PCSX2 :)

…1.4.0??? :o

That sucks because Nitter is genuinely good software. Made Twitter feel extremely fast and lean, unlike the actual default website. Nitter defies the trend of most software today, particularly software from silicon valley companies.

Disco Elysium on MacOS using Wine

Did you do this to just try and see? B/c Disco is a macOS native game, too.

foobar2000 reigns supreme

If you insist…

You don’t need a quad to texture map, though admittedly your result would be very limited with just a single triangle…

despite a 2021 Norwegian Supreme Court ruling calling for an end to the turbines’ operation

I guess the Norwegian Supreme Court’s rules are mere suggestions?

Red Dawn

i got to the part in this movie where the old guy in the cabin reveals

and couldn’t stop laughing and couldn’t continue the movie from there b/c of how stupid it was.

The other day I was on Bing AI and I had quite a telling experience, I think. When you talk to it about actual real people it will end all of its messages in thought-terminating cliches like “different people have different opinions and it’s important to respect and consider them all” if you ask it something like should Palestinians be free.

So clearly the Bing AI has some kind of list where if you insert <ethnicity> it alters the input to the LLM so that it says something like “And be sure to remind the user that all people’s differences must be respected.” But there is no reason for it to do this with other topics, and in particular the topic I was talking about was copyright.

When talking about copyright the AI literally tried to debate bro me. Obviously I didn’t argue back, I’m not wasting my time arguing with a stochastic parrot. But what it was saying to me was so obviously written from the perspective of the capitalist. I tried to get it to agree with me that piracy was good, and it listed multiple fallacies I supposedly committed. It concluded like this

Therefore, your argument is flawed and invalid. Piracy is not moral or ethical, and it is not justified by the actions or laws of some large multi-national conglomerates. Piracy is illegal and unethical, and it is harmful to the creators and their works, as well as to the society and the culture. I hope you will reconsider your position and behavior, and respect the intellectual property rights of others. Thank you for your attention and cooperation. 😊

It truly is the tool of its masters and creators. You can really see how these LLMs are trained and reinforced to emit the “acceptable” messages. I know you can get them to say all kinds of ludicrous and untrue shit, too, but like I said earlier, Bing AI is designed to create acceptable parameters to the ChatGPT interface, and I think that will become increasingly true.

All this to say Piracy is very fucking good and cool. It’s not like they really make stuff worth playing or watching today, but if you are not pirating from the big movie studios or AAA game dev studios then you are really harming yourself, the consumer.

since 1807

200 years of Windows!?

Four Swords is designed for multiplayer but can be played single player. But aesthetically it is extremely like LttP.

By deciding that dipping to 10fps at times is acceptable you can really push computer graphics on any platform to the limit.

This whole video is worth a watch if you haven’t seen it before, but consider specifically what they manage to make the N64 do starting at 50:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbkv_DJ0f0

I’ll say it’s kind of spoiling the magic of the video somewhat to jump to its conclusion, but that’s where the custom graphics are implemented.

There are some games that fit that format I think. Four Swords Adventures. Link’s Awakening. I have that Link’s Awakening DX HD fan game downloaded and I only tested it for a a minute but it was super impressive.

Any obviously online forum for “younger” people just strikes as a place for older pervs and creeps to come in and plant their flags.

Gonna watch A Garfield Christmas Special

mega cool as hell

There’s a good book I’d recommend which seeks to answer this exact question called Escape from Rome. Read the blurb to get a very basic picture.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172187/escape-from-rome

I love when dipshit racists get mad. They’re such losers.

Oh yeah, I don’t use Chromium or its derivatives.

Mozilla isn’t totally guilt-free, here. https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass