@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...
It's more not closed than the arcades I've been to.
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@ReaderRagfihs@ThanosReXXX Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I probably even already came to that conclusion. That's okay, I'll just mod it and find the repository for the ones I had(?). I remember playing the mess out of Military Madness from TG-16.
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@NEStalgia The entire metric system is arbitrary to some degree. What defines a metre? Why isn't it more or less. Because it's easy to use in everyday life. Celsius is simpler to use in everyday life than Kelvin.
And whilst most of the water on Earth is salinated, it's not to the degree that Fahrenheit was based on. Typical sea water freezes at around -2°C/28°F instead of 0°C. Not at 0°F. Water with salinity levels that have a freezing temperature of 0°F don't really exist, save for maybe a few salinated lakes or something like that.
@JackEatsSparrows Ha, one of my favorites as well. You've got good taste, my friend.
I actually used to play that on the Xbox 360, but once I found out that it was also available on the Wii,
I also downloaded it to that console.
Oh, and you can actually say "played the crap out of" something. That's not listed as a forbidden word on NLife...
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@ThanosReXXX Yeah, but if your'e going to argue about the best system to measure something, one that's based on something sensible is the "right" one to use. Anything else is just as bad as the other as they're all kind of wrong. I mean it's the sensibility that makes the rest of metric a good system as opposed to the kind of arbitrary based on local use cases standards of imperial. C throws that out the window. F is slightly better (almost.)
@ReaderRagfihs I haven't been there in quite some time (which I really regret) and they change cabs pretty often, every 6 months or so, but they get a lot of stuff "slightly used" from their main stores in Japan, plus more mainstream stuff. Sure, the front of the store has a lot of ticket redemption machines (same in Japan), there is (was?) a side section that had a row of rhythm games. No DDR (I checked, A-M!) Deeper in you of course get the traditional US style gimmick/gun/ride games. But then there''s the cool stuff. And a lot of Nintendo stuff! Luigi's Mansion (I spent an hour in that one alone!), at one point there was a row of 8 Mario & Sonic at Rio cabs in multiplayer config. There was a row of 4 Mario Kart Arcade cabs in MP config. Time Crisis. Cruis'n USA! The obligatory Sega racers. Last time I was there they just got in like 10 machines in MP config, I forget the name of the game, but it basically used a Wiimote as a magic wand and was kind of Dissidia FF NT-like. The tea table game. The fighting section is traditional (JP) sit-down candy cabs. They were running, at the time, SFIV, SFII:HF, MvC3, GG Xrd, and several Tekken 7 machines (it was a pretty new release at the time.) All Sanwa hardware.
It's pretty big. I mean the more time you're there the smaller it feels but it's big. They also have a ton of those glam/jailbait photobooth things that I can't imagine they turn a profit on, but clearly there's a surplus in Japan. I really really should make more use of that.....I waited decades for one and then got the king of all arcades, better than even the one when I was a kid, and I never go.
@Octane True, I make excuses for neither system, and yeah, the 50/50 salination isn't too useful, but it's at least a step in the right direction. They're centuries old nonsensical disasters. But where most of metric makes sense being base 10, C isn't even base 10 in a practical way because it's only base 10 if measuring unsalinated water from freezing to boiling. But I always feel like ranting on this whenever I hear anyone say that C is better than F, when it's worse, and both suck, and a better system already exists and is only used in labs.
@NEStalgia But that's just the thing: I wasn't arguing that one system was better than the other,
I was just pulling @GyroZeppeli's leg, with the Kelvin comment. Seems like you took that for real and went with it. To some lengths as well, I might add...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ReaderRagfihs: It's a similar case the farther north you head from here. Funnily enough, temps this weekend are gonna climb into the fifties. We're talking over a 60 degree (Fahrenheit) difference between the coldest temps of this whole ordeal (-13 F without wind chill this morning) and the alleged 55 degrees it'll be on Sunday.
Yep, weather is weird.
@TheAwesomeBowser: I've read that Australia is in the middle of a heat wave. Wanna send some of those temps our way?
Though I'm not horribly fond of our own summers as they get pretty humid past the 80 degree °F/27 °C mark....
@Anti-Matter: Arcades are pretty much extinct in my area. That one looks fun and colorful!
Edit: D'oh, there's already a new page! That's what I get for opening the thread and then becoming preoccupied with work....
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