Yards are at foot scale, hence their use in football. /s

I never actually played it, but I definitely remember it being one of the games that everyone at school was talking about.

I’ve never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can’t imagine I’m unique in this.

100% this. Look, imperial may be silly, but some of the arguments for changing to metric are also very silly. Things are usually at a mile scale or a foot scale, and I don’t really need to go between the two.

And sure, converting between different units is convenient in metric, but how often do you have to do that? So you can easily tell me how many liters of water would be needed to fill a giant, square kilometer fish tank, but who needs to do that? What grade school math problem are you living in?

Very nice! With the leather strap holding it together, it looks like something a renaissance-era painter could’ve been using.

Also I didn’t know what “felting” meant before, thanks for that.

This person has a collection of sites about a wide variety of things. Some of them are unavailable now, but many are still up. Here’s another: https://zenseeker.net/Previa/PreviaMaintenance-DriveTrain.htm

I’m kind of surprised that it was just a fairly quiet policy change. They could have made a big announcement about it and gotten plenty of praise from comic book fans.

I will never understand systems that run a full operating system for something like a slideshow kiosk.

Yeah, definitely. This device does have a few features (the circular light at the bottom is where you can scan a QR code), but I still suspect this could have been implemented without a full operating system.

Unfortunately, the only open source physical media player I’m aware of is the Tangara. Their most recent blog post is from July, 2025, and mentions some tweaks they want to make before doing another production run. So there might be more units coming, but there will be a wait.

What a coincidence, I just saw someone playing a 3DS (not XL I think) on the train on the way home today. I haven’t seen someone playing a dedicated handheld console in forever. I should’ve struck up a conversation about it.

I also saw someone using an MP3 player last week. Single-purpose electronics making a small comeback this year?

They definitely do! A very distinctive look for FC2, another thing that sets it apart from the rest of the series. (I mean, OK, Blood Dragon is very distinct, too, but that’s kind of another thing.)

Unfortunately, there are still no computers that can run Crysis well. Some things are outside the reach of current science. Maybe in another ten years or so, we’ll get there. It’s still worth playing, though.

Oh interesting, maybe it’s just more of a western US thing and I assumed it was the whole country. I live in Utah now, and every high school has it here. Also every high school (from what I remember) in California also had it.

Had my learner’s permit at 15, and regular license at 16, which is pretty standard in the US. The driving school for me was literally the high school. Like, the driving class was one of the classes you take in your regular school. That is also pretty common in the US.

X-Men #24, and also last week’s Uncanny X-Men #22.

My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.

Aww, it’s like he’s keeping his nose warm with his tail.

Thank you! That’s too bad.

That’s interesting, I’ll try to learn more about that.

So, in this case, the community I was trying to post to was !vinyl@lemmy.world. There is also a user with that name on lemmy.world. If I search “vinyl@lemmy.world” on Mastodon, does that mean both of them should show up? And what would their names be? One would start with ! and the other start with @?

I think that’s just a way of getting a link to the community, but it doesn’t actually tag the community in your post or make it get posted into that community. I just tried it, and the post does not show up in the community that I mentioned with !.

If you close the program, you might lose information. Like information about sailors.

One of the few Monsterdon movies I’ve seen, and I remember seeing this one in the theater. And by that I mean, I remember that I saw it in a theater. I do not remember anything about the movie. Presumably there is a giant reptile.

Wait no, I just remembered something! A female reporter makes a remark about “Godzilla” being a mispronunciation of the Japanese name. I have no idea why that one scene has stuck in my brain.