first world problems

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 Had to bite the bullet and buy new Joycons for my Switch today. The amount of drift I'm getting with my left Joycon is honestly criminal. Can't wait to actually enjoy playing the Switch again, though. Especially with New Horizons coming up.

[Petzbreeder]

I have both an Xploder Advance and an Xploder Advance SP.

I can't get Fire Red or Leaf Green codes to work on either of them.
https://uk.ign.com/faqs/2005/pokemon-firered-version-gameshark-sp-codes-568292

I find it incredibly odd that I can get codes for Ruby and Sapphire to work just fine.
https://uk.ign.com/faqs/2004/pokemon-battle-e-gameshark-sp-codes-list-541208

I know I shouldn't be sharing codes, but I seriously need help here!

[DaveTheTrainer]

I had an Xploder Advance back in the day and had similar issues. I believe this once again comes down to regional issues. Unlike R/S, there are two retail versions of FR/LG: 1.0 and 1.1. Most carts which shipped in the US held 1.0, but for the EU release they updated to 1.1. This changes code compatibility and typically anything advertised as for 'Gameshark' will only work on 1.0 carts. I had to dig around for a long time to find working codes, I suggest you try a deep dive into old google results.

[SirBlaziken]

Yikes it's been a while. Oh and my basement keeps flooding.

[Shaymin]

this quarantine is bumming me out. i haven't seen my bf in two weeks and my horrible neighbour across the road keeps blatantly breaking quarantine and i wanna rat them out

[Petzbreeder]

My echo dot can't play this song.

I considered the possibility that the song title was too long, so I tried to ask it in a couple of different ways:
Alexa, play Makin' My Way Any Way That I Can by Billie Piper.
Alexa, play Makin' My Way by Billie Piper.

Neither one worked.

It can't be because the song comes from a Pokemon soundtrack, because I've asked it to play a few others from the same soundtrack before.

I've even tried to get it to play it by using the lyrics. It still doesn't play it.

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 I finished painting up this mini with a bad sculpt today. The last miniature I worked on was this really nice, clean, vampire sculpt that stank of 80s horror and painting it was honestly a breath of fresh air. This miniature just feels sorta off. The dog it came with was a really nice sculpt too.

It still feels satisfying to finish up a mini though.

[yk]

I had ordered a gpu without checking if it was RTX compatible and now I have to send it back since it's been shipped already.

I just want to play Minecraft with cool lighting  >.<

[Petzbreeder]

My pc won't start up. I can't even get the bios to appear.
I had problems starting it up yesterday too. It wasn't as bad yesterday, as I got it going eventually.  This only started happening after I installed The Sims 3. My dad thinks that it's just a coincidence though.

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 Sat here wanting do start a YouTube channel for yonks and I'm at the point where all I really need is a microphone, an external hard drive, and mainly a theme for my channel. It's difficult, man.

[Petzbreeder]

all I really need is a microphone, an external hard drive, and mainly a theme for my channel

Microphones and external hard drives aren't all that expensive. I happen to have both myself.
Speaking of Youtube channels, I've been waiting ages to get started with mine, as my family have been moving our stuff to our new house recently.

[Pam-the-Lamb]

Microphones and external hard drives aren't all that expensive. I happen to have both myself.

Yee, I was just going to get them at the end so that I'd have more time to research everything and figure out what I wanted to do with the channel.



Completed The Last of Us 2 today and although the gameplay was fun, there's a lot of poor writing. It's like "Remember that guard you killed a few hours ago? SHE WAS A PERSON" and, like... you kill them in a cutscene in self-defence? I also saw something on Reddit about there being references to the Israeli/Palestine conflict in the game too?

I dunno. The gameplay is great, the writing is poor, the story is messy, and it just feels like they relied too heavily on trying to make me feel bad for things that either happened in cutscenes or for things that I don't feel bad about.

[Petzbreeder]

My mum hates it when I label myself anything.

Me: Mum, I'm an alto. (My actual vocal range, as far as I can tell.)
Mum: You're not an alto.
Me: Ok then. I'm a contralto.
Mum: You're not a contralto.
Me: Fine. I'm a mezzo-soprano.
Mum: You're not a mezzo-soprano.
Me: The only other vocal range I can possibly have is soprano.
Mum: Your not a soprano.
Me: What am I then?
Mum: You're my daughter.

What kind of a response is that? My mum has recently made me feel like I'm nothing more to her than just a person she gave birth to.

I've recently seen evidence and have come to the conclusion that I may have autism or aspergers. When I told her and showed her the evidence, she didn't take kindly to that either.

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 So I'm back in work and I already dislike it, ngl. Everything's different now but instead of just feeling different, it feels uncanny. Like, I'll probably try and leave in January. It's not even just the changes made due to the 'rona. People are still repeating the same mistakes that were annoying in a pre-covid society and that are dangerous in a society that's still afflicted with covid.

So, yeah. Might try and leave in January.

[Petzbreeder]

My bad memories are resurfacing again.

I need to find an effective way to explain to my mum that my french teachers were impossible to learn from.

I've found one way to give her a japanese lesson in the same way my teachers taught french. I'm not sure how she will react.

Welcome to your very first japanese lesson. Understand this. Are you fluent yet?

If I did this to my french teachers, they would probably hate me, not that they didn't before.