Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Revision 2 of the pad, which supports doubles, is coming along well.

It's smaller than a regulation pad on the edges, but should be super comfy for exercise once we connect it up.

Watching back through the Mega Man games I missed (most of the late NES/early SNES games, later X games, and Zero series), I'm impressed how many of the filler enemies look like soft friends.

Also by how well entries like Battle Network seem like halfway believable versions of reality now, by integrating tech that's equal parts boring and unintelligible.

Inadvertently giving my mentee at work the advice I wish I'd gotten when I started my career.

Particularly the part where I might sound authoritative, but half the time I literally don't know what I'm doing and am just consulting primary sources and other folks to make an informed opinion. Not knowing stuff is normal, especially in fields that are highly technical.

I think it helped, and damn, I wish someone had told me that early on to help with imposter syndrome.

Pad is closed up for now. There are changes we'll make in revision 2 to make this wire together better, but it works!

Also realizing I called this PMD Arceus earlier, when it's PLA. Which... isn't wrong, since it's still an isekai.

Hisuian Typhlosion is incredibly friend-shaped 💜

... I admit to thoroughly having no idea what I'm doing when it comes to electrical circuits, so the fact this works at all is kind of a relief. @..@

So after using through our old hard pads and being constantly frustrated at nothing being available, we decided to build our own from this guide: https://youtu.be/y6wGYLE0YI4

Turns out this thing is way easier than expected once we got the materials assembled. Each sensor converts physical force into electrical resistance, and each analog channel reads that in and converts it to button presses at a given threshold.

And it works! Next is finish wiring and close it up.

Update: I finished my run of this successfully, and in celebration, named my Dodrio main "The Dekis" after @Vyzie

Item luck has been okay so far. I've still got a fair number of escapes and reviver seeds left, and a single ban seed waiting for an enemy Pokémon to try Earth Power (a high damage, room hitting move) on my team.

Which is to say, absent completely awful luck or completely spacing on how to play the game, this should be completable... maybe.

I have a slow moving save file on Purity Forest (the most "true roguelike" dungeon of the game) that I'm whittling on, which is now at floor 50 of 99.

And, oof, I had forgotten what it's like to have to take a few turns every minute or two in one of these games because strategy matters.

My current main is Dodrio, which is an incredibly oddball choice, but between Quick Attack, Fury Attack, Giga Impact, and Hyper Beam, they at least don't feel too underpowered.

Watching @Veladynee play through Halo Infinite with subtitles on and being very amused at the extremely descriptive text for every sound sample in the game. From such wonders as "Inquisitive Beeping" and "Alert Confident Chirp" to "Angry Electrocuted Scream" and "Excited Confident Roar".

And realizing I have a mighty need. I want this in most games, both for accessibility and because it's amazing. Like, put this on Rathalos in one of the Monster Hunter games, please.

The solitary Anna's hummingbird that ineffectually sentries our feeders is there today, despite it icing over and snowing. The moment I brought out a warm feeder, they hopped on it and chugged as fast as their tiny beak could, before zooming off and returning 5 minutes later.

Found a cool thing on our hummingbird feeders today while rotating them due to the cold weather: