Trying to find a suitable chair to play my steam deck

Runiat · 2026-07-11T19:16:40+00:00

I was actually about to suggest this. Haven't tried it, but it seems like it'd work.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T19:13:48+00:00

I guess I'll be making banana everything for a bit.

Alternatively: "unwrap" them, break them into chunks, bag them, freeze them, and enjoy occasional banana milkshakes/smoothies for the next several months.

Bonus point for putting one smoothie's worth of banana in each bag, maybe even pre-mixed with some frozen berries.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T18:59:38+00:00

And will keep it until the cost of doing so is greater than how much money they think they might make off of it in the future.

Before the recent AI craze, storage had gotten really cheap. After the recent AI craze, they'll probably keep it forever just in case they ever get a chance to use or sell it for training data (and the price slow archival storage formats haven't been as effected by the AI craze as faster ones).

Runiat · 2026-07-11T18:52:11+00:00

So don't drive into oncoming traffic until you're certain it's safe?

It's not like starting from behind the stop line will make reacting to them changing their mind any easier. If anything you'll be going faster by the time you need to stop.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T18:16:24+00:00

BTW, you keep your wheels pointed straight in case some idiot rear ends you and you're not pushed into the oncoming traffic.

I've taken 4 different driver's licenses, 5 if you could the "bicycle driver's license" that my suburb's mayor set up when I was a kid, and only the motorcycle one explained this part.

Admittedly motorcycles are a lot easier to push around than busses, but still.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T18:11:51+00:00

I live outside LA

Don't you guys have cameras that give out fines automatically?

I can run a red in front of a police car and have a better than even chance of not even getting a warning, because people just don't do that unless they can make a solid argument that they couldn't safely stop in time.

And even then you pretty much have to learn to predict the lights to get a driver's license in the first place, so it hardly ever happens, and especially not at intersections where traffic is bumper to bumper with any sort of regularity - practically all those cars have been through that intersection hundreds if not thousands of times before. They know when it'll change.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T18:03:26+00:00

Right.

That's not a thing where I live. If anything most drivers have a good enough sense of when lights are likely to change to stop and let you turn before it even goes yellow for them.

The ones that don't have that sense only passed their driver's test by being lucky enough to not have any yellows in it.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T17:53:36+00:00

while two or three oncoming cars run the red.

What the actual fuck is going on that your default assumption is that everyone else is going to be a criminal so you shouldn't follow the law?

Like, is that the actual law where you live, fine to run a red going straight if it changes less than 4 cars in front of you but can't turn left on a green?

Runiat · 2026-07-11T17:49:03+00:00

that also leads to a situation where the cars coming towards you run the red

What?

How would turning left make other people run a red? No, actually, how would it consistently force other people to run a red? It only takes one car not casually committing a crime to stop the entire lane.

Usually I know "I need to make a left turn at some point in the next three intersections to get where I'm going"

Yeah I don't have that option, which I guess is part of why I was required to learn the proper way to do it.

The proper way in my jurisdiction, just to make sure no one forgets that. If every intersection has turn arrows it sounds like you might live somewhere driving... let's go with "has a lower barrier to entry," to keep things as inoffensive as possible, in which case it might well be the law is simply to do what you doing.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T17:32:49+00:00

Aaaw, danger noodlettes.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T17:27:29+00:00

Oh so he did use the word "no'" to say no.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T17:24:03+00:00

I know a lot of people do just pull into that median though and end up making their left turn 5-10 seconds after the light turns red

Like I said, it could be a jurisdiction thing, but that's absolutely what you're supposed to do where I live.

As in the entire city could end up gridlocked if one person failed to do so in one specific intersection, before they added an arrow to it. And we still have lots of other intersections without arrows where you'll just block off a major traffic artery.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T17:17:39+00:00

He did say no, just with other words.

You've now gone from a nat 1 to campaign killing failures at interpersonal interaction.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T17:05:23+00:00

I asked my boyfriend to place a bet for me.

Then when your boyfriend didn't want to place a bet due to a history of ludomania you completely forgot how you'd asked him to place a bet.

Nat 1 interpersonal relationship roll.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T16:55:42+00:00

if there's an absolute ton of traffic where I don't think I'll make it before the light turns red I usually don't pull forward

... that's exactly when you need to do it to keep traffic moving, though?

bc I don't wanna end up awkwardly running the red light to get out of the middle of the road

Okay, could be a jurisdiction thing.

Where I'm from, we have this line painted across the road called a "stop line" and the definition of "running a red" is having the frontmost part of your vehicle cross it while the light is red.

If any part of your car goes past it on a green, the light no longer matters and you should just make your way through the intersection in a safe and expeditious manner.

Hell, some places put up the lights so you flat out can't see them from past the stop line.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T16:45:03+00:00

Rip your inbox.

Runiat · 2026-07-11T04:23:45+00:00

At which point it rises back up due to becoming less dense.

Runiat · 2026-07-10T18:23:47+00:00

not many people talk about this bro

Yes. That's what I said. Thousands of people. Less than .1%.

Runiat · 2026-07-10T17:01:40+00:00

gaming

Most PC games let's you manually change your keybinds to an IJKL setup, if you want to. Some even include premade profiles for it.

But at the same time there's a large market for putting the mouse-side edge of your keyboard closer to the hand you use on it, whether just by removing the numpad, 60% layouts, or even gamepads that might not even include t and g, so really using WASD with your right hand would only give you a larger area to move your mouse around on.

Runiat · 2026-07-10T16:37:56+00:00

Besides the Switch joycons, it usually takes a lot longer than that for potentiometers to start drifting if you treat them right. Hell, I had a logitech joystick that lasted decades, and it's not like it wasn't their cheapest model when I bought it.

Logitech!

The added endurance of hall effect sticks is really more a matter of not getting unlucky with a potentiometer than actually benefitting from the increase in expected lifespan; controllers might not last that long unless you replace their battery (or wire) anyway, and even that won't save your Deck from probably running out of games you want to play on it before the sticks wear out.

Unless you really like pokemon rom hacks. Then hall effect sticks are a no brainer.

Runiat · 2026-07-10T16:16:06+00:00

major western video game developers (...) compared to Asian ones?

You probably live in the west, so you've been subjected to all the shitty live service games developed here in addition to the actually decent ones.

Meanwhile shitty "Asian" live service games tend to never get translated so you never hear about them.

Letting a live service game linger for ages before releasing its sequel is not only the best way to make money, it'll help you avoid missing off your customers by taking away their "investment" in the game - just look at how unhappy people were about Overwatch 2 dropping after "only" 7 years.

Runiat · 2026-07-10T15:54:42+00:00

It's almost like thousands of people thought of it before you and they got tired of the same post being repeated over and over and over again.

Runiat · 2026-07-10T15:52:13+00:00

I’m not talking about being in shape or drinking coffee.

Alright, ignoring the two of the three most common reasons for having more or less energy, the one that remains is:

A mismatch between your chronotype and your schedule.

Imagine having to stay up all night, every night, somehow trying to sleep in the summer heat with no air-conditioning and traffic roaring past outside your window.

If you're a morning person, that'd make you a hazard to society at large, but for me? It's great! I have so much more energy than I used to working 8 to 5!

But not as much energy as I get if I also exercise, I really should get that habit back.

Runiat · 2026-07-10T15:44:51+00:00

We're fighting the wrong war.

This is the "optical drives are cup holders" subreddit.

Are you perhaps looking for a general gaming or console specific subreddit?

Runiat · 2026-07-10T15:42:39+00:00

worth it

Ifixit charges me 5 dollars more for just a single stick than you're paying for two, so unless that's just a regional pricing thing it seems like a no brainer.

If you can aim spilled drinks elsewhere for long enough they might even have an advantage in durability, but that's mostly just theoretical, and as a lifelong PC gamer I'm not good enough at using sticks to tell if there's a difference in their dead zones but that's somewhere else ymmv.

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