Good luck and have some fun! I have to say that upgrading a guitar is somehow more rewarding than using it after the upgrade; though I have to admit that I’m using my upgraded Mex-Strat more often than my American Strat.

A little bit of luck is needed. I’ve upgraded the tuners for two of my guitars without problem. Then I wanted to upgrade the tuners on my Squier Telecaster: The small holes for the pins on the underside were in the wrong place. I thought, ok, let’s drill new holes. Unfortunately I needed to drill the new holes right beside the old holes; which meant that my drill kept slipping into the old hole and I don’t have the necessary equipment to fix everything, so those shiny expensive tuners are still waiting for their day.

Nope, they weren’t. But there were definitely differences whether you played on a Sony Trinitron or a cheap TV. Hell, I even played some games on black-white-TV when the color TV wasn’t available.

When I joined Lemmy it felt so nice. It felt like the early Internet; all the bullshit I got used to on Reddit, it wasn’t here. It was like feeling at home.

Nowadays, whenever I see toxic bullshit and sedition disguised as leftism, it’s someone from lemmy.ml; my Lemmy-experience got a lot better after blocking the lemmy.ml-instance. But I will start blocking more aggressively and I hope things get better after the US-elections.

How deep underground is safe to protect against a modern nuclear blast?

It depends if you live in St. Petersburg or in some bunker in the Urals. If you’re in St. Petersburg, then it doesn’t matter; but you should be pretty safe in the Urals.

RIP Richard Lewis

I watched this a few days ago and I love how he and Larry were able to openly joke about it.

That’s not a dog, that’s a viper… which makes this a snake under a plane.

It’s one of Putin’s strategies: To make it look like it is a conflict between the US/NATO and Russia, not between Ukraine and Russia. He also tries to diminish Ukrainian sovereignity by making it appear as if the US is the overlord, as if Ukraine is an American puppet. It’s all about making Ukraine look like it isn’t its own country. That’s why we get those bullshit historic lessons by that pathetic man-child.

Hamilton’s idol was Senna, who never drove for Ferrari. So I would assume that driving for Ferrari indeed wasn’t a childhood dream (it definitely was a dream for Vettel regarding that The Michael was his idol).

But Hamilton did regularly implicate wanting to drive for Ferrari since a few years, if not a decade.

As much as I love this song, but because of recent events, it would be better to sing “some Russians love their children too”.

Oh yes! One of my favorite tracks. I always loved to race on this track in the different games, be it Geoff Crammonds GP-series or the Codemasters one!

Can someone explain to me why this shootdown is even news instead of a statistic?

It’s a military airplane shot down in a shooting war. Does Russia now call the UN security council when Ukraine destroys a transport truck? Why is the media constantly falling for Russia’s bullshit behaviour?

This reminds me of 2016 and the massive propaganda against Hillary Clinton. It’s clear that these are attempts at manipulating left-wing voters to abstain from voting for Biden.

Some more bumper advice:

• watch out for blue bumpers in the pit lane! If a blue bumper manages to spin attack in the pit lane, your race is over. Best way is to use skyway if you have it. Otherwise defend your self with spin attack, but it will slow you down considerably
• lagging blue bumpers: if you see a blue bumper in front of you lagging, take immediate avoiding action (best is skyway). You may not see the bumper, but it is in front of you and it will attack you. it completely wrecked my race because I was attacked in the slip zone in White Land I
• if there are red bumpers in the jumping section of White Land I, consider staying on the ground. I was in first place and there were two red bumpers. I avoided the first one, but because of this I crashed into the second bumper in the air, which send me into the first bumper in the air. Yes, I managed to hit two red bumpers in the air in the same jump.

Come on! Move!

Big congrats! Your first win is also worth more because of the brutal competition nowadays!

Which track?

And next stop: Mini Prix!

If I were Nintendo, I’d announce that a successor to FZeroGX is in development. I’d also announce that FZero99 will be expanded beyond the original content. I myself don’t really care about FZeroGX, FZero99 is a childhood dream becoming true, without knowing that this was my childhood dream, so I hope that we’ll be able to play 99 for a while.

That’s great, keep on getting those 2nd places because at some point that S+ driver will crash out in the last corner driving into a red bumper. That driver might be me… I’ve gotten this way a few freak wins, but I also threw away many wins…

A good way to get your first win is team battle. S+ drivers won’t participate in those, as they want that S2 or S3 or higher ranking and team battle gives you no rivals. It’s also good way to chill out.

If you really want your first win, then practice Silence. A lot of people choke on Silence and the front runners are usually chill because the championship is decided by that point. Practice getting clean laps on Silence, meaning always hitting that jump (and avoiding the mines), and not bouncing into the barrier (touching the barrier in corners is ok). Usually 3 practice runs on Silence is enough for the Grand Prix.

Thanks for the update!

Interesting, I’m going to guess it’s 20th place at Death Wind in the Grand Prix.