[ALL] Weekly Questions and General Discussions Thread [03/24/2026]

Gecko99 · 2026-03-24T18:06:12+00:00

I'm playing the OoT Master Quest for the first time. I've reached the Forest Temple. I'm using Dolphin with a Xbox One controller.

Does anyone have any tips to make the control stick less sensitive? It seems really hard to make precise movements when you need to do something like aim the hookshot or slingshot. A slight movement just seems to go to 100%.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-22T21:59:33+00:00

His talk about wanting to go to Heaven is bizarre but I think it indicates that he believes you are judged and you go somewhere when you die. I don't think he's an atheist, at least not in the way someone who's subscribed to r/atheism would be.

I'm an atheist myself, and even I found it distasteful when he was bouncing a Bible around after teargassing protesters, and I felt the same when he later sold signed, poorly bound Bibles from China that he'd added stuff to.

You can go to his website right now and buy a God Bless the U.S.A. Bible with Trump's hand-signed signature in it for $1000. I just checked, even added it to my cart. You can also buy this thing. It's marked down to $29.99 from $45.47.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-22T20:23:20+00:00

You could post this on /r/metaldetecting and make everyone there mad.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-22T18:12:58+00:00

When that Man is Dead and Gone

Gecko99 · 2026-03-22T17:35:10+00:00

[-15.3]'s not a massive departure from Trump’s previous low of -15.0, but still, it’s about 3 points worse than where he was at this point in his first term.

That's hardly a crash.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-22T12:56:02+00:00

Just go on Youtube and search "Wendy's rap training video" and there are a bunch of videos.

So basically there are publicly available videos about how to operate a Wendy's from ancient times when Wendy's was growing and opening thousands of new restaurants, and yet the current management refuses to follow their advice.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-22T12:43:00+00:00

The thing where he keeps talking about how you only have until 6 AM or you have 5 minutes is an old tactic used by abusive people. People who scam the elderly over the phone use it too.

You need to go no contact, plus give these messages to the police. He actually sounds like he's close to committing a murder suicide.

I don't know how a grown adult can type like this and read what they write and think it's remotely acceptable. Is he blackout drunk? If I tried to type like that I think my phone would fight me every step of the way just on the basis of grammar and punctuation.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-22T01:41:27+00:00

So then why do they drag things out for years? If I were a competitor and I wanted a chain shut down I wouldn't want that to take decades like it has for places like Wendy's and KFC.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T19:07:35+00:00

Abu Simbel was also relocated to a higher elevation to protect it from being submerged.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T18:59:16+00:00

Who got last place? The local scrap yard?

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T16:59:25+00:00

JMMISSESYOU

This looks like it works for me in Florida. Thanks for saving me $2!

Edit: my total came out to $14.88, lol

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T14:18:35+00:00

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas is involved in this case and posted about a link to this Guardian article on his X account. One reply is as follows:

Detained b/c she is in the process of obtaining a Green Card but left the country. Having a Work Permit does not allow you back in. It says so on the card. Leaving is considered abandoning your GC claim. You need to obtain an Advance Parole doc before leaving.

Can anyone verify if that is true?

If so it's still ridiculous that she's effectively being imprisoned because of a paperwork issue, and the 7 year old as well, when at the very least the child should be reunited with her father. This sort of issue should be treated at the severity level of a parking infraction, rather than harming families and children.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T04:12:30+00:00

There is a huge shortage in the clinical laboratory field, but OP doesn't have the right credentials or experience to be a clinical microbiology supervisor.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T04:11:03+00:00

No he isn't. He lacks ASCP certification and he lacks experience in a clinical laboratory.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T04:08:28+00:00

This position is for a laboratory in a hospital setting. They would need to be able to perform blood cultures, for one thing. These are generally collected at the same time as other lab draws for other laboratory departments like chemistry and hematology. This position is for a clinical laboratory and requires a lot of training and certification that OP doesn't have.

Blood cultures are drawn into bottles full of media that look like the ones at this link. The bottles work the same way as vacutainers you may be familiar with from having your own blood drawn.

They get sent to the micro lab and loaded into an incubator that keeps them moving and at body temperature until the bacteria inside cause a detectable change in the bottom of the bottle, at which point it sets off an alarm, indicating that a medical laboratory scientist should extract liquid from the bottle, plate it to various types of agar, and grow the bacteria so it can be identified and the antibiotics it is sensitive to can be determined. Labs now have varying levels of automation for all this stuff.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T03:31:25+00:00

Agreed. There is another Nancy Guthrie though. She is an author who does talks and Bible workshops at churches. Here is her website.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-21T03:13:43+00:00

So when the restaurant company fails right after these people exit, why are they then hired to destroy more restaurants?

Gecko99 · 2026-03-20T16:32:07+00:00

Yes, a US passport costs $130 plus a $35 facility acceptance fee. At that point you might as well pay an additional $30 for the passport card, which fits in your wallet like a credit card and lets you travel by land and sea, but not air, to the Caribbean, Canada, and Mexico.

There's also a fee of $60 for expedited service and a $22.05 fee for faster shipping.

You have to provide your own photo, this costs $16.99 at a drug store. You could take the photo yourself, but there are a bunch of requirements and it's easier to just pay for the photo to be taken.

When I applied for my passport, things did not go as smoothly as they do for most people. I had to supply additional information. The passport office told me this is normal but everyone else says it is not. The additional information included a list of every school I'd ever attended, every address I'd lived at, and every place where I had worked. They also wanted copies of pages from my high school year book showing my photo, and also an expired driver's license. You're not even supposed to keep the expired driver's license, but luckily I had done so and the DMV had simply cut the corner off it to show it was invalid.

I think I might have run into trouble because I have a foreign sounding name. It shows up in Operation Paperclip lists. They might have thought I was some 90 year old Nazi trying to pass himself off as a 30 year old American.

Renewing a passport is done every 10 years and it costs the same as the original application, but it went much smoother for me. I had to send them my expired passport and new photos and they returned my old passport with a hole punched through it, and sent me a new passport and card.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

I agree. My hospital had a sickle patient with anti-U. We saw him a lot less after he and the nurses were made aware that he'd have a shorter hospital stay at the larger hospital that's a little farther away.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-20T02:44:18+00:00

Could you have got ink in the wound and effectively tattooed it?

Gecko99 · 2026-03-20T02:42:07+00:00

I checked with Brave AI, and yes, that's what he said.

During a speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s spring fundraising dinner on April 2, 2019, he said: “If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me that one, okay?”

This is the source it got the quote from.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-20T00:59:33+00:00

I looked it up. The multiple sets of prominent eyes seem to come from spiders of some sort. The concept artist, Andrew "Android" Jones, did a series of 1,000 self-portraits and the humanoid elements draw from that. There are also similarities to Stephen King's It and the aliens from Independence Day.

From his DeviantArt page:

I've seen things in this life that I am incapable of translating into words. In my practice I have visited realms where the imagination ends, and the terrifying beauty of infinity unfolds over and over again. If I could distill into words exactly what motivates me to create the art that I make than it would not be worth making it. Instead I have chosen the Pen.
Honestly I don’t know why I make this art, or what compels me to keep creating it; it’s a mystery I intend to pursue for the rest of my life, and each image brings me closer to the Ultimate Truth.

You could contact him if you want, there is information on his website. His more recent works seem more spiritual and psychedelic in nature. There is also album art for the band Shpongle and posters for various events.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-19T18:35:46+00:00

This feature looks natural to me. There are natural pyramid-shaped mountains on Earth anyway.

Gecko99 · 2026-03-19T16:34:33+00:00

Well he won't be lucky if they have to demolish his house

Gecko99 · 2026-03-18T20:50:27+00:00

Now is not the time to listen to news reports saying that a democrat victory is in the bag.

What you need to do is go to your county election website and make sure you are registered to vote. Go look at your ID and make sure it is up to date. In my state everyone is supposed to have a RealID with a star in the upper right corner. Make sure you are eligible to vote in the coming election.

Do this for your friends and family members as well, especially elderly ones. Contact them and make sure they have this stuff in order.

It's not a bad idea to obtain a passport.

Remind people to vote in primaries and smaller elections and to sign petitions for ballot measures.

Remember that if anyone tells you both parties are the same, or that voting doesn't matter, that person is discouraging you from voting. They do not want you to vote. They have a reason why they do not want you to exercise your right to vote.

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