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NookNinja Member Jan 15, 2025 504 tokyo Switch 2 is hype. hype season is here. God knows that I am more hyped about this than anyone. But there is one section of the hardware I feel they really fucked up The damn Joycon trofts on sides of the tablet are colored. WHY Should have been like this man, i swear to god. what the hell were they thinking? I buy all the joycon colors. What are they going to do? make a green joycon with blue and red inside?! WHAT THE FUCK. my OCD is not ready for this.. I legit might not buy more joycon because of this.  Wrexis Member Nov 4, 2017 29,759 NookNinja said: Should have been like this man, i swear to god. what the hell were they thinking? Click to expand... Click to shrink... "The blue one goes in the blue slot, the red one goes in the red slot." I can see why they did it.  OhhEldenRing Member Aug 14, 2024 2,964 Maybe they'll have a plain grey Switch2 at some point like the OG and absent the joy con. I suspect those internal colours are specific to the joy cons they are packaged with. Still doesn't solve your problem lol  PapaJustify Member Nov 3, 2017 1,325 Germany What if they are not selling new colors seperately anymore but only in a Switch 2 bundle with the matching color on the device? Or they do sell seperately but you have to live with matching a green Joy-Con insert with a blue port on your Switch 2.  Aleh Member Oct 27, 2017 20,211 It's silly but annoying yeah. At least it won't be a real issue since you can't see the mismatch when they're attached   Liam Allen-Miller Member Nov 2, 2017 8,037 Shibuya NookNinja said: [...] I buy all the joycon colors. What are they going to do? make a green joycon with blue and red inside?! WHAT THE FUCK. my OCD is not ready for this.. I legit might not buy more joycon because of this. Click to expand... Click to shrink... Well, I don't want to tell you what to do with your money, but maybe not having to buy every color Joy-Con isn't such a bad thing! :P Real talk I have to imagine future units will have different color schemes. When I was looking at the demo unit at my local Bic Camera I was thinking the same thing, that it was an odd choice.  Pentagon Member Mar 14, 2025 73 Much like themes, you're going to get two colours the whole generation and you're going to like it, dammit!   Dukie85 Chicken Chaser Member Oct 25, 2017 3,165 NookNinja said: Switch 2 is hype. hype season is here. God knows that I am more hyped about this than anyone. But there is one section of the hardware I feel they really fucked up The damn Joycon trofts on sides of the tablet are colored. WHY Should have been like this man, i swear to god. what the hell were they thinking? I buy all the joycon colors. Click to expand... Click to shrink... Peer, is that you?   SixelAlexiS Member Oct 27, 2017 9,267 Italy NookNinja said: Switch 2 is hype. hype season is here. God knows that I am more hyped about this than anyone. But there is one section of the hardware I feel they really fucked up The damn Joycon trofts on sides of the tablet are colored. WHY Should have been like this man, i swear to god. what the hell were they thinking? I buy all the joycon colors. What are they going to do? make a green joycon with blue and red inside?! WHAT THE FUCK. my OCD is not ready for this.. I legit might not buy more joycon because of this. Click to expand... Click to shrink... I'm more annoyed by the first image not working :P   Shahadan Member Oct 27, 2017 5,620 Bluer and Redder edition Or they will color the black part and leave the blue and red for maximum ugliness. Or better yet they change the inner colors but release a switch 2 model with matching trofts, each time. You'll have to buy them all  KaladinSB Member Oct 27, 2017 844 They have the PLUS and MINUS indicator so the inner plastic doesn't have to color match. You'd only have to push through the agony for a few seconds when you see the green joycon going in or out of the blue slot or train yourself to do it blindfolded.   OP OP NookNinja Member Jan 15, 2025 504 tokyo i hate that there is color on the inside of the grooves. infuriating. It will bother me every time I put something that doesnt match it on there. WHY   OP OP NookNinja Member Jan 15, 2025 504 tokyo Liam Allen-Miller said: Well, I don't want to tell you what to do with your money, but maybe not having to buy every color Joy-Con isn't such a bad thing! :P Real talk I have to imagine future units will have different color schemes. When I was looking at the demo unit at my local Bic Camera I was thinking the same thing, that it was an odd choice. Click to expand... Click to shrink... but what if they make green ones? or red? I'll need purple ones and Yellow.. Real talk? What if they do a dpad one. PLEASE GOD.  Delaney Member Oct 25, 2017 3,947 Maybe the joycons this time around do something like the Chroma Dualsenses while keeping the blue-orange inside.   OP OP NookNinja Member Jan 15, 2025 504 tokyo Delaney said: Maybe the joycons this time around do something like the Chroma Dualsenses while keeping the blue-orange inside. Click to expand... Click to shrink... So every joycon 2 has to have some element of blue and red? so lame   Duffking Member Oct 27, 2017 6,799 They'll make pure blue/red ones and sell them to you for extra in 6 months.   Killyoh Member Oct 28, 2017 1,809 Paris, France   Windrunner Sly Member Oct 25, 2017 7,836 Calm down, it's not that serious.  

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Blizzard Entertainment and Capcom showed off the first in-game look at this week’s Overwatch 2 x Street Fighter 6 collaboration, and if you’re a fan of either property, steel yourself for an incoming hadouken on your Overwatch Coins balance. And if you’ve been waiting to see Kiriko on her bike, the Street Fighter 6 collab has finally made that possible, thanks to Juri’s motorcycle appearing in a new Kiriko highlight intro. Overwatch 2’s crossover with Street Fighter 6 was partially revealed last week, confirming perfectly cast cosplay options for Hanzo as Ryu and Zenyatta as Dhalsim. But an in-game look at all eight Overwatch heroes dressed up as Street Fighter mainstays shows that Widowmaker as Cammy and Winston as Blanka look better than they may have sounded on paper. The full list of Overwatch 2 characters getting Street Fighter 6 skins on Tuesday is: Hanzo as Ryu Juno as Chun-Li Kiriko as Juri Sigma as M. Bison Soldier: 76 as Guile Widowmaker as Cammy Winston as Blanka Zenyatta as Dhalsim Blizzard said Monday it will sell all eight collab skins as part of a Street Fighter 6 Ultra Bundle, and in two separate Mega Bundles. Overwatch 2’s Street Fighter 6 Mega Bundle 1 features Legendary Juno as Chun-Li, Hanzo as Ryu, Zenyatta as Dhalsim and Sigma as M. Bison (Dictator). The Street Fighter 6 Mega Bundle 2 includes Kiriko as Juri, Widowmaker as Cammy, Winston as Blanka, and Soldier: 76 as Guile. All fighters will also be sold individually. The only free things Overwatch 2 players will get during the collab — which runs May 20 through June 2 — are 40,000 XP, themed sprays, voice lines, and the “Street Fighter” player title that can be earned by completing in-game challenges.

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Minecraft is a game that's easy to pick up and get started with, but it's also impossibly deep. The game is full of secrets you can only discover by exploring and playingTech23:02, 17 May 2025Minecraft has many secrets(Image: Handout)Minecraft has long taken over the world, with a staggering 204.33 million users playing it monthly on various platforms including mobile devices and gaming consoles.The game's appeal lies in its simplicity to start playing, yet it offers an incredibly rich and complex experience. Minecraft is brimming with hidden features that can only be unearthed through exploration and gameplay, making it virtually impossible to discover them all.‌Here are 18 secrets about Minecraft, compiled by thegamer.com, that you might not know.‌Chicken Jockey!(Image: Daily Record)Llamas aren't just amusing fluffy companions; they can also serve as handy carriers if you're constantly running out of inventory space. By clicking on a llama while holding a chest, the chest becomes the llama's storage area.The carrying capacity of llamas varies based on their strength, ranging from 15 slots to a mere three. However, you can breed them to enhance this strength, reports craft-doesnt-tell-34950138" rel="Follow" target="_self">the Mirror.Article continues belowWhen you break a block, the breaking pattern always appears on its north side. This can be useful if you need to quickly determine your orientation.Minecraft is the best-selling game in history(Image: Mojang/Microsoft)Lava outlasts wood or coal as a furnace fuel, so it's worth marking any lava locations you come across and returning with plenty of buckets.‌In the early days of Minecraft, diamond hunters would strike gold between five and 12 levels down, but now you'll find these sparkly gems lurking between 15 and 63 levels deep – the lower you go, the better your chances.One of the quirkier tricks in the blocky universe is that if you're not feeling your blue sheep and fancy a crimson one instead, there's a nifty trick. 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You can forge an Iron Golem to aid in your defence by arranging iron blocks in a T-shape on the ground, and then topping it off with a Carved Pumpkin or a Jack O'Lantern as a head.Scatter a few around your base for your personal security squad.‌There are some things the game doesn't tell youMuch like llamas, cats offer more than just cuddly companionship. Creepers fear cats, and if you have a sufficient number around your house, they will steer clear.This proves useful when you need to complete tasks without being ambushed.‌Oddly enough, doors can generate air pockets underwater. If you position a door, it will form an air bubble you can stand in - handy for prolonged underwater excursions.The Blaze is a formidable foe, but it has one Achilles' heel - snowballs. The optimal strategy to defeat them is to pelt them with snowballs from a distance.It might seem like a good idea to obliterate mob spawners to stem the tide of adversaries. 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One of the more surprising feats some players have achieved is crafting pixel art with their maps.The snag is, if you alter your base, the map adjusts accordingly.If you're keen on preserving a design, consider adding a glass pane to your map. This allows for endless modifications while keeping your brilliant creation intact.Article continues belowFacing a horde of zombies typically spells doom. However, there's an unexpected defence mechanism - zombies seem to have an inexplicable attraction towards turtle eggs.Toss one and they'll trail behind it. This tactic can also be employed to lead zombies to their demise, yielding some valuable gold in the process.For more shocking stories from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters ‌‌‌

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The Trump administration is apparently now putting pressure on Apple to stop developing an iPhone manufacturing ecosystem in India and bring the iPhone factories to the US instead.  With that in mind, let’s do a little thought experiment:  What would happen if Apple decided to move iPhone manufacturing to the US today? Nothing much to start with The first thing, of course, is that nothing would happen. Nothing could possibly happen that isn’t happening already. It can’t. You can’t magic this kind of iPhone manufacturing capacity out of thin air overnight. The factories don’t exist, the production equipment they need hasn’t been built yet, the land to put factories on hasn’t been purchased or even identified, the infrastructure around those sites hasn’t been upgraded to handle the inevitable traffic, the staff have not been recruited or trained, and Apple’s production partners would need to be convinced to deploy factories to America. The company would also need to build a logistical system to import components and precious metals that the US does not have or cannot supply. (And, yes, recycling and a circular manufacturing system would help with that.) How long do those problems take to solve?  We have a glimmer of an idea of how long it takes just by calculating the length of time it has taken for Apple to be able to shift about 20% of its iPhone manufacturing to India. Building production capacity to that point has taken a decade, and while iPhone manufacturing partners are rapidly expanding on this, obstacles to completely replacing China in the manufacturing chain remain.  If the US were willing to provide at least equivalent subsidies to help Apple and its partners set up shop in America as India has done to nurture industrial development there, then the best-case scenario says it would take at least another decade for Apple to shift production capacity to the US. At what price? But there would be other consequences of making such a move. India, which is a growing market for Apple, would not take it kindly, and sales growth there would shrink. Apple’s old partners in China would also be upset, which would cause even more Chinese consumers to abandon iPhones. (It matters that sales of foreign-brand smartphones in China are down 50%.) Losing face in those markets would damage Apple’s bottom line — consumers there would reject the company as a response to feeling rejected themselves — even as investing to build production capacity in the US would generate additional costs. And, of course, the cost of American labor is higher. The cumulative impact would be lower sales, higher costs, and inevitably lower revenue. Apple generating less money isn’t just a problem for Apple, it’s a problem for America, too. Apple is one of the biggest corporate taxpayers in the US, and the US government, military, and economy needs those tax dollars to keep rolling. The actual cost of transitioning manufacturing to the US wouldn’t just mean that Apple has to charge $3,000 per iPhone, it would also mean the US receives lower taxes. How does that make sense? For what benefit? Would it create jobs? That’s doubtful. The cost of labor and the shortage of key skills in the US would make it mandatory for these US iPhone factories to be highly automated. That would mean fewer manufacturing jobs than hoped for. There would be some, but not hundreds of thousands of them, and the increased cost of Apple products would inevitably make for more expensive devices, itself generating lower revenues. There is a sensible course of action, one that does create jobs and lays a strategic path toward US economic dominance in future.  That is to encourage Apple to site its high-value, cutting-edge product manufacturing facilities in the US. It makes sense to do this — Apple Vice President Eddy Cue told us why when he said that we cannot be certain people will still be buying iPhones in ten years’ time. (Ironically, that means that by the time the first US factories come online to produce iPhones, demand for the products they create may collapse.) Think in the long term The most sensible course is to invest in the skills, technologies, manufacturing capacity, component supply, and logistical support it takes to build the next generation of tech products, rather than cannibalizing demand for the ones that are selling like crazy today. Apple is already doing exactly this — it’s what its promised $500 billion investment in the US over the next four years represents. That huge pile of cash is being spent on the next-generation technologies that will drive the rest of this ‘American century.’ That’s where the Trump administration should be supporting Apple’s efforts. Creating the ecosystem for the future is the way forward, not decimating an already successful business model that already benefits the nation. As Steve Jobs used to say, quoting hockey great Wayne Gretzky: skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. You can follow me on social media! Join me on BlueSky,  LinkedIn, and Mastodon.