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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I don’t think the idea was mature enough. Yes it did try to innovate and do new things but it also was trying very hard to be familiar to an audience that was never going to embrace change while not changing enough for a new audience to develop around it. I would compare it to the Dvorak keyboard, a device that offered only marginal improved efficiency and use while requiring the user to completely relearn from the ground up and have to fight muscle memory for those who used the popular medium it meant to replace. And in the end, most people said it wasn’t worth it.

    I was initially intrigued by having buttons on the bottom of the controller, where your fingers naturally would be thus freeing your thumbs to stay on the pad/sticks. And imagine my frustration to realize those rear buttons are just extensions of triggers already on top. Huge missed opportunity imo that a redesign could have given dedicated buttons on the back of the controller to each finger and expand the possibilities for input combos a player can perform.

    TL;DR I think the controller was a valiant effort to innovate but didn’t go far enough or do anything sell enough to stick.





  • Big issue is modern conservativism does not reflect what conservatism actually should be. I don’t agree with either philosophy as a whole but the classical definition of a small government only just powerful enough to protect the rights of its citizens without any superfluous powers or privileges that could be abused for self enrichment or tyranny does have some merit, even if that merit has been buried in the political backyard since at least the 70s. Modern day Republicans are everything the conservatives who built the party feared.



  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldMy cats right now
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    26 days ago

    I can strongly recommend a fountain. My current cat isn’t fond of drinking from a bowl, but I found a fountain that I just swap the water every morning on. Comes with different kinds of heads. Somedays he wants a steady flow, other days he wants to nip at water out of the air. Always have a second bowl on the opposite corner of the kitchen just incase he’s been picky, food dish is over in the living room by my computer.


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    My mom was a florist with a greenhouse attached to the house. Cats loved roaming the greenhouse to find mice of course, but by far their favorite was all the glasses of water my mom used to cut flowers with, we joked that one particular tuxedo cat had a refined palette and would only sip on rose water.

    When those cats were thirsty, they didn’t check the water by the dog food or one in their cat tree for a sip, they’d go right to the table and counter top and sniff around at every glass they could find till something seemed just right for them.

    Me and my sisters pretty much had to go around the house collecting glasses every day we got home from school cause my mother couldn’t be bothered to clean up after herself.




  • I accidentally smacked my cat along her head on accident one day. Before i could even apologize she meowed and pushed her head right into my hand. Then tried headbutting my palm like she wanted me to do it again. She loved being manhandled, squished and lightly batted around. But god forbid you try to snuggle her.






  • You ever had a cat? When unobserved quantum state takes over and they are everywhere and nowhere at once.

    Screen doors and old storm doors from the 80s are also notoriously bad at keeping a fat orange cat inside when the brain cell is too busy to understand the barriers to keep the outside out also are meant to keep the inside in.