Today I learned...

Learned about "The Quilt". Memorialized victims of the AIDS epidemic. Initially displayed it at the National Mall in Washington DC in 1987. Consisted of 1920 panels then. Ballooned to 8288 one year later. Expanded to around 50000 panels for over 110000 people at present. Apparently weighs 54 tons.

[PokeCommunity.com] Today I learned...
Views the full quilt here. Credits the same site for the information above.
 
TIL huge corporations don't actually sell your data. They offer ad spaces on websites and whenever you visit a website they send all your data for free to all kinds of other companies. Those analyze it and if they're interested, they participate in a so called "bidding war" for who gets to display their ad. Those companies also sent your data between each other. It's a nifty loophole to get around the limitations in regards to data selling set by the law.

So, whenever you read "we don't sell your data" you know what's up.
 
Today I learned that holy scriptures are sacred and need to be buried. I don't understand.
 
Today I learned that you can play DS games on a 3DS at the original resolution by holding the start button on boot.
 
Neb said:
Today I learned that you can play DS games on a 3DS at the original resolution by holding the start button on boot.
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On a new 3ds or the normal original one?


Anyway, I learned a few things in the past couple days:

I learned there's a new social media site that's for "nerds" called hades.place. (That's the name hades.place.) It's really small, and looks like a genuinely good alternative to Twitter (and hopefully won't have like toxic people there).

That there's a Barney Iceberg on Youtube...why/how?

& That Yu Gi Oh Sevens is on tv now, so I gave it a try and it's... the most wild thing in the world.
 
This was sometime last week, but my mom was painting a corkboard and I was curious about how it's made. A quick google search later, I found a wine-related website that explains how corks are made (a reliable source in this instance hehe). Very fascinating to learn about.
https://www.wineanorak.com/corks/howcorkismade.htm
 
I thought Rillaboom was attached to it's drum. Apparently it's clearly not. Unsure why this was the image formed in my head.
 
TIL it wasn't a good idea to pack my microphone in my bag without any kind of casing/protection while I lug it around everywhere. I'm an idiot for thinking it had the same level of durability as an SM58 lmao. Now it's producing static glitches here and there when I speak... fuck.
 
Today I learned Akira Ito was an assistant to Kazuki Takahashi and he created Cardfight Vanguard. I knew that Akira Ito created the CFV manga but I didn't know he was an assistant to Kazuki Takahashi. Learned this fact from a fellow forum member.

I wonder how many other card game franchises were inspired by Yu Gi Oh and birthed themselves into existence because of it and how many exist despite of it were not inspired by Yu Gi Oh in any way.
 
Today I learned that the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh died July 4th this year :(

Shooting Star said:
TIL that Alcremie has 63 different cosmetic versions. 70 if you count shinies.

That's way too many.
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I was part of the development of Pokémon Essentials (the Gen 8 branch of v18, before they got rid of it), and of the Dynamax plugin (again for v18, I didn't continue with other versions) and Alcremie was a very, very annoying Pokémon to take care of 😢
 
TIL just how little electricity inverter air-conditioners add up to the monthly power bill. The upfront price tag makes me wanna cry, but gotdamn if it ain't so worth it in the long run.
 
TIL that the official Church of Satan considers the symbol of 666 to be…. just numbers, lol. Not a part of Satanism but prevalent enough in public consciousness that they'll just be shit disturbers and "uphold" it to troll superstitious people who are afraid of numbers.

^their words, not mine lmao
 
Today I learned that the Alola games, in the main timeline at least, apparently take place 19 years after RBY.

Someone at The Other Pokémon Wiki took Porygon's US/UM Dex entry saying that it had been created 20 years prior, cross-referenced it with an obscure piece of information about Porygon being created a year before RBY, and got that result. That means the Red and Blue we see in the Alola games are 30, not 20-21 as I had previously assumed.

That's kind of wild.
 
TIL that the only reason Porygon exists is to spite the "Go for 3D crowd"

In a 1997 interview with the magazine Famimaga 64, Satoshi Tajiri stated that Porygon was created out of irony. According to him, during the development of Pokémon Red and Green, people kept telling him that he was too late on making a game for the Game Boy, and that he should start making games with 3D polygonal graphics for next generation consoles. As a result he included Porygon, a Pokémon made out of polygons, in the sprite-based Pokémon Red and Green, hence the irony.
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Til the name of the Germanic God Wodan, the older form of the Norse God Odin, comes from the old high German word wuot, meaning "insane" from "wods"- angry, obsessed and the old English "wod"=raving. In modern German wut means rage/ fury/ wrath.

I thought that was interesting, and made sense because Wodan was depicted as a wild rider leading the hunt and otherworldly spirits, a primal figure, associated with being carried emotional extremes, the powerful forces of nature- winds, storms and the chaos of battle, turning warriors into wolves and bears etc.

The name Wodan has other variations Wode, Wotan, Woide, Wods, Wuotes all linked to shamanic trances and an altered state of mind to achieve it by.
 
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