The contacts inside are too big and sensitive and it results in phantom inputs. The DIY fix is to open up the controller and literally cover parts of the input contacts with tape.

Shake and bake in full effect.

I’m left handed and play right handed. 99% of the guitars out there are right handed. It’s so much easier to find gear for righties. I also like the idea of being able to be at a party or a beach or a jam or a whatever and get handed a guitar and be able to play it, rather than have to say “sorry, I’m a leftie.” Playing right handed hasn’t felt weird or anything, it’s been fine.

Now, that being said, I know of several lefties who play right handed guitars… literally just learned how to play it upside down. They still can get handed a right handed guitar and they can just deal with it. It’s pretty wild to watch them play, but they manage. I also know a left handed fiddle player who similarly plays right handed fiddles but just does it backwards. Wild stuff.

Presumably they’d do it with some kind of idle timeout. No inputs for X number of minutes and you get an ad.

The performance improvements in v4 are for compilation times, not rendering.

Why wouldn’t you just create a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track their IP addresses tho?

Ironically, all of these things except Abrowser are based on Konqueror’s original engine, KHTML, so Konqueror was actually the OG engine. KHTML was forked to WebKit, which was forked to Blink, which became the underpinnings of Qt WebEngine, which Konqueror now uses.

This is also why KHTML still appears in the user agent strings for all of these engines, but back in the day the Gecko engine used in Mozilla products was already a thing and KHTML was the alternative to that, hence “KHTML, like Gecko”.

The IP holder at this point is Microsoft, so who knows. Microsoft has bought up a lot of big gaming outfits recently, so this is kind of new territory.

Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.

Perl I believe is where the programming adage of TMTOWTDI comes from — There’s More Than One Way To Do It. Python was an anathema to that ideal, where TOOWTDI — There’s Only One Way To Do It, or at least one ideal way

I prefer to think that Picard is just still stuck in the Nexus and everything that has happened to him since has been a result of magic Nexus fever dreams.

Movie Picard and PIC Picard acted nothing like TNG Picard to the point where they were seemingly completely different people. Movie Picard wanted to make the Borg pay for what they did and literally beat in dead Borg with his fists and snapped the Borg queen’s spine in two with his bare hands while TNG Picard knew things weren’t that cut and dry and even had an opportunity to potentially genocide the works of them and didn’t because ethics and shit. Movie Picard would have drove Hugh up to their doorstep infected with the fractal virus the first chance he had.

PIC Picard… is literally an android I guess? But still old? They kind of ignored that later. So, literally he isn’t the same Picard as TNG Picard.

The Nexus is my head canon.

I’d pay good money for just a Bloodborne 60 FPS release. Doesn’t event need anything else, just up the frames, drop it on PSPlus. I had read somewhere that someone internally at Sony or From or something did that with the dev tools they had access to and it ran fine, but maybe that was just a fever dream.

Yeah, like GPUs, which is basically what most LLMs are designed to run on now.

I haven’t been 2hing much and haven’t tested much on those sorts of things yet. I did notice that I don’t think you can die on a perfect parry even if you have no health left, though, as I seemed to be in that position during a boss earlier today.

Started with a ranger who starts with an axe, went to a spear, then a halberd, most recently using a hammer. The spear was quite lungy which caused some issues around open air vertical areas with a lot of narrow paths, while the halberd was just too slow. Hammer is feeling good, and has a good set of running attacks.

Been playing these games since DeS on the PS3 when it first came in 2009.

Overall, I’m enjoying it. Multiplayer that doesn’t require consumables and rituals like placing signs or ringing bells is such a QOL improvement. After 14 years of putting down summon signs and ringing bells and gaining insight, I just want to get to it these days. A few thoughts:

• Bosses initially seem challenging until you get a grip on their movesets and then realize you can defeat them with just a few moves. I beat one boss using nothing more than a running R2 attack over and over again.
• Perfect parry windows seem huge.
• A few control decisions and whatnot are bizarre. Someone else mentioned filling the quick items with apparently random items when you deplete another for instance. Most of the time I don’t even equip any other quick use items, just my estus/healing plants/flasks/whatever.
• visuals generally are good on PS5. Am playing in performance mode for the FPS.
• umbral mechanics are pretty neat.
• short cuts and area connections feel good and natural, DS1-like.
• only been invaded once and haven’t tried an invasion yet. Battle went back and forth until my invader went in for the coup de grace and I dodged while they went sailing over the edge of a cliff. They probably would’ve had me had it not been for that cliff.
• dodging feels like a mix of Souls and Bloodborne. Stamina meter might be a bit too forgiving, as it feels like you can dodge over and over through pretty much anything.
• weapons feel like they have weight to them. Movement is a tiny bit floaty but generally the weapon movesets and decent and feel like they have impact
• inexplicable missing sound in some instances. Sliding down ladders for instance happens in dead silence.
• being able to watch the host continue playing while you’re dead is nice. Nothing worse than helping someone almost defeat a boss and then not being able to watch the end result if you happen to bag it near the end.

Anyways, a few thoughts. Hope they continue to support the game with patches for a while to come and fix up a few odds and ends. I’m not all that far into it, but this feels like it has legs.

“Computer: two steamed hams, hot.”

Computer terminal lights on fire

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Yes I know replicators weren’t available in Archer’s time, but still, it would be a fun scene.