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A foot like this is a blend of decorative and functional, imo.

You end up with more surface area than if you had just gone with a straight column, and that helps with stability, slightly lessens the pressure.

Many modern tables or desks have... much less ornate footpad type structures, if the thing itself is quite heavy, or intended to hold a decent amount of weight.

Of course... I have no way of knowing if this old... desk? table? whatever it is, was intentionally designed with that in mind, but the function is still there, at least to some degree.

Couldn't you... use basically moonshine?

Like, set up a distillery, get your grain mash and sugar... now you have very high proof alcohol.

Now, you could just strap basically a pilot light to ... a more seriously designed super soaker... and you'd have to add some kind of ... jellying, gelling? agent to the moonshine to get it to act more like a flame thrower than a squirt gun...

This would not be a 100% organicly sourced entire flamethrower, but you could at least make the fuel mostly, if not fully, from organic, non petroleum products.

Ah ok, so you were even earlier to the Deck modding scene than me, and it has evolved toward being even easier since.

Whew!

I appreciate your pointing this out and explanation, I wouldn't want to have been unintentionally spreading misinfo.

... Nor would I have wanted to get my own Hall Effect 'no soldering' kit and then learned... actually there still is soldering in some other step or on some other component, that the 'no soldering' kits actually just mean 'less soldering'.

I have heard about that being a thing, and honestly I would have no problem getting a small soldering kit and learning how to solder....

https://www.handhelddiy.com/products/steam-deck-oled-tighter-hall-joystick

https://www.amazon.com/Joysticks-Steam-Deck-OLED-Thumbstick-replacement/dp/B0D2P24S9P

So these are for the OLED, which has a very slightly different internal board layout than the LED...

But both of these say they are pre-soldered, no soldering required, and they still have capacitive touch working.

... Am I missing something?

EDIT: These seem to be basically self contained, All in One, small board, stick/base and thumbcap units.

Maybe earlier 3rd party Hall Effect sticks were... not so comprehensive, and required the soldering?

Or maybe I am confused?

Also a surprisingly advanced and customizable... 'class' system, which was really more like a whole bunch of branching skill trees you could mix and match basically various ranks of... allowing many weird, but often effective, hyrbrids of 'classes' that... could either focus on one main 'class', but augment it with certain abilities from other 'classes'...

And then the Combat Upgrade happened, and everything got streamlined.

Also... being a Jedi/Sith used to be... exceptionally rare and difficult to pull off.

IIRC, basically, some kind of insane random seed type thing gave each of your characters a very, very tiny chance of being force sensitive... but you wouldn't even know this unless you also found basically a hidden event/questline, and then that would unlock a whole set of force skill trees, allowing for a range of jedi to sith abilities, with some kind of mix effectively being a 'gray' jedi.

Finally... SWG ... still appears to me to be the only MMO that actually attempted to implement a working, player vs player, bounty hunting and tracking system, within an mmo... as a core game mechanic of a player 'class'.

Though I haven't played all mmos, so I may be wrong about that.

... Also an entire skill tree for basically being a mayor and running your own player built town. A whole skill tree dedicated to like... administrative capacity and zoning laws.

Do MMOs even... do player built cities anymore? Or did they just mostly switch over to 'you have a house in the set aside 'suburb' instance'?

Some would say his environs had a rather jaw dropping effect on the man.

Not only are they water soluble and easily washed out... the vast majority of them are also non toxic.

If you get paint on your mask, and it splatters through to your mouth... non toxic. Tastes terrible, but its not gonna harm you via ingestion. Much of the 'paint' is ... basically just food dye.

...

... Also... a whole lot of police... just use paint markers (they are technically, legally classed as 'markers' because they aren't firearms thus are not 'guns')... they use markers with pepper balls.

They just shoot miniature tear gas / skin irritant /eye irritant 'paintballs' as a less lethal weapon.

You can put a whole lot of different liquids inside what is basically a semi rigid gel/plastic capsule.

...

The old devious trick I remember was people would freeze their paintballs the night before a match.

Nowadays, I'm fairly sure if you are caught doing that, you don't just get banned from that field/course... you probably get prosecuted.

Digital Noodle Switchboard

... If you do it occasionally, when contextually appropriate... it is funny, a self aware reference to how they spend a lot of time on twitch streams, and are expressing disbelief.

When you do it all the time, reflexively, regardless of context... yeah, that may indicate that that just is your baseline norm for social interaction and you fundamentally cannot or do not distinguish between the contexts of online interaction and irl interaction.

There a whole lot of kids now who are just basically raises from near birth by screens. Parents with no free time or parents who don't give a shit just give the kid a distraction rectangle so they don't have to ... raise them.

I only use the term 'females' in the context of ... some kind of discussion of medical or biological studies ... or to differentiate between a girlfriend and a platonic female friend...

But I am guilty of the whole open fridge and sigh thing.

However.

If I turned around and David Attenborough was physically present, narrating me... I think I would be overjoyed and just try to get him to watch a nature documentary with me.

Or even better, go outside and just continue to be amused at his narration of me, and see if I can't get him to a park or something and see if he switches over to narrating the ducks.

Ok so I haven't used much Spanish since middle school but...

¿Esto es un baño?

Lo siento, no hablo español.

... Are those the correct forms?

He must have been very embarazado about that.