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The strawberry flavour masks the diet coke flavour, which ends up making this particular concoction drinkable.
 
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Saw them live in December and look forward to the next gig in May, very talented girls. I usually don't listen to Black Metal often, but they were good in spite of their young age:
 
My SN30pro has bluetooth as well as USB connections (keyboard simulation, joypad simulation) and at least a couple more connections I've forgotten, all controlled by holding down buttons I can never remember when powering it on. It's worked a number of ways to drive my Pandora, although you have to pick an emulator where you can configure the controls.

I have read a lot of reviews, but still I can't understand if you can click the analog joysticks. Can it substitute completely a PS2 controller ?
 
I have read a lot of reviews, but still I can't understand if you can click the analog joysticks. Can it substitute completely a PS2 controller ?
The sticks are clickable. I don't know what the PS2 controller does, but I can tell you the SN30pro has no analog buttons, it has force feedback, it does motion controll, it has no amibo functionality.

On the other hand, the lime flavour tastes like toilet cleaner.
You shouldn't know, what toilet cleaner tastes like.
 
I've pre-ordered a Valve Index Headset + Controllers the other day when the pre-orders went live. It's gonna replace my almost 3 year old Vive... which is still younger than my Pyra pre-pre-order.
About 2 months™ to wait for this. Guess that'll arrive first as well.
 
The sticks are clickable. I don't know what the PS2 controller does

In the PS2 controller, sticks are sensible to how far you are moving them.
If you move them half way, a game character could walk, but if you move them till the border, the game character will run.
 
In the PS2 controller, sticks are sensible to how far you are moving them.
If you move them half way, a game character could walk, but if you move them till the border, the game character will run.
Yeah, I know what an analog joystick is and wouldn't have thought of digital once. I meant, I have no checklist of the PS2 controller's functions to compare against. Since you wondered about complete substitution.
 
The PS2 claimed to have analogue sampling of face button pressures, but practically, I don't know of any game I've played that actually used that feature, and I mostly used a PS1 dualshock controller on my PS2 back in the day which wouldn't have been able to tell games the button pressure, and it never interefered with my gameplay to my knowledge. IIRC the shoulder buttons were never analogue.
 
Yeah, I know what an analog joystick is and wouldn't have thought of digital once. I meant, I have no checklist of the PS2 controller's functions to compare against. Since you wondered about complete substitution.

The PS2 claimed to have analogue sampling of face button pressures, but practically, I don't know of any game I've played that actually used that feature, and I mostly used a PS1 dualshock controller on my PS2 back in the day which wouldn't have been able to tell games the button pressure, and it never interefered with my gameplay to my knowledge. IIRC the shoulder buttons were never analogue.

ok, thanks, seems that the only difference are the frontal triggers (L2 R2) then, I also never found a game that checked the pressure on them...

I'll use it on a PC anyway.
 
"Evergrace" for example uses that to check how hard you want to hit an enemy. Not an A class title btw but it has its charme, i like the maps, the story and to wear bird nests, pots and pumpkins as helmet.
Also back buttons are preasure sensitive, even the dpad is, pretty high detection range too. More than 8 bits at least. The pandora for comparison has 6 bits on the nubs.
I don't know of any game I've played that actually used that feature, and I mostly used a PS1 dualshock controller on my PS2 back in the day
So how do you know you games have not used it when it was not available in the first place?
Evergrace comes to my mind because it even had a settings menu for calibrating the sensitivity, other games sure are more subtle, a tad different walking speed, a tad shorter jumps etc.
 
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Well, I didn't have trouble achieving what I could with any of the titles I played at all regularly. Any time I lost a game, I could fairly ascribe it to my own crappiness I felt. Plus, I guess the games could have complained at me if they weren't designed to run with a PS1 controller, assuming they can programmatically tell the difference.
 


received my 2 speakers I bought a short while ago (those guys were extremly fast at shipping, also a while ago they were cheaper too) and they are very neat for music so far, also they are very heavy - the case / legs is full metal

I wanted to use them as replacement for my old (crusty) Speaker on my gaming PC but so far I am battling with a small audio delay (really noticeable with lipsyncs in movies for example) ... not sure if its Bluetooth specific, my board chipset, their chipset or some flunky drivers (or the whole windows sound system)


also had my Capsule II projector for a week now and for my primary use as external laptop monitor during presentations it should work rather well
could not get screencast to work from Linux yet but a simple HDMI cable works a treat, as for the brightness - for presentation I can get a bright image the size of a PC monitor from it perhaps 27"-35" witch it does very well, beyond that it gets rather dim fast but if you want to watch movies at night 60" would be feasable I think, quite impressed how tiny this stuff gets actually
 
Last Sunday I went again to the flea market and I got something interesting: A 256kB XT mainboard in original package. The problem has been quickly found and bad chip has been replaced, so now I have a 4.77MHz mainboard in a good condition.

Two weeks ago: Two Compaq Aero notebooks, 33MHz 486. With hard disks, 4MB of RAM, batteries, complete. The problem was that one had trackball not working (fixed by seating the ribbon cable) and the other one had broken hinge (not my photos of the exact same problem: here).
The hinge was a problem. If it is broken for too long, it will destroy casing. There are no such hinges for sale, and it looks like that another one would break too as its arm is made of cheap Zinc-Aluminum alloy. I decided to make a new part using old metal plate from some PoS keyboard I took from recycling some time ago and desoldered for microswitches.
I do more complex metalworking at workshop in my workplace, where I have access to a better tools. So I asked my friend for the workshop key to repair the laptop. And of course do they still have a table drill here? Circular saw? Vice and hammer? Yes, that's great. I took a key, and additionally 2.5mm drill and quite large hammer and went to the workshop.
My friend shares a room with some researcher. His face when he finally understood that I really want to repair the laptop with such tools was... quite unusual, he recently heard that I repaired an expensive server there :).
OK, the idea was simple. First, removing the broken part, leaving only the hinge and shaft. To do this, it is needed to hold the broken part in vice, put a nail or screw in the hole and gently hit it until the hinge falls off.
Then, I cut an L-shaped piece of metal from the keyboard plate and machined it with file to dimensions. It had square holes for keys, so it was easier to cut using existing holes. The shorter part of "L" is a bit wider and longer, so it was possible to grab it into vice and just use the hammer to make a round profile, with internal diameter like the shaft protruding from the hinge.
The next step was to push the hinge's shaft into it by squeezing it in vice. Generally the harder it goes, the better.
Finally, drilled holes in a longer part of "L" and put it in case as it originally was. Although this is ready to be installed, there are two things I recommend:
1. Find a longer screw for the part closer to the keyboard (it breaks there). Because my re-make was thicker and because point 2.
2. Use a washer between this screw's head and the metal part.
There is literally no sign outside that the hinge is re-made.

Now I have 3 of these, fully working... and no floppy drive.
 
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