I’m actually a fan of 100% and no-glitch speedruns. Exploiting the game certainly takes skill, but I enjoy watching people excel within the game’s expected framework.
I love this game so much, can beat it on a single life. Really looking forward to the new Rita’s Rewind game.
I use the French press and the clever alternating. Recently I’ve used the clever more often though, as I’ve had to cut cholesterol wherever I can, and that includes filtering my coffee.
Get a french press or clever dripper. Much better coffee, and with the clever, much less mess.
Pro-tip - newer HE detergents are very concentrated. Use less than you think you need. A half cap is for highly stained items, we're talking grass stains, blood, turmeric, etc. You only need a little for most loads. Maybe a quarter cap or less, or a quarter cup if using real measurements.
Also, if you're using a newer HE washer, also be sure to enable the "extra rinse" on the cycle. They really, really suck at rinsing off detergent by default (especially if you use too much) and will bleach/fade your clothes in the dryer if not fully rinsed.
Props for the Hiromi recommendation, though I'd personally choose Seeker from the Alive album.
It’s why we’re able to fix all the things. We dogfood shit setups, unsupported configurations, and weird edge cases so you don’t have to.
This. I'm in a town with a population under 2500, and the nearest city is around 30 miles away. Even the small local grocer that just carries basic goods is something like 5 miles away.
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That’s what I’m talking about. Keep those (step)dad jokes coming.
Okay, this is corny but I love it. I personally refer to my stepladder as my “not-my-real ladder” all the time.
Actually, I'm gonna add another really simple option: Lyrion (Formerly Logitech Media Server). My wife swears by this one, supports local library, integrates with LastFM, and if you use Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, or Spotify, you can integrate your streaming service with your local library for radio mixes.
Can install it right on a laptop or PC and connect to wherever your music is (local on the machine, on a NAS, etc.). After you install it, you can access it directly via a web browser or webapp, which will make it accessible from desktop or phone.
Not necessarily overkill, you can run Plex on almost anything. I used to run it on an old NUC6 I had laying around, then upgraded to a NUC8, and more recently I setup it up as a VM on Proxmox on a Ryzen 5700u mini-PC and just reimported the DB.
Virtualizing it has been good for my purposes since now it’s running alongside AssetUPnP, AudioBookshelf, and a dockerized squeezelite setup, and I’ve another VM on the host running Home Assistant with still plenty of resources to spare. Crazy we can do that now with a “server” that literally fits in my palm.
But virtualizing it makes hardware acceleration for video transcode be I more complicated, just a heads up. I play everything native so don’t use it, but YMMV.
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Edit - Plexamp is an awesome radio/DJ player, though I generally send to a Wiim Mini, as AirPlay quality with Plexamp can be kind of ass compared to direct DLNA.
There are lots of solutions, but as others have noted, Plex with Plexamp is great.
I’d recommend getting a NAS for storage and running mirrored disks. This way you’ve got some redundancy in the event of a disk failure.
I had to check the community and link, because I could believe he would say something like this.
Been married for 18 years and my wife and I adore each other.
Were there shitty times and issues? Hell yes, plenty. But there’s also been plenty of good times. She’s my mate and companion for life and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Seeing her smile completes the universe.
I wanna wake up to her everyday until we’re a couple of wrinkled old prunes.
Solo: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Vanquish, and Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard
Co-op with spouse: Baldur’s Gate 3.
Also interested to check out Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 for GBA (really enjoyed the first one), but need to finish some of these other games first.
Weep hole in window didn't connect with interior, didn't drain water. Fixed it, but anything I should be concerned about (mostly thinking weather and bugs)?
New house, was built/finished just under two years ago. I live in a dry climate, have been in my house for two years and only now discovered this. After some recent storms led to water in my window track I found my rear sliding windows have weep holes in the bottom, but they weren't draining.
After a lot of testing (filling the track with water, shop vac'ing it out, blower testing with air gun, suction with vacuum, etc.) I realized the weep holes in the interior of the window track and the weep holes on the exterior have no connection whatsoever. No water goes from inside to outside, and air blowing through exterior hole is felt through other exterior, and likewise with the interior, but nothing is going from interior to exterior. Water in the inside track will drain until the portion underneath fills and then pools up, and likewise, if I spray water in the exterior weep holes, nothing gets to the inside track, but it eventually comes out the exterior weep hole on the other side.
After some research, I found it's not uncommon for this to happen, it's a common defect with these sort of windows and I just drilled into the exterior weep hole with a 1/8 bit until it met the interior channel and sure enough, the water drains out as expected now. Put the window track back in, window back on, and tested pouring water in the track, it's draining perfectly now.
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My only questions are, do I have anything to be concerned about with this DIY fix? Since the climate here is normally very dry (high desert, Colorado) and moisture evaporates quickly, I'm not worried about mold, but is there anything to keep bugs from getting in through the weep holes? They're not covered in any way. Also, will there be any winter concerns with the cold in sub-zero temperatures or snow/ice build up?
Apologies if these are dumb questions, but I'd literally never heard of weep holes until this week, with discovering the issue. So not sure what potential issues they might have, and honestly no way to know if I fixed this as intended.
Hellfire S | PC Engine CD Full Soundtrack OST - Tatsuya Uemura
Really interesting sh'mup and great soundtrack. I especially like the stage 1 and stage 6 themes. It's amazing what the PC-Engine was capable of with the CD add-on.
Sadly, I'm terrible at it, and have never actually been able to play past stage 3, so good thing the first stage is such a banger. 😅
Fix for TMNT: Shredder's Revenge issues on Powkiddy X55 (and possibly other devices on JELOS)
The current build of Jelos updated the libSDL from v2600.5 to 2800.1 and it broke a few ports. In particular the ones I know of are Panzer Paladin and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge. Both are fixed with the instructions below.
I saw in some threads people asking about it so here's the fix:
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You'll need a copy of the 7/26 JELOS build or before from the github releases page and copy out the libSDL files from /usr/lib. To do this, you'll need to download the tar archive, then use something like 7zip to extract the SYSTEM file to a folder.
Copy off all the the libSDL2 related files that have a file size (ignore the ones that list as 0kb in size, those are symlinks). All told there are something like six files you need, the 2.0.so.02600.5 file, the ttf file, the image file, gfx file, and mixer.
You need to rename the filesaccording to the SDL2-CD.dll.config set in the game folder at /storage/roms/ports//dlls/
If you prefer, I already have all the correct files and renamed as needed. You can download them in zipped format here.
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Once you have the correct files, correctly named, copy them into /storage/roms/ports//libs/
Lastly, edit the game's .sh file in /storage/roms/ports/ to add the following lines:
# # # export path for local libSDL export LD_PRELOAD=$gamedir/libs/libSDL2.so.0
Add that to the script on its own line. I put it at line 29, after the "Loading... Please Wait." echo output line. Anywhere after the get_controls line should be fine.
If you mess up the file, or run into problems, the full file should look like this one.
From there, save it and run the game. And that should be it.
If you gather the files yourself instead of using the ones from the ZIP I linked and the game loads sideways (in portrait), get the libSDL2-2.0.so.0.2600.5 from the SYSTEM folder in the /usr/lib/SDL2-rotated path instead of /usr/lib, and copy it to your game's lib directory on the handheld, and rename it to libSDL2-2.0.so.0 to fix.
Kingdom Hearts - Hikari - Utada Hikaru
This is the Japanese version of Simple & Clean, the opening song for Kingdom Hearts.
Great song, been a fan of Hikki's music for over two decades now.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Snake Eater - Big Band Version ft. Tiffany Mann - The 8-Bit Big Band
Sorry for double post the same song technically, but I love this version and Tiffany Mann's vocals are great.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Snake Eater (Live at Symphony Hall) - Video Game Orchestra featuring Ingrid Gerdes on vocals
My man on the drums is killing it in this version. Just watch him yo.
Octopath Traveler - For Light + Decisive Battle 2 - Yasunori Nishiki
This song hits hard, I love it. Main theme kicks in around 28 seconds in.
Powkiddy x55 owners: be sure to tweak your gamma.
I noticed that darker games on my x55 didn’t look good, like dark tones and blacks were almost inverted looking at stock settings. After a bit of tweaking, setting gamma from default (50%) to 67% got everything looking good.
After checking out a few YouTube videos it seems the gamma level on the display varies between units. I’ve seen it look good on default in some and even up to 100% on one video. Play with the setting and dial it in to what looks best for you.
If it helps I’m currently using:
- brightness 68%
- gamma 67%
- contrast 52%
- saturation 60%
Ikenfell - Rhythm of the Wild: Battle 1 - aivi & surasshu
Great soundtrack. This one's the battle theme from Ikenfell.
Also great game. The artwork is gorgeous (it was styled to look like a scaled up GBA game) and the combat system kind of feels like a mashup of Super Mario RPG and Mega Man Battle Network what with the tile system and timed attack bonuses.
Mighty No. 9 - Mighty - Mega Ran (from the album RNDM)
Technically not game music, but nerdcore based on a game. Does this count? 😅
Terrible game from what I've heard (I haven't played it), but inspired a great song IMO. Mods, feel free to remove if this doesn't fit the theme of the community.
Ninja Gaiden - Ninja Gaiden (medley) - MiniBosses (original composition by Keiji Yamagishi)
Such iconic music. This version is great to rock out to.
Xenogears - Soaring - Yasunori Mitsuda
This is one of my favorite games of all time, and this song in particular always leaves me feeling interesting emotions. I love how it starts out sounding tense with the drums and staccato strings before bursting into the main melody, feels so uplifting. Soaring indeed.
How do you search specifically for communities in memmy?
e.g. - I tried to pull up https://lemmy.world/c/news, assuming searching communities for "news" would bring it up, but it doesn't show in the community list, even though other local communities like "sportsnews" do. Does the search not work as expected currently?
Project Wingman OST - Calamity - Jose Pavli
This whole soundtrack is a banger, but I especially love this one. Those strings around the 1:20 mark.. just... 🤌 so good.
Seriously too, if you haven't played this game, do it. It's basically Ace Combat but with much of the Ace Combat jank and anime removed.
Might Morphin' Power Rangers - Area 1: City - Iku Mizutani
Probably not a popular game being a licensed title, but I've always enjoyed it, and the first stage track is a jam.
This one's by Iku Mizutani; absolute legend who also composed for incredible NES titles like Shatterhand and Shadow of the Ninja (they're also ridiculously good).
Wizard of Legend OST - Dale North
This whole OST is outstanding. Dale North is just fantastic.
Shuu's Spire in particular is great, it's my favorite track on the album.
Castlevania 3 - Evergreen - Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi and Yukie Morimoto
One of the only tracks on this OST that I like much more than the Japanese version. The VRC6 chip was pretty cool, but this track was a bit overdone in the original game.