Oh for sure, completely agree with all of that, but there is a point of diminishing returns. Like you definitely need functional equipment. And it’s nice to have nicer equipment. But buying yet another guitar doesn’t make you better at the guitar, and you can probably get better by practicing more often with what you have.

Don’t get me started on music software. I could spend $10,000 a week on plugins that I would never use because they all look so awesome.

Sequencing on something like LSDJ is great because you are locked into this tiny little ecosystem and you have to get creative.

Isn’t Frank Rizzo also one of the monikers used by “The Jerky Boys”? The prank calling group from the 90’s that used to make tapes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerky_Boys

Yup…

Frank Rizzo – an extremely abrasive, foul-mouthed blue-collar Italian-American New Yorker with bizarre complaints and requests (voiced by Johnny Brennan). Frank curses repeatedly at a potential employer during an inquiry about a job, and accuses the Mickey Mouse character at Disney World of being sexually inappropriate with his children.

It is not, but it’s music related. But I also have outdoors hobbies. And electronics hobbies.

Buying more expensive and better gear will not make you better at it. I not even going to tell you what the hobby is because this applies to so many of them. If you can do your hobby with the gear you have and you think “oh man I wish I had that, I could do awesome things” - it’s only worth it if you spend a whole lot of time on your hobby. If you’re like me and you only spend a couple hours a week or month on your hobby, it’s usually not worth it. Unless it’s something that let’s you do stuff faster. Because then you can do more in the few hours you have. I’m sure there are other exceptions to the rule, but in general, before you buy some shit, think to yourself “Do I really need this? Or do I just want it?”

Especially if you want to make “good” food. I’m not saying there isn’t good food that is healthy for you. But if you want to make things taste like they do in a high end restaurant, it’s probably going to require a shitload of butter/ghee and salt. And then probably cream. And also highly fatty meats.

It’s usually just butter. So much fucking butter.

This isn’t my story it was a friend, but I think about it often and it still makes me laugh. It was high school English class and the teacher asked “does anybody know the famous quote from ‘The Elephant Man’?” and without missing a beat my friend put his arm in front of his face like and elephant trunk and made a loud and accurate elephant noise while slowly waving his arm up. Everybody thought it was hilarious except for the teacher who sent him to sit in the hall for the rest of the period. So he’s sitting out there and 5 minutes later the door opens and another kid comes out and my friend is like “what did you do wrong?” and the other kid goes “I couldn’t stop laughing”

Which is fucking great. Gets me every time.

Wait is that true? I would totally eat yogurt if it meant I could enjoy ice cream again.

IT admin here, we certainly do know how to do it, and already have. It’s an appx package, and it’s really not difficult to remove.

I recently got a 8Bitdo Ultimate 2C as a gift and I love everything except for the color. That’s really the least of my concerns. It’s a fantastic all account controller with excellent features for what I would call a fair price (considering other “premium” controllers are like $150+)

8bitdo is the only 3rd party controller maker that I trust.

Yup, there it is. At first I was like “well it routes them to the sellers website, so that’s good, right?”

But I had to stop and think “No. That’s not how Amazon operates. What’s in it for them?”

And it’s this. This is 1000% the plan.

I don’t normally do the whole trolling thing, but I gotta say I was tempted to write “Windows” with no explanation just to see how poorly it would go.

I was in a ring pop commercial for about half a second, and it was just my silhouette.

I also started a Smash Brothers tournament for Smash 4 that ended up in the national rankings at one point. I think our largest tournament had 80 people. We had some high ranking players like Jtails come, and even guest commentators like Max Ketchum. I was actually college room mates with one of PC Chris’ close friends, and I had the pleasure of getting absolutely destroyed by Chris in Melee a few times in some basement hangouts. My college room mate actually made a brief appearance in the Smash Brothers documentary in the chapter about PC Chris.

I just tried this on my Pixel 10 Pro and it opened the AI assistant and now I’m angry.

Here’s my Christmas eve Wellington from this year. It’s only a 4 year old tradition at this point, but I’m getting pretty damn good at it. I sous vide the beef so it’s always perfectly cooked and tender. Getting the puff pastry to cook without over cooking the beef is the hard part. It takes several steps of refrigeration while doing the layers/wraps.

https://imgur.com/a/4O2ATMo

https://imgur.com/a/vE2Vdiu

Hah thanks. I had no idea about the reference and I was like “That’s a pretty weird animal to use in this context”

A giant sea bird?

Yeah that crossed my mind, but if I’m not mistaken Pokemon was developed by Game Freak, only licensed by Nintendo.

I mean, that’s capitalism, right? The manufacturers see that their product is still selling at a 300% markup, why would they bring the price back down when they can just make more profit if/when costs for them come back down? Sure they might drop it a little to make it “look” like a good deal. Just like GPUs. They went from being $600 for high end, to being $2000. Then when they announced that the next Gen was “only” going to be $1200 everybody was like “Wow! What a great deal!”

I hate this timeline. They just keep figuring out new ways to squeeze money out of me and ruining my hobbies.

As much (well deserved) hate that Nintendo gets, they are fantastic at this. They seem to be able to make games look good on low powered systems with stylistic decisions and smart optimization/coding. They learned some pretty important things in the NES/SNES era about using tricks to squeeze performance out of the few KB/MB they had to work with.

The code for the game has been decompiled. From my understanding that means it’s now readable and can be ported over to other places with some work. What that means is that a true “PC Version” can be made, which will have the ability to support things like widescreen/high resolution, high framerates, native keyboard/controller support as well as whatever mods people feel like developing (new maps, new modes, etc) - in the case of Mario 64, when this happened people got to work on a Multiplayer version, which works really well. So it opens up a lot of possibilities.