Grangle1

So it's the Book 4 installment of the TT+ ascended character saga. No surprise there.

I didn't see/listen past the 7th. Do you think Ober could've gone the whole game? I understand Rocco pulling him anyway given we only scored one run and not wanting to take the risk, but if we had scored more, could he have gotten the CGSO?

I'm a Catholic who takes my faith seriously when it comes to political/social issues, which is why I don't particularly care for either party here in the US, they both get it right and wrong on some things. The primary thing I agree with the GOP on, which is why the Supreme Court justice issue was important to me, is that I'm strongly pro-life/anti-abortion. I don't much care for the political pro-life movement, because they've grafted themselves so hard to the GOP platform they've lost their way on many other things, but I do still care about the issue itself. On "culture war" stuff I'm more on the GOP side, not out of actual hate for certain groups, but because I do think in their push for acceptance they're starting to push too far. Parents and families should be the primary teachers of children when it comes to those types of things, and should have the final say in what's best for their child on them. For adults, I'm not personally in support of such stuff, but I'm more hands-off legally, as long as religious institutions aren't forced to celebrate or acknowledge things they don't believe in. What consenting adults do is none of my legal business, and religiously it's between them and God, even if I and the Church think that what they're doing is wrong. God will have the final say one way or the other. Basically, I'm more on the GOP side in "religious freedom" issues. Doesn't mean I have any disrespect or hard feelings for LGBTQ-so on people, but the buck stops at forcing certain views of those issues on children without parental consent.

Other social issues, i.e. racial issues, I'm more of a straight-up centrist on. Equal is equal, no special treatment for anyone, positive or negative, regardless of race, gender, or any other demographic title people don't have control over. That's how it should be, IMO.

I do lean more liberal on things like immigration, environmental issues/climate change, labor/employment/wage issues (or I may be more "centrist" on that really), healthcare and education funding (i.e., universal healthcare/education), and slightly left on the economy in general, economically more of a Democrat-leaning capitalist than a socialist/social democrat.

Login problem is fixed for me, yay! Back on Jerboa and here on the browser! Thanks for your hard work and for putting up with me, lol.

I'm getting network errors that aren't allowing me to actually view content on Jerboa right now, though, but at this point I'm assuming it's a Jerboa thing and not a problem with the instance.

Was just able to login at least on browser using password reset. Can confirm.

True, the Joy-Cons do have the notorious drift issue, but that's not really a form factor issue. Improvements in form factor can help fix the issue, most importantly an increase in size to fit all the components in comfortably, but the source of the issue wasn't the form factor of the Joy-Cons.

Though yeah, I would look at primarily making the Joy-Cons, or at least the grip they come with, bigger to actually account for the hands of a person above the age of 8. We know, Nintendo, you mainly think of video games as children's toys, but you may want to look at gamer demographics, even on your own consoles, again. They don't need to make them too much bigger, but at least big enough to not cramp a person's fingers trying to use a single Joy-Con turned on its side.

It sucks to be a centrist like myself sometimes who holds very strong opinions about important issues from both left and right. Truly a "how exactly do I want my gov't to screw this country" situation because no matter which party gets elected they focus on the exact opposite of the issues I want them to focus on. One of the few things I appreciated Trump for, came through for me in ways that help others, but very much screwed me over personally here. I hope the sometimes-crazy activists for the GOP-led issue or two I do care about that the Court ruled in favor of are incredibly appreciative and maybe will take some of the massive donations they get to help poor college grads like me pay off the predatory loans they just pushed the Court to keep in place for the sake of their own pet issues.

I usually keep my shinies regardless of what they are. I even have multiple shiny Oranguru I've gotten from the Dynamax Adventures. The only shiny I ever traded away was a shiny Beautifly I caught in Legends Arceus for a Spiritomb so I didn't have to spend days on end hunting down every single one of those spirit things to unlock it in my own save file (I'd found most of them but the last couple in each area were being a real PITA).

No strong opinion on snaps one way or the other, I haven't used them too much.

With flatpak, my own opinions are mixed. On one hand, I do like the fact that they come with all their necessary dependencies, so you're not stuck in dependency hell with native package managers, especially if for some reason a package ends up in the native repos that doesn't have its dependencies, or at least the needed versions of them, also there. Using the distro I'm running now (KDE Neon), that's happening at least with package versions a bit too often for my liking, even with KDE's own apps. I also like, then, that with flatpak you can run more recent versions of apps than you could using the native packages.

The downsides I've run into, though, are firstly with permissions, it's trickier than usual to make sure flatpaks have all the permissions they need to run the way you want them to, especially if you're not sure exactly what permissions they need. This is made easier with Flatseal, but then I'm sitting there sometimes playing Whac-A-Mole with Flatseal settings trying to find the right combination. I'm also not a fan of some flatpaks still not correctly following the system theme, making them stand out and look awkward, and lastly, I will try to stick with native apps if I can because the space on my system is somewhat limited, and including all the dependencies with flatpaks makes them use up a lot more space than the native packages.

As a Minnesota sports fan in general, that's basically all of MN sports. We win most of the games that "matter" the least, then choke massively in the national spotlight so everyone outside MN thinks we're absolute garbage and always have been, where anyone who actually pays attention to us knows we're a good deal better than that and there's a reason we're in the spotlight in the first place. The Twins in MLB, for example, have a "historic" 18-game losing streak in the playoffs (mostly against the Yankees), but we do find a way into the playoffs more often than not. Not every MN team playoff year is some "lucky fluke", we're not always "frauds". We've been blue-balled in football, baseball and hockey for far too long.

The one exception is the Timberwolves, they just suck and always have, except for that one season in 2003.

Depends on how much of a departure the successor is from the original Switch. If it's a completely different machine, it needs a completely different name. One of the problems they had with the marketing of the Wii U: it was a totally different console from the Wii, but branding it with the Wii name didn't convey that well enough. The Game Boy line worked up to the GBA because each new iteration did basically the same things as the one before it, but with improved internal hardware. The DS changed things up enough that a new name was warranted. If the successor to the Switch is basically/mostly an internal hardware upgrade and they stick with the handheld/dock mechanic, keeping the Switch name makes sense from a branding and marketing standpoint: the Switch sold like hotcakes, this is a better Switch, capitalize on that. But if it's straight up its own thing, tell people that with its own unique name.