in we trained on like… ~40 attributes? Weekly usually, with taste panel and impromptu trainings most every day.
- Comment on Petrichor 5 months ago:
Yup! I know, I was an expert taster at a large brewery :)
It was fun! And a little bit ruined some beer for me.