"game preservation" = "somebody think of the children"
I'm glad you're pointing out that nearly all emulation support is about the shallow desire to play games without paying
I'm neither stupid nor unsympathetic nor inexperienced in this area. Video games made me who I am, and I was a developer and digital media producer and executive for two decades because of video games. We do need to preserve games, but the flat truth is almost all of the squawking about emulation is really about stealing.
Edit: don't even start with me by trying to pick apart the word stealing because it's an exhausted discussion and a red herring
This is literally the only valid answer for games that have any level of production value.
I know because I was a top streamer for a MAJOR whale bait game at one time.
The second biggest reason is that the stores have absolutely zero incentive to keep trash games off. If anything, it enhances their core business model which is to sell premium space for featured apps.
My ex GF bought me those and they were great for the first 12 months then they both deformed.
Help you keep the shape when sliding the foot in, especially in nicer shoes.
No. I just have large feet. All my shoes are in great condition and the reason I use a shoehorn is to protect the backs.
Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break
I feel like I've tried everything available in all the stores, at the shoe stores, I've bought the "good" ones off Amazon, the DUBEFWEE style brands too.
They all break or deform within a year, I can't take it
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A zip tie is $0.02
Protip... Long zip tie and cut teeth into the edges with little snips.
Don't forget that the valuable peanut oil is separated hydraulically which fractures the peanut meal, and then they add back cheaper soybean oil.
(Side note: That's why it separates, and that's why even organic peanut butter separates, it's because it's been hydraulically fractured)
In my opinion, the only peanut butter that is worth a damn is fresh crushed from unsalted roasted peanuts.
Dip your bare feet in a bowl of garlicy water and you'll taste it
Hey just a heads up! Boost for reddit started working again today
I agree and that's still poison.
The idea that when something growling outside the cave has everybody shaking inside, it's the guy's job to get a pointed stick and go outside, knees knocking, heart pounding.
This is not compatible with modern life. Especially if the person scrounging around outside is a meth-addled woman, and I happen to go out in uppercut her.
Protectors & providers
It's one of the worst kind of inequality which women don't (or rarely) ever examine and question if it's compatible with modern ideas
Think about how fast a point on the equator of the Earth moves relative to a point a few cm away from the North Pole.
In one full rotation of the Earth, the point on the equator will have traveled 40,000 km, and the point by the North Pole will have traveled a meter.
So... it's that it's a useless way to express rotation.
Would I get a tattoo, no? Do I like them on others? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
I have never thought that they were particularly creative, if anything I always felt quite the opposite.
That feeling was confirmed when I was invited to a tattoo expo with a friend, there were perhaps 70 exhibitors, and all of them had the exact same or highly derivative trendy designs, and I think two of the exhibitors had unique art. That really said a lot to me.
Boost died today. I'm done with Reddit forever.
When the API fiasco went down, I backed away from all the communities I created over a decade ago and just walked away from modding.
Now I go to not participating.
I hate Reddit, and I have fun memories at the same time. I was like the 50th sign up, I even emailed spez his own source code because he had his web server badly configured to report verbose errors.
Oh well.
1997 was the year of Linux on the desktop.
Also 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
2024 baby! I can feel it.
I want to be able to crush an apple with one hand
I just think at some point in my life, there is going to be a wonderful comedic opportunity to crush an apple and I should learn how or train now. e: Anybody else have any ridiculous goals right now?
I was just remembering the time my grandfather's girlfriend tried to give me 5 gigantic paintings
They were both in their early 80s and had been together long enough they decided to move in together.
She had 5 huge framed paintings (prints) that no longer had walls to hang upon, and she wanted me to have them. All 5 of them.
Gigantic shitty prints with ostentatious gold-painted frames, featuring rose vases and fruit baskets and the like.
I think we are all familiar with this kind of "old lady" art. It was popular among the same clientele who would purchase ugly mass produced china to keep and not use. Basically department store rubbish of their day.
It was completely okay that she offered them to me.
It was not fine that she would not take "no thank you" for an answer and kept on pressing.
It was not fine when she would not accept my answers of "I do not like them" and "I do not want them" and "they are ugly" and "if you insist on giving them away, give them to a thrift store".
It didn't feel particularly pleasant to me when she acted as though she was doing me a great favor, and insinuated I was being ungrateful by not appreciating their inherent value.
Finally I cracked and said okay I will take one of the paintings, may I have that big rose painting at the front?
Yes.
It becomes my property, you won't ask for it back?
Yes it's yours!
I picked up the painting and out the front door I went. I leaned the painting up against the elm tree on the boulevard at a 45 degree angle and proceeded to kick a hole right in the center.
I went back and said do you still want to give me those other paintings?
Later that week when I was taking gramps out for lunch he told me that it was one of the funniest things ever, and he completely agreed that it was the right thing to do given how absurd her insistence had gotten. He also said he was made to suffer for my actions though lol - although he really did not lay any blame at my feet, he let the punishment roll off his back like he always did, good guy!
I would of course never behave that way now that I'm an older man. I would just more insistently say that I'm not going to take them under any circumstances.
I was inspired to tell this story based on something I read in another thread. People were delighted to tell their mom they're just going to throw her china in the garbage and relating how mom was freaking out, and they were relishing it!
Software to do morph animation with a series of weight loss progress pictures.
I have 30 pictures of 6 months of weight loss pics. In all of them I'm standing in the same background in the same position. I'm willing to do a little bit of *cutting out" backgrounds and drawing nodes if I need to.
I don't have the money for expensive software, so I'm hoping for something free or open source, even if it means I have to do extra work.
It seems like all packaged foods do this now
I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.
I made a poteefnut
Yesterday's leftover beef and broiled potato, mashed and formed into a donut-inspired shape and baked It was delicious.
Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?
One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:
While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.
Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the "unnecessary" USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.
What game did you find in a bargain bin that turned out to be awesome? For me it was Z by Bitmap Brothers which I got at Zellers for $0.47
If you're thinking of buying Z now - the modern remake is a careless trash port FYI
I'd like to find documentaries that are stylistically very different than the apparent norm.
Perhaps I'm being difficult, but I'm not deriving pleasure from documentaries the way I used to. I realize I'm speaking in generalities, please humor me.
I find the presentation of most modern docs so hyperdramatic and forced, it detracts from the underlying subject matter.
I would prefer if documentaries tried their best to collect and present information in a fascinating way, and present it as reasonably neutral as possible, with some leeway for the author's voice. I don't appreciate it when the superficial presentation constantly tries to cue me emotionally.
I really don't understand why I have to have violen symphony music playing like it's the eve of world war 3, and all the nukes are about to be launched, when I'm watching a documentary about snail parasites or particle collider research.
Even though it's different auditorially, to me it's the same principle as applying a laugh track to a comedy show. I don't need it suggested to me when something is funny, and I don't need to be cued by string orchestra music that something is serious or worrisome. Please trust me to make these judgments on my own!
I think all trends ebb and flow but this one seems to have taken root and it's doesn't seem to be letting up.
I wonder if other people feel this way, or if I'm just watching the wrong things?