Deadly Nightshade is organic.

Compulsory customer service for a couple years might make retail customers less miserable to deal with overall.

Thank you for giving me 3 huge reasons not to switch, cause I’ve been a bit tempted lately.

In recent memory I’ve gotten to explain the concept of Darmok a few times to friends that are either on the fence about starting, or had just started watching TNG. That episode is so goddamn strong.

And the default of chili, mustard, and onions is pretty un-fuck-with-able. If I wind up going to get my hair cut tomorrow, I could go for a couple double dogs on my way out.

I didn’t ignore it, but I did have to put up with it for months:

Discord would just never recognize that my PC was being left idle, so I would never get notifications on my phone, which constantly left me gaslighting myself into thinking my friends were ignoring me, or just didn’t have any reason to message me all day.

I contacted Discord support at least once over it, and they couldn’t do anything to help me figure it out, since I had all my settings set properly to have it switch over to mobile notifications after 1 minute of inactivity.

After a shit ton of googling, I found out that certain devices, namely third-party xbox controllers, could cause a PC to never actually go idle, and then I found a tool to help me check if my PC is idle, started unplugging things one-by-one, and found out that my 8bitdo Arcade controller was the thing keeping my PC from going idle.

The issue popped up with an etsy-bought Guitar Hero controller further down the line as well, but thankfully by then I knew how to troubleshoot the issue. Bonus points, my new fighting game controllers don’t have this problem.

Literally the only annoyance I had with it initially was that I preferred my taskbar at the top of the screen, and you can’t move it, at least not without janky registry hacks, on Windows 11.

I’ve since gotten over it, because for me and the vast majority of people, it’s functionally identical in almost all cases.

The only other thing I can think of that’s still a rare annoyance is that sometimes, completely at random, Windows Explorer, if you’ve just left a window open in the background for a while, will just rip focus from whatever other thing you were doing.

Yes, they’re trying to shoehorn their copilot AI thing into the UX, but that was so easy to disable and forget that I refuse to call it a real problem, myself.

Killer Instinct-generated.

What was the single thing I did that had the last direct impact on myself, that had the greatest lasting impact on anyone else?

Things like spending the extra time one day making a cup of coffee made it so this specific person was stuck behind my slow-ass speed limit driving, averting what would’ve been a multi-car pileup or some shit like that.

If they want a third option, I usually recommend Brother, and even more I tend to recommend used/refurbished. We just don’t carry those in my store.

God, the amount of times I’ve had to explain the EcoTank vs HP math to customers in my store, and then STILL have them pick an HP is fucking baffling.

If the average user has to interact with a command line interface, EVER, as anything but a truly desperate last resort, with someone holding their hand the whole way through, they’re probably gonna give up and never wanna look back.

A lot of people barely know how to copy and paste, or don’t even know what the phrase “right click” means.

When I did some work from home training a year ago, I looked like a goddamn wizard for knowing how to manage browser tabs and put folders on my bookmarks bar.

TLDR: It needs to just work for people that don’t know jack shit about using a computer, which in a lot of cases it just doesn’t.

Me when I had to go to 3 gas stations last night to find one with a functional air pump for my tires, and the one that was working was not automated, and it even cost me 2 dollars for the privilege of reading that stupid analogue gauge in the dark.

The broken free ones were automated.

Also for the love of god, don’t be sticking anything in places it could get lost without a flared base to keep at least part of it outside.

There are a few.

1, my Mavercade KeebBrawler-01, which has been pretty comfy for Street Fighter 6, which itself I can’t count as my own best purchase since it was gifted to me.

2, Monolith M1070C headphones. They’re the first pair of closed-back headphones I’ve ever had that I don’t hate wearing for extended periods.

3, Final Fantasy 14. My girlfriend’s been playing since its initial release, and some of my other friends collectively convinced me to join. In the last couple weeks I’ve already put somewhere in the range of 50 hours into it and it’s been a good way to bond with everyone.

2MP > 4HP feels like you have to wait a weirdly specific amount of time before you can actually hit the cancel. Just practice that two button sequence in training mode facing both ways for like 20 minutes. Then as a bonus practice cancelling 4HP into level 1 and level 2 as combo enders.

Hit grab into level 3, you input the spin and during the spin you input the entire level 3 super, timed so you’re hitting punch as soon as the hit grab lands.

214MK into level 2 requires a pretty high bounce like you can see in the Silver section of the guide, as you have to wait again a weirdly long time before you can get the super to come out. I drop that shit all the time.

Punish divekicks by blocking and throwing her. Punish badly spaced spiral arrow with heavy command grab. If they like to do her heavy target combo into divekick, you can just jab into 236LP to get a free medal on reaction to her leaving the ground. And if they try to do the fake infinite blockstring (where they do spin knuckle into jab a billion times) on your burnout, just hit her right after her jab, or do a super in the gaps if you have meter. Hooligan can be jabbed on reaction, especially if they like going for it from full screen. Wake-up perfect parry also works pretty often against Cammy players that just wanna do meaty pressure every time.

Most of the time against Cammy, even if you’re getting mixed, there’s no need to panic. Compared to a lot of the cast she does low damage off most hits, so comparatively you’ll have to guess wrong more times to actually die from their stuff.

If you can do the motions for her supers and her command grab with any kind of competence, just play Classic. She loses some really important stuff in Modern with almost zero benefit, because none of the things you’ll be relying on Modern for are gonna be things you use as reactions.

Of note, from a list of her missing tools:

• Stand MK is a great tool for whiff punishing from further out than Stand MP, AND it hits with a low hitbox so it’s insanely useful against Marisa and Zangief, since those two only have armor on their torsos when they’re doing their charged attacks.
• Crouch MP leads to the same combos as Stand MP/MK, has even crazier range, and is still pretty safe to whiff in neutral.
• Her big wheel kick thing (QCF K) is both an incredibly useful combo ender for oki on the heavy version, while the medium version actually does the most damage, AND it functions nicely as an anti-air, AND you can cancel the first hit of the heavy version into level 3 super from disgustingly far away.
• A lot of better players than me really like to use Stand HK as a long-reaching poke.
• You just do not have the overhead without spending meter for it. ONLY being able to go low, with the move that makes you absolutely explode on block makes it just a “KILL ME NOW” button. The medium version also being gone means you can’t counter Juri fireballs on reaction, so you’ll just have to hold that shit. The medium version is also great corner carry as a combo ender.
• I don’t know which version of command grab it lets you have, but if it’s not the light one, you are severely crippled in terms of where you can threaten your core gameplan. Having to spend meter for OD just to get some extended range is again unnecessarily limiting, because all 3 versions are fast enough that no human can react to them once they’re coming out. They all do the same damage, just with different startup speeds and travel distances.

All this on top of the fact that if you aren’t using the motions at all, your giant scary command grab damage is significantly nerfed. I highly recommend you do not play her with Modern controls if you can get your hands to do any of her stuff in Classic.

It’s currently free on YouTube (or at least it is for premium users).

I wonder if they’ll ever flat out destroy the Millennium Tower

Why is it the Yakuza font