You’re dancing around my point that for human-scale units, basing something off a constant makes sense. Sure, at AUs and light-years, numbers get messy, but that has nothing to do with buying flour. And using a measurement system based on measurements that will never change seems wise.

I don’t think we’re going to solve a rational universal system of measurements on Beehaw. But the metre is most certainly not based on water; it’s the other way around.

We have so many systems at this point that traveling to space is an issue, which suggests the status quo isn’t working. What would you take as a base measurement instead of c?

I took a look at the first link, and I don’t mean to be rude, but what you’re expecting of users is downright hostile. Downloading a game engine and then runtimes to manually compile your game isn’t going to snag a lot of casual interest.

From your description:

You need to compile this project, and to compile this project you first need to have the godot engine with C#/.NET support which the download link is underneath this line, second you put the Bowling Mega Mix folder on your local machine, third you need to open that same folder in the engine, fourth compile the project either using the play button or something else.

To put new files in this repository you need github desktop, Here is a link to ubuntu based linux distro version of github desktop: https://gist.github.com/berkorbay/6feda478a00b0432d13f1fc0a50467f1 and whatever you do, do not use gitkraken as your github desktop replacement or linux version, it does not work.

Before you get the engine or compiling the project, you are going to need the .net sdk and runtimes and you may want to install an older version because sometimes the latest version does not work and here is a link to the directions on how you install it on linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux?WT.mc_id=dotnet-35129-website, to install an older version you change the version number to a lower number in the terminal.

To use mods you use the version 2 or later folder, you drag the mod folder in that very same folder and the mod folder must be called Bowling Mega Mix Mod and .tscn file must be called ModBowlingBall.tscn and lua scripts must be called ModBowlingBall.lua and ScoreLayer.lua

You posted as though you’d like feedback from people spending five to 10 minutes with your game, but you’re turning this into the better part of an evening by not having something one and done. That’s not how you draw testers.

It’s cool that you’re being so prolific, but please don’t ask people to install software other than yours for your software to work. If a .NET download link needs to be thrown into the .msi, so be it, but this should not be a multistep process (for *NIX, provide a script).

The whole point of metric is to avoid absurdly precise calculations across different measuring systems; a nine-digit denominator doesn’t help the cause. I of course deal with a mix of customary and metric units, but the metre is a terrible starting point and no less arbitrary than barleycorns or the king’s foot.

So, if I understand correctly, your beef here is not that the metre is a flawed basis measurement but rather that the U.S. refuses to use metric? That’s certainly a hill to die on, but using universal constants to define measurements seems the better route. The foot just as arbitrary as the metre.

Per Wikipedia:

Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠1/299792458⁠ of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.[2]

The metre was originally defined in 1791 by the French National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth’s polar circumference is approximately 40000 km.

In 1799, the metre was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar. The bar used was changed in 1889, and in 1960 the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. The current definition was adopted in 1983 and modified slightly in 2002 to clarify that the metre is a measure of proper length. From 1983 until 2019, the metre was formally defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in ⁠1/299792458⁠ of a second. After the 2019 revision of the SI, this definition was rephrased to include the definition of a second in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs. This series of amendments did not alter the size of the metre significantly – today Earth’s polar circumference measures 40007.863 km, a change of about 200 parts per million from the original value of exactly 40000 km, which also includes improvements in the accuracy of measuring the circumference.

If you’re using 1 over arbitrary hundreds of millions as a basis of measurement, it’s a pretty clear sign the base unit makes no sense and serves to make mathematics more complex, not cohesive.

I know this feeling all too well. I was told about context clues and handed books from a very young age. It was sometimes a decade or two before I found out my presumed definition of a word was wrong. More regularly, though, I tried to show off my newfound vocabulary and was quickly disabused of my error.

Not sure where you’re deducing that from … anything one applies a voltage to produces heat. Even microSD cards can get absurdly hot, and the controller is on the host end.

It’s heartening to see that the resistance consistently goes this route. Makes sense, of course, but still, it’s a slight sliver of sunshine.

Does what it says on the tin.

Honestly? This isn’t even new … I posted plenty of porn of my ex-wife, leading to a guy offering to buy her a house if she left me. Being creepy, uh … finds a way. I still don’t quite get why people don’t want to just meet someone and angle for a relationship instead of getting off in front of a glowing rectangle.

What were you expecting from that instance?

Toyotathon isn’t until the end of the year.

I’ve had several pairs. My first were hunter green, and I absolutely adored them. Then burgundy. Then I got a waterproof pair two sizes too large (ego at work … I figured my feet would never stop growing). From there, it was blue-burgundy-blue. I picked up several pairs during Covid for $30 apiece off AliExpress, and after running the first pair into the ground (quite literally; the heel is gone on the right one), I’m now rocking sand straps. I’ve still got an EVA pair for when it floods, but I much prefer suede.

Birkenstock Arizonas. Been living in them since 1993, and I hate having my feet enclosed. The only shoe size I know is 43.

To a nice farm in upstate New York.

That’s easy enough to say, but it’s unlikely it would have turned out how you’re envisioning. “Common sense” is not so common, as it turns out.

If half of any platform were to be rude and/or inappropriate, I’d exit, stage left.

I don’t follow you to your conclusion, though. The way most people treat strangers in the U.S. is basically “when are they going to fuck me over?” We’re less pleasant in meatspace because we expect deceit.

It had to be done.

Well, this is somewhat of a tedious slog to figure out what “young adults” are defined as.

From the abstract:

Sociodemographic characteristics and descriptive statistics for the analytic sample are presented in Table 1. Notably, the sample had a mean age of 29.11 years. Among participants, 79.7 % identified as cisgender women, and 31.3 % identified as gender and/or sexual minorities. The majority of participants held at least a college degree (88.1 %) and identified as very liberal or liberal (72.6 %). At Wave 5, approximately one-quarter of participants met symptom-based thresholds for at least …

Ellipsis not mine. Good thing we get to a fourth significant figure on age, though.

So, we have an absurdly skewed dataset … I’ll round, because this is … not data. Eight in 10 are women and nine in 10 have at least a bachelor’s. That’s going to get you results, but how they apply to the population in general is an exercise for statisticians who should know better.

If you want to say “most college-educated women,” we have a starting point, though still no clear age range, which is a fatal flaw for the premise of the conclusion. It’s unclear what setting up a survey under these conditions was intended to measure.

Let me tell you how excited I am that we’re getting yet more slow-moving heavy rains.