you're getting downvoted but you're not wrong. N64 emulation has been as good as it'll get for a long while (remember, we were playing N64 games flawlessly on the Wii, which itself is now retro to many!), and compared to older consoles with quirky bespoke hardware, the benefits of hardware emulation like FPGAs over software emulation are diminished for the N64 to begin with. if you do want to go the FPGA route, Taki Udon's MiSTeR Pi is cheaper than this and can load any number of cores instead of just the N64. ultimately you're paying a premium for an experience that's either as good as or worse than a plethora of cheaper options

the first Pokemon game i owned was XD on the GameCube, and like any good kid i overtrained my starter and ignored the rest of my team. i evolved Eevee into Flareon and Fire Blast quickly became my favorite move, killing anything and everything in just one shot. it only has 5 PP, though, so things started getting tough once trainers had six Pokemon. i eventually reached the Ground-type boss and never did get farther than that lmao. but my soft spot for Fire Blast still remains!

oh hell yeah

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong!

this might not be too far off, i know flarum is planning to include activitypub in their 2.0 release and nodebb already has it working in test

amen! especially this new wave of 3D platformers- it'd be nice to at least have the option of a classic control scheme over forcing every game to be a twin stick game

The one drawback to Bluesky’s block feature is that a user’s block lists aren’t private. Through third party apps, you can find lists of everyone anyone’s blocked. That probably won’t bother most people, but it’s a potential issue for those who worry that public block lists could be used perniciously by persistent stalkers or harassers.

The only missing function is the ability to lock your account or go private as you can on Twitter, which would let you hide your account from non-followers while still posting to folks who already follow you.

But Bluesky has gotten considerable criticism at key points over the last year and a half for failures in handling anti-Black racism in particular. Rudy Fraser wrote extensively about some of these issues along with a deep dive into his goals and challenges as the creator of the now legendary Blacksky feed in a great post a year ago.

Every time someone recommends me Bluesky, I learn something else about it that makes me never want to make an account. Any one of these three quotes should be a dealbreaker on their own

ah, interesting!

it always takes me right out of whatever i'm watching when a character says the same word twice and it's translated into two different words. like when "matte! matte!" becomes "wait! stop!" it's a stupid thing to care about and i'm sure translators have their reasons- very easy for me, an idiot who can barely speak one language, to criticize- but it always shatters my immersion

these were standard issue before synthehol was regularly available on starships. can't have too many people asking about the abnormal kidney failure rate in starfleet or they'll start poking around and find our Saurian brandy stash

i'm confused, the first panel says Nintendo will be launching new games for the greatest console of all time but the second panel doesn't have a picture of the Tiger Electronics R-Zone? what gives?

i think pops up in early computer rpgs like ultima a lot because the original Dungeons and Dragons was full of that kind of anachronistic stuff. TSR probably didn't intentionally make it post-apocalypse though. they were just cramming whatever they thought was cool at the moment into their game, which is why you're just as likely to find a downed spaceship as a dinosaur in Blackmoore. the post-apocalypse angle probably game to be when early crpgs wanted to ape that but wanted give it a proper story justification

i've also heard people say that the silmarillion has scifi elements, but i'm not sure how much of that is what tolkien intended versus what people read into it. i've also heard that the trope originates from medieval people coming across ruins of ancient roman architecture, but no examples were given- although it's funny to think we have robots in The Legend of Zelda because aquaducts