arch_8ngel

That seems like a really good way to phrase it.

The Steam controller is fantastic for all sorts of games you never thought you could play properly with a controller, especially if you're willing to get into some of the deep customization. The only places it hurts are: (1) games that need a real d-pad -- the haptic pad d-pad is worthless for that, and analog sticks don't always cut it (2) games that were fully designed for physical twin sticks (not KB+M games that "get by" with a twin stick implementation) -- you CAN do it with the right-hand haptic pad, but the learning curve is kind of steep, and even then, "true" twin stick games don't work as well as if you just had a second stick. THAT SAID -- that right haptic pad is AWESOME as a mouse substitute for games that otherwise emulate a mouse with the right-hand stick. (i.e. you get zero-order control with your thumb versus 1st-order emulation). So a lot of stuff that compromises by offering a twin stick approximation of the KB+M implementation works vastly better with a Steam Controller once you get used to it.

Yeah, that has been my default since I got the Steam Controller a few years back. It's a really slick interface, and if you get into customization you can add any of your non-Steam content to it, as well. There are a bunch of great PC front-ends out there (another favorite is LaunchBox)

Well, for better or worse Stormy Daniels didn't tell us the length or girth, just the shape...

She will burn Pence to the ground. He is a total doofus, who we already know is uncomfortable dealing with women 1:1. It's going to be hilariously embarrassing for him.

That is fair, but She Sells Sanctuary, on repeat, is about all the Cult I need

I'll bump them down to a 7.

In my knee jerk to vote I got them mixed up with The Cult Both enjoyable bands, but these guys are the lesser of the two

The Link to the Past NP comic compilation had a big fanfare release a few years back, supposedly limited pressing. (at the time)

The Link to the Past compilation was great to have in that format, though the binding quality is a bit poor, and Amazon shipped it in a big open box with no constraints, so my cover was dog-eared as a result. Wished they'd done the same for Super Metroid Definitely going to order Super Mario World now that I know it exists, though.

Just looked it up on Amazon and there are adapters from $15 - $30 that claim to do it. I don't think I liked my old Gravis joystick anywhere near enough to pay that kind of money to be able to use it again though You'd probably be better off finding whatever flight-grip style arcade joystick people are using to refurbish old cabinets, since those will be digital rather than analog, which is all that really matters for this (and will be much tougher grade).

That is probably harder to do, since at least early-90's joysticks used a "gameport" which was a specific type of serial port that was pretty much exclusive to dedicated sound cards at the time. That said, with a little effort you could probably rewire one to use USB, since USB-encoder cards are very plentiful (for people that build home sim cockpits), and old joysticks are all digital inputs.

Basically anything you can buy will fit that bill

I feel like convincing my wife that staining the fence is a waste of time is a lot less effort than actually staining the fence, but to each his own

You can cut this one off the list by just deciding you don't want to stain the fence I know that is my strategy for fence upkeep...

Nearly all of the classic DOS catalog you get on GOG you can play on an Android tablet or a Raspberry Pi if you wanted to go through the effort of copying the files around and setting up DOSBox yourself on the non-PC devices.

Off-the-shelf systems, when you get them on-sale toward the end of a generational cycle, are a WAY better deal than they were "back in the day", IMO. On the very high end, there is a huge markup for prebuilt versus DIY (i.e. a top-end system with $2800 in hardware might retail for $5k from the specialty builders), but mid-range systems are sufficiently common that there are a lot of good deals out there. As long as you aren't trying to put a $1500 video card into the system, you aren't dealing with a system that really demands a full DIY build anyway

You can get through the GOG catalog on a WAY cheaper PC than that And if you have the space, you can make it "feel" authentic by hooking up a little 15" CRT as the monitor. Or you can go ultra compact and get one of those little NUC-type systems, since you won't need a discrete video card for any games of that era. My steam box is getting a bit long in the tooth, but it is an old Dell business refurbed optiplex I bought for $300 that I stuck a $100 video card into (was what 750ti's went for at the time, since I needed a half-height card -- but does everything I need it to do)

I don't bother booting into Big Picture, since I have the desktop set up in Windows 10 Tablet mode and navigate it all with an air mouse that looks like a TV remote. Whenever I upgrade the TV (since they have pretty good media app interfaces nowadays), I'll probably ditch the media viewing on the PC and just use it for games, where I might have it boot directly to Big Picture at that point. I intentionally only have a 1080p TV, so I can easily get by with a less powerful PC driving the display.

Mine is hooked up to the TV as a steam box.

Is it really "milking the system" if you're paying super-premium tuition for the kind of on-campus networking and support/services you're supposed to get at that kind of school, and then you're not getting those services/connections?

Has Chris Tang in it, which is neat!

Even though I owned those particular Battle Beasts, I don't actually recall the near-genital location of the sticker on the Elephant, so at least some these placements went relatively unnoticed with however the toys were actually being played with. But electronic buttons on doll/action figure genital areas seems extraordinarily ill-conceived.

I'd guess that since you were doing large scale UPS installation, probably had an extra layer due to the sabotage risk. Normally, you just get escorted by whatever regular employee signed out an escort badge for the day.

Anything with any kind of microphone is banned from sensitive areas. (i.e. no noise-canceling anything, for instance) I doubt they mistakenly thought it was recording -- since they probably did a lab tear-down to see what was actually in it -- but if something has a pre-existing microphone, it isn't that hard to ADD recording capability. So rather than worry about microphones coming in and out of facilities, they are strictly controlled.