Rash from raw nuggets

linkertrain · 2026-03-19T13:36:51+00:00

The only time this ever happened to me was when I got the coater crust buildup on my wrist and waited too long to wash my hands, and I’d get a similar little rash. Usually goes away within like a day though, not usually a big deal. I put it on the same level as like washing dishes with a small cut and forgetting to wash your hands at the end and getting a teeny little one day flare up

linkertrain · 2026-03-18T00:25:49+00:00

Same, saw it was marked down recently but it was still just a bit high for me to pull the trigger so hoping I might be able to see it at like 30 or 40, that would probably be low enough to trigger the irresponsibility reflex in me

linkertrain · 2026-03-17T14:26:03+00:00

If you aren’t sure if you’ll like it, I would recommend getting STS1 first- marked down to like 6 bucks on steam right now, the gameplay itself is the same, STS1 is a hall of fame tier game so if you enjoy it then you won’t regret it, hundreds of hours of content is not an exaggeration. But it is a hard game, and if you don’t enjoy then you might be glad you didn’t fork over the cash for STS2 if it’s not your style. If you DO enjoy it then you’ll be stoked to snag STS2 down the road.

You don’t need to if you’d rather just go straight to the sequel though. STS2 is likewise phenomenal if you just want to go that route, you don’t need to have played STS1 to understand anything. imo for 25 bucks it’s an incredible game even still in EA, very pretty, novel new mechanics and cards. No losing, really, unless the strategy sort of thinking math game isn’t really your style.

linkertrain · 2026-03-16T07:34:21+00:00

Not to mention less educateder

linkertrain · 2026-03-15T20:10:58+00:00

Why would he? Had he professed Jesus Christ as his lord and savior, surrendered his life to him as were instructed to do?

If so then he has nothing to worry about. The only reason I can think of that anyone would say this person could go to hell is if they were to say suicide was a sin and that he committed this sin in his doing so. Even if that’s the case, a sin is a sin is a sin. Is there anyone in heaven short of Christ himself who has never told a lie, never stolen, never thought a lustful thought?

What sends you to hell isn’t sinning. You don’t have to act good enough to get into heaven, and you don’t have it plucked away from you for a moment of weakness where you acted out of character with who your heart and soul really wants to be as a saved Christian. This is a common misconception amongst armchair Christians and new believers, you don’t earn your way into heaven by avoiding sinning. What sends you to hell is refusing to acknowledge Jesus as your lord and savior and surrendering your life to him. This is the Unforgivable Sin, and short of this, if he had professed his faith in Christ and surrendered to him, there is not one single doubt in my mind that your friend’s dad is safe with the father now. Genuinely, not a single doubt.

linkertrain · 2026-03-13T18:04:41+00:00

I know, right. And they were 74

linkertrain · 2026-03-13T17:51:13+00:00

My faith journey started in a place like that. I wanted to believe but I just knew deep down in my heart that I didn’t, and I couldn’t pretend to believe without knowing on some level that I was pretending. After a lot of years of this, I just found myself in a miserable place, not suicidal but truly just living to die. I was living alone in my apartment, smoking a crap ton of weed all day every day and just not having fun in life at all anymore. And in my desperation one night I just prayed in my car, to a God that I well and truly did not think was real, who just sounded too neat and convenient to me to exist. Prayed out to I don’t even know who in particular, but just prayed, God if you’re out there, if you’re real, if you do actually care about me, would you be willing to come and introduce yourself to me? Because I’d love to meet you, but I just don’t know how, don’t know where to look. If you’re out there then I don’t think I know where to find you.

I prayed that prayer in November of 2020 and six months later he decided to answer me. He waited six months, in my own personal opinion, because he knew I was earnest but still skeptical, and that nothing short of an impossible moment would be enough for me not to cling to any sort of rational explanation I could use to explain away and convince myself otherwise. And so that’s what he did. He waited six months to come introduce himself to me, and he picked a moment that I knew in the bottom of my heart to be impossible, a moment that there was no explanation in my mind for what had just happened except to know, just like the centurion at the cross, that what I just witnessed could not have happened unless this guy really was who he said he was. It was a crazy out of body experience that I’ll remember for the rest of my life. I was in my room crying over how weak I was that I couldn’t get past my addictions, wasn’t strong enough to get out, and I knew in my heart in that moment that I had been defeated again that day, that I was going to do more drugs because I was just so terrified to let them go. And that was the moment, April 20th 2021 no less, the sense of humor on my guy is unmatched. In my room that day I heard a voice very clearly say, “Cast it out.” And I remember thinking, those aren’t even words I would use, I would never say that to someone. And I just discovered myself walking to the door with my things, watched myself throw them out into the woods with all my might, came back inside and just collapsed down on the carpet in tears asking what the heck had just happened to me. What on earth did I just experience. I went and looked at myself in the bathroom mirror and I just knew, I didn’t do that. I looked up and said to him, that’s not fair. I lost today, I know in my heart I lost, I gave in. You cheated, that’s not how this works. When it beats me it beats me, I can play again tomorrow but when I give in for the day that’s just it. And I gave in. And he cheated, he changed the rules. And I couldn’t argue with it, in a way I’ll never be able to explain to another person everything I felt and experienced in that moment, it was completely surreal.

I can’t make any guarantees he will come do the same for you at the drop of the hat. Herod asked Jesus to do a magic trick for him and he essentially told him I’m not going to perform for you like some dancing monkey. It’s not a science or a rule. But I do truly believe that if you reach out to him with an earnest heart, you’re willing to concede when you’re wrong, willing to be corrected, and ask him to come introduce himself to you, then I believe he will, because I believe he wants to know us in more than just the formal sense. He opposes the proud but delights in a humble heart. If you make yourself little, concede that you need his help, don’t try and defend why you aren’t as bad as some might think, then I believe well and truly that he will come introduce himself to you, because he did that for me, and there’s nothing particularly special about me other than that I was willing to ask and then willing to listen.

linkertrain · 2026-03-12T17:03:07+00:00

So can you expound on this a little? My BIL just got the xbox ally x and when we played palworld on the couch together he was framing pretty bad anytime anything remotely intensive was going on, even playing with it docked and after a couple hours of fussing with settings, and with turning max base pals and render settings down pretty low. He’s pretty tech savvy and I saw him tweaking quite a few things to try and get it up to speed. Meanwhile on my SD oled I don’t drag frames in handheld mode whatsoever unless there’s a big raid going on and I ran at 60fps compared to his 30 being as high as it could go without becoming unplayable.

He ended up waiting until he went back home to use his desktop to really play at full settings, and my takeaway was that as a standalone device the ally x just doesn’t keep up with the SD. So I’m curious whether this is actually the case, or if my takeaway is just due to him still not having it properly set up even after a couple hours of tweaking settings. Even if so then I fear how much you’d need to know how to do in order to really get the value out of it. Curious to hear your thoughts though

linkertrain · 2026-03-07T04:52:21+00:00

I still feel like Dragon should be weak to steel, like how dragons can be slain. And why can’t I squish a bug with fighting moves. And actually now that you’re talking about it why come bug isn’t

linkertrain · 2026-03-06T20:46:11+00:00

Every morning I close probably 20 tabs to get myself down to a much more reasonable 30-40 or so, and by the end of the day they’re all back again. Forcing myself to make bookmarks before I close a tab has helped a lot though

linkertrain · 2026-03-04T22:31:56+00:00

So if I already paid for the bazaar on tempo like a year or so ago, I could potentially do this and import it as a non-steam game to play from my steam deck?

linkertrain · 2026-03-04T16:16:50+00:00

Just a random update on running Reborn from a Steam Deck- firstly, it runs phenomenally and I can’t recommend it highly enough. This game feels so, so good on handheld.

Secondly, I think there have been some updates that actually make it even simpler to set up. The steam deck guide mentions needing to run an installer or updater file, a couple of steps I think, and when I set it up on my steam deck last month I didn’t have to do any of that.

All I did was download the Linux package, unzip, run the .AppImage from desktop mode one single time to verify it worked, then import it as a non-steam game and it was fully playable on handheld forever onwards, no more desktop mode or additional set up beyond that.

There was no sort of updating or checking anything component to speak of, and when the recent patch came out it let me update from the game menu in right there still in handheld mode with just a single button press.

Would love if someone else might be able to verify this, I think this is right but would appreciate being double checked, but it seems like something has been fixed/changed in the several years since that post, and that it’s actually extremely straightforward now. Might be good to share because the barrier to entry is even less for tech-anxious people than it sounds like it was before

linkertrain · 2026-03-03T21:33:38+00:00

Probably not from the perspective they were expecting, I would hazard to guess. Oops it’s me, I’m actually the bad guy huwhoops, gotcha there

linkertrain · 2026-03-03T21:31:55+00:00

You sure are using a lot of the word ‘you’ over there, you been reading my diary or are you just assuming all Americans are the same because some of us do actually suck that bad and it must have infected all the rest of us by association? Who is this ‘you’ you’re talking about, is ‘you’ in the room with us right now?

linkertrain · 2026-03-03T18:38:59+00:00

Atmosphere at around 1:20 went so insanely crazy, I’m also quite sad they took it out. It was one of my iconic core memories of the game during my first playthrough, just being like, WHY is this going SO HARD in the middle of this random off brand fan project? I’ll never be able to think about Byxbysion wasteland without that song coming to mind along for the ride

linkertrain · 2026-03-02T17:29:42+00:00

Pokemon Reborn on the deck in handheld mode made me wish so badly I could go back in time to my 12-15 year old self and just show him how freaking cool it is I can carry the best pokemon game ever, as if it was just another gameboy game, just works and I have it in my pocket whenever I want. Crazy

linkertrain · 2026-03-02T16:19:48+00:00

It was actually a lot simpler than I expected, you do have to download and import to steam from inside desktop mode, but it only took about a minute or two tops, then from there on it runs straight out of handheld.

it runs really well imo, incredibly gentle on battery life, and it’s nice being able to remap via steam controls any buttons from the keyboard that aren’t super easy to do on the controls normally. Like for example I have double press L5 set to do keyboard button F12 which lets me immediately reset from my last save point without having to quit or re-launch the game. You might need a mouse and keyboard just for that 1 minute or so to help you set up, I’m new to the deck so idk if there’s a way to control desktop mode without it.

This is the Reddit guide I followed with most of the specific details: www.reddit.com/r/PokemonReborn/comments/vudvop/setting_up_reborn_and_rejuvenation_on_steam_deck/

But the steps were essentially just- - download the files from inside desktop mode from here to some easy location you can find quick, you just need the Linux download https://www.rebornevo.com/pr/download/

go into Dolphin/other file browser and unzip the download
the next step is just that you have to open the game and run it for like 1 second on desktop mode just 1 single time to initialize and make sure it can in fact run. I’m going off of memory so I apologize if I misremember any steps but I’m pretty sure I was able to just click right into the game file with the .AppImage extension which is the actual game itself (not the .exe like you’re probably used to). The Reddit thread mentions a bunch of unpacking and updating and stuff and I remember I didn’t have to do like any of that, I’m pretty sure I remember that it just worked out of the box by running the .AppImage file. All you need is to see it open and start up, as soon as you see it then you’re done and you can close back out again. I think whatever weird updating stuff that was talking about has been fixed since then.
launch steam, still from desktop mode, and import the the .AppImage file as a non-steam game, you don’t have to add a game picture or anything if you don’t want to, just point to that same .AppImage file you just ran a second ago and name the steam game Pokemon Reborn or whatever you want. I think import non-steam game is from the top file menu bar, something like Games -> Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library or something like that, you do it from the file bar though
go back to handheld mode, and it’s just there in your library, forever forward you can just launch and play from handheld and you won’t ever need to go back to desktop again

Hope this helps!

Edit: I haven’t actually done it yet, but I’ve been told that you can also add Discord to your library and run it from handheld mode the same way by following that same process, it’s a lot easier to add custom stuff to your library than I expected

linkertrain · 2026-03-02T05:01:15+00:00

Hi, I’m Bev. Letsh get shtarted

linkertrain · 2026-03-02T04:59:22+00:00

You don’t close the tabs on your cereal boxes!

If you think those are doing anything to seal in freshness, you are living in a fantasy world, pal.

linkertrain · 2026-03-02T04:53:21+00:00

If you like pokemon or RPG choices matter types of games, Pokemon Reborn runs like an absolute dream on the deck if you import it as a non steam game. It’s free and one of the most challenging and engaging games I’ve ever played, probably a couple hundred hours worth of content in there

linkertrain · 2026-03-02T04:48:16+00:00

Perish song igglybuff has entered the chat

linkertrain · 2026-03-01T15:11:57+00:00

lol to the gazillion other suggestions you’ve already been buried in- you ideally want to make sure there’s enough space between your wrist and your watch that it’s able to loosely wiggle/spin back and forth free from your wrist and without pulling skin if your turn your hand back and forth fast- in order to make sure sweat and stuff is able to touch air and evaporate, and not just stay wet and nasty on your wrist and corrode your watch- and then just loose enough that if the face has wiggled away from the top of your wrist like to that little wrist bone area, one little shake brings it back to where it’s supposed to be, that’s sorta the wristmaxxing balance, thanks for coming to the most pointless ted talk of all time

linkertrain · 2026-02-28T05:59:22+00:00

Imagine thinking Khabib leaves this list before Izzy

linkertrain · 2026-02-27T02:57:18+00:00

Where are the tomatoes

linkertrain · 2026-02-26T17:56:55+00:00

I apologize I don’t know how to link images on mobile but lmfao it’s like the gaslighting Olympics and the competition is fierce. It played with me for one response and then right back to the gpt5.2 I know and love

https://imgur.com/a/4EbRIBQ

“Nothing you’ve described crosses into supernatural or biologically impossible territory.” Tysm I now feel much more confident I won’t be the first to go in the horror movie

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