I think it’s an RTS, I haven’t had the chance to find out! :(

I’ve packed it all away again until I have time and energy to try fixing it

Well I was thinking it’s more like 5 years old so \_(*.*)_/

I was actually thinking about buying an Xbox One for Halo Wars 2. Surely it’s not 15 years old yet?? I still think of it as the new Xbox since I own a 360…

I’ve got a multimeter but no experience with PS1 PCBs. When I’ve got some more time to dedicate to it, I’ll have a more thorough look I hope

I’ll have you know that PS1 outputs to a TV aerial! Even new TVs have that connection still!

Nah, it’s not the same. There’s something more visceral and real about playing with the original hardware and controller, for me anyway

I prefer the real thing to an emulator, for PlayStation at least. I did try an emulator years ago but it’s not as good.

Power supply fuse is good, but I didn’t disassemble far enough to see the motherboard. Hopefully it will be as easy as replacing that fuse! Thanks for the tip

I do have both of those things but I don’t feel I have the expertise. Maybe I’ll give it a go in a few days.

It makes a high-pitched whine when plugged in, I also wondered if that could be a capacitor making the noise. Or maybe the coil right near the incoming power supply, I could imagine that making such a notice as well

I’ll have to check about the backwards compatibility, I’m sure a newer device would be easier to buy. I did have a PS2 once but I must have sold it… Maybe it went towards a Wii?

I ran an emulator on my laptop a few years ago but it’s just not the same. Thanks for the suggestion though! I do play some Pokémon Blue, Crystal and Emerald on an emulator from time to time

Yep, we bought it second-hand probably more than 20 years ago. It had a good run

Cardboard game pieces being placed upside-down. When I’ve brought this up to other people, they’ve said they can’t even tell there’s a difference! You can both see and feel that one side has a rounded edge and one side has a flat edge. Usually the top has a slightly better print quality than the bottom as well. Sometimes I feel like people just float around without gathering any sensory data at all!

That sucks, I hope your medication helps you find some peace

It would be very cool if there was a warning sign before you got to this stage so you knew to eat. Same for drinking and chronic headaches

I don’t see any issues as long as you carted away all of the material that you excavated. You could even build up the land to make it taller and harder to flood.

But unless you did it without burning any fossil fuels, then the additional greenhouse gases would cause more ice to melt. And you’d run the risk of fucking up ocean currents and weather systems which, again, could worsen global heating…

On second thoughts, maybe hold off on that plan for now

Thanks a lot for the in-depth answer :)

I really don’t get the hate for the Library. It’s one of my favourite levels in CE. The Flood are a creepy and scary new enemy (on the first play-through at least…) who back you into a corner and attack relentlessly. You’re left fighting for your life with no way to retreat or charge past. It’s one of the rare times in the whole series where you’re forced to play defensively.

It’s also the level that introduces rocket launcher flood, wtf is up with them? So unfair that the enemies get such a good weapon!

Perfect answer, thank you. I was specifically asking about names from a shared language.

I like to remind myself of the quote about anti-Semites (which applies more broadly to fascists in general, and more broadly still to some on the political right): they don’t believe what they are saying because words and truth aren’t important them. As long as the right people are being protected and the wrong people are being hurt, that’s all that’s important.

Never believe that anti‐Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

From Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (emphasis mine) https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/anti-semite-and-jew.pdf

Don’t leave us in suspense, did you feed the fish or not?