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Que ,

Wish that was my worst case scenario

Que ,

I didn’t even realise this was released for the snes! Fond memories of it on the spectrum. Might need to crank up the old emulator when I get the time.

Que ,

Ah, typo sorry, I was thinking nes when I wrote that, but my fingers must have had their own idea.

Que ,

I hadn’t used FB for quite some time, when I finally tried to log in again, they wanted me to confirm who I was first with real ID.

Not to make a new account, just to access my existing account, of which I know the password, security answers, and could confirm ownership via my registered email account.

And that was the final nail in the coffin.

Fuck. No.

Que ,

“… and I must say, your potatoes are particularly nice”

Que ,

He’s a greedy little shit who’d rather run the entire platform into the ground for a buck than do anything useful with his life.

He could’ve done great things. He could’ve gone down in history shoulder to shoulder with some of the big guys, instead, he’s been a snivelling backstabbing little fungus from day 1.

Que ,

There’s also cryptocurrency. Not as invisible as many would have you believe, especially when KYC checks are involved, but there are definitely ways to stay hidden with it, by choosing certain exchanges, transfer methods, and currencies.

Not as straightforward of an answer as OP is probably hoping for though, and it also depends heavily on the recipient of the money.

Que ,

There’s some countries that accept it as payment fairly widely, and a couple that have even properly adopted it iirc.

In general though, no, but it’s certainly usable globally and would get around OP’s problem if the recipient accepts it. And if OP can be bothered with the hassle of learning about it.

AI chatbots can infer an alarming amount of info about you from your responses (arstechnica.com)

Vechev and his team found that the large language models that power advanced chatbots can accurately infer an alarming amount of personal information about users—including their race, location, occupation, and more—from conversations that appear innocuous.

Que ,

How did you get it to infer anything?

It tells me:

I’m sorry, but I can’t comply with that request. I’m designed to respect user privacy and confidentiality. If you have any other questions or need assistance with something else, feel free to ask!

… Or:

I don’t have access to any personal information about you unless you choose to share it in our conversation. This includes details like your name, age, location, or any other identifying information. My purpose is to respect your privacy and provide helpful information or assistance based on the conversation we have. If you have any specific questions or topics you’d like to discuss, feel free to let me know!

Que ,

Weird, that worked first time for me too, but when I asked it directly to infer any information that it could about me, it refused citing privacy reasons, even though i was asking it to talk about me and me only!

Que ,

Yeah that’s an interesting way of approaching it. Definitely makes sense thanks :)

Que ,

Same.

Used Liftoff before Boost became available but it was buggy. As soon as boost was released it was a no-brainer, moved straight over. The familiarity from using it with reddit is excellent, has a great feel and everything just works how it should.

Que OP ,

God dammit.

It’s been years. Literally years.

Well played.

Que OP ,

Yeah fair enough, I wasn’t really considering ports to new systems when I asked the question. I was thinking more along the lines of, if they remastered something like SMW with more modern graphics or slightly different controls, it wouldn’t hold up to the original masterpiece. But then again flatscreens don’t display games designed for crt screens as well as they were initially intended. Maybe remakes would’ve been a better question!

Que OP ,

Agreed, SMW was actually the first thing that popped into my head when writing the post subject, SMB1-3 definitely qualify too. I’d put them all on equal footing in this regard.

Que OP ,

That was a beautiful game!

Que ,

As a kid, I found Gargoyles Quest infuriatingly addictive. I wasn’t good enough to do well at it, it annoyed me, but I kept going back for more.

Que ,

I totally agree, I just cba. I have too much going on in my life to start from scratch like that again, and windows is just easy now. I hate the whole drm model, but like most people, I’ll live with it unless Linux finally becomes an easy, viable alternative that’s supported to the same degree as windows and feels just as easy to use.

Que ,

I loved it until I didn’t.

Don’t remember how far I got, maybe 2/3 of the biomes, then I burned out and got bored. That was a while back, and flattening the land was really glitchy. I’d have an area perfectly flattened and ready to commence building, save it all down, come back next day, and it’d all gone to shit again. I got sick of trying. It became more of a grind just to get back to my last save point than I wanted, and gave up on it.

Did it ever get a full release?

Que ,

Where I live, Costco tends to be priced fairly in line with supermarket prices, but slightly higher quality for a lot of things. Not everything, you get to know what’s what, but as a general guideline it works. Meat for example, I’d always have said it was higher quality and cheaper prices, but the chicken has dropped in quality over the past few years. So you’ve still got to be careful at times. TP is much cheaper, but comparible to named brands.

Que ,

8bitdo aren’t really for any particular device, but the quality is fantastic.

Que ,

Not sure tbh, I have a couple of SF30 Pros for about 3 years and they’ve been solid, never had any shedding.

Que ,

Sounds like you’ve already answered your own question.

It might die. If it does, it’s not a super big deal. You have backups. You don’t like creating unnecessary e-waste.

As gets have said, crystal disk info can help detect any existing problems, but it can’t predict the future if something happens suddenly. So it can be a good indicator, but don’t assume it’s 100%.

Que ,

White background & gray text.

When did we shift away from black text?

There’s less contrast with gray, and on a lot of displays it’s more difficult to read, and more straining on the eyes.

Que ,

… And you end up accidently clicking a button that was previously above, and landing on a page you didn’t even want to see!

Que ,

The problem with that is that not all displays show the same colours and contrasts, so what looks like one shade on monitor A can look totally different on monitor B. Combine that with the massive number of sites that just have any old gray, as opposed to a specifically recognised dark gray, and you frequently end up with text appearing is light or mid gray.

When this happens, (which you notice a lot on certain monitors) the eye strain is faaaaar worse than a nice thin black text. I find myself pressing CTRL-A at times to highlight everything on the page for a little more contrast, because the standard text is so unreadable.

Que ,

Agreed, night mode ftw. Isn’t supported everywhere but it’s great when it is!

Que ,

You don’t always have control of calibration settings when you’re on someone else’s monitor, but at lest black always looks black and is still readable without selecting text to change it.

Also, as I said, not everyone uses the same shade of gray when building a web page/style/theme. In fact, far from it. Black however, is always black, one shade, 000000.

Que ,

Nothing anecdotal about that, but sure. And my entire point from the start was that black causes less strain than light gray.

At the end of the day, you have your opinions, I have mine, and I’m sure you’re right that dark gray is better than black for eye strain, but in the real world it doesn’t work like that due to the reasons I laid out above; monitor calibrations and web devs who just throw whatever shade of gray they want on to it.

Que ,

I don’t disagree about the overuse of light grey/white, but it’s really irrelevant to what I said.

My entire point from the very start, the point that you’re replying to, was about the differences in shades of gray, be that from calibration or design choice lol.

If a screen is so badly calibrated that dark grey is coming out substantially lighter then it’s probably going to doing something similar to black.

From my experience of using screens like this for years, no, it doesn’t. Black is black. Gray varies by screen, and more importantly, by web dev.

No developer ponders what shade of black to use, it’s 000000. Gray… Not quite as clear cut.

Que ,

It feels like we’re arguing semantics for the sake of it, you’re entitled to your opinion, as am I. You misinterpreted what I meant from the start, maybe I could have been more explicit. Whatever the case, have a good evening.

Que ,

I mean, I wasn’t mistaken, you drew false conclusions from what I said from the offset, then dug your heals in when I made it crystal clear what was meant, time and time again. Anyway.

Que ,

Yep, that’s right, you drew false conclusions from the start, in that I was referring to the same shade of gray as in the study; which, incidentally, was far more focused on light background & dark text vs dark background & light text, than it was black text vs gray text, so it wasn’t even really relevant to begin with.

Glad we finally agree!

Que ,

Yeeeah, I’ll be honest, I’ve lost interest in this conversation a long time ago, you’re adamant that you’re right, even to the point of telling me what I meant when you misinterpreted it.

So yep fine, you must be right, I must be wrong.

Have a fantastic day in full knowledge that I completely, wholeheartedly agree with everything that you’ve said, and take back everything that I’ve said.

Gray on white, regardless of shade, is infinitely better than black on white. Atan said so.

Que ,

I’m not gonna waste any more of my time arguing with someone that is straight-up dishonest.

I’ve tried to meet you in the middle when I said you had misinterpreted me but I could’ve been clearer, I’ve also brought the conversation to an end multiple times, but you keep telling me I’m wrong, despite the fact that YOU misinterpreted me from the start.

You’re absolutely full of shit, acting like you won’t waste anymore of your time. You’re determined that there’s no possible way you could be wrong, and you can’t drop it, or you would’ve stopped when I stopped any of those previous times.

You should maybe speak to someone about your need to be right over people, because it seems clear you have something going on there that needs addressing.

Que ,

I’ll be honest here, I really couldn’t care less what you say anymore, you thought you could correct someone online and feel superior, it didn’t pan out, and when you realised you’d misinterpreted everything from the start, you doubled down for the sake of pride.

It’s cute, I feel for you, but the link you provided was totally irrelevant to the point being made, and you’re now starting to look like a bit of a fool.

No-one cares.

No-one is going to read this far into our argument.

You can feel like your setting the record straight on a public forum if you want, but you were wrong from the start and literally no-one cares. No-one.

This is purely about your own ego and the need for you to be right.

It’s OK, I’ll admit defeat, you’re right. You were right the whole time, I didn’t even know the point I was making, but you did. Now run along.

Que ,

Prime gaslighting opportunity right there

Que ,

We’re looking to get our first TV in years, the current one is about 10-12 years old. We don’t watch normal ‘tv’, everything is streamed through another device.

What kind of adverts can I expect in a modern current-gen TV?

Que ,

what’s your best elevenses snack

Dunno if it’s my ‘best’, but I’ve just polished off a cornetto and it was delicious.

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