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MsJubilee

Is it just I or the mobile version of this site( and Push Square) zoomed out? I hate it so much; it was okay back then. I don't understand why they did this.

The Harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

I'm currently playing Red Dead Redemption 1 & Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water

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Ralizah

@MsJubilee Sounds like your phone launched the PC version of the site or something. It happens, rarely, on my phone as well.

But no, I just checked, and it's not happening on my phone's Chrome browser.

Currently Playing: Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (PC)

Tasuki

@ThanosReXXX Thanks again. Yeah I don't want to ship them over as that will cost too much. I don't mind D.I.Y. at all. Will check those links here shortly.

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NotTelevision

@Tyranexx Yeah if they have underlying health conditions then that’s definitely a no go. It also seems like a lot of people in their 30s only go to amusement parks with their family. It’s not a popular road trip destination like going to a concert or visiting a new city.

But someone better join me when they eventually open a Super Nintendo World in Florida. Especially if they have a Zelda, Metroid, or Donkey Kong Minecart ride.

NotTelevision

MsJubilee

Ralizah wrote:

MsJubilee Sounds like your phone launched the PC version of the site or something. It happens, rarely, on my phone as well.

But no, I just checked, and it's not happening on my phone's Chrome browser.

That must be it, or it's a glitch. Pure Xbox doesn't have this problem.

The Harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

I'm currently playing Red Dead Redemption 1 & Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water

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Vinny

I see they're making a tiny Game Gear Micro so ants are able to play it too!

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ogo79

ThanosReXXX wrote:

@ogo79 It's dangerous to go alone. Here, take this:
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oh my.
no
what the hell is that?
dog food with rice and pineapple?
i mean dog food with rice and dog food?

the_shpydar wrote:
As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)

Heavyarms55

Can anyone who knows about the topic tell me why there are no microSD cards more than 512GB but less than 1TB? Or at least none that I can find. I see 128, 256, 400 and 512 but then next jump is all the way to 1TB. No 750 or anything?

I was planning on getting a new card to upgrade my 400GB which is nearly full, but the price difference between 512 and 1tb is like 350 dollars.

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Tyranexx

@ThanosReXXX No pity for those complainers when it comes to the bottle trick not working, if applied incorrectly. I don't know how they'd expect them to work if they aren't applied to any part of the tunnel/mound system. Sound doesn't travel as well through solid ground.

Sounds like an excuse to pick up a wine bottle as well....

Nice chair, by the way. People balk at pricier office chairs, but typically some of the more expensive ones are better for long-term sitting and for alleviating back issues. I'm very glad I picked up a gaming chair for my at-home office right before quarantine started.

@Heavyarms55 I don't find weeding pleasant, but I usually stay on top of it enough that there isn't too much of an issue. Unfortunately, the exception is part of the chain-link fence in my backyard; there's no easy way to keep that fully trimmed, so unfortunately I have to resort to a little weed killer at least once a year. I've never had to deal with hedges very much, but I'm sure trimming them is time-consuming. Not to mention it has to be done just right IIRC.

I should probably go through allergy testing sometime. They don't usually bother me as much in the fall. The best I can figure is that I'm either allergic to the grass itself, or some kind of tree pollen.

@NEStalgia No clue if there's a persimmon seed app, but now I'm curious to see if one actually exists. XD I think weather forecasting is one of those fields where you get paid for being wrong more than right.

@NotTelevision It's only a matter of time before they open a Super Nintendo World in Florida. I'll definitely drop by when that happens!

Which reminds me, I still haven't been to Universal Orlando. I'd like to experience the entire place, but my primary reason of showing up would be to explore the Harry Potter section. I haven't been to Florida since 2011, and that trip was almost exclusively Disney-related.

@Zuljaras Ah, so one of the good cyclopes who works for the gods, then. Gotcha.

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klingki

@Heavyarms55 Yeah, upgrading from a 400GB card is a crappy place to be in because the 512GB card is not really a big enough upgrade to justify buying a whole new card, and the 1TB card is just too expensive at the moment.

klingki

Heavyarms55

@Tyranexx The problem with hedges isn't really that it's a hard job - the actual trimming itself isn't terrible hard - at least with the kind we had, new growth is bright light green, so trimming it back you've have to be blind not to know how to cut. The problem is giant mess it makes. Those little green... Are the considered leaves? Needles? whatever, they go everywhere stick to everything thing and if you don't clean them up, they turn yellow-brown and it screams to the neighborhood that you didn't clean up after trimming. We used to put tarps down around them while doing it and it was just took so long. It was such a nice day when we decided to get rid of most of them. We removed all of the ones in the back yard and kept only 4 in the front yard. We borrowed the neighbor's big F-350 industrial truck, wrapped a chain around the base and ripped them right out! Mom got rose bushes and a some more flower bed space and Dad and I didn't need to worry about taking care of the hedges much anymore. Win-win!

I know it's literally poison, but I never much minded using weed killer if I had too. What I didn't like were these spike weeds that always grew in that hurt like hell if you weren't wearing heavy gloves - and if you didn't rip them out by the roots they were back in 2 weeks.

@klingki Right? That's what I don't quite get though, why is there nothing between 512 and 1tb?

@GoblinKing86 I saw your comment on the Platinum article about Steam and didn't think the conversation fit there - but I'm curious what your issue with Steam is? I've run into people who just don't like the platform but never heard of any specific moral complaints with it. Not beyond the usual kind of corporate greed stuff that most big overly powerful companies have.

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BruceCM

Nice chair, @ThanosReXXX & the NeoGeo mini looks pretty neat, too ....

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NEStalgia

@Heavyarms55 Memory usually works as a power of 2 by the way it's designed. So the natural jumps are 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 (1TB), 2048 (2TB), 4096 (4TB), etc. Magnetic drives (HDD) aren't restricted to the same limitations of the design of static and volatile memory. There are those oddbird sizes like "400GB", but usually those are because some sizes have bad yields, so they take a 512 that had a lot of failed sectors, disable them, and package it as a 400. Sometimes you can get a 1.5TB or 3TB that might be the same, or might be a 1TB + 512 or a 1TB and 2TB stuck into the same body mostly because an overrun of parts existed for cheap, offsetting the cost of using two modules and the circuit to control them sufficiently. Otherwise memory is always in multiples.

That's also the same way CPUs are produced. A given (modern) run of processors is generally all the same processor. They produce one chip that has iffy yields, and "bin" them according to test results. The "perfect" spec ones become Xeons for servers/workstations, and they enable the full error correction controls and server features. The ones that perform nearly at the same spec but run too hot become the "enthusiast" lines. The ones that overheat too much and have to be throttled down become the lower clock speed versions of the various processors and have features and cache disabled (for market segmentation), and the ones with entire core failures become the dual-core instead of quad-core models, etc. They just disable the dead cores.

It's also where the modding/hacking/overclocking bargain hunters come in. Intel sells far more low end chips than high end chips. So much so that often times they don't actually have enough "failed core" output to bundle into the cheap boxes, so they end up taking perfectly good ones and just disabling the cores to box more cheap ones. The bargain hunters know this, mod it to re-enable the cores, and get a full spec chip for a fraction of the price. Assuming it doesn't run super hot, because it wasn't actually tested running the full gambit.

Same for GPUs....and likely, console SoCs.

NEStalgia

NEStalgia

@Tyranexx I used to talk with a few meteorologists. Nice guys. Deluded beyond imagination. They seem entirely unaware of how disastrously less than worthless their forecasts are, they see themselves as life-saving superheroes, and will defend to the death how they are really great because predicting the future is really hard and they got it so close to right in the atmospheric setup with systems x, y, and z....if only a, b, or c hadn't moved 3 hours early and 12 miles west. It's the only industry where you can defend "completely wrong with worthless results" as being "really really close" because reality turned out different, but if it hadn't you'd have been right.

I should really get the Power Ball million, because I thought of picking 34 before I picked 27, and since the winner was 36, it was so close it was basically the same thing!

The frontal boundary didn't cross the Ohio valley until after dawn, and the mid-level was 14mb lower than expected, so instead of all day rain there was 15 minutes of showers at midnight. But we had it almost right if it the timing were a little better, so it was a good forecast. People just don't understand everything that goes into this!

So in other words, there's no purpose to your job because the job you claim you do, isn't actually possible....right?

They get the "big" things like hurricanes right....but that's "easier" to predict because it's the dominating force in its own setup. NHS should exist. NWS.....maybe not so much. (Then again there was Hurricane Sandy where NHS closed shop and went home as soon as it went hybrid "oops, it's not a hurricane by definition anymore...not our problem...you guys handle it, we're going home!" )

NEStalgia

ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Rodential = Hamster releases... Way too deep, man. WAY too deep. It was late over here when I had to mull that over... (and when someone says rodent, the first thing that comes to my mind, is rat)

@ogo79 Wow, if I wouldn't be so confident, that might have really put a dent in my self-esteem or it could have been an insult to my cooking prowess. What it ACTUALLY is, is a stir fry of chicken thigh fillet with mixed vegetables (carrot, onion, green beans, zucchini, bell peppers, paksoi) in a spicy sweet & sour sauce.

And because it's kinda spicy, I add the pineapple to counter/balance that.

@Tyranexx Yeah, I'm also pretty satisfied with my own chair. And it looks good in my home as well.
Concerning the bottle trick: I've actually made a tiny mistake: I said to cut the bottle clean in half, but taking off just the bottom is actually better: more reverb, so more annoying anti-mole sounds...

But what you could also do, is make some of various lengths, creating sort of a "wind organ", so you'll have a range of sounds. As mentioned before, not all moles react the same, so making a wider range of noises might just be the ticket to your specific problem.

@BruceCM Thanks. And the chair tilts back as well, so I can relax and play at the same time. Works perfectly with the Neo Geo Mini too...

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BruceCM

Great combination, @ThanosReXXX .... Pineapple in something spicy works well, too

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NotTelevision

@Tyranexx Yeah Universal looks like a great park. I didn’t go there either, opting for the other big Orlando attraction. That Harry Potter section looks pretty amazing. I still have yet to read the books, but from what I’ve seen of the films they definitely nailed the look of Hogwarts.

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Eel

Oh my God, all the Etrian Odyssey soundtracks are on Apple Music (Play Music too, not sure about other services).

I don't know when were they added, as I found them entirely by chance, but this is a dream come true 😮

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