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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

My ACDC is set too high, way to hell.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

1st Ed AD&D players when their AC is 70: ☠️

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

A European (or anyone else outside of the US) can't set their AC to 70...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You may be taking this too literally.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, without looking it up, I don't have a clue how hot 70 is

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

I think the joke is they set it to 70C, which is very hot

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That would be a cold sauna

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

70C is pretty hot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For a sauna, 80-100C is usually preferrable. 120C is nice in a wood heated sauna, you don't even need to throw water at this point. It's nice & cozy :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

My personal reaction was also that no one here has AC as someone from the nordic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They could, If they weren’t cowards

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

What if you are a European/American DnD player?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

You exist in a triple point equilibrium. Constantly flipping between ideal temperature, being cooked alive, and becoming bulletproof. Depending on how quickly you alternate between states it could be feasible to stay alive despite being European.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Laporfic? :-P

[+] fitgse -23 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I’m 100% in on the metric system, but Fahrenheit is the best way to measure weather.

0F is my freezing point 100F is my boiling point

Fuck freezing/boiling of water!

Celsius is great for science (except space science) or cooking, but weather should be based on humans.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You only feel this way because you're accustomed to Fahrenheit. I grew up with Celsius, and to me that feels like the perfect temperature scale. Fahrenheit feels weird and arbitrary to me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I grew up with Fahrenheit, but switched my weather app to use Celsius for a while, and I've internalized it pretty well. It works fine. The "human experience" angle doesn't work anyway because that experience is very locale-dependent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It kind of is, but a good way to think of it is the percentage of hot it is. 70F is like 20C, which is a nice temperature. 0F is about -17C, which is very not hot, one might even say zero percent hot. 110F is about 43C, which is very hot, one might even say 110% hot

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

It's just what you grew up with. I'll stick with Celsius

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Fahrenheit isn't "based on humans." I can subjectively claim that 0°F is as unreasonably cold as 100°F is unreasonably warm; 30-90 is the only acceptable range. That's arguably more arbitrary than 0-30.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

100, at the time the units were invented, was considered to be human body temperature

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And still isn't a comfortable external temperature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That would have made medical sense, making Fahrenheit actually useful for certain applications, and then they fucked it up.

Fahrenheit is just more intuitive to me, but that alone makes me prefer Celsius

and then you add all of the other benefits on top. We really need to get on the metric system.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

-15f is my "freezing point" and anything above 75 is uncomfortably hot. See what you mean?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

0f is based on brine, but it just happens to correlate with it being fucking freezing for weather