I tried watching Welcome to the NHK when it came out because somebody suggested it, and then stopped a few episodes in when I realized it was yet another romantic comedy anime, and I’ve had my fill of those.
From what I remember of the show it stuck out to me because it looked sympathetically at mental illness/suicidal ideation/codependent relationships and had a whole episode about the discomfort of one of those acquaintances from high school trying to get you into an MLM. But yeah, I don’t know how it would stand up on its own today and might have just enjoyed it because I was at a low point in life myself.
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That’s why I gave it a chance, but wrapped in that romantic comedy anime shell, I just couldn’t stand it, so I stopped.
Ah blessed. Well that’s my recc anyway
I thought nocturne was worth going through on sombody’s new game plus save for the mood and atmosphere alone. even though the encounter rate in the last dungeon ended up just making me quit and look up the endings on youtube. but the intro scene on top the hospital roof also gave me a weird deju vu feeling like I must of rented the game back in the day and seen that part before or something, so that helped compel me to play it too.
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you should play it. the ps3 port is absolutely fine, though it also emulates well if that’s more convenient for you. i literally just finished a 2000+ word essay about it that will be going up soon so i’ll save you the monologue, but it’s my single favorite game and i’m pathologically obsessed with everything about it. i don’t think any of your fears bear out. short answer: it is extremely, stupidly beautiful, its mechanical design and world structure fractals in complexity from very simple and elegant fundamentals, and it is thematically rich and cohesive despite its deceptively laconic text. it’s also long and sometimes slightly opaque, so it’s fine use a guide or to stop if you aren’t feeling it, but you should absolutely give it a shot. for reference i loathe persona 4.
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where’s it going up?
fanbyte - it’s up now! i posted it in the end of MegaTen as we know it too
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Nocturne is the best RPG, as long as you don’t mind constant random battles
Have there been any good easy joycon drift repair methods yet? Nintendo would probably not repair my imported blue hori joycon
Even the Hori ones drift?
My advice is to abandon your joyous controllers. Get that split pad pro or play in table top mode with your compatible controller of choice. (Don’t get the Controller for N-Switch that I posted about in another thread…it developed thumbstick drift after a few months lol)
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I need to build a professional website for myself soon. It would include a summary, contact info, and some writing samples. I’ve used Wordpress before, but are there any compelling reasons to consider different website software?
there are a lot of cool static site generators out there nowadays which are generally preferable to wp: https://github.com/Dalgona/Serum
but the effort you’d put in to one of those frameworks may not be competitive with just using squarespace. it’s just that the LAMP option everyone sort of knows is the worst of both worlds
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They probably don’t drift if you never use the joystick ! But I was too lazy to constantly change joycons when switching from 2d to 3d games
I really dislike like the look of the split pad pro and only play handheld unfortunately. I’d rather repair them
I know the pro controller d-pad is crap but I can live with its stiff badness since I love everything else about it and it sits better in my hands than anything I can remember, although it’s not really justifiable with the SN30 being ~$30 cheaper.
you can host static webpages on Github Pages for free.
But also really, if you don’t want a project, just use Squarespace.
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If you have entry-level HTML/CSS knowledge then it’s pretty easy to take an HTML5Up template, customize it with your own content, and throw it into GitHub Pages for free hosting. Biggest limitation with GitHub pages is that it only allows static pages, so you won’t be able to do any scripting stuff, but for a professional site you really might not need to. This setup has served me well for my professional site. I use the Strata theme, but there are a lot of good options there.
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Thank you @felix, @Victor, and @OneSecondBefore for the website recommendations. I’ll look into those options.
@Tuxedo, you could try sourcing a replacement joy-con stick and swap it into your Hori model. I’ve never gone that far, but I’ve had some success blowing compressed air and swabbing isopropyl under the rubber skirt at the base of the thumbsticks. But those are only temporary fixes. At best they bought me a few weeks without drift; on average they bought me a few days without drift; at worst they bought me half an hour.
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so i’ve just moved house, and now my ps4 can barely connect to the internet?
the internet here is way faster/more reliable than in my previous house, and the ps4 is much closer to the router (and an extender), but the ps4 can barely recognise a connection. i’ve tried some different DNS settings, but still no luck. some downloads are running (slowly) in rest mode, but i am not able to log in to PSN at all.
anyone have any ideas? i know the wifi card on a ps4 is pretty bad, but it shouldn’t be this bad. could it have got damaged while moving?
I know PS4s can get pretty slow to load over their lifetime, especially with a full hard drive. When you say you can’t log in to PSN is it a connection error or does it just hang?
If you’re not having other issues with other devices it might be worth testing a physical connection to see if the PS4 can connect but is just being generally slow.
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it’s sometimes connecting to psn when i run the test, but downloading speeds are ~10kbps. in rest mode, it downloaded about 10gb in 2hrs.
when i tried to launch an online game, it just gets stuck on a loop of ‘connect to psn (attempt 4)’ etc.
i did just test connecting via my phone as a hotspot, and that seemed to work quite a bit better, so it may be some compatibility with the router?