It looks like a cheap, fuzzy Halloween decoration in the most cheesy way possible, as if someone took the model of a regular boring black bat and recolored it in the "classic" Halloween color scheme to make it look "spooky". If I'd encounter such a creature in a videogame or movie, I'd laugh at the absurdity. It looks so fake.

Nope. They're real.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_bat

• https://www.conservationindia.org/gallery/painted-bat-kodagu-coorg-karnataka

• https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/painted-bat

Instead of big swarms, they usually live alone or in family units of three during part of the year—an adult male and a female and their one offspring. The bright and broken coloration of these bats may be a form of camouflage to protect them, as they have been reported to blend in with dried leaves and flowers when they roost. They're insectivores who hunt at night.

Nature, you're weird sometimes.

... and if you don't know I'm not going to explain it.

... not mine, but it perfectly sums up the current year.

(shamelessly stolen from an imgur dump)

(shamelessly stolen from an imgur dump)

I'm planning to buy 12 months of NOS soon, and in the past I usually bought the "family plan" and then sold the 7 additional slots to people on reddit. There does not seem to be a dedicated community for this kind of service (yet) on the Fediverse, so I'm using this community here instead.

I am online at least once a day, so I'll usually answer quickly.

The offer:

5€ for 12 months of the REGULAR Nintendo Online Subscription (does not contain the Expansion Pass / N64 emulator). The subscription will end in Dec 2024

You can check what is and is not included in that subscription on the official Nintendo site: https://www.nintendo.com/us/switch/online/

I can only accept paypal at the moment, so you would need a paypal account in addition to your Nintendo account. If you are contemplating to buy a subscription for something temporary, like a one-time trade in Pokémon Sword/Shield or to download one of the "exclusive" user icons while they're availiable, then keep in mind that Nintendo offers a free-of-charge 7 day trial for this service so you wouldn't have to buy anything ;)

How it works:

• You contact me if you're interested. Comments, PMs, anything is fine, but keep in mind that PMs currently don't work properly across different instances. I am on Lemmy.World and can recieve and send PMs from other Lemmy.World users without issues, but if you are, for example, subscribed to Lemmy.ml then I won't recieve messages sent from your instances even tho you won't get an error message that it didn't work.

• I'll tell you my paypal username, you send 5€

• You'll tell me the email adress associated with your Nintendo account, and I send an invite to the family group. Please do this via PM or in the "notes" section of the paypal transaction to keep your data private.

• You accept the invite. Congrats, you now have 12 months of NOS

Currently availiable: 7 slots

(the link again in case the clickable title doesn't work on all instances: https://sketchtoy.com)

Have you ever tried to explain something over the internet that doesn't translate well into words (like a specific route on a map, the layout of a building etc.) and you also can't find a good picture on the internet showing what exactly you mean? Then just use that site to doodle a sketch. It is free of charge, doesn't require a registration/verification/whatever or extra software, and the sketches seem to stay online forever.

I have an online roleplaying group that relies solely on chat / texts and this site has helped me numerous times to demonstrate the layout of a tavern, camp or dungeon, to show what in-game items look like and/or how big they are, and to add easy-to-understand visuals to in-game puzzles that would otherwise be hard to describe verbally.

(shamelessly stolen from an imgur dump)

Since it is an optional one ("just" guarding a Stray Bead) you can ignore him and still enjoy the entire story without missing out on anything, but the little completionist in me just HAS to beat him every time.

In the Switch version you can record and replay the clip, then solve the "puzzle" ingame as long as you don't let go of the brush button for the entire time (otherwise it's an automatic fail). The PSII version does not offer this workaround, and after a couple dozen tries I got so impatient that I grabbed an erasable marker and drew the lines between the dots on the TV screen. Still took me three more tries to actually beat him.

I don't doubt that there are some people who didn't have any problems with Blockhead at all, but I'm curious about possible other workarounds. So, how did you do it?

Especially for image searches. I am sick and tired of seeing that ""art"" in every single search, and the only real alternative is to exclusively browse trustworthy sites. I've tried to check for extensions myself but all I can find are extensions that use AI to do something, none that block it in any way.

Does anyone have a recommendation?