Agreed, though it is still fun, it just isn’t as good as the first two.

As a kid we had two instances of large rattlers getting into our house and coming after us not to mention the many times I’d come across them in tall grasses. This has given me a heavy reason to give them distance.

I have definitely encountered aggressive rattle snakes. I’d be careful about assuming they’ll flee.

It almost certainly is slightly more energy intensive, that’s just how LCDs work. I wasn’t under the impression that was why many people prefer dark mode.

After seeing so many companies screw over long time and loyal employees, the lesson is clear that this guy at your company had the right idea.

You’re welcome, thanks for letting me vent! The 3DS repeated the sins of the DS and added their whole new gimmick. And yet again, it trapped an EXCELLENT Zelda game (Link Between Worlds) on the system as well as the 3D Mario Land (I don’t recall the exact title). I had decided not to bother buying one even though the Zelda game is the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time, but my friend gave me his when he got one of those larger XL models so I picked up the aforementioned Zelda and Mario. I quickly saw why he got the larger model, my hands cramped using those teeny tiny controls. It now belongs to my daughter, so it worked out, but it’s funny, I still have a working OG Gameboy and GBA SP and those feel fine to use. Nintendo just lost me with their controllers. Even now, I only play the Switch using a Sony DS controller using the 8Bitdo adapter. Their first party controllers are nigh unusable to me.

There are certainly games on the DS that don’t have the stylus gimmicks, but here are the biggest/most dissapointing ones that come to mind:

• all the DS Zelda games (it ruined them IMO)
• Metroid prime: hunters (unplayable to me)
• Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (I am still pissed how the tacked on stylus gimmick was required to defeat bosses)

The thing is, it isn’t just the games that use the stylus that are the gimmick. The entire second screen IS a gimmick. Instead of a single better/bigger screen, you get two lower res medicore screens. You now have to look at two screens, you now have a heavier handheld that feel awkward (to me) to hold in the correct position, especially if you end up needing the stylus. The fact that the PSP came out in the same month as the DS and was better in many ways did the DS no favors.

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow ended up causing me severe wrist pain and I had to stop using the console entirely and sold it. The fact that there ARE good games on the system is actually more annoying. Because of weirdness of the DS, all the games were difficult, if not impossible, to port to other systems. Much like the Wii, it essentially orphaned a whole generation of games from future ports without a ton of work to change how the game works.

Sorry, I wasn’t meaning to laugh at you as a person, more that I literally wrote games for it and played many, many DS games and thus showing me games would definitely not change my mind on the system. I am more than a little salty about the DS and it’s evil gimmicks. It is one of the only systems that I ended up selling (the Wii is also in this short list).

Both are good examples, but the one that probably bothered me the most was Dawn of Sorrow. The castlevania game that would force crappy stylus patterns to finish off a boss, but otherwise had no touch usage. I swear I had to kill some of the later bosses 4-5 times because of the touch not working right.

I am EXTREMELY familiar with the DS, you cannot “bring me close to the DS games” lmao. If anything, I am pissed that so many excellent games are trapped on it and will never get ported.

I personally liked the GBA SP better than any other handheld and I was not a fan of the DS at all. The only positive of the DS for me was that it was relatively easy to write homebrew games for (though not as easy as the GBA).

Hah, I believe that is the scene where he says he loves “soul food”. Excellent.

It looks like the strange middle ground between pizza and Freddy Krueger. Oh well, man’s got to eat, sorry Freddy.

They actually did a lot of mess with Pro as well. There has been a “watering down” of Pro since Windows 10 to make sure that they can still do their anticonsumer crap to users. I imagine they also are trying to push businesses to get Enterprise instead of picking up relatively easy/inexpensive Pro licenses.

The F was really just the fail I made along the way.

There goes my chance to use my data hoarding for the power of good. Well, if you think of any specific details that might help track it down let me know.

I may have them. Do you remember what you were looking for?

Saying “old enough to remember buying physical media” makes me feel like one of the ancients.

I don’t stream my music, and only did for a little bit when it was newer and fairly novel. I strongly agree with you, most people don’t listen to diverse enough music that streaming makes sense other than pure convenience. That convenience is clearly all it takes for the majority of people.

Nothing IMO, but Weechat is probably a better choice if you’re not already happy with irssi.