Is it… dare I say it… the year of the Linux desktop?

I… don’t think we can be friends.

Protagonist of the NES game “Star Tropics” (and its equally-underrated sequel “Star Tropics: Zoda’s Revenge”.) The picture above is displayed at the end of the credits after beating the (first) game.

Please have a Ryan Reynolds cameo. Please have a Ryan Reynolds cameo. Please please please have a Ryan Reynolds cameo.

🤞 🤞 🤞 🤞 🤞

I’m disappointed they don’t have Mike Jones taking bananas out of his ears:

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For me, early 2000s contemporary Christian music.

I wasn’t allowed to listen to secular music. So I made a lot of emotional connections to contemporary Christian music. Which is pretty cringe in retrospect. Whenever I’m reminded of it, I have a pretty conflicted set of emotions about it.

I usually only listen to that music that I listened to in my early teens when I feel like wallowing in self pity. But I can’t deny that I feel extremely nostalgic about it. It makes me wish I would have made those same emotional connections to music that wasn’t associated with really disturbing fundamentalist Christian ideologies and propaganda.

Open Source bounties would be an option. There are a few platforms out there for finding such opportunities.

Believe me, it’s possible to divorce god too.

So put an SQLite database on a Luks-encrypted partition or a Luks-encrypted filesystem in a file.

Lay still in bed with the lights off and my eyes closed. If the reason why I can’t sleep is noise, I’ll put in an ear plug. (Only one, because my other ear is on the pillow and blocks everything out.) Otherwise, I just… you know… try to sleep?

This one is easily a contender for my absolute favorite Nerdcore song.

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It’s usually not terribly noticeable except on certain games (I think Celest was one example I heard) or if you’re speedrunning (which was why it bothered me so much specifically). Basically, pressing one of the D-pad buttons can often register a different D-pad input even if the operator of the controller presses in exactly the correct part of the D-pad.

The way the D-pad is constructed is that the part your finger makes contact with is a plastic piece that pivots about a “post” and when you tip it one direction or another far enough, it presses on a pressure pad on the controller’s motherboard. The problem is just that the “post” is about… maybe half a millimeter shorter than it ought to be, so it pivots a little less than it should and pancakes a little more than it should, resulting in the wrong pressure pad being hit.

That’s already way more info than you asked for. Lol. But if you want even more info, this YouTube video has a simple fix and this 3D-printable part on Thingiverse is about a more sophisticated fix. I’ve tried both and can confirm the latter is a little bit better in my experience. The former fixed the misinput issue, but made D-pad down a bit less responsive. The latter, I have no complaints about.

Well that’s disappointing. I fixed my Switch 1 Pro controller with the Scotch tape trick and later 3D-printed a replacement D-pad. Of course, both of those required fully disassembling and reassembling the controller. But it did the trick. (The latter better than the former. More info in another comment I made on this thread.)

The Switch 1 Pro Controller had plenty of issues too. I have to wonder if the Switch 2 Pro Controller has the same janky d-pad issue that basically every Switch 1 Pro Controller (except the ones modified by end consumers to fix the issue) had.

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Just imagine. Apple could make it a microtransaction bidding war. If you hit the “end” button it says “override caller’s preference not to let you hang up for only 75¢.” And then it puts on the caller’s screen “Tommy has initiated a bid to control hanging up privileges. The current bid is 75¢.”

Say what you will about Roblox, but I have to respect, if nothing else, the fact that they’re kindof an intellectual-property-optional zone. It’s unlikely you can think of a video game that there isn’t a super-shitty rip off of on Roblox.