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[Reelya]

My friend got me into Hisoutensoku, a fighting game with Touhou characters. Looking into the online community for it, I'm surprised to learn that such a niche and old game has a very alive community for it still. I have something of a main character I like to play already, and I'm eager to learn, and so I look into videos of high level players...

"Holy fuck... these... these are humans playing right?"

It's just unfathomable the level of dexterity and reaction speed these people must have. I'm just a button mashing old man with Alzheimer's in comparison.

Just to try, I managed to play with someone, finding their ip on the Discord for the game. I feel I wouldn't do terribly, I do semi-alright versus my friend and I have 10-15 hours of practice in the game. In the span of a minute he teaches me I don't know how to play the game and I'm basically wasting his time.  Jesus I just feel deflated.

Put that in perspective, would you expect to hold your own against experienced chess players with 10-15 hours of chess experience? You're just being unrealistic here.

You're doing alright against your friend because you have that experience against their particular play style, or choice of characters, so you've been training to counter that. Doesn't mean you're learning to counter anyone else.

[JoshuaFH]

Yeah, you're right, I was just really in awe of these players whose skill level seems unreachably high.

[hector13]

You must practice longer and harder.

[McTraveller]

The air conditioner in my car no longer appears to be functional.  It is 10 years old, and thankfully it's starting to get to be the season where I don't need it, but it's still annoying.

[Yoink]

I remember playing Smash Bros with close friends and family back in the day and thinking I was hot shit 'cause I could beat them all.   
Then I moved to this new town, befriended a new bunch of nerds, and at some point a bunch of us wound up playing Melee and I was quickly knocked off my perch by all these crazy pro strats they were using. Pretty wild. Who knew the dodge/shield button was actually good for anything?   

Bit demoralising, but at least years later in more recent times, at a similar gathering of nerdy types playing a more recent Smash game, I managed to cheese my way to an incredibly satisfying victory over one of these friggin' professional types (after not having even played the current entry in the series) by playing as Yoshi, hahaha.   

So I guess the moral of the story is, practice just enough to find the cheapest strategy and them employ it mercilessly and without shame until you get a win. Or, you know, invest the time to get good, I guess...   

[scriver]

You must practice longer and harder.

Faster, stronger!

[wierd]

Ah yes, an interstalla 5555 reference.

[ChairmanPoo]

I think it's an olympics reference

[Yoink]

Nah, it's obviously Donkey Kong.   

[MaximumZero]

The air conditioner in my car no longer appears to be functional.  It is 10 years old, and thankfully it's starting to get to be the season where I don't need it, but it's still annoying.

Have you tried using a recharge kit on the condenser?

[methylatedspirit]

I'm trying to get Puppy Linux to work within Bochs to test the compatibility of DF with different emulated CPUs, and it's taking upwards of forever to actually boot. I can't tell if it's just crashed, or if the speed of the emulator is causing it to be really damn slow. Fucking hell. This isn't the first time either. I literally left my PC overnight trying to get Bochs to boot Lubuntu. I have actual footage on my hard drive of the 7 hour, 26 minute and 53 second affair, and it didn't even boot. Just the endless blinking cursor. In both cases, even if it booted, it would've taken far too long, since I need to restart the VM at least 3-4 times to reconfigure the emulated CPU.

I'm sure there's something even more lightweight that might work, but I'm not familiar enough with Linux to really try and get something to work. That, or I need to admit defeat and just run the Windows version of 43.04 and hope that the results there are applicable to Linux 47.04. It would compromise the validity of my results, and I wouldn't be happy with it because of that. I'm testing 47.04, not 43.04, and I really don't want to compromise on that. Maybe QEMU could work, but that seems even more like a pain in the ass to set up, as if Bochs wasn't hard enough.

(I'll probably rephrase this thing into something more professional in the appropriate thread, but for now, I'm just upset.)

[McTraveller]

The air conditioner in my car no longer appears to be functional.  It is 10 years old, and thankfully it's starting to get to be the season where I don't need it, but it's still annoying.

Have you tried using a recharge kit on the condenser?

No not yet; that was the first thing I was going to check though.  Yesterday was the first day I noticed anything awry.  I may not even bother until the spring now though; if I have a slow leak, I don't want to fill it and have it leak out over the course of winter...

[Eric Blank]

Air quality because of the fires is horrendous. Can't see more than 200 yards, hurts to breathe, it's slowly raining little bits of ash, and it hasn't changed for 3 days. It's never been this bad in the last six years we've been here, and the fires have never been so close. And I don't even think there were fires until after labor day

[TD1]

Air quality because of the fires is horrendous. Can't see more than 200 yards, hurts to breathe, it's slowly raining little bits of ash, and it hasn't changed for 3 days. It's never been this bad in the last six years we've been here, and the fires have never been so close. And I don't even think there were fires until after labor day

Considering the gender-reveal that started one of the fires, the words "labor day" are especially significant....

[Cthulhu]

Realizing that wave-particle duality and similar spooky quantum effects happen because we live in a simulation and it's using lazy evaluation.