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Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the most expensive thing you broke as a kid and what's the story behind it?
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    2 months ago

    Kitchen window. About 2x3 metres if I remember right.

    We had a trampoline in our backyard, outside the kitchen so mum could watch us while cooking or whatever. There was a huge hill (our house was in a bit of a mountainous area), and we decided to throw some rocks down the hill and bounce them off the trampoline… but we were uncoordinated 10 year olds so we missed every time. And it was just a bunch of little stones gathering in our backyard.

    Then I found one rock. Pretty big, had to lift it with two hands and shot-put it down the hill. That was the one that we finally landed on the trampoline. And it bounced right through the kitchen window.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Emulation on LinuxEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It’s not retroarch. If you have been in emulation for a while that’s enough right there. No one is reusing retroarch cores here.

    https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Ares

    If you don’t want to spend 3 hours setting up an emulator, ares is basically just: open software, click to open what you want to play. The interface isn’t trying to reinvent a weird ps3 or Switch hybrid on your pc. It is similar to regular desktop software ui you might have used during your life.

    Ares was developed by Near (rip). If you don’t know who that is, it’s a shame, but I’m not going to go into it here. It’s now maintained by people continuing Near’s work on trying to achieve cycle accurate, preservation quality emulation.

    Some of the emulation cores, SNES, 32x, N64, MegaDrive and Sega CD are the best in class, by a wide margin. Turbografx is comparable if not better than mednafen. SNES especially good since that was Near’s main focus for many years - you might know it as bsnes or higan from before they started pushing the ares emulator more before they died.

    Some systems are definitely best played elsewhere (mgba is better for gba, Stella is better for 2600, Duckstation for ps1, Sameboy for gameboy colour). But that defeats the purpose of your question. For the sake of having all the emulation in one place, ares usually do fine with these.

    It can be taxing. If you are running an older underpowered machine, you might not have a good time.

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you use Facebook or Instagram?
    3·
    4 months ago

    I typically log in to facebook a couple times a month to see if anyone sent me any messages.

    But then I check it frequently during crises. Our town (small regional town out in the bush) has a community group that shares location and severity of bushfires or storms, local power outages, missing animals, emergency calls, criminal activity (break ins, theft of equipment, suspicious behaviour like unfamiliar vehicles parking outside their house, etc).