The case.

Cracking and sending it in again is possible, although I think the vast majority of thieves want a quick payday and would not be willing to invest money and wait the months or years (backlog) for grading.

There’s people who like to buy graded cards and “liberate them from their prisons” to be played. The whole collectors’ grading system is insane. See also: the massive fraud in video game grading by Wata and Heritage Auctions.

The card itself doesn’t get serialized, but the card gets “slabbed”; put in a plastic case that is serialized and can’t be opened without damage.

Correct. Like “plunge” without the “lu”.

That reminds me of the court scene in Ghostbusters. “It’s true, your Honor. This man has no dick.”

There was also a kids’ animated series and action figures based on Toxic Avenger, which is definitely not a kids’ movie.

Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour (favorite track: Rods and Cones)

Kellyanne Conway, U.S. Counselor to the President, in 2017.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

The company that made my TV is engaged in copyright infringement, you say? Transmitting copyrighted images over the Internet for profit?

Huh.

God can’t seem to get much done without the US Military 😬

Yeah… Bad headline; this is completely precedented.

Religious zealots can’t be allowed to have nukes. You have to at least masquerade as a well-adjusted nation while you develop the nukes and slowly massage your zealots into positions of power over a few decades. Those are the rules.

Problem is that they would still need to have some kind of authentication to avoid offline backups becoming clone factories. I used to give away Mews and Celebis by trading them and then restoring my cart’s SRAM with a portable backup device.

Phones’ modems have their own firmware that gets flashed by the cell provider, so I think spies would target that.

https://www.npr.org/donations/support

It’s lemmy.ml that censors it. I see it just fine here.

I sounds like your window manager is telling the program to display with high-DPI scaling when it shouldn’t be. This is a common issue when running older software written for X11 on newer Linuxes that are using Wayland. fre:ac was originally written in 2001!

You might have a system display setting to control scaling of “legacy” (X11) applications. I know KDE Plasma does.

fre:ac is almost exactly like Exact Audio Copy.

No adapter is necessary, I set mine up recently.

Some WiiU NAND chips have been prematurely failing, so I recommend adding isfshax when done with the Aroma setup; it makes it easier to unbrick a console with bad NAND.

It’s lemmy.ml censoring it.

Buggy code from Waninkoko bricked a lot of Wiis and PS3s back in the day. So, you could have followed the mod directions exactly and still bricked.

Many 80s games have an amusing hybrid design. Galaga has its game code and sprites in ROM, but has an entire custom chip that is a dedicated circuit for generating the ship explosion sound, another custom chip that only makes the scrolling starfield, etc.