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Posted by tomman
Also cancelled due to COVID-19: April Fools... at least in Googlempire.

In the meanwhile, each and every single authoritarian commie bloody dictator in the world is taking this as the golden chance to became even more evil. And this time, noone is complaining because everybody is locked at home, scared for life, hoping that the nasty Chinese virus doesn't kill them. Don't worry, as your favorite dictator will ensure that you have a painful death by starvation anyway!

Oh, and USA #1, because FUCK 'MURICA NUMERO UNO YEAH!!!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory
Half of all cases in the US are out of New York City, because they live standing-room-only and spent most of a month listening to the mayor explain how there was nothing wrong and they should continue clubbing with the baby seals.
Spoilers: this is the perfect recipe for a medical disaster when a virulent respiratory virus is kicking around.

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Posted on 20-03-31, 04:19 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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https://www.alloutdoor.com/2020/03/30/hi-point-barrel-contained-35-bullets-didnt-explode/

Synopsis: Owner of a carbine sends it to manufacturer complaining he can't hit anything with it.
Manufacturer finds 35 bullets stuck in the barrel, because the idiot kept firing a gun with an obstructed barrel and through some miracle that defies all logic, it failed to explode in his face.

Turns out that yeah, it is PRETTY HARD to hit a target when your bullets don't leave the gun. And that while Hi-Point is shockingly willing to fix this under warranty, they are totally gonna post pics afterwards(seriously, click the link just to see the pictures of that poor barrel).

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The US response has been varied. Some places REALLY dropped the ball(New York).

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One meter apart? Isn't that only about three feet? We've been pushing double that here.
Good luck, now more than ever.



In 'Merika news, a train engineer tried to ram a hospital ship to make sure the world was watching as they executed their conspiracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/02/train-derails-usns-mercy-coronavirus/?outputType=amp

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Posted by Nicholas Steel
Here's a fun write up of an incident that happened in Venezuela recently: https://www.badassoftheweek.com/resolute
In international waters NEAR Venezuela, though the Venezuelan navy was definitely a little more intimately involved than they wanted to be.

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Posted on 20-04-04, 22:15 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by Lurking Star
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52151951
(For the people with poor internet connections that can't stand semi-decently optimized modern websites; Venezuelan Navy patrol ship rams Arctic cruise ship going in port and sinks itself)
Just when you think Venezuela has reached the bottom of the barrel in terms of idiocy, they keep going lower.

https://www.badassoftheweek.com/resolute for a version with more personality.

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Posted on 20-04-11, 09:43 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by tomman
Shonumi's Edge of Emulation series of articles

Why Japan really likes churning out weirdass devices for their consoles!? Because they can, that's why?
Unfortunately this means that if you're an emudev, hope you're an agile eBay sniper and really have the taste for solving puzzles noone else cares.

"Nothing is impossible. Never surrender. Emulate everything."

That is a lot of really cool random shit to emulate. I find the "proto-Skylanders" stuff particularly interesting.



That said, I'm going to be my usual nitpicky wetblanket self and focus on a tangental "Nintendo's so awesome" thing in the GameBoy Printer article.

"The Game Boy Printer was quite innovative for its time. Who had ever heard of a handheld gaming device that could connect to its own printer? For that matter, who had ever seen a printer come in such a relatively small package? (The GB Printer is certainly a brick, but it was physically one of the smallest printers of its time, probably). "


Most handheld gaming devices didn't have printers because there was no real point. It made the game machine less portable and more expensive for no benefit. Portable printers existed, but they were reserved for computers that had actual need of hardcopy output.
The GB Printer almost certainly exists solely because of the GB Camera. And THAT exists because of the digital camera hype that was ripping through the electronics market at the time(which is to say it is a child's toy version of a trendy adult toy). Nintendo does get credit for offering a way to get photos out of the GameBoy, which is an uncommon appreciation for usability in the "fad toy" market the cartridge existed in.


And the GB Printer wasn't exactly advanced technology from space. Printers that small had existed for some time before(ink ribbon and thermal both), but largely fallen out of fashion due to the output being so dang small. Except for some specialty cases, like cash register receipts, the market had decided that 8½"-wide paper was a minimum acceptable standard and if you needed to print on the go you'd sacrifice the convenience of a small device for the sanity of full-size paper. Even the old office standby of the printing calculator had died a slow, gasping, struggling death.
I'd wager money that the GB Printer's thermal printer mechanism is a standard, off-the-shelf, receipt-printer module. (The internet says the 1½" paper width is a standard for taxi receipts, pointing to which FLAVOR of receipt printer they used).


Much of the bulk of the GB Printer is actually because of the AA batteries. Omit those and you can get something ADORABLY TINY. See this japanese taxi receipt printer from Futaba or this calculator-paper 4-pen plotter from TI.

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Posted on 20-04-28, 10:40 in Computer Hardware News
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The disk will never die!

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Posted on 20-04-29, 05:55 in Computer Hardware News
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It actually occurs to me that shingled recording drives should benefit a lot from developments intended to help flash drives, as they have a simidar weakness(read small chunks, write big chunks).
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Do shingled drives support trim?

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Posted on 20-04-29, 22:49 in Computer Hardware News
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I feel dumb now.

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Posted on 20-05-01, 03:54 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Posted by Kawa
But the Delta updates sunset date has passed. You can forget everything you learned about them. Use that brain space to remember the names of more Pokémon characters or something.

Next time, we clear out even more brain space for Pokémon characters by introducing Quality updates, which render all previous updates obsolete.
This is why everybody loves Raymond.
BOOOOOOO!!!!

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Posted by tomman
Protip: if whoever at the lead of your country is thinking about relaxing the lockdowns, overthrow those fuckers NOW.

Half the country thinks they are villains for not having already done so.

Oh, and I've just read that there are already more infectious variants of this shitty virus already in the wild, so have fun!

WHOO! We can reopen just in time to get the REAL version!


Oh, we're doing as bad as usual over here at Soviet Venezuela. We've been EXTREMELY lucky to have "only" ~381 cases officially reported (the real number should be like 10x times that considering that commies are fucking liars), but that's mostly due to the severe fuel shortages, plus good ol' repression. You can't get infected if you can't leave home.

No, people still refuses to respect social distancing.
Tyrannical repression is about the only thing that'd get people to keep their distance here.

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Posted by Bob-P-

May I ask one more thing Tomman and Screwtape so I know for the future.
If I need to remove my current version of bsnes like for example if I download a newer version what is the correct way to properly remove the current version of bsnes?
I see it can’t be uninstalled because it was never installed as Screwtape kindly pointed out to me, so do I just delete the folder and delete all the .srm & .bsz files it creates in my games folders?
Or do I have to do something else like using “run dialogue” to find and remove bsnes configuration files like with higan? Appreciate they are both very different programs. I don’tn use higan I just use bsnes as I only have snes games.
You can just delete the emulator. You don't even need to delete SRM and BSZ files. SRM files are portable across emulators going back to before bsnes even existed.

BSZ files, though. State saves like that can be unpredictable with emulator versions other than the one they were made with. I doubt bsnes is going to see any world-altering changes anytime soon, but ... if you have trouble loading BSZ files after an update, then just cut them loose.

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Posted on 20-05-17, 23:05 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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In fairness, they aren't lying when they say they want our trust. They don't want to EARN or RESPECT it, but they want it.

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Posted on 20-05-23, 23:08 in higan v107 released (revision 2)
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Playstation 3, XBox 360, and Wii are very unrelated to the IBM PC.
And squeezing performance was important to all three(especially the PS3).

Meanwhile, the XBox OG is closely related, but emulation efforts have long been halting steps stymied by lack of documentation of the VDP.

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Posted on 20-05-29, 00:19 in Resurrecting Visual Basic 3 shareware in VB6
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Posted by Kawa
Some people spend the apocalypse making sourdough bread.

Others... others crack long-forgotten ActiveX controls.
And who can say which are the winners?

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Posted on 20-06-11, 01:22 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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I wish I could get you a soldering iron and some new caps. Keep that socket 7 rolling for another twenty years.

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I read it because I read everything.

I have dim hopes for the kung flu going away any time soon. And The Vaccine(tm) is a lie perpetuated by those with an interest in downplaying the problem. To my understanding coronaviruses mutate rapidly, making them very difficult to vaccinate against and rendering any vaccine created useful for only a few months.
I'm just hoping that SARS-CoV2 mutates into a less virulent form.


And that maybe China will clean op their food supply. And not fucking lie about their local plagues next time. This could've been contained, but China lied to save face and the WHO took their lies at face value.
Hell, it could've been contained in Wuhan, but local officials lied to save face and their national government took the lies at face value.

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Posted on 20-06-18, 01:57 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Posted by tomman


If only we could get those Unlimited Gas safety cards in real life over here...
Ain't that the truth.

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Posted by Nicholas Steel
Considering how much America has already spent on relief packages etc. it wouldn't surprise me if there's a small part of Trump that doesn't want to keep signing multi-trillion dollar packages. he might not want to be the PM that sinks the country in to 30 trillion dollars of additional debt or whatever it'd have ended up at if they kept on with the relief packages.
President Trump didn't want to do the first one. But he wasn't going to NOT sign it and take the heat from the angry american people. And he darn sure wasn't going to let Congress override his veto. That would look REALLY bad for him.

The lack of subsequent stimulus programs has been on Congress, not Trump. Congress is going to insist they did what was needed and the plague is over and it is time for all y'all slackers to get back to work!

...

Congress also probably doesn't understand exactly how far the stimulus checks they mailed out go. I'm assuming their vision is similar to the economists that were surprised people took their 1200-dollar checks and spent them on boring mundane things like rent and bills instead of going out and buying a new car or something.

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