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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm guessing a lot of manufacturing plants who do annual fire fighting training on site would be contaminated?

Cool interactive map.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Twilight Imperium has a 180-240 min playing time, Jesus Christ!

lmao just setting up the initial board game and reading through the rules took an entire meet-up session back when we started playing. It's fairly daunting. Definitely had a bunch of rule violations the first round just figuring it out, improved from there haha. When you play with a full 6 players it can take longer than 4 hours to complete sometimes.

That was the case for me as well, it felt too complicated and slow. But when you understand the game and calculate into the future it gets very satisfying.

Makes sense, it's just hard to motivate myself on my own to learn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Strategy I like:

Stratego. I just have a knack for this one and play it to death.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1917/stratego

Twilight Imperium with all the expansion packs. I have third edition, haven't tried fourth which came out 2017.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12493/twilight-imperium-third-edition

Chinese Go.

Motherfuggen SCRABBLE!

Chance I like: Buckshot Roulette

Chance I dislike: slots and other trash tier gambling games designed to make you lose more than gain.

Dislike strategy: I can't get into Chess. I don't know if Aphantasia is hampering my abilities here. I didn't try long enough to really know yet so it's just more of a bad first impressions grudge. Maybe one day I'll meet a friend who likes Chess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

One ban is the notorious news sdf troll mod, edit: but otherwise they're needlessly inflammatory yeah I looked farther down.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If I meow back at my Siamese cats they'll get more intense and meow louder and louder as we go back and forth until it escalates to hideous yowling. I never win the decibel wars.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Life of Brian is arguably better for a ensmuggening Python based education.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

We should work on the "accountable to the people" part first. I don't see that presumption reflected in reality where they are elected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Today I'll go with The Murlocs - Undone and Unashamed.

https://youtu.be/cg8sjXcVsJQ

spoilerVerse 1]

Hey you wearing that baby Blue Jean jacket

Cussing at the public and the police, playing

chicken with the traffic

Strutting down the sidewalk, hopscotch, footpath,

with your wrist in a cast

Whiskey cigarette breath toothless sipping from his hip flask

[Chorus]

Undone and unashamed

Yeah are we that easily

Undone and unashamed

Keep building your barricades

[Verse 2]

Scrotum under the microscope, the prima donna snorting too much coke

Slow going with them thoughts, you sure got your point across

Shambolic you rust and corrode, never been one to do as your told

A Jimmy Dean breaking all the laws, rebel without a causе

[Chorus]

Undone and unashamed

Are wе that easily

Undone and unashamed

Are we that care free

Undone and unashamed

To delete our history

Undone and unashamed

Keep building your barricades

[Post-Chorus]

Rip it off like a bandaid when you gonna come out of your cave

How can I paraphrase it ? It’s overpassed, belated

Silence discomfiture, defeated, totally conquered

Put it on the backseat burner but don’t let it simmer too long

[Chorus]

Undone and unashamed

Yeah are we that easily

Undone and unashamed

Yeah are we that care free

Undone and unashamed

Yeah to delete our history

Undone and unashamed

Keep building your barricades

[Post-Chorus]

Rip it off like a bandaid when you gonna come out of your cave

How can I paraphrase it ? It’s overpassed, belated

Silence discomfiture, defeated, totally conquered

Put it on the backseat burner but don’t let it simmer too long

 

I'm absolutely not a pro at this. Post your plants!

OP pic is Chinese rhubarb to maybe replace my old plant, russet potatoes that were sprouting on the counter, wild strawberries native to AB I often see in our river valley, asparagus (cut down once already), chives. Further back box is next week's problem.

Everything under the evergreens (out of frame directly behind the fence) suffers and this old planter the old owners put in is rotting, so last year for this struggling stuff except the Honeyberry bush which I need to move anyways. It's big enough to survive in the lawn now. Rhubarb, saskatoons, raspberries don't do well in here. I'll salvage what I can. Smashy'n clover next year. Then new half buried kiddie pools with the bottoms cut out "planters" elsewhere away from those trees is the plan. Classy! I'll do neon green with the dinosaur pattern.

New cherry tree because my old one is about at the end of its expected lifespan and it's showing. I'll pretty up its space if it survives the winter.

Same deal here, but these are an experiment to see if these "CANADIAN HARDY -TAYLOR" Paw Paw (Michigan Banana is another name) trees from Quebec's Green Barn Nursery can really survive zone 3b. They'll get the burlap sacks over winter. Has anyone eaten these fruits before on Lemmy? Curious. Nobody has heard of them locally here I've talked to so far. https://www.greenbarnnursery.ca/products/paw-paw-taylor

The row will hopefully be purple and orange goth-ish Sunflowers. Or "Chocolate" I guess.

The grass mostly died beside the pine tree, so I'm trying clover. It uh, yeah it's thriving. I'll dig out more of the damned grass later. Very good result it'll be lower maintenance now.

 

"[Chromehounds lobby]

Me: [chanting] mechs, mechs-

Other pilots: Mechs, MECHS

Mechanic: [pounding her toolbox] MECHS, MECHS, MECHS!

Hello! Apologies for the late issue, but this story came together last minute, on account of capital-L Life, and also because the subject is developing fast. Hopefully it's worth the wait! I've got an exclusive interview for you on a shit-hot community project to resurrect a FromSoftware game that was criminally underappreciated in its day. I mean, that's practically all FromSoftware games, but this one was just born in the wrong time and place — I think it would be a substantial hit on Steam in the year 2025.

But I'm getting ahead of myself, while also being behind. So let's jump right into it! It's big stompy robot time."

 

Bonus cat:

 

Copy Pasting OP long-term MAME Contributor MameHaze from here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1ks52p4/new_jakks_pacific_plug_and_play_games_to_be/

Over the last week a number of previously undumped JAKKS Pacific Plug and Play units have been dumped by TeamEurope the same techniques developed a few months ago. These will be supported in the next version of MAME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Bv1HpiyY4

The Amazing Spider-Man in Villain Round-Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NheliPLg0

Marvel Heroes: Ultimate Action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZiNEohWcDo

Shrek / Over the Hedge (with bonus SpongeBob Dilly Dabbler footage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS4NhOW8e9w

Arcade Gold featuring Pac-Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FmyNsln0m0

Retro Arcade featuring Pac-Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhq4jBmucLQ

Super Pac-Man Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6QtRgqhUqU

Disney Princess Magical Adventures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIJO-XKBmPk

Cinderella - Once Upon a Midnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBC8M9O-UY

Sleeping Beauty - Tales of Enchantment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUM1HEsBqCQ

High School Musical

I've also been improving MAME's VT369 (enhanced NES clone hardware) This progress may or may not make the next version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ZdMv4q5Bs

Various VT369 based Disney Handhelds and other bootleg-like multigames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6cDzT12WU 'In a Tin' VT369 based games

 

Please backup your save files before updating to be safe. Changelog

UI: implement LCD1x shader (thanks @DestinyXZ9)
ARM: implement multiplication carry algorithm (thanks @zaydlang, @calc84maniac)
ARM: fix LDM^ bus conflict logic breaks in user mode
ARM: fix out-of-bounds accesses when switching in or out of an invalid CPU mode
ARM: optimize GPR and SPSR reads
ARM: optimize LSL, LSR, ASR and ROR arithmetic
DMA: allow CPU internal ticks during CPU<->DMA transition cycles
PPU: correctly reset OBJ mosaic Y counter (thanks @j-mattsson)
 

Here is a summary of what is new:

Implemented geometry shaders
New save data folder and naming (old saves need to be manually transferred)
Support for loading the original shared font and mii resource files dumped from a 3DS
Support for a few different screen layouts and proper handling of fullscreen (the game is no longer stretched)
Various save data fixes for Windows
Various HLE OS improvements
Various HLE audio improvements
Texture cache invalidation via hashing to fix incorrect textures
Render to texture related fixes
Probably other things too
 

https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0277.txt

00:00:00 MAME Testers bugs fixed 00:00:23 New working systems 00:01:35 New working clones 00:01:47 Systems promoted to working 00:01:58 Clones promoted to working 00:02:10 Apple II cleanly cracked disks 00:03:17 Apple II original disks 00:03:29 Apple Macintosh 400K/800K cleanly cracked disks 00:03:42 Apple Macintosh 400K/800K original disk images 00:03:56 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis cartridges 00:04:10 MSX1 cartridges 00:04:17 MSX2 disk images 00:04:25 SNK Neo-Geo cartridges 00:04:41 NEC PC-98 hard disks 00:04:50 Sega Saturn CD-ROMs 00:05:05 Sega Beena cartridges 00:05:19 Sharp X68k disk images 00:05:33 Sinclair ZX81 cassettes 00:05:45 NEC PC-98 disk images - Software list items promoted to working

 

"The promised day has arrived! Three issues back I spoke with N64 Recompiled developer Wiseguy about the exciting future of native ports of N64 games, and the project's big modding update has finally landed, alongside the announcements of several additional recompilations in the works. Performance improvements, a modding framework, and other additions to N64 Recompiled bundled into this update will hopefully mean we see a wave of actually playable projects over the coming year."

cont.

 

00:00:00 MAME Testers bugs fixed 00:00:23 New working systems 00:01:35 New working clones 00:01:47 Systems promoted to working 00:01:58 Clones promoted to working 00:02:10 Apple II cleanly cracked disks 00:03:17 Apple II original disks 00:03:29 Apple Macintosh 400K/800K cleanly cracked disks 00:03:42 Apple Macintosh 400K/800K original disk images 00:03:56 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis cartridges 00:04:10 MSX1 cartridges 00:04:17 MSX2 disk images 00:04:25 SNK Neo-Geo cartridges 00:04:41 NEC PC-98 hard disks 00:04:50 Sega Saturn CD-ROMs 00:05:05 Sega Beena cartridges 00:05:19 Sharp X68k disk images 00:05:33 Sinclair ZX81 cassettes 00:05:45 NEC PC-98 disk images - Software list items promoted to working

 

edit: If you want to be the 10th person to tell me about static discharge risks, please refrain from doing so. Thread temp removed because it was getting oddly popular for the wrong reasons.

This pain brought to you by wanting to install Bazzite Linux on the HTPC without dealing with spotty feature support. Didn't really need the performance upgrade, just compatibility.

This looks like it's going smooth, but I ended up having to also swap Power Supplies... Radeon 9070 XT needed three 8-pin PCI plugs, but only had 2 plus a single 6 pin. Fuck!

For reference the RTX 3090 (bought on launch before prices went covid batshit) now in the black cardboard box getting prepped for crazy people on EBay buying them for 1000+ used (??? VRAM demand and/or green brand good mindset?) only needed two 8 pin. I'll post EBay listing if people want it, but I'm only selling within Canada. Power hungry SOB. Luckily the bigger old case used to have a rack of hard drives in it (very old reused many times case) so I had a 1500W PSU already and kept all the spare cords thankfully...

Old PC gets the RTX 4070 TI, more appropriate for 1440p anyways vs 2160p living room.

Stanford the Cat supervised.

 

Other emulation communities allow decomp/recomp posts, so I'll keep to that trend.


Dinosaur Planet: Recompiled is a static recompilation/native port of Dinosaur Planet using the N64: Recompiled project.

This project does not use emulation. Instead, game code is ran natively on your system with graphics rendered by RT64.

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