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ToastyPOP posted...

You did have SNES style controllers like the Gravis Gamepad.

I did have one of those eventually. but I think not at the same time that I was playing Commander Keen, etc. I don't think I ended up using it successfully on any game it was more of a novelty for me.

ToastyPOP posted...

And I don't think keyboards are intrinsically worse for platformers than controllers. I think it's just a preference thing. I prefer a controller but if I had grown up playing a lot more platformers on keyboard, maybe that would be different.

I would say they are. The games mentioned were all in competition with SMB1-3 and at some point SMW so the overall experience was just not as great as what you had with Nintendo, both in game design and controls.

this is just my experience. for sure there are those people that had great joysticks and played the heck out of the PC platform games, but I think the quality of the experience is not going to be anywhere near the best NES/SNES games.

not really. they didn't work all that great because most PCs of the time had keyboards not controllers. (there were joystick ports etc. but I don't think they were used much and you didn't have something like an SNES controller. and configuring them was terrible too IIRC.)

the ones I know of are mostly already mentioned: Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Jazz Jackrabbit are the main ones if I'm not forgetting something.

there were probably lots of other crappier shareware ones but I can't think of any offhand. (I think of Paganitzu and Boppin but those are puzzle games.)

k thanks. just didn't see the connection to your situation.

it does make sense for that subset of people that have a need/desire for an especially decent PC without needing to be a computer person themselves.

also I do know the stress of having your own PC die. it's like having to do surgery on yourself sort of, where you have to apply your skills while crippled.

yes, it skips having to assemble it; I get those scenarios. but your motivation for the thread "This is why people buy consoles/prebuilts". the problem that you had here, it being a pre-built would not have changed this situation, right? unless it's very new and would have been under warranty?

except for the warranty you cannot escape the fact that the computer can fail and you can choose to repair it yourself or take it somewhere to be repaired. that's always the case. (except with a console you may actually lose the ability to repair it yourself.)

it sounds like you get a warranty with a pre-built, but otherwise it's still just a PC and still requires the same repair that any PC would get. or what would a pre-built have changed? is it a nearly new PC? mine is 12 years old at this point so warranties are long long gone.

Solid_Sonic posted...

F1 is like this.

for motorsport... isn't motorsport like extremely interesting IF you could just watch it from the racer's viewpoint? but when you actually watch it all you see is random shots of random cars with no sense of who is where when and how anyone in particular's race is going. if you could actually watch a guy's race, it would be a lot more interesting to watch.

you can see some racing like this on youtube (both sim and real) and it's so much more interesting than what you could see from "real" racing.

MrMelodramatic posted...

post funny or informational YouTube vids

Billy's Balloon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jksRQcI9NA

Feynman Lecture on Quantum Electrodynamics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZMXWmlp9g

Wile E. Coyote Magnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=915DIqG-hPc

Visualizing Quaternions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4EgbgTm0Bg

now that I think of it, what does buying a "prebuilt" do that avoids these problems? you avoid putting it together at first but it can still fail and need repair. prebuilt or not, the components can fail, require diagnosing, and replacing.

a big difference is whether it's a modular system (PC) or not (console, though I think they're a tiny bit more modular these days). but prebuilt PCs are still PCs (and still modular). (right?)

Dikitain posted...

Because
I am still using the same PSU from like 16 years ago in mine.
And a lot of my friends have similar experiences. One of my friends is on his 4th build and is still using the same PSU from early 2000's. Like, seriously, those things never fail.

my previous PC had a PS fail, this PC had one fail, my current work PC had one fail, I just had one fail the other week, and I find it's a very common, maybe the most common, reason for a PC to fail. definitely one of the more common repair jobs I have to do. I mean there's a reason a power-supply tester is a thing.

actually just had a ~54V adapter fail yesterday which is almost the same thing. that one was interesting because when you plugged it in it would read like 53.6V, but would tick down very steadily about 0.1V per second almost like a clock. 52.0V, 51.9V, 51.8V, 51.7V down and down all the way to 13.2V, 13.1V, 13.0V, and on. but unplug it and plug it back in, and it's right back at 53.7V and counting down.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

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you had a single connection for the front panel?
it's usually in most cases just 4-6 individual pins.
what the fuck case was it

I don't know what you mean by single connection. there were four larger connectors total, one of which was front panel (and 2 USB and something else I can't recall), and two smaller 2-pin connectors (one chassis intrusion, one unknown, could probably look it up, 2-pin red + black; maybe fan or LED? not sure.).

the case front-panel was I think 14-pin (2x7 but some blocked), but the motherboard had something like 20-pins (2x10). I knew the motherboard model and could look up its pinouts, but not the case. it worked with the 14-pin connector on the left (or bottom) side of the 20-pins but not entirely sure why. I was just glad it worked. power button turns it on and HD light blinks. if I had more time I could do more research and maybe figure it out better.

(this is something like putting an Acer motherboard into an HP case or vice-versa which is possibly why it didn't match. or if the case connectors are standard I'm not familiar with them. the other connectors for USB and whatever the other one was were an exact match to the motherboard but not the front-panel one. if I had the case manual if there is one it would probably be more clear.)

Ogre Battle? get bad ending anyway.

games like SMB where you have a timer you can play skillfully but still die from the timer

there's a game where that was basically how the story went

4x games with alternative win-conditions

really what would qualify here is any game with alternative lose conditions. that's what the timer is and that's what alternative win conditions are if the AI can reach them too.

Dikitain posted...

PSU is usually the last thing to die on a computer.

why would you say this? I think the only thing that fails more than power supplies are hard disk drives. although from my experience I think they might actually fail more than HDDs.

next would be motherboards. after that almost nothing. maybe RAM very very rarely. CPU basically never. optical drives basically never (probably don't get used though not sure about heavy use). video cards almost never. (I guess overclocking could change CPU and GPU rates; I don't do tons of overclocking.)

but power supply... if the computer lasts long enough I know I will have to replace it eventually. same as HDD. (like 3/4 on my own PCs and one of the most common failures on other people's PCs. I just changed one the other week which was the above story (had working full size PS but failed SFF one so had to move motherboard to a larger case.))

a tip that I never do myself and always regret is to take a picture (or many) of the initial setup so that you don't forget anything.

I moved a motherboard from a SFF case to a mid-tower that it did not belong in and everything went pretty smooth except for connecting the case to the motherboard. the front-panel connector in particular is important if you want to turn it on with the power switch. but the Acer motherboard and old case had different sized front-panel connectors from the new case (the new connector was 3-pins less wide IIRC). I tried putting it on all the way to the right and that did nothing, but it did turn on with it on all the way to the left. not sure if the speakers work though since I think they are mostly on the pins that didn't get connected. there is also a 2-pin red cable that I skipped and have no idea where it would go.

agesboy posted...

sc2 isn't really hard tbh.

IIRC it's relatively easy on normal but quite a bit more challenging on hard. I sailed through it on normal but made very slow progress on hard. (man that was so long ago now already...)

Dikitain posted...

Yea, I beat Warcraft 3 (and it's expansion) pretty easily. I could never get through WC 1 due to the completely unfriendly user interface. If any game needs an enhanced edition, it is that. Also beat WC2, BtdP, and SC 1. Brood War I got up to Zerg mission 3 or 4 and basically had to cheat the rest of the way through. Never went back to beat it legit.

this is is almost word for word my experience. although I might have used cheats for the protoss missions in SC1, and I don't think I made it very far in WC2:BtDP.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Kitchenware

hmm, I remember now that many of my forks are from them. IIRC they were good for the price, and having a lot of forks is better than having not enough forks; but I find their forks are not weighted all that great. they're nice forks, but the handle is way too heavy, so they always want to fall off of everything.

1-3 cups on any workday, 0-2 on any day off

I don't think I've been disappointed in one yet. my food scale works fine. bought a duplicate present of speakers for my nephew (his dad got them too) but apparently the non-amazon ones stopped working and the amazon ones are still working. coat hangers are ok. alen wrench set I have not actually found a use for yet. batteries are ok.

mmm, mechanically separated chicken...

for Smash Mouth what always annoyed me was that I already liked Fush Yu Mang a ton but then Astro Lounge came out and I thought it was only ok, but suddenly all you could hear was All-Star everywhere, all the way up to today. it's ok but not that great.

similar thing with Evanescence, where they were good, and Bring Me To Life was really good, but then it was massively overplayed on the radio and it kind of ruined it

~15% last year and ~10% this year. f'n sucks.

I own that but have never installed it. I was given a handful of PC adventure games from a friend and that was one of them but that was 20 years ago now.

yes I try to have one every summer

Pepsi is probably the best/my favorite flavor. I prefer coke in general, but it makes terrible slurpees. (some other flavors might be better still, like banana or mango or something, but usually I get Pepsi.)

(and then I wonder if maybe the machine had problems where I used to get them... and then I wonder if Pepsi employees might sabotage the Coke machine somehow... maybe it's 7-11 that has an agreement with Pepsi or something...)

small enough, nothing
bleeding enough, clean + a bandaid
bad enough, clean + polysporin + a bandaid

are you still waiting for this? if you had waited in-hospital would you still be there waiting?

possible it's "imperial blue (metallic)"? it's a very dark blue that looks almost black, but has that same faint blue hue rather than being pitch black.

the color is called "midnight blue"

k yeah, makes sense. I suppose you could say that it's blue-black or black-blue. (quite often these kinds of discussions happen over intermediate colors like that.)

it's dark blue, or very dark blue. I have a black car and it's quite different than that. white and black vehicles are insanely common these days so it should be easy enough to find a comparison. just google "black car" and you see the difference immediately. an actually black car is more like the shade of coal or has an ashen quality, not sure how to say it.

comparing against the tires, which should be perfectly black, there's not a ton of difference, but there is some difference. and then you have a nearby blue car reflecting off it, as well as the sky... but if you compare it to an actually black car it sure seems different.

therapeutic shopping? that's an interesting but alien concept to me...

do you mean besides food? basically 100% of my shopping are functional items, food, and sometimes books.

do you drink coffee? you can get (possibly copyright infringing) customized coffee cups at places like redbubble. and other things like clothing. dragon quest as an example: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?query=dragon%20quest

other than that, cosmetic/ornamental things are not something I'm usually looking for so not much to recommend.

for functional items, maybe a frying pan or a rice cooker?

less traffic was probably the best part

maybe it's too early but Blue (Da Ba Dee) is what I think of

also maybe Aqua - Barbie Girl but also a bit too early

they make the best clerics

Lokarin posted...

Bretons are large circular crackers, usually whole wheat

with some kind of sliced deli sausage and cheese they're ok

why is it delivered by USPS if you ordered it from amazon? I wouldn't expect much better from Canada Post (who will inevitably refuse to leave it at your door and just tell you to pick it up from the post office and that they will destroy it if not claimed within ~2 weeks).

it depends on the implementation

A Love Letter to Tetris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99jk4jcaBc

I know he's a classic character but I don't really enjoy Yosemite Sam that much. The frog is way more interesting even if there's only so far you can take the concept.

is the pipe stuff off to the right the equipment that is running it/filtering it?

another question I have is does it rain there? does your backyard not turn into a muddy nightmare with no grass?

I just order my games by last used, so the more interested in a game I am the higher it is, and a game I never play gets further and further away. I can browse down the list for games I forgot about and if I play it for a moment it goes back to the top.

(but uh... being old sucks... some games I remember playing not long ago I actually last played 10+ years ago...)

I get same-day or next-day free shipping, which is amazing. I actually feel a bit guilty how easy and inexpensive it is to have people deliver anything I want right to my door so quickly. (I'm right now eating Big Turk candies that I ordered after reading the thread about it less than 24 hours ago.)

Played a fair bit:

• Slay the Spire
• FTL

Played a tiny bit:

• Dont Starve
• Crypt of the Necrodancer

Want to play:

• Into the Breach
• Hades

Others you didn't mention:

• Death Road to Canada

Aside: bullet points have too much vertical margin space

deoxxys posted...

Yes I know some of them are roguelites, but I don't like being pedantic and most of the community just calls them roguelikes for convenience sake.

I agree with this

adjl posted...

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I would say that in your examples you are merging the concepts, which is valid, but not the same as unifying the categories. if I say "gravy", generally that will not include spaghetti sauce, and vice-versa. if I make something that has properties of both, you can say it's technically both, but the categories themselves don't merge. you can't really define one of these in terms of the other ("a spaghetti sauce is a gravy that... or a gravy is a spaghetti sauce that..."). they are both sauces. and you could have a sauce that has both qualities. but one category does not come from the other, they are sibling categories descended from a more general concept.

(not finding many sources for meatless gravy. a gravy without meat is really just something emulating gravy. generally "real" gravy involves meat juices; no-meat gravies are exceptions.)

ConfusedTorchic posted...

hence, spaghetti sauce is also gravy

spaghetti sauce is not an exceptional case of gravy

exceptions don't define the concept, they are exceptions to the concept

Beethoven's 9th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjHhS5MtvA

rocket league

how deep is it? it doesn't look very deep but probably just hard to determine scale in the image.

pedantry time: you're moving laterally across a conceptual hierarchy. cats are not dogs, they are both mammal pets. apples are not oranges, they are both round fruits. spaghetti sauce is not gravy, they are both sauces.

at best you could maybe combine them, since they are not mutually exclusive. "spaghetti sauce" surprisingly means "sauce intended to be put on spaghetti" and "gravy" means something like "thickened sauce with meat flavor/based on meat juice". those have no overlap besides 'sauce' but have no contradiction either, so "thickened sauce based on meat juice intended to be put on spaghetti" is a valid concept. but neither "spaghetti sauce" nor "gravy" captures that idea.

that doesn't even kind of fit? they are both sauces is probably what you mean.

moving away from Bliz naming, and/or, moving toward more car theming, I guess

never tried canned, can't imagine it'd be good. I've had it cooked plain and it's not bad, but it's definitely better uncooked or mixed into some kind of dish.

one of my favorites

aHappySacka posted...

I'd rather just eat a Crunchie

another one of my favorites

the award and then Oskar Schindler