the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

I like knowing Weird Video Game Facts

like how chargin' chucks are technically powerups

why? i dunno, ask the developers. but they definitely are
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we found this thing at the grocery store that's like

frozen baozi but pizza

looking forward to finding out if it's any good

(if the pepperoni and margherita ones aren't any good, we might still try the barbecue chicken one, because that sounds like something that would be a reasonable filling for baozi anyway)
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final fantasy 7 was already about as subtle as a brick to the face, but it seems like in final fantasy 7 remake they've painted the word "ENVIRONMENTALISM" on the brick, and then thrown in a second brick that says "DIRECT ACTION" on one side and "CORPORATE PROPAGANDA" on the other as a bonus
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three people have picked 25 feet and what

who are you people and how are you so powerful
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USB cable length

everyone seems really excited about the new klonoa game, maybe we should give that series a try sometime. we had never even heard of it as a kid
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actually thinking about xray machines, there might still actually be CRTs in production just because they're a good simple way of producing x-rays for imaging purposes

you don't need either the phosphors or the leaded glass in that case though
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i wonder how hard it would be to make new CRTs today

what part of them is it that's illegal now? Is it the leaded glass? Or something with the phosphors? I don't know how you could get around the leaded glass unless a CRT that blasts the viewer with x-rays is acceptable (it is in xray machines but not for screens), but if it's the phosphors you might be able to develop other formulations that work
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we are playing final fantasy stranger of paradise and i would just like to know: who the *fuck* decided that select of all buttons would be a good default for your main "interact with thing" button

you know, the button that's A in almost every other game
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weird thought we just had: i wonder if a dead alkaline battery would taste different from a fresh one
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we finished final fantasy 7 remake

the ending was very cryptic, then the credits started and we were reminded that the main producer was tetsuya nomura and then we understood

still don't know what that one line in the ending meant but it makes sense that it would be super cryptic if nomura is involved
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MSOP-8 has the same pin pitch as SSOP, 0.65 mm, but MSOP-10 and larger has a pin pitch of 0.5 mm, smaller than anything else we've soldered before. We've also never used a hot air station before, or dispensed solder paste

But we just went for it and i think were successful enough to make it work

we actually got a new soldering iron just for it (though not a whole new station; we already had a Weller WX2 station and we got a WXPP "pico" soldering iron for this), as well as a hot air rework station (a really cheap one from Yihua, then when that kept blowing a fuse and the motor made weird noises, returned that and got a slightly less cheap one from Sparkfun that worked perfectly)

our boss was surprisingly amenable to the cost of this equipment

the soldering tip we used was an RTP 001 C MS, which has a 0.1 mm tip radius, which is tiny--but fits between the pins of an MSOP-10

used leaded solder because we didn't want to take any chances, normally we use lead-free

did use lead-free solder paste though, partially because it was cheaper

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Yesterday at work, we did an Achievement™:

Successfully (we think) soldered an MSOP-10EP, including the exposed pad (which was on a large ground plane with thermal vias, too!)

There were a couple solder bridges we had to fix and we're hoping the high temperatures of the hot air rework station we used to solder the exposed pad didn't damage it (haven't got all the passives around it soldered yet so can't turn it on to test) but we did it, tested continuity with a multimeter and no shorts
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like it was a different company (topcraft) but most of the people at said company got together and started studio ghibli after topcraft went bankrupt

so The Hobbit (1977) is arguably a ghibli movie
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wait what the fuck we just learned that the rankin/bass movie of The Hobbit was co-produced by a Japanese studio that would later be known as Studio Ghibli
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what is the "you thought it was X, but it was me, dio" meme from?
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