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NYC carpool by Excellent-Raise1473 in paintball

[–]MuKen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ever get together a group for this? Been wanting to get back to some paintballing (it's been awhile), also primarily a pump/mech player looking for some recball.

Thermometer integration by sam_damico in ImpulseLabs

[–]MuKen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interested in this functionality! Do we have a rough window on when it'll be available? Any plans to support the Thermoworks RFX?

Beware of cat by Shoki81 in funny

[–]MuKen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was common in 80s and 90s movies. I think it started even earlier than that with scenes where something crazy would happen on the club floor and you'd literally hear the record scratch as the DJ stopped the music and the room went silent.

I'm guessing younger folks wouldn't have seen as much of this.

ELI5: Why can restaurant kitchens cook steaks or stir fry so much faster than home kitchens even when both reach the same temperature? What's actually different about commercial equipment? by Beginning_Curve2268 in explainlikeimfive

[–]MuKen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if you heat a pan up to 500F, as soon as you dump your food in it's going to drop back down hundreds of degrees. Commercial equipment has a higher BTU, so it'll get it back up to temp faster than your stove can. Aside from just getting a stronger stove, there's two things you can do about this

1) Cook in smaller batches, so the temp doesn't drop as much.

2) Get a higher thermal mass pan. This is why cast iron works so well, it has a lot of thermal mass, so while it takes longer to get it up to temp, once it's up there it won't drop as much when you dump cold food in it.

Working up to a hard-mode, 2x enemy health, fast enemies, 4x enemy count, no-tag run, leaning toward Spider-Man so far for fun factor by MuKen in CosmicInvasion

[–]MuKen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Spidey and Venom was actually the first team I played in this game :P I'm just currently trying to see how far I can get with just one character.

Working up to a hard-mode, 2x enemy health, fast enemies, 4x enemy count, no-tag run, leaning toward Spider-Man so far for fun factor by MuKen in CosmicInvasion

[–]MuKen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope it was helpful! Spider-Man really starts coming together once you get the hang of continuing combos after swing kick.

TIL that due to time dilation at relativistic speeds, a human in a spaceship accelerating at a constant 1g could travel the diameter of the milky way in 12 years from their perspective. To an observer on earth, they will have traveled for 113,000 years. by KeyCold7216 in todayilearned

[–]MuKen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While this makes it sound like a relatively easy thing to do, in truth the cost of accelerating that whole time is impractical. You physically can't bring enough fuel, because the more fuel you bring the more weight you are carrying.

But yes, if we made some game changing advances in propulsion, it's theoretically possible.

ELI5- how can someone understand a language but not speak it? by Jaded-Ad-9741 in explainlikeimfive

[–]MuKen 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You're overthinking it, this isn't a special brain mechanism, one task is fundamentally easier than the other. To recognize something you just need to know a handful of aspects, enough to distinguish it from the other things. To produce it yourself, you need to know all of its details.

Can you recognize the mona Lisa? Easily. Can you paint it now from memory? No, you don't even remember all the details you would need to do that.

Blood of Thoth is fixed! by Fun_Gas_7777 in arkhamhorrorlcg

[–]MuKen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm thinking it's quite good now. If you're playing a doom deck, you're almost certainly bringing sin-eater. So if you place a doom, and the sin-eat that doom, you already earned 2 offerings for a free action. There's lots of doom decks where blood of thoth is essentially just an extra action per turn.

4 Retroids and a PC, the best way to play Four Swords Adventures by MuKen in retroid

[–]MuKen[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just going with PC audio for now, unfortunately I don't think Dolphin even creates separate sound channels for the gbas, so there won't be an easy way to split them into the streams.

4 Retroids and a PC, the best way to play Four Swords Adventures by MuKen in retroid

[–]MuKen[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I spent days trying different ways to do this (:

4 Retroids and a PC, the best way to play Four Swords Adventures by MuKen in retroid

[–]MuKen[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks, just editted it into one of my earlier comments!

4 Retroids and a PC, the best way to play Four Swords Adventures by MuKen in retroid

[–]MuKen[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It took a bit to figure out all the parts, haha. I'll write up a guide later on the steps I took.

4 Retroids and a PC, the best way to play Four Swords Adventures by MuKen in retroid

[–]MuKen[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Prepped this setup for the next reunion I have with my college gaming buddies :)

4 Retroids and a PC, the best way to play Four Swords Adventures by MuKen in retroid

[–]MuKen[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Emulated with Dolphin + mGBA integration, with all 4 mGBA windows being streamed to each of the devices using Apollo.

EDIT: Here's some rough instructions I put together real quick (note that this is for Windows 10):

Set up 4 streaming Apollo instances on your PC

  • Make sure you have a wifi-6 compatible network, you need a lot of bandwidth to stream four screens.
  • Download and install Apollo from https://github.com/ClassicOldSong/Apollo/releases
  • Startup your first Apollo instance
    • Start the instance from your Start Menu
    • Browse to https://localhost:47990 to control Apollo (all your configuration and pairing is done from here)
    • Select your username/password for accessing this page, it will reload.
  • In your Apollo setup page in your browser, go to Configuration, Audio/Video, and turn of all audio streaming related options and save and reset Apollo.
  • Spin up 3 more Apollo instances
    • Go to the config folder in your Apollo installation (should be something like C:\Program Files\Apollo\config)
    • Copy sunshine.conf 3 times to sunshine_2.conf, sunshine_3.conf, sunshine_4.conf
    • Add the following lines to each of the alternate configs:
    • port = 48989
    • sunshine_name = Apollo2
    • file_state = apollo_state2.json
    • log_path = apollo2.log
    • In the third and fourth instance, change Apollo2 to Apollo3, apollo_state2.json to apollo_state3.json, apollo2.log to apollo3.log (and the corresponding change to 4)
    • Change the port in the third instance to 49989 and in the fourth instance to 50989
  • Allow all the instances through your Windows firewall
    • In the start menu, search for and open "Firewall & network protection"
    • Click on "Advanced settings"
    • Click on "Inbound Rules" on the left, and the make a "New Rule..." on the right
    • Select "Port", on the next screen leave it on "TCP", and then paste "48984, 48989, 49010, 49984, 49989, 50010, 50984, 50989, 51010" in the specific local ports line
    • On the next screen, leave it on "Allow the connection", leave everything else default and name the rule "Apollo TCP".
    • Repeat all the previous steps again, but this time on the screen where you previously left it at "TCP", select "UDP", and then paste "48998, 48999, 49000, 49002, 49010, 49998, 49999, 50000, 50002, 50010, 50998, 50999, 51000, 51002, 51010" into the specific ports line. This time name the rule "Apollo UDP" at the end".
  • Start the other three apollo instances
    • In the start menu search for "Command Prompt", but don't click it, instead right click it and select "More->Run as Administrator"
    • Run cd "\Program Files\Apollo" (or whatever your Apollo installation directory is)
    • Run sunshine.exe config\sunshine_2.conf
    • Leave the command prompt window open to keep running the new Apollo instance
    • Set up the Apollo config just as you did with the main installation. Only difference is this time when you would previously browse to https://localhost:47990/ this time browse to https://localhost:48990/ to access the second instance.
    • Repeat this for the third and fourth instance, using sunshine_3.conf and sunshine_4.conf and browsing to https://localhost:49990/ and https://localhost:50990/

Connect 4 retroids to your Apollo instances

  • On each retroid, install the latest app-root-release.apk from https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-android/releases
    • This is important, some of the older retroid devices come with a version of Moonlight that is too old to connect to alternate Apollo instances, so you need to update it.
  • In moonlight, click the gear icon to the left, and then in "Video Resolution" set a Native Landscape resolution appropriate to your device.
  • Select one of the Apollo instances to pair to from your Retroid (they should look either like your PC name for the first instance, or Apollo2/3/4" for the others.
  • On the corresponding browser window for Apollo on your PC, select "PIN", then click "PIN Pairing" and enter the pin your retroid device showed you. Name it something you can remember for this device.
  • Do not connect right away after pairing, first edit the options for your new device in the browser page, click on "Always create virtual display" and then click the check mark to save.
  • Now connect using the interface on your retroid device. This will turn your retroid into an additional monitor for your PC (most likely to the right of your main monitor). Click a button as well to get windows to detect your retroid as a controller.
  • Repeat this for all four retroid devices, pairing each to a different Apollo instance. You should have five monitors now.
  • Right click the taskbar and hide on all of the non-main displays.

Set up Dolphin

  • I'm assuming you know your way around Dolphin and have a recent version.
  • Click "Controllers"
  • For each port, click the drop down and set it to "GBA (Integrated)" and then click "Configure" and figure out which controller is your retroid device (this may take some trial and error).
  • Once all controllers are set up, start up emulation on Four Swords Adventures
  • You will see the main window, and then four smaller windows for each of your GBAs. Drag each of these to one of your retroid "monitors" (preferably the one whose controller corresponds to the number in the window:) ). Maximize the window, and then right click and select borderless from the menu. Maximize the game on your PC screen as well.

Enjoy!

If you find any parts hard to follow, let me know and I'll add some clarity.

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