I cracked some of the cartilage of my ribs a while back as well and I’m pretty sure now suffer from bouts of recurring costochondritis, myself. Could be that. Mine is really fun, pain right over my heart and sometimes left arm pain. On top of that, I’ve always had health related anxiety, so it’s “Don’t Have a Panic Attack!” on hard mode. Or I’m slowly dying of heart failure, who knows.

No, no, arrow is obviously 矢, silly! 全 is all :D

正直、全くわかない

You mean to say you weren’t actually talking about socialism, just like I wasn’t actually talking about capitalism, but instead the US hegemony in particular? 😝

It actually wasn’t. The comment I responded to was posing socialism as being at the root of these issues. It’s hardly the cause of any of these, much like how capitalism itself also isn’t the cause of toppling foreign democracies or threatening thermonuclear annihilation, which is what I was contrasting.

I couldn’t find the answer easily myself and ended up asking AI, so take this with a significant grain of salt, but supposedly a 3mL pen would be around $145 without insurance. If anyone can find a better source, I’d be all ears.

At least you can buy a human for only $85.21!

Found the Canadian

Yeah, and capitalism has never lead to the toppling of foreign democracies or threatened thermonuclear annihilation

Ah, shit wait

Thankfully, we’re now reaching a turning point where PragerU will be used to teach directly in schools, letting kids know why socialism is bad and capitalism is good. Wait, that’s the opposite of what we want, fuck!

Please…please don’t give them ideas.

Oh, you still think they know how to read graphs?

Well, I believe the scientific literature.

Riiight, but like, I can make some shit up about a fancy ass apple “The surface is mostly red, mottled with large swaths of not yet ripe green and yellow patches. It’s waxed, shiny skin reflects rays of a nearby lightsource behind me. There’s a slight bumpiness to it, almost like goosebumps, but not as pronounced, with darker spots at the apex of each peak. My mouth is watering.”

Meanwhile, if I try to picture an apple I actually don’t see shit because I have aphantasia, so…

Not everyone is like you.

Either that or aphantasia, a well documented phenomena, is a thing.

A lot of the online tests start with a negative offset to account for ping.

They absolutely do not do this. Where are you getting this from? These tests runs fully within your local browser; there is no ping. Whatever it shows you is what it is. There will always be added latency due to your setup (computer, mouse, monitor, etc), but it should be fairly negligible. Perhaps some crappy tests incorporate a blanket offset for this reason?

I just made my own very simple reaction tester web app running 100% locally and I get the exact same results as Human Benchmark.

Perhaps there were delays induced by your testing setup? Different output, different input methods (mouse click vs button press vs tap, etc), and different computers can all influence the results. I regularly hover around 150-175ms, depending on the day, with pretty much any reaction time test and computer setup I’ve tried, however.

Edit: I just made my own extremely simple reaction time test to account for potential test weirdness, same result:

Of course a test like this does not compensate for all variables. Every piece of the chain is going to have an effect, from mouse, to your specific computer hardware, operating system, all the way to your display output.

That said, I think your delta of 30ms was just variance that would be reduced by averaging several results. The maximum added latency by using 60hz is 16.66ms, while the maximum average for 75hz is 13.33ms, a far cry from the 30ms you experienced.

Even 240hz, like my monitor, is 4.16ms, which can induce a maximum difference of 12.5ms compared to someone on 60hz in the worst case scenario.

I was literally Stadia incarnate in my heyday

I mean, you say that, but I’m mid 30s >:D