I was going to bring up TWPatch myself, too. @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net I will warn you that while you can see previews of the different filters, applying one takes a long-ass time, I'm talking multiple minutes, so choose wisely.

The ability to boot a DS game in its native resolution is done by holding START or SELECT while it boots up. It's actually part of the official firmware, not something added by homebrew software:

Granted, I haven't played it myself yet, but Mega Man Star Force 2 is that for a lot of fans of that series. The first game already got a lukewarm reception because of how it was simultaneously "just more Battle Network" and "not simply more Battle Network", but it has a very heartfelt story and some people are turning around on it when they can judge it on its own merits instead of constant comparisons to Battle Network, which has better gameplay. It still sold a decent number of copies.

The second game basically killed whatever momentum the series had by then. The story got dumbed down significantly which made it feel even more like Battle Network (although it still has its moments), the space theme was lost to "lost civilisations" shenanigans that many fans weren't interested in, the gameplay changes were meh and you frequently had to navigate through a maze-like "Sky Wave" with a too high encounter rate. Sales numbers were well below expectations.

The third game has the best gameplay by far and a story close to or as good as the first game, but the damage was already done. It sold the least of the three games. But at least the series ended on a high note with very few loose ends.

Had to throw a jab at China at the end of the video. Ugh... They wouldn't even have been been lying about the surveillance cameras, but they just HAD to bring up "social credit scores"

Recall requires a computer that is compatible with Microsoft's Copilot chatbot:

Only a small portion of the most recent laptops are "Copilot+ PCs".

This means that for everyone else, this information is irrelevant. It will mostly impact business employess and higher-income dupes. Also...

"Total Recall"

Apparent magnitude is a logarithmic scale, so 4.0 over 4.7 makes the Qianfan satellites 5x brighter than the 1st-gen Starlink satellites.

The researchers hope that by raising alarm early, they hope things can change for the better, like how SpaceX redesigned their satellites after public scrutiny. One of the mitigations is to just constantly point the shiny surface away from the surface. But it sucks that any legitimate and good-faith criticism gets hijacked by sinophobes.

The article actually spends the latter half talking about interference by Starlink and another American one, BlueBird, including in the radio wavelength. It's really only the headline that's problematic.

I wonder why these constellation satellites are always so bright. I never heard such things sabout other satellites, or is it just their large numbers that suddenly makes it a problem?

Notions like "the best defence is offence" and a preemptive/preventive war have existed for a long time, to be fair. It's just that this isn't the first time Israel or the US have pulled that card and it never worked. Hezbollah was founded the first time Israel invaded Lebanon ffs.

Even if it did work in this case, it would be short-sighted, as the injustice in Palestine would continue and it's just a matter of time before things blow up again. "No justice, no peace" and all that.

In his essay on Stalinism Koba the Dread, Martin Amis proposes that Lolita is an elaborate metaphor for the totalitarianism that destroyed the Russia of Nabokov's childhood (though Nabokov states in his afterword that he "[detests] symbols and allegories").

The paragraph is titled "Sounds Familiar" for crying out loud

Of course, the obligatory China mention. "Digital totalitarianism".

Hold up, you are the same person that went gushing about thighs beneath a previous comment of mine...

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They're picturing a depressed person as a nihilistic killjoy that doesn't want to do anything and lives without a purpose, I'm assuming.

Just want an excuse to post this