Diamond in the shit

I rewatched Inception recently, it’s interesting because it has this trope centered in the plot. Cillian Murphy’s character, Robert Fischer Jr., had a father like this, and while he never believed in his son (at least as far as we’re revealed), the plot centers around having him believe that he did.

This one irks me to no end.

6 of 50 is 300. % just means 1/100. That’s also a good way to think of it.

Honestly, taking off my nostalgia goggles here, I’m gonna say the Switch. Handheld and TV usage in one device was amazing. It’s got its problems, yeah, and Nintendo is not really an admirable company, but it was nice.

With my nostalgia goggles on, PS2, no question. Because it was a PS2 AND a PS1. Never played PS3, barely played 360. By that time I was basically a full PC gamer. My original one broke (don’t remember how), so I got the slim one. it’s crazy durable, I think because it has a lot less moving parts. I tried to do some hot swap disk stuff with it, so I had to use clamps to hold it shut lol, but it still worked. Never could get the disk swap to work.

If we include handhelds, then I think it’s the Gameboy Advance SP. Rechargeable and backlit was a crazy innovation. (Yes yes, I know in Japan there was a version of a Gameboy that was backlit.)

The OG Gameboy pocket I had was shit. It was my first gaming thing ever though. So hard to see. Gameboy color was fine. Just not really as amazing as Advance. GBA loses to SP though. As for DS, I don’t know, I never had a beef with it, but I feel like the jump from color to advance wasn’t quite as big to me as advance to DS. Plus, the DS was sort of the beginning of Nintendo’s weird gimmick era. I’d call the Wii U the end. So many motion controls…

I had a PS4, but didn’t play too much on it. Basically just Ratchet, God of War 2018 and Ragnarok, and Death Stranding. It didn’t feel any better than a computer to me. At least the Switch is unique in that it can be portable.

I linked them for you because you don’t know what a Nazi is, because you said literal Nazis aren’t alive today.

Literal Nazis exist today, yes. Insisting that they don’t is doing them a favor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism

Or is this one of the ‘I don’t know what Nazi means’ kind of things? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

/deez nutz

Can I use /a for “I use CachyOS btw”? I wouldn’t want to waste our most precious, sacred, and limited /tags, but is the overload acceptable to the /a creator? I would never want to use a /tag against the creators intended usage. /gen /hj /a

There’s a flag for upgrade that will do an update as well. I don’t have it memorized, but you don’t need to “update and upgrade” anymore.

I HATE PDFS TOO. I hate them! 99.999% of the time I’m given a PDF file it would be more useful as an HTML file.

At least one of my smart phones had a way to do it. If it’s still there now, it’s buried much deeper.

I am not familiar with what you’re talking about. It may well could have been presented as a visual novel, but only in the sense that you click through it. My recollection was that it was a corporate training thing (which have similar layouts to visual novels lol). As far as AI generated backgrounds though, I don’t think so. Memories are not reliable, of course, but I’m fairly certain this was pre pandemic. AI images existed then, but it was mostly the dog-filled deep dream images and sketchy dall-e stuff. Maybe it used that, it’s not impossible, but it wasn’t really at the level of quality back then where you’d be tempted to use it over stock images.

I think the program had something to do with fire diamonds, those 45° offset squares with numbers in the top three corners to give a quick overview of dangerous materials are.

I could’ve sworn there was some instructional game in steam for like $10k or something. Maybe it was less and/or has since been removed.

I think they probably made some real sakes, but a lot of people got refunded because they were confused and thought it wasn’t real. It’s been ages, the details are fuzzy.

Elephant rent seeking behavior

Can’t give it away or sell it? Fine, I set it free. Didn’t say I couldn’t do that.

“He’s using you for your body.”

And I’m using him for his.

I got some really weird bottlenecks for a while. Elden Ring sticks out as only running at about 20 fps despite having a 3070.