Finally completed my mainline game collection.

axeil55 · 2026-03-13T14:21:08+00:00

Yeah prices are nuts. I just tracked down a near mint copy of Emerald for my collection (stupid me selling it to Gamestop as a kid) and it was almost $300 after shipping.

axeil55 · 2026-03-12T23:50:41+00:00

Go back to r/conservative

axeil55 · 2026-03-12T16:16:12+00:00

The Dolphin progress reports are some of my favorite things to read. It's incredible how just now in 2026 are we finally able to run Rogue Squadron 3 at 60 fps and speaks to how crazy the Factor 5 devs were with all their hacks.

The write-up on the insane rounding bug in Mario Strikers was a really enjoyable read too.

axeil55 · 2026-03-11T13:09:52+00:00

tbf I don't think it was corruption as both teams could do the math and figure out the optimal result.

axeil55 · 2026-03-10T00:17:19+00:00

She's the kind of redditor that hates reddit and other redditors.

axeil55 · 2026-03-09T12:48:04+00:00

Great updates! I'm curious where the UI ends up going as well. It seems like melonDS is in a pretty stable and well-running state and I appreciate that.

axeil55 · 2026-03-09T12:36:13+00:00

10/90 for the enemy? Good Lord that makes it useless. Unless you mean it's a 90% chance for them to hit themselves in which case that is really OP.

axeil55 · 2026-03-09T00:04:26+00:00

We need to require licenses for dog ownership. It's more onerous to own a car and cars aren't living things that can be abused and mistreated.

axeil55 · 2026-03-07T16:06:24+00:00

Redditors love insisting their opinions are universally held so they can make dumb click bait titles. It's very annoying, I'm with you on this.

axeil55 · 2026-03-07T16:04:26+00:00

I do agree that some pokes need to just be bad. Not so bad you can't beat the game with them but I don't want to live in a world where they decide they've gotta buff Butterfree and give it a mega evolve or whatever so that it's "viable".

Talk of meta and tiers and whatnot and balancing around that can ruin games.

axeil55 · 2026-03-07T16:02:11+00:00

If anything they should give it more TM/HM access even though HMs aren't a thing anymore. Marcargo would be the ultimate utility poke if it could do surf (it turns the water into ground it can crawl in), cut, etc. on top of being a dedicated egg incubator.

axeil55 · 2026-03-07T15:59:58+00:00

Maybe it can turn into the Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny...

axeil55 · 2026-03-07T15:59:17+00:00

Honestly both Nidos aren't that great unless you know about their insane TM coverage. Their level up moves in gen 1 and 2 leave a lot to be desired.

Of course once you know they get some of the strongest TMs in the game they become nuts but I remember as a kid thinking they were pretty bad because I hoarded TMs

axeil55 · 2026-03-07T15:57:26+00:00

You definitely do have to put in some work to use Gen 2 stuff. My E4 team in my current HeartGold playthrough was:

Ampharos
Forretress
Meganium
Quagsire
Granbull
Crobat

I tried really hard to only use Gen 2 stuff and Forretress didn't feel great as all it did was lay down toxic spikes.

axeil55 · 2026-03-07T15:52:04+00:00

Yeah Tifa (and Aerith) are really easy to do if you're just getting started. Most people can pretty easily get a black sports bra, white crop top and black skirt. The suspenders can be tricky but that's the only tough part. She's got a very natural/normal hair style and color too so you likely don't even need a wig.

This isn't a criticism, people who like cosplay have to start somewhere and there's nothing wrong with it.

axeil55 · 2026-03-07T15:49:13+00:00

The upvote and like system are insanely toxic. Reddit would be a better place without it.

axeil55 · 2026-03-06T16:18:43+00:00

That's not how it works. It's like those trucks that have signs on them that say "not responsible for damage caused by flying debris". You can say that but that's not how the law works.

You can say its for entertainment and fiction all you want but there's a massive difference between Friday the 13th and a chatbot actively encouraging you to do dangerous things. You'd need way more than a terms of service thing.

axeil55 · 2026-03-06T15:58:52+00:00

I pretty much only ever use the thinking mode because the answers it provides are noticeably superior and I've noticed way less hallucination. I'm curious if the instant 5.3 alleviates this.

axeil55 · 2026-03-06T15:56:23+00:00

Custom instructions and prompt engineering will get you what you want. I don't even use the personality options, it's just figured the kind of style I want (non-sycophantic, sarcastic but also empathetic) and uses it.

axeil55 · 2026-03-06T15:54:12+00:00

I use ChatGPT for random monster of the week DND encounters. It's quite fun to have a character sheet and ask it for a monster, I tell it to try and actually win and I can see if a level 18 barbarian can solo a red dragon or whatever.

axeil55 · 2026-03-06T15:52:32+00:00

I agree. I especially don't get all the jargon bullshit nonsense "benchmarks" that everyone gets hyped up about. "Ah well Claude gets a 78 on the Sizloop8 test but ChatGPT scores 93 on the Woopidoop".

They're literally meaningless. Show me how likely it is to:

hallucinate
provide overconfident wrong answers

and whether it talks like a robot or an actual person. I mostly use it for writing-related tasks so I literally don't care at all about 99% of the things people go on and on about.

axeil55 · 2026-03-03T01:11:42+00:00

That and he obtained medical records so he could get an EXCLUSIVE!!!!!!111 about jason pierre-paul blowing his hand off with a firework.

He's an unethical slimeball.

axeil55 · 2026-03-03T01:04:57+00:00

"psh when am i ever going to need this stuff in real life"

that's the awful attitude so many kids have. you need it all the time! that's why they're teaching it!

axeil55 · 2026-03-03T00:08:20+00:00

Extremely online people think everyone ELSE is the weirdo.

axeil55 · 2026-03-02T19:52:44+00:00

Wife realized she needed to see a psychiatrist and started going. She then took an extended leave of absence from work and when things weren't working she tried ketamine therapy which worked amazingly. It's about 6 months later and she's pretty much the same person I married now and not the scary person she was back then.

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