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Off Topic / Re: Eclipse 2024 - Path of Totality!

« on: April 11, 2024, 10:57:24 PM »

went outside and watched it here in western ohio. you got some really great pics with that camera. love how you taped the glasses onto the inside where the lens is lol

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Off Topic / Re: April Fools 2024

« on: April 02, 2024, 05:44:35 PM »

there's a growing movement that opposes april fools day pranks because "they're annoying". google being a big one, they haven't done a prank since 2019.
given that every big tech company wants to copy each other, most of them saw what google was doing and joined in.

even reddit didn't do one this year, and they always have something up for april fools.

evidently google quit doing it during the pandemic and haven't done it since because they are a bunch of snowflakes. even dumber is the verge saying "thank you"

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360619/google-april-fools-2021-prank-cancel

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Off Topic / Re: [Politics Megathread] - Alabama Special Election flips Republican seat to Democrat by 25 points!

« on: March 27, 2024, 03:12:14 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: Kalphiter

« on: March 22, 2024, 07:49:28 PM »

he goes by the name Queuenard these days

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Games / Re: what are some good nintendo switch games

« on: March 17, 2024, 11:37:07 PM »

i like co-op game so here are some i played on switch that are fun with a friend

portal knights - a minecraft-like adventure game with RPG elemnts
wizard of legend - fast paced 2D top-down beat-em-up
kingdom 2 crowns - 2D village building simulator
super mario bros wonder - 3D side-scrolling platformer

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Off Topic / Akira Toriyama passes away at age 68

« on: March 08, 2024, 03:39:29 PM »

extremely sad news. r.i.p the legend who created dr. slump, dragonball, and helped make several amazing games

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Drama / Re: Community Drama - I hate Blockland in many ways but not the game - No leave

« on: March 08, 2024, 01:26:25 PM »

Seek mental health services OP

your not supposed to be allowed to say that but you did anyways, probably a bone in your ass

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Off Topic / Re: Happy international women's day everyone

« on: March 08, 2024, 01:18:41 PM »

I hate my girlfriend

lol

reach out to the women important to you in your life, and let them know how much you appreciate them

i do this on a daily basis!

I like men

it's a long way to november bub

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Games / Re: Retro Games

« on: March 06, 2024, 09:33:37 PM »

if only there was an online version of this. i could imagine someone potentially making an online version, similar to how people made smash melee online

seems you can use netplay on ePSXe for this, although I haven't tested online functionality for this particular emulator so I'm unsure of how well it works. maybe give it a try?

https://www.remz.ca/web/classic-vg/play-station-netplay-tutorial/

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Games / Re: Retro Games

« on: March 06, 2024, 12:33:45 PM »

i always reopen my PS2 for some Mortal Kombat Armageddon (2006) and Twisted Metal 4 (1999). idk if late 90s/mid 2000s count as "retro" but they do take me back

Armageddon was good but as far as Mortal Kombat on PS2, my favorite was Shaolon Monks. amazingly fun couch co-op adventure. I still remember back when I first discovered the game on a ps2 demo disk all the fatalities were censored lol.

Twisted Metal 4, now that is a game I have played hundreds of times throughout the years. A bona fide classic! My brother and I still play that game every once in a while when we are hanging out on the weekends, though sometimes we opt to play Crash Bash instead.

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Games / Re: Retro Games

« on: March 05, 2024, 06:37:22 AM »

all of my pre-hdmi consoles now go through a retrotink upscaler and stuff looks good on the 4k tv i have everything connected to. the setup covers everything from ps1/n64 to xbone/ps4/wii u, its pretty awesome

I got a similar product for my soft-modded PS2, they really do a great job at improving the picture quality on newer TVs/monitors

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Games / Re: Retro Games

« on: March 04, 2024, 01:21:34 AM »

I recently modded a SNES Classic Mini Console, installed retro-arch and a number of emulators on it. there is a branch of scummVM core that runs on retro-arch so I've been experimenting around with a number of old PC games on the system - they run fine after some adjustments to audio settings to stop crackling but I still can't figure out how to get games for this specific core to save.

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you

« on: February 29, 2024, 04:30:06 PM »

• App with no help docs implements a help chatbot that is just OpenAI

oh, this reminded me of one that irks me

when there are help docs but it's some pdf scans of an old book with no actual way of searching through them using ctrl+f, instead you gotta actually use the "table of contents" page to find wtf your looking for and hope it's actually in that section and not some arbitrary info tip in some other completely unrelated section

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Forum Games / Re: Blockland Vending Machine! (OP missed 10 year anniversary and should feel bad)

« on: February 20, 2024, 06:45:34 AM »

With your specialty prescription glasses you are able to see the future - because of this you know exactly what will happen when

*Goth inserts a bottle cap*

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Help / Re: .Ogg files no longer readable, lags file explorer

« on: February 18, 2024, 02:33:28 PM »

on a side note, the K-Lite codec pack is great thing to have to natively play other types of sound/video such as .flv .mov .ogg .ogm, and more in windows media player natively

https://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm