# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=473&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 474 --- ## [Do you have trouble being a villain in a game?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-trouble-being-a-villain-in-a-game/1003630)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-trouble-being-a-villain-in-a-game/1003630 "2024-09-22T20:34:32Z")
I’m perhaps too nice in games. I always try to help, avoid fighting, and don’t like to watch something play out if the answer about who’s the bad guy seems obvious or if I’d get some reward for helping one side. . (I als… --- ## [So, anyone watching or participated in 3DBotmaker's Diecast racing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-watching-or-participated-in-3dbotmakers-diecast-racing/1007592)
**Author:** [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-anyone-watching-or-participated-in-3dbotmakers-diecast-racing/1007592 "2024-09-22T19:11:54Z")
Remember Hot Wheels tracks? 3DBotmaker sure does. He had a little cottage business making accessories for them (timers, starting gates, etc.). He started making videos of races to promote them, and eventually the videos… --- ## [One magnetic monopole in the universe =\> quantized electric charges](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-magnetic-monopole-in-the-universe-quantized-electric-charges/1007090)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-magnetic-monopole-in-the-universe-quantized-electric-charges/1007090 "2024-09-22T18:04:39Z")
I tried to read Dirac’s paper on this and soon got lost. Can someone dumb it down for me? --- ## [2024 French legislative election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-french-legislative-election/1002713)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-french-legislative-election/1002713 "2024-09-22T17:38:43Z")
Yesterday President Macron disolved the National Assembly and called for a snap election on 30 June 2024 (run-offs 7 July 2024). What exactly is his plan? Cohabitation with the far right or far left? This is going to hap… --- ## [LED Power Consumption](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-power-consumption/1007309)
**Author:** [@19USMC69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19USMC69)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/led-power-consumption/1007309 "2024-09-22T17:10:26Z")
I’ve got a garage door opener whose light refuses to go off. Power to the bulb is supposed to terminate 3 minutes after the door opens and/or closes. I’ve unscrewed the bulb so as not to waste electricity. Having replac… --- ## [American soldier crosses into North Korea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-soldier-crosses-into-north-korea/987221)
**Author:** [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Replies:** 339\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-soldier-crosses-into-north-korea/987221 "2024-09-22T15:53:58Z")
Apparently he’d been facing some sort of disciplinary action, but how can ANYONE think this is a good solution to your problems? --- ## [How many strings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strings/1007508)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-strings/1007508 "2024-09-22T15:39:54Z")
This one will probably be too short to get buried in the huge thread. Simple question. The Guitar Fairy will gift you one acoustic guitar with a pickup. You have a choice, 7 or 10 strings? Martin made a Roger McQuinn 7… --- ## [Time Travel: What 5 performances would you see?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-what-5-performances-would-you-see/1007472)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-what-5-performances-would-you-see/1007472 "2024-09-22T15:21:45Z")
Concerts, plays, operas, movie premiers, &c. You are limited to 5! Rat Pack at the Sands in Las Vegas. 'Nuff said. The Beatles during the early years when Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best were in the band. I’m not sure i… --- ## [GoFundMe for Former SDMB mod @Idle\_Thoughts; he needs some help after some personal challenges](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gofundme-for-former-sdmb-mod-idle-thoughts-he-needs-some-help-after-some-personal-challenges/1006171)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gofundme-for-former-sdmb-mod-idle-thoughts-he-needs-some-help-after-some-personal-challenges/1006171 "2024-09-22T15:05:46Z")
I’m Facebook friends with Former SDMB mod @Idle\_Thoughts, also known as Chris N, and he has been going through some tragedies and challenges recently. Most notably, his mother died unexpectedly in a car accident, and thi… --- ## [Alzheimer's day was saturday!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alzheimers-day-was-saturday/1007577)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alzheimers-day-was-saturday/1007577 "2024-09-22T15:03:15Z")
I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Alzheimer’s Day, but I forgot. Sorry about that! :flushed: --- ## [The most awkward legacy - a diamond made from my body, before I die](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awkward-legacy-a-diamond-made-from-my-body-before-i-die/1007583)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awkward-legacy-a-diamond-made-from-my-body-before-i-die/1007583 "2024-09-22T14:48:39Z")
Juat a random thought that played through my mind… I could get one of those ‘lifegem’ lab grown diamonds made from my body before I die - just save up my nail clippings and hair and beard trimmings, reduce them to charco… --- ## [What's that tool, Charlie Brown?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-tool-charlie-brown/1007535)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-tool-charlie-brown/1007535 "2024-09-22T14:16:51Z")
I’m stumped. This Peanuts strip from 1952 has Charlie Brown offering to tune Schroeder’s toy piano. He retrieves some tools: a saw, a heavy-looking hammer, a hatchet, a chisel. But what’s that tall thing he’s holding up?… --- ## [Most disturbing death scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061)
**Author:** [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Replies:** 225\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-disturbing-death-scene/75061 "2024-09-22T13:58:52Z")
SPOILERS HEREIN I saw Nurse Betty the other day, and I can’t get the end outta my head. The way Chris Rock is screaming “Daddy” and then the second gun shot. Good Lord! This has completely freaked me out. Anyone else af… --- ## [If conservatives think being gay is a choice, what do they think are the benefits of being gay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-conservatives-think-being-gay-is-a-choice-what-do-they-think-are-the-benefits-of-being-gay/1006014)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-conservatives-think-being-gay-is-a-choice-what-do-they-think-are-the-benefits-of-being-gay/1006014 "2024-09-22T10:29:21Z")
I’m sure that 99%, if not 100%, of Dopers would agree that being gay is not a choice. So there’s not much debate there. But given that many conservatives think that sexual orientation is a choice, they must think there … --- ## [The file that we are all looking at and modifying should exist in ONE place](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-file-that-we-are-all-looking-at-and-modifying-should-exist-in-one-place/1007475)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-file-that-we-are-all-looking-at-and-modifying-should-exist-in-one-place/1007475 "2024-09-22T06:49:38Z")
I created a summery of the steps that need to be taken to make a rather important update. There will be four of us doing this. We ALL need to be looking at the same steps. I asked others to please comment with ideas/con… --- ## [The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rivals-of-sherlock-holmes/1007550)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rivals-of-sherlock-holmes/1007550 "2024-09-22T06:24:38Z")
Has anyone else been watching this series on Britbox? It’s one-shots based on various fictional detectives in England around the time Sherlock was supposed to have been based. For example, there’s an episode based on a s… --- ## [What could possibly go wrong with this new roller coaster design?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-with-this-new-roller-coaster-design/1007476 "2024-09-22T00:33:16Z")
Cedar Point’s new roller coaster does something that scares the crap out of me. But hey, I’m no coaster guy. The highest section of track maybe 30 long just ends. ENDS! No bumper or anything, the car just stops there wit… --- ## [Has anyone written their memoirs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-written-their-memoirs/1007540)
**Author:** [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-written-their-memoirs/1007540 "2024-09-22T00:20:00Z")
I’m often the keeper of the stories in my friend and hobby groups. I’ve long kept lists of stories, in the form of single sentences, to remind me of significant events. Recently I had some free time and decided to put th… --- ## [Tell me about Long Beach Washington](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-long-beach-washington/1007374)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-long-beach-washington/1007374 "2024-09-21T20:18:00Z")
I am taking a little vacation there the 20-24th of September, and I am wondering about the sights and sounds and goings on around town. Our condo faces the ocean (Worldmark), and we have no set plans in place. --- ## [Given the White House and a supermajority in Congress + Supreme Court, what policies would you enact?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-the-white-house-and-a-supermajority-in-congress-supreme-court-what-policies-would-you-enact/1007445)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-the-white-house-and-a-supermajority-in-congress-supreme-court-what-policies-would-you-enact/1007445 "2024-09-21T20:11:17Z")
Basically, a carte blanche scenario. Supposing you could enact just about any policy that you want (within reason, of course) - what would you push through Congress and the president’s desk? Taxes, gun control, abortion… --- ## [Surround sound home theatre: rear channels can be cheaper, right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surround-sound-home-theatre-rear-channels-can-be-cheaper-right/1007554)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surround-sound-home-theatre-rear-channels-can-be-cheaper-right/1007554 "2024-09-21T19:24:29Z")
I’m closing in on a final configuration for this system. One of the vendors proposed rear speakers that would cost about $700 for the pair, actually a bit more than the speakers up front. This seems like an imbalance of … --- ## [Re: 12 Bar Blues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-12-bar-blues/1003553)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-12-bar-blues/1003553 "2024-09-21T19:17:26Z")
Nu? Am I cheating if I toss a IV chord for all of Bar 2. How about a V7 for the last half of Bar 12? --- ## [The Republican Party is no longer the "Pro-Business" Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-no-longer-the-pro-business-party/1003180)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-no-longer-the-pro-business-party/1003180 "2024-09-21T18:33:52Z")
We now, officially have two pro-union parties: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4734051-teamsters-president-sean-obrien-to-speak-at-republican-national-committee-convention-milwaukee/ Any corporation or CEO that g… --- ## [Scientists Say They Have Created the First Electromagnetic Vortex Cannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-say-they-have-created-the-first-electromagnetic-vortex-cannon/1007542)
**Author:** [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-say-they-have-created-the-first-electromagnetic-vortex-cannon/1007542 "2024-09-21T17:46:24Z")
Story here: Paging Dr Doom… For anyone struggling to find that perfect Christmas gift. Admit it. You want one, don’t you? --- ## [Polling results spread out in election threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-results-spread-out-in-election-threads/1007484)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-results-spread-out-in-election-threads/1007484 "2024-09-21T16:39:11Z")
I don’t know the right answer and I do believe that play by play polling numbers are relevant to the run up to the election and how can Trump win threads … but we get the same polls as new news in each of them … The thr… --- ## [My lips to yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-lips-to-yours/1007544)
**Author:** [@SpicyDuckBillyHunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpicyDuckBillyHunt)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-lips-to-yours/1007544 "2024-09-21T16:34:59Z")
In the second Hot Shots film. US President Benson meets the Japan PM. Benson: My intestines were removed during action in the North Atlantic. My bowels were replaced with hemp. Clogs easily. Mishahuru Soto: I hope you… --- ## [What is this {Picture in OP}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-picture-in-op/1007537)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-picture-in-op/1007537 "2024-09-21T16:14:25Z")
An enlargement from the painting The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger. Some sort of astronomical device I’d guess. The details on this painting are unreal. --- ## [Help a moderator please? Go fund me for Rico online now, all help appreciated](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-moderator-please-go-fund-me-for-rico-online-now-all-help-appreciated/1006886)
**Author:** [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-a-moderator-please-go-fund-me-for-rico-online-now-all-help-appreciated/1006886 "2024-09-21T15:08:52Z")
This has been approved by the Powers that Be. Greetings, fellow Dopers and friends! A bit of backstory, I joined the SDMB in 1997, when the group was still on AOL . I signed up for the Web SDMB the first day it was a… --- ## [Classical, Popular, and Movie Music Ruined by Other Associations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-popular-and-movie-music-ruined-by-other-associations/1006871)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-popular-and-movie-music-ruined-by-other-associations/1006871 "2024-09-21T13:02:08Z")
Whenever she hears Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie my wife inevitably thinks of Emer Fudd singing “Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit!” (Although a big Bgs Bunny fan, I think of Apocalypse Now. Or the DR. Manhattan in Vietn… --- ## [Best neutral, odorless cooking oil for routine sauteing that's NOT canola oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-neutral-odorless-cooking-oil-for-routine-sauteing-thats-not-canola-oil/1007364)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2024, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-neutral-odorless-cooking-oil-for-routine-sauteing-thats-not-canola-oil/1007364 "2024-09-21T10:38:35Z")
I like olive oil. I use it a lot for cooking and non-cooking preparations. Sometimes I use olive oil and butter together for great flavor, like with potatoes and other veggies. Other times I don’t want any taste from th… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=472&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=474&state=watching)