I read this post and my first thought was "oh, it's like how fans post videos of fun glitches in video games and then speedrunners sometimes end up finding a use for them in order to beat the game faster."

Scientific progress is just glitch-hunting and speed/challenge-running.

People who work night shifts already experience this. It's not as disorienting as it seems.

Such unexpected behavior from a person who was unfaithful to their spouse and who brought a cameraperson into a public bathroom. I'm shocked (/s)

I know you're mostly joking, but that might have actually been my bad. I edited to add the spoiler tag minutes after I posted the link (mostly as a joke) even though this is probably one of the most well known plot points ever. It might have still done that if the link was inside a spoiler tag though.

I didn't consider the bot when I commented, but next time I'll remember not to have the clickable link text be the spoiler. That way the bot doesn't repeat it.

End time zones. Instead of converting what time it is somewhere else, I'd rather convert what time dawn/mid-day/dusk is.

Recently, there came out a way of recompiling N64 games for PC without a decompilation and with mostly working results. It is technically possible to apply the hack patch and then recompile it for PC. I don't know if there's a way to apply HD texture packs on top of that though (edit: there seems to be in the video, but I haven't looked into how).

Also watch the video on Team APS's channel featuring Prof. They convert Yu-Gi-Oh cards into Magic cards.

It would do both with just one "groundhog year" pill. Live a year with my current wealth and use the experience of that year to plan out how to earn money when it repeats. At the same time I would use that first year to measure my health so that I could take precautions or act on all that accumulated knowledge when the year repeats. There would still be a second pill to choose, and I think I'd choose the +3 charm because I could also really use it.

But I don't think this would work how I envisioned because I misunderstood the "groundhog" pill. I think it's supposed to mean that you repeat the same day 365 times, which wouldn't work for lottery/investing. So then I agree, taking the $π million and +3 charm is probably the best.

Oh wait does "groundhogs day for a full year" mean that you complete a year then at the end you start that year over? Or is it that you repeat the same single day 365 times? Because repeating the same single day wouldn't give someone enough info to invest or win a lottery (they close sales more than a day before drawing winners). I'm not sure I could out-earn $π million in a single day even with 365 attempts and +3 charisma... unless it was some kind of criminal heist, but then it couldn't be known if I would be caught on a later date.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the "groundhogs day" power, but couldn't you spend a year tracking winning lottery numbers, bets, and/or stocks and then "loop" that year and act on that knowledge in the repeat year? Then you would also essentially get +1 year of life and way more than $π million. I would also use the first loop to take medical tests of my health as much as possible since it wouldn't matter if I went into debt in the first loop.

I guess the downside would be that any progress you've made on personal goals would have to be redone. Or maybe you don't get to decide the starting point of when you would loop back to. Or just my luck, there would be some butterfly-effect shit and I would end up worse off in the repeat loop because my investments would have failed.

Ah yes, my bad. I thought that timeframe felt weird. I was only 7 or 8 when the PS2 released, and only remember watching movies on my older cousin's system. I should have double-checked that.

Good point on the Wii. Maybe, by then, enough other devices played DVDs for cheap that it wasn't as much of a selling point. At the time the Wii released even dedicated portable DVD players were relatively cheap. And many other devices were combo DVD players, even SUVs started to sell with gimmicky built-in theater system upgrades.

Additionally, as successful as the Wii was with a general audience, it didn't grab as much of the "core-gamer" audience (in my opinion) because of the gimmicky control scheme which was mandatory in most games. It also didn't have as robust online multiplayer support as the Xbox 360 or PS3. It was also comparatively underpowered and so didn't get ports of many popular titles.

I think appealing to both general and core audiences is key, especially now with how mainstream gaming has become. If the Wii had functional multiplayer, feature-complete ports of popular titles, and enforced a traditional control-scheme as a fallback, I think it would have outsold the PS2.

Edit: I also forgot to mention that the PS2 wasn't discontinued until 2013. It was still selling in Brazil because of how relatively affordable it had become (and they got it late). Something like the Wii with the extra sensors in the Wii remotes might have been able to keep costs down in Brazil with an alternative control scheme on a classic pad. Additionally, if the backwards compatible GameCube games were more easily obtainable (even illegally), they may have been competitive with the abundant bootleg PS1 and PS2 titles. That could have drove Brazilian system sales at the cost of disc sales.

Edit: It was the PS3 that supported Blu-ray, not the PS2.

The theory I've read about the PS2's success is that a lot of non-gamers bought one because it could play Blu-rays for cheaper than a dedicated Blu-ray player because Sony sold the PS2 either at cost or at a slight loss unlike their other Blu-ray players.

I think for a console to surpass that success, it would need to do something with popular appeal and do it as good as a dedicated device for a similar price. The Steam Deck might have been that if laptops were in higher demand at its release (e.g. if it released just before the pandemic when students needed computers for remote learning.)

In my opinion, a future console would have to basically be a smart phone and a mini-Switch. It would have to run Android or iOS because few people would migrate without support for their current apps.

If said device could run games with at least a 3DS-level of fidelity, it might be appealing enough to draw developers and players. But it would have to support more than just the current mobile game slop.

I was browsing for plug-ins and extensions and after I installed a bunch, it just appeared.

Mine is the tail plug, but UO is a strong second.

Me epilating my body hair

(tank)

Top or bottom?

If I had to guess, it's a pun on bark. It's likely a name for a dog fursona who enjoys gardening.

A human would probably be too heavy for a flock of seagulls to fly away with.

Perhaps too heavy for Herring Gulls, but they could be carried by Great Black-Backed Gulls.