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If this is what people are doing with Virtual Reality, it's dead. I have a fake room to pretend my room is clean instead of just having my normal room and normal monitor. That's really dumb. Any one using this to pretend their room is clean should stop playing vidya games and straiten up their space.
 
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If this is what people are doing with Virtual Reality, it's dead. I have a fake room to pretend my room is clean instead of just having my normal room and normal monitor. That's really dumb. Any one using this to pretend their room is clean should stop playing vidya games and straiten up their space.
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This would fuck with my eyes after awhile. People in the emulation scene, are some of the most unappreciative and ungrateful communities around. They can't just settle with the reality that they've long been able to finally play hundreds to thousands of games on their computers. I was blown away two and a half decades ago, that I was able to play NES games on a shitty Pentium III machine I had. That was more than enough.

And ever since then, these guys just kept it up. Turning any and all consoles and handhelds into emulation machines, like okay that's still fine. And it was from there, any faucet of technology in their reach, they wanted to turn everything into an emulation machine. Like, can't you fucking plebs be satisfied that you got to play what you remembered playing long ago and what you missed out at all? I know this video is 11 years old, but just the idea that someone turned an inexpensive gimmick into yet another emulation machine plays into my point.

Clean your room, shut up and play the games.
 
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Crunkle said:
The funniest thing with Netflix (I pirate my shit I don't give them money) is how they changed their intro from a full text of 'Netflix' to a single large red 'N'.

Never fails to make me laugh.
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Fyrnite said:
This would fuck with my eyes after awhile. People in the emulation scene, are some of the most unappreciative and ungrateful communities around. They can't just settle with the reality that they've long been able to finally play hundreds to thousands of games on their computers. I was blown away two and a half decades ago, that I was able to play NES games on a shitty Pentium III machine I had. That was more than enough.

And ever since then, these guys just kept it up. Turning any and all consoles and handhelds into emulation machines, like okay that's still fine. And it was from there, any faucet of technology in their reach, they wanted to turn everything into an emulation machine. Like, can't you fucking plebs be satisfied that you got to play what you remembered playing long ago and what you missed out at all? I know this video is 11 years old, but just the idea that someone turned an inexpensive gimmick into yet another emulation machine plays into my point.

Clean your room, shut up and play the games.
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I do appreciate them making emulation so good on handhelds like the Steamdeck and my iphone. But i rarely use it on my iphone and I don’t want to put in work to make my tv play roms when i can just plug my steamdeck into my tv dock.
 
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GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
But i rarely use it on my iphone and I don’t want to put in work to make my tv play roms when i can just plug my steamdeck into my tv dock.
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As in, using your smart TV's built in computer systems to emulate stuff, as opposed to using a small computer box like said steamdeck, a raspberry pi, etc?

Honestly, tvs are just glorified computer monitors these days.
 
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Apple Pay/any sort of mobile payment thing. I don't like the idea of having my cards connected to my phone and pulling out a credit card feels nicer anyway.
This ad is fucking retarded by the way, the chip is the most reliable and foolproof way to pay for things, just put the card in the machine until it tells you to remove it. It's always the tap to pay shit that never works reliably for me.
 
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Aero the Alcoholic Bat said:
As in, using your smart TV's built in computer systems to emulate stuff, as opposed to using a small computer box like said steamdeck, a raspberry pi, etc?

Honestly, tvs are just glorified computer monitors these days.
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I already have my steamdeck setup to play my roms. But I don’t want to setup a appleTV, google tv, or firetv to play roms.
 
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I hate that companies now assume that you are such a consoomer that you just have all of their services that they swallowed up. For example, Facebook simply assuming you have Whatsapp, so if you want to reset your password, they will by default tell you they sent a text to your Whatsapp account (even if you don't have one), not your actual phone/email, because of course you have Whatsapp, because why wouldn't you? If you signed up for Facebook only using a phone number, and not an email address, then it is literally impossible to change your password without Whatsapp until you add an email. Why not use the phone number you signed up with? Do they not have the technology?

Companies are so blatantly disrespectful to their customers nowadays, and treat them like the cattle they are seemingly okay being. Idk if anyone here watches Louis Rossmann, but he says over and over to not blame the users for these companies treating them like cattle. At times it's really hard not to though - when Amazon put all their "normal" paid tier customers on ad-plans, of course people didn't push back at all, and Amazon made a ton more money off them (they even said so). At what point does it become the fault of those that enable them to do this?

Fyrnite said:
People in the emulation scene, are some of the most unappreciative and ungrateful communities around. They can't just settle with the reality that they've long been able to finally play hundreds to thousands of games on their computers. I was blown away two and a half decades ago, that I was able to play NES games on a shitty Pentium III machine I had. That was more than enough.

And ever since then, these guys just kept it up. Turning any and all consoles and handhelds into emulation machines, like okay that's still fine. And it was from there, any faucet of technology in their reach, they wanted to turn everything into an emulation machine. Like, can't you fucking plebs be satisfied that you got to play what you remembered playing long ago and what you missed out at all? I know this video is 11 years old, but just the idea that someone turned an inexpensive gimmick into yet another emulation machine plays into my point.
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The single most ungrateful community of all time is the iOS Jailbreak community. People with phenomenal talent quit the scene back in the day because people would not stop pestering and annoying people to find kernel exploits as if it's an easy thing to do over the weekend, release them FOR FREE, and have this mentality that they are owed something. Nowadays iOS jailbreaks even worth doing on the current devices on current firmwares are quite rare, and the days of untethered/cold-boot jailbreaks are pretty much a thing of the past now. It's not dead by any means, but it's not even remotely what it used to be.

The idea of turning every single device you have into an emulation thing feels so... what's the word, soulless? Filling every single thing you have with the thousands of roms you pirated and will never play in your life. But you just have them there, and it changes people's perception of these video games from great memories/art/etc into long lists you will likely never go through anyway.

Then again, maybe I'm biased because I prefer to play the original games whenever possible. I do however use my Retron5 w/ custom firmware among other things to dump the roms from my carts/discs to my computer so I at least have copies that I made myself. Now I am not by any means suggesting anyone only dump your own roms rather than downloading them for free with ease instead, but doing it this way, I look at them differently than just a long list or roms I'll never play, but as "mine" if that makes any sense.
 
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What the actual fuck? I never had this issue with my card. Yes, I do pay mostly cash, but when I use card I only had issue maybe once when the chip was damaged or something and I just used the magnetic strip instead. I will never download some fucking payment app into my phone lmao. This is how apple (and any tech giant) sees their users btw: Completely lobotomized retards whose only function is to pay, and even that with great difficulty - so we have to trick them into doing it.
 
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Aero the Alcoholic Bat said:
I don't know why anyone would ever consider doing so, it really does seem easier to do it like you do it, or with a mini PC.
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Yeah. And it isn’t really straight forward when you try to setup emulation on a device as locked down as AppleTV. And it’s a bit easier with a non-apple device.

Do like the options. But at the end of the day, i’ll just use my Deck because I don’t find tinkering with modern devices to be fun.
 
Softmodded consoles back in the day were the shit for retro emulation. There were a few save files on the original Xbox you could jailbreak them with like Splinter Cell and a couple others. 160GB hard drive was enough for every retro ROM plus you could rip games from disc and stream videos over LAN. Hell, even Dreamcast was great. One CD could fit the whole NES library.

For modern TVs you can still get a good retro gaming setup nowadays with a cheap Xbox 360/PS3/Wii U, but unless you're nostalgic for an old console Raspberry Pi or Steam Deck is best.
 
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The Last Stand said:
When publishers/developers use the terms "players" to gauge a game's success. There's a difference between "one million PLAYERS on launch day" and "one million COPIES sold on launch day." If anything, now you'd be judged on if those one million PLAYERS will stay for the long term.
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I want to add to my point. There's no live player count for online games anymore, but publishers love to boast about their high player count for their launches. "Players" can easily be manipulated by subscription services.
 
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I love the fact that computers from even just 5-6 years ago are deemed as "junk." Even more so if you go older than that, so they're cheap. Even just putting an SSD in and a decent GPU and you got yourself a computer good enough for a lot of games and most other things today.

I used to get those old Dell Precision workstations, put a GPU in it, and that was my computer. It's fun working on machines like that.

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Softmodded consoles back in the day were the shit for retro emulation. There were a few save files on the original Xbox you could jailbreak them with like Splinter Cell and a couple others. 160GB hard drive was enough for every retro ROM plus you could rip games from disc and stream videos over LAN. Hell, even Dreamcast was great. One CD could fit the whole NES library.

For modern TVs you can still get a good retro gaming setup nowadays with a cheap Xbox 360/PS3/Wii U, but unless you're nostalgic for an old console Raspberry Pi or Steam Deck is best.
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One thing I don't get regarding the modding scenes is this desire to run a Linux desktop OS on your X360, Wii, etc. If a Linux computer is what you want, literally one of the easiest things to set up on any cheap crappy old computer from Goodwill or Craigslist.

I don't buy for a second people are actually using modded consoles for that - I've actually read people saying "well what if you only have a 360 but not a regular computer?" Like, GTFO. Nobody is doing that, what they're really doing is putting Linux on their Xbox, then never doing anything with it. The vast majority of people do it so they can run pirated games whether they admit it or not. No judgement here, I pirate movies and shows all the time, but it's just blatantly dishonest when people say that it's not the most common use-case by far.

I think that goes back to the whole "turning every device you have into a generic emulation box" thing. Why even get all these devices if you're going to turn them all into the same thing? Save money and pick one then. Lol
 
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>be ToroidalBoat
>need to buy new shoes
>not enough funds in debit account
>call bank to transfer funds
>a stupid AI replaced the automated banking system
>ask for the automated banking system
>"herp derp sorry I didn't understand that"
>try to transfer funds over the internet
>unrecognized device please send verification code
>no code reaches me

aaarrrggghhh...
 
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HalHalliday said:
Didn't people get locked out of a building once 'cause AWS went down?
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Iirc there was also a small AWS outage that made people unable to use their gay "IoT" shit like lights and thermostats for an hour or three like three or four years ago

It was three years ago according to this reddit post seething about the outages, some of the responses are funny
 
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