TulliusCicero

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by TulliusCicero 2mo ago
Similar issue for me -- I kept my childhood collection and slowly added to it, but hardly ever actually played anything -- until I got a Retron 2 HD that can handle both NES and SNES games, outputting to HDMI. And then I got the wireless 8b
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
Most Ukrainian drones don't use fiber optic I don't think. To deal with EW, they're favoring autonomous targeting/guidance for the final part of the strike.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
I mean you could have a single protocol and then various different providers still competing, like email, or how even for Visa or Mastercard there's a bunch of different banks that partner up.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
God I wish the US had a digital payment system that we could all basically agree on. Having Apple Pay vs Google Pay vs Zelle vs Paypal vs Venmo vs all the others is annoying as hell.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
> Come on man, can you please just stop, take the L and let the subthread die. I'd rather you do this than him. Chill out, please. The pelican pic is fine.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
Yeah, or you can just get a cheap retro handheld with similar stylings that will charge via -- you guessed it -- USB-C.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
I'm guessing it's because people expect USB-C ports to at least handle 18w.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
Yup, gamepads are super cheap now too. You can get actually good quality gamepads for $30. Were you getting good gamepads in the 90's for $15? Definitely not.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
The inflation adjusted price of (decent) peripherals seems to keep going down. You can get monitors and mice and keyboards of reasonable quality these days for almost nothing. It's also amazing how many f2p games are out there that are
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
The gaming audience increased, but budgets also massively went up. You weren't spending $100m+ on Super Mario World.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
I'm somewhat skeptical that they actually require more attention per person . Does an 8-person group require more than 2x as much attention as a 4-person group?
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
> Gaming is getting too expensive. Gaming is so much cheaper than when I was growing up that I'm kind of blown away. SNES games went for $60-70. That's like $130-150 in today's money. And they usually had less content th
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
It helped me.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
Steam has problems but it also has a vast feature set. The family sharing and refund policy are both seriously great, for example. Personal calendar is also really, really cool (and bad for my wallet).
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
You can still get Steam keys, I usually buy them from Loaded (formerly CDKeys.com).
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
I think it's one of those things where people only care about a small percentage of the features, but which small percentage varies. For example, I used the example of remote play together, which is very neat and a lot of people love i
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
Being a Steam competitor involves making a store that's actually good. All the other major stores/platforms don't really seem to give a shit, to be frank. Steam has like 20x their feature set, and the gap appears to be still
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
People sending unwanted DMs is an obvious reason. At the very least, users should be able to report DMs and then that should allow for moderation. It's very common in some spaces to get people who send unwanted (spam/harassment&#x
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
To be fair, if we waited until there "no more pressing issues", then we'd never get any "quality of life" regulations passed like this.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
God I wish we had Aldi in the PacNW. I know, TJ's is technically owned by Aldi Nord, but it's really not the same.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
The nice thing about Costco's stuff is that it's typically pretty high quality too. Honestly I wouldn't say Costco is terribly convenient, other than the limited selection.
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by TulliusCicero 3mo ago
I think it's less that America is declining and more that China is rising. And really, most of the world is getting richer.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Hand written is unnecessary, just ban/confiscate phones and restrict internet access if the test needs a computer.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Ah, so pointing out the truth is "so defensive". Amazing! Yes, there are members of the extreme right even in WA state. There's more of them in red states, but there's certainly some in blue states as well.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Americans IRL only rarely have Confederate flags these days. If you want to discuss the extreme right, say so.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
That's not what a window AC unit is. And yes, it's true they're kinda ugly, but it's better than baking in the heat.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Americans on the Internet will often heartily agree with foreigners about all kinds of things that are shit in America and need to be changed: public transit, walkability, health care costs, university costs, money in politics, lack of basi
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Germans will say they're not very patriotic, but really the way German patriotism manifests is a resistance to outside criticism paired with a stubborn insistence that things ought not change.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
A basic window AC unit costs a few hundred bucks.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Video games have been calling this kind of thing "AI" for multiple decades now.

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