bluejay

I played it on Wii launch so it's been a while, but it was my favorite Zelda game. I get some people didn't like some of the initial tutorial stuff (fishing IIRC), but I enjoyed the pace, the dungeons, the puzzles and it had the right level of challenge to be fun without being frustrating.

Yeah. So far I’ve only beaten the first dungeon and reached the second (entered a fire area with a wooden shield; D’oh!)

The first dungeon however has to be the easiest one I’ve played. The map showed all the monkeys I had to find and the route to getting there was very easy. It didn’t have any “secret areas” like beneath the Great Deku Tree in Ocarina. It didn’t have a cool boss like Skyward Sword. Speaking of which, the boss was very easy. 
 

So yeah, nothing was annoying, but nothing was really fun either. I’m hoping it improves as the game goes along. 

Nintendo gon ban you

Not if I take precautions, no. I don’t play anything online (mainly because I don’t have NSO but also because I’m pretty much only into single player stuff) and I’m not installing any further system updates (this one not because I’m worried about a ban but because newer OSes aren’t supported by CFWs yet). I have updated games (both legitimate and pirated ones) and saw no issues. 

Welp, I’ve accidentally hit the update button (it’s not a difficult thing to do; the update screen pops up every time you open anything) and it’s updated to 13.0.0. Atmosphere doesn’t support 13.0.0, and nothing works now. I guess I’ll wait until the next version of Atmosphete is out. 

I find it equally easy not to smoke. Let´s say it is equally easy, then.

But, seriously, if I were you I would call my doctor and make an appointment. Tell him/her you want to quit smoking. You will be given a set of instructions, and will probably succeed in quitting smoking.

I would also recommend reading The Easy Way To Stop Smoking by Allen Carr. It is great for motivating you to quit smoking. It worked for my dad, it just wasn´t enough.

Making it worse-I'm a nurse...

I promise, I've tried. I imagine this will cause me to "think about it" again, so you just never know.

Thanks for the advice, and again, the "I'm sorry" is real, truly.

No problem.

Maybe you have been trying to quit too fast. If you smoke say 20 cigarettes per day. How about reducing it to 19 per day for a week? Then 18 per day for a week, and so on until it is down to 0 per day.

It would probably be a good idea to have the last cigarette right before you go to bed, so you don´t have problems falling asleep.

That is some useful info right there.  Which one did you use?

Used this stuff, although I remember it being cheaper when I bought it. AliExpress prices seem to fluctuate randomly. A downside to these is that the stuff dries too quickly, making it difficult to tell if a coat has been applied to the contact or not. I recommend you use a soft brush. 

Also: Shit, just noticed the V key isn’t quite working yet. Now I gotta unscrew 12 philips head screws and 3 billion tiny flathead screws and desolder the shift lock switch and repaint the key and repeat that in reverse order. Sounds like fun. 

Me, but with vintage hifi.

I always assumed the Dark World (or formerly, Golden Land) was technically the past, but this always stuck as an oddity to me, lol

It’s a parallel universe to Hyrule, happening in the same time. 

I have a blue PSone dualshock laying around, but I’m not sure if a USB adapter would work with the hardware I’m running on (Powermac G4, OS9). I know there are X360 controller drivers for PPC Macs but they’re for OSX. 

The keyboard controls, while tricky to use, is far from unusable. I’ll probably stick to it until I can find one of those Gravis USB controllers from the late 90s that will for sure work with the Mac. 
 

The original Gran Turismo feels like a work in progress version of GT2. The menus are bland and it’s missing key features that are present in every other GT game. It’s not a bad game, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just the least best GT. 

Not if you play GT1 first! GT2 looked good and had "rally" tracks, but I felt like playing the same game and abandoned.

What does it offer compared to GT1 that changes the game so radically?

Not much, that’s why I think there’s no reason to play GT1 if you’re given the choice to play GT2. GT1 is like the same game but worse.  More cars, more races, more variety. However, GT2 was a rushed game and it feels like a rushed game. But I think this isn’t a big enough problem to choose GT1 over it. 

I asked Bing why the 7800 was discontinued.  What I didn't expect was for it to reference a post of mine right at the top of the results:

I'm an SEO genius, apparently.

I'm just curious if anyone has asked Jeeves lately?

JOE! I was just thinking about Jeeves the other day. I keep forgetting other people remember him. Good ol' google before google

I meant the majority of broadband routers tend to have NAT, DHCP and firewall features, at least only let through known ports like 80 etc. Sure if drive by browser hijacking occurs, the router does nothing compared to a more sophisticated software based firewall that has more advanced rules. But at least it should stop random incoming or outgoing port sniffing.

I thought there could be no worse way to browse the modern internet than doing it in Mac OS 9, until I installed a Win 98SE virtual machine onto that Mac and tried Internet Explorer on it. Now that is the absolute definition of terrible.

Yeah, if you use MSIE 4 or even 5, you virtually get nowhere on the Internet today, mainly because most sites use https with SSL schemes those browsers don't support. Even back when Windows Update still supported 98SE, you could not connect to the service because it used MSIE and in its turn, Microsoft's servers had been updated to newer protocols.

There is something called KernelEx (third party) that lets you run some 2000/XP applications on 98, including a few web browsers but then again even the ones supporting XP have been obsoleted by now so you might find yourself stuck anyway.

I vibe with Garfachu

@RetroSonicHero What, isn’t Sonic with Homer Simpson’s face not the best thing you’ve ever seen? ?

I got lost in the Oracle.  It's hard to know where you're supposed to go or what to do.  I beat Season one back in the days.  Age, I got stuck.

I know not everyone is like me, but I have no problem with using walkthrough whenever I get stuck or encounter some puzzles that seem more frustrating than fun. I do the fun parts myself. Makes any game more enjoyable to play. 

What if you don't want to watch Up? He's not letting me down.

Then you wouldn't be asking in the first place, would you?

I wonder if Astley's ever been asked if he's down for watching Up?

How can there be that much afterglow? Are you sure the mains power is properly off, or does some voltage anyway leak to the CRT?

There's something surreal about that picture bluejay*   It's like a very well done room of miniatures in a very well done doll house!

*Oh and one more thing...Muhuwahuwahahahaaaaa!

@carlsson it’s the camera’s exposure making it look bright. In reality the room was almost completely dark and the glow was dim. I’m using a power transformer and I switch them off when I’m not using them. It was not getting power at all when I took that picture.

It’s a T1, the one that came out ages ago. The T2 that just came out, well, I think it looks hideous. They totally messed that one up. 

A Volkswagen Type 1 is what most Americans know as the Beetle from 1949 to 1980.  The Beetle was made in Mexico for the Mexican and South American market until 2003.

The VW Type 2 is the bus.  Also know as the Transporter and in other various configurations such as a pickup truck.  The Type 2 was made from 1967 to 1979 for Europe and the American market.

That makes things incredibly confusing, as Transporter generations are referred to as T*. The original Transporter, like the one I have, is the T1. Not Type 1, but T1. The next one, the one that the Libyan terrorists drove in Back to the Future, is the T2. The boxy one that had a variant with a Porsche 911 boxer 6 was the T3, so on and so forth.