ChillDude69

@ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com

LEMMY ALLOWS ME TO HAVE A SCREENNAME THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN 15 YEARS AGO, ON REDDIT. I AM CHILLDUDE69 AND I AM FREAKIN’ HAPPY ABOUT IT!

Yes, I’m screaming all that. Capslock is still cruise control for cool, y’all.

Peace.

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ChillDude69,

I never played that, but now I’m going to have to boot that shit up, in EmuVR.

I put it on my notepad list of PS1 games to try, that I never tried back in the day, because I didn’t have a PS1.

ChillDude69,

See, that’s my actual opinion, also. But I’m not sure if it’s objectively correct. The speed of upvoting on this meme makes me think I’m not wrong, though.

ChillDude69,

…vocoder thrash ska? I think that’s what I just listened to. And I’m fucking digging it.

IT NEEDS TO BE A WHOLE-ASS GENRE.

ChillDude69, (edited )

If a game soundtrack is “jazzy”, it’s probably in the “easy listening” corner

You have literally no idea what you’re talking about.

Go and google the soundtrack for “Bully.” Observe the funk/jazz fusion of genius composer and performer Shawn Lee. Then come back and say: “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have opened my mouth when I didn’t know what I was talking about.”

I’m not talking about jazz-ish soudntracks. I’m not talking about jazz-like soundtracks. These soundtracks are ACTUAL JAZZ. They just happen to be on videogame soundtracks. Now, the meme is funny because it seems that jazz goes with videogames, even when you’re exposing it to people who generally don’t listen to jazz.

But, again, don’t fucking talk about shit that you don’t know about.

EDIT: also, there’s no way to disgust me faster than “hey, the music I listen to is awesome because of how hard it is to listen to it.” Fucking gross. Get out of here with that snob shit, man. I can’t even tell if you’re trolling.

EDIT 2:

Imagine only ever playing 2D Mario games

Uh-huh. And you think those can’t get turbo-difficult? That’s another thing you don’t know about, but you’ve got no problem talking about, anyway. Go take a look at the Mario romhack scene. The harder levels in that scene will make any of your “git gud” Souls-like players cry like babies.

ChillDude69, (edited )

I understood fine. There’s no way to misunderstand snob-ass comments like:

“jazzy,” in the “easy listening” corner.

You’re being a fucking snob and now you’re salty because I’m calling you out on it.

Music being hard to listen to doesn’t mean it’s good. But being “better than the average peasants at listening to music” is probably one of the few things you think you’ve got going for you. So you’re obviously not going to let it go, just because I pointed out how pathetic it is.

I mean, I did realize that when I replied.

ChillDude69,

So I’ve been told.

ChillDude69,

Yeah, I agree. There was no need for that guy to be a snobby fucking dick.

ChillDude69,

I think we, the night folk, are descended from the people who stayed awake, making sure the campfire didn’t go out and/or keeping watch for predators.

I wouldn’t be so upset, if there weren’t still nocturnal jobs to be done. But there ARE. We should have been singled out, early on, and told “okay, here’s the deal: you’re one of the night people. As an adult, please choose from these occupations that are best done at night. You will get a variety of subsidies and tax breaks, to encourage you to continue providing vital services, while the rest of us are sleeping.”

Apart from things like night security, waste collection, maintenance, etc, there should also be “normal” services staffed by night people, in order to serve the other night people. Like, doctor and dental offices that cater to the times when night people are just getting off work, can take off work during the night, or are still up at night on the weekends.

But none of that happens. Instead, the modern world is like “NOPE. WE WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO ABSOLUTELY ENFORCE A DAYLIGHT SCHEDULE, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE COMPLETELY MASTERED ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY.”

ChillDude69,

“BITCH, THE BASEMENT LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME REGARDLESS OF THE SKY COLOR OUTSIDE.”

ChillDude69, (edited )

USA measures shit in the approximation of one egotist tyrants body sizes whomist now long dust

I hate it, whenever this shit comes up. We didn’t use body-based measurements because of the EVIL TYRANNY OF THE HORRIBLE EVIL BAD EVIL KING.

We used them because, while the king might have been a bit taller than the average man, he was still basically the same size as most people. And so the measurements were actually conveniently sized, based on the scale of the human body (ALSO, THE KING’S CUBIT WAS A STANDARD MEASUREMENT, WHICH IS A GOOD THING. SEE MY EDIT, BELOW).

But the supposedly logical metric system calibrated the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance on the Earth’s surface from the north pole to the equator.

That’s arguably mathematically beautiful. Arguably. But it’s not useful to people. It’s not based on the human body. I object to that. I think it was a deeply anti-populist decision, made by haughty nobles, who quite rightly got their heads chopped off, right after they came up with that shit.

Those nobles had no idea how common people used measurements. They didn’t consider the people who actually built houses or tables or ships. They were planning on using the metric system to do pure science. That’s fine. That’s good. We need that. But there’s no reason the scientists can’t use a measurement that is also good for engineers and carpenters.

But no, the aristocrats were going to pick something they thought of as numerically lovely, and never spared any fraction of a thought for the real people, who would have to use the measurements to do real-world shit. Again: it’s good that they had their heads chopped off. They were pieces of shit.

When that revolution was happening, we should have revamped the metric system based on a Universal Standard Cubit. I think we should have gone and measured the cubit lengths of a million real people, from all cultures, all regions, all faiths, all races, and taken the average of them. That would have been useful and appropriate.

EDIT: I’m just saying, if you’re going to hate on the nobility, at least be consistent. A lot of people are like “Cubits? No, because kings bad.”

But then you’re like “Metric system good. Metric system forced on us by SMART aristocracy.”

EDIT 2: PEOPLE ALSO FAIL TO REALIZE THAT THE ANCIENT CUBIT WAS A STANDARD MEASUREMENT, WHICH PROVIDED MOST OF THE BENEFITS OF MODERN STANDARD MEASUREMENTS, LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE THE FUCKING METRIC SYSTEM.

It’s TURBO DISHONEST to extoll the fucking virtues of metric standardization, then go “oh, stupid bad evil stupid evil dumb king was such an egotist that he FORCED his people to measure things using his arm.”

MOTHERFUCKERS, IT WASN’T ABOUT THE KING’S PRIDE. IT WAS THE INVENTION OF A STANDARDIZED UNIT.

You guys think standard units are good! That’s what the cubit was! People had literally been using their own forearms, but some genius was like “nah, we need a standard one…but we should keep it about the size of the arm. Might as well use the ruler’s arm as a ruler, that way he’ll probably pay for a bunch of them to be made, with his massive gold stash.”

ChillDude69, (edited )

There is far too much variability in the body size of adult humans

Yeah, that’s why you have to choose between three different door sizes, when you go into any building. And why cars have to have different steering wheel sizes, for different sized people. Oh wait, no. That’s not how it works, at all. People’s average body size IS basically the same, if you exclude the actual dwarves and the actual NBA players.

You need a standard unit which would need to be measured using a standard unit measuring device

Yes. That’s why I suggested a Universal STANDARD Cubit. It would be a standard length, just like the meter. But it would be based on the PEOPLE. Not some random, useless fraction of the distance from the pole to the equator. How is that useful to anyone? Pegging the definition at least in the AREA of a human arm’s scale HAS to be better than that.

use a standard that makes the math easier.

Funny you should bring that up, too. The metric system should been based on 12, not 10. Dividing things by numbers other than 2 and 5 can be useful. And, by the way, you could ALWAYS multiply things by 10, just by adding a zero or removing a zero. That’s not some special thing that the metric system invented. I don’t know why people think that it is.

ChillDude69,

You still need an exact standard that you have to measure against for any kind of precision

THAT’S WHAT THE OLD CUBIT WAS.

Go look it up. The Egyptians, Sumerians, and Israelites had standard cubit-sticks that they would keep in the palace and use to make the ruler-sticks, for actual use. That is the SAME CONCEPT OF STANDARDIZATION THAT MAKES THE METRIC SYSTEM USEFUL. Let’s be clear about that. These were carefully calibrated tools. That’s why you could use them to build highly functional irrigation canals, large buildings, and fucking pyramids. They weren’t estimating, based on the human body. The cubit was a STANDARD MEASURE, which brought almost all the benefits of standardization, as soon as it was invented.

That concept of standardization was not invented by French motherfuckers, thousands of years later. It was already a thing.

But you get that shit twisted. When French aristocrats in the 18th Century re-discover standardization, you’re like “AHHH, YES. MARVEL AT THE SUBTLE GENIUS OF THE MODERN EUROPEAN MIND.”

Then, when the cubit comes up in conversation, you’re like “STUPID OLD KINGS, FORCING THEIR EGO-MEASUREMENTS ONTO THEIR PEOPLE. SO DUMB AND SO TYRANNICAL.”

You can interpret standardization as either convenient and useful or as “OMG YOU’RE FORCING PEOPLE TO ACCEPT YOUR FOREARM AS A MEASURMENT.” Again: you’re choosing to see the modern metric standards as useful and the ancient standards as evil and/or stupid. For some reason that I don’t understand.

To belabor the point I made in my final edit, I’m certain that the reason the king’s forearm was chosen as the template was so that THE ROYAL FAMILY WOULD FUND THE CREATION OF THE STANDARDIZATION SYSTEM. That’s pretty fucking smart, on a number of different levels. It was the true invention of standard units AND it was a brilliant way to corner the government into supporting it. And it made sure people didn’t have any choice but to start USING the standards, because otherwise they could be seen as badmouthing the king. Fucking genius.

I’m also pretty sure the standard cubits weren’t changed to fit each new monarch’s body. They just kept the standard calibration rods and maybe, like, claimed that all the kings were the same size. That didn’t really matter. The point is, the standard measurement system retained the backing of the ruling dynasty. And as for different kings and regions having different cubits, THAT didn’t matter at all. You didn’t cooperate on building projects with your neighbors, in the ancient world. You were either trading with them for commodities that weren’t measured in anything other than quantity and weight, or else you were fighting them. You never ran into any problem that could have been solved by a global standard cubit.

Just…please at least go confirm all this on the wikipedia page for the cubit. Please understand that it’s literally the opposite of “dumb king body measurement, because dumb king’s ego was big.”

Literally. The concept is literally the actual opposite of that.

ChillDude69,

Thanks. I at hope some people at LEAST get it through their heads that you shouldn’t think of the ancient cubit as “big dumb king made people use his body measurements, because he had a big dumb ego.”

As I said, it’s LITERALLY the actual opposite of that. Royal cubits were the first standardized measurement, and they brought probably 90 percent of the overall benefits that the later metric/SI system would bring, thousands of years later.

ChillDude69,

Yes, algorithm-based standardization IS an actual new (and very recent) development of the modern SI system. But remember, the new definitions are indeed VERY NEW. The metric system originally relied on standard meter-bars and weights, which would be used to physically calibrate everybody’s meter-sticks.

Try using your thumb as an inch reference.

YOU’RE STILL NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT, WITH THE CUBIT SYSTEM.

The old cubit system that everyone is deriding, when they say “lol, imagine using a king’s arm as your measurement” was NOT a matter of using anyone’s actual goddamned meat thumb as a measurement.

Maybe it was, before the king’s body parts got involved. But by standardizing on a what was supposedly the king’s body parts, you got THE BENEFITS OF STANDARD MEASUREMENTS.

They had a standard cubit rod, in the palace or temple or wherever, and you would use that shit to calibrate everyone’s everyday-use measuring sticks. Remember: people are saying that it was dumb and ego-driven for the measurements to be based on the king’s body. But, to make it abundantly clear, THE STANDARDIZATION WAS THE USEFUL PART OF THE WHOLE THING.

The idea of a forearm-length and a finger-length became axiomatic and abstract. The important part was that it was a standard unit that everyone could rely on. It was the same from one end of your kingdom to the other, and you didn’t have to worry about one guy’s arm being shorter than another guy’s arm, and so your building comes out crooked.

I’ll say it again, to be super-duper-incredibly clear: it’s unfair and idiotic to be like “HAHA, IMAGINE BEING SUCH A DUMBHEAD THAT YOU WOULD USE A KING’S ARM TO MEASURE STUFF,” but then turn around and praise the metric system for the wonders of standardization. You can see the ancient world’s standardization either as “tyrants made the people use their system” or “someone invented standard measures, and that’s why the Egyptians could build so much awesome shit.” The latter is correct.

As I have said a couple times in other comments, the real genius move was deciding to base the new standard units on the king’s body, in the first place. I’m certain it was NOT the actual kings who had the idea, but whoever it was realized they could use the power of the king for everyone’s benefit.

If someone had come up with the concept of a standard cubit and just shopped the idea around, everyone would have been like “cool, that’s great” and then fucking ignored them.

But some massive-brained motherfucker went to the king with the idea. This did several things:

  1. It got the royal family to fund the creation of the standard system. Funding is good. You can’t have a new system without funding, and the king was the guy with the funds.
  2. You need a safe, well-maintained, centrally located place to store the precious original calibration cubit rod. The king has one or more of those places. They’re called palaces, government buildings, and/or temples. Those places are made to be secure, yet accessible for people who need to get official shit done. Absolutely perfect places for making new rulers from the calibration rods.
  3. When people get a delivery of new rulers that are based on the king’s forearm, they are VERY unlikely to say “cool, whatever” and refuse to use them. That could be seen as rebellious, rude, or impious. So you get people to ADOPT your new system of standardization.

This shit is fucking genius. It delivered a huge percentage of what we think of as the benefits of the metric system, thousands of years before the goddamned metric system.

Yes, there are genuine innovations that came along with the metric system itself, and as the SI system has been refined, over the last couple centuries. But that journey STARTED with someone deciding to use the king’s body parts as a standard.

Nobody should ever use “haha, it’s so dumb to use measurements based on a long-dead king’s meat parts” as some kind of CONTRASTING example. That makes no sense. That shit WAS the beginning of standardization. It’s not the opposite of the metric system. It’s the progenitor of the metric system.

ChillDude69,

I’m one of these Texas motherfuckers getting fucked with by this dumb shit. I am in the market for a cheap, effective VPN.

I’m thinking about trying Express VPN, but I haven’t had time to do all the comparison shopping for which one is actually best. I don’t need a shitload of different devices, all at once. At most, I need to maybe cover one desktop PC and two WiFi devices. But I’d be cool with just one seat.

Anyone got recommendations?

ChillDude69,

Hadn’t even heard of them. I’ll look into it. Thank you!

ChillDude69, (edited )

I just heard that Express VPN was bought by a shady company, too. I wonder if it’s the same one.

EDIT: Yep. It’s the same one. Kape technologies. They are apparently pretty evil.

ChillDude69,

$69 for a yearly plan. They know what it’s being used for.

ChillDude69,

You ain’t Rickrolling me, this time. I’m not clicking that shit.

ChillDude69,

Yesterday, I saw a video of a train getting hit by a tornado. It was SO MUCH GODDAMN QUIETER THAN PEOPLE HAVE LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE.

I mean, it wasn’t like a library during the height of COVID. There was some noise. But people have been telling me for decades that tornados sound like 500 freight trains all humping each other at full speed. And the thing the tornado was hitting was a whole-ass other train, on top of that shit! And it was being filmed from INSIDE THE FUCKING TRAIN!

But nah, it was just kinda loud. Not even really. You could still hear the train motherfuckers talking and shit.

ChillDude69,

Yeah, but these guys were the actual train engineers. Normally, they also shouldn’t be taking photos, because they’re supposed to be, like, steering the train or whatever…but there was a tornado. So they were kinda off the clock.

Well, I hope they WERE still on the clock. I mean, I hope they got paid for that whole day. They were just doing the correct thing by stopping, rather than trying to outrun the tornado and making a bad situation worse.

I guess that would have been pretty ironic, though. If train dudes tried to outrun a tornado that same way that dumbasses try to drive though train crossings, right ahead of the train.

ChillDude69,

Don’t confuse noise by a few extremists online with “society”.

Let’s all pray you’re right, come November.

ChillDude69, (edited )

Recompiling your OS kernel: “I’ll do that shit, sure. It’ll make me feel SO MUCH SMARTER than those WintelBox Sheep.”

Reading about 300 words: “Nah, too long.”

EDIT: Also, you say it’s not about % of users, but that really is just your opinion. Things WOULD be a lot different, if there were significantly more Linux users. I won’t bother to elaborate on how exactly I think things would be different, because I realize you don’t like reading.

ChillDude69, (edited )

That’s all amusing, in its own belabored way. But think about the specifics. That little screed was published in 1999. I’m pretty sure there was no 3D accelerated GPU on the market that had functional Linux drivers, at that point. I guess that would be like the free tanks being unable to drive on many newly built roads.

I imagine the station wagon buyer pointing this out, to which the guy with the bullhorn would reply “You don’t need to drive on those roads!”

That’s always the Linux answer. Whatever it can’t do, you just don’t need to be doing. Until the driver support DOES come along, then they add it to the “see, Linux can do anything and everything” list, without feeling the slightest hint of self-awareness.

I could be wrong about the state of Linux drivers for GPUs, in the late 1990s. If I am, then fuck it. You could say I just wasted those three paragraphs. But there’s always something. Printers, scanners, webcams, other peripherals. The corner cases do get fixed eventually, and there are a lot less of them, in 2024. But in the 90s, it was a lot worse. There truly were plenty of things that you just couldn’t do with Linux. Given that, I find the characterization of Linux as an invincible supertank among shitty cars to be more than a bit stretched.

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