Omelette du Garbage

Building webs is for suckas

If you play on PC, you can use a hotfix injector to mod the cost of gold, diamond, and skeleton chests to be free.

Borderlands 3 Gold Chest

Borderlands 3 Diamond Chest

Wonderlands Skeleton Chest

There’s lots of quality-of-life patches and other fixes available too for both Borderlands 3 and Wonderlands.

If you run HRT you can choose to keep the same hardware and interoperability and also have the benefit of a free and open choice of gender. It will require a little research to get started, but there is great documentation on the lgbtqia wiki (mtf btw)*.

*(not actually mtf, just referencing “arch btw”)

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Here are the related KnowYourMeme pages:

Pondering My Orb

Wizardposting

Welcome to the club magical realm!

A rival wizard cast “cloudstrike”. He thought the spell fizzled when he didn’t see any lightning.

Yeah, at first I thought this could be a rom hack, which was interesting to me. But the more I look, it’s clearly just an edited picture; Link missing his shadow being the giveaway.

It’s interesting how this scene was constructed. The blacksmiths and their table never appear outside except when guiding the one lost blacksmith back home. The old man is usually sleeping in the bar mumbling about his lost son (flute boy) until the pre-credits end sequence where they are reunited in the forest. The text boxes normally have a transparent background, but here it’s a darkened floor tile from Sahasrahla’s hut.

It seems the source isn’t available anymore, but here is the know your meme page.

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I always remember the difference by imagining them as lines on a graph. Forward slash is the line with positive slope and backslash is the one with negative slope.

I think I had this guy’s exact issue and maybe even stumbled upon his comment in that Microsoft support forum thread. It looks very familiar, but I could have just seen the meme before.

My problem was that I needed to do this for 100+ files, so using the UI individually for each file was out of the question. The eventual solution I found was in this tutorial for adding a context menu entry that changes folder/file ownership recursively. It’s been very useful!

I read this post and my first thought was “oh, it’s like how fans post videos of fun glitches in video games and then speedrunners sometimes end up finding a use for them in order to beat the game faster.”

Scientific progress is just glitch-hunting and speed/challenge-running.

People who work night shifts already experience this. It’s not as disorienting as it seems.

“I killed Mufasa.”

Recently, there came out a way of recompiling N64 games for PC without a decompilation and with mostly working results. It is technically possible to apply the hack patch and then recompile it for PC. I don’t know if there’s a way to apply HD texture packs on top of that though.

Also watch the video on Team APS’s channel featuring Prof. They convert Yu-Gi-Oh cards into Magic cards.

Ah yes, my bad. I thought that timeframe felt weird. I was only 7 or 8 when the PS2 released, and only remember watching movies on my older cousin’s system. I Should have double-checked that.

Good point on the Wii. Maybe, by then, enough other devices played DVDs for cheap that it wasn’t as much of a selling point. At the time the Wii released even dedicated portable DVD players were relatively cheap. And many other devices were combo DVD players, even SUVs started to sell with gimmicky built-in theater system upgrades.

Additionally, as successful as the Wii was with a general audience, it didn’t grab as much of the “core-gamer” audience (in my opinion) because of the gimmicky control scheme which was mandatory in most games. It also didn’t have as robust online multiplayer support as the Xbox 360 or PS3. It was also comparatively underpowered and so didn’t get ports of many popular titles.

I think appealing to both general and core audiences is key, especially now with how mainstream gaming has become. If the Wii had functional multiplayer, feature-complete ports of popular titles, and enforced a traditional control-scheme as a fallback, I think it would have outsold the PS2.

The theory I’ve read about the PS2’s success is that a lot of non-gamers bought one because it could play Blu-rays for cheaper than a dedicated Blu-ray player because Sony sold the PS2 either at cost or at a slight loss unlike their other Blu-ray players.

I think for a console to surpass that success, it would need to do something with popular appeal and do it as good as a dedicated device for a similar price. The Steam Deck might have been that if laptops were in higher demand at its release (e.g. if it released just before the pandemic when students needed computers for remote learning.)

In my opinion, a future console would have to basically be a smart phone and a mini-Switch. It would have to run Android or iOS because few people would migrate without support for their current apps.

If said device could run games with at least a 3DS-level of fidelity, it might be appealing enough to draw developers and players. But it would have to support more than just the current mobile game slop.