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Right now I’m not getting enough sleep or exercise, and work-related stress is high (which has resulted in some emotional eating and weight gain). So I could honestly be doing a lot better.

Yep, feels a lot like IE6 of days past, where Netscape was trying to do the right thing, but got overshadowed. Maybe eventually there will be a Firefox-style happy ending for AMD as well?

I found out that the 3060 should work decently for AI, esp since it has a good amount of VRAM. And having weird app glitches doesn’t sound like fun. It also made me remember the custom color calibration I’m applying to this IPS panel, which I might have to redo if I went to AMD. Although the NVIDIA driver is closed source and the UI downlevel, it does seems to be pretty stable. So I went with it.

Haha this is probably a controversial opinion, but I enjoyed Pokemon Sword (it was the first one I played… well, kinda: had X for a very short time but didn’t get to play it). Although, the wild areas in Sword weren’t the best.

I couldn’t get into Arceus because it was basically all wild area. I know it sounds dumb, but I liked the same old story and formula. It was fun to go around and battle all the trainers and enjoy their banter or praise.

Once I finish X I plan on playing some even older ones.

Decided “f— it” and pulled the trigger on the RTX 3060. Thanks for sharing your experience.

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I’d been playing Pokemon X, but took a break when Citra started crashing every 30 seconds or so. I’ve completely changed out that computer now. I should try again, because that game is super cute and uplifting.

So something like: Mario and Dawn hit it off in an izakaya, and you’re trying to picture what happened at the love hotel?

Couple of things in that conversation:

Drawn child porn

I can just imagine those words being spoken by a prosecutor to a jury and things not going well for the defendant. Kinda scary how far removed my thoughts seem to be from the average person on this.

instances that allow abusive content is a red line for me.

Yeah, those poor GPUs being abused.

Timely! I’ve been weighing the A750, RX 7600, and RTX 3060. I’ve been wanting to get away from NVIDIA for a while, as it’s just not that Linux friendly and they don’t seem to want to improve that. An AMD 5600G (w/ Radeon iGPU) instantly worked, no screen tearing, no settings needed on Xorg. So I’d pick the 7600, except the 3060 has 4GB more RAM and much better ray tracing. I’ve also been thinking about doing some AI stuff, and that’s all quite NVIDIA-centric (I realize the 3060 isn’t the best for AI these days, but still). So, they all still sit in my shopping cart.

I never owned the original, but Shining Pearl was really fun on the Switch. Got to the very last trainer without much trouble at all, and then suddenly she was insanely difficult. I managed to make it to her last Pokemon, but I was bleeding out potions and hardly making a scratch. Afterward, I realized I’d have to rebuild my entire team and level for ages to beat her and so I decided “close enough!”, haha.

Atari 5200 because it was my first system and I have a nearly complete collection, although I’m certain I’ve put more hours into the few games I had for the NES (the Atari catalog leaned heavily toward arcade-style games that were originally designed to eat quarters).

By number of games owned, the Wii/Wii U win easily, but I never really felt that sentimental about either system. I know the Wii U was widely panned, but I thought it was a nice improvement to the Wii in almost every way and had some great games that were basically copy/pasted onto the Switch. I just wish they’d done more with the asymmetric gameplay.

For modern(ish) systems, Switch is my favorite, as the PS4 just doesn’t have that many games that appeal to me.

I haven’t noticed it, but I also haven’t been paying close attention.

Continuing to get seemingly random orange toasts popping up. I think the latest one I got while typing in a comment said something about JSON but I didn’t screenshot it in time. It didn’t seem to actually matter, though (Firefox 114 on Linux). Assuming these are all upstream as well.

EDIT: Got it again. Here’s a screenshot:

Performing a search also brings a couple orange “couldnt_find_object” toasts. However, the search itself still seems to work fine, so this is extremely minor.

Then it’s cunny time!

You could grip it between the center hole and outside edge. A little heavy, but wasn’t too bad. It was basically like an oversized CD or DVD player. One advantage of the large disc size is that they had basically record-sized sleeves, so you could get some great art, especially if it required two discs and folded open. You could hear the player spin up the disc which sounded almost dangerous sometimes (kinda exciting!). At the end of the first side, the laser would physically move to “flip” to the other side of the disc.

LD had the best available versions of Star Wars until the DVD bonus discs, and excellent CD quality audio. Of course now there is 4K77 (etc). After DVD came out you could pick up LD players and discs for cheap on eBay. I had a decent collection, but it was all eventually replaced with DVD and then Blu-ray.

Did you have the AC-3 RF decoder?

As long as it’s just art.

• She’ll tame any animal that approaches.
• You’ll get to see her at least 12 times, and definitely the beach and at least one holiday.
• Probably no in-laws, and even aunt Flo doesn’t visit.
• She’ll ride with you to the police station.