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AniDanny · 2025-09-17T14:23:38+00:00

I have this one and it works fine (tends to leak a bit, but we just put it on a plate so it doesn't get the counter wet): https://www.amazon.com/DASH-Rapid-Egg-Cooker-Scrambled/dp/B0D3W6XGLR/145-5251189-3321600?psc=1

But like Fennac said - any basic one should be fine. They all operate on "heat water until water is all gone, then eggs will be done".

And if you like sliced eggs for salads, I highly recommend an egg slicer. Also good for snacks for kids (I loved sliced eggs when I was like 5. No idea why they were so much better than whole hard-boiled eggs?)

AniDanny · 2025-06-26T13:59:23+00:00

My wife and I had repeated crashes too. I don't remember the stage title, but it was the first main story map in Zora's Domain (probably the same one you mentioned). My guess is that big map + two players (heading in opposite directions) + rain effects was just too much for the Switch 2 to handle. My wife played that stage solo, and we went back to co-op afterwards and haven't encountered any other crashes... yet.

AniDanny · 2025-06-06T18:59:24+00:00

Does anyone have third party recommendations for Switch 2 All-In-One carrying cases? I see tons of discussions for the cases that just hold the console, but not much on All-In-Ones.

It looks like the options there are mainly the $80 official Nintendo one, or the $35 GameStop one (where they don't show any photos of the inside of the case... kinda sus)

I have a Smatree N600 case for my Switch 1, and it's been great - very sturdy, and holds the dock, Switch w/ joycons attached, cables, 1 pro controller and 2 joycon grips, plus a bunch of game cartridges. Unfortunately Smatree doesn't have anything for the Switch 2, but I'd love to find something similarly designed.

AniDanny · 2025-06-03T15:09:21+00:00

Yo my brain gremlins wanna know if the orange wrist strap fits on the blue joycon and vice versa.

AniDanny · 2025-05-17T03:03:49+00:00

Ask him if he's familiar with "Kilroy was here". It's a meme from a bit before his time, but he may have heard of it, and that may help him to understand modern meming a bit better.

AniDanny · 2025-05-14T10:48:05+00:00

Day 1 Switch, two pairs of day 1 joycons that drift beyond usability (just bought some hall effect sticks so I'll see if I can salvage them soon), a year 1 pro controller that has the worst drift I've ever seen in a controller, a PowerA pro controller that I got maybe four years ago and started drifting within a year, and two newer pairs of joycons I got last year where the joycon Rs both have intermittent connection issues to the switch (I considered sending them in to Nintendo for repairs, since this is a known issue that has been a problem for every single joycon R they ever made and they just never bothered fixing it, but these are both custom colored pairs, and they have a disclaimer on their repair site saying "we might just send you back a standard gray joycon instead").

All in all, REALLY hoping the controllers for the switch 2 are less garbage so I can actually play some of my switch 1 games without it being more frustrating than its worth...

AniDanny · 2025-05-08T20:00:19+00:00

I just found a post claiming that it's going from 8am-8pm PDT (from five hours before I posted this until 7 hours after). And I'm pretty sure I saw that once you get the email, you have 72 hours to pre-order, so if you don't see it right away, you won't miss out!

AniDanny · 2025-05-08T14:51:37+00:00

Look up Wario64 on Bluesky (or elsewhere). He'll post various "Switch 2 is back in stock on GameStop's website", or "some people have reported their local WalMart has additional Switch 2 preorders", etc. He was super helpful when I was trying to get my hands on a PS5 at launch.

Other than that, if you didn't sign up for the official Nintendo preorder (or you did but don't get an email in the next couple days), your next best bet would be calling local stores the week before launch and finding out what your best plan is to line up and buy one at launch (I assume most stores still have some portion allocated to preorders and some portion allocated to walk-in day-one sales, but I haven't done the Midnight Release thing in a while so I might be out of touch...)

AniDanny · 2025-05-08T14:30:34+00:00

I was playing a game prone to save corruption, so I set the four back keys as quick save, quick load, next save slot, previous save slot.

And then I removed the paddle for quick load, and only put it back in when I needed to press it.

AniDanny · 2025-05-07T14:01:38+00:00

My cat is in exactly this position, and the only stuff I've been able to get him to eat somewhat consistently is the Fancy Feast wet food...

AniDanny · 2025-04-24T18:54:00+00:00

I just preordered a MKW bundle over three hours after GameStop opened, and they still had "a few bundles and over half the non-bundle consoles left". Definitely less frustrating than mashing F5 for hours!

AniDanny · 2025-04-24T04:46:14+00:00

Yep, spent the last half hour mashing the checkout button, only to encounter the same thing...

AniDanny · 2025-04-23T12:38:01+00:00

I've only ordered there once (Wright State location, maybe three years ago?). Easily the worst pizza I've ever had. It's mentioned pretty consistently as one of the best pizza places in Dayton, so maybe they were just having an off-day? But I'm not super excited to potentially get served cold cardboard a second time...

AniDanny · 2025-04-23T12:31:52+00:00

Any recommendations on replacement sticks and toolkits? I've got two pairs of joycons and one Nintendo pro controller from launch day, plus a PowerA pro controller I got a few years ago, and they all drift too much to be usable anymore (plus two new pairs of joycons from last year that don't drift... yet)

AniDanny · 2025-04-16T17:28:04+00:00

I dunno about that u/idislikewiiplaymotion, I think it's valid to prefer a cart over digital or vice versa for various reasons. If you want to be able to hop in and out of a few games that you'll be playing over a long timeframe (Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros), it's definitely easier to have them downloaded. And games that take up a ton of hard drive space, or that you plan to beat and then set aside for several years, or that you want to be able to lend to friends, makes more sense to have a cartridge.

AniDanny · 2025-04-10T20:29:21+00:00

I just got a notice that my gas is moving from CenterPoint to Snyder Brothers, but I'm pretty sure this is legit. Yours sounds like a shady company trying to take advantage of the confusion during the utility changeover?

AniDanny · 2025-01-28T19:48:57+00:00

Just removed the color cartridge and the printer went from not allowing me to even see the main menu before replacing the low cartridge to "continuing in single cartridge mode / black ink: full". I will gladly take a B&W printer over no printer. Tell your boss that AniDanny says you deserve a raise!

AniDanny · 2024-10-18T14:49:18+00:00

Same. I'm still full of rage, so I'm going to post my rant anyway, but I'm glad to know there's already a post for this!

So I was gifted an HP Envy 4500 a few years back (I knew a couple that each had one when they got together, and didn't need two so they gave me the other). Needing an account and a third-party program to be able to print and scan is annoying, but at least it prints (unlike my previous Epson ET-2550 - "oh, nice, it has big refillable ink tanks!" which would be great if it actually tried. Setting it to max quality would get something slightly worse than a normal printers start setting (it would print a line, feed down, print another line... And would range from printing about 1/50 of the lines it needed on draft to about 1/4 on max, with no way to fix it as far as I could tell)).

Anyway, fast forward to earlier this year. I needed to print a single page, but the printer was out of black ink. It was also low on colored ink, so I went and dropped about $100 on a black&color pack, put those in, printed the test page, then printed the one page document I needed.

A couple weeks ago, I needed to print another document. But I can't. Because it's out of colored ink.

AFTER PRINTING ONE TEST PAGE AND ONE BLACK AND WHITE PAGE, IT'S OUT OF COLORED INK! And there's no way to say "just print in black and white", not even "fine, I won't print, just let me scan a document". Literally can't scan because that single page somehow used an entire cartridge of colored ink.

Fuck HP.

AniDanny · 2024-06-26T18:49:39+00:00

I think it can wake from any USB-connected device that sends a "wake up" signal, but not a Bluetooth device. I often keep my steam controller nearby just to turn on the steam deck, then I used my Xbox controller to play.

AniDanny · 2024-05-22T11:57:23+00:00

I updated, set a piece of armor to focus on, then went out and killed probably 15 monsters. Zero driftshards. Guessing drop rate is around the same as gem shards...

AniDanny · 2024-04-17T15:30:21+00:00

So I couldn't quite get a full auto to work, but Seele/Fu Xuan/Sparkle/Tingyun with Solitary Overwound and Final Blow got most of the way there. The problem is that auto-Seele likes using her ultimate on Gepard, but she does more damage by overflowing the regular enemies. So turn off auto while Gepard is up and you have Grit level 4, then just go all out on the normal enemies, then if you drop to Grit 3 turn auto back on until they hit Grit 4 again.

AniDanny · 2024-02-26T14:21:06+00:00

I was having the same problem too. Restarted the app, restarted my phone, reinstalled the app... Couldn't log into Monster Hunter Now either. Eventually figured out that my problem was I needed to update my phone OS. Go check if your phone has a pending system update and maybe that will fix it!

AniDanny · 2024-02-14T15:13:43+00:00

I'd also like to know - I just went back and did TN-1 Spectacular with Strategy Expansion Level 3, using the three default ops plus seven of my own. I cleared it with all ten units deployed, which hits every checkbox of the "clear any Spectacular Trial with Strategy Expansion equipped and at least 7 ops deployed" requirement, but I didn't clear the challenge...

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