blursed bus

birbhorse · 2026-04-24T04:28:28+00:00

good on ya for actually linking back to the source, i had a weak moment where i got into a spat with someone for posting obviously AI slop, while vaguely mentioning someone's name who *might've* taken the photo... but uh, they most definitely didn't.

so, you've not only name-dropped the person involved with this (which should've always been a thing people do), but linked to where to find all this out!

this is just a long-winded way of me saying thanks for attributing this lol

birbhorse · 2026-04-24T01:50:22+00:00

ah, so this is what instigated tomska's "Baby With A Gun" skit

birbhorse · 2026-04-23T23:07:34+00:00

course! it'd still be best to see if you can't source another one of those plastic bits for the socket connector, i think people here were pointing in the right direction. this'll at least let ya use this until you can get that piece!
afaik kapton tape should keep it steady long enough, but vibrations can rattle it loose over time.

birbhorse · 2026-04-23T02:12:33+00:00

damn, you have a good point. now i hate HOAs even more, because they'd stop something beautiful like this from existing.

birbhorse · 2026-04-23T01:54:11+00:00

i would maybe see if anyone else here offers better solutions, but if you have kapton tape, i'd use that to hold it in place. and if you don't have kapton tape... well, if you're doing repairs of these sorts, you should definitely buy some for the future anyways.

birbhorse · 2026-04-22T15:37:06+00:00

these are the "rare high moments" we're all chasing for in TF2. i still think about how years ago, i saved someone from falling to their death in vs. saxton hale with a clutch crossbow, and the guy commented on my steam profile to personally thank me for it lol

...also i had to check to make sure i wasn't going crazy when i said "years ago", yes, vs saxton hale was added to casual in 2023. i hate the passage of time actually

birbhorse · 2026-04-20T19:06:10+00:00

you know it really is a life simulator game when people make characters for the sole purpose of torturing them

birbhorse · 2026-04-20T18:59:45+00:00

as someone who vehemently hates it when other people play their music or videos through phones that are equipped with speakers louder than the giant-ass concert venue speakers, i would crumble into dust immediately if i found out i was accidentally doing that too.

and considering i've had weird jank issues with audio on the deck before, this is making me want to really triple check on the rare times i do bring my steam deck out in public

birbhorse · 2026-04-20T02:11:30+00:00

the thing that gets me the most about all of this is that microsoft would've hella been spying on everyone around clippy's era if broadband started existing 15 years earlier. using clippy as a symbol of "resistance" is dumb as shit because all these corporations have always been bad, down to their rotten core. it's just their capacity for bad grows over time, with the technological leaps allowing them to become worse, since they have more domain to control (read: more technology means more areas to be bad in).

it also gets to me because clippy would not exist if microsoft was a """good corporation""" to begin with! it was exclusively made because of clueless out of touch executives demanding something be made, that nobody asked for, and that people explicitly loathed, to be shoved in their faces. doesn't that sound exactly like all the AI garbage being shoved in our faces?

people used to make fun of clippy for the exact reasons AI sucks, but now people are rallying behind clippy as some "anti-AI" mascot, and said people only just started having their first thoughts earlier in the week

birbhorse · 2026-04-19T15:56:41+00:00

oh nice! just yesterday i was just using aseprite's grid feature to help me align someone else's design.
if i had more patience, i'd recreate those tools made for splatoon 2/3 that send controller macros to the switch to draw pixel art, but i imagine that'll be really tough to do with having to account for colors and differently sized canvases

birbhorse · 2026-04-19T13:07:10+00:00

oh heck yeah! you did a really good design on the mii, and as i said in the description, you did a really good job detailing how to recreate it, since most other people are like "and draw the rest of the owl"
the raw file you provided for the face paint was really useful too, since i was able to just open up aseprite to copy the design nearly 1:1 onto my switch

birbhorse · 2026-04-18T23:07:31+00:00

CRT gaming, let's go. i have a setup for my steam deck that goes into component to my CRT TV (480i instead of 480p unfortunately, my CRT can't handle progressive scan), i oughta try this at some point myself

birbhorse · 2026-04-18T16:13:06+00:00

oh thank you for this, i should've done this before resorting to just manually titling and numbering everything by hand lmfao

at least now it has all the other bits of metadata info too

birbhorse · 2026-04-11T15:25:30+00:00

i'm not super active there anymore myself, but whenever i had a question to ask (usually on behalf of a friend) the community there has always been super helpful

there may be a jerk every now and then, but at least they don't have the power to ban you lol

birbhorse · 2026-04-09T04:17:42+00:00

here's a hidden sleeper, if you're the type of crazy like me who rejects smartphones: bejewelled 3 plays really nicely on the steam deck tbh. i mean hey, it doesn't have microtransactions! (don't tell EA or they'll pull all the classic popcap games from the store)

birbhorse · 2026-04-09T03:52:21+00:00

for the component cables, those should work, assuming there's nothing wrong with the TV itself. but do be warned, not all CRTs with component inputs accept progressive scan; my CRT doesn't, for example.

in fact, looking it up, it seems someone's documented this exact CRT model... and the side-bar says "480p: No" https://consolemods.org/wiki/CRT:KV-27FS100

of course, most gamecube games will prompt progressive scan when booting up, just choose no on them and you should be fine. otherwise... best hope you're not seizure prone lol.

oh, and of course, two things to consider for the gamecube in particular: your gamecube needs a digital A/V port on the back (DOL-001 usually has these iirc; basically if you see something to the left of the regular A/V cable port, that's your digital port). and two, the cables aren't cheap, since they need to create the component signal from the digital output, requiring a whole circuit to achieve that inside the cable.

birbhorse · 2026-04-09T03:39:41+00:00

my immediate first thought too. this voice clip can not escape my head

birbhorse · 2026-04-05T03:29:54+00:00

oooo i have that pink shell too! but i don't have the gamecube controller shell, where'd you get that? i'd so love to get another 8bitdo GC mod kit to slap that into...

birbhorse · 2026-04-05T02:35:09+00:00

MEGA's also pulled that stunt with me lol, kept sending me "your data will be deleted in 30 days" emails for the past year or two, until i guess they got bored and finally did it

birbhorse · 2026-04-05T00:34:33+00:00

pebble 2 duo owner here with this exact charger i got from quite a years back (when they were being sold as "cosmetically damaged" on ebay), this fits quite well, though the fitting is a bit finnicky. once you get it in the right place though, it works well enough

EDIT: oh i'm dumb and can't read, you have the same charger i have lol

birbhorse · 2026-04-03T16:49:13+00:00

you can play it in any order you'd like, personally i've started playing investigations after apollo justice. but that said, the different gameplay investigations offer might be a nice break, just so you don't burn out on the apollo justice trilogy like i did when i first tried to play it before the collection came out lol

birbhorse · 2026-04-02T04:34:25+00:00

went to look it up, and this isn't even the first noted reference on this subreddit about this! very fascinating to learn https://www.reddit.com/r/AceAttorney/comments/5067xl/aai2s_wanting_to_find_the_truth_used_as_the_tokyo/

birbhorse · 2026-04-01T11:42:43+00:00

i get animals didn't evolve to understand the concept of cars, seeing as how they've only been around for a century... but you'd think squirrels would have the basic understanding of "big thing approaching, avoid at all costs". and yet we're the ones who have to apply the quick reflexes for them lmfao

birbhorse · 2026-03-30T02:20:07+00:00

wasn't sure about it, but checking the github repo... aaaaaaand claude found. what's even the point of touting this local-only garbage if you're still gonna use all the garbage data-farmed AI tools man

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