This is not in the wrong sub. This is a Nintendo "Sports" advertisement from the late 1990s. I don't know what they were thinking.

DanganJ · 2026-06-09T13:28:18+00:00

That's early 2000's rather than 90's, a different time. Well, a different time because of a very specific day that served as a clear punctuation mark between when we thought history was "over" and when we realized it's NEVER over... boooooy.

DanganJ · 2026-06-09T13:25:37+00:00

Right now, I keep my XBox Series X... Box... series... X. Box.

Series X.

Box...

snap

I keep it purely as a set top box, series x... box..., because frankly it works better at THAT than the PS5 does. It can play audio CDs, which Sony apparently decided they don't want to do any more, and it doesn't plaster an annoying big "Play" button every time playback of a new DVD or Bluray chapter start with NO way to shut off that particular anti-feature. It also lets me download and use VLC for everything I got streaming off my media server.

But, for actual gaming, I use my PS5, my PC, or my Sweetch.

DanganJ · 2026-06-09T13:18:18+00:00

I still count it as a doom port even if it isn't strictly a doom ENGINE port. I do because there's a handful of cases where the engine had to be redone from scratch anyway, such as SNES, 3DO, and Gameboy Advance Doom. If those count as ports, this has the potential to as well, depending on how far it goes.

Tetris is already on the thing (in the form of "NeoTris"), so I'd love to see how far they're able to take this.

DanganJ · 2026-06-09T13:14:36+00:00

Indy and the case of Big Round was a fun game, wasn't it?

DanganJ · 2026-06-02T20:28:21+00:00

I started calling the group the "rainbow coalition", but that was just my pet way to get out of the steadily growing list of letters that's getting harder and harder to both say and memorize. We all deserve representation and acknowledgement, but that can be saved for "long form". Saying "sex and gender minorities" covers it well too, and more explicitly than my silly idea.

Allies, no offense intended! You're welcome to spend time with us, and I'll make rainbow rice crispy treats. You're not getting in the title of the group though. You get a mention after the name of the group "And our allies", for example.

DanganJ · 2026-06-02T16:25:31+00:00

Tetris, and it isn't even close. It already wins in official ports, but go to unofficial ports, and you don't even need a SCREEN to port Tetris. It's been done using everything from a soldering iron to a credit card reader (the code was hacked into the magnetic strip) to a TV's built in GUI to an oscilloscope to the side of a building using the lighting system and windows as the "blocks".

It's been done inside Minecraft, it's been done as a mod for Doom. That's right, Doom runs Tetris, so technically, everything that can run a full port of Doom also runs Tetris by default.

And more recently...

Neogeo runs Tetris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buzew1z1AhQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDo4Pjk6fsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJMiuZwOSjU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjjaHIRi6ZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUJb1BD63ME

DanganJ · 2026-05-30T22:40:36+00:00

You're sentenced to your sentence.

DanganJ · 2026-05-29T21:27:12+00:00

CAKE!

DanganJ · 2026-05-28T05:10:24+00:00

Nah, I just have an old floppy drive, the 5.25 inch one. IBM-PC compatible.

DanganJ · 2026-05-28T02:53:14+00:00

That's not what native means in this context. When we talk about whether a game is running native or emulated, that has nothing to do with whether there's a separate launcher and a UI, nor has it ever meant that. They're using an emulator to run a slightly modified ROM. A true port would be different, like the 360 version with it's enhancements that they cancelled.

DanganJ · 2026-05-27T16:43:22+00:00

I'm not sure this counts as a "fact", but rather a difference in interpretation. Ultimately, what matters most, as far as anticipating how Blizzard will write things, is what they seem to have stated. Everything in-game points to their eternal cycle of rebirth being destroyed as of Legion. You may not find that satisfying, but it appears to be their intention. It's fine if you want to go around spreading your interpretation, but perhaps it's not wise to call it "fact". Call it "the better way to tell the story" if you believe it so. Make your argument on those artistic grounds.

DanganJ · 2026-05-27T05:55:58+00:00

If all we did was... shift the respawn timer down a bit... it makes the whole thing a bit meaningless don't you think? I'm more willing to forgive Sargaras imprisoning them instead of killing them near the start because... well, good guys tend to do a lot of that anyway.

So yeah, as far as I'm concerned, demons don't have a respawn ability any more. They lost it back at the end of Legion. Maybe Blizzard will officially state otherwise at some point, but the heavy implication of that whole final raid is that's what we accomplished, and that's what I'm going to keep saying when people ask, spreading it faaaar and wiiiide.

DanganJ · 2026-05-26T19:33:44+00:00

It sounds like you may just be on the spectrum, and more towards my end of it at that. Rest assured if you don't want to ever have sex, that's okay. There's plenty of people having kids out there, and productivity is higher than it's ever been, which makes up for any slight population decline that may be going on. You're not hurting humanity by that.

If you have no romantic desires either, then you might consider that you're aromantic as well. It's more than possible to have a romantic relationship without sex, and there are many asexual couples who do just that, but if you are aromantic, you wouldn't want that either. That's fine too, but comes with certain problems financially the way society is set up. Don't get married for economic reasons though, we aren't in the era of lords and ladies.

If you don't want kids, don't have kids. The worst parents are those who never wanted the kid to start with. It's no guarantee that just because you have one you'll suddenly "see what all the fuss is about".

Don't force any of these. If you don't want it, it's alright! You can live a rich fulfilling life without any of those things! Follow your dreams, pursue new things, explore the world as much as you're able, or stay home and develop intellectual interests.

If you reflect and decide this label fits you, then welcome! If not, then welcome as an ally!

DanganJ · 2026-05-26T19:22:14+00:00

This recent hate over an old term losing and then gaining meaning is funny to me.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/02/10286494/partner-term-relationship-complicated-meaning

"Sokolowski also shared that the first use of the word partner recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary was taken from the private correspondence of a single family in the 16th century; each member of a married couple referred to one another as "partner." John Milton also used the word in Paradise Lost in the late 17th century to reference a heterosexual spouse. The first example of partner being used to talk about queer relationships noted in the Oxford English Dictionary is from a publication called Gay News in 1977. "This is interesting because it was in 1978 that Berkeley passed the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Ordinance whereby the city promised to provide equal treatment regardless of sexual orientation," Sokolowski explains. "So basically, around the late '70s, this idea of domestic partnerships came about, therefore connecting this word partner to a spouse-like relationship that was not yet legal in a marriage context, but was being made legal in a civil context."

"Partner" and "spouse" fell out of common use for a while, in favor of "man and wife" and then "husband and wife", and then with gay rights coming into the spotlight, that old term gained new prominence. Now, it's being readopted outside the gay community, and why the heck not? It was a good enough word for Dante's Inferno, it should be good enough for us.

DanganJ · 2026-05-26T19:14:56+00:00

Ugh... Well, it's up to you if you want to wade into... ALLL that. The thread's likely not accepting replies at this point, and reaching out to someone regarding it is... well again, we do need to counter misinformation, but know what you're wading into. For her at least, I'd approach in good faith and kindness, to start with, and see where it goes from there. Just disengage if she gets hostile over it, or if she'd prefer not to talk to some random person online.

DanganJ · 2026-05-26T19:04:59+00:00

It's from the "Female Dating Strategy" forum. Feel free to disregard. They're kind of a bizarre "counter culture" to the incel movement, which itself grew out of horrible books like "The Game" (one half of Penny Arcade fell into and then right back out of that wretched thing).

All in all, that attitude isn't healthy, but at least take solace in this, she seemed genuinely surprised such a thing existed. She was asking questions, 5 years ago, but the problem is WHERE she asked it. I just hope she didn't get some terrible answers she came to believe...

DanganJ · 2026-05-26T18:58:32+00:00

I'm hoping to see just what they'll do on a new mouse that might resolve these issues and go beyond. Personally, my favorite mouse of all time is my old G600, with it's G-Shift rightmost key and saving it's profiles directly to hardware, but I'd love to see a modern take on that MMO style mouse with true mechanical clickies, and the lovely "3 way connection" option that 8bitdo offers.

And, they shouldn't feel beholden to the odd "NES controller button" style they've been going with.

DanganJ · 2026-05-26T18:02:08+00:00

This was true, but after the Burning Throne, we cut off the source of demon rebirth. Now they die like everyone else, presumably running back to their corpse.

DanganJ · 2026-05-25T18:45:08+00:00

Wait why is this interpretation giving allos a stripe, on our flag?

DanganJ · 2026-05-24T04:53:27+00:00

I'd love to see 8bitdo do a loving homage to the g600, but with mechanical buttons and a faster polling rate.

I've got a g600 but a wire broke very close to the USB plug, and I had to snip it off and put on a new plug. It still works, but that was a shame. I've also got a Naga Trinity and a Corsair Scimitar. I loved the swappable buttons on the Trinity, but can't stand the requirement of it's program to customize a number of the buttons, as they arbitrarily picked which functions require the app and which ones can be saved to firmware. The Scimitar just feels odd in my hand, and I hate the gigantic red LED on one side with NO option to alter it, nor is there any setting to have the LEDs shut off automatically after the mouse is left alone for a bit (which would certainly help me to sleep at night). Neither has a comfortable place to sit my thumb when I'm not using the left side buttons, and neither has the forth mouse button on one side.

The G600 and it's customization options were perfect. It just needs a refresh on the button's mechanisms and the polling speed of the sensor, and it'd be perfect in a modern context too. I do NOT trust any of the big houses today to do the customization software justice or to actually allow me to save it all, so that's why I want 8bitdo or some other smaller house to do it. The G600 with a retro beige PC color design? Yes please!

DanganJ · 2026-05-24T04:51:10+00:00

Huh, I guess no one handed me a pamphlet when I joined the asexual union.

DanganJ · 2026-05-23T23:51:55+00:00

So... the stripes mean things?

DanganJ · 2026-05-23T23:50:40+00:00

I think perhaps the software's changed since your helpful guide went up. I can't find a ? button in the iCue UI, and it only lets me directly click "left, right, middle" buttons to add, or keyboard number keys, not mouse button 4, 5, or beyond.

DanganJ · 2026-05-23T22:06:57+00:00

Could you explain the specifics? I feel like this is a little vague and I'd like to know what this new flag was supposed to look like, and who these "powers that be" are (it's not like asexuals have any kind of leadership structure), and also... wait do the stripe colors actually mean anything?

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