Interesting to hear about how the DS was perceived in china, and how much more popular the PSP was. Also DQ9 is a great game, very cool how much effort was put into the Chinese translation.

Closest thing I have to an interesting DS story was when I took my DSi apart to paint it like the new 3DS Ambassador consoles. I killed the top screen at some point in the process, so had to get a replacement and disassemble the console and feed the ribbon cable through again. Quite the pain, but it worked and I enjoyed the finished product. But less than a year after that I just bought the new 3DS in white and got knockoff ambassador faceplates. Love the look of that system. So the DSi has been collecting dust, but I’ve been regularly using that 3DS ever since.

Deka and Hecto are the metric system’s unloved children

100% expected, now go buy a 6000lb pickup truck that gets 15mpg for $100k like a good American

Affordable environmentally conscious transportation? Not in trumps America

Good to know. I do remember dropping it because it felt like I could watch 10 episodes and nothing happened. And sometimes I would just scrub through an episode to see if it’s still the same fight and pretty much just skip it.

When they weren’t fighting for 20 episodes at a time it was a fun show, but ehh idk if I’ll ever get back into it

I was up to date on One Piece ….in 2015….
Don’t even want to know how far behind I am now

There are about as many people in Europe now as there were in the whole world just before the Industrial Revolution. I know quite a lot of Europeans aren’t “white”, but humanity would be far from extinction.

Also 3/5 compromise is wild lol

Yeah that’s fair, I’m talking southeast rural. I have spent some time in Alaska, and that’s something else, that’s for sure.

I assure you our stop signs are appropriately peppered by buckshot, but you can’t go ten miles without going by a flock camera. But relatively, nothing’s that far apart down here, and you can’t go too far without crossing a state highway.

But our good ol’ boys are far more interested in harassing minorities than disrupting government surveillance.

I thought so too. I live in the rural southeast. Those things are at every major intersection and about half of the rest of them.

Maybe the people that don’t mind shooting stuff will learn what they are and take them out. So far the only people I’ve heard about doing that are some kids from one of the local colleges getting arrested for it. Don’t know what happened after that tbh. But most country people are total bootlickers for the cops, as long as they keep the browns out

Good news, the flock camera on every corner will be tracking you and looking for any violations with your truck.

And by good, I mean bad.

I’ve heard Riot Rhythm by Sleigh Bells on fucking Fox News

Essential for the ongoing battle of trying to keep shorts and recommended the fuck off of my YouTube subscription feed.

It’s a subscription feed. Ffs, just show me the most recent videos from the creators I’m subscribed to, in chronological order of release. The home page is for recommended videos

This guy actually Making RAM at Home

Really interesting watch actually. But uh, I don’t think we’re gaming on homemade RAM anytime soon lol

Even in this hardware hellscape you can get some pretty decent handhelds for $200. I think the low end segment can stay pretty strong with devices like those and indie games.

But yeah I think high end gaming is going to be pretty stagnant for at least the next few years.

And they’re both lazy/unmotivated bastards

Apparently there are only about 10 of them left. Tragic. High likelihood of them going extinct.

This would apply to any situation where the lower value is sufficiently “enough” and the odds are better. Once you cross the threshold of enough, taking worse odds for more is nonsensical.

I’ve never been a smoker, but every now and then I catch a whiff and it smells amazing.

But one time a smoker chick started making out with me at a party and dude her mouth tasted so bad I almost puked. Just burnt and tarry. Blech. If it wasn’t the cigarettes, she must have been eating hot roadkill and the slab of asphalt it was on. Just unbelievably bad

That kind of sealed the deal for me not wanting to smoke, but it still smells good sometimes lol.

I had to look up what that even is. So the answer, unsurprisingly, is never. It looks like it might happen if you have a serious muscular and connective tissue atrophy? So really shouldn’t be something that just happens sometimes

You will likely need a high power laser to do any actual damage. Class 3b or higher. The kind you need to wear laser goggles for so you don’t blind yourself.

Who knows what kind of bs they could pin on you. Under this administration, I wouldn’t be surprised if they start handing out terror charges for destruction of surveillance equipment.

That’s worst case scenario, but tbh I’d be more worried about bullying from the local cops.