Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Is that related? Do they give money to bachelors?

Yes, it still allowed to give money to bachelor in Chinese New Year tradition.
My brothers (still Single) also got Hong Bao from relatives and my Mom.

Danganronpa v3 is - excuse the word - frickin' epic.
Kokichi is the most epicest character ever

Does anyone know when Donkey Kong: Frozen Ape is coming out? (ˊ̱˂˃ˋ̱)

When Reader leaves his house after the winter lock, having not shaved at all. @GyroZeppeli

I had some oreos (without milk, the absolute madman)

@Anti-Matter
is it true that putting the envelope under your pillow is good luck?
I used to have a boss that gave me a red envelope every lunar new year.

@CharlieSmile
I.....have never heard the superstition about putting the red envelope under the pillow.

A lot of schools from here are closed tomorrow because of the freezing temps. Wind chills here are supposed to get down to about -30 degrees. I know it's even worse as you head north.

Unfortunately, some of us still have to get out and head to work in the morning. I don't plan on getting out much past my commute, so I think a PB&J and some carrots + hummus are in order for tomorrow. I might throw an apple in too.

@ReaderRagfihs @Blitzenexx You know what? Here in Australia, kids are going to school in 40+ temperatures.

If over 40°c was "cancel school"-worthy they'd probably only go to school half of the year.

At least here from late spring to early autum, it's usually around the 40° mark, with summer going higher. I'd assume Australia is similar.

Meanwhile, here in Indonesia it oftenly raining during the end of January.

Edit: Oh, it's raining now in my place. 🙄

I need to start using Celsius more often. Fahrenheit is extremely stupid and just makes science harder.

@GyroZeppeli you’d think that with so many gadgets and apps all over the planet, we’d have some that displays both at the same time.

@GyroZeppeli No, you should actually use Kelvin instead. Only that gives you the absolute zero point...

Meanwhile, i was playing DDR X2 Arcade at TimeZone Super Mall Surabaya after working time at school.

Me and my Fabulous Scores on DDR X2 Arcade. 😎

That’s a very bright and colorful arcade. Looks more fun than the typical drab, dark warehouse vibe the ones I’ve been to give off.

@GyroZeppeli Imperial measurements are mostly stupid compared to their metric equivalents, but Celcius is simply a terrible system for temperature...the ugly sibling of the rest of metric. Basing an entire measurement system not on any actual zero, but on the freezing point of unsalinated H2O with a range from 0 to 100 to it's boiling point is bizarrely arbitrary and meaningless for...well...just about everything else. Fahrenheit at least offers higher resolution with less decimal figures, and is based on the freezing point of salinated water....like most of the water on the planet, and it's biggest thermal mass. I agree with @ThanosReXXX, Kelvin is the only sane system with Fahrenheit-like granularity and a basis on absolute zero.

Celcius...... I think I'll start my own temperature system based on the freezing point of maple syrup.

@JackEatsSparrows @ReaderRagfihs I'm lucky enough to have a Japanese-owned arcade that's actually pretty new....so it looks like a typical Tokyo arcade. Big, dark, colorful, and lots of Japanese-language cabinets. Three full sections of fighter candy cabs. We had zero arcades for decades except for like 3 cabs in a closet in the mall or movie theater. Then this jumbo one opened....it was a dream come true but I haven't been there nearly as much as I should be before it ends up inevitably closing, too. They've invested a lot in it though. They have a neat thing where for older cabinets you can just buy a 1 hour pass, and it's pretty cheap, and play unlimited. The newer cabs are full price of course. I got to try the tea table flipping game...but it broke while I was using it

@NEStalgia Uh... I was... uh... just kidding?
I like my boiling water at 100 degrees Celsius (yes, it is written with two s'es) just fine, thank you.

But on a more serious note: of course it now all seems arbitrary, but back when it was first invented and implemented, it had an academic/scholarly use, and people just didn't know any better. There's a good reason why Fahrenheit and Kelvin were invented quite a bit later.

And let's be honest: who, in their every day lives, uses some number to indicate the absolute point, that something is absolutely frozen solid down to every single molecule?

Perhaps kids named Kelvin, who wonder where their name might come from, but other than that...