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So I just dusted off my PS3 (with an air compressor).

Discs apparently work again, not sure if from the air or some other temporary thing (I've seen some say tilt and "let it warm up" like aging motors or something). Not seeing any issues now.

Controller's lights wouldn't even come on, but turns out it needed the original cable and connected to the PS3. Had to fix the L1 button but the triggers fell out (design sucks) making the triggers too sensitive and then I fixed those too. Seems to hold at least some charge and it obviously wasn't puffed.

Popped my R:FOM disc in, works great. Got the auger (to the level that starts in a tunnel, turrets+trenches).

Haven't gotten to FW stuff yet, seems straightforward and I have the compat. info I need.

Looking through the menus jogged my memory. The game I mentioned was a PSP mini (playable on PS3) and is called Deflector (gameplay at 1min+). Not really that interesting TBH, but seeing quite a few minis based on Flash games so it makes me wonder if you could convert Flash games somehow and how well it'd work for making new homebrew games especially if it can use other things besides Flash (though it does use PSP emulation so performance might not be the best). I also see a package for LUA, but it's old so not sure if it'd still work.

(Updated comment, original below)

I was just wanting to re-play one of my old games (Resistance: FoM), but that only brought up PS3 gloom because I can't easily run them.

I mean free games are nice, pretty much all I play now aside from things I bought on sale many years ago.

You got it. (mirror link)

I'm not sure if you guessed it or not because I've posted about it a few times in different contexts (thus why I try not to name drop now). I mean much of it is on me as well, change a few things about me and I might've done more with it.

For me, xfwm is the defining feature. I have my own custom super-minimal window theme (old screenshot showing mpv looking like PiP, I made a newer version with the idea of rolling up windows such as when playing music). Also the tweaks for hiding the titlebar when maximized.

Though I'm also on nvidia (1050Ti) so I don't really even think about Wayland.

It's discreet, almost like a geocache. I had heard rumors about it on the internet. Walking through the exurban ditches, I look for something that doesn't belong. In the distance I spot it: a utility box far from anything that would give it purpose. There's a small button on the side, just as others had said. You wouldn't press it accidentally though, as it takes quite a bit of force to activ-

ₐₐₕ!
I run into the woods, listening for the source of the sound.
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I see a lone metal building.
ᴬᴬᴴᵎ
I've got to unlock the door before the song ends.
AAH!
The sound is coming from there, no doubt.
I believe them bones are me.
A strange multi-card-reader is at the side of the door. I insert a decades-old school ID, an old college ID, and a new library card (I heard anything with readable and matching information works). Nothing happens, but it doesn't take long to find another button on the top of the door frame.

As if to confirm it happens in quick succession: the music quiets down, the reader makes my cards disappear, and the door unlocks loudly.
Some say we're born into the grave.
I lock the door behind me.
In the room, I see the pod and a ...vending machine. That's part of the process I think. I put a 20-dollar bill in the machine and order to my heart's content (including something that I thought might be a trigger item) and listen to the song as I eat and look over some platitude-filled brochures.

The song ends and I see the pod light up.

I see it as a new modest proposal.
There are actual solutions that others have done, but given the long opposition there will be no improvements will there?

Though the real issue here is opposing euthanasia while also opposing changes or programs that would improve life (aside from housing, healthcare is another). I mean either way maybe create a society where less people would willingly choose death, particularly if the biggest reason they aren't doing it now is pain/uncertainty in the method or the mess/trauma/responsibility they'll leave behind for others (rather than you know, if they want to continue living or not).

Given only one player, it's basically just informal yoga.

I might have a personality disorder, but yeah seeing most code/languages (stuff more substantial than the image here) makes me think there's something really wrong with them or me (or both) because I don't see how you get into that. Though I know in many cases it probably could've been written differently.

I like 1 language, but it uses whitespace. I mean that's not the defining factor, but there aren't really different styles like this (though there is spaces for indentation depth, and I usually went with 1 space instead of the standard 2 so there is that).

=it's somewhat niche and I never really started with it because... userspace reasons I guess is the best way to put it

EDIT: The fact that I don't dream in 1st-person is probably the most relevant bit here. For others I guess I'd say try looking into a mirror to make sure you're you, at least if you can remember who you are and that other people are not you (therefore if you're them it cannot be reality).

Though lacking experience, I don't know if mirrors in dreams have common effects though if they just didn't work in dreams sounds like something I may have heard before.

Probably unhelpful, but I do not dream with enough clarity for that to be an issue. The more vivid ones I've had seem to be shorter (I've had a dream once that was basically just a still picture with moving colors), everything else is usually just weird and at-best might be mistaken for a cheesy movie. I also cannot recall any from my own (or any) 1st-person perspective, even if the dreams might have details or themes from my own life.

Lack-of-detail/vividness may be related to me having aphantasia, but it also might be an issue with REM sleep due to health issues particularly if I don't remember having a dream even long before I've woken up.

I'm in semi-rural USA (no car, local trail closed), shut-in, health issues, etc. And it should be obvious I am speaking from my perspective, as not everybody is eating frozen burritos (I assume).

Also some of the despair is lacking viable options to move elsewhere. Both on a local level due to lack of money and on a larger level lacking skills/transportation (or money again) etc.

Sure this is not universal, but I feel pretty locked in where I'm at aside from the next step down of being homeless.

Born too late to hear anything more than echoes and escapist fantasy of mutual aid.
Born too early to have any chance of the resulting problems being fixed, or even the chance to be a technology test subject (cryo and/or brain-in-a-jar... without involving a techbro) for some hope of escape.

Born just in time to eat frozen burritos and waste away alone in
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 ℤ𝕠𝕟𝕖

I wouldn't say bisexual makes sense categorically for anyone who dislikes half of the masculinity/femininity spectrum. I mean it is a bit different with femboys, but I also suspect attraction there is very superficial (esp. if the look uses silicone body stuff) and likely wouldn't work as much in-person especially on a relationship level.

There is the term gynephilia, though I also don't expect something like that to be casually mentioned/understood/accepted. In which case, no good answer I guess.

Nah that'd scare all the locals away and then some teenagers and their dog would come and get you arrested, possibly harming you (with a makeshift device and/or accidental high-speed tackle) in the process.

=Most likely involving multiple people trapped inside a giant water jug and being propelled by a minecart, so you'll probably break a rib or two when they smash you into a wall and then get a concussion when a shelf breaks over your head, leaving you with amnesia but still responsible for the fines (+medical bills) and prison sentence because of a silly scheme and mild fraud/insider-trading that you obviously have no recollection of.

Whittling seemed like something I could do indoors more easily without too much mess. We have a furnace and a giant woodpile so you'd think it'd be perfect, problem is when I try to carve something it's too seasoned to do much more than carve the bark off. Probably doesn't help that I'm using a gas station knife, but it's probably the wood itself being most of the issue.

I usually had luck with the rotary tool (probably because I usually don't need to get rid of too much material), but once I tried to use the angle grinder with a cheap toothy power-carving disk on a small-ish log and I could barely put a small bevel on it.

= Requested for carving even, not just something I picked out.

My comment was more about combining art+animation and probably programming+solo gamedev. An example of my desired aesthetic, I made THE EYE probably about a year ago but the key feature used is not in a stable release yet and for technical reasons might not perform the best if used like that to create entire scenes (plus as hinted, other stuff not where desired). Thinking about a similar lowpoly (vertex colors/mostly textureless) aesthetic in 3D but don't really want to learn/use Blender.

I've done mediocre pixel art in the past and 3 different attempts at drawing practice with years inbetween each attempt (a few pieces with digital shading, then a few rough digital sketches and drawing practice, then drawing practice on paper. =Lines, ovals, triangles, scribbles etc and maybe some doodles). I always run into some small toe stub, though I think with paper I just got bored with drawing ovals after the 4th time and didn't really see the point. Thought about trying mixed-media watercolors and never got the stuff, plus no real space or ideas again.

If I found the right raster aesthetic, drawing skills might make sense to do frame animations in Krita. But if I used something more vector-y the skills might not overlap as much particularly for more minimalist stuff (though it would with hand-drawn/shaded frame animation in something like Wick Editor).

Me
lacking with the:
idea, knowledge, practice,
workflow, plan, proper working tools,
purpose, resources, ability to stick to something long-term,
or energy and morale to even get started on anything of note (this list may be incomplete):

"the winds of change are gonna really knock something into line, I feel it. Yep, any week now.
Just gotta scan the horizons. Or is it more like a pot of water? Hmm... Maybe there's something I missed."

For an actual reply from me, I'm a NEET shut-in with untreated health issues in a semi-rural area so probably not much unless in the same state (USA, MI). My ideas for individual help would be if somebody could:

1. Tell me when the trail is going to open back up, or maybe they are the ones working on it (though either of those would likely just have me know slightly sooner)
2. Tell me if atlas orthogonal adjustment is a real+effective thing (particularly in context of sleep quality/energy, autonomic issues, POTS, known whiplash history etc) and if the chiropractors near me (+the trail) have the equipment for that procedure plus X-rays (paperwork info etc).
3. (If you live in an intentional community, again near the trail) tell me if I could be a good fit. Which is also a gamble when it comes to personality compatibility. And I don't have high hopes for it.

So you see it'd be like trying to get a bullseye blindfolded when you don't know where any dartboards are. Unlikely even if you had many darts.

On a non-local and less important note there is tech stuff that is specific, a high bar, and the sort of thing I already talk about here on the Fediverse already:

1. Like still no Nim-lang bindings ready for Godot 4.
   • Or alternatives that have similar feel+capability (from what I've seen, none do) but better support.
2. Anything relating to untextured polygonal art.
   • Godot 4 has a still-unmerged PR that allows for dynamic constructed art (animated eye example) but performance is likely an issue using it like that especially with MSAA
     • and Godot still has vertex colors done via a list (no painting/color tools like index/layers).
   • Raylib has polygons but there is no editor (I have an unfinished text format, because there are 2 formats for polygons).
   • If I went with 3D that may be easier but I'd need to learn Blender unless there is also a good simpler low-poly+vertex colors model program.
3. Free games that I don't find tedious.
   • It would be nice to have a Minetest game that doesn't copy certain things from MC
     • like hunger/stamina and cluttering cosmetic variants of blocks
     • would be nice to have things like pistons (but more powerful/viable in survival mode, chain-able w/o manual logic), but with a close-enough base game (and not too wiki-dependent) I might try to figure out how to make what I can.
     • Maybe something more like MC beta, though I guess maybe it's subjective plus difficult to add real compelling elements.
   • Not quite satisfied with S.Pixel Dungeon or other roguelikes.

Hopefully this makes sense and isn't too eclectic, answering something perhaps. Because I know these are probably too out-there.

I would say the point of my comment was more on despair than dread.

And anyone who downvoted probably didn't get that I was speaking from my own life, as addressed in another reply. Guess that's my fault for trying to make it not about me.

Though either way I can't actually see the downvotes. None of them are federated to Kbin and on the Lemmy side the score seems identical now and no vote tracking to show negatives (unless that's only if you have an account).

If it's unclear, I was stating my own problems. I don't see how a perfect internet stranger could help those issues, and even if they could I would probably just want them to help someone else instead.

The inconsequential bit was also speaking for myself. As in a situation of "I got this small thing that I wanted, but it didn't have as much of an effect as I expected it would and now I feel worse that I asked for it". I was also thinking in the mindset of not-something-everybody-needs but also not-something-that-could've-been-an-image-search-for-puppies.

That's the neat part, you can't. Unless you can fix healthcare, housing/transportation, money etc (even if you could, it wouldn't be the same as if those were never problems in the first place). That or the old escapist dream of "get me out of here" but I also don't ever see that happening for a lot of reasons. So again, no.

Even trying to broaden the definition of help... things are probably too personal, too difficult/specific, and maybe even inconsequential. Like the type of thing there just isn't an answer for.

monkeys with a 3rd robot arm

Not sure if it's the same, but I see a video of that and the monkey's arms are partially restricted and still moving (and another where it says reenactment at the start). Interesting, but it might just be a cloned signal rather than independent control.

Though I guess swapping between sets and some basic controls (hold, gimbal, return to rest pose etc) wouldn't be bad (especially the more naturally it can be controlled) it just seems like something different if it isn't independent control.

full-brain mesh of electrodes, could allow people to use multiple full bodies at once
or that multiple brains couldn’t be connected and made work in parallel (brain hemispheres already do that

I've had the exact opposite thought, multiple brains (in the sense of multiple people) residing in the same body. Usage shifts (to allow rest), partial control, or even simply observation/eyes-in-the-back-of-your-head/backup/advice/talking etc.

That definitely would allow at least 4 arms.

On a sidenote, in the Blender Open Movie CHARGE there's a cool robot design where it starts out with 1 big (no-hand) arm and 2 little arms on the other side and then it transforms that into 2 normal arms.