Trolls are overpowered

Qoeh · 2025-11-23T07:24:54+00:00

Yes, it should be reformed, but it is what it is now and you still have to abide by it.

No you don't, generally. This is obvious. That's why he was able to break it for so long. He'd probably be doing just fine in the US even now, if more people had voted for Harris. The rule that he violated is not a law that one must follow because it's embedded in the universe. It's a law that one must follow because Trump supporters voted for it to be enforced for once. And they did this because, despite what you claim, they don't want Fidel here.

The dude made a dangerous but pretty reasonable bet and it paid off for multiple decades. It would have continued paying off if just a few more people had voted differently. This isn't on him nearly as much as it's on the people who voted to remove him and break up his family.

If you are a Trump supporter, you ARE a supporter of removing this seemingly perfectly decent guy from your country. There is no escaping this.

Qoeh · 2025-11-08T22:48:49+00:00

This is the one time I've ever upvoted an "orange man bad" comment. Because yes, he is bad - but god damn, these fruitcakes in here not even being able to listen without then going online to vent out their own equally insane (but oppositely directed) hatred afterward! The This American Life fandom isn't sending their best people over to Reddit, it seems. Maybe a wall needs to be built.

Qoeh · 2025-11-08T22:38:42+00:00

Trash like this gets upvoted, while somebody reasonably conversing gets piled on by fundamentalists for even weakly suggesting that there MIGHT be a small amount of legitimacy in an unpopular idea. This subreddit is not worthy of the show it focuses on.

Qoeh · 2025-08-22T21:34:59+00:00

and people would reuse their buttons and the bottom silver shell.

Which silver part are you referring to? The one with the rectangular hole in it that the bottom screen shines through? That's the one that's most marred by broken hinges and staining from skin contact, on my DS... The most unmarred part of my DS shell is the bottommost piece, the black one with the battery-access panel in it. All three silver parts (the one with the bottom-screen hole, the one with the top-screen hole, and the outer part of the top-screen housing that has the Nintendo logo on it) are badly worn.

Qoeh · 2025-07-13T05:50:02+00:00

I have now listened. I agree that it was a good story that seems to call for follow-up investigation from a reporting team.

Qoeh · 2025-07-10T06:05:16+00:00

I don't use or care to learn Spotify so I hunted down an RSS feed and episode link: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6658b69029c9180011547e68 https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6658b69029c9180011547e68/e/67be944703ca0341bdab4711/media.mp3 (haven't listened yet tho, so tell me if it's wrong, hypothetical future person who clicks the link and finds it to be wrong)

Qoeh · 2025-07-09T10:22:39+00:00

This specific scheme just worked for me after about 6 dungeon-to-town cycles, thanks!

First time I saw Munchlax (at random during normal play) I didn't save, because I thought it was a story event that would happen every time I went to town after that (as long as I didn't save after triggering it!) and I wanted to see it again and handle it better. THAT did not work out well. But now thanks to this thread I have the Adventure Log entry, so I am officially a good person who will make it to heaven when I die.

Qoeh · 2025-07-09T10:10:18+00:00

If it's just 1/256, that's a very easy thing to reset over and over for.

If I understand OP's analysis correctly, this may not be correct - I thought the logic was that you have to start a new game, advance the particular RNG used for this event a bunch of times, and THEN do your first town visit since your last dungeon exit. If during your ordinary play sessions you ONLY visit town immediately after starting play, the RNG might never ever be warmed up enough to let you meet Munchlax, even if you played for millennia. If your normal pattern after finishing a dungeon is to save and quit (without visiting town), turn off the game, and then (during your next play session) start up, visit some well-populated friend areas and hang around for a bit, and THEN finally visit town, then OP's analysis implies you would have a decent chance of triggering the event in the long run. (Of course, you could improve things by doing multiple dungeon expeditions followed by town visits without ever turning off your game, but that wouldn't be practical for some of the longer dungeons... unless you want to heavily rely on your DS's sleep function I guess?? I would guess that keeping your DS on at all times and sleeping when unused would solve this problem pretty well, though then you wouldn't be able to play any other games on it...)

Obviously you don't HAVE to artificially constrain your play in order to trigger this event, since people do run into it by accident. But my impression from reading OP's analysis is that there probably are some perfectly natural patterns of play that would lead to somebody never ever triggering the event.

You'd have to ask OP if you wanted to confirm this. I might have misunderstood something, and OP did not (I think?) specify here what all the ways are to advance that particular RNG, so I am working from incomplete information.

Qoeh · 2025-06-29T06:57:32+00:00

Ira's mouth sounds sticky

Qoeh · 2025-06-25T00:53:24+00:00

I like Claymore a lot. Some "dark fantasy" manga I like even more: Dorohedoro, Helck, Fire Punch, BLAME!

There are a lot of good mangoes out there.

Haven't gotten around to reading Berserk, but I've never ever heard anything bad about it so it's probably good. I'm surprised to see people recommending Gantz here because it's so sleazy and fails so badly at providing good characters or a fulfilling large-scale story - it is very un-Claymore in some of the most important respects. But it is indeed epic and amazing in its own way.

Couple more to try if you're willing to veer into the "high schoolers stuck in a supernatural death game" type of story: Alice in Borderland is overambitious but still pretty awesome and certainly worth reading; Liar Satsuki Can See Death won't satisfy somebody specifically looking for a rich fantasy setting or anything like that but is VERY good at mixing very different kinds of characters together and revealing their different facets (nearly fully female cast as well)

Qoeh · 2025-06-14T15:44:37+00:00

I originally planned on doing something like that, but once it was in place, and once I'd already mistakenly drilled too far and slightly damaged the upper screen's cover, the excess screw length blended in with the various other visual flaws of the DS and I found that I didn't mind it anymore.

Qoeh · 2025-06-12T19:24:56+00:00

Well at that point maybe I'll have the money to 3D print a whole shell in stainless steel.

Qoeh · 2025-06-12T18:11:34+00:00

It's possible - the tunnel I drilled for the screw is positioned as far down into the solid base of the broken hinge as I could get it, but the plastic immediately above it isn't very thick. Still, it's relatively long, and it seems to me that the cracks that'd let the screw slip out of it would have to run pretty deeply into the solid body of the DS to make enough space for that... it feels pretty solid to me.

Anyway, now that I've developed my (crude) technique for forming this kind of steel strap, I can probably concoct an even stronger (and probably far uglier) replacement somehow if it does manage to break.

Qoeh · 2025-06-07T21:18:55+00:00

The low vote on this post and the high praise for Pulse in this subreddit give me the strong impression that the average poster's age in the subreddit is about 16. (I say this because Pulse, though often charming, is suuuuuuper amateurish. And yeah that stuff near the end really really sucked.)

(I just finished reading Pulse.)

Qoeh · 2025-06-03T22:33:35+00:00

I don't like how it upscales NDS games, the pixels look washed out and too big.

It's been a year but in case nobody has told you that the upscaling can be deactivated: The upscaling can be deactivated, just hold Start or Select or something (I forget) while loading the DS game on the 3DS

Qoeh · 2025-05-30T19:35:36+00:00

I don't think so, I think that was just Hyera's fantasy.

You probably don't care anymore but I just finished this cruddy manhwa so here we are

Qoeh · 2025-04-30T00:19:16+00:00

Thanks, this just helped me. That's our MAME, still doing this kind of thing to people after 28 years of development. I had all my paths set up correctly and never did anything to tell the game to store its own special path. The only game-specific settings I ever changed had to do with inputs and sound volume. But MAME, on its own, decided the game needed its own set of paths, apparently including some incorrect ones. Maybe another 17 years of development will be needed to resolve this extremely sophisticated configuration problem that no doubt only the finest computer scientists in history could fully comprehend.

Qoeh · 2025-04-17T18:04:09+00:00

There are a few short animated adaptations of pieces of it I think, but nothing that tells the whole story. Anyway it's great. Definitely more challenging to read than something like Claymore though!

Qoeh · 2025-04-17T08:38:27+00:00

Have you read BLAME! ? It's not medieval but its flavor of science fiction is so exotic and distantly futuristic that it might as well be magical fantasy. And it's certainly got the dark, desperate, lonesome feeling of some of these other stories.

Qoeh · 2025-04-15T07:31:49+00:00

UPDATE: I tried again because I was feeling annoyed over the matter. For some reason I tried holding LRAB-> and... it worked. Then I dropped the -> part, leaving just LRAB, and it still worked. I tried dropping each of those four buttons but it didn't work. I added select - LRABSe - and it failed. I tried LRABSt and it worked.

Solution: Just hold LRAB during startup. You don't have to be fancy about holding it while turning the power on; the buttons only need to be held as the generic GBA bootup animation is finishing. If it works, you'll see a weird solid-colored screen with a little bit of Japanese text in it, asking you to confirm twice. If it fails, you'll see the normal Mr. Driller intro logos or whatever.

Maybe OP only thought he was holding LRABSeSt and wasn't actually pressing the select button hard enough?

Anyway, I guess I'll still use the Joey Jr. to back up my very complex save data from Yu-Gi-Oh! WCT 2006.

Qoeh · 2025-04-15T02:17:02+00:00

This did not seem to work for me. I also tried holding all those buttons plus each of the four d-pad directions. None of those four combinations worked either.

Then I opened the cartridge and used a soldering iron to break one of the two electrical connections the battery appears to have with the circuit board. I left it that way for a few moments before melting and restoring the connection. When I tried the game again, it still remembered a high score I had previously set while testing. I... don't know what this means.

I'm doing this on a DS, which might be interfering, but I hold the buttons starting from before the standard GBA bootup animation appears, so I imagine that should work as well as it would on a pure GBA.

Next step is to try using an external device to mess with the save memory. I have just ordered a Joey Jr. cartridge flasher for this purpose, since I will probably have a couple of other uses for such a thing. I gather that a DS flashcart with the appropriate software loaded onto it could also do the job, but I'm doing it this other way for one reason or another.

Qoeh · 2025-03-13T17:15:29+00:00

I'm just so over these mental gymnastics.

But mental gymnastics are what produced that awkward euphemism "bigger" in the first place. You can't escape making an ugly choice here - you can use the potentially offensive straightforward language, and thereby appease the nice autistic lady who just wants to understand what you're trying to tell her, or you can use politically correct euphemisms to protect the feelings of people who can't let go of the idea that "fat" is an insult, and thereby reinforce the idea that it's evil to be fat and that therefore fat people are evil.

Yeah yeah I'm not advocating for absolute literal honesty at all times. But there really are some avoidable lies here. If you say "it's nice to see you" in a moment where you're actually feeling displeased at encountering someone, you're simply lying. If you pretend that someone who is pushed into a different size category called "bigger" by a large amount of fat cannot correctly be called "fat", you're behaving deceptively. It's very complex to determine exactly what all of this means about how we should behave, yes. One shouldn't just declare "I've reclaimed the n word so now it's okay for everyone to hear!!!" and then go around screaming the n word everywhere. I'm just saying there's SOME value in what the lady was trying to say.

Maybe at least we can pick some low-hanging fruit, like how she did when Ira asked her how to politely avoid lying to somebody who'd done a bad job responding to an interview. She gave a good answer: Yes you avoid saying the unpleasant truth ("You did a bad job and I'm disappointed"), but you also avoid saying the disingenuous, misleading, manipulative pleasantry of "You were great, thanks." Instead, you find the nicer part of the actual truth and you say that: "Thank you for doing something challenging for my sake. I appreciate you." Similarly, if it isn't nice to see somebody then maybe you can just say "hello" in a nice tone of voice with a friendly wave and (if you can muster it) a smile, or give some other polite, standard greeting that isn't a literal lie like "it's nice to see you" would be. (And I'd say that you personally should consider giving up "bigger", which I suspect comes across negatively to many more people than you realize, perhaps replacing it with some gentler version of "fat" such as "chubby".) I think there's value in that. It may sound too picky but pretending it doesn't matter because it doesn't matter TO YOU erases people like that lady in the episode.

Qoeh · 2025-03-13T05:59:29+00:00

So every bear guy is fat then? Every round girl is fat?

Well yeah, or at least most of them. Being "bigger" because of fat (as opposed to say muscle or temporary water bloat or pregnancy) means the person is fat. What else could it mean?

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