#1: Mortician

In regard to controllers, Japan auctions are an excellent source of real-deal OEM controllers in great shape. I’ve been burned so many times by fake controllers in the US, that I just buy lots of them off of buyee.jp now if I need them.

I don’t know, maybe there’s a healthy medium? My home computing is still very personal.

I will hang out on IRC with friends, while I hack away on my low-tech coding projects in the background.

My smart phone is primarily used for comms and navigation, and I’m not stuck to it out in public.

I refuse a smart home, and the only mindless automation I take part in is dedicated to movies and TV.

Circling back around, I do feel like not all hope is currently lost.

Do you dream often of being Perry Farrell?

Two angles of the incident:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MgUgvaML80

They’re on your eyelashes.

And dumb as fuck.

Peroxide, heat, and UV light makes for a good combination.

But it’s not without risk, such as streaking or over-lightening. It also isn’t a permanent solution, but should buy you a good additional handful of years if the console is stored under optimal conditions.

I have used retrobriting on a few consoles, with decent results. I restored the plastic on a model 2 Japanese Sega Saturn this way, and it turned out gorgeous.

Did I do that?

I’m curious now how a mammal develops in an external egg. The process seems so weird.

I’m sorry for your loss. But it sounds like it was a great friendship.

The plastic on the SNES was some of the worst ever, when it came to UV discoloration. Though the SNES Jr. model specifically fairs pretty well, and has the additional benefit of being a 1CHIP model.

Compile from source.

When I was a kid, my grandmother bought me a Steve Urkel doll from a garage sale. It had a pull string and would repeat Urkelisms from the TV show. The thing severely creeped me out, and felt completely cursed. So I lit it on fire with gasoline, then buried it in a shoebox.

All the damn time. I typically use Linux, so having a process I can’t even force kill is a severely annoying concept.

You’re afraid of Japanese soup?