Lost_My_Mind

This entire video is a masterclass in writting, and acting. This is what needs to replace SNL.

Any device that houses my animal crossing game, will always have the wrong time. Hell, sometimes it's not even the right week!

But in general, I feel like time travel is fine, as long as you don't just go back and forth purely to cheat the game.

Like right now it's 7:02pm on Easter Sunday......oops, I mean it's actually 3:02am Monday.

But if I had my time set properly, I'd come home from work, and the whole village would be asleep. Except Blathers. Blathers is cool. Hangs out in Museums at 3:00am reading a good book, and later spills the blood of the innocent, on a heavy metal slaughtering spree.

What? Oh. I guess you don't know Blathers like I do. We're pretty tight. His mom has cancer.

:(

But back on topic. I'm just getting home from work. I can either experience the game and play in real time on a delay. Getting to experience the bulk of the game.....or I can play in an empty village every time I get home from work.

And this is why I think Nintendo knows we chage the time, and makes no attempt to stop it. Because you KNOW if they cared, they would have some bullshit update to force your clock to always be right when playing Animal Crossing. It may not have been possible on gamecube, but it certainly is possible on switch. It's just a dick move. Which Nintendo loves doing, but they don't in this case. Which I think means Nintendo know this happens, and allows it willingly.

Because work comes first. Also, sometimes I play at work on my retroid pocket flip 2. But I only get brief 10-20 minute downtimes. It literally has to be in my pocket already, and ready to go at a button press. Which I do.

But the bulk of my time is when I get home, and connect the flip 2, to my TV. So yes. I do approve of time travel in this way. But using it to manipulate the stalk market is too much. That to me ventures into the realm of cheating the game.

Yes, Nook requires huge amounts of bells, but thats the game. Selling shells and making bells. Collecting fruit. Fishing. Even if the fish you just caught isn't great, you can still sell it, and get some bells. So the game is rewarding you for doing something. Even if you fail, you're not discouraged as wasting your time if you don't catch the fish you need. Because sometimes that takes a while. And if seabass didn't sell for 200 bells, I'd be mighty angry that I keep catching them for 3 hours. But if you cheat the stalk market, now those seabass are just.....wasting your time, because you have millions of bells. 200 bells means nothing, and you have no debt.

Could be some obvious game, like GTA:SA or maybe some obscure game that was only given away at 7-11 with purchase of a slurpie! If you like it, I wanna know your favorite PS2 games!

So I usually come here when I have questions. Today, I just want to share what I've found, because I'm excited about it, and we're all linux noobs here. So maybe this will help others out too.

Guys. I just discovered this new (to me) file manager. It's called PCMan. I've been using it for 30 minutes now, and, I like it. I might replace Thunar. I'm going to test run this for the next week.

I can right click and see file properties. Wanna know how big a file is? Right click the file in PCMan, click properties, and BOOM! Instantly you see this file is 2.6GB.

No more of this Thunar calculating the file size for minutes/hours on bigger files. I'm talking 2-3 seconds on PCMan. It blinked just a few times, and then done.

When I first opened it, I even had "move to" in the right click menu. I don't know what I changed, or how, but that option is gone now. Not a huge deal, but the one time I got to use it, it didn't work. Gave me an error.

But it sounds super useful if I can get it working. No more having 2 file manager windows drag and drop, and then delete. You just highlight the files, right click, move to, select where, and then let it move them. That's such an evolution. First time for me that linux is out performing WindowsXP (which I consider to be the peak of OS's). My version of the best user experience in history, and now linux has one feature, that if I can get it working, has outperformed that in this one small feature.

But it's a pretty big feature. I'll look into why I can't use it. Said something like "can't recursively copy location" or something like that.

Still though, I like the program.

I couldn't get a variant to install. PCMan-qt I think it was. Gave a shitload of dependancy errors. But the regular one installed just fine. I'm using ZorinOS Software Center.

So just search your OS's store. Really nice program. It even has the feature where you paste a duplicate file, and it asks you "Hey, what do you want to do here? Replace the file? Rename the file? Cancel operation? Paste in a different folder?"

And it confirms on the deleting.

I even have my Retroid Flip 2 plugged into my PC via USB, and I'm moving folders from my Flip 2's internal storage to my Flip 2's SD card. Zero issues besides the first file I tried to move that I described earlier.

Do you know how many times I get a blank webpage that cannot be found, only to realize it's because I mistyped the URL?

Honestly, someone should get on this.

So this story takes place in 2004.

I'm 21, living in my first apartment. I have two cats. Speed, and Karmalee.

Speed is the dominant cat, and Karmalee was like her backseat driver wife.

When it came to feeding time, I had to put Speed in the bathroom every morning. I would give each cat half a can of wet cat food. Then there was a dry cat food feeder to munch on all day.

Well, the way Karmalee wanted to eat, was she'd eat half her half a can of cat food, and wanted to come back and eat the other half later in the day.

Speed on the other hand wanted to eat all her half of cat food, and then would bully Karmalee to start eating her half too. Then she'd beg me for more cans.

So when I saw this, I started putting Speed in the bathroom. I'd let Karmalee eat first until she was done. I'd put both plates down.

Karmalee would eat half her plate. Not touch Speeds plate, and walked away. I said to her "Are you sure you wanna walk away? I'm going to let Speed out. You KNOW she's going to eat your food. You wanna eat some more? No? Ok. I'm giving you fair chance here....."

And then I would let Speed out. Who raced down the hallway at lightning speed. One time she ran so fast that when she tried stopping, she realized claws don't grip tile, and she slammed herself pretty hard into the cabinets. From then on, she still ran, but she slowed down a bit when she got to the kitchen.

Well one day, I give Karmalee her food. We do our little "you done?" routine. I go to let Speed out of the bathroom. She runs down the hall as usual. And when I get into the living room I hear Speed howling in the kitchen. I walk in confused, and see a mouse is standing on top of Speeds wet food, eating it. Speed is crying at me like "DAAAAAAD!!!! HE'S EATING MY FOOOOOOD!!!!!". So I say "What are you looking at me for? You always want extra food! That's protein right there! Get that mouse!"

Mouse hasn't budged. Chowing down. Speed looking at me to save the day.

So I put on 2 oven mitts on each hand, and pick the whole dish up. Mouse still doesn't budge. I tell my girlfriend "open the front door, and hold it open, I'm coming in hott!!!"

She has no idea what I'm yelling about when I quickly storm into the room and say "GET THE DOOR! LETS GO!" She looks over and sees the mouse and screams. I say "Less screaming, more door holding". She races over and opens the door. I walk outside and throw the whole dish in the street. Mouse never budged, and even in the road she just ate food while I picked up the plastic dish and went back inside.

I went back over to Speed and had a talk with her. I said "So you're supposed to be the big cat of the house? Where's your hunting skills? You know back in the 90s, we had a cat named Sunny. Outdoor cat. Real tough cat. That cat could hunt a gazelle I'm sure. You cried over a mouse! That's free bonus food! Where's your hunger?"

Of coarse none of my words landed since cats don't speak English. Had to open half a can of food, since I just threw Speeds food into the street.

Then I came back into the living room, Karmalee is sitting on my girlfriends lap, on the couch. She just heard what I said to Speed. So she just asks "Did you really just lecture the cat?"

And I said "Her name is Speed, and yes I did. How else is she supposed to learn?"

Then I turn my head to Karmalee and say "And just where were you during all this? Speed always bullies you for food. You could have taken dominant cat spot if you just hunted the mouse. Then Speed would be scared of you.

But Karmalee was never going to hunt anything. She's spoiled and dainty.

This was all over 20 years ago. Both cats have since passed, and I haven't lived there since 2006. Haven't spoken to that girlfriend since 2006.

I just remembered the time I literally threw a mouse out of my apartment.

It's an unofficial fan made project, but oh my god it's the tits! You play SMB, but it's got all these quality of life improvements.

Like the background and clouds aren't static like they would be in the NES. There's options to backtrack. You can change the clock to unlimited, or change the seconds to real seconds. You can change how damage is done. American style, or Japanese style.

They included Super Mario Bros Special. Which is a rare 1986 Super Mario game, which was released by Hudson Soft. In the 1986 version the screens did not scroll with you. Instead you move forward, and the screen transitions. Well this game takes those levels, and lets you play them in the original SMB engine, with SMB graphics.

They included a mode from SMB DX where you had to hunt for 5 red coins, a yoshi egg, and get a certain score.

They included a boo race mode.

And Super Mario Bros 2 (Japan)

I don't even know what All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros is.

They included resource packs, which change the graphics. They have a stage builder. You can share or download others custom levels.

It has achievements.

Guys, this game is the real deal.

Stupid question, but I thought you click the sidebar, and the three options were "join/leave, post, and block".

But now, the ONE time I want to block a community, I don't see the option. So I go to another community, just to see if it looks different. It doesn't.

The communities now only have join/leave, and post. No block.

Edit: Problem solved for me. Should I leave this post up for any future people who ask this? Or should I delete it so future other people don't try to answer a solved question?

I'm sure most of us have played Skyrim. I'm sure most of us have seen the NPCs that just awkwardly stand there, swaying slightly with a blank look on their face.

I'm starting to think this whole world is just an illusion. I just walked into my break room, and saw a guy just staring at the vending machine. Slightly hunched over, and swaying.

So I sat down at a table and start browsing my phone.

He's still standing there. Same spot. No words. Not looking at a phone. Just dead staring at a vending machine which is 2/3rds empty. Not counting money. Just staring dead forward.

After a while I wondered how long he was going to do this. I walked around the side of him, looked at his face, and asked if he was ok. He grunted at me, like hmmmmph.

I went back to my table and started a stopwatch.

When my break was over he was still standing there. 22 minutes staring at a vending machine, and telling multiple people he's fine, but also grunting at most people.

The ONLY explaination I can come up with is that he's an NPC who failed the turing test, and this entire world doesn't exist. I don't exist. You don't exist. None of this matters.

Anyone else think this is some kind of poorly coded simulation?