Props to those moms mentioned in this thread that stopped smoking while pregnant. My mom smoked through all three of her pregnancies. As did my dad, right up until the day he died of a heart attack. Which my mom refuses to attribute to 50 years of smoking and about 30 of hard drinking. “Perfectly healthy people have heart attacks all the time.” She also blames the one medication she’s on for her teeth being brown.

Anyway, I have no clue what neurodivergencies my parents had/have because they’ve self-medicated their entire lives. Pretty sure my paternal grandfather was “high functioning” autistic but he died when I was young. My mom’s side of the family heavily leans towards substance abuse, so who knows what that’s hiding.

This is the only reason I preordered one. The manbaby in the orange house can throw a tantrum at any time. If it happens before release, I’ll just cancel.

Yeah I think the PS2 is out of reach. Unless they slash Switch 1 prices and keep software support going I don’t think there’s going to be a long tail. Pretty much everyone that wants a switch has one at this point.

The joycons are an ergonomic disaster for most people regardless. I can’t play handheld without a grip. I imagine the mouse aspect will be similar, and I’m expecting shells/grips or 3rd party more traditional mice to fill in for shooters etc.

I’m kind of scratching my head. For years, people clamored for more Switch, just better/faster/etc. That’s exactly what’s being offered. I don’t consider anything a must-buy at launch. Switch 1 didn’t launch with much, either. But over the past 8 years it’s been my primary gaming machine. I don’t see staying the course as a bad thing.

“Not working up to his potential.” From the teachers in the gifted program I got bussed across town to attend.

im extremely exhausted from life

Loud and clear.

Im a burden to everyone, i deserve no other outcome

(x) Doubt

I hope you get the help and support you need. And someday, I hope you can believe that you deserve it.

I do not wish, in any way, shape, or form, for my dreams to enter the material world. You ever have that dream where you spend hours picking chicken out of your teeth? How about the one where you need to pick up your great-grandparent’s remains from a firebombed warehouse that is simultaneously in the middle of the city and surrounded by swamp? Or the one where a turtle comes out from under the stove, a spider starts stalking it, and every time you look away and look back they get bigger, then the turtle is a beetle, and then the spider finally catches the beetle by impaling it on 4cm fangs?

No? Just me? Fair.

I tried getting into that one, but I noped out when it became clear that it was just a monster-of-the-week high school drama.

/s, but so big it blots out the sun angel in orbit.

Can confirm, had one on semi-perma-loan for a few years. Bought a secondhand Canon from a friend and never looked back.

Those things were like the perfect compromise between frisbee and throwing star.

Previously:

You have a Nintendo account. Under your account is your primary device. You buy a game under your Nintendo account. You can then play on any device that you’re signed into. Or any account on your primary device can play the game. (Xbox had this same setup for years.) Working example: you buy Mario Kart. Your friend comes over. You sign in on your friend’s Switch, and hand them your switch and they use any other account on the device (including local). You then can both play the same copy/license of Mario Kart.

Now there are two options: virtual game cards, and online licensing. VGC is what all of the noise/confusion is about. Online licensing is very similar to the old method, but they closed the loophole I outlined above.

Join us at [email protected] if you haven’t already. There might be a dozen of us!

Bayonetta 1 got a (limited?) physical release alongside 3.

The downvote fairies love this comm. Ignore it.

I got diagnosed with laziness in school.

The word lazy still hurts today.

This was me growing up in the 80s. I wasn’t disruptive, and I aced the tests, so obviously I didn’t do the homework because I was “lazy.” Fuck that noise.

This seems overly complicated, but at least on the surface more permissive than most digital storefronts. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Thanks for the info.

I’d imagine payment software … historically … not have an unnecessary middle man.

I used to work in the payments industry, and it’s middlemen all the way down. Visa/MC/etc. don’t deal with small fry. There is an enormous amount of regulatory overhead (which is not a bad thing here, fraud is rampant and it’s a cat and mouse game). Unless you’re buying from a heavy hitter like Walmart etc., that business is going through at least one layer of transaction processing before it gets to the issuer. The smaller the business/processing traffic, the more likely it is that there’s several hops in the chain.

Example: Processor A has direct connections to V/MC (which involves hosting V/MC’s hardware in a secured datacenter with multiple redundant network connections, and paying for the privilege). Unless a client does $X in volume, the overhead outweighs the revenue from that client. Clients that process less than $X still need servicing, so Processor B contracts with Processor A (hosting Processor A’s hardware, paying for dedicated data lines, etc.), dealing with smaller clients that add up to at least $X so Processor A is happy. Processor B may have a volume floor as well, in which case the chain continues. Each hop takes a percentage, and generally the clients with the lowest volume pay higher fees per transaction. Now add in other card types like Amex and Discover, debit transactions (which require dedicated hardware to decrypt/encrypt the PIN to verify before passing the transaction), EBT, etc. Only the largest processors are going to have direct capability to handle all of that. More typically, mid-sized processors contract with multiple other processors to cover the spectrum… or just not worry about Discover or something.

tl;dr there’s a whole lot more to it than just rolling your own point of sale software.

Ryo

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