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Making The 8Bitdo NES30 Pro Work With RetroPie On Raspbian Jessie

Last night was long.

I've got a shiny new Raspberry Pi model B running NOOBS. I've got an 8Bitdo NES30 Pro bluetooth joypad. I've installed RetroPie on the thing using the RetroPie-Setup script.

All I wanted to do was to get the controller to work.

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Book Review - Unspeakable Things by Laurie Penny

If you don't believe that Laurie Penny gets disproportionate online hate, try tweeting praise of her on Twitter. When I was halfway through her latest book, Unspeakable Things, I was already so excited and inspired by it that I tweeted “Halfway through @PennyRed's Unspeakable Things and I already want to go round handing out copies to strangers demanding they read it.” Within ten minutes, a man named Nicopotamus crawled out of the woodwork to tell me “Please don't force that toss on anyone.”

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A Short Review Of All The E-Liquids I Have Vaped So Far

I have an awful lot on my plate at the moment, so it is only natural that right now seems like an extremely good time to start reviewing the E-liquids I have been vaping.

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On Being A Male Rape Victim

Before writing a text that will contain an explicit description of a rape, it is only polite to include the phrase 'trigger warning' as early as possible, as there are those who will get to that phrase and decide that they do not wish to read further at this time. So. Trigger warning. You have been warned.

If that is enough to make you stop reading right here and now, please know that that's ok, and I hope that you will come back later on.

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