Hello. I have a long history of taking care of rescued pets, and I currently have 35 cats and 4 dogs living with me (I do have enough space for them) and I decided to make a page to show them and also share my history with animals, including a section with little stories about unusual animals.

It's still under construction. I have only created a profile for 1/3 of my pets so far, but tonight I finished writing the entire History page and there is a lot of content, so I consider my page to be 50% done now, and I thought of making it public :)

Hello. I have a long history of taking care of rescued pets, and I currently have 35 cats and 4 dogs living with me (I do have enough space for them) and I decided to make a page to show them and also share my history with animals, including a section with little stories about unusual animals.

It's still under construction. I have only created a profile for 1/3 of my pets so far, but tonight I finished writing the entire History page and there is a lot of content, so I consider my page to be 50% done now, and I thought of making it public :)

Hello. I have a long history of taking care of rescued pets, and I currently have 35 cats and 4 dogs living with me (I do have enough space for them) and I decided to make a page to show them and also share my history with animals, including a section with little stories about unusual animals.

It's still under construction. I have only created a profile for 1/3 of my pets so far, but tonight I finished writing the entire History page and there is a lot of content, so I consider my page to be 50% done now, and I thought of making it public :)

I have been saving my favorites here https://pirahxcx.neocities.org/neocities.html

So I have a GOG acc been a few years and unsubscribing was the first thing I did and they never bothered me, and out of nowhere the other day I received some newsletter about promotions and shit (not even stuff on my Wishlist) and I figured it's some reset with new ownership or whatever, I received an email about new policies a few days prior talking about how they are not connected to CDPR anymore and so... anyway, I unsubscribed, and made sure every notification was turned off, and just now I received another newsletter email...

I have selected only undetermined and languages I speak in my profile, and it seems to have improved my feed a lot, however I had to block dozens of country/language-specific instances and communities because people there are not using language tags so their content keeps appearing to me... just wondering why instances in certain languages don't have their content defaulted to their language.

There's also this one Italian guy I had to block because he constantly posts in Italian on English-speaking communities on English-speaking instances and doesn't use the language tag... I only post in my language on instances/communities from my country, and even then I use the language tag so it doesn't leak into other people's feed (if they are not interested in seeing stuff in that language)... I don't know, it just seems kinda rude to not use language tags since they are available (but perhaps they aren't available to everyone in the Threadiverse?)

I'm used to 1366x768 screens, and when I first started making my personal website it was based on that resolution… it wasn't until one day I checked it on a 1920x1080 screen that I noticed how weird the design got because of vertically centered elements and so… I made some @media (min-width: 1601px) hacks to scale some stuff so the site would look more or less the same on bigger resolutions, but it was a sloppy solution…

I made another site later, and I was worried about scaling, so I started using 1920x1080 resolution at 150% zoom (I have bad eyesight and struggle to read on 1920x1080, so I'm actually at 1280x720 now, but at least it's the same aspect ratio). For the site to scale, I started using viewport values for everything, including font sizes… but if the aspect ratio changes wildly, the site looks crappy :P

So right now I was banging my head around how to have a visually pleasing website for someone with bad eyesight like me, but still have it scale correctly on any resolution for mainstream usage (as I scale down for myself, lots of sites I visit get crumpled visual elements when they are using absolute positions, z-index, and so), and I decided to letterbox my site content and force the aspect ratio on any resolution so the site will always look the same, no matter the screen. I'm using JS to scale font-size according to the letterbox width, and all other elements will use % values… I don't know, but so far it's sounding like I just made the site future-proof as well (for new resolution changes). The site is scaling with window size, it sucks that you can't zoom it with the browser (so it might be bad for people with even worse eyesight, but I do plan to put a +- button for font-size though, what's comfortable for me to read might not be for everyone), but the normal zoom works on mobile...

This is a test page I just made (ratio at 16:8 to compensate a bit for taskbar and browser stuff): https://pirahxcx.neocities.org/aspectratiottest

What do you all think of the idea? Perhaps there was an easier solution, though?

I’m used to 1366x768 screens, and when I first started making my personal website it was based on that resolution… it wasn’t until one day I checked it on a 1920x1080 screen that I noticed how weird the design got because of vertically centered elements and so… I made some @media (min-width: 1601px) hacks to scale some stuff so the site would look more or less the same on bigger resolutions, but it was a sloppy solution…

I made another site later, and I was worried about scaling, so I started using 1920x1080 resolution at 150% zoom (I have bad eyesight and struggle to read on 1920x1080, so I’m actually at 1280x720 now, but at least it’s the same aspect ratio). For the site to scale, I started using viewport values for everything, including font sizes… but if the aspect ratio changes wildly, the site looks crappy :P

So right now I was banging my head around how to have a visually pleasing website for someone with bad eyesight like me, but still have it scale correctly on any resolution for mainstream usage (as I scale down for myself, lots of sites I visit get crumpled visual elements when they are using absolute positions, z-index, and so), and I decided to letterbox my site content and force the aspect ratio on any resolution so the site will always look the same, no matter the screen. I’m using JS to scale font-size according to the letterbox width, and all other elements will use % values… I don’t know, but so far it’s sounding like I just made the site future-proof as well (for new resolution changes). The site is scaling with window size, it sucks that you can’t zoom it with the browser (so it might be bad for people with even worse eyesight, but I do plan to put a ± button for font-size though, what’s comfortable for me to read might not be for everyone), but the normal zoom works on mobile…

This is a test page I just made (ratio at 16:8 to compensate a bit for taskbar and browser stuff): https://pirahxcx.neocities.org/aspectratiottest

What do you all think of the idea? Perhaps there was an easier solution, though?

I'm used to 1366x768 screens, and when I first started making my personal website it was based on that resolution… it wasn't until one day I checked it on a 1920x1080 screen that I noticed how weird the design got because of vertically centered elements and so… I made some @media (min-width: 1601px) hacks to scale some stuff so the site would look more or less the same on bigger resolutions, but it was a sloppy solution…

I made another site later, and I was worried about scaling, so I started using 1920x1080 resolution at 150% zoom (I have bad eyesight and struggle to read on 1920x1080, so I'm actually at 1280x720 now, but at least it's the same aspect ratio). For the site to scale, I started using viewport values for everything, including font sizes… but if the aspect ratio changes wildly, the site looks crappy :P

So right now I was banging my head around how to have a visually pleasing website for someone with bad eyesight like me, but still have it scale correctly on any resolution for mainstream usage (as I scale down for myself, lots of sites I visit get crumpled visual elements when they are using absolute positions, z-index, and so), and I decided to letterbox my site content and force the aspect ratio on any resolution so the site will always look the same, no matter the screen. I'm using JS to scale font-size according to the letterbox width, and all other elements will use % values… I don't know, but so far it's sounding like I just made the site future-proof as well (for new resolution changes). The site is scaling with window size, it sucks that you can't zoom it with the browser (so it might be bad for people with even worse eyesight, but I do plan to put a +- button for font-size though, what's comfortable for me to read might not be for everyone), but the normal zoom works on mobile...

This is a test page I just made (ratio at 16:8 to compensate a bit for taskbar and browser stuff): https://pirahxcx.neocities.org/aspectratiottest

What do you all think of the idea? Perhaps there was an easier solution, though?

I know lots of you have grown with it so that's just the way it has always been for you and you are used to it, but older gamers, why do you need a launcher?

I've started PC gaming in the mid to late 90s but only when visiting cousins and friends. Got my first PC in 2001. I have some original games but I'm like 99% pirate, especially for "newer stuff" (read: anything that came out in the last 20 years lol). Modus was always the same: run the installer, click the shortcut, play.

I created a Steam account sometime in the late 2010s, I remember I did because I saw they were giving Metro games for free and I wanted to play them, and I started collecting free games that looked cool, but it really really bothered me that I needed to open their store to install and play the games. Even if I made desktop shortcuts their program would run in the background, and usually complain if I was offline... I just found everything so useless... run software to run the software I want to run, why not skip the middleman? Also I have always been on shitty hardware and I didn't like that extra RAM consumption going on in the background.

Eventually I stopped using Steam, deleted my account, and went back to piracy, but with the loss of some trusted trackers and stuff, and me starting running banking and other important shit on the same PC, I decided to start buying games, and then I found GOG, and what a godsend store! When I buy the game I get the installer so I can do whatever I want with it, and I don't need any third party application to install or run them.

I see a lot of people saying they don't buy games from other stores because their launchers are shit... but what do you even need a launcher for? Not having a launcher is my requirement to buy a game lol

Once I went to a children's birthday party and the place had this Arcade machine running emulators, I thought it was awesome. Then I went online and found HyperSpin and started building my own game wheels and stuff. I just wanted the controller and to plug the PC on a big TV and play, but all controllers I found to buy at the time had at best 10 buttons per player and it wasn't nearly enough to properly emulate a lot of games - not to mention only one Joystick wouldn't be enough to play a lot of games from Gen 6 and above (stuff that requires dual analog I'd rather play with a mouse on the computer than with a controller anyway), so I built that monstrosity.

I used to have a full mapping of how each emulator was configured there, but the PC I used to play died years ago and this controller has been sitting atop of my wardrobe since then. But the middle buttons are universal save and load and the top one is exit.

At the time (2013) I had made a blog showing how I built it hacking cheap USB PS2-like controller knock offs https://hsarcade.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html (but the page is in Portuguese - and I had zero electronic knowledge at the time :P), anyway, I just wanted to share the controller I built.

ps: Image is H.R. Giger.

Imagina gastar todos esses recursos pra fazer investigação e tudo mais pra pegar 4800 na gatonet? Aqui por essa merreca não compensa nem dar partida no carro pra ir atrás, no bairro mesmo tu já acha esse tanto.