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| desudesu |
Posted on 22-06-17, 11:08
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Post: #30 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 874 days Last view: 874 days |
Posted by tomman At least the 32X kind of made sense as a budget alternative to the mainstream 32-bit systems and the SH-2 processor it uses was pretty low-end for 1994 so it makes sense in something like that. The Saturn on the other hand using the same processor setup with a different clock speed and ultimately suffering because it lacked power and was difficult to work with was inexcusable however, it was virtually a 'fuck you' to the reputation Sega had been rapidly building up with American programmers (which was a similar one to the one over here). Pretty sure they only used the SH-2 in the Saturn (and knew it was gonna fuck up) because they had some sort of trade deal signed with Hitachi anyway. Oh well, they fucked themselves up :P |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-06-18, 03:41
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 Post: #1083 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 20 hours |
The 32x wasn't marketed or priced as a budget option. That the Saturn and PlayStation both launched in Japan at ludicrously expensive prices made it look like one, but those initial prices were halved for the US launch, and then halved again during the price wars of the next several months. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-06-18, 23:12 (revision 2)
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Post: #31 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 874 days Last view: 874 days |
Yeah, the 32X was supposed to compete with the Jaguar of all things. (lol) To be fair though, I doubt the 32X would even have made sense from the start now that I think about it, even if it actually was priced/marketed as a 'budget 32-bit' system... as cartridges are more expensive to produce anyways than discs. Oh well, it gave us the Neptune, and consequently Hyperdimension Neptunia came out of that, so I'm seriously not complaining because I fucking love Nep-Nep so much. Oh, and not to mention, Virtua Racing DX and Kolibri. Yes. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-06-19, 06:24
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Post: #1084 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 20 hours |
Posted by desudesu I mean, the idea was sound at some point. I know the origin was because americans were all "Look, we LIKE our Genesis, can we move forward into the 21st century with something affordable and backwards-compatible?". The project just kept going after it STOPPED making sense. It definitely didn't make sense once the Saturn was announced, as no company wants to split their market between two systems. One will always be the orphan(as the 32x was, with literally zero games available for a week after launch). Had it become Sega's actual "next-gen" platform, I think 32x CD games and the 6-button controller would've become the standard at some point. In truth, something between the 32x and Saturn would've been ideal. More powerful than the 32x, cheaper to make than the Saturn, and Genesis-compatible. Truthfully, Genesis compatibility alone would've given the Saturn as it exists in reality a huge leg up in the fight against Sony. Sega Japan didn't understand that their american customers were serious about the Genesis. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-06-19, 10:09 (revision 3)
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Post: #33 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 874 days Last view: 874 days |
Also that European customers tended to keep consoles and systems around for much longer because we tend to be more conservative overall particularly in the UK, Eastern Europe, North Germany and Scandinavia: the fact SEGA effectively managed to crumble away the brand loyalty they'd built up and attained for a really long time in the PAL region, where'd they'd done well and got third-party support ever since the Master System... well, it's just disappointing to say the least. I believe the Saturn still outdid the N64 in the more conservative parts of Europe that more harshly rejected the NES as part of a general trend with Sega systems as a whole, not that it matters because Europoors are and always will be irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, US feedback is what matters/mattered, as whatever the US respond well to, is what we get normally even to this day in some aspects. (See: anime stuff STILL being gatekept from here but not the US when there's literally no fucking excuse what with digital streaming services and such. A lot of it is probably related to how the UK tends to overreact to the mere mention of anime boobs while the women will literally flock to trashy erotica films and ignore what's all over TikTok in an act of hypocrisy; that and the whole 'hanging around the anime community leading people to believe they are transgender' pipeline which has caught on considerably in the mainstream here: while there's some genuine truth to that statement going off of personal feelings I had in the past and things I've experienced other people say to me and seen of others online, the attitude that's taken to is generally not of actual concern for 'rushing into conclusions' and 'internet influence' but people just whining about how 'men should be manly and stop being into perverted crap'.) (Sorry for the off-topic tangent, I had a lot to say, and to be honest, I'm barely sure I know what this thread was exactly intended for. I presume it's just a general chat thread.) |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-20, 01:13 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1126 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 6 days Last view: 16 hours |
JWZ gaming tastes are... surprisingly OK! (at least when he bothers following instructions instead of breaking his hardware) He hates FPS as much as me, so points for that. Also I guess someday I'll have to try Rez... but then 1) they would need to make a PC port first, 2) buy a computer that can run it, and 3) find some time to play videogames. Too bad he is still a notorious asshole, and here are the exhibits for today: - Exhibit A: JWZ will fight to the death your right to not be surveiled with mandatory Silly Valley cellphone authentication crapola mandated by your local friendly government because trusting your personal information to some Shitty Valley scamtup is (rightfully) for idiots... - Exhibit B: ...but the very same JWZ will consider you last class scum that is trying to kill him with China Pest if you (rightfully) refuse to install any of those Silly Valley cellphone "vaxx pass" crapola, because he absolutely doesn't want to trust paper (hint: electronic records can be forged, but don't tell that to him!). Thankfully I'm always carrying my Ez-Fake™ cardboard vaxx card that fortunately is more legit than the banknotes on my wallet (because I'm not a self-entitled twat and I absolutely want to get this China Pest shitfest to end sooner than later), and for the sake of my sanity (which is worth far more than my privacy, mind you!), I absolutely REFUSE to deal with cellphone crapola for either government matters and/or certifying that I'm not an antivax bastard. Oh, and I'm not visiting nightclubs either (why I would want to be in one of those places given the current affairs? Party at home, people! Or better yet: you can get drunk at home for much cheaper, if you absolutely must... plus, it's MUCH safer too!) HAVE YOU UNINSTALLED XSCREENSAVER TODAY!? Seriously, slock and friends may not pass "it's unsafe because I didn't wrote it" JWZ "standards", but nobody (and I repeat: NOBODY) sane deserves to run assholeware on their computers. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-06-20, 05:27
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Post: #35 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 874 days Last view: 874 days |
Might be the only thing that the UK government actually bothered to handle right this entire time (abolishing the 'test and trace' bollocks). Pretty much nowhere bothers with it now.HAVE YOU UNINSTALLED XSCREENSAVER TODAY!? Seriously, slock and friends may not pass "it's unsafe because I didn't wrote it" JWZ "standards", but nobody (and I repeat: NOBODY) sane deserves to run assholeware on their computers. Explanation? Sorry, I'm dumb... |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-20, 12:33
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Dinosaur
Post: #1127 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 6 days Last view: 16 hours |
Posted by desudesu Sure, here is the relevant context: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/04/looks-like-todays-the-day-that-centos-users-lose-their-god-damned-minds/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703 JWZ releases XScreenSaver under an opensource license, which allows you to do whatever you want as long as you ship your changes and all that stuff expected by an ordinary, DFSG-approved license. Debian ships "old" packages on purpose on its stable branches (it's the whole point of a STABLE distro: i.e. do not introduce disruptive changes, we love stuff being set on stone), and only backports security fixes from later versions (whenever possible). This pisses off JWZ because he is always pissed off by something, so he built a "timebomb" on XScreenSaver (actually, a nagscreen). Debian (among other stable distros, like CentOS) users get pissed off by the nagscreen, so a bug was filled to remove it (it's FOSS, after all!). JWZ heard about it and got very cocky, demanding Debian and friends to remove his software. Debian refused to comply - it's FOSS, after all! That's the day when JWZ joined a few shitlists (including mine). Seriously, unless you're running a museum exhibit (or a hipster workplace), nobody needs screensavers in 2022 (And yes, I still have a soul!). As for screenlockers, there are plenty of replacements without built-in timebombs and with more sane developers. This is why people like me have been telling others to migrate away, as it is not worth to deal with notorious assholes the day you need support for a bug on their code (the very same reason I stay the hell away from Pale Moon). Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 22-06-20, 13:03
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 Post: #405 of 456 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 53 days Last view: 5 hours |
Posted by tomman Or an OLED display. My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-20, 14:14
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Dinosaur
Post: #1128 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 6 days Last view: 16 hours |
Posted by creaothceann You can always set the display to blank/shutdown, y'know. As a bonus, power savings are much better that way~ Depending on your specific workloads, OLED burn-in may or may not be of concern, but I can think on better ways to mitigate it rather than wasting power with a screensaver: - "Pixel refreshing" cycles (OK, kinda similar to a screensaver, but you run those on-demand, not when idle) - Screen blanking/shutdown (which on OLEDs are basically the same, aside of deep power saving modes that also shutdown the electronics) - Lower brightness (which also helps prolonging the life of nearly any type of display, not just OLEDs!) - Autohide taskbars, fullscreen/"chromeless" UIs, try not staring at the same application for many hours a day... I still insist that screensavers are pretty much museum exhibits these days, and if you absolutely must use those, use anything BUT XScreenSaver!!! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-06-20, 15:08 (revision 1)
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Post: #36 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 874 days Last view: 874 days |
I always liked Debian's rigorous packaging/testing for the stable version of their distribution. I'd rather run software with less features if it meant I knew it would work properly. :P He literally chose to license as Free Software, and it's being delivered in the package managers in a way that complies with the aforementioned licence. Therefore, he has no legal right to complain, he's just an arrogant, narcissistic twat who clearly doesn't know where his morality lies. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-06-20, 19:21
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Post: #1085 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 20 hours |
Posted by tomman Point 1, at least, is cleared. https://store.steampowered.com/app/636450/Rez_Infinite/ It is also playable in VR, which makes it Rezzier than it has ever been. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-20, 23:12
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Dinosaur
Post: #1129 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 6 days Last view: 16 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Oh, nice~! Does the Trance Vibrator works with PCs? :D Posted by desudesu He is the same dude that gets a painful hateboner every time someone talks about porting XScreenSaver to Windows, because he can't get past his Netscape-era grudge against MS (hint: MS is still evil, but there are new, nastier evils out there, starting with FAANG. Or was it MAGNA? Wait, isn't MAANA? Fuck! MS is EASY MODO nowadays). Shhhh, don't tell him you got this link from me~ But don't worry - he now sells beer in his very expensive political manifest (his words, not mine) known as "nightclub". Selling beer and getting entangled in legal battles against the State of California, while ranting about cellphones, people trying to murder him (which since China Pest became a thing turned out to be "everybody refusing to use a cellphone in the premises of his nightclub"), software written by others, and of course, hating on Linux despite Mac (his platform of choice) being a similar dumpster fire these days. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-06-21, 07:29
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Post: #37 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 874 days Last view: 874 days |
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| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-06-21, 18:58
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Post: #1086 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 20 hours |
Posted by tomman I don't believe it supports it. What it does support is using xinput devices as vibrators. You can strap them to your body while playing, and if you're using VR controllers you have 4 pads for tactile feedback instead of 3. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-26, 01:40
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Dinosaur
Post: #1132 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 6 days Last view: 16 hours |
Venezuelan airline 747 cargo flight sets off alarms in Argentina Read the entire thread (where the OP has been doing a stellar job keeping up to date) - it's Academy Award material: every new finding on this mess unearths more shady crap, almost like a telenovela script. And of fucking course, it had to involve the sole 747 ever owned (but not really) by a Venezuelan airline, because that's how Communism™ rolls. Nearly every aviation forum has its eyes set over the weird end for one of the the last (if not the last) 747-300 in active service in the world. Except for Venezuelan avgeek boards, that is - those are largely ghost towns these days. Who is that fucking stupid enough to fly a plane full of terrorists hiding in plain sight, full of fake credentials for everything (even for the airplane itself!), to a country where they have a special hate towards this specific breed of terrorists? That's Soviet Venezuela for you! *sigh~* Also, A Certain German Car OEM will have to review more carefully their air freight contracts with a fine comb from now on, if only to stop pissing off regulators around the world... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 22-06-27, 22:58
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Post: #1087 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 72 days Last view: 20 hours |
Man, that is a roller-coaster ride of dramatic reveals. Apparently, Volkswagen hired a Texas firm to arrange the shipping. And they hired a mexican firm, who hired ... a shell company owned by terrorists? --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-27, 23:11
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Dinosaur
Post: #1133 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 6 days Last view: 16 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Not exactly: the Mexican firm hired a Spanish shell company, who hired the Venezuelan freighter, which departed Mexico with only two pilots (despite the -300 requiring a flight engineer!), but by the time it landed on Argentina, it was already full of terrorists. And apparently Volkswagen didn't even asked for THIS specific delivery of car seats, as another shipment of seats landed on another flight of a completely different airline a week later... and those seats are still waiting to be claimed by their owner at Ezeiza. Almost sounds like "wait, wasn't our stuff supposed to arrive later?" It's the ultimate deepfake, so real you can smell the jet fuel! This also means no Venezuelan airline is welcome anymore at Argentina (although we barely had flights down there since the pandemic started), as every ground handling service there is now afraid about having to service planes belonging to "terrorists". Our entire airline industry is a bad joke, for this and many, MANY other reasons. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| desudesu |
Posted on 22-07-01, 07:21 (revision 1)
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Post: #41 of 62
Since: 01-29-22 Last post: 874 days Last view: 874 days |
Jesus christ, it sounds like something out of a B-movie... I'm surprised you're still able to post here considering everything. :/ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-01, 20:56
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Dinosaur
Post: #1138 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 6 days Last view: 16 hours |
Next time kids want cash for season gifts, give them what they want. Like this dude did: https://nitter.nl/TwoClawsMedia/status/1210030954485633025 Now I want to do that, but with hyperinflationary money :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
