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< wonders if there is any significance to ^ making gifs from Rayman GBA sprites.
< is interested in hiring anyone that would like to be a part of <'s fangame production.

< is struggling to understand how mains electricity works and wonders if anyone here is well-versed enough to explain it to <

< knows a thing or two, what's giving ^ trouble?

Well < understands that the earth pin goes straight down to the Earth which has a 0 potential so it sucks all of the electrons out of a circuit. A live wire has an alternating current which is produced from a power station and when a short circuit occurs, the electricity surges down the earth pin to the ground due to the large potential difference which breaks the fuse. Correct me if I'm wrong here.

What < doesn't get is the neutral. Supposedly making a circuit with the neutral wire and the Earth/earth pin will not cause a surge because neutral has the same low potential as Earth, but it has a high current? < doesn't understand how neutral can be safe (?) but also not cause a surge.

<'s TV that < ordered through Amazon arrived today and the screen is smashed in the bottom right corner

Dang, that sure sucks. Will ^ return it to buy another one?

< has wanted this day to slow down. So far, the opposite.

Ambidextroid wrote:Well < understands that the earth pin goes straight down to the Earth which has a 0 potential so it sucks all of the electrons out of a circuit. A live wire has an alternating current which is produced from a power station and when a short circuit occurs, the electricity surges down the earth pin to the ground due to the large potential difference which breaks the fuse. Correct me if I'm wrong here.

What < doesn't get is the neutral. Supposedly making a circuit with the neutral wire and the Earth/earth pin will not cause a surge because neutral has the same low potential as Earth, but it has a high current? < doesn't understand how neutral can be safe (?) but also not cause a surge.

Umm… Yeah, this has confused < too. But I think the thing is that neutral can be switched, and is connected back to the power network (and from there to ground, eventually). So it is not guaranteed to be connected to ground.
(Also it doesn't necessarily suck electrons out – when live is positive it's technically pumping electrons in)

< played Portal for a few hours and < is really near to the end now. < will try to finish it tonight.

< remembers taking a whole weekend to play it the first time. Then the damn thing crashed after the final boss fight.

Ray502 wrote:Dang, that sure sucks. Will ^ return it to buy another one?

< has wanted this day to slow down. So far, the opposite.

Luckily, Amazon have a fairly competent customer service, so they have issued a replacement

Nice. < wonders what TV ^ bought.
< was able to get more Axe products this week. Daily fragrance < got was Apollo, and antiperspirant is Phoenix. Chicks dig it.

PluMGMK wrote:< remembers taking a whole weekend to play it the first time. Then the damn thing crashed after the final boss fight.

Yeah, the game tends to crash at bad moments sometimes.

< will defeat the boss fight tomorrow.

Funnily enough < had almost exactly the same experience with BG&E last weekend, even though this time it was justified by the fact that < was using a virtual machine.

Ray502 wrote:Nice. < wonders what TV ^ bought.
< was able to get more Axe products this week. Daily fragrance < got was Apollo, and antiperspirant is Phoenix. Chicks dig it.

It was this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01 ... UTF8&psc=1

In <'s opinion, it's a pretty good price for a 4K TV with HDR

Ray502 wrote:Nice. < wonders what TV ^ bought.
< was able to get more Axe products this week. Daily fragrance < got was Apollo, and antiperspirant is Phoenix. Chicks dig it.

Between 2012 and 2015 < used to use Axe but, afterwards < decided to put some changes in his life and as a purely symbolic action < then switched to a less "aggressive" fragrance.
So far < loves it more than the previous sooo...

< got this mindset where you go all in or go home as far as picking up ladies. < tried to be somewhere in the middle starting in late 2014, where <'s desire for a girl came at it's peak, and < stayed that way and didn't get a ton of great results. Since the middle of last year, <'s been going more aggressive, and it has somewhat worked, but not enough for a phone number or two, or eight, yet. In fact, < hasn't got out much lately, so < can't say if it has worked better than the somewhere in the middle approach.

< just got the rhythm game DJ Max Portable Clazziquai for <'s PSP and < is in heaven

Ray502 wrote:< got this mindset where you go all in or go home as far as picking up ladies. < tried to be somewhere in the middle starting in late 2014, where <'s desire for a girl came at it's peak, and < stayed that way and didn't get a ton of great results. Since the middle of last year, <'s been going more aggressive, and it has somewhat worked, but not enough for a phone number or two, or eight, yet. In fact, < hasn't got out much lately, so < can't say if it has worked better than the somewhere in the middle approach.

Just be like <, ' independent of all <'s leads and purely ace, it's a lot more easy.

PluMGMK wrote:Funnily enough < had almost exactly the same experience with BG&E last weekend, even though this time it was justified by the fact that < was using a virtual machine.

< couldn't run any games in a VM because it's way too laggy for <.

incognito wrote:

Ray502 wrote:< got this mindset where you go all in or go home as far as picking up ladies. < tried to be somewhere in the middle starting in late 2014, where <'s desire for a girl came at it's peak, and < stayed that way and didn't get a ton of great results. Since the middle of last year, <'s been going more aggressive, and it has somewhat worked, but not enough for a phone number or two, or eight, yet. In fact, < hasn't got out much lately, so < can't say if it has worked better than the somewhere in the middle approach.

Just be like <, ' independent of all <'s leads and purely ace, it's a lot more easy.

< doesn't think you make it sound that easy…