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Children should play a bootleg console at least once in their lives. A good 'ol famiclone. A NES on a chip or anything that promises 99999999 games in one but they are repeats or just start at a different level. This kind of disappointment and wonder is a unique brew of an experience that is both cheap and rich in questionable fun. A lie with an upside. Bonus points if they are actually rom hacks with the weirdest promises.
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@adiwan As a child I had an N64 controller that you would plug into a tv and it would load up 900 NES and arcade roms, probably less than a hundred of which were unique games. Kids today now can get handheld that do the same thing on Temu, everything is properly labeled, the emulators don’t run at half speed, sometimes they play like PS2 games and Fluffle Puff, you can load your own on an sd card… it just ain’t the same.
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@zeldatra For some reason I stumble upon reviews of those emulation machines and even now they are not always delivering the proper performance to even run NES games at a smooth performance. PS2 games, even PS1 and Dreamcast are a joke. There are only few exceptions where they run well enough for an enjoyable experience. The famiclone I had in the 90s was a weird "handheld" one. It was a big black "Game Gear"-like case without a screen that plugged directly into a AC/DC adaptor and it needed to be connected with a RF coax cable to the TV. It really sucked as over time both power and TV plugs on it got loose.
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It's not that I'm not empathetic towards people who lost everything in the recent LA wildfires, it's more that I don't consider washed-up media influencers living deliberately uninsured in a mansion they know they shouldn't be able to afford to be "people" like you or me https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-los-angeles-water-lawsuit-548b08e13f256079ff0ffc4e7a9c55a3
Friday, 24-Jan-25 16:16:46 UTC from web- Matt likes this.
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@scribus I hate to repeat myself but, uh, the ground shakes and it is hot and the city routinely burns to the ground once every couple of years, and a moderately wealthy person in LA County is unfathomably wealthy nearly everywhere else, why do rich people choose to live there again??
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I just realized Haruka’s head is like 30% larger than other women in Infinite Wealth and that’s why a lot of the headwear doesn’t fit here. What the FrankerZ
Saturday, 18-Jan-25 20:43:18 UTC from web-
@zeldatra It’s not even just the model ported from Yakuza 6 that’s like this. Her IW and Yakuza 5 models are also like this. She just has a slightly larger cranium. What the hell
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https://youtu.be/G6wlpkOSLI0 Modified Chitose's basic attack to look more like something Haruka would've learned through observation. First two hits are Chitose's regular rush combo, but the third is now an edited version of Kiryu's Dragon style high kick.
Monday, 30-Dec-24 22:53:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra second hit is also slightly changed in that it now launches for a slightly flashier looking hit as originally it lacked impact. I'm told this makes it impossible for enemies to dodge mid combo which is probably why RGG didn't do this to begin with but they already were not dodging mid combo very much so i don't personally think it changes the balance too much
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I have been adjusting valta that nobody touches to change some of these animations. Some of them didn’t even know they exist. It works fine right now but uhhhhh
Sunday, 22-Dec-24 19:59:23 UTC from web -
Think I might see the new Sonic later today
Sunday, 22-Dec-24 09:20:44 UTC from web -
Kaito never enters a building in Lost Judgment that requires him to take off his shoes. I learned this when his feet suddenly disappeared after I entered a shrine in Infinite Wealth.
Wednesday, 18-Dec-24 17:37:02 UTC from web-
@zeldatra In the Kaito Files DLC he has socks on when he enters the Doctor's home. https://youtu.be/gAqdA1D9YJM?t=11438 I believe that they are socks and not shoes. They are very dark and featureless.
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@adiwan His Kaito files model is stored in a separate location for whatever reason, I think I grabbed his base game model by mistake.
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Also Yagami (and Kaito’s) entries in the party database seem to genuinely stem from RGG just adding protagonists sequentially with each new game going back to Yakuza 6; Kiryu is 1, Majima is 2, Yagami is 3, Ichiban is 4, and his yakuza 7 party + Masumi Arakawa fills out the remainder before we suddenly start getting LJ side characters; seems the ones who follow you around worked internally like Y7’s party members even though most of them don’t ever join you in combat.
Monday, 09-Dec-24 05:44:26 UTC from web-
@scribus ironically perfectly in line with a recurring theme in his first game that he is not number one despite his name implying otherwise
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http://rainbowdash.net/url/876675 Kaito’s here now too just because I wanted practice
Sunday, 08-Dec-24 02:59:34 UTC from web -
Weird factoids about playable Haruka:
-she is capable of doing all of Kiryu’s minigames although because she is much shorter some of her animations are a bit weird, IE she doesn’t reach the handlebars in Can Quest. Not sure how easy the fix for those things is because although I COULD tweak the animations, they’re meant to be universal so switching the party leader to anyone else breaks the animations for them.
-she CANNOT play most of Kasuga’s minigames, he takes over for those. Likely has something to do with the game switching to his cutscene model or something like that, I haven’t looked too deep into it yet.Wednesday, 04-Dec-24 18:37:35 UTC from web-
-she CAN however go to Dondoko Island. The only issue I’ve found there is that she has no voice lines for greeting villagers, although she does not reuse Kasuga’s like I thought she would; she simply doesn’t say anything at all, opting to wave instead. That’s interesting as hell. Pulling audio from other Rie Kugimiya/Xanthe Hyunh projects probably fixes this.
-When taking selfies she either starts speaking in Kiryu’s voice (when in Japan) or Kasuga’s (in Hawaii). Not sure if this is fixable.
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Cities Skylines 2 is so great, I love how the entire town will all choose one road to drive on so no matter how many new highways you build they will all decide to clog up a suburban street forty miles away because they all decided that is the best way to work
Monday, 25-Nov-24 06:46:59 UTC from web-
@scribus I tested it by building a second “express” highway that covers the same distance and takes you STRAIGHT into key locations with no exits, inspired by I-66 from Virginia to DC where the USDOT did exactly that, and nobody took it. They all preferred to drive on the original. I’m guessing the only calculation the game makes is distance traveled and not “does taking this road actually save me any time”.
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Lots of people on Twitter going CRAZY over the fact that somebody got phone camera footage of Rockstar North’s lobby from the window and wondering how he did that. You do realize that’s a video game company and not the Pentagon, right?
Sunday, 27-Oct-24 16:34:41 UTC from web-
Like it’s a public street. The biggest threat to your wellbeing for a heist of this magnitude is campus security rolling up and telling you to knock it off.
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@zeldatra It is as exciting as shooting a video of the entrance of a super market. What do they expect? Spoilers leaking from the offices that are behind secured doors to the lobby area by themselves? I got juicier stuff from the companies I worked for and that is already somewhat public knowledge.
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Tomorrow is the day of the live-action Like A Dragon series. Definitely gonna see it with subtitles and original Japanese audio track.
Wednesday, 23-Oct-24 18:37:44 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Right! We, the fans, demand Pocket Circuit Racer! On the same note I'd like to see Kiryu giving pocket tissues to a poor soul on the public toilet, Kiryu trying to get a Bun-Chan plush from the crane game, him giving up on Mahjong, searching the city for lockers, and Kiryu getting lessons from Komaki.
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I'm glad this website's popularity peak wasn't during the AI art boom. That would have been hell to moderate
Tuesday, 08-Oct-24 08:24:40 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Probably worse in any considerable metric than the pony generator of the olden times that was written in Flash https://www.deviantart.com/generalzoi/art/Pony-Creator-Full-Version-254295904
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@adiwan I hunted this program down in 2023 to come up with a character design for SF. SUE ME.
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@zeldatra A tool is a tool. A tool is as useful as it fulfills a purpose. I meant it was used by people who did not knew its limitations in the aesthetic department.
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Oh my User the UPS application process is practically a lottery at this point ;_;
Thursday, 03-Oct-24 04:38:47 UTC from web-
@scribus I still have a background check in progress from Door Dash dating back to when I had nothing to do during Covid and tried to use my free time to earn extra cash with low effort gif work. To this day if I go to check the app they tell me my background check is still in progress.
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@scribus it hasn't completely escaped my thought process that the background check shows that i've never had any kind of legal judgment made against me, not even a speeding ticket, and somebody simply didn't believe that could be correct
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Oh boy Majima. I'm on board https://i.redd.it/0n6ai670vxpd1.png
Saturday, 21-Sep-24 06:43:48 UTC from web-
@zeldatra 60 year old yakuza, who has seemingly not aged a bit, landing with amnesia on a beach on Hawaii, taking over a sail-ship and doing classic pirate stuff. We need something more extreme than jumping the shark to even get close to this.
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Poor ol' BlackBerry battery is on its last legs, sometimes shuts down in the 70% range if it's warm or I try running any media. Works well plugged in, though! So now the question is, burner phone or USB battery pack?!? :D
Monday, 16-Sep-24 16:05:31 UTC from web-
@scribus my phone which outlasted both my parents’ marriage and my cat is starting to get there. Still usable for now but battery capacity is at like 50% now.
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@scribus I am struggling as well with mine. It barely lasts a day idling. I have to keep it plugged in over night, otherwise there is a chance it's dead next morning.
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It was called clopping, dad... and everypony did it...
Saturday, 24-Aug-24 22:15:35 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@thelastgherkin king of the hill s14e01
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@thelastgherkin "Is it the thing with the coconut from Monty Python's Holy Grail?"
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not a fan of the toe cleavage these new Nike Dri-Fit socks give me
Sunday, 04-Aug-24 13:52:02 UTC from web-
@scribus if i wanted to play Danny DeVito's Penguin in a Batman origin story movie, sure
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I think there should be a SSN lottery to determine who gets to sit behind the president and tell them what a real citizen really thinks for a week. And probably some other positions, too. Let's draw a few dozen numbers a week and have them really give the buttheads a thorough job review. Speaker, veep, SCOTUS, all the bigwig secretaries. There should be enough positions that you have pretty good odds of being heard somewhere once an administration. I foresee no way in which this would go catastrophically awry, nor be an unmanageable behemoth of a bureau.
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Tuesday, 16-Jul-24 19:55:05 UTC from web
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Ah yes New York... It needs 1.6 million USD paid to McKinsey to determine that trash bins are effective. I could have done for half.
Friday, 12-Jul-24 06:21:08 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Similar to Berlin that is so broke that any official paperwork and permit takes an eternity and there is a high likelihood that offices are closed without any good reason, and most places are a cherryhole. I was only a few times there and it wasn't a pleasant experience.
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so I guess going through four heads of state in five years isn’t a winning strategy
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Ha. Hahaha. Ha. Of course, of course.... I finally have a solid "maybe" on some part-time work, and they want me to install an app. It installs, but errors out during account creation. My old-ass device, or their bad backend? The world may never know.
Wednesday, 12-Jun-24 14:56:29 UTC from web-
@scribus I have had a “background check” in progress for two and a half years at DoorDash because of an error on their backend that nobody has ever been able to help me with.
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@zeldatra Yeah it's definitely backend, even the supervisor onboarding me was perplexed and had no one to get answers from. It was fun! haha
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Adam Corolla's new series "Mr. Birchum" is the worst Family Guy clone not because of its right-wing politics, but because despite advertising itself as "the show the LEFT doesn't want you to see!!!!", and "too OFFENSIVE and ANTI-WOKE for mainstream television", the show itself is so tame and inoffensive that I'm left wondering if it was a retooled daytime Cartoon Network pitch that didn't get picked up or something
Saturday, 18-May-24 17:02:44 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Can it really be worse than Paradise PD on Netflix? I was instantly disgusted by Paradise PD. Also I never heard or Mr. Birchum. Just the name of the show sounds like a show about a family in a box standard suburb and Mr Birchum is the mostly clueless but well-meaning man with emotional and communication problems towards his family.
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@adiwan I laughed at like one joke in Paradise PD which is more than the zero in the two episodes of Mr. Birchum that you can currently watch (on Ben Shapiro’s website, which I TOTALLY paid for and DIDN’T find it somewhere else illegally). It’s about a wood shop teacher (apparently it’s a character Adam Corolla played in his standup sets back in the 90s?) who’s upset about “kids these days” and is constantly antagonized by a caricature of a 2012 Tumblr SJW. He’s a lot like Hank Hill, except that unlike Hank he doesn’t grow at the end of the episode because the show portrays his “kids these days” mindset as the correct mindset. The first episode has him conscripting his students to do unpaid labor in his house and the SJW character is portrayed as being in the wrong for trying to get him fired over it.
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Got a flyer from the extreme right wing political party Alternative für Deutschland (AFD) (Alternative for Germany). It's disgusting what they demand like harsh deportations. There are many points that even contradict. "We want to strengthen the EU" and then "We want to get back to national currencies and weaken the EU parliament to the point it's even less effective than a paperweight made out of one sheet of paper.". Getting rid of the elements that bind the Union together is quite the opposite. Also they want to get rid of taxes. Between the lines they believe in trickle down economics. What a bunch of racist clowns.
Thursday, 16-May-24 23:22:06 UTC from web-
@adiwan The flyer was in my mailbox because of the EU parliament election. Also I got my election papers informing me where I have to vote or how to get the by-mail-voting arranged. The voting booth is in another Elementary School than I'm used to, although not living that far away. Gonna have to find out where it's located and such.
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@adiwan I got one of these from my Republican neighbor who was running for local office but was refusing to state his political affiliation because my district was like Biden+20 or something like that. He encouraged me to contact him so I sent him an email about his frankly horrific and cartoonishly evil platform. I never received a response and now I get dirty looks when he sees me walk down the street.
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@zeldatra It's sad that US politics is so extremely polarized for so long that only two parties are "viable" for voting. I don't know but maybe he was leaning towards Republican because of some topics that were OK but was ignoring the horrible other stuff and rationalized them away.
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With Lost Judgment (finally) beaten, that is every single mainline Yakuza game under my belt. I started Yakuza Kiwami around this time in 2023, so I’ve been at it for about a year. …what do I do now?
Thursday, 09-May-24 04:18:47 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I'm also inflicted with the same life question. I'm suffering for any new RGG game while contemplating if other things in life can fill out the void but never can. You can play Ishin. If you're adventurous you may play Kenzan (the other that plays in old Japan) or Kurohyou 1 and 2 (the PSP games).
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All of Ijincho only has one school and it’s a private high school, it’s no wonder everybody in town is either a yakuza, a triad, or homeless
Monday, 22-Apr-24 15:47:41 UTC from web- zapphire likes this.
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@zeldatra See what happens when you devalue public education, Larry? THIS is WHAT happens WHEN YOU devalue PUBLIC EDUCATION, Larry!! Do you see what happens? Do you see, Larry??
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@scribus unironically the dumbest person in The Big Lebowski probably was better educated than any single person in Ijincho is since according to Lost Judgment nobody at this high school actually attends any classes ever. They’re attending dance club, or reading mystery novels in a boiler room, or painting themselves to look like body models and hiding in classrooms for days at a time to steal test answers, or plotting murders, or getting beat up by me on the streets miles away from the school, but nobody’s learning, I guarantee you that
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@zeldatra It's a school for school delinquents. It's part of their curriculum to not attend school.
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So I guess Biden declared today to be the day that all trans people rise from their graves or something?
Sunday, 31-Mar-24 17:26:51 UTC from web-
@scribus Rise from your grave after top surgery call that Altered Breast
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@thelastgherkin Damn I was looking for an Altered Beast reference and it was RIGHT THERE all along?!
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This toon is ten minutes and is fully PG in content, might be the first time I’ve done something so long and so tame in about eight years
Friday, 15-Mar-24 04:46:23 UTC from web
