I’m just trying to learn Godot and explore its potential for the multimedia stuff I previously did in Processing.

Yeah, for a lot of stuff like that Godot is probably overkill, but on the other hand, Godot stuff can be built into self-contained packages while Processing, well, needs JRE and all that, so not optimal in all cases.

Oh wow. I re-checked and there’s no way to make the Clock app to show the seconds, so it’s as useless as I imagined. But yes, there is apparently a setting in time and date settings to show the seconds on the clock in the task bar. …And the setting is buried under a fold. With the caveat that it will increase power usage. How does displaying seconds increas power usage fssgsgfffsshhhgg

This question is often asked, but I ask it again: why is Windows?

There’s like a boatload of really classic Xbox 360/One era games that I’d love to play on PC.

Problem is they were made by Ubisoft or EA. Repurchasing them is already dubious from the get-go, but chances are the versions in Steam, if they’re still there at all, are old neglected buggy builds. And things are not much rosier on the Uplay or Origin! They may have gotten a patch or two, but old shit’s janky. These need the GOG treatment.

I did get the Mass Effect trilogy rerelease for a pittance. Also found out I somehow had Dragon Age Origins already. These should keep me occupied for a while, as (to paraphrase a certain video game villain) at this very moment, EA burns.

“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the radness of the rave…”

Long ago, in Finland, the election night live coverage was on YLE TV1 and there was some other show on TV2. Since they both had the same Teletext pages and the same subtitle pages, someone posted online some choice screenshots.

(Don’t remember much, besides one with the main reporter guy, with the subtitles going like “goddamn it”.)

Windows Clock doesn’t have analog mode any more. Nor does it show seconds. And sometimes it just doesn’t show time because it needs to update some garbage, or the app needs to be updated, or…

Long story short, I had to make a clock of my own.

As pointed out, Goodreads has been owned by Amazon for a good while. And they also own slices of some other similar book sites (LibraryThing, for example, and some other site that was merged into Goodreads).

Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!

“Not the sharpest bulb in the tree”

What I need is “this post really seemed like a good idea when I was drunk, but in retrospect, maybe it’s not”.

Netflix, but no Chilling, because if you don’t have underwear you’ll just freeze to death

The fuck you on about?

May I enquire if you are completely informed on the topic?

Have you ever played Portal beyond the first rooms? You definitely need fast and precise aiming in Portal.

Have you played Portal on controller? I’ve played through the game twice on controller on Xbox 360 and with mouse and keyboard on PC.

Both are very much playable. You don’t need goddamn motherfucking MLG 100% 360° 720° noscope quickscope blaze it mtn dew it skillz only attainable through rarest of gamer mice and finest of mechanical keyboards. It’s perfectly serviceable on controller. That was my point.

The official Xbox 360 rechargeable batteries were absolute hogwash. Terrible battery life when they were new, and it just kept getting even worse really fast.

I could imagine the third party batteries being better. I’ve only ever had one set of Xbox One/Series controller rechargeable batteries (third party but AFAIK officially licensed) and they’re working just fine.

To be fair to be fair, Portal on Xbox controller is entirely serviceable. You don’t need super fast precision control in Portal anyway.

My current annoyance: my Xbox 360 works just fine, but none of the controllers turn on while battery powered. (IR remote works, but it’s not exactly suitable for gaming.) And Xbox 360 was the pinnacle of Microsoft’s “well we have to do slightly incompatible shit just for the hell of it” attitude - you can’t just use a standard USB cable, it uses USB over a weird proprietary connector. (On the other hand, I’ve looooooved Xbox One and later controllers on PC, they have standard plugs)

My Halloween tradition is Bullet Witch - had to jank up the PC version to working state last year when I first noticed this problem with the 360 controllers.

Edit: Oh wow, I managed to find a 360 controller battery holder that actually works. Geometry Wars Evolved 2 status: got the first cheevo

I’m in Finland. I sometimes say stuff like “oh it’s -30°C today. It’s getting just a little bit nippy.”

A friend of mine in California is like “Jesus Christ what are you talking about” and yes, he can convert that

On my Windows laptop, multi displays barely work with any logic at all.

Last time I used macOS it pretended that displays worked fine (but they didn’t).

I’ve not used Linux much in hotplug monitor setups but I assume the situation can’t be worse.

Right, that one. Sorry

USB 1.x type B definitely wasn’t short lived, I’ve picked up new devices with a B connector in recent years.

The B connector you pretty much never see is the USB 2.0 one. Pretty much all devices I’ve seen use the wide version of USB Micro-B or, you know, USB C.

So. Emergency bunker under the White House.

Excuse me. How many nuclear weapons the other countries have pointed at the White House, exactly? …never mind, that’s top secret intel or something. But since the answer likely is “more than 1”, I’m not sure why they’re doing this, unless Trump is stupid or something.

Anyway, isn’t the current US national emergency procedure basically “if the POTUS is in the White House, get him pretty much anywhere else but the White House”? You know, the whole deal with the Air Force One and the Nuclear Football and all that nonsense? …actually, I think Trump is just stupid or something