When that older DX game port was released, I think it took like 3 or 4 days for them to take it down. Probably even like a patch stomp tuesday situation when the interns hand off the script detections off to the lawyers.
It might take a bit longer if people stopped using sites like Youtube and Github, and tried not to include trademarked terms (or super-identifiable audiovisual content) anywhere.
Huh, I’m using technology as an escape from woodworking. Lack of space/tools and a few times when I tried to do something the wood was too seasoned (last thing I tried was whittling hoping to do it in my room anytime and not have dust as an issue, cheap folding knife probably didn’t help)
Well not fully true on the escape part, I just drop things really easy when I run into issues like that. Well that and I haven’t done anything noteworthy with technology or woodworking.
ME: “Wow I can’t exist with how hot and sunny it is today. A-” \
The man cycle.
It was a streaming site that pulled from a large amount of other sources automatically.
Funnily enough it didn’t have any discovery features whatsoever (no front page, popular, latest etc), it was just a search bar that took you right into the video so you needed an idea what it is you wanted to see. And I don’t think it was nearly as popular as other sites (like you probably weren’t finding it from search results, as I don’t think it even had the info that’d be grabbed, and probably didn’t even have SEO or anything like that)
To quote the decimal system:
I expect nothing, and I’m still let down.
A barrel large ceramic jar?
In this economy, in this part of the city, where continuously existing outside is illegal?
I tried a cheap pair and my takeaway is that this technology needs a specific amount of contact pressure, and with no mechanism to assure this (do the “name brand” ones have something?) a poor fit means it doesn’t work at all and then if you fiddle with the position you can get something that basically turns your ear canal into a speaker (at least it doesn’t seem like it’s actually going direct, at least for most of the sound).
Also using a headphone amplifier, loudness normalization is an issue especially as certain content clips while some doesn’t. This one probably directly relates to cost.
My /newest/ (new-to-old):
This
Forcasting
Sumo wrestlers in a field of sunflowers
Tesla’s Cybertrucks were ‘rushed out,’ are malfunctioning at astounding rate
EDIT: Now there’s one more (after sumos) that wasn’t there before
I use Krita for infrequent no-stakes photo editing (and even pixel art at one point), might not be for everyone but there’s a lot of overlap. Also you can use G’MIC with Krita, so that might help.
I used to use GIMP, but I prefer Krita now.
If someone needs the name of the next fork, I’d suggest “Yutu”. (or Ettu)
As a fun aside, unauthorized sharing is the only reason I tried and bought the game back in early beta days before there was a demo (friend A owned, friend B didn’t, I tried it from friend B’s unauthorized copy of friend A’s game and got the copy too, later gave friend A $20 and info to activate my account because I didn’t have internet at home).
I backed up all of my own files except the jars apparently (because when you download every one they added up, and I didn’t do that when the servers were at stake). I even had a launcher still logged in but none of the files will download now. Prism is lame (but understandable, I guess) in that it just says “contact microsoft support if you didn’t migrate” or something like that, but you can just copy over accounts.json from polymc to use an offline acct. Though a few mods I’ve tried don’t work (and I feel like mod discoverability might not be the best?).
Also a small bit not directly in reply to you: I’m pretty sure this is actually the second migration too, at least for accounts that were started on the minecraft website (username–>email login+mojang acct). But of course searches only give info on this one.
I stopped playing around release 1.8, the Minetest games I’ve tried mimic the features/style that I disliked (annoyance of hunger and inventory clutter at least). Nothing close enough that makes me want to refine it into my own vision.
Sometimes you’ll see a landscape video letterboxed into a portrait video, just to make sure it’s terrible no matter which way you view it (but extra bad watching on a landscape monitor). So I don’t see this as a badge of anything.
On a sidenote, I’ve noticed video cropping is pretty nice on a phone (widescreen+landscape) depending on the content (I got an OLED phone free because the screen is cracked). Like Wall-e is pretty good like that. Also the music video for Long-Legged Larry (some things are cut off but not enough that it detracts from understanding)
Hey, there was some federation/stability issues on my instance so not sure if you saw my other comment (it took more than half-a-day to show up on your instance). Fine either way, though. EDIT: Nevermind, 14 hours later and this comment didn’t make it through either but I can see your reply on your instance.
Is it similar to a sort of perfectionism? Like if it’s not going to be 100% exactly what you want, there’s no point in even starting?
I would say the issue is not being imperfect, but that it’s not even going to be a C-. Something you know is not the right fit/function/compatibility/ease etc on top of the learning curve that will delay even sub-par results beyond a sustainable motivation loop.
There are things I have tinkered with before stopping. Lacking ideas for potential avenues of learning projects (particularly when it comes to creating further content) is one common issue, for instance with programming I did make a simple adventure book reader prototype but did not care enough about writing to develop it further (also aesthetic issues like no auto-scaling text for more legible unicode characters 🔍🕵 or text in general). For a game engine, the option that has a better art feature (eye.mp4 mentioned before) isn’t merged yet (and might not perform well enough for actual project-wide usage) plus that major version doesn’t have bindings for the language I want to use still (and likely won’t for a while). I tried a framework, but I found myself making my own polygon loader (format) that I didn’t even finish because I wasn’t sure enough on actual usage (2 polygon formats, loading/storage etc.) and I didn’t want to keep going out in-the-weeds like that to make my own stuff.
Or there’s other toe-stubs like that. For instance I’ve carved a few things with a rotary tool and I wanted to try whittling so I could do it in my room without creating dust… and when I did the wood was so seasoned I could barely get the bark off (and I probably don’t have great tools for whittling). On a similar note, I also tried a small log and was only able to put a slight bevel on it with a (cheap) power-carving disc in an angle grinder (again, seasoned wood from the wood pile).
Wanting to create things that are directly useful/interesting to me is another layer of difficulty/limitation as well.
That and these are not things I do normally already so there’s a lot more resistance to starting things than there is to just not do it. Even when I was doing things, there were usually factors I took into account.
Maybe it’s less a hyperfixation and more of it being one track that runs without distraction unless I find it inconsequential enough to let the track fall out-of-view, likely in favor of a literal distraction.
I don’t think I would frame it like that. Intent isn’t quite a stretch, but I’d say it’s more like recognizing my wheels are spinning (but going nowhere) at best and early burnout at-worst. And when money is involved, aside from my lack of it there is also previous purchases that I regret. One is a 3D printer that I bit off more than I could chew with an upgrade and ruined it for myself (well, that on top of not really liking the design/iteration process for extrusion).
Some of this may just be an issue of lacking context, as in anything can seem like a fixation (or easily be one) when I don’t really have any regular hobbies. And with tons of free time I can watch hours of video or do strings of searches for something that ultimately won’t turn up with what I’m exactly hoping for. Or with the PS3, requires more downloads (or other motivation) for reasoning.
In some cases I suspect I may be wrong in my motivations. Like wanting performance w/programming before I’ve had any real projects, though I also don’t think wanting my code to utilize more than 1/16th of my CPU’s capability (particularly if it’s performing bad even for that) is such a big ask. Is that an anti-fixation?
On another note, I was fixated on an ebike for a while and then slept on the idea when I couldn’t fine one I liked. Eventually I did find exactly what I was looking for (cheap+small/light+has-gears) and I bought it and everything worked out great until my local trail closed (~6months ago, still closed). So that should say something about external factors.
I don’t think I have ADHD (so this may be more of a SzPD or depression thing), but I often hyperfixate on things until I just decide to drop the idea (or at least lurk on the idea indefinitely) due to complexity/poor-results/cost. And the cost doesn’t even need to be that high, I try not to buy things.
I’ve done this mostly with programming and game stuff, where I want ease and performance plus something polygonal (eye.mp4). I actually have the pieces, but they don’t really fit together (at least not where I’m at, someone better might make it work). Either that or I’d need to make some major concessions (beyond the ones I initially planned for) or have a completely different workflow that will likely also be more difficult (like 3D).
Similar to your story, I heard about PS3 homebrew being better/easier and decided to dust off my PS3 (actually, compressed air) which last-I-used-it was not reading discs. Seems that was only a temperamental thing, got some info, fixed up controller a bit, played some games. But I didn’t actually bother with the homebrew stuff yet because I do not really have even a loose plan on the reasons to do so yet. Playing an old game I had bought long ago was one reason, until I remembered it was a PSP mini and I can just play it on my phone.
Now playing: Them Bones by Alice In Chains. (not linking it because of the iconic AAH! intro, adjust your speakers and if you can hear the flies clearly it’s probably too loud)
Feels relevant to me being from that time, too. Probably also because of despair.
“completely turned around” could be charitably interpreted as “swiftly and accurately corrected course”. 360, not so much.