AlolanYoda @ AlolanYoda @mander.xyz

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If Sony patented this idea, does it mean nobody else can use it until it expires? Good guy Sony always looking out for us

You OK? Just reaching out

I avoid team games because I don't want to be the reason someone else loses

Leaked screenshot of Dune 3

Tl;dr: I asked a girl out :)

I met a girl in a flight and thought we got along well, but she was only in a layover flight while I was in the last flight of my trip. Still, we kept in touch, and she's apparently coming to my city for a few days in two weeks.

So I did something I had never done before (even though I've been in a few relationships before) and asked her out! She said "maybe" (her trip was already planned and she is busy and staying with some friends, she seemed genuinely sorry) so in two weeks I may have a date :)

🤣

Clearly you don't read enough books... Like, bro, she's clearly absorbing the contents of the book through diffusion. If you don't know how to do this then you're clearly not in our league.

To be honest I naively assumed Nintendo not to be the type of company (... Or even competent enough) to implement the type of data mining that would impact performance lol

Sure, this makes sense for Minecraft, and the video itself only compared Minecraft (for fear of being struck by the Nintendo Ninjas, which is an interesting fear considering everything else in the video). I'd love to see if other games, like BoTW or Pokémon S/V, have similar performance enhancements.

Ah, yes, this makes a lot of sense and is something I had not considered. Great point.

That's so weird. This isn't about Nintendo hardware sucking: it's running on an actual Nintendo Switch, except instead of it using the Switch's OS and it running the game, it goes Linux -> Emulator (yuzu) -> game (running from an actual cart through a dumper) and somehow that's faster.

It's a software issue.

Is it the Nintendo Switch OS which is needlessly bloated? It does nothing, how can it be heavier than an actual Linux Distribution?

I'm not familiar with how the Switch works, but the dumper has a FPGA for decoding the cartridge. Is this something that the Switch has to do in real time in software, and maybe that's where the performance loss comes from? It seems unlikely but I know nothing of the Switch's internals or software. In fact let's just say I know nothing at all, I'm just an idiot.

PS: Everyone who buys used Switch games should see this until the end. The dumper allows you to extract a certificate file from a cartridge. Basically, someone malicious could buy a new game, dump it including the certificate file, clone it, and resell the game. Then they would be able to play online with it. If you buy the original copy afterwards and play online, you are likely going to be the one whose certificate is flagged as fake, leading to you being banned.

Also, they could just sell multiple copies of cloned games and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference... Except for the certificate, which would be the same and would signal Nintendo that you (and like 10 other people) are playing a fake game, unbeknownst to you.

OK, so you have the opinion of people with flagship or even midrange phones, now here I come with my budget phone, a Redmi Note 8.

I've used budget phones all my life since, well, they're cheaper. The truth is that yes, you do notice some animation stuttering and some delayed responses, especially as the years go by and you have more apps installed (probably doing stuff in the background) and the apps you do have keep updating to be more bloated.

This phone in particular makes it very hard to multi-task, as it's very liberal with killing apps in the background to save RAM. This is annoying. But I'm using MI UI instead of stock android, and I'm sure I could change this.

Honestly, I do feel like I'm being left behind and that I'm going to have to switch phones more often than if I had a more expensive model. But so far I haven't encountered any apps I could not run (or even that I could run but only with too much stutter, making for a terrible user experience). So I'll keep using it until I truly feel left behind, which can take a surprisingly long time. My usage time tends to rival that of people with flagship android phones and iPhones (maybe I even come out ahead)

But you specifically asked about animation stutter. It does happen but it simply doesn't bother me at all. It's not constant, only happening when the phone is doing something else at the same time, and even when it does I can wait a few seconds and it'll be fine. You also mentioned lag when opening an app, so much that you thought it didn't register your input. It doesn't happen to me since, while the app itself can take some time to open, the icon has feedback so I know I pressed it.

Overall, I don't think any of these issues are enough to bother me significantly for a good few years.

My superiority is purely real, with no imaginary components

Everyone is saying that the meme makes no sense but it's totally me... And it's not even a question of her being "out of my league" in my case. I just find (or make up...) a reason to swipe left. Usually channeling my inner social Marie Kondo and saying "this one does not spark joy". I was swiping right on under 6% of profiles I saw (I asked for my stats before leaving Tinder)

It meant that over a period of one month of using Tinder, I only got a single match. This did not help my self esteem at all (despite being a problem of my own making!) so I decided to just quit Tinder for now. In reality, my unreasonable selectivity is just a symptom that I'm not ready to date right now. My plan is to keep healing (I'm in therapy too) and eventually return to the world of dating apps, this time with a different mindset.

This response is perfect and I don't know if it's supposed to be a joke everyone is missing but me, or if it's 100% serious and I read too much into it.

There's comedic genius in: "I hate talking about Linux, it's just a tool" "In that case here's a distro recommendation for you"

That's true, sorry, I wrote everything in a rush and didn't separate the two issues. He in fact started that debate saying "for anyone out of the loop, we changed names but we're actually that other party"

Recent polls show almost 20% of votes to this far right party, which is very scary to me. Roughly one fifth of parliament members would subscribe to this platform. By the way, they aren't focusing on this topic as much recently but when they rose to power their platform focused essentially on "solving" the gypsy problem in Portugal.

Last Friday there as a debate between all major parties and to my surprise, it went very well for this guy. He is usually very disrespectful during debates, constantly interrupting others, and is also prone to saying bullshit and his opponent wiping the floor with him. But on Friday the representatives of the two biggest political parties, the ruling party (PS, the socialist party) and especially the main opposition (PSD, or SPD in the linked article, the social democratic party) made fools of themselves and all Ventura (far right) had to do was stay quiet and interject at key points. It makes sense since both parties are wrapped up in controversy right now. I still disagreed with his message but I foresee people him getting many votes from those who were uncertain about whether they'd vote for him or for the social democratic party.

Also, not mentioned in the article, last Tuesday there was a debate between parties without parliamentary seats and it was shocking how many far right parties are popping up (there were always some far left parties). With some saying things like "the carnation revolution (where Portugal overthrew its dictatorship) was the biggest treason in the history for this country"...

Does this mean that Facebook will also be in the fediverse?

Is THIS the true Metaverse?

I have to admit I loved Phantom Hourglass too when I was younger and never came back to replay it. I need to give all of them a revisit with a new perspective. I've been meaning to play LttP again anyway, so I might do a series-wide marathon in the future!

So interesting! I can see the merits of 2D Zeldas, but to me the N64 Zeldas were what really elevated the series (LttP is a great game, sure, but I'm in love with OoT and Majora's Mask).

I think they are really different experiences despite the shared DNA and so will appeal to different people differently.