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Enshittification. Once you learn it, you see it everywhere. It’s depressing.

I always thought they were adorable. They did a great job making recognizable vehicles all dinky.

Dumb car but funny idea.

Glad to know I’m not the only old-ass person here who thinks the same thing.

Every time I saw one of those I wanted to put a penny in the back to make it do a wheelie.

#justoldpeoplethings

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Look, I think it’s important to state here that while you can often offer prompts to strangers with no ill effect, 7% of strangers are DEATHLY ALLERGIC to prompts. I know it’s fun to give your strangers prompts sometimes, but I urge you all NOT to give prompts to strangers or you run the very real risk of harming them seriously.

Signed, A strangerologist

Oh hey get fucked, bigot

Never interrupt your enemy in the middle of a mistake.

That thing you see in cartoons where they stop sneezes by putting a finger under the nose? Never seemed to work for me at first, but it turns out, it does work - you just have to push up against your septum, hard. It can at least diminish the urge slightly and maybe help you delay the sneeze so you can time it more conveniently.

Yep I’d heard about that. Man those were some Wild West days.

Oh no, I’m talking the NES game. It was a hateful thing.

I mean major kudos for getting past the god dam level reliably. I think I beat it once on an emulator.

Don’t worry, no one beat that game.

(Obviously now sixteen people will come in and tell me they beat the game but I will take this chance to mention that the PC port was literally unbeatable without cheating or modifying the game due to a mapping bug.)

Let me know if you try it! I’m pretty excited. I’m setting Retropie to boot straight into a selection of arcade games on MAME so you’ll just plug in power, plug in HDMI to whatever TV, press the button, and after ~2 minutes of boot, you can fire up Golden Axe or Darkstalkers.

In case I forget, I can give you the gist (all the extension cords are internal just to get the jacks exposed outside the case):

Main hardware:

• HORI Fighting Stick Alpha (Xbox version)
• Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with RetroPie pre-built image on a 32 GB microSD
• custom 3D printed port bracket (printing a test of this right now)
• I might need to print some internal structures too, but for now I’m just going to jam it all in there.

Power:

• Raspberry Pi PiSwitch for power on/off (USB C version for modernness’ sake)
• Micro USB male to USB C female adapter
• USB C extension cord

Video:

• mini HDMI male to HDMI female right-angle adapter
• HDMI extension cord

Control (waiting for these to arrive):

• USB OTG micro male->USB A female right-angle adapter
• Plugable USB splitter cable (for the joystick to plug into internally plus to run an extra jack to the outside for player 2)
• USB extension cord

Basically that particular fight stick opens very neatly and includes a decent amount of open space where the Pi Zero can fit along with a big (~7x120mm) slot out the front that the cable goes out. Once I get all the right cables run, it should be easy peasy. The 3D printed part is mostly to keep it from just having three little cable jacks hanging loose out the front, but if you’re not a neat freak, you can get it done with 2-3 online orders and an afternoon.

This right here. I’m getting more and more disillusioned with my consoles, more into indies, and way into retro. I’m currently working on a self-contained arcade stick with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in it that will have USB and HDMI on the outside so I can teach my 12-year-old stepson what it’s like to get his ass beaten in Street Fighter II.

I also got us a Retron 3 HD and I regularly scour the local retro shops for good NES/SNES/Genesis games. He’s currently obsessed with Dragon Warrior 1.

Deathrow was a super fun dystopian future sport game on the original Xbox. Kind of ultimate frisbee meets NBA Jam with a dash of Manhunt.

I saw it when I was in my early twenties and I’d never seen it before. But tons of pop culture had made jokes of everything in the movie and I expected it to just be a laugh.

The film did such a good job developing dread and helplessness that I forgot all about the jokes.