You're right, my bad: a quick search lead me to think that it had some server dependency that had been shut down prematurely, before the console's own online services.
I'm guessing the matchmaking is part of the Wii U's shared online services and not game-specific.
Even beyond the wireless stuff it's focused on, it's super useful as a combined UART bridge, SPI Flash dumper, DAPLink debugger and other hardware tools.
When I was 16 I was definitely hosting services for people on a monthly VPS, but it wasn't until a few years later when my cloud provider imploded with 2 hours notice while I was in class and I lost all my files that I started to self-host with my own hardware over a VPN.
To be fair in the Animal Crossing game on the original DS that basically happened (People could drop glitched items spawned with an Action Replay that would effectively brick your game).
>But quitting is really hard. I'd successfully exhaust my supply, but there's always bowl- and grinder-scrapings. After a night or two of smoking tar and dust, "fuck it", I'd find some more.
I've found my attempts to quit go better when I actually have a large supply of it that I'm consciously choosing not to indulge in. When your supply is exhausted your brain goes into a bit of a panic mode about it and you can't think rationally about how/why you're quitting.
"this stuff is claimed to superconduct all the way up to room temperature and indeed up past the boiling point of water. Its critical temperature is said to be 127C"
Would this have implications about possible efficient methods of converting heat back into electricity? Or even just more ways of harnessing heat energy in general. I'm imagining heat pumps built with superconductors could be a critical part of mitigating climate change, but I'm far from a scientist and barely understand the physics here.
No, it just means that the material conducts electricity without losing almost any energy through heat at that critical temperature. Heat itself is a process of energy transfer (heat itself is not energy which many people fail to recognize if they haven't studied thermodynamics thoroughly).
