[Patch 3.09: Spirit Guard Udyr Patch] General Discussion -…

On July 20 2013 03:16 BrokenMirage wrote:


Kelvin is not as great as you think. It does start at absolute zero, but the its increments are equal to those of the Celsius scale making it equally arbitrary.

On July 20 2013 02:50 mr_tolkien wrote:
And wtf is all this talk about Super Meat Boy being hard ?

On July 20 2013 03:35 Dandel Ion wrote:
But if the USA uses it, it's the most international and the most freedom

everyone knows this.

On July 20 2013 03:38 ZappaSC wrote:
Wait... why are we talking about measurements of temperture?

On July 20 2013 03:17 WaveofShadow wrote:
I am very proud of being the sole director of pretty much all of the topics of conversation over the past few hours.

On July 20 2013 03:38 ZappaSC wrote:
Wait... why are we talking about measurements of temperture?

On July 20 2013 03:30 Paljas wrote:

being a si unit makes kelvin (and celsius) superior than fahrenheit imo.

On July 20 2013 03:30 WaveofShadow wrote:

I don't the issue is if it's fun or not. That's purely subjective in my opinion. I think the issue as to how truly 'difficult' it is can be questioned.

On July 20 2013 03:43 Simberto wrote:


Yeah, but that is only because of compatibility (which is REALLY useful if you calculate stuff, i wouldn't ever want to do science in imperial measurements, that sounds like a major pain where you get random factors everywhere). Generally speaking, most units of measurement are totally arbitrary. Take our nice SI units for example: a meter : "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.". And that second in there? "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."

All of that is arbitrary. They just choose something that is fixed and put in some factor that fits the historical definition best. Exact values are chosen for convenience, which is actually far more important then any real significance. I would much rather have my factors of 1 everywhere then having a meter defined as light travelled in 1 second, and that second defined as one of some period. If it makes no difference, then choosing something with significance is smart, but if you have to choose between significance and practicability, choosing practicability is the better solution. But choosing something that is neither practical nor significant like Fahrenheit is just weird.

On July 20 2013 03:26 UniversalSnip wrote:

You haven't got a clue. A) it's a puzzle platformer. That's like saying tetris sucks because you have to try fit blocks in 20 ways every time before you can fill a hole. B) the save points are like five feet from each other unless you deliberately chose a difficulty that spreads them out, so the second time past a puzzle/troll you just breeze through it to the next platforming bit. C) the game is all about subverting your expectations. It literally teaches you this on the first screen. You have to hide in the corner twice to survive, but the third time hiding is what triggers the trap. There isn't supposed to be any sting to dying because it just moves you a few feet and it's funny.

On July 20 2013 03:33 -Zoda- wrote:
I still don't really get why USA hasn't got rid of all imperial measures once they got their independance. And then show a multicultural face with a lot of immigration but still not go for the international system...