[โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

I asked AI to decipher your message:

The text you provided seems to be a series of sounds or vocalizations, rather than actual words or a coded message. Here's my interpretation of what those sounds could represent:

"Hsssssssss" - This elongated hissing sound is often associated with snakes or cats when they feel threatened or agitated.

"Grrrrrrr" - A deep, guttural growling noise, typically made by dogs, lions, bears, or other animals when they are angry, aggressive, or warning others.

"tsk tsk tsk" - The "tsk" sound is a tongue-click often used to express disapproval, disappointment, or mild admonishment.

"Eeeeeee!" - A high-pitched, prolonged squeal or shriek, which could indicate excitement, fear, or surprise.

"Chh! Chh!" - A shorter version of the hissing sound, similar to the "Hsssssssss" but more abrupt.

"Ch-ch-ch-ch" - This staccato sound could represent chattering teeth, perhaps due to cold or fear.

Overall, the combination of these sounds paints a picture of an agitated, aggressive, or alarmed creature or situation. It could be interpreted as a warning or expression of hostility, potentially from an animal or someone mimicking animal sounds.

Without more context, it's difficult to provide a more specific interpretation, but the vocalizations seem to convey a sense of tension, threat, or unease.

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you're afraid of falling, wear protectors and just deliberately fall a couple of times to test the level of protection and practice falling to build confidence.
    I'm bad at sports and use skating to exercise, so I suck and regularly fall ~3 times per hour, but it's not a big deal at all and rarely hurts. And over time you really learn how to fall in a more controlled fashion, which is a useful skill to have by itself - it's prevented me from getting injured when I tripped and fell on a hike.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This reminds me of the time someone posted some meme referencing Ea-Nasir in here, a scummy copper ingot merchant from mesopotamia. Makes me wonder if anybody knew these references because they're actually so famous and I'm just uncultured, or if they only know them because some history nerd started making memes and they somehow caught on and now everyone learned them through some explanations in the comments like I just did.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    These days I'm mostly playing rhythm games and for those I much prefer the trackpads. Less finger strain, I can tap faster, less wear and tear for the buttons, less noise for my surroundings. And in other games with toolbars, even if they have console support, you usually have to sift through shoulder buttons to switch between your items. With the trackpads you can have a tiny macro pad right underneath your thumbs.

    As someone with tiny hands who usually uses an extra small xbox controller, I still find myself loving the deck controls more, simply because there is more stuff to configure to my liking. Yes, I have some trouble reaching the shoulder buttons when my thumbs are on the pads, but so far that's been less of a problem in the games I play.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Not every day, every living minute, but quite regularly and throughout the year, the first 4 beats of "Deck the Halls" on infinite loop in a 6/4 beat so after the 4 beats there's 2 beats silence before it begins all over again. Weirdest thing is after all these years I don't even know the text, just the melody.

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    Does anyone know if the touchpads of the SD (OLED if it matters) have proper multi-touch? As in, you can map two buttons there and both can be pressed completely independently (i.e. hold one while tapping the other)?
    It's niche but I lay my Deck down on my lap and drum on the pads with 2 fingers per pad to play a Rhythm game and haven't found the right settings yet. I've found so far that with Steam Input configs, the only way to somewhat get two button presses at once is with the 8 way overlap, but I'm pretty sure that even then, it only interpolates the two touches and sends the input of wherever the interpolated input ends up. So if it happens to land in the overlap area, you get two different button presses as expected, but if you're off by a little, you get two presses of the same button instead. This also means that if you make the overlap area too large, it's also too easy to tap on that with one finger and unintentionally fat-finger.

    So I wanted to know if I'm missing the correct settings in Steam Input? Or is there some plugin for this? Or does the hardware not support multi-touch at all and I'm out of luck?

    [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A good quality skin should be cleanly removable, so unless the phone skin is much cheaper, there's not much benefit to practicing on the phone first. I wouldn't worry so much.

    Also sorry for randomly info-dumping that wall of text, oh god. I tend to do that when I'm obsessed with something haha ^^"

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