Do yourself a favor and learn to fix the issue yourself. Take the controller apart and clean the contacts and remove any debris. Youtube is your friend here.
Then just keep an eye on craigslist for used controllers. A lot of people just sell them as broken, or try to get away with selling them as working. The repair only takes like 15 minutes, and it can pay for itself if you start selling the service to friends.
You seem really upset about something that shouldn’t affect you in any way.
The answer is that you’re thinking about this too much. It’s pop music, designed to be fun and catchy, with a hook and a fun dance routine. It’s performed by pretty people who can sing and dance in a manner that is aesthetically and musically entertaining.
Why do they all look and sound the same? Why does every fast food restaurant have a similar burger and french fry combo? It’s because that’s what sells, and this isn’t art. It’s a product designed to be sold.
I dunno man, if you are a girl wouldn’t you a dude that, yeah, he’s attractive but also that looks manly? That can physically protect you? And that does not has a doll face?..
This just comes off as thinly veiled insecurity. There are a lot of people in the world, and attraction is a spectrum. People like what they like, and there’s probably someone out there who likes you for you. You don’t need a doll face, nor do you need to look manly or be physically imposing. Most people don’t need protection in their day to day lives. People want support, companionship, partnership, compatibility, and entertainment. Be fun and loving, and be yourself, and just leave the outdated gender stereotypes behind. You’re not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, nor do you need to be (unless you’re trying to land a job in a KPop band).
Strong agree on the dark side of the industry. That’s the danger with turning performers themselves into a commodity. It’s bad enough manufacturing commercial music as a product, but turning the talent into a product is dehumanizing in a way that leads to terrifying exploitation.
But as consumers, we’re all really good at compartmentalizing the exploitation from the enjoyment we receive from it. If you think the pop music industry is bad, wait until you learn about fast fashion, or cheap technology, or luxury travel, or abundant meat, or out-of-season produce, or inexpensive energy, or pretty much anything you pay to enjoy. There’s a lot of money involved in hiding the suffering.
I think they should watch it again and again, then, because that’s the behavioral object lesson of the film. Everybody is the hero in their own story. When he has his moment of clarity, and says to himself, “I’m the bad guy?” it ought to be a wake up call to all the chodes who were cheering him on.
You’re supposed to relate to DFENSE and see him as the protagonist. You’re supposed to feel the same revulsion he experiences when he meets an actual Nazi who thinks he’s an ally. You’re supposed to feel the rush of excitement and power he gets finding a duffel bag of automatic firearms. You’re supposed to feel the cathartic release of shooting up a fast food restaurant when the minimum wage worker smugly follows a pointlessly strict menu policy.
And then you’re supposed to feel it all come falling down when he realizes that he cannot get his life back. He cannot restore his relationship with his wife or daughter. He cannot escape the consequences of his choices and his own lack of control. He did everything they told him to, but they lied to him, and now his job, his family, they are gone, and the cruel world doesn’t give a shit. He is “not economically viable” anymore, so he has been cast off.
He thinks he has nothing left to lose. He’s wrong. He thinks he has fallen down, and is on the rise. That sensation that feels like flying, it’s because he’s jumped off a cliff. And we’re all supposed to feel the landing with him.
You’re not supposed to like anybody. It’s about the fall of civilization. There is no hero. Just flawed people. Nobody is standing up for the little guy. Nobody is doing the right thing every time.
Falling Down is a movie we should all watch again.
FFVIII had those gun swords that had no gun functionality whatsoever. I kept thinking “this will be the upgrade that lets me shoot the gun, or launch the blade, or supercharge the blade with an explosive hit, or something to justify the fact that the handle is a revolver.” Each successive upgrade, it increased my expectations that the gun function would be awesome, because otherwise it would have been an earlier upgrade.
Same question, but mashed potatoes.
I really didn’t like how they found an engineer world, but it was just one agrarian city that was overrun and wiped out in a flashback. No discovery, no attempt to understand them, nothing but victims to create a spooky atmosphere.
David wanted to experiment and perfect his genetic monsters, but the species that created the xenomorphs in the first place? The ones who’s genetic material seeded life on all planets with humanoids? Fuck 'em, unleash the bats.
And then where did the bats go? After they killed all the animals and bugs on the planet? I suppose they just died, leaving David alone with some eggs, hoping another colony ship would just show up in the middle of uncharted space.
It was better than Prometheus, but it was still a poorly conceived movie. It was better than Alien 3, but worse than Alien Resurrection. I haven’t seen Romulus yet, but I hear it’s the best one since Aliens.
People stand up to wipe? Doesn’t that just smoosh poop between you butt cheeks?
I know you’re joking, but no don’t do that.
Church & Dwight is the conglomerate that owns Arm & Hammer, and they own some other cleaning product brands like OxiClean and OrangeGlo. They also own Trojan condoms and First Response pregnancy tests.
And they homeschool, so they’re home all day, snacking and eating lunch.
Imagine a hammer. This is a special hammer. It has the latest technology, which allows it to assist you hitting the nail. It can zero in on the nail, and nudge your swing to precisely strike on the optimal nail head.
But it’s still a hammer. You don’t always aim to strike a nail. Sometimes it’s removing a nail, sometimes it’s hammering something else.
That would be incredibly frustrating if every time you tried to use it, the hammer would jostle about in your hand looking for a nail head.
Now imagine that the nail manufacturers have started paying the hammer manufacturer to “prefer” their nails. Maybe those are the nails you need, maybe they aren’t, but the hammer jitters and jostles in your hand unless you’re using the brand that is paying for preferential treatment.
Somewhere along this path, the hammer has stopped being useful for even its most fundamental purpose. “Improvements” on the tool have created inefficiencies for the user. The underlying technology is good, and can improve the function of the tool, but it is being implemented poorly and the developers are prioritizing profits over functionality.
This anti-pattern repeats frequently across all industries. It has come to search engines and social media now.
None of these would stand up to scrutiny in court.
My hope is that, when the show comes on in a few weeks, they don’t even parody Trump. The actor who plays him reads his statements verbatim, because he’s so far beyond parody.