@“mtvcribs”#p134115 Its great on apple slices.
Why do people talk on speaker phone in public?
@“tomjonjon”#p135197 when you think about it, it's a little more normal than talking on the phone normally in public, where only one side of the conversation is heard
@“DaveedNoo”#p134087 i love bon bon bon from detroit! whenever i'm home i go to the store and get a little wild.
the chocolate i've been buying the most recently is, strangely, dr bronner's:
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the hazelnut one is good
Someone asked me if there‘s a database where you can look up what arcade games are where in Japan. I feel like there is but I can’t place it? Anybody know about this?
@“exodus”#p135219 This site mostly focuses on music/rythm games but you can still search for other kinds of games. I don't know how comprehensive their japan database is though
https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcades.php
@“穴”#p135225 that's a start anyway!
@“tomjonjon”#p135197 I do put it on speaker but with the volume way way down, because I find it difficult to hear through a modern smartphone speaker which isn‘t pressed directly into my ear, and pressing a flat brick into my ear is uncomfortable—I’ll put it on speaker and turn it down enough that only I can hear it, but while holding it half an inch away from my ear. I usually see people in their sixties doing it—maybe they have my same problem and simply don't know you can adjust the speaker volume, having learned to talk on the phone when there were only two volume settings.
@“MoH”#p135218 ooo I'm into this Dr. Bronner Chocolate.
My question is based on people coming into the library where I work blasting their speaker phone conversations and getting upset when they are told no speaker phone.
@“tomjonjon”#p135256 no manners/indulged ugliness of personality
@“tomjonjon”#p135256 This more detailed response was necessary because I am less bothered by this outside when there's all kinds of ambient noise.
Like the Connrrr Picture Show said, they haven't got any manners!! I dunno, its giving me music on the subway vibes. We don't have any subways in our state that I know of so maybe it just comes out at libraries.
Can someone explain to me why the TurboGrafx 16‘s motherboard is so much bigger than the PC Engine’s? I figured the housing was mostly empty for the longest time, but the mobo is actually completely redesigned. I suspect the decision was actually made to make the console bigger to help it do better in the US, but why not leave the internals as-is?
@“the rocky connrrr picture show”#p135295 ok maybe I figured it out after looking at more pictures: did it really save on costs to pack everything into one board, cutting out the ribbon cable to the card slot? I guess it must have.
@“the rocky connrrr picture show”#p135296 yeah, I believe it does - printing stuff on one board is much cheaper than connecting two. just considering the manufacturing process, one board to prep vs two means you only set the machine up one way, one time.
@“exodus”#p135299 well I think it‘s possible they could have been printing both boards on the same sheet and then cutting them out, but then you gotta do that and wire them together. Must have figured if americans like it big then they’ll make the most of the opportunity to keep costs low.
@“tomjonjon”#p135256 feels like a similar vibe of people talking in a movie theater.
one time a couple in front of us was gabbing away and we shushed them then after the movie the woman followed my girlfriend into the bathroom to yell at her "was that you who shushed us? so im not allowed to talk during a movie now?"
on its face this statement feels ridiculous to me. it doesn't seem to me like a recent or obscure development that talking during a movie is rude behavior. but then i think "do more people feel the way this woman does than i do? and if so, doesn't that by definition make my opinion the reactionary one?"
i honestly don't know. this feels like the kind of thing it's impossible to poll but it is very rare to go to a movie in the last few years where i don't hear people chatting. i hate it but i also worry that i am now the old man who wants people off his lawn or whatever.
@“Coffinwarehouses”#p135305 My solution has been to never go to the movie theater because somebody in there is invariably doing something other than watching the movie and I just can't get over it generally.
@“Coffinwarehouses”#p135305 I was curious, so I tried to look up if someone had actually attempted to poll this, and apparently this question had a cultural moment about eleven years ago. It seems like it might have been kicked off by Anil Dash writing about how it's good actually (which you can only view on the wayback machine now, lol): http://web.archive.org/web/20130811060502/https://dashes.com/anil/2013/08/shushers-wrong-about-movies-wrong-about-the-world.html
The consensus then seemed to be that he was a big idiot.
I also find this article from 20 years ago interesting, because it's coming from the same place you are (and it blames home video, which seems quaint now). But it describes the exact same problem: people talking and getting indignant if you tell them not too.
https://screenrant.com/talking-in-movie-theaters/
It kinda seems like since the Iraq War or thereabouts some cohort of people became okay with being loud jerks in public. Or people started noticing that they were loud jerks.
Then again, it's been a problem for at least the last twenty years, so maybe us quiet-watchers are rowing against the tide.
@“Mnemogenic”#p133978 I think Australians are obligated to mention Tim Tams when it comes to the snack conversation.
But my real answer are the discontinued Quatros. Haven't been around for over a decade but still think about them occasionally.
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