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This is why I’m stubborn.

I had a kidney stone. Went to the ER. They told me that department was closed for the day. I told them I wasn’t leaving because the bus ride over was absolute hell. They could either put me in a hospital room until they could treat me, or they could call the experts back into work.

Turns out the person I was talking to was an idiot. The department wasn’t even closed. There was NO way I could have rode that bus again. Every bump was like being stabbed in the testicles by shards of glass that were INSIDE the testicles. Noooooooope. Fuck it. I’ll wait in that hospital room for 4 months before I get back on that bus!

Me being stubborn allowed other nurses to overhear the situation, as I braced myself using the counter top. The other nurses brought me in for this thing that basically shakes your insides with soundwaves. That didn’t work, so they got the specialist in. They were able to squeeze me into their busy schedule. Then they shoved a lazor jp my urethra, and turned my insides into star wars. Pew pew pew. They used the lazor to carve the kidney stone into smaller pieces that were small enough to pass.

And if I’d have just accepted the receptionists word, I’d have had to get on a bus again for an hour of bouncing up and down in agony.

I have SOOOOOO many stories where me being a stubborn asshole turned out to be the right move, but that story is the only one where people shoved things up my penis.


Wait …is this why AI exists? So we can type Hamlet in the face of monkey failures?

Dude. Just use a printer.



Increasingly uninhabitable? Oh, I absolutely agree! I went to Target the other week, and the whole time I was walking around the store, I kept thinking how all these assholes should just be dropped in a pitt of acid.

Look people, it’s real fucking simple. Don’t stop and talk to your neighbor while your carts are side by side blocking the entrance to the aisle.

Don’t walk so slow 90 year old women with a walker can pass you.

Don’t stop and stare at the mustard section, as if you’ve never seen mustard before in your life. Meanwhile blocking the whole damn mustard section for everybody else.

If your kid starts yelling and screaming, smack em. If they cry, smack em again.

There is never a time your cell phone conversation about hemroid cream needs to be on speakerphone. This doesn’t just apply to stores. This is a 100% of the time rule.

Speaking of speakers, you do not get to bring your bluetooth shitty $5 from 5below speaker thats clearly blown out, and blast it full volume as it rattles like an infant baby.

If you park in 2 spaces, I’m keying your car, asshole!

Small talk with the cashier extends for the time they’re ringing you up. Once your shit has been rung up, and placed in bags, pay and get out asshole! Go make friends in the park. I PROMISE you, the cashier doesn’t give a shit about whatever home improvement projects you’re working on, that she’ll never see.

Don’t argue that some 16 year old making min wage stocking shelves didn’t smile at you enough. Humans are allowed to feel however they feel. If they don’t feel like smiling, maybe YOU should go jump off a pier.

Yes I’m angry. I’m angry because all of YOU

motions to all of society

All of YOU were apperently never taught the rules for being in spaces with other people. Then you wonder why a movie theater or a shopping mall gets shot up.

“Nobody could have seen it coming. There was nothing we could have done.”

Yeah, there IS a lot you could have done. Why don’t you go ahead and show me the last 10 public shootings in Japan, or Ireland, or Austrailia, or China, or Canada.

Some countries you’ll need 20 years worth of time, others may need centuries. Others may not have 10 yet.

Meanwhile I could pull the last 10 American shootings from google in the past 2 weeks.

The best way to prevent shootings has nothing to do with actual gun control. It would help, but it doesn’t address the core issue. The core issue is that people are out of their god damn minds over here feeling like everyone is attacking them. And that has EVERYTHING to do with how considerate people are to other people these days. Do you even care that you just cut in line? Do you even care that you just farted in that elevator? No. The world revolves around you, doesn’t it?

I swear. Everette True needs to become a religion.


Am I just out of touch here? I feel like the more and more you destroy your middle class with get rich quick schemes, the more you fuck things up for everybody. Even yourself.

Let’s say I make $32,000 per year. Great! I’m going to eat some dorritos. But uh-oh! Now you’ve just been swept up in a mass lay-off wave.

And now, I can’t buy dorritos. And now multiply this times millions of other people. All not buying dorritos. Does the dorritos CEO not see a massive drop in sales? As people lose more and more spending power, with bills getting tighter and tighter, won’t the very concept of industry collapse, because all we’re doing is paying rent, paying electric, paying water, and struggling to do so? Don’t all other industries become luxuries? Movies? Can’t afford it. Video games? Can’t afford it. Socks? Ok…but just the one.

And then as WE collapse, don’t they collapse too? Or do they not give a shit, as long as this months quartly numbers look better?



looks at twitter

Yeah. Billionaires buying social media platforms. What could go wrong?


So basically just like linux. Except linux has no marketing…So 10% reality, and 90% uhhhhhhhhhh…


So, what happens, day of show, if they just come back? What are you POSSIBLY going to do to a homeless person to make their lives worse? Arrest them?

Oh no! You’ve taken a person who has no home or food, and provided shelter and food! You monster!

So…again. What happens if they just come back?


Oh cool! Now we can have drunk drivers on land, sea, AND air!

Next up, drunk astronauts!


I’ve been saying this for 30+ years. Piracy is by large NOT a group of people looking to avoid paying for a product.

Piracy is often the result of your product being either unavailable to purchase at a reasonable price, or difficult to comply with the law.

I saw an NFL schedule for my local team at a bar recently. Every week it’s a different time, different network, some aren’t even airing over OTA, it’s on Amazon Prime…for 1 game. Nobody is going to pay $120 for a year for amazon prime, to watch 1 game for 3 hours.

That shit is what led to piracy.

Metalica loved to bitch and complain, about Napster giving away their songs. It’s not THEIR fault per se, so I do see them as also the victims, but the whole industry was fucked back then.

You’d pay $20 for a CD of some band, and find out 16 songs, and you like 3 of them. $20 in 1999 would be like $35-$45 today.

Then you’d find out Napster exists, and you can download JUST those 3 songs. You were willing to pay a reasonable price for those 3 songs, but the record labels wouldn’t take your money. Not unless you wanted to buy either the full album, or a singles disc which only had their radio releases that THEY picked.

Then after napster died, Apple says “hey, what if we charged $0.99 for 1 song, as picked by the user? A full album in this way would still be close to $20, but we don’t have a physical good to ship and pay labor on.”

And THATS when digital music really took off. Because they made a buttload that year. Record labels FINALLY realized people will pay if you offer a product, easily available at a reasonable price. Suddenly profits in the music industry which had been declining for a decade, were booming. Piracy was on the decline.

And yet the video industry never learned this lesson. Netflix came in, boom, all this money to be made from subscribers. It was cheap, it was all in one place, and it was easy.

Then over 10 years every channel has a video service.

And prices are increasing.

And account sharing is being cracked down on.

So it’s no longer easy, it’s no longer cheap. It’s no longer…oh hey, piracy is on the rise.


Suck it, Excell! I’m beating you! I’m older!!! I’m 41!!! All hail the king, baby!


“Taking away peoples freedom is whats best for users! It’s the American way!”


41 here…no home, no savings. Work till you die, then get written up for insubordination for choosing to go to your own funeral instead of coming in.


Welp. I’m sorry. I’m going to have to steal your dog.

…ok, fine, I’ll bring him back after spoiling him for the day. But I’ll probably just steal him next week too.

Also, I’m going to steal money from you.

What? If I’m going to be a theif, I may as well make some cash!

Ooooooo, I should steal dogs from banks!


Oh, ok. I thought you were being sarcastic, and I was getting miffed, but didn’t want to be negative until I confirmed. See? This is why I wait, and double check before I go off on someone for being a Wii hater. I might just make an ass out of myself.

I love boom blox, and mercury meltdown revolution.

Also, can we get some WiiU love? Everyone loves the switch, but act like half the games aren’t just WiiU games with a bit of DLC.


Not sure what you mean by “good for you”, but it also appears to have the wii motion plus plugged in.


I thought Al Gore invented the internet?

Right?

Guys?

You guys remember that? Guys? You remember Al Gore?

Wait, am I old???



Wait…Ubuntu is only 20? What’s the first linux? I thought ubuntu was older.


This is the reason I don’t get PS+.

I see the cheapest option, and think “oh…but I don’t go online much, and thats too little value for that high price.”

Then for a little more money you get a little more value.

Then for a little MORE value, you get the retro games from PS1 and PS2.

And then I realize that’s DOUBLE the cheapest option, to play games that are 20-30 years old.

So I put 2 and 2 together, and decide this whole thing is pissing me off. Fuck it, I’ll just emulate the damn things…


…so, this isn’t even a thing anymore.

Edit: upon a quick google search, I come to find out it was only ever a thing for about a week, and only ever in the NYC area.

So it seems this wasn’t ever intended to be a serious concept/service. It was just some CEO fucking around, and spending corporate money on his own personal inside joke. Complete with a whole list of disclaimers saying it’s not legally obligated to even reach the hiring manager.

And ya know what? I can respect that. I wish MY fucking around at work had this kind of budget and logistics.


Am I the only one confused by why a vacume needs a live video feed? Who’s sitting there thinking “I want to watch what my vacume sees!”


Oh cool! I’m sure people have been waiting for this!

…also, what is it?



You slow blink. This is you telling the cat “I don’t see you as a threat. I feel comfortable around you.”

Or you could show them your belly. Tracy Morgan style. Just show your belly. It says to the cat “This is my most vunerable part of my body. And unlike you, I only have TWO nipples. Which means I am less vunerable then you! Six nipples is more weak points than two nipples! Now bow before me, god of the Egyptian roman times empire! I can crush you like a bug with my belly, which as we’re established is the most vunerable part of the body!”

And they slow blink back to you!!!

Oh! Oh you wanna go??? I’ll slow blink right back, bitch!!! I’ll have a slow blink war!!! We’ll see who’s not a threat!!! I even invade your privacy, and steal the poops you burried in that box!!! I’m taking them awwwaaayyyyy…



Somebody take the audio from The Lion King, when Simba finds his dad dead, and overlay on this. I bet it’s better than that remake Disney tried a couple of years ago.


I hate how news reporters are expected to be robots. And not human.

I saw one weather report where it’s just a boring day, boring weather, but there was a golden retriever in the studio.

He came running over to the weatherman, and got excited to see him. Weatherman is petting the dog, still doing the weather, and laughing while doing it. Calm sunny day, mild weather, nobodys getting hurt because he’s sitting on the floor, rubbing and hugging a dog. He still does the weather report, just with a dog.

He got fired. They aren’t allowed to feel human.

So now you’ve got this, a very real, and very bad hurricane coming through, and this weather feels the need to apologize for feeling empathy, because of the way the entire industry acts. Can’t laugh at a funny story. Can’t mispronounce a word, or say the wrong word, or have human error.

No, you’re a robot, who says the words. Any emotion is penalized. I think that sucks.



This looks like it could be a movie poster for a disney movie from the 90s about 3 animals who somehow telepathically talk to each other. And their adventures out into the world when they escape from the house.

Somebody with photoshop skills do something with that. Maybe call it something like “Big Day Out”. And have it star Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, and Kate Micucci.



Dude. You ripped him off!!! The price tag clearly says double what you paid! You’re basically stealing from this shop owner. Pawn shop profit margins are razor thin!


How much is it? And how long is it?

Also, saw some clear SMW inspirations in that little clip too. So it’s drawing inspiration from all over. And was Santa NAKED??? Is that a power-up? Naked Santa cums once a year?


I got it working. I wasn’t expecting it to be as simple as pasting 2 lines of code into a config file. Still not sure why emulationstation doesn’t see them, but at least retroarch does now.

Plus I fixed my issue of emulators not saving. I am SO excited with what I’m building. Every game from my childhood on one machine. Arcade, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64, PS1, Dreamcast.

It’s all here. I turn on one machine, and it’s all here! 14 year old me is screaming into a pillow. 41 year old me wants to scream into a pillow, but is responsible enough to not want to wake up the neighbors.

No, seriously…I am legit screaming at what this is.


I’m not even sure it encourages piracy. That would assume amazon has content people want to watch.

Name an amazon show…

See? You can’t do it. Nobody can! It’s like trying to name lost media from the silent movie generation. Nobody would know what you were talking about if you did name one.


Bluetooth, and I’ll check again when I get home, but I’m almost certain it was already on x-Input.


Anyone use Retropie? Two buttons won’t map.
I was going to post this in /c/retropie but it seems they haven't had any activity in 8 months. So I figure here is the next most appropriate place. I recently brought out my raspberry pi, and started taking care with it. I downloaded some new themes. I put a hell of a lot more roms into it. One problem is, if I try to connect a controller, I can map every button except LT and RT. At first I thought it was because I was using the 8 Bitdo Switch arcade stick (which also has the ability to connect to PC/Linux/Raspberry Pi. I didn't understand it, but I thought "Ok. Maybe something about it being an arcade stick means I can't use those two buttons on THIS stick. Whatever. I'll just use a different controller. So I pull out my WiiU Pro Controller......SAME EXACT ISSUE. So now I don't know WHAT to think. I WAS going to connect it to my switch, and see if I could do a button test on that, to see if it registers the inputs for those two buttons, but now I'm not sure that's needed if it's had the same issue with two unrelated controllers with two different form factors, made by two different companies. Is this a common issue with an easy fix, or has life once again said "FUCK YOU Lost_My_Mind!!!" ?
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Brb guys. Gonna go to 7-11, buy 5 bags of ice, and throw the ice in the ocean. That should do it, right?




What stick should I get?
So I'm looking for a stick for my brother in law. He has some old firesticks, older models. But if that won't work, I'm looking for a stick that can run retroarch, up to PS2, and uses bluetooth to allow the PS5 controller to connect.
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Here’s why modern gaming suuuuucks.
So when I was a kid in the 80s, I would always get SUPER excited for getting a new game. We'd get in the car, drive to Toys R Us, and in the video game section was basically an homage to Nintendo. So much so that the descriptors at the end of the isles didn't say "video games", it said "Nintendo". Sure, they sold Sega and Atari too.....but it was the Nintendo isle. So you'd pick your game, and on the drive home you would flip through your new game manual. Remember game manuals??? You'd learn all about this new world. Who was this "Zelda" if the main character was a boy??? What kind of world was this??? It looks HUGE!!!! DO YOU SEE ALL THESE DIFFERENT ENEMIES??? Finally (after like 10 minutes), you'd get home. You'd race to the door, only for you to realize that you need dad to unlock the door. Now, dad was probably walking at a normal pace, but to a hyper 6 year old excited to play with his new toy, he may as well have been a dried out turtle. Or a sloth. FINALLY he opens the front door, and you go rushing to the TV. You put the cartridge in, and you're ready to play. You turn the power on, and you're already at the name screen. After you put in the name "Dork", because you're an edgy 80s kid, you're already in front of a cave. Oh god.....what's in there??? How do I fight monsters??? THE BUTTONS DO NOTHING!!! Oh god, oh god, here we go, we're going in the cave..... And you all know how it plays out from there. These days, it's a bit different. These days a game gets announced and you wait for release day. Then you turn on your console, and you buy the game. Now you gotta wait for an hour for it to download. Thats assuming your console doesn't need an update. So now you're waiting.....and waiting.....and waiting....... Eventually it's all done, and you boot the game up, but theres a day 1 update. So more waiting. FINALLY after an hour and a half it's done. So you boot it up, and you don't get that same sense of wonderment. It's because todays games have been done to death. Every game is a post appocolytic shooter where the emphisis is on online play. So now you already know what you're getting, and you gotta wait again for online lobbies to start. And when Nintendo released the Super Nintendo it was a radical jump in performance in every sense on a platform that was revolutionary to start with. It was must have technology. Now, 50% of PS4 users haven't upgraded to a newer system. And why? Because the PS5 looks like a slight visual upgrade in apperance, and zero upgrade in performance. Games look and feel mostly the same as they would on PS4. And the games are all the same. Microtransactions, unimaginative plots, forgetable characters, sequals reboots prequals. We're seeing the same franchises, with the same characters doing the same things for 30 years. Mario is still saving the princess for Bowser. At this point, Peach is just LETTING herself get kidnapped. Zelda is going to save Link now in the new game.....which would be a new concept, playing as Zelda, except Shiek was Zelda the whole time. Oops, spoilers on a 26 year old game. Breath of the Wild had that samr sense of childhood wonder. But only if you actively avoided online discussions, youtube videos, social media. It was a barrage of avoiding spoilers, but I did it, and March 3rd 2017 was GLORIOUS. It's also the last time I felt that need to get a new console. I regretted buying a PS4, but for some stupid reason I bought a PS5 this year. I regret it. I see no system seller. And thats another thing. Why can't the games give you the option to play from disc, rather than install everything? Most games are like 50-100gb. It eats up storage REAL quick. Now you gotta decide "ok, which games do I want to delete, and which am I going to use soon? Theres NO reason for me to justify 45gb on my hard drive for the PS4 version of Madden 19, when all I do is play exhibition. But I also don't want to delete it, and reinstall it every few months on the off chance I want yo play 20 minutes of 1 game. Sure, maybe Madden diehards get use out of that 45gb. I do not. I don't play season. I do give a shit about those madden cards. I only play exhibition, 1 game, maybe once every 4 months. Same with NHL. Same with MLB. Why must I take up like 200gb for games I play casually and sparingly, and almost ALWAYS have to sit through an update before I throw the ball? I don't even care about roster updates. Unless they're on Cleveland's team, I don't know any of these players. I don't give a shit that Joe Whatshisname used to play for Chicago, but now he plays in New York. I just want to pop in the disc, and play. No bullshit. I wish Madden 95 worked on the SNES classic. It's the last SNES version that Cleveland had a team. But instead now, every single game comes with forced bullshit
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