They’re talking about the necromancer characters and the skeletons that they revive constantly in The Catacombs. If you kill the skeletons with a Divine weapon, that’s to say a weapon upgraded into the Divine tree, then they’re not revived by the necromancers anymore.

That all being said, necromancers are only found in The Catacombs which is directly before The Tomb of The Giants. The Tomb is probably the dark area that they were talking about where you’d want a Skull Lantern or the Sunlight Maggot (the helmet) instead of a simple torch.

The problem with getting the Sunlight Maggot is that it’s only found pretty early in Lost Izalith which is pretty far away from The Tomb. It requires you to have already defeated Ornstein and Smough, meet Gwynevere, and thus unlocked the golden fog gates then afterwards go to the bottom of Blighttown, lower the lava by defeating Ceaseless Discharge, go through the Demon Ruins, then right after the Firesage Demon you can find the one enemy that drops it.

The problem with the Skull Lanterns is that they’re rare drops from the Necromancers who don’t respawn so you only get one chance to kill each of them for any possible drops. If none of them dropped one then your only choice is to start another save. The game does thankfully have a system so that if none of them dropped a Skull Lantern then the last one is guaranteed to drop one, but some of them can easily run off a cliff/bridge in which situation their drop will remain at the bottom where they died. If you don’t pick it up from their corpse at the bottom of the cliff (which you can get to, but will require completing the entire area) then that drop will despawn and you’re no longer guaranteed to get the final drop since you already had one spawn.

I don’t think either of these options are an easy/simple “oh just go pick this up” type of recommendation since it’s very possible someone could have never gotten either of them before getting to The Tomb of The Giants.

The other problem with repairing things is very often these days there’s no where to buy the parts from. You can try buying a broken version of the thing you want to fix, but you’re gambling on whether the specific part(s) you need will actually be functional. If the thing you’re trying to fix is expensive then a broken one is likely going to be in a similar price range, and if it’s not expensive there may not be anyone selling a broken one since it’s not going to be worth the time or effort.

Truth be told, I feel the same way about Subnautica. Saw that the reviews were almost unanimously positive, saw the promotional materials, and bought a steam key on a site that had a pretty good deal. I don’t remember which one, but the important bit is that I didn’t purchase it on steam so I couldn’t get a refund.

Tried it out and found it to be a mess of conflating design choices, poor attempts at humor, hitboxes that didn’t remotely match their graphics, flavor text that gave the wrong impression on how things worked, and just generally couldn’t understand the appeal. I gave it about 6-8 hours of time about half of that with a few people who adore the game, and I’ve just come to the conclusion that something about this game just isn’t for me.

In retrospect it didn’t help a few people gave me wildly wrong ideas about what to expect from the game: Factorio like automation, Minecraft Redstone like circuitry, and Dark Souls like atmosphere among other bold claims.

Counterpoint, businesses currently hide their incomes in offshore shell companies, so a higher sales tax means it’s harder for them to pay less taxes via these methods.

In my experience, microcenter doesn’t have much in the way of component level stuff. All I’ve ever seen at my local store and on their website all seems like stuff just meant for breadboarding small circuits, usually for working with an RPi or Arduino. I’ve never seen them carry surface mount components, but you may have better luck than me.

There are plenty of sites which carry plenty of retro game repair components which should include those battery slots.

The size you need is entirely dependent on the game. Pokemon Red and Blue both use CR2025’s, whereas Pokemon Yellow uses a CR1616. GBA games often use flash memory instead of SRAM so they don’t usually need their batteries changed for the actual saves, but usually for an RTC if the game has one.

In my personal experience local stores usually have batteries in the right sizes, but I’ve never seen them have tabbed batteries.

Funny that you ask. They made a video about how they got the game to fit in 40KB: https://youtu.be/ZWQ0591PAxM

Graphics designers also add by subtracting (minimalism)

Computers subtract by adding.

“I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming and in agony like all of his passengers.”

If I remember correctly I think you can mod them to actually have the correct clock speed, but I’m not 100% certain on that.

I have at least 4 coworkers who disprove this.

I work with several such people in my department. I prefer not to reveal much information about my work but I’ll just say it’s with electronics.

Three of them are retired and one of them works for us in his spare time when he’s not traveling across the country for his “main” job. The later one offered to do the work for free because all he really wanted out of the job was to learn how the work is done and how he can do the same work for his retired father.

Of the other three one recently had a second “retirement” because he no longer had the spare time and now cares for his wife full time. Another one recently had an argument with management because he wasn’t logging all of his hours on the job while working from home and would regularly do additional work that he wasn’t being paid for.

I’ve also had one prior side gig type of job where I know some people did it for fun while getting some cash on the side in the entertainment industry and another job with a similar situation in sports.

I’m not going to pretend much of this is very normal by current standards and I’m certain the majority of people involved were also motivated by having at least an additional source of income, but there absolutely are people who even within our current economic system go to work for the fun of it. But the only ones I’ve ever met who do it are people who no longer need to worry about making ends meet.

Gen 2 doesn’t have running, but it did indeed have a bike. Goldenrod City (the city with the 3rd gym badge) has a bike shop off the beaten path where the owner lends you a bike to advertise for his shop then calls you after you ride it enough to say you can keep it. The shop is on the east side of the city behind the department store.

The original GBC didn’t have anything of a backlight. Although the earlier Gameboy Light was the first Nintendo handheld to have a backlight, the feature wasn’t standardized until the GBA SP.

In fact, yellow never exists during the entire process.

I feel like you could argue yellow does exist in HSV. I’m not a professional in programming, working with light, or using HSV so I may be wrong but my amateur understanding of HSV is that the hue strongly correlates with the wavelength of the light omitted (with the obvious exception of looping red back around into blue through wavelengths that can’t exist), the saturation strongly correlates with the purity of that wavelength compared to every other (uniform distribution across the spectrum means white, then only that one wavelength is the pure expression of that color), and value is the amplitude of the resulting wavelength(s).

In this framework you could set hue to be just yellow, make the saturation very pure (high saturation), then have whatever amplitude you need (whatever value). Of course most of the time in modern computing HSV values are going to be derived from and converted back to RGB values, but for a brief period of time between computations you could argue that the computer has an actual representation of “yellow” itself and not just its Red and Green components.

I’m amazed they haven’t done a remake to up the graphics and give it modern controls tbh

The remake released 15 years ago on the 3DS. In fact the remake is now older than the original was when the remake released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time_3D

On top of this, don’t assume someone’s tech literate just because they’re in a certain field. It took me seeing first hand at a previous job how the IT techs did their job to realize why we ran into so many issues.

We were having some software installed on every computer which apparently had to be installed via PowerShell. While watching our usual IT tech go through the steps on the machine next to me, I offered to help him get this job done faster by starting it up on my machine then he could run his credentials whenever the prompts came up. He knew I was computer literate since we had talked about tech stuff and about how I was at the time trying to get a job in IT, so he gave me a copy of the .txt file with all the instructions and commands to run.

In the file was an 11 step process written by the director of the IT department explaining how to open PowerShell, copy the command below, and run the command. 3 of the instructions were to highlight the command (between the quotation marks without including the quotation marks), right click the highlighted portion, then click on “Copy”.

The tech didn’t believe that I had actually copied the command when I just did Ctrl+C, so he specifically stopped me to tell me to right click the command. I told him that it was copied already with Ctrl+C, and he told me, “No, it won’t work if you don’t do the right click.”

I also found out later that said IT director didn’t seem to be aware that there were multiple types of USB cables. He was setting something up in my boss’s office and sent someone to ask for “a USB cable.” Said person knew I had a bunch of cables at my desk as part of my work at the time so they relayed the request for “a USB cable.” I asked them, “What kind? USB C to C? A to C? Micro? Mini?” “Idk, they just said ‘a USB cable.’”

I think, “fair enough, my coworker isn’t very tech literate so I’ll just ask the man myself.” I bring over an assortment of cables and walk to the office with my coworker. Director see my coworker with me now next to them and ask me for “a USB cable.” “What kind?” “Just a regular USB cable, if you have one.” I show him my bundle of about 6-10 assorted cables, explain that I have a variety, see that he’s working on a small printer/scanner, and offer him one. “Would a type 3.0 USB A to B cable work?” “What? No, I just need a regular USB cable.” I show him the A to B cable and he responds “oh yeah, that’s what I was saying. A regular USB cable.”

Chun-Li definitely would.

tl;dr: I use a Note 20 Ultra with stock Samsung ROM because I’m not convinced there’s a good custom or stock ROM that well supports the stylus, but I’m open to suggestions if anyone has one.

My number 1 feature in a phone is having a built in/included stylus. I do a lot of programming stuff which I usually find is easier to plan out ideas for how I want to structure things by drawing it, it’s also easier for writing out math for some of said ideas, when an interesting question comes up, or when I want to show someone the math on how something’s done, and I’m currently learning Japanese so it’s helpful for working on my kana penmanship and learning kanji, especially learning kanji stroke order.

I’ve used other styli in the past and know that palm rejection is pretty much a must have feature. It’s incredibly annoying and cumbersome to hover over your phone to not engage the touchscreen, or have to specifically hold your phone in portrait mode so that your hand is naturally off to the side which doesn’t pair well with how we generally write horizontally. Because of this, I don’t consider dumb styli at all and only really consider powered styli that have an active connection to the phone.

The last time I was searching for a new phone, this requirement (and a few others like expandable storage via microSD card, 5G support, supported my network, etc) ruled out almost every phone on the market save 2. There was some Moto 5G discount model that for some reason had a smart stylus, then the Samsung Note 20 Ultra. I don’t recall the exact reason I didn’t go with the Moto 5G, but I believe it was something like issues with build quality (being a discount model) and the stylus wasn’t very good meaning it would defeat the entire point of getting the phone. So I went with my current Note 20 Ultra.

All of this is to say, I never really considered changing the ROM because I have doubts how well other ROMs would support the stylus. I’ll fully admit it’s not my most used feature on the phone, but there are hundreds of other phones that have a good screen, support fast charging, support Bluetooth, and have expandable storage. My first feature that would significantly rule out options unfortunately rules out almost all options, so I don’t trust that there are many ROMs out there that would even decently support the stylus.

That all being said, I’d be very happy to be proven wrong. I don’t like Samsung’s bloat and would love to move away from a lot of it. The only other Samsung device I own is their galaxy tag trackers which is currently the only reason I’ve logged into a Samsung account on my device otherwise I’d be happy to get rid of it and not give them more information.