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What are your favorite racing games? in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I don't typically go for racing games, but I have fond memories of playing Extreme-G on the N64. It had wepons, high speeds, and a soundtrack that tricked a young me into thinking I might like techno music.

Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

I didn't migrate yet because I was five years into a project that I can only work on in my spare time, but you can bet that if I ever start another game, I'm looking at a different engine.

Litter box in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

My cat used to wait for me to clean the litter box. Sometimes she'd look in it and walk away if it had too many clumps, but then use it immediately after I clean it.

My debugging experience today: Quantum Debugging in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I had one years ago with internet explorer that ended up being because "console.log" was not defined in that browser unless you had the console window open. That was fun to troublshoot.

Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I got myself mildly addicted to Mindustry. Wiping out enemy bases can be pretty satisfying.

Average GitHub PR in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Also me at work.

Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago

I think this is the only thread where I actually haven't seen any of the games before.

Another game I enjoyed was The Eternal Castle (remastered). It's a remake of a game from 1987. The animation is great and the visual style is really cool.

Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago

I always like to give a mention to Your Spider. There are very few reviews (one of which are mine), but the game definitely deserves more attention.

Up up and away we go in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I open the text file where my powershell history is stored when the command I want isn't recent enough.

"Spiders" by me in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We had a spider once that, after someone walked through the web one day, started taking its web down every morning and rebuilding it in the evening.

Edit: I think it was one of these:

What should I know about using a wheelchair for the first time? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

On the internet, people also tell harmless jokes, which is what that comment was.

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Wayfair's call center insists you give them your SSN before they'll file a report for credit fraud (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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I just got a bill for a Wayfair credit card that was issued by Citi bank that I did not apply for. I never even shopped on that website.

I tried contacting both Citi bank and Wayfair, but since I don't have the full account number, I couldn't get past Citi's automated phone menu.

Wayfair's phone system was a fucking nightmare getting transferred to various departments, but eventually transferred me to a foreign call center where they insisted that they needed my social security number and birth date to file a report, but I'm not giving them that.

The best thing is that the scammer managed to get a higher credit limit than I was able to get on my own card.

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I just blew way too much money on MIDI adapters (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

6 comments fedilink

Let me preface this one by saying that the blame for this is entirely on me and my carelessness when shopping online. I did not get scammed. I was just being stupid.

Several times.

So I recently bought a synthesizer to connect to my MIDI controller (an 88 key keyboard with some knobs and blinking lights and shit).

I saw that this new device has a 3.5mm MIDI port while I only had the classic 5-pin kind. No problem, I'll buy an adapter.

The adapter arrives, and I discover that the one I bought has the female 5-pin connector and won't plug into the keyboard. Well, crap.

Buy another adapter. Made sure the 5-pin side was male.

Oops. Turns out that the 3.5mm MIDI cables come in type A or type B, and I chose poorly.

So I search for "midi type a to b converter" and without thinking at all, I bought a converter that has two female connectors. Fuck me.

At this point, a sane person would've just cut the first two adapters and soldered the correct ends together, but fuck it, I'm in too deep now. I gotta get a 3.5mm MIDI cable with two male ends to complete this daisy-chain of madness and find out how long it takes for me to get bored and find another hobby.

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Google Play is beyond annoying (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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I have an app that I released a couple years ago (plus another legacy app that I maintain for one of my company's clients). My game has a long-ish title, but it was fine until some asshat at Google decides that 33 characters is too long. On top of that, every time I'm forced to update the target SDK, I need to spend several hours figuring out a bunch of new build errors. This is not how I wanted to spend my vacation time.