Comment by BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on Rule

Am I too millennial to understand WTF this meme is talking about?

House of Leaves. It’s a book that’s been around for a bit, but I believe that it got popular with the zoomers because it was an inspiration for myhouse.wad

I suddenly find myself downloading doom II, cool

Remember: happiness has to be fought for.

I watched a few good playthroughs rather than playing myself, but do yourself a favour and go into it as blind as possible.

Oh heck,

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this.

House of leaves has been sitting on my shelf after I felt that it was really messing with my head.

I’ll be checking the wad out

This is a meme about a scary book called House of Leaves. It’s a book that will make you feel unwell.

Thanks but I don’t need books for that

It’s an abnormaly written allegory for loneliness. Theres a lot going on in the book, but the terror starts when a journalist discovers that his new house is a fraction of an inch bigger on the inside than the outside. After that door leading to a pitch black room just shows up in their house.

It’s a great book. Gave me nightmares.

Why is no one asking about 1/12th of an inch?

It’s a reference to a horror book that starts with a protagonist discovering his house is slightly bigger on the inside. Spooky hijinks ensue, and somewhere along the way you loose your mind reading that book.

10/10 would recommend.

I mean it starts with someone talking about finding a book in the apartment of a dead guy, but

No need to ask, that is simply the length and girth of my micro penis

I don’t know anything about the book in question, but I assumed it was because of the way the hook at the end of tape measures has a little play to it. If it’s a poorly made tape measure that doesn’t account for this properly, you get slightly different measurements by hooking around something versus pushing it against a surface.

(See point #5: https://www.ustape.com/hidden-features-of-measuring-tape/)

That wiggle is an 1/8". 12ths of an inch aren’t really a thing.

Oh right, fractions of an inch are usually expressed in fractions of powers of two. SI humour went right over my head because I’m used to seeing weird fractions involved in those measurements.

Feet are divided by 12 but inches are divided by 8. And a yard is a foot times 3.

It makes way more sense when you use it, but trying to explain it does make it sound crazy.

I thought it was powers of two because it’s not hard to find the halfway point between two other points, so you find the 1/2 mark, then the 1/4 mark, then 1/8, 16, 32, depending on how much precision you need. Then, at some point the unit changes again to mils or something like that.

After doing some digging in to this, I was thinking of the thou or mil, which is a thousandth of an inch. There’s also another one that I hadn’t heard of: the line, which is apparently equal to… 1/12 of an inch. Lol full circle.

If it’s a poorly made tape measure to begin with, doesn’t really matter. Could easily end up with 1/12" off.

If it’s really bad it might even be 2/7ths!

Don’t forget the 1/2" drywall, 3.5" studs, 1/2" foam thing, and siding.

Seems like a fantasy metric like all the others, what is wrong with it?

It’s not your generation that makes you unaware of the popular book house of leaves

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