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  • I’ve been interested for many years, but I keep ending up holding off because I want something that does a better job at emulation than my phone.

    I’m not sure that “dedicated device with potentially better control scheme” beats out “the one to two generations old semi-flagship android I already have with an xbone controller clipped to it and wired in through an adapter”. When I do find something that has better performance, the price point usually puts me off, which is silly because I pay more for my phone whenever I upgrade… and then the cycle perpetuates.

    So I guess it comes down to that I don’t want to pay again for something my phone can already do. Just wish there were more phones with microsd card slots for expandable storage, and a quality controller with the same relative form factor as the dedicated devices. Console controllers are big for a work bag. Thick. Especially with the clip to attach a phone to it well.

    Right now I’ve been tidying up an old Game Boy Color (cleaned and reshelled, thinking about rechargable usb-c battery modding it) and saving for an Everdrive for it. If that ends up scratching an itch by being a dedicated device, it might push me over towards buying a dedicated emulation handheld.





  • When called out on this, OP made the following thread mischaracterizing artist signatures in images as advertising and trying to get a rule made on the comics community to force all users to remove attribution. https://lemmus.org/post/21226925

    In the comments they state that they refuse to consistently link the source, even though they are able to, until the rule they suggested is put into place: https://lemmus.org/comment/17161116

    Notably, this all exploded after that community’s mod suggested a “no bots” rule and created a “two posts per user per day” rule that OP is blatantly violating.


    OP is upset that they don’t get to use other peoples spaces for free exactly as they want to. They have a post in powertrippingbastards recently that amounts to this as well. Now they’re just continuing the tantrum elsewhere because they didn’t get the response they wanted.


    Beep, a suggestion: Make the space you want to see on lemmy. Create a comm and set the rules you want on it. You want all posts to have what you consider advertising stripped out? Go for it.

    “NonAdComics”, “BeepsMemes”, etc. The fediverse is still small enough to carve out your own space.



  • So, you still don’t understand why it wouldn’t be appropriate to react strongly in a room full of kids is what you’re saying.

    It’s not an ad hominem when calling out your inability to comprehend the reason for that is the entire point to my comment. It highlights a severe deficiency in your social awareness at the bare minimum, which doesn’t reflect well on your ability to discern the motives of other people online. Does that spell it out directly enough?

    Fine, let’s put that aside. In your eyes, what would have been an appropriate response for Bush to take in that situation? This ought to be entertaining.









  • As others have said, time. Also, the realization and repeated internal reminders to yourself that they were not who you thought they were.

    It’s very easy to build up someone in your head to be better than they are and to fill in the gaps with positive assumptions, especially when you’re crushing on them. You have to realize that those fuzzy feelings were in your head. The feelings weren’t based off reality, and they obviously weren’t the same feelings in that person’s head. At the very least, those feelings weren’t based off the full person, because you didn’t know them fully.

    The version of them you liked didn’t exist, because that version wouldn’t be (in this specific case) homophobic, ableist, hating special needs students, and making fun of you behind your back.

    Yes, it may hurt to remind yourself of the reasoms they are shit, but it’ll hurt less than allowing yourself to pine for a “what could have been” that was based off a version of them that only existed in your head.


  • Great callout!

    I participate in the techtakes community on awful.systems, which is devoted to laughing at tech bro “takes”. HN posts and comments are almost too easy as targets for derision and are common topics for meta-discussion of the reprehensible opinions.

    I was just trying to have a light touch here. Start with the facts. We can talk about the literal cults spun off from it later.

    The site’s one of the clearest windows into the myriad and shockingly widespread ghoulish opinions that seem to fester in places that consider themselves important to the tech industry or attract people who think they are.

    I really should start keeping a tally on shit like “how many times have I seen eugenics suggested on HN this month”.