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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I just ordered an amiibo emulator off AliExpress.

My wife is like "isn't that cheating" and I'm like "yeah, but it's pay-to-play, so I'm okay with that".

It's less cheating than a game genie...

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can't a phone with NFC and an app send any Amiibo's signal? I'm pretty sure I've done that before.

[–] Overwrite7445@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Not sure if the phone can emulate being an NFC tag, but it can program the NTAG215 stickers used by amiibo

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yes. Some phones can even be used to make NFC tags. You can buy blank tags and grab bin files and write them. I have tags for max level Wolf Link and Majora's Mask items for BoTW.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I bought blank NFC tokens that you can flash any amibo to from your phone via an app. Worked great raining down chests of meat on links head in BOTW lol.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool! Always wondered if a fun solution were ever found for the Monster Rancher PS games where you'd put arbitrary CDs/DVDs in to see what monster was generated.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I was just thinking about this series a few days ago. Such a good gimmick.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

It felt like fucking magic at the time lmao, and the games were legitimately fun and interesting even without the ~best gimmick of all time involved.

Could enjoy the games pretty entirely even with zero discs to scan. But the magic disc lottery, plus access to tons of otherwise unavailable entire species of monster, plus breeding that opens up from there 🤌