>Game uses kilometers instead of miles
>No way to correct it
>The game uses inches instead of centimeters
But your shitty system is fucking retarded.
Your scientists know that and use metric.
>miles
>correct
gr8 b8 m8
>Game uses cups instead of litres.
>fantasy game
>generic gold is the currency
>country refuses to use internationally agreed metric system
>cries cuz muh measurement units
>cant quickly estimate 60% of a given value
lmao
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
>>275450213
>>Game uses kilometers instead of miles
>>The game uses inches instead of centimeters
That's good. I can't understand inches and miles.
>>275450618
>gold is the currency
>solid gold bar sells for a few silver
>>275450213
but it's already correct
>>275450492
>arbitrary
Even if the reasons are retarded, it's still not arbitrary.
>Yards to a Mile
>Skipping all the units in between
>>275450492
>>275450213
Correct what. It's already perfect.
You Amerifats learn to measure.
>not using ell
Step it up knave.
>>275450471
what the goddamn shit?
>>275450492
>>275450869
the appropriate bait for catching octopi
>>275450213
>he still uses measurement from the middle ages
>>275450213
>Americans actively want to be ignorant
>game uses stones and pounds instead of kilograms
Why does nobody give britshits grief over this? Why do you only bully America? ;_;
>euroshits are too dumb to remember a few conversion factors
>have to rely on casualized sesame street hello kitty garbage
>>275450795
Okay, what units are between a yard and a mile?
>>275451064
That's how inferiority complexes work
>>275450795
>>275450834
>>275450906
> people actually defending the imperial system
God fucking dammit, america...
>>275450492
As a chemist from a civilized, metric country, I bet you don't you know why the Fahrenheit scale is the way it is. It is incredibly clever in real world physical chemistry...
Kelvin is better than anything else though...
>>275450834
nice
>>275451120
furlongs you uneducated pleb
>>275451064
which game uses stones?
tbh its excusable to use olde worlde measurements if the game is set in the past, but if it isnt, dont.
>>275451078
>>euroshits are too dumb to remember a few conversion factors
>making shit complicated just to be different
K.
>Americans use miles instead of kilometers
>No way to correct it
>>275451258
the imperial system was first, shithead.
more like
>making things easier because we're retarded
>>275451229
Is that an alien measurement?
>>275451064
>game uses bongs
>>275451143
It got us to the moon, it's good enough.
>>275451258
>>making shit complicated just to be different
Imperial came before metric
>that Euroshit education
>>275450795
Metric is more precise and uniform, but you generally need measurement tools to actually use it properly, while imperial is easier to make rough estimates with.Enjoy being casual pieces of shit, americans
>>275451148
fahrenheit scale is the way it is becauce Fahrenheit decided 100 would be human body temperature and 0 would be how low he could cool salt water for no apparent reason.
same way Celcius decided freezing water would be 100 and boiling water would be 0: inhaling mercury all day fucks with your head.
>>275450632
Any self-respecting American can convert to metric.
>>275451362
>>275451385
I know it was first. It's nevertheless complicated for no reason
Holy shit, nothing fucks with my Autism more than when some asshole changes the treadmill to Kilometers.
We are in Atlanta, motherfucker.
>>275450869
a gr8 b8 m8
>>275450213
I wish the US would just drop; imperial measurements, and I'm living in the US.
>character with european accent
>he's a stereotypical cuck
>>275451373
American scientists use metric
>>275451464
But it's not complicated.
>>275451485
Maybe he's training for a 5K?
>>275451373
>Implying any scientist on earth uses the imperial system, even in America.
>>275450213
kph is default
>>275451448
>freezing water is 100ºC
u fokin wot m8
>>275451373
Nazis got you to the moon.
>>275451531
Is that Black Frankenstein's Monster?
>>275451535
kek
>>275450618
Without Industry, what would they use as their standard?
Salt?
>>275451518
STEM fields all use metric in the US. But it's not used outside of those areas.
>>275451448
>freezing water would be 100 and boiling water would be 0
>>275451654
did you fail high school?
did you even reach high school?
>>275451362
>>275451373
>>275451535
Scientists are clearly retarded
>>275451416
>Metric is more precise
Actually, it isn't. One isn't more precise than the other, or more uniform. They're goddamn numbers.
>>275451008
I can see that.
>>275451713
At least call it something that isn't just "gold."
>mfw bongers make fun of us for using the imperial system.
>They measure their weight in stones
hurf I weigh 2 stones, using less means less accurate so no one will know I'm fat when I round.
>>275451448
>>275451625
>boiling water a 0
>>275451531
>Hoverhand
>>275451846
this is an entirely stupid thing to get upset out.
the word "generic" has no meaning here on /v/.
>>275451535
>american
american scientists aren't american, they're all immigrants drawn to the money
>>275451416
>this distance is easier to make rough estimates with
>>275451846
Most fantasy games, that does have coinage, uses a name for the coins.
It was called "gold" in Morrowind, but they were actually Septims.
Unrelated, but why do the hosts on Top Gear use the imperial system? Isn't the UK on metric?
>>275451821
actually it is, metric is based on things that are constants, imperial is based on esoteric things like "the width of a thumb" or "the length of the kings arm",
>>275451996
>they're all immigrants
So they're American?
>Game takes place in another world, even another planet
>Still has season
>Still has 12 months
>Still uses same time scale.
>>275452036
They're equally arbitrary.
Holy shit are you stupid.
>>275452025
No, UK is imperial.
Hence why they call it "Imperial" Also the reason it's used in US.
>>275452154
illegal immigrants
>>275451821
>One isn't more precise than the other, or more uniform.
>or more uniform
Except it fucking is more uniform. Everything is base goddamn 10! It's very much more uniform than basing your system of measurement on fucking barleycorns, feet, paces and hands!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk
>>275450213
>game uses miles instead of acre-feet
Does the imperial system have this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y
No? Then it's inferior.
Month/Day/Year
>>275452159
>greentext shit that has never happened
>>275452159
FFXIII's days last 13 hours
>>275452025
>Durrp why do they use imperial in UK?
God damnit, you are fucking retarded.
>>275452212
>labs across the country are filled with mexicans
>>275452341
He's just ignorant, that's all
>>275452159
>tfw we have been using the same time scale since the egyptyans
>>275450492
If you euros are so logical why don't you use a decimal based measurement of time?
>>275452270
No.
>>275452404
Is that why all these vaccines are giving me autism and all my foods are filled to the brim with high fructose corn tortilla syrup?
>>275452515
Because the values would change every year.
>>275451846
but in the ancient world it really was just about the precious metal, take the british pound, the reason the £ symbol is a stylised L is that its literally the same as Lbs, or libres, the coinage at the time was silver sterling coins, and 240 of them (or 20 shillings) weighed exactly one pound, you were literally handing a person an actual weight of precious metal, and if you needed to pay in smaller amounts people would cut coins in halves or quarters, where we get terms like "penny farthing" from, aka a "fourthing" of the coin.
when people went from one kingdom to the next, coinage would change names, but giving someone a pound of gold or silver was pretty universal. due to the fact people would shave their coins or cut them it was most common to weigh your payment rather than count it. there is a reason the scale is the icon for commerce.
>Game uses pounds instead of kilos
>>275452515
At least we use military time. I bet you don't know what time 17:26 kek
>>275451625
Celsius' scale was originally inverted.
we flipped it around to its current state after he died.
>7 days in a week
>31 days in a month, unless there's 30 days because who cares, unless there's 28 days because I dunno, unless there's 29 days because we just let it slide.
>60 seconds in a minute
>60 minutes in an hour
>24 hours in a day
Our calendar is so fucking retarded.
>>275452179
they arent arbitrary though, the metric system strives to base all of its measurements of universal constants, like the speed of light or the decay of hydrogen atoms etc
>>275451915
He's actually touching her, dumbass. Bongs just made a huge deal about how improper it was to touch 'royalty'.
>>275452235
I'm assuming a lot of those thing aren't really used much anymore but how the fuck can people defend this and say it makes more sense than metric?
>Game makes Katana better than the Longsword
>tfw speccy defaults to celsius and you never changed it
>>275451625
>>275451724
>>275451897
It's true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius#History
>>275452772
Uh, I don't see a "XVII" on there, Bongo.
>>275450213
that's not a problem at all. it's just a unit of measurement in a game where it's not going to be real-life scale
>>275452857
That doesnt mean one is more percise than the other...you can say its more uniform or easy to use or whatever you want. but a number in one system is the exact same number and distance in another system...dont be dumb
>>275452772
Wait. They can't be that ignorants... right?
>>275453117
why does big ben have japanese on it?
>>275452857
And basing it on those things is just as arbitrary as basing on the length of some random person's foot because it doesn't matter a single fuck what its based on as long as it works for its intended purpose of measuring things, which it will as long as everyone who is using it knows and understands it.
There are two types of countries: those that use the metric system, and those that have been to the moon.
>>275452159
What really bothered me is how years exist in GoT, despite the fact that season lengths vary and last for several of our years.
>>275452159
>fictional planets can have different habitable zones than Earth for reasons
>>275452325
And then in the one game where time would actually matter they change it for no real reason.
>>275452515
Let's see there are
60 seconds to a minute
60 minutes to an hour
24 hours to a day
7 days to a week
4 weeks to a month (and some change)
12 months a year
It just works the same way that imperial works. 12 is a very handy number.
>>275452772
>my country uses 24 hour system, but in spoken language we use 12 hour clock and all the clocks are 12 hours anyway except for the digital ones.
That I never understood, but then again, I use 12 hour system myself.
>>275452025
Bit of both. We do height in feet, distance in miles, beer in pints or half pints, but ml for any other amount, weight is either stone or kilograms.
It can be pretty fucking retarded at times.
>>275452796
I know we use 60 because the babylonians' base number was 60, much like how the roman's base number was 10
So think of it as a homage I guess
so were the weight units in the Souls games pounds?
>>275453153
you should look up the efforts the international community goes to to maintain standard weights and measurements, they have "the kilogram" in a vault somewhere in france that all kilogram measurements all around the world are based on, but its losing atoms slowly over time, so they are searching for an alternative, thats why for other things, such as measurements of distance they use universal constants that are the same wherever you are. (such as the speed of light)
Speaking of measurements - what's the industrial scale unit for weighing weed?
>>275451373
>it got us
Well certainly not you, stop claiming achievements of other people :^)
>>275452159
>Game takes place in another world, even another planet
>Still has the same human understanding of fun and violence
>>275453762
I bet he meant to capitalize US.
>>275453729
dime bags
>>275453919
And comes after them?
>>275453419
you are now aware that living on mars would mean throwing all this shit out and starting from scratch, how many hours in a martian day, how many minutes in a martian hour, how many martian seconds etc? how many days in the martian week, how many weeks in the year? a month passing on mars would be completely different to a month passing on earth, how would a martian colony manage? would they use a completely new local time frame and have to use conversions any time they wanted to interact with earth? would they use earth time and have odd amounts of hours in a day? or would we develop a new universal system of time not based on local phenomena like orbits and rotations?
>>275451531
>European accent
Europe do not have unified language and every language have different accent, there is no European Accent.
>>275454009
I like how in startrek they used star dates all the time instead of the Gregorian calendar, and they still used military time because it makes sense that they would keep the same human schedules based on their home world.
>>275453252
>Russia, Japan, China, India, France and Luxembourg use the imperial system
>>275453203
You'd be surprised
>>275454078
>He took the bait
There is not one good thing America has that Europe doesn't apart from the fast food.
God damn fast food here is shit. When I see the pictures of those FUCKING tacos for like a dollar I want one so bad.
>>275454078
A European accent would be one of the many accents from Europe, like southern, Bostonian, New York and Minnesotan are all American accents.
>>275453520
60 is just 5 12s, 12 is a really malleable number, you can half it, quarter it, third it and its still whole numbers
decimal makes more sense for us since our numbering system is base 10 and we have 10 fingers and 10 toes, but 12 was a much more versatile number to use for counting things
>Playing Just Cause 2
>Flying a plane
>Looking ahead at a building in front of me
>My radar says it's "20m ahead"
>Crash into it
Wow, shortest 20 miles ever. Good job Avalanche.
>>275450492
Holy shit this.
Why haven't Amerifats adopted the much simpler system?
Their current one is hardly precise at all.
Are Americans really this stubborn?
>>275454078
>Europe do not have unified language and every language have different accent, there is no European Accent.
Actually there is in the movies and historical pieces You all sound like Brits. I'm not knowledgeable enough of british accents to tell you which accent gets used the most though.
>Game uses kilometers instead of paces
>>275452884
>Bongs just made a huge deal about how improper it was to touch 'royalty'.
Wasn't she just a nobody a few years ago?
Both systems are used and taught, for fucks sake
>>275454452
You put liquid into a cup, that's why. Besides, we do use litres. All soda is sold in litres
>>275453292
What are moon cycles
>>275454467
britain doesnt even have a single language let alone a single accent, still not sure how a serb or a portugese guy would sound remotely british though
>>275453729
it's grams. i was in amsterdam and they also used grams
>>275454578
not in science though
>>275454650
I don't see how men can understand the cycle of the moon without getting periods. Do they just guess? "it's gonna be full soon mmhmm".
>>275454467
> europe is brits
My portuguese accent sure sounds like dem british it does!
>>275453252
>the only country to have gone to the moon is murrica
Is this what they teach you in school?
>>275450492
>m/d/y
December 12th, 2014
>d/m/y
12th, December 2014
>>275453292
George didn't think of that, he used "years" as a way to put the erratic seasons to perspective, which is why the series has years, but they're not defined in any way. But it's most likely measured from number of days.
>>275453252
isnt that one type of country then? the ones that used the metric system to go to the moon?
>>275453252
NASA uses the metric system, son.
>>275454949
I mean, if they were periods of 12 months, that would make sense, since there is a fairly accurate way to measure months. Problem is, that's never established or even implied to be the case, everyone just knows what years are because dragons or something I guess.
>>275454467
>being this retarded.
Stop, anon, for the love of common sense! You should be able to figure this out if you only had some.
>>275454932
12th of December, 2014 you uneducated cunt
>>275454932
no no no
it would be "12th of december, 2014" in d/m/y
>>275453205
>XII is 天口
>means Entrance to Heaven
The fuck is this shit?
>>275455150
Year is used as a tool in the storytelling, it's not defined.
Well, he could go and define it, but it would be George Lucas explaining light sabers with plasma and magnets.
>>275454810
They can arbitraliy decide how many moons are in a year
>>275454413
12s were originally used because the Babylonians would count on their finger joints by pointing at them in turn with their thumb; 4 fingers, 3 joints each makes 12. If you need numbers over 12, you record the number of 12s you've already counted with your other hand, letting you count up to 60.
So yeah, it's clever, but it is still based around counting on your fingers.
>>275454729
Just saying it is not black and white like how this site always views things. The US uses a mash up of both systems.
>>275451458
so 2 people?
>Month, day, year
>Months can only go to 12, therefore smallest number
>Days can go to 31, therefore middle sized number
>Years have no limit, and are currently at 2014, therefore largest number
What now eurpos?
>>275455403
its basically all they had to work with, people hadnt invented zeros or decimal points yet.
>implying m/d/y isnt more aesthetically pleasing cause it brings your eye to the center
>>275455646
I start reading from left to right. Not middle to left to right
>Australia
>oldfags use imperial
>youngfags use metric
>>275455247
>>275455279
>12th of december, 2014
>12th of
>of
Its d/m/y, not d/of/m/y
>>275454690
>>275454865
>>275455183
I was speaking about movies, you dumb eurocucks. Every film set in antiquity hires brittish actors. Gladiator or Troy had everyone talking like a bonglander. In the film Enemy at the Gates everyone is supposedly speaking Russian but they're played by Brits. Because of films Americans associate Brits with anything old or foreign. It destroys immersion when you have Julius Ceaser speaking in a plain midwestern accent but some posh British accent is for some reason well received.
>>275455293
>天口
What? XII is 十二.
>>275455757
kek you're so funny xD
>>275455536
> You will live for more days than months.
> You will live for more months than days.
> You will live the least amount of years.
Alternatively.
> Days change more regularly than months.
> Months change more regularly than years.
> Years change the least often so its last.
Fat dumb ameriscum.
>>275454467
Have you ever seen a german person in your movies?
Have you ever seen an italian person in your movies?
Have you ever seen a french person in your movies?
How the fuck do they sound like brits?
Even the tiniest countries like Malta or Luxenburg have their own accents when speaking English and don't get me startet on all the different languages and combinations of accents.
Seriously, what kind of historical pieces did you watch? GoT?
>mfw I still have no fucking concept of what a km or mile is
>>275455757
In spanish you can say "12th december" or "12th of december".
>>275455914
reported :D
>>275455757
>>275455279
>>275455247
It's fucking yyyy/mm/dd
get used to it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
>>275455757
>Its d/m/y, not d/of/m/y
If you've ever sorted anything then you'd realize the superiority of y/m/d
oh yes I love the British so much that I'm going to keep on using the British Imperial units, long after the death and decay of the empire
>>275450213
America still uses outdated measurement systems
>>275455807
He meant that the gothic styled roman numerals on the clock's face looked like the kanji for 天口
I agree that metric should be used for most things but the "foot" is a nice in between for inches and yards for some thingsA lot of Americans know both systems, which is technically smarter than just knowing one
>>275455536
Year - 365 days
Month - 30/31 days
Day - 1 day
>>275456004
I'm fine with that
>>275455947
>Failing preschool
>miles
>correct
Only 2 countries use miles. Everybody else uses kilometers. I prefer to use kilometers and I'm american.
>>275456084
>Month - 30/31 days
You're forgetting the special one
>>275456076
>A lot of Americans know both systems, which is technically smarter than just knowing one
So does every other country in the world.
>>275450471
I thought the scratches on the ship in the 4th panel were sweat drops shooting out from Mikuru
>>275456163
>I prefer to use kilometers and I'm america
Yeah, but you're also a cuck, so it doesn't matter what you prefer
>>275456141
I KNOW what they are, I just can't envision it in my head.
>>275455729
Australia only because fully metricated during the 1980s. So that makes sense.
>>275451531
Dear god, she looks like a princess.
OP here. I've gathered enough information about us humans for now. Deleting the thread. Thank you fellow humans.
>The website does not use the number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z ISO 8601 in the timestamps
>>275456004
> putting the information first that people are least likely to be confused about on a day to day basis
ISO can suck it.
>>275451531
>british royalty comes to america
>treated like royalty
have we lost our way?
>>275456684
>implying you aren't a vassal still
>>275456676
if they put it the other way around, murrikans would assume it's MM-DD-YYYY like they're used to.
Why don't we just use a base8 system? It flows much more naturally for computers anyway, and it's not like base8 is hard to think of.
>>275451531
ow lebron is pretty beta, hover handing like that
>>275457363
it's not a hover hand ya dingus, her shoulders are narrow and his hands are enormous
with the palm and fingertips touching her, his fingers are forced up in the air.
>>275457331
We have 10 fingers, and I guess all the systems we already use are deeply ingrained in culture and society. It'd take a massive global effort to make base 8 the norm, as good as it would be.
>>275457580
>we have 10 fingers
American education at its finest.
>>275453023
but it is tho
>correcting something correct
America
>>275457830
but anon, I'm not Americanand you know exactly what I meant you fuck
>>275457831
no sword is objectively better than any other, they're designed for specific usages.
unless it's a spadroon. that's just a shit sword.
>>275450492
Yuroclap here. That system isn't arbitrary. For example 12 inches to a foot makes it easier to calculate in your head because it has a dozenal system. Metric is stupid in this regard. If you divide 1 with 3 you get 0.333333333333333
>>275450471
what's the word on red, after 方法が?
>>275457331
>computer
>base 8
What?
It's either hexadecimal or binary.
>>275456684
Do Brits actually think anything special of the queen, or is just another thing we say about them? I don't see why anyone would go that far for royalty, it's no different from dealing with the rich or anything else.
>>275455126
NASA uses both, retardbait
