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I'm not the only one partial to the D-pad made of buttons (as on the paired JoyCons), am I? I love 2D games that call for digital movement-input. And... The D-pad made of actual buttons is great for these! You always know exactly what directions you're pressing. No possibility of wrong diagonals. All my Mario Maker 2 playtime has been on it.

flakmaniak

I have various complaints about the paired JoyCons, but the D-pad made of buttons is not one of them. The analog sticks are just... Wrong to move around, somehow. Frustrating to use in a way that's hard to describe. There are plenty of complaints to have about the paired JoyCons.

But I wish that the rest of the industry would just give us D-pads made of buttons as the standard kind of D-pad. 2D games should not be an afterthought, and we deserve the best!

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I'm not the only one partial to the D-pad made of buttons (as on the paired JoyCons), am I? I love 2D games that call for digital movement-input. And... The D-pad made of actual buttons is great for these! You always know exactly what directions you're pressing. No possibility of wrong diagonals. All my Mario Maker 2 playtime has been on it.

depsidase

flakmaniak

Some guy who was born in Mulyuary, probably.

So casemate AFVs are way out of fashion this millennium. Turrets reign supreme.

Did turrets get more-important, or did the cost of them relative to casemates just go down?

Or I guess, do modern militaries just field generally more-elite vehicles, making fewer tradeoffs on everything but cost?

shrine-of-the-exoletus

Huh? No, long hair is when it goes down to your waist. Hair down to your shoulders is still pretty short....

flakmaniak

This is an advancement in gender-equality: Applying the standards that many already do to women, to men!

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Pips is in that weird space where it's not a pure one-step-after-the-other deduction-game; there's a bunch of messing around and trying stuff, and no guarantee that the solution is unique. But it's not just about stumbling and guessing. It's not combinatorially big-enough that it MUST be a pure deduction-game. They're trying to keep it in that narrow band, somehow, of "you have to make some real deductions, not just blindly shove things in, but also you have to try things".

Today's Letter Boxed in three (target five):

Pitch Hanky Yule

I hate hate hate the justifications for allowing shit candidates. "Oh we don't need that Maine senate seat because..."

Deeply unserious party, the Democrats. No discipline. The same stumbling-forward, the same stupid inertia, as with Hillary, with Joe picking Kamala in the first place, with Joe not being told to step aside way sooner... (Well, if there's any power in the party, those wielding it had a 100% obligation to demand that Joe credibly promise to be a one-term president, before they coordinated around him in the 2020 primary! Those who failed to extract that promise but supported him in that primary should never be forgiven!)

The Republicans at least have the excuse that they're ruled by a mad tyrant, that anyone trying to act in the national or even the party's interest will have to duck and cover, because none can oppose him. He does singularly wield that power, after having hollowed out the party.

But for the Democrats, it's just a void of leadership... The only times the thumb goes on the scale are to say "keep stumbling forwards in the same thoughtless way". I hate it so much.

So this is yet more of the "only Donald causes things to happen" theory of history. Everything is boring when he's not around! (Okay fine, occasionally someone else can cause things to happen, like Vladimir Putin, or a bat in Wuhan, but Donald does most of it!)

collapsedsquid

flakmaniak

Wait, is the Strait open again? It better be open again for you to be posting this now!

bubobubosibericus

Hi! Didn't check. It's not. Hope this helps.

flakmaniak

In that case, "the Strait closed" was something happening! A BIG happening!

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Sci fi and fantasy media (books, games of all kinds) is obviously great for children even if only because it expands their vocabulary so much. One learns tons of slightly-archaic and uncommon words from it, even if often it's "oh, that was just a regular word?" later, of a term you didn't know if the authors made up.

Also, specifically card games like Magic obviously will increase one's vocabulary because the card-namers are constantly digging for synonyms!

official-kircheis

japanese food is second nature to us weebs, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows tonkatsu and tempura

and omurice, of course

of course

shieldfoss

I think most people do know what tempu

#one of my coworkers did not know what ramen was

post cancelled. nevermind. how.

shacklesburst

I once introduced a whole lab group to the unknown and mysterious Indian cuisine, which they'd never had before and only vaguely knew existed

official-kircheis

I suggested to our group at the conference I was just at to dine at a Vietnamese place and one guy, who is sixty, said he had never had Vietnamese cuisine and didn’t know what it was like

flakmaniak

I have never had Vietnamese cuisine and know essentially nothing of what it is like (other than that pho is some kind of soup), but I am an extremely picky eater who basically never tries things.

I'm not yet sixty, I suppose. Check back in 25 or so years.

collapsedsquid

flakmaniak

Wait, is the Strait open again? It better be open again for you to be posting this now!

deadgenerations

I do think dykes to watch out for had legs when it was ended. I think it's exploration of parenthood, alternative family models, aging, selling out (to the CIA!), contemporary democrat politics and trans youth was a natural evolution and could have been a thoughtful self examination of the legacy of avant garde cum olde guard which Bechdel represented. shame.

isaacsapphire

Easily one of the top American comics of its era imo.

flakmaniak

Still, should have been named "Dykes, Out For Whom to Watch"!

garmbreak1

how's America doing--

oh no

flakmaniak

...Really, 40%? Where do they expect that?

Well, this is one of the reasons I hate tipping-culture; the ambiguity is really something else!

sysid-ace

🌂 wait why are they spending $95

flakmaniak

A super-fancy restaurant, or just "San Francisco", or whatever... That part was less-surprising to me! Though actually, I suppose at a restaurant fancy-enough to have prices like that, I would not expect to see a sign in plain beige cardboard and marker! So yeah, I guess that raises the San Francisco probability.

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kata4a

pretty convenient that the finger that you put a wedding ring on is the one finger without any other really identifying feature. taxonomic-nomenclature-wise, I mean

flakmaniak

Something something, setting where some people's ring fingers are cut off (or just the one I guess), as they're forbidden to marry... Hmm, shouldn't Catholic priests forsake it? Get the knife!

garmbreak1

how's America doing--

oh no

flakmaniak

...Really, 40%? Where do they expect that?

Well, this is one of the reasons I hate tipping-culture; the ambiguity is really something else!

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