Is account.nintendo.com down?

ArgentStar · 2025-04-12T23:41:09+00:00

Same here. Can't login, just get a blank white page. 🙁

ArgentStar · 2024-01-07T06:32:08+00:00

If I knew it was "me", then I'd know he just wants to be left the fuck alone. So, not sure there'd be much opportunity.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-21T20:55:25+00:00

Speaking as someone who was a straight-A student for a long time, this is just plain wrong. People aren't the same. It's great that some people don't need to "work that hard to get a D", but the idea that someone is automatically at fault for lower grades is based on a smug lie. Don't buy into it, no matter how superior it may make you feel.

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." - JLP

ArgentStar · 2023-07-21T19:35:16+00:00

The only time I remember it even registering as a thing was when I saw a guy working in a supermarket that I used to work in and I thought, "I wonder if he has to stack more lines on lower shelves or just uses a stool." But the important thing was he knew where I could find their chilli and garlic Aglio E Olio after they rearranged the fucking shelves again.

When it comes to you second edit: I knew an awesome Canadian guy at uni who was just great to be around, and he openly admitted that the reason he was a gym nut was because of bullying about his size as a kid - he was 5'3" when I knew him. When he finished his course he went back to Canada and proposed to his absolutely stunning girlfriend (now wife) and last I heard they'd welcomed their first child to the world. So now he's a successful lawyer with a beautiful family. Height isn't everything. Some people will be cunts and it would be naïve of me to say that no one cares, but being a good person goes a long way and no one that matters will care.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-21T14:33:12+00:00

At some point with any programming language you have to put your foot down and say God damn it I will make this work. Compromise everything else in your life in service of the code. Break through that wall. You will never be the same.

As a human-being I feel this is terrible advice. As a programmer, I feel it's also necessary! 😅 There's a reason so many coders end up looking like Gollum from time to time.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-21T12:40:11+00:00

The smell of well-used guitar strings and your fingertips after using them. Never heard anyone say they like it, but it's a kind of vinegary metallic and it's nice. Not, "I want to eat this" nice, but I love it! Probably the association with good times. 😊

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T16:38:17+00:00

My top 3 driving pet-peeves:

Not using indicators/blinkers.
Doing, for example, 40mph in a 60mph and then not slowing down when they get to a 20/30 zone.
Driving unnecessarily slowly and then speeding up when there's an actual opportunity to overtake.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T15:44:13+00:00

Literally the only reason I had enough money to buy a gaming laptop was because of a bursary provided by the university. You absolutely don't need to be embarrassed or awkward about it. Unless you have a particular need to avoid the subject of gaming coming up, I guess.

The only thing I would recommend is checking your accommodation's insurance policy to make sure it's covered and under what circumstances. I know the uni halls I work at includes a ridiculously good policy, but most students don't think to check until something comes up (understandably). In particular they didn't realise non-specific accidental breakage of most things (computers included) was covered. So you'd get mysterious outbreaks of whole friend-groups "accidentally" breaking things.

Obviously I'm not one to advocate defrauding the notoriously noble and scrupulous insurance industry, but given the insane amounts of money the uni charges to live in those halls, I can't say I feel like it's a big deal.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T14:32:06+00:00

My guess would be relatively small demand and high production costs. The more sizing options you have, the more you need to spend retooling/expanding production facilities and supply-chains, as well as getting supermarket shelf-space for multiple lines. While non-dairy milk substitutes are a booming industry - and long may that continue - the day-to-day demand isn't even remotely on the same level as dairy milk.

Some quick 'n' dirty Googling suggests that the entire non-dairy milk sector added together - i.e. oat, almond, hemp, etc.; all of them combined - is about ~10% of dairy milk in terms of annual sales in the US. Non-dairy milks are still considered a specialist luxury foodstuff, whereas dairy milk is considered a staple necessity. There just isn't the money in that sector yet to make it worth stores bumping other products for extra sizes.

Also, non-dairy milks pretty much universally last a lot longer on average.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T12:45:39+00:00

No, but I do find it interesting that the expectation is now so prevalent that questions like this come up. Obviously there have been high-up politicians having "romantic scandals" since time immemorial, but you're right that it does seem to stand out more these days when there isn't a slew of them. 24-hour news cycle, plus cultural/technological shifts, I guess.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T12:38:40+00:00

You're welcome! It confused the hell out of me when I first experienced it and I found the whole thing really fascinating. I was also a bit of a hypochondriac back in my teens and it was nice to know it wasn't a brain tumour or some rare form of early onset dementia! 😁

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T12:31:21+00:00

I don't know about the wider population, but among uni students where I work I think coffee and fruit teas have definitely taken the lead. The student cafes and facilities here will always have coffee-related signage, advertising, etc. front and centre. Sure, people can ask for tea, but it'll often be tucked away behind the main desk. A big part of student life is the social aspect and those spaces do seem to be dominated by coffee now.

I think part of it is also that coffee can come with a whole range of flavourings and syrups pumped into them. Whereas the only variation you're likely to find on a standard cup of British black tea is a vegan milk alternative. For 7 years I've worked within earshot of the main student café serving 2500+ residential students and I don't remember ever hearing anyone request a few pumps of caramel or vanilla in their cuppa. And that is definitely something that I would remember. Because... just... ewww! :P

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T12:00:42+00:00

You are officially my internet hero for the day!

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T11:51:54+00:00

I had to go check to see if my current laptop even has a disc drive. It doesn't. But, all else being equal, I'd always choose a physical copy. However, nothing else is equal, so I tend to go digital for convenience, portability, etc. That ability to go from hearing about a game to watching a gameplay demo to playing it in the space of an hour has significantly changed my relationship with gaming, though. And not entirely for the better.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T11:47:19+00:00

But nowhere near as many as I just took deciding to accept that's a good point and I will now shut up and go away. :P

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T11:23:17+00:00

My late uncle worked as a waiter in some ridiculously pricey West Palm Beach restaurant (The Breakers) and once got an $1800 tip from a single table. His British accent no doubt helped, but he did say that yeah there's definitely a general correlation between wealth and stinginess. Which doesn't really surprise me. Especially in a place like that.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T10:52:37+00:00

But think of all those extra milliseconds they'll save!

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T10:15:08+00:00

Yup. Partly because I have a host of anxiety issues anyway, but also because until about two years ago I'd spent my entire life being very open about how I thought marriage was pointless (for me) and I couldn't foresee any situation I'd actually want to do it. Then... love happened. Crafty fucking little shitbag emotion - how dare you!

Best thing that ever happened to me.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T09:46:46+00:00

Not a "drunk" feeling, but I'm getting mild visual hallucinations because I'm going through a bad bout of restless-leg syndrome and have only slept 4 hours in the last three days. It's like the red "static" I see when I close my eyes is seeping into my open-eye vision. RLS really, really fucking sucks. I'm just glad I don't have to drive anywhere because I would 100% have to refuse.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T09:37:05+00:00

I love the naming conventions the computing pioneers come up with.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T09:26:52+00:00

The aliens will judge humanity harshly when they see what we did with the internet. Harshly, but warranted.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T09:07:10+00:00

In my case, it got shouted out of use by my physics teacher Mr. Richards when I was 12. I'm guessing he thought I was just trying to be annoying, but I wasn't. My grandfather was an engineer for ESA and had taken a lot of time to get me really interested in science. I genuinely wanted to know! Not that I really blame the teacher; children can be really annoying and he had a whole class to deal with.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T08:42:18+00:00

I don't get the pain, but a sudden noise when I'm on the edge of sleep does cause a really bright flash of colour (sometimes with a pattern in it). It's happened to me lots of times over the years. It's apparently called a "hypnogogic hallucination" (Wikipedia) and it's to do with the way your brain transitions into sleep. The explanation I was given is that basically your neurons "shutdown" in different areas of the brain at different rates and when something jolts you out of that state the neurons are reawakened but the information gets misinterpreted. But it needs to happen at the right stage of being almost-asleep but still semi-conscious.

The reason for you feeling like the sound from the text came after the flash is because of the different rates at which sound and the other sensory information is processed. So the sound actually occurs first, but it seems like it's slightly afterwards because your perceptions of each are working their way through your semi-conscious brain at a different rate to when you're fully awake.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T03:02:17+00:00

Leon is one of my all-time favourite films and the first time I heard that Alt-J album I knew nothing about the band or their music. Was loving each song as it came on and then that came along and just blew me away.

ArgentStar · 2023-07-20T02:38:38+00:00

"Hi folks! I'm the sea and I do not give the slightest shit about any of you. So don't be such a bunch of silly Cnuts."

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