What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[mjmjr25]

I had the same thing w/my Wii HORI stick - I remember thinking i'd just replace the buttons, but I know I ended up selling it instead. IIRC, the pcb is hard soldered to the buttons - it wasn't an easy swap like the HORI sticks for PS3 and 360.

[fastbilly1]

If you are good with a solder pump or braid and a dremel you can desolder all the buttons and swap out for Sanwas. If I remember correctly the hole needs a small widening to make it work. The stick on the other hand painful to swap.

I own three Hori Wii sticks and have used one super extensively over the last few years, enough that the laminate has come off. It is just an excellent formfactor and weight for me.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Did a little looking around on the internet since I've been told about all this depression stuff on here and from a couple others, and from looking at it I could, possibly, have Avoidant Personality Disorder. However, I don't think I have any of the symptoms seriously enough for it to be a real possibility, and I'm not sure how to look at it. Unless I've misunderstand, there's pretty much nothing you can really do for it other than group therapy, and that isn't really known to help much, essentially most symptoms just get pushed past as one gets older and is forced into more social situations and such. I don't know if I should pursue seeing if this is my problem, or just try and make do with the ways thing are.

School's getting closer to done, though it is a bit bittersweet thinking I might not see some of these people again, excluding those staying home and the staggering amount of people also going to A&M.

Biology lab report on a lab I don't understand. Freaking amazing.

[darsparx]

- school is done after this week for a few months, and possibly getting the stock job...it's only been a day and he's already called me back(don't know if it will be full time or part time, it could be either was interviewed for full time but I could settle for part time since stocking can transfer to full time...)

[Rurouni_Fencer]

I managed to get 3 YLODs on 3 separate PS3's today.. (I cannot make this shit up!)

Nice to see you, Rurouni.

...despite the seemingly bad circumstances.
How do you get three YLODs? Doing repair work?

Hey Opa Opa! (hoping to become more active again on the boards!)

Yea, repair work - was donated a PS3 and what began as a simple power supply swap turned into a yellow light. Then, out of nowhere, my own personal Slim model I've had for 4+ years just started doing it all of a sudden, (despite a full week sitting in a steadily 62 degree basement.)

And as for the replacement PS3 I tried to buy - the seller messaged me within 3 hours of the auction close to inform me that it had *just* gotten the YLOD.

....somebody upstairs wants me to focus more on my Turbo Duo.

[Luke]

Smile: Yesterday kicked tail. Attended a ribbon cutting, and then had friends over for a Cinco De Mayo feast. Tostadas, Tacos (crunchy and soft), Chile Rellenos, chalupas, refried beans, corn/chili muffins, rice, salad, guacamole, fresh avocado with adobo, taquitos, some sort of milk drink, and more.

We straight up stuffed ourselves while listening to Santana.

I'll never understand why Dish doesn't like holidays. Food, fun and friends is, well, fun.

[Jmustang1968]

Smile: Yesterday kicked tail. Attended a ribbon cutting, and then had friends over for a Cinco De Mayo feast. Tostadas, Tacos (crunchy and soft), Chile Rellenos, chalupas, refried beans, corn/chili muffins, rice, salad, guacamole, fresh avocado with adobo, taquitos, some sort of milk drink, and more.

We straight up stuffed ourselves while listening to Santana.

I'll never understand why Dish doesn't like holidays. Food, fun and friends is, well, fun.

This sounds like the epitome of white guys do Mexican celebration. From the food you guys are eating, I didn't realize it was a Texas holiday.
I am guessing the milk drink was horchata? It is a sweet rice drink.

[Luke]

This sounds like the epitome of white guys do Mexican celebration. From the food you guys are eating, I didn't realize it was a Texas holiday.
I am guessing the milk drink was horchata? It is a sweet rice drink.

I also don't care that Irish people don't eat Corned beef. I do on Saint Patrick's Day anyway. Mexicans probably don't listen to a lot of Santana either, or maybe they do. Eh, it's all about having fun anyways. And, if it was just my wife and I, I would have served
tamales from scratch or perhaps chorizo omelets, but I had a crew that included people who stick to American/Mexican food.

Horchata it was. I've had it several times before, but the name never sticks.

[catnip]

I also don't care that Irish people don't eat Corned beef. I do on Saint Patrick's Day anyway.

I'm with you, man. Yesterday, my Facebook feed was flooded with people saying, in effect, "if you treat this more 'Mexican' than any other holiday, you're racially insensitive and a bigot". I think this sort of shit has gone a little too far. For something like a "Kakewalk" (like they did at my university until the early 80's), everyone dressing up, wearing blackface, and dancing around for cake? Yeah, I can dig not doing that. THAT seems insensitive/offensive. Chugging tequila and eating tacos? That's not saying all Mexicans do it. Hell, for me, it's an excuse to chug tequila and eat tacos. That's it. It's fantastic. Love tequila, love tacos.

I'm of Irish and French descent. Do I get offended when people make a leprechaun joke, or when someone air-smokes a cigarette, and says "stupid Americans" in a snooty "French" accent? Hell no. Because it doesn't matter. There's a difference between a condescending stereotype and a joke that is widely known in the public consciousness that isn't meant to offend.

TL;DR People need to lighten up IMO.

EDIT: Please, if this offends any of you, shoot me a message and we can talk about it. Certainly not my intention. :p

[Ack]

It should be noted that Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, in which a much smaller and poorly equipped Mexican force held off a French invasion on its own while the US was busy fighting the Civil War. There is a belief amongst some historians that the French under Napolean III would have entered the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy if they had been successful in their invasion of Mexico, in a long bid to end the American Union and gain greater control in the region.

So consider Cinco de Mayo as the day Mexico saved the US Union.