The Some Like It HOT TAKES thread

No one has even mentioned minimum chip to chip latency...

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Robear wrote:

No one has even mentioned minimum chip to chip latency...

When deciding which chips to eat, never have I thought "yes, but which has the best bandwidth."

Obviously, throughput is higher with 2 hands going than one, but the bag has to be properly secured.

And tongues are like a third hand or almost the body's natural conveyer belt. I mean the true bottle neck would be your esophageal sphincter.

I hope we're still talking about eating chips because otherwise I'm disgusted/turned on/bit of both.

Go watch Silicon Valley, Danimal.

As this is in hot takes I’m going to go full linguistic difference red rag to the bull. Clearly you can’t funnel chips out of the bag as they are hot and usually eaten after many pints. Crisps on the other hand I accept only the tearing the bag and putting them in the middle of the pub table method. U.k GWJer out.

You what, mate?

Crisps are chips.

Chips are fries.

Fries are pommes frites (so, technically, with the English translation of this used in America, we are closer to the original than you lot).

Also, any chips can be guzzled if you're not a melt.

See, this is how we end up getting into the whole Biscuits/Cookies thing and I start yelling about the Battle of Yorktown.

bbk1980 wrote:

As this is in hot takes I’m going to go full linguistic difference red rag to the bull. Clearly you can’t funnel chips out of the bag as they are hot and usually eaten after many pints. Crisps on the other hand I accept only the tearing the bag and putting them in the middle of the pub table method. U.k GWJer out.

Oh contraire! The McDonald's fry delivery device is perfect for fry delivery. You can pick off the hot ones by teeth. As you begin to start getting near the edge of the card board sleeve, again, dexterity may be needed. Though the "chips" may be hot the mind willing but the flesh is weak. Hold said hot "chips" in teeth while breathing to air cool the subject then consume once desired temperature is achieved.

As "chips" dip below the level of "mouth nabbable" biting you can commence the tipped sleeve strategy to funnel "chips" into said mouth.

I hope this approach brings world peace.

Hobear wrote:
bbk1980 wrote:

As this is in hot takes I’m going to go full linguistic difference red rag to the bull. Clearly you can’t funnel chips out of the bag as they are hot and usually eaten after many pints. Crisps on the other hand I accept only the tearing the bag and putting them in the middle of the pub table method. U.k GWJer out.

Oh contraire! The McDonald's fry delivery device is perfect for fry delivery. You can pick off the hot ones by teeth. As you begin to start getting near the edge of the card board sleeve, again, dexterity may be needed. Though the "chips" may be hot the mind willing but the flesh is weak. Hold said hot "chips" in teeth while breathing to air cool the subject then consume once desired temperature is achieved.

As "chips" dip below the level of "mouth nabbable" biting you can commence the tipped sleeve strategy to funnel "chips" into said mouth.

I hope this approach brings world peace.

Blessed indeed are the peacemakers although I will say that i do consider what McDonalds produce to be fries, proper chips are big chunky things sold alongside various deep fried treats that when combined with chips are called suppers. As a Glaswegian we take our heart attacks very seriously.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, didn't realize you were a Scot. On the subject of fried things, your word is law. I've had fish suppers in Scotland and you all have it right.

Although it *was* in Edinburgh, which is on the right side of Scotland.

Say what you like about the Scots, they know how to eat, and they know how to drink. Mad respect.

Robear wrote:

Whoa, whoa, whoa, didn't realize you were a Scot. On the subject of fried things, your word is law. I've had fish suppers in Scotland and you all have it right.

Although it *was* in Edinburgh, which is on the right side of Scotland.

I will let the last part pass on the basis I went to Edinburgh uni but only just.

I only meant that, you know, it's in the East, when you face North. Yeah. That's it. East. Right side.

Right.

Have a cantie Yule!

Hot Take - Vampire Survivors is tedious dross and Disc Room is a MUCH better single-stick game (albeit that you occasionally have to hit the A button)

"You miss every shot you don't take" is a dumb saying. Not taking a shot means literally you don't miss. Maybe you're waiting for a better shot and in doing so increasing your chances to take a better shot and also conserve the shots you have available to you.

Rat Boy wrote:

"You miss every shot you don't take" is a dumb saying.

Especially since it's only half the quote.

BOB MCKENZIE: "You have taken a lot of shots this year."

WAYNE GRETZKY: "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take, even though there is only a 1-5% probability of scoring."

It was around January 1983, about the midway point of the season. Gretzky scored 30 goals in those first 40 games, representing a drop-off in his scoring rate from the year before. Gretzky would score 41 goals over the next 40 games. He was shooting his way out of what was (for him) a mini-slump.

Eh, I was just basically repeating Legion's post.

At the risk of Old Man Yells At Clouding myself, back in my day we also dreamed of being whisked to a fantastical school, but it wasn't a place where we'd have to actually go to a stuffy boarding school to learn waving sticks in the air whining out Latin like f*cken dorks after we'd been divided into gendered dorms and made to wear lame robes with different color trim, all with the promise that one day we'd get to graduate and become cops. We all dreamed of going to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, where we'd learn to fight racist robots while hanging out with a bunch of kinky freaks in spandex all the time. And instead of having a name like "Mimsley Flifflebottom," you got called something sick like "Cannonball" or "Mirage."

Yes! Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is far more appealing than Hogwarts ever could be.

Really f*cking bleak seeing how many people are choosing selfish nostalgia over solidarity and taking a moral stance, and how eager they are about doing so. Even in this community where you’d think people would be a bit more conscientious.

SpacePProtean wrote:

At the risk of Old Man Yells At Clouding myself, back in my day we also dreamed of being whisked to a fantastical school, but it wasn't a place where we'd have to actually go to a stuffy boarding school to learn waving sticks in the air whining out Latin like f*cken dorks after we'd been divided into gendered dorms and made to wear lame robes with different color trim, all with the promise that one day we'd get to graduate and become cops.

Don't forget monoethnic and monocultural.

We all dreamed of going to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, where we'd learn to fight racist robots while hanging out with a bunch of kinky freaks in spandex all the time. And instead of having a name like "Mimsley Flifflebottom," you got called something sick like "Cannonball" or "Mirage."

X-Men is the only comic I ever loved. As a kid, I couldn't yet directly draw the comparisons to civil rights struggles, or the Legacy virus as an allegory for the AIDS epidemic. But something about the inclusivity and the moral code of the X-Men felt right, in a way I didn't get from other comics.

I hate how weakly X-Men has been translated to movies, aside from those first two early '00s ones, before the comic book movie stampede really took off.

** 90s X-Men theme intensifies **

My big exposure to the X-Men as a kid was the 90s animated series. It wasn't a great show in a lot of ways. The animation was stiff, the voice acting was cheesy, the storytelling was all over the place. But it had good bones, inherited from the comics.

I was smart enough to connect the Friends of Humanity to the KKK and other hate groups. In an early arc they take an unflattering picture of Beast that makes him look like he's holding a gun threateningly (he'd actually just disarmed an FoH), and Beast gets arrested.

Magneto comes to try to break Beast out of prison, and Beast won't go. He just sits there politely thanking Magneto for his concern and quoting Tennyson at him. Magneto says, "what are you waiting for?" and Beast calmly replies, "My day in court." Magneto flies away in frustration and Beast sits and reads and waits for the guards to come repair the giant hole in his wall.

This was not how any superhero show I'd ever seen went. The villain doesn't try to help the hero with no apparent ulterior motive. The hero doesn't sit quietly and make the conscious decision to trust a system that's already shown itself to be injust; he breaks out and proves his innocence and everyone just kind of forgets about all the extra crimes he commits in doing so.

And Beast was so big and strong. He didn't have to sit there in jail. He probably didn't need Magneto's help, he could have broken out of that cell any time. He could have been justifiably angry at how unfairly he was treated, could have become the snarling dangerous monster they painted him as. Instead, he chose to be kind and polite and soft-spoken and gentle.

And he was SMART! Not in the Donatello from TMNT way where he built lots of gadgets that nobody could ever do in real life. He read books, and poetry! Real books and poetry! I could go to the library right now and find the exact same book he was reading, if I wanted! He uses big words that other people didn't understand, and it marks him out as different just as much as his blue fur, and he could probably dumb it down and be more accepted, but he does it anyway and accepts being the awkward weird smart one because he loves language so much!

X-Men was GREAT.

May I recommend DuckFeed's podcast Days of Futurecast for all things 90s marvel X-Men cartoon. A great & funny podcast to enjoy while walking along with the show episode by episode.

I can still make my brother sad by saying:

"Hey! Tin woodsman! I'm sending you back to Oz... in pieces."

To which he must inevitably reply:

"Wolverine! Pull back..."

And then his 7-year-old self's trauma is remembered, and my duties as big brother are fulfilled once again.

Yeah, X-Men are just clearly the best childhood fantasy to have.

Related hot take--personally, I think it's a lukewarm take, but, you know: The fact that the internet collective went from "Forespoken is so cringe" because...I'm still unclear on why, but it seems suspiciously connected to the fact that a young woman of color is speaking, to expecting us to take middle aged adults saying "I don't care about {laundry list of awful things}, I just can't give up the chance to pay $70 to visit a virtual Hogwarts!" seriously is extremely cringe. And I hate that f*cking word, but:

SpacePProtean wrote:

"Forespoken is so cringe" because...I'm still unclear on why, but it seems suspiciously connected to the fact that a young woman of color is speaking

I don't think Forespoken is cringey in any unique way, but I do think it lives in that same "this is how Gen Z talks, right guys?" empty quip-fest bucket as the Saints Row reboot (broke my heart given how much I love the previous games), pretty much everything Borderlands, etc.

It's the talking-as-if-my-phone-is-pointed-at-me dialogue style.