Bartsbigbugbag

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[–] Bartsbigbugbag 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, here’s an updated link from what I knew even.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/10/6/illegal-overfishing-and-the-return-of-somalias-pirates

Hope you find it as interesting as I did just now, cheers!

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Somalian Pirates were actually often protecting their territorial waters from foreign opportunists plundering in the collapse of the Somalian government. The framing as pirates only works in the sense that these weren’t state-driven fleets, but rather civilian driven in order to protect their livelihoods against corporate raiders.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 4 points 10 months ago

Agreed with everything you say, and I don’t have any solutions you haven’t said. I would like to add, buy your nephews, cousins, kids, students, etc physical games. Buy them the games they want, too, not just the ones that you think they should have. Get them used to going to the store to look at games and game boxes. Take them to the retro game store and let them pick something out. Encourage gaming to be more than passive consumption, and try to instill more positive associations with ownership. Avoid lecturing, or trying to create negative associations with digital or subscription products, and just help them share in your passion, it’ll take you a long way.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It might help if the US stops staging war games based on assassinating their leadership and invading the country. Like, maybe they could stick to defensive war games based on protecting SK, at least.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The spin off games are fun and popular with the kids around my 8 year old brother, which is who they’re intended for.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

China is a communist country, they purposefully repressed religion for quite some time, though that has eased up a lot these days. If that was why, it would have happened decades ago when people stopped being religious.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 8 points 11 months ago

You might look into repairing the joystick you have. I recently had a similar issue with my 360 controller after it sitting in storage for many years and a good contact cleaning got it working again.

If that doesn’t work, depending on your level of confidence, you could measure the pin pitch and note termination style and see if you can find a replacement joystick module to solder in somewhere. Maybe it used the same footprint as another controller, and you can drop it in and have it work.

Either way, good luck. I hope you succeed!

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except they don’t support USB OR Bluetooth audio.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag -1 points 11 months ago

The people of Gaza have been pretty clear in their support for Hamas actions on and after October 7th.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 3 points 11 months ago

In through the nose, out through the mouth. Expand your diaphragm on exhales, meaning your belly should extend, and compress it on inhales, meaning your belly should contract. Deep, long breaths, with each one, return your focus to your form. When you drift, and find your breathing is automatic again, and your mind has wandered, acknowledge the thought, and return your awareness to your breathing. In through then nose, belly contracting and chest expanding, hold, out through the mouth, belly expanding and chest contracting.

All that to say, manual breathing is something I think everyone should practice regularly.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag 3 points 11 months ago

The videos on the ps store are really high quality, I would definitely call them gorgeous. I have no interest in this game, but I’ll probably pick it up on sale to let my little brothers play in a year or two.

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