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| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 20-03-28, 02:47 in COVID-19 (or why 2020 will SUCK for a lifetime)
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 Post: #861 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by tommanHalf 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. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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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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Post: #862 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
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). --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-04-02, 03:04 in COVID-19 (or why 2020 will SUCK for a lifetime)
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Post: #863 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
The US response has been varied. Some places REALLY dropped the ball(New York). --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-04-02, 23:56 in COVID-19 (or why 2020 will SUCK for a lifetime)
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Post: #864 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
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 --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-04-04, 06:57 in COVID-19 (or why 2020 will SUCK for a lifetime)
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Post: #865 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by Nicholas SteelIn international waters NEAR Venezuela, though the Venezuelan navy was definitely a little more intimately involved than they wanted to be. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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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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Post: #866 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by Lurking Star https://www.badassoftheweek.com/resolute for a version with more personality. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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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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Post: #867 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by tomman 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. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-04-28, 10:40 in Computer Hardware News
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Post: #868 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
The disk will never die! --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-04-29, 05:55 in Computer Hardware News
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Post: #869 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
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). ... Do shingled drives support trim? --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-04-29, 22:49 in Computer Hardware News
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Post: #870 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
I feel dumb now. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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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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Post: #871 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by KawaBOOOOOOO!!!! --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-05-08, 04:48 in COVID-19 (or why 2020 will SUCK for a lifetime)
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Post: #872 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by tomman 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! Tyrannical repression is about the only thing that'd get people to keep their distance here. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-05-12, 08:06 in Where to put the bsnes folder and my games please?
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Post: #873 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by Bob-P-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. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-05-17, 23:05 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Post: #874 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
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. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-05-23, 23:08 in higan v107 released (revision 2)
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Post: #875 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
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. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-05-29, 00:19 in Resurrecting Visual Basic 3 shareware in VB6
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Post: #876 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by KawaAnd who can say which are the winners? --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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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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Post: #877 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
I wish I could get you a soldering iron and some new caps. Keep that socket 7 rolling for another twenty years. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-06-17, 03:24 in COVID-19 (or why 2020 will SUCK for a lifetime)
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Post: #878 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
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. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-06-18, 01:57 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #879 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by tommanAin't that the truth. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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Posted on 20-06-21, 07:25 in COVID-19 (or why 2020 will SUCK for a lifetime)
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Post: #880 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 4 hours |
Posted by Nicholas SteelPresident 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. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
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