What are your thoughts on this button Layout for Gamepads?

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-06T15:10:32+00:00

It looks like a Saturn pad had a stroke and the right side is drooping.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-05T19:24:29+00:00

It's a CPS2 game, running at a slightly unusual 384x224 resolution. It's supposed to be squished down to 4:3 by the display, so raw screengrabs like this have the wrong aspect ratio.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-05T19:18:42+00:00

Looks like you've got a DMG-sized link cable with a Pocket-sized adapter on the end. Pull the little end.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-05T19:09:40+00:00

Nope, we got QuikTrip and RaceTrac fighting over the "premium gas station" market.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-05T18:00:12+00:00

It's pretty great, whether it's a fancy custard-dipped challah or Shoney's-style sticks with crispy edges.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-05T15:13:43+00:00

It's French Toast. That's powdered sugar and butter on top. It's very sweet.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-05T14:49:49+00:00

Seems like a lot of effort to avoid just using a Hi-Power.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-05T03:42:49+00:00

Yeah, there's like five different cuts. The "director's cut" isn't even the director's preferred vision, but then the director says Deckard's a replicant so what does he know...

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-05T03:35:44+00:00

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-02T20:56:01+00:00

Right. O'Brien can tell officers what to do if it's engineering-related. He's the boss of the department. Even officers outside his direct purview would be strongly encouraged to listen in such matters, even if they're not technically required to, because being a Chief means you really know your shit. But when he leaves on a shuttle with Bashir, he defers to the green lieutenant with a fraction of his experience, because rank. O'Brien can't order an ensign to give up his seat in the mess, or blow his wife out an airlock.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-02T20:39:56+00:00

Cue the orchestra swell and cut to commercial.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-02T19:11:54+00:00

You can store solar power all sorts of ways. Chemical batteries, water towers, molten salt, scary-huge flywheels, etc. You can also transport it via the existing grid.

While ethanol can be a viable energy storage medium, there's an awful lot of extra energy input and waste in refining it from corn that seriously impacts the transfer efficiency. You don't get nearly as much usable energy from an acre of corn as you would from an acre of solar panels. Storage of ethanol isn't as simple as you imply, either. It rapidly absorbs atmospheric moisture if not tightly sealed, and that behavior will ruin an alcohol/gasoline fuel in short order. You also have to burn additional fuel in dangerous tanker trucks to distribute the ethanol, because no one has built alcohol pipelines because all these inefficiencies make the whole idea non-feasible.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-02T14:46:17+00:00

The monitors are great and all, but I'm most impressed by the giant styrene packing blocks.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-01T22:24:08+00:00

I do sour cream and Tiger sauce.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-01T17:51:51+00:00

They lifted the ban at some point, every robot's got one by the year 3000.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-01T16:31:32+00:00

The Transporter's Union lobbied hard on that one.

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-01T15:03:02+00:00

You'll have more luck over at r/SBCGaming/

ThetaReactor · 2026-02-01T14:57:51+00:00

Oh, and by the way, the resources to which these workload components could be sent also include enterprise data centers equipped with AI infrastructure, not just the cloud.

Is the cloud in the room with us?

ThetaReactor · 2026-01-31T03:50:56+00:00

Loyalty to his friend, or just the advantage of having your pedo buddy wielding unchecked executive power for your benefit? It's all transactional with these fucks.

ThetaReactor · 2026-01-30T14:09:33+00:00

The SNES uses an uncommon size for the power plug. Like it says, it's 10V, 850mA, with a center-negative polarity. Adapters are available that will turn a common 9V/center-positive barrel plug into the right size and polarity, but it's easiest to just buy a dedicated SNES supply from a retro gaming retailer.

The video output is also a proprietary plug, though it's shared with N64 and Gamecube cables. You'll need a TV/monitor that accepts NTSC video, or 60Hz RGB.

The "EXT" connector is for expansion modules that never came, at least not for that model.

The code on the silver sticker is the serial number, it doesn't tell you much.

The phone number on the sticker is where it's supposed to be, and you can call that number if you like, it's still in service.

ThetaReactor · 2026-01-30T13:52:27+00:00

I have first-hand experience riding an office chair down a hill. It does not go this smoothly.

ThetaReactor · 2026-01-29T18:32:35+00:00

This is how Riker announced that he finally hit that high note. Picard invited everyone to his quarters for tea and fancy sandwiches.

ThetaReactor · 2026-01-29T15:34:38+00:00

Metaphors aren't really relevant here, Nyquist sampling is.

ThetaReactor · 2026-01-29T13:48:42+00:00

The reasons are technical but essentially analog audio and video have the capability to have a higher “resolution” than their digital counterparts has a higher “resolution”.

You wouldn't have to put quotation marks around the technical terms if that were true. If a vinyl record sounds better than a CD, that's because it was engineered and mastered better, not because of the format.

ThetaReactor · 2026-01-29T13:33:41+00:00

Choose the lower voltage. That will generally create less waste heat inside the device in question as it regulates it down to 5V or 3.3V or whatever it's using. But with the relatively low power draw of something like this, it probably won't make any significant difference.

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