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Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

AlphaKretin posted:

Japan uses kilometres, so it could have been dictated by Nintendo. Or even just consistency for an app that's going to have to work worldwide.

I really doubt it was Nintendo pulling rank on them. Niantic also makes Ingress, a similar augmented-reality game (which turns out to have pretty much been just their development sandbox / long-term beta test for Pokemon) and it's always been in metric. It has been for years, even back when Niantic was part of Google.

I guess I'm just really used to using metric and Imperial interchangeably, because I've been playing Ingress for three years and never even consciously noticed that everything was given in meters.

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Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

Powered Descent posted:

I really doubt it was Nintendo pulling rank on them. Niantic also makes Ingress, a similar augmented-reality game (which turns out to have pretty much been just their development sandbox / long-term beta test for Pokemon) and it's always been in metric. It has been for years, even back when Niantic was part of Google.

I guess I'm just really used to using metric and Imperial interchangeably, because I've been playing Ingress for three years and never even consciously noticed that everything was given in meters.

It's not that hard if you just need rough estimates. 1 in ≈ 2.5 cm; 1 yd ≈ 1 m; 1 mi ≈ 1.5 km.

Postal Parcel
Aug 2, 2013

dpbjinc posted:

It's not that hard if you just need rough estimates. 1 in ≈ 2.5 cm; 1 yd ≈ 1 m; 1 mi ≈ 1.5 km.

Making me do loving math in addition to unit conversion AND walking!?
Nintendo is the loving devil and a government scheme. Just wait until they start releasing options for abortion and government funded pokemon sensor

Zemyla
Aug 6, 2008

I'll take her off your hands. Pleasure doing business with you!

Hemingway To Go!
Nov 10, 2008

im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
- ernest hemingway

Postal Parcel
Aug 2, 2013

Is this a genetics thing or is it some sort of attack of the Bs?

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx
https://youtu.be/hA7lv1SDzno

Dude hates Sir Patrick Stewart.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

I want Cyriak to make a video about this

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

What exactly happened to cause the drop?

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


Postal Parcel posted:

Is this a genetics thing or is it some sort of attack of the Bs?

I think it's supposed to represent a gene pool.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

Outrail posted:

What exactly happened to cause the drop?

The rest of the picture has an explanation.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Outrail posted:

What exactly happened to cause the drop?

Well, given that 2009 and 2010 were just as bad as 2008, clearly what happened is bears got scared of the newly elected Republican Congress.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




AlphaKretin posted:

Japan uses kilometres, so it could have been dictated by Nintendo. Or even just consistency for an app that's going to have to work worldwide.
On an unrelated note, Puerto Rico uses kilometres for distance, whilst using miles per hour for speed limits.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
The UK uses Imperial for most roadsigns, but roadsigns must be spaced out in metric.

Unless it's an emergency locator sign, which is in kilometres (and have been since the 70s), or bridge height signs, which have to be in dual units.

:britain:

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

kalstrams posted:

On an unrelated note, Puerto Rico uses kilometres for distance, whilst using miles per hour for speed limits.

Prime example of trying to do the right thing but lacking the will to finish the job is worse than doing nothing at all.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

Judge Schnoopy
Nov 2, 2005

dont even TRY it, pal
hahaha drat I was trying reealllly hard to make sense of that poo poo until I read the legend

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

kalstrams posted:

On an unrelated note, Puerto Rico uses kilometres for distance, whilst using miles per hour for speed limits.

Don't they also drive on the wrong side of the road? Brilliant stuff.

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?
"We didn't bother to research it" should become a standard option in all graphs imo.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




mobby_6kl posted:

Don't they also drive on the wrong side of the road? Brilliant stuff.
No, they got that right and drive like the majority of Europe.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

kalstrams posted:

No, they got that right and drive like the majority of Europe.

All of Europe, you mean.

Nicodemus Dumps
Jan 9, 2006

Just chillin' in the sink

Absurd Alhazred posted:

All of Europe, you mean.

Too soon.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Also wrong, because I forgot Ireland. :doh:

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth

Absurd Alhazred posted:

All of Europe, you mean.

https://twitter.com/SCSsoftware/status/746261989010317312?lang=en

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

https://twitter.com/twahlin/status/753179745819430912

It is also the best pie chart I've seen in a long time

Lottery of Babylon
Apr 25, 2012

STRAIGHT TROPIN'

No Safe Word posted:

https://twitter.com/twahlin/status/753179745819430912

It is also the best pie chart I've seen in a long time

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?
Classic.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Not literal enough

Count Roland
Oct 6, 2013

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

FreudianSlippers posted:

Japan has no patience for the eccentricities of decadent American units of measurement.

Ah, so that's why we measured in kilotons. That was very culturally sensitive of us.

TotalLossBrain
Oct 20, 2010

Hier graben!

Bobby Digital posted:

Ah, so that's why we measured in kilotons. That was very culturally sensitive of us.

drat.

Albino Squirrel
Apr 25, 2003

Miosis more like meiosis

Bobby Digital posted:

Ah, so that's why we measured in kilotons. That was very culturally sensitive of us.
...wow.

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


Bobby Digital posted:

Ah, so that's why we measured in kilotons. That was very culturally sensitive of us.

Goddammit

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




gently caress

TheMaskedUgly
Sep 21, 2008

Let's play a different game.
drat

TheMaskedUgly
Sep 21, 2008

Let's play a different game.

Bobby Digital posted:

Ah, so that's why we measured in kilotons. That was very culturally sensitive of us.

TheMaskedUgly
Sep 21, 2008

Let's play a different game.
WOW

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

FreudianSlippers
Apr 12, 2010

Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!



Bobby Digital posted:

Ah, so that's why we measured in kilotons. That was very culturally sensitive of us.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii       ...

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BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.


I can guess that this represents population, but why clowns?

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