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missingno wrote
Reply to Three handheld consoles, one review so far by twovests
I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus almost two years ago. Love it so much that I wish I'd bought a more expensive model with analog sticks.
Now I'm in the rabbit hole of salivating at all these fancy new handhelds on the market, but never actually buying another one because something better will be right around the corner. Holding out for the day someone gets SteamOS running in this form factor.
underscores wrote
Reply to Any vicarious livers in the chat? by SWORDSCROSSED
Maybe a vicarious spleen.
twovests OP wrote
Reply to Three handheld consoles, one review so far by twovests
Miyoo Mini Plus review:
It has four shoulder buttons but they are difficult to use in its form factor, and the one speaker is covered during normal play.
oolong wrote
Reply to romanticizing lesbians the way people romanticize gay men. romanticizing gay men the way people romanticize lesbians. "genius of the year" by twovests
nonbinary people in the line to get romanticised, stay in line
twovests wrote
devtesla: i think about your username and doge community but i imagine it's been an increasingly sensitive subject
twovests OP wrote
everyone laughed at me when i said i had an idea for interactive visualization tools which work up to 5 spatial dimensions :(
that would have been great for manifold learning, because usually you only work with 2 or 3 spaces.
if the true shape of something is 10 dimensional or less, you can explore that by umap'ing it to 5 dimensions or less
alas
cowloom OP wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Primal Rage Intro by cowloom
never played it as a kid, but I'm enjoying it now
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Is this a new speech construction? It feels off to me. But I keep hearing it especially in the last couple of years. by flabberghaster
So I don't know grammar good enough to know what a clause is, and I grew up where people didn't always speak "standard" english in the first place, so grain of salt, but it sounds fine to me.
I'd say "where we know them from" but that only sounds a smidge more standard
flabberghaster wrote
Reply to comment by I_got_killed_one_time in watching severance wiht my boobs out #myWonderFulWorld by I_got_killed_one_time
Yeah it's Office Lost, but it's good. It's not like, the best thing in TV history but it's the best thing everyone's watching right now and it's pretty good IMO.
I keep wanting to get people to watch Lodge 49 which has similar vibes, but is more friendly.
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in Is this a new speech construction? It feels off to me. But I keep hearing it especially in the last couple of years. by flabberghaster
The full context of the first was like "It gives us the same strange out of place feeling as when we see an actor who we can't quite place how we know them."
The second clause describing the actor feels redundant to me, it feels very awkward. Having the pronoun for the same subject in there feels weird. "An actor that ..." Means that ... Is specifically referring to the actor. Then we have "... we don't know where we know them" feels like a whole new sentence with its own subject and object. It feels unrelated to me. The them is redundant, to me.
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by SWORDSCROSSED in Is this a new speech construction? It feels off to me. But I keep hearing it especially in the last couple of years. by flabberghaster
Yeah I edited it. I messed that up. I changed it to "a type of fruit that we don't know where is from"
Is that any less ungrammatical to your ear?
Dogmantra wrote
Reply to Is this a new speech construction? It feels off to me. But I keep hearing it especially in the last couple of years. by flabberghaster
I think this has existed for a while, at least when I do it it mostly comes from restructuring the sentence halfway through, yknow when you start going without knowing exactly how you're going to finish?
e.g. in your examples, it would be "a type of fruit that [pause] we don't know where it comes from"
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to Is this a new speech construction? It feels off to me. But I keep hearing it especially in the last couple of years. by flabberghaster
naw, i've heard it all my life
SWORDSCROSSED wrote
Reply to Is this a new speech construction? It feels off to me. But I keep hearing it especially in the last couple of years. by flabberghaster
I think your second example sounds very wrong to me, I’d have to reword it like “a type of fruit we don’t know the origin of”
twovests wrote
Reply to Is this a new speech construction? It feels off to me. But I keep hearing it especially in the last couple of years. by flabberghaster
Can you give an example in a full sentence? (gen)
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in reading history on the collapses/dissolutions/ends of various empires by hollyhoppet
i'm picturing more of an "facebook and discord are down forever? okay, i don'y need a router"
russia and china and iran all have different examples and degrees of separation from the rest of the internet. the UK is trying to backdoor encryption in a way which will force companies to choose to compromise or leave.
in the US, we have differing censorship laws fracturing the internet across different states, and the legal framework and precedent for banning apps.
we also have undersea cables being cut, which is very new i think (november and december 2024.
i'm imagining what might happen if we have a few "we bombed us-east-1" or "texas is doing ercot but for internet" incidents in the span of a year. but it's not something worth time worrying about yet i think
hollyhoppet OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in reading history on the collapses/dissolutions/ends of various empires by hollyhoppet
like… think about it. the web is obscenely valuable, and the icann is headquartered in one of the more socially progressive states in the us (california). if america dissolves california will be in an extremely good diplomatic position because its exports will basically be internet regulation and a large portion of the us entertainment industry
hollyhoppet OP wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in reading history on the collapses/dissolutions/ends of various empires by hollyhoppet
given at this point that it’s a piece of global infrastructure managed by a nonprofit with offices across the world i imagine the web is going to outlast the us tbh
twovests wrote
Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in reading history on the collapses/dissolutions/ends of various empires by hollyhoppet
i AM in a blue state and i am quite happy about that
i wonder what will happen to the internet. i hope people don't throw their routers out once the world wide web isn't
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by oneviolence in if every one of us went to their local municipal town hall meetings, we would rule the united states within a month by twovests
You should try to get your local municipality to try and take over the United States
twovests wrote
i liked when helen looked mark in the time and said "it's severancing time"
and mark said "that's the spirit, helly jelly"
oneviolence wrote
Reply to if every one of us went to their local municipal town hall meetings, we would rule the united states within a month by twovests
I dont live in the US thanks.
oneviolence wrote
Drink Sprite. For Your Wounds.
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by missingno in Three handheld consoles, one review so far by twovests
I'm feeling similarly. I want these GameBoy shaped devices to target up to the PS1 (2D games, at least, like SotN), and then maybe a SteamDeck or similar device.
As an update, I got my RG35XX+ working again. Not sure why, but I might have re-flashed the firmware incorrectly. So, it's back in the running.