[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

"Metroid Prime Hunters & Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Trademarks Renewed by Nintendo"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Decent performances all around, but still the usual received series problems of the story being rushed through and painfully underdeveloped characters (Pex Jr and the villain in particular were very 2D, and poor Sash 55 was almost comically formulaic).

Saying that I LOVED Belinda Chandra! I got some serious Barbara Wright vibes from her; she looks like she can can really stand up to the Doctor and be a character in her own right!

Looking forward to seeing where this series goes.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The Sega Mega CD and the 32x were genuinely great pieces of hardware...but nearly all the games were awful. I love the Mega CD in particular, and I say that as a Nintendo kid.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

UK here, stuck with only Channel 4 showing it with the English dub and yikes...that was just awful. There were several times where I thought "That was the best take you had?" While not as unintentionally comical as the "Uzumaki" dub it still just took me right out of the experience. The original Japanese soundtrack has some genuine VA legends including Mamoru Miyano, Megumi Hayashibara, and Koichi Yamadera...while the English dub seems to be a bunch of bored teenagers cold reading the script.

Hopefully Channel 4 will eventually add the original Japanese track, but I don't think they ever did for "Uzumaki", or maybe Crunchyroll will get it eventually. I'd rather not have to sail the seven seas.

But for now I won't be going back for episode 2.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I recently picked up one of my dream watches (Tissot Tradition Perpetual Calendar) for next to nothing because it needed a new battery and the strap was disintegrating.

No problem, easy to replace the battery and I bought a brand new strap direct from Tissot (https://www.tissotwatches.com/en-gb/T852046834.html).

This is the first time I've had a quick release strap with the little levers to make it easier for removing and attaching the strap, and I've found that while they are definitely easy to attach, they seem to easily fall off my wrist!

I've had both the 12 and 6 o'clock straps detach at random moments. Most of the time it just sits loose in my shirt cuff, but this morning it actually fell of my wrist on the floor! Luckily no damage done. At least it's easy enough to fit the strap back on again.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop this from happening? As far as I can tell there is nothing wrong with the lug holes, and when I take the watch off my wrist and tug on and twist the straps they always stay fixed in place.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I hope this comes to Google's foldables too. I rarely need more than the two apps I can currently split screen, but something like Open Canvas so would certainly add more flexibility.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

“It was a tough decision, because as a character, you see basically half the population loves him, and half the population has a different feeling of him. And we didn’t want to only cater to one side.”

So...you catered to only one side...the wrong one.

Why not just include a Froggy toggle?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Firefox because it's plugins make mobile browsing bareable. I have a folding phone so I wish that Firefox would hurry up and copy Chrome's multi window feature, and then it would be the perfect browser for me.

I use Firefox on desktop too, but I've been experimenting with Arc the last few weeks to see what the fuss is about.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I used to use this one...but for some reason I just never found any of the settings made it as noticeable and useful as an actual notification LED so I just switched to using an always on display.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.aodnotificationledlight

I too miss notification LEDs...yet another thing sacrificed to the alter of bezelless design.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This. Once a week I leave the razor to soak briefly in hot soapy water while I give my brush a bit of a clean, then I come back to it and give it a once over with a toothbrush. It's shiny and clean and ready for the week ahead.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Another vote from me for out and almond milk. If you do any kind of milk steaming or latte art then oat is great for that...and I just like the flavour of almond milk. It's really nice with breakfast cereals too as it adds a nice nutty flavour to everything.

There is nothing wrong with Soy milk, but with coffee you have to be careful you don't curdle it due to the high temperature.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

"This is my poop and I'm proud of it!"

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Every few years I try to track something down that I half remember seeing on TV in the 1990s, but I have so far had no luck finding it as I don't have much to go on. I think it was a UK made for TV production, either an episode of a TV show, or maybe a one off TV movie.

The scene I remember features the lead character in an office with his boss. The tone is generally surreal and dreamlike. The office is white and there is a big window. As part of the scene his boss tells him about the famous Chinese story of Zhuang Zhou's Butterfly Dream:

"Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering about, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know that he was Zhuang Zhou.

Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But he didn't know if he was Zhuang Zhou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhuang Zhou."

I can't remember if this is all in one scene, or maybe two scenes spread across the story. Either at the end of the scene, or towards the end of the story the main character finds a matchbox on his bosses desk with a fluttering sound coming from it. His boss is nowhere to be seen. He picks up the box, listens to it, and then opens it. A butterfly flies out of the box and out the window.

This has been driving me nuts for years. Was it a weird film/TV show? A comedy sketch? An illustrative part of a documentary? An advert?

If anyone has any ideas or pointers, please let me know.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Looking for some troubleshooting advice. I've had to spend a lot of time away from home lately so haven't been taking as good care of my Wilfa Uniform grinder as much as I usually do, so I gave it a rather thorough clean at the weekend after months of just letting it build up.

On Monday I noticed that when grinding it sounds like it's struggling; as if there's a bean in there that's catching and throwing things off every second or so, even when there are no beans in there. It's not a motor whine or anything like that; the only way I can describe it is it sounds like it's grinding on empty, and then suddenly coming into contact with something every now and then. I've opened it up and cleaned it out again and there's no signs of a anything obstructing the burrs, and no sign of damage. It still seems to be grinding fine, but the sound is pretty worrying.

I think I might have accidentally cleaned off some of the lubricant on the ball bearings, but this is purely just a guess. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My house doesn't currently have a doorbell of any form (100+ year old house, I guess no one ever installed one along the way), and lately we've been suffering a bit of antisocial behaviour so I've been looking into getting a smart doorbell.

Despite both my wife and I being tech literate people the only smart home devices we have are a few smart bulbs which we control through our phones (both Android and Apple).

Given that we don't have, and are not interested in getting a smart speaker or hub, are there any video doorbells that send meaningful notifications to your phone?

So far Google Nest Battery Doorbell looks like it would be the best all rounder for our needs, but it seems that it just sends a regular notification to phone that would be stupidly easy to miss. I also looked into Eufy and found contradicting things about how phone notifications are handled.

Ideally I'd want to get a ringing phone notification that wakes the phone and displays the camera interface, like a phone call, that way it would get immediatly noticed and not just lost amongst other regular notifications. I can easily set a different notification sound...but that isn't much help as my phone is always set to vibrate mode.

It sounds like Ring doorbells have the style of notification I'm looking for, but they seem to have an awful reputation and we'd like to avoid a subscription if possible.

Is there anything that fits my admittedly limiting criteria?

Thanks in advance for any tips, help, and advice : )

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I quite like this one from the Coffee Chronicler. It's heavily inspired by Tetsu's recipe but cuts out the temperature drop and makes it easier for those mornings when you want to make good coffee when you're still half asleep.

https://youtu.be/68ZOXrXbVHc?si=euLieqh-lCDSdMUF

It's 20g of coffee, 160g of water with the switch open, let it drain until 45 seconds, close he switch, add another 160g of water, let it steep until the 2 minutes mark, open the switch and let it drain.

It's not as smoot and sweet as Tetsu's, but it's still a great and easy recipe I use often. I hope you enjoy! Looking forward to seeing what other recipes are posted.

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