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Someone's made an adapter for using the Wii U Gamepad with PCs!

Soldering is the most dangerous thing I could learn. Not because of the risk of fire or injury, but because of the risk to my project queue

If we're talking *solo* solo, this is a great piece by Don Ross. Matt introduced me to him when I introduced him to metal; as you'll hear we met in the middle

Man, that's tempting. Thankfully I have other gadgets I want more, but it's going to stick in my brain until I cave or something cheaper comes out.

Gold standard indeed! That's arcade stick money! Have you used one of them? How's the tactility?

Caught Springsteen and the E Street Band last night. Whole show was amazing, but the real standout solo was Tom Morello at the end of The Ghost of Tom Joad. Here's a video from the Minneapolis show on the tour

Much as we all love the standard gamepad, there's tons more controller styles out there, and people continue to make new ones. This thread is for discussing non-standard game controllers. Inspired by this one, a new knob controller for the Genesis:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1075995001 ...

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-game ... -all-games

The dream of pocket Tokyo Jungle grows closer!

That's really clever

And now the Kickstarter is up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/titan-2-elite-the-5g-keyboard-phone-youve-been-waiting-for

Hopefully it'll work for AT&T out the gate. They've said the Titan 2 does (I don't have AT&T so I can't verify this) and that they're working on certification ...

Maybe "unsatisfying" was the wrong word. It would have been better to say it was a anti-climactic. I was hoping to get some technical analysis on how the two systems work, and I didn't. As friendly as their marketing and games are, Nintendo is absolutely ruthless as a company, so I'm not going to ...

Kind of an unsatisfying watch. Neat to learn about this company I hadn't previously heard of, but the crux of the legal question, whether Nintendo violated XaviX's patents or used another technology for motion detection in the Wiimote, isn't answered, and we don't even get a gesture at an answer. I ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcXJg0HddyE

At 4:50, Perttu decides he wants more range than the fingerboard gives him, and just goes higher. Then at 5:10 he grabs and pulls the string he's playing off to the side, something I'd never seen a cellist do before.

As an aside, the band didn't realize ...

https://betterphoneproject.com/windowsp ... ution.html

It's finally published!

Appreciate the support! I've reached out to Dreamhost support, and I'm following the advice they've given me. Hopefully between them and the folks here, the site will be up and running soon!

Emulating a bagpipe with a violin:

Added a couple old prototypes to my itch page. I'm not going to develop them further, but I figure they won't do any good collecting dust on my hard drive, and hey, maybe they'll inspire someone else down the line.

https://jyoungman.itch.io

Stance is a JRPG battle system, which was a design ...

Trying that and Name Cheap is trying to stick it in a subdomain DreamHost isn't giving me. Has anyone worked with either of those companies, and with domain registration and hosting being from different companies? Cause neither of them are being helpful.

I also tried installing WordPress on the ...

Trying to get the website up and running. The host is giving me three options for an SSL certificate:

Web based automation (managed on a free CDN automatically)
Server-side automation (I upload a file to set up a cron job to manage it)
Manual (Generate the CSR and private key on my server ...

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"My future wife's mother-in-law"

You mean your mom?

It's like if Anakin was a frat boy

And if I can cheat a bit here, Clarence Clemons' sax solo in Jungleland is another all timer. Listened to a (then) recent performance when I got news that he'd passed and it destroyed me.

That one's an all-timer for sure! Great solo, great performance! Here are some songs with guitar solos I love, all of which sell the emotions of the song. Gonna limit myself to one per band, and only live performances :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQZz39hJbkw
Infinite Dreams - Dave Murray ...

Oh interesting! I'm gonna have to share this with my coworker!

I think that reviewer issue is kind of intrinsic to phones. Most people have the same phone for the length of a contract (2-3 years) baring loss or destruction of the device before that. And I'd wager most people who aren't on cadence like that keep their phones even longer (I'm in this cohort ...