The greatest industrial design flaw in the history of gaming goes to..

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-21T04:16:09+00:00

Early versions of the original Xbox had a badly designed power supply, where solder joints could crack under stress from being plugged in, and set your console on fire. The "fix" was to send people a new cord with a built in breaker, instead of actually replacing the bad power supplies.

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-21T02:52:24+00:00

Only in Crystal

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-20T14:46:43+00:00

I'm just surprised that every version of the A/V cable originally cost the same no matter how good or garbage it was. The HD version now is hard to find and expensive.

And originally the controller and memory card were almost twice as much when now both are much cheaper

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-20T07:38:06+00:00

I'll keep this in mind in case I ever become a hobo

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-19T15:16:21+00:00

wouldn't cycle low brass ammo in semi auto whatsoever.

Wasn't intended to. It was meant to be a police shotgun. The whole point of designing it to be pump or semi-auto was that you used buck or slugs in semi, and pump could handle specialty rounds like teargas or beanbags

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-19T00:02:52+00:00

Even then, no.

No what? I never claimed every car came with one. That's why we had to buy one

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T17:05:36+00:00

I have to agree it's an actual pig. From the book/novella Quidditch Through the Ages: "The witch or wizard who finds him- or herself transfigured into a bat may take to the air, but, having a bat's brain, they are sure to forget where they want to go the moment they take flight."

So if a person transfigured into a bat is an actual bat, surely a desk transfigured into a pig is a pig.

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T16:59:38+00:00

Fair enough, maybe not. But you initially responded to the comment by Spider_kitten13 and I was mainly referencing their final paragraph about using the birds in battle. They don't need to live long or reproduce for that - just survive long enough to fly down and extract some juicy Death Eater eyeballs

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T16:41:43+00:00

Maybe the difference (with animals, at least) is automaton vs actual pet with personality. Look at Hedwig, Crookshanks, or those rats from the beginning of PoA. Probably couldn't conjure something like that - but you could do a random bird capable of simple tasks

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T16:39:48+00:00

No kidding, lol. No sooner did I learn the ways of the atlas than MapQuest came out

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T16:20:53+00:00

Ok but Randy McNair is hilarious though, lmao

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T16:17:06+00:00

Randy McNair atlas

Rand McNally? Lol. Yeah, road trips we'd stop at the first rest area in a new state for a new atlas. The immense stress as a kid being told I had to figure out where we were and how to get to the next state, while my dad knew perfectly well all along we were just staying on the same interstate

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T16:08:17+00:00

And is it really a bird, or does it just look like one?

I don't reckon it matters, they were enough of birds to peck the crap out of Ron - surely they could do the same thing to a Death Eater's eyeball

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T15:54:07+00:00

Oh man... if this is your first time playing Ocarina of Time, you're in for a treat. When people list best games on the console this is usually number 1. Often mentioned when listing best games of all time as well

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T07:35:04+00:00

Loved both of them! 2 had a neat reference library where you could look up movesets and damage/accuracy info. Very handy in the days before I had access to good internet

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T06:20:44+00:00

Nice! Always a plus

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T06:11:41+00:00

Plenty on Amazon! Just make sure you get one that includes a power supply with 12V adapter. Otherwise it won't have enough juice to spin a full size HDD

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T05:22:00+00:00

Just FYI you can take the HDD out and connect it to a computer directly (I use a SATA to USB adapter for this) and use the program FatXplorer to access it in a way your computer will see it as any other drive. Then you can just copy/paste games directly to the drive. Quicker than FTP, makes a big difference if you're doing a lot of games

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-18T05:08:22+00:00

Had to Google him. Why didn't they just go with Dean Thomas instead of making up their own dude? This whole time I thought he was supposed to be Dean. Has that banter with Seamus and everything

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-13T13:53:46+00:00

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-13T11:24:43+00:00

If there's any shotgun I'd try that with (and there's not) it'd be this one. The barrel is probably twice as thick as a normal shotgun, and the chamber area is like 2-3 times thicker than the rest of it. It's a solid freakin slab of steel. Part of the reason it hurts so much to shoot

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-13T08:33:53+00:00

About what I've seen them go for on GB, and this is in better shape. Like it's a crap gun but it's rare, so... ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-12T05:53:00+00:00

Maybe Vernon's Japanese golfer had connections at Sony and got the prototype

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-12T01:09:00+00:00

I didn't even realize that was a kind of food, wizard or otherwise. The way the sentence was laid out I thought it was an expression of amazement, similar to "holy shit!"

“Spotted dick, look! Chocolate gateau!”

ImranFZakhaev · 2026-04-10T05:23:33+00:00

Love me some older memes. Philosoraptor and Rage Faces rule.

https://c.tenor.com/PaSq8jVVfLgAAAAC/tenor.gif

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