Topic: mildly interesting

[Kpyna]

what are some mildly interesting things you notice?

i was just using google and in italy you get redirected to google.it from google.com, so the name of the website is "google it". unfortunately, this awesome play on words is lost on italians i'm sure.

[Spriter]

I guess something that is mildly interesting is when my mum's parents visit, her dad always puts on How It's Made. I guess it's kinda interesting to know how things are made but it's just more of a "oh, they do that with that to make that? okay" sort of interest.

[Kerou 犠牲]

what are some mildly interesting things you notice?

i was just using google and in italy you get redirected to google.it from google.com, so the name of the website is "google it". unfortunately, this awesome play on words is lost on italians i'm sure.

Google in Spain is google.es

googlees

[Petzbreeder]

For a while, I've been wanting to know what having amnesia was like. Now I know!

It was weird. My brother came to visit me in hospital yesterday, and I had no idea who he was.
One of my friends who I haven't seen in ages was in the same ward as me, and I remembered him.

Strange how amnesia can do that.

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 Due to the fovea in the eye, we all have a blind spot in each eye.
 

[SirBlaziken]

I guess something that is mildly interesting is when my mum's parents visit, her dad always puts on How It's Made.

I used to love that show.

Something I find mildly interesting is Apples to Apples. I know it came first but Cards Against Humanity is just so much better.

[lets all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes]

benzene isn't actually toxic to you as is. your body tries to metabolise it thru the p450 cytochrome (an family of enzymes in ur body which....well they metabolise and do a lot of things. ask a biologist.) and ur own traitor body sticks an oxygen on it which turns it into oxepin/benzene oxide which is nasty/bad. so its ur own bodys fault that we can't huff nice petrol smells all day

[Sizacu]

So smelling petrol is actually bad for you? I wasn't aware of that ;;

There's a guy called Justin O. Schmidt who gets himself bitten by insects to make a pain chart that goes from 0 - 4. He's ranked the bullet ant as one of the most painful stings. He's also quite poetic in how he describes the pain he feels, e.g. for the bullet ant: 'Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel.'

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Halloween is the most ironic holiday ever created. All year long parents tell their kids not to take candy from strangers. And what do they do on Halloween? Actively encourage their small children to literally walk up to strangers to get some candy!

[The name master]

The fact that Nintendo managed to stuff all the data and other stuff into one of these!



How the hell did they do it?

How much data can those things store?

[Spriter]

^I think you would be more impressed by the data going into Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire, then. And they're a lot smaller in terms of cartridge size.

[The name master]

^I think you would be more impressed by the data going into Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire, then. And they're a lot smaller in terms of cartridge size.

Yeah, but Pokemon Red was an old game from the 90's, and fitting all the data in one small cartridge must have been really hard back then. But now, we have all this fancy techonlogoy and storing huge amounts of data in one smaller cartridge is much easier.

[Kpyna]

Yeah, but once upon a time people were surprised you could save and insert your own data onto a floppy disk, and the from there they were excited, then people were amazed you could start popping them into your video game console to play something like pong. then they just downsized and memory improved because there was a market for it...

i used greek yogurt instead of sour cream (because they dont have in it italy) to make onion dip (which they also don't have) and it tastes exactly the same...

[The name master]

Yes, but thinking about the limitations of the gameboy and the amount of data storage the cartridge has approximately 56kb - 2mb) it's a bit "what the hell?!"

[Sizacu]

The game was also a lot simpler then, like how all same-species Pokemon will have the same stats at level 100, all sprites were limited to the same 6 or 7 colour palette and the instruments were heavily compressed. Even so, it's still impressive that people have taken the step to create hardware and store data on it.