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PlasticExistence ,

Thank you for working on this and for sharing with everyone!

PlasticExistence ,

Bold of you to assume any of this is real.

PlasticExistence ,

PROOF OF THESE RUNES CARVED INTO GOLDEN PLATES

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PlasticExistence ,

Gotta be in it to win it?

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Because Sega does what Nintendon’t

PlasticExistence ,

I try not to. I worked there twice.

PlasticExistence ,

The first time was fun because I had a good manager and Netflix was still seen by them as the upstart and not a real competitor.

A couple of years later and things at a different location under a coke head manager made for a very different experience.

PlasticExistence ,

Fencing stolen goods between our store and a GameStop that was run by a former district manager of Blockbuster, plus her husband was a cop.

PlasticExistence ,

I don’t pretend to understand Brannigan’s Law. I merely enforce it.

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PlasticExistence ,

Drilldozer on GBA is a decent game that’s easy to consume in small chunks

PlasticExistence ,

The game still needs to be available for the right CPU architecture.

PlasticExistence ,

I remember using the mouse on Wolfenstein 3D, but that was the only game I ever played with it besides Mario Paint.

PlasticExistence ,

Games with “tank” controls like Tomb Raider or Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver. I find them painful and unenjoyable.

PlasticExistence ,

I want to like LOK:SR, but I can’t get past how much I dislike how it controls.

I agree that Tomb Raider is worse though.

PlasticExistence ,

Ah, but if you only go after what you want, then by definition you’re avoiding what you don’t want.

PlasticExistence ,

Nothing wrong with knowing what you like. I grew up on arcades and early generation consoles, so my preference skews towards faster paced games with tight controls. Because of that I just don’t enjoy anything that I perceive as slow to control. To be fair though, any games from those early generations that felt slow to control didn’t appeal to me either.

PlasticExistence ,

Bird>Dee Reynolds

There’s no difference here though

PlasticExistence ,

Perhaps a passthrough to a VM running Windows would work? Though that’s probably a lot of work unless you already use one.

PlasticExistence ,

Several times I’ve had to wait for months on healthcare in the US system. This is such a weak argument against a socialized system.

PlasticExistence ,

Inflation may have fallen, but prices haven’t. Additionally, my annual pay is still $12k below where it should be had it only kept up with inflation over the last four years, no raises included.

Anecdotal data isn’t worth much, but I think it’s clear that Americans largely feel the same pressures.

PlasticExistence ,

Okay, but only if he lives on a vegan diet.

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That data is made of averages which aren’t worth a lot when you discuss people’s feelings about the economy, and also not everyone is getting a raise equally. Many don’t get one at all and those people are definitely still dealing with prices being higher.

Additionally, the cumulative rate of inflation over the last four years is over 20%, so unless my annual salary rises to be at least that much higer than it was four years ago then my real buying power has still decreased. It doesn’t matter that the average raise is outpacing inflation if I never receive enough raises to at least keep up.

States with laws that are hostile to workers - as mine is - make it hard to find employment where your employer will increase your pay to at least track inflation. This kind of thing gets lost in the discussion of averages.

Just because a person might have a wealthy neighbor while they live in poverty doesn’t really mean that, on average, everyone is doing fine. It still means some are still hurting.

From the article:

Though the central bank now believes inflation is largely defeated, many Americans remain upset with still-high prices for groceries, gas, rent and other necessities.

The comment on this article that you were originally responding to was most certainly one of frustration with this situation, not one aimed at the Fed’s decisions about interest rates. I feel that frustration too.

It kinda doesn’t matter if the Fed made every single right move if this was still the outcome for a large swath of America. People are going to be voicing frustration every time an article about the economy is posted.

I have an B.S. in Economics, by the way.

PlasticExistence ,

This was an underlying plot point in Metal Gear Solid 2.

PlasticExistence ,

Maddrey said the officers followed the man, each firing a Taser which proved ineffective in subduing the man. He then exited the train while it was still at the station and charged the officers with the knife, the chief said.

What, it’s not a good idea to do that now?

PlasticExistence ,

They weren’t necessarily in the right either. They wounded a couple of bystanders in the process.

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PlasticExistence ,

Oh, yes. That’s how I originally saw it.

PlasticExistence ,

Nintendo of America only allowed the blood in Mortal Kombat to look like sweat on the SNES. IIRC, the second game had blood though.

Liz Cheney blocked January 6 scrutiny of Ginni Thomas, book says (www.theguardian.com)

Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, did “all she could” to protect the rightwing supreme court justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, the political activist Ginni Thomas, by blocking an in-depth investigation of Ginni’s involvement in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020...

PlasticExistence ,

Well said. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

Or as that war criminal Henry Kissinger said, “there are no allies, only temporarily-shared interests.”

‘Clearly chicken you weirdo’: People respond to JD Vance sharing video he claims shows migrants grilling cats (www.independent.co.uk)

Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator JD Vance continues to stoke outrage against foreign-born members of his own constituency, sharing video footage with his 1.9 million social media followers that he claimed showed African migrants in Dayton, Ohio “eating cats” — but instead appears to show nothing more than...

PlasticExistence ,

That only underscores the point of advertising their refusal to pass it: it should have fully satisfied Republicans and given them most of what they want, but the Orange Shit Stain said not to pass it so they could complain about immigration during the election.

Democrats should use it as a loud and constant example of how Republicans are not leaders and have no solutions for America.

PlasticExistence ,

You’re not understanding me. Yes, the bill was awful and should not have had their support.

So given that, what exactly is the Republican justification for not supporting it? That needs to be highlighted so that perhaps enough GOP voters just stay home on election day - especially in swing states.

Like it or not, Republicans must not win this election so that our democracy survives. We will have lots of work to do after the election to push the Democrats back to supporting the average person and not the rich, but that’s the next fight and not this one!

Hold your nose and vote for democracy.

PlasticExistence ,

That bill was a super republican bill, I honestly do not know why the Democrats keep bragging about this as if every “bipartisan” bill has merit.

I’ve been attempting to respond to your original comment. The Democrats are not using this to brag. They are using it to highlight the failures of the Republican party.

I walked around knocking on doors in an unfriendly neighborhood for Bernie Sanders, so you don’t need to talk to me about criticizing Democrats or wanting them to move left.

PlasticExistence ,

I don’t think it was a bluff, unfortunately. Neither do I think they should not criticize the Republicans for their behavior.

PlasticExistence ,

Because every day their investments in open source projects are making our ecosystem better?

PlasticExistence ,

I quit, told him to go fuck himself, that we see who he really is and to delete my account after he started banning journalists who dared to criticize the “free speech absolutionist” dickhead.

PlasticExistence ,

Not necessarily. Accuracy comes down to specific implemention of the emulator, hardware or software.

Where FPGA shines is it can do operations in parallel, just like actual hardware would. This means there will be a lot less latency in the emulation, giving it a feel that’s close to the original hardware.

An FPGA implementation of the GBA can be as inaccurate as software emulation, and just because a game seems to play the same way doesn’t mean the emulator is calculating everything in the exact same way as the original hardware. Cycle accuracy isn’t technically necessary to have it still seem exactly the same so long as the timing is the same. That’s what the PS1 core on the MiSTer is (timing accurate, though not perfectly cycle accurate).

PlasticExistence ,

The PS3 was pretty damned expensive for the time. I bought a MGS4 version, and I nearly returned it due to the expense. A few things made me keep it though: it was an excellent media player with lots of support for plugging in external drives full of media (and IIRC they regularly pushed new codecs out with system updates), wireless controllers and Burnout Paradise. I still play Burnout Paradise regularly. I never owned many Blu-ray movies, but it had that going for it too when most of the world was still using DVDs.

I don’t think that anything that has followed the PS3 has been nearly as good of a device. I hardly ever use my PS5 now, and if most of my library weren’t PlayStation-exclusive titles, I’d probably just sell the thing in favor of my Steam Deck.

PlasticExistence ,

It was the same with the PS2 and DVDs

PlasticExistence ,

Is that why dogs taste like trigonometry?

Swiss city councilor apologizes for firing gun at a Mary and Jesus poster (apnews.com)

A city councilor in Switzerland has apologized and reportedly sought police protection against threats after she fired a sport pistol at an auction poster of a 14th-century Madonna and child painting and posted images of their bullet-ridden faces on social media....

PlasticExistence ,

“Why? Because God hates me, that’s why. He has made my life miserable. So I called him a cocksucking asshole. Then I get grounded.”

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PlasticExistence ,

What’s a buttfor?

PlasticExistence ,

I still watch and sing along with this movie on a regular basis. It aged pretty well.

How much do y'all spend on coffee a month?

My wife and I go through about 4lbs a month using mainly Chemex and Areopress. Used to get (decent) crummy coffee at Aldi and Grocery Outlet, occasionally splurging for local roasts at the coffee shops. Still, I calculate that’s about $35 or so a month on beans, Chemex filters should probably be calculated with how pricey they...

PlasticExistence ,

The Kirkland beans really are bad, which is surprising. I like the Don Pablo beans they carry a lot though.

PlasticExistence ,

Lavazza is delicious too. I actually don’t know if the American Costco stores carry Lavazza. I didn’t think my local store does. I see in their website that they may only be available for delivery.

PlasticExistence ,

“If it bleeds, I can use its proteins to reproduce!”

Just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials (www.techspot.com)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has reached a significant milestone in its expansion into the US. Recent trial production at the company’s new Arizona facility has yielded results comparable to those of its established plants in Taiwan, according to Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the company who requested...

PlasticExistence ,

That would be in a world better than this one. Unions and a strong government that serves its people is how things like that are accomplished. Big businesses in an unregulated capitalist system will always choose profit over people.

PlasticExistence ,

I’m going to pistol whip the next person who says shenanigans

PlasticExistence ,

Won’t anyone do something about the plight of the beans!?

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