If I’m not planning to use a device for a while, I generally do 79% as well.
Except for my Nintendo DSi XL and 2DS XL. The original DS seems to hold a charge eternally regardless of what it’s charged to, and the 2DS will literally be dead after a while if I don’t charge it to full. I’ve stored it at a 100% charge and picked it up a few months later to find it sitting at like 16%. Makes no sense.
As a Coloradan, the Feds can go shove something pointy in their puckered stinkholes if they don’t like it.
This happened to me with three games:
In each case the game just didn’t gel with me on the initial play, even if I could objectively tell it was a quality game.
Currently playing through Stranger of Paradise again now. I think I expected a more traditionally “Final Fantasy” game my first time through and dropped it at 10 hours. Started fresh recently and am tearing past where I was and playing it enthusiastically now, it’s a lot of fun.
I’ve played some souls-like games in the interim which helped with the general gameplay loop and control scheme. Also have upgraded hardware since my first run, which makes a big difference as the game was previously a shimmery mess full of slowdowns.
Demoralizing? Knowing that absolute shit people will always be remembered as absolute shit people is heartening.
I think it’s worth noting that the US is something like 330 million spread out over a large geographic area. There are mass protests happening, and they’re big, the last was millions of people. But you’re not going to see it everywhere simply due to a mix of demographics and geographic distance.
By contrast, France has something like ~65 million people in a region that is the size of Texas, one of our 50 states. You could fit France spatially into the US something like 20 times. You couldn’t miss their protests if you wanted to, even if it were done by less than a 10th of their population.
“might-as-well-at-that-price”
The reason I have 130 games installed on my Steam Deck. My backlog has gotten absurd to the point of comedy. I’m set for years.
I’ve been complaining that the consoles and graphical fidelity have been seeing diminishing returns since the PS3 / Xbox 360. At this point, we’re just pushing way more power for minimal improvements. It’s stupid.
$999 “is not impossible”
At that price, just by a fucking computer already.
I started with a Logitech Marble Mouse back in the day, thumb-balls were never really my thing.
It’s an Elecom Huge wired model. I’ve owned three, had two fail on me, both to left click double clicking on single touch. First time could have been a fluke and I replaced it, but the second failed inside of four months. I said hell with it, took it apart, desoldered the switch and replaced it with a Kailh GM2.0. Worked like a charm and it’s been fine since.
Ironically, my oldest Huge is still working fine. Apparently they were originally using Japanese Omron microswitches that were quality and seem to last forever (case in point, the oldest trackball is from 2019 and no issues). With the newer ones I bought, they apparently changed to using Chinese Omron switches of poor quality.
Sucks, but I have a few spare Kailhs laying around if any of the other buttons die now.
I feel you. I felt that way doing some soldering for things like fixing my trackball (bad left mouse button replacement) and my microwave (blown thyristor, easy fix).
I’m just not really good with small stuff and delicate parts like ribbon cable and thin wires. My eyes are old (hello presbyopia), and my hands were never the steadiest, even when I was younger.
I’m in awe of people who do this stuff. I’ve wrecked a DS Lite and a DSi XL trying to do reshells, I’m just not delicate or patient enough for the work.
but we’re past the point of it being a big scary virus anymore
Just in the last 28 days, nearly 1000 people died of Covid in the US, and there have been over 7 million deaths from it over the last 6 years. And that’s only the deaths that have been reported. Doesn’t account for people who’s lives were cut short due or other complications in relation to the virus. There’s been way too many sentiments of “many of you will die, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take” around COVID-19.
My spouse and I have high risk conditions. Like, the flu nearly killed U.S. back in 2018, no way I’m risking COVID-19. Even just getting vaccinated gave me a bout of laryngitis and messed up my throat and voice for nearly two years. And my wife had worse side effects to the Moderna vaccine, to the point I was worried about potential hospitalization.
Also, I’m an IT Engineer and literally use my brain to make my living, and I’ve seen a massive drop in logical skills over the years among peers, it’s definitely affected people mentally to varying degrees.
As for social growth, I don’t care about that. I’m in my 40s and long past giving shit what random people who see me think about me. My wife is the one person who matters to me more than anyone, and I’m not putting her or us at risk for social cred.
the brain damage is already done too
Oh yeah, that part is clear.
As far as it being like regular flu… well I don’t want that either. It nearly killed my wife and I some years back a bit before the pandemic. We both have high risk conditions.
It’s 2026 and I still wear a mask when I’m out. I don’t know why people act like COVID is gone and somehow long COVID isn’t a thing anymore. It’s still mutating, and endemic now, and there are a ton of health consequences to catching it that may not be immediately obvious, including organ damage.
That makes no sense. HOAs have no say over home interior, only exterior property and maintenance.
I hope your colleague took them to court over this.
Even aside from environmental impacts, palm kernel oil is actually really bad for your cholesterol levels. It’s used as a filler in a lot of foods (many peanut butters, for example).
Me too, that was a Shyamalamaladoobiedoo level twist at the end.
Needs more JPEG compression, I can still kind of read it.