When I was a kid I would get Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape. That was fun stuff.

I had a girlfriend 20 years ago who did similar to this. She was very gentle and super into skin care though, it was relaxing and not painful.

This is pretty simple though right?

Healing factor - always-on healing.

Borderlands 1 was great. Phasewalk is easily the best skill.

I call bullshit.

My daughter was 3 when she was watching me play Final Fantasy 4. Cid jumped out of the airship and blew himself up.

She screamed turn it off and ran out of the room. We found her crying in the corner of the room and her mum asked what happened. In between sobbing she choked out “… Cid…” and that was all she could say until she calmed down.

That’s just one example. Plenty of other times she’s just covered her eyes and said she doesn’t want to watch anymore if people are arguing on screen, or a death is involved.

That first panel. I love Calvin.

You’ve lost me. Why wouldn’t I ask my partner what she feels like? Is asking questions not a part of social skills?

I still play OpenTTD every now and then.

But back in 1997, I had the shareware version of Transport Tycoon and I’d come home from school (6th grade) in summer, about 20 minutes walk in 30 degrees heat - my dad would have the dodgy air conditioner on, I’d splash some water on my face and get down to some railroads.

It was a very good time and as an adult I’ve never recaptured that feeling with OpenTTD. But I still install it first thing in every distro.

I was asking if it’s a coincidence he keeps breaking up with them at a certain age like a weirdo, or if the relationships just always go poorly anyway.

Is it just coincidence, or is he a bit of a weirdo?

It’s probably worth looking at what Ares is doing with N64 emulation in this case.

Ares aims for accurate emulation (as an overall project goal) and I understand their N64 emu is pretty good. So if there is as lesson to be learned it may be there.

As a hobbyist who’s profession is well outside of tech, this is about as good as you can get from me !

One of MVG’s issues is that N64 emulation just doesn’t cut it on portables like Anbernic devices.

And also that cores like those used in Mister or Analogues FPGA don’t cut it - they can start commercial games but can’t do homebrew software (which does work on 64 hardware). So again, have been built to target individual games microcode and not emulate the N64.

He’s definitely lamenting that it’s unlikely we’re going to see improvement in this space due to how much this emulation relies on HLE, but if 64 emu devs can get properly into LLE like PS1 and PS2 emulation did, then it can start to get better.

Decompilation is a solution of course. Those decompiled games can even be run as ports on portable devices (using software like Portmaster), but decompilations are few and far between.

It’s that N64 emulation was built around High Level Emulation focusing on plugins and “getting individual games working properly”.

The legacy of this being that there is little to no mature, accurate and performant low level N64 emulation -as is the case with other systems that we now have fast, accurate emulation of the base system.

A significant problem being the way individual N64 titles would often have their own microcode written that differed from what Nintendo provided developers as a base.

MVG is a big proponent of emulators. But even after all his investigating the current state of 64 emus, he comes to the conclusion that you’re still better off buying a used N64.

I was on leetx a few times this week, everything was working great.

Yeah, any pointing device is fine. And keyboard shortcuts, ask easy to setup since it’s just .xml.

I mainly mean, in comparison to a tiling WM which is intended to be key commands and minimise mouse use, Openbox is based around stacking and menus. It works be just as easy as KDE or Gnome to use keys.

“We make a mess of things when we start lying.”

It’s written in an older English style. Essentially it’s just the first one you’ve mentioned.

The ‘first’ in the second half of the phrase isn’t relevant in current times but would have been common to include in sayings like this - it’s more noting that you have the intention of lying, not that you’ve found yourself doing so off the cuff.

It’s like this: “if you are going out there to lie about something, this is going to go to shit”. Rather than, “this is going to shit because it’s the first time you’re lying”, that’s a far too literal take on older English.

And for any non-native English speakers - ‘practice’ is the act of doing something, as opposed to ‘practise’ being learning/mastering through repetition.

I just finished Ys 2 (in the Ys Chronicles version) and going to move on Ys -The Oath In Felghana soon.

The only Ys have I played when I was young was Ys 3 -Wanderers From Ys, and I loved it, so it will be cool to see what Oath changes up.

This one came out, I want to say, around the time of Pillars of Eternity, Divinity Original Sin, Tyranny, Wasteland 2.

Which were all a similar style like that, but Pathfinder was the only one that didn’t get a positive reception. I remember clearly wondering “What does this one do wrong?”

That they had a bad prototype and they fixed it during development.

People are jumping down your throat because you’re talking about N64 emulation being just fine on a GameCube emulator which plays a total of 21 of the 388 N64 games.

That’s fine that you only like those games, but it’s irrelevant to a discussion about N64 emulators and it’s only a tiny subset of games for the system.

You can see this right? Surely you understand that?