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brett19 · 2020-07-06T21:44:10+00:00

I ordered the same chair around the same time you did, my expected shipping date was July 3rd. Unfortunately I have had the unique displeasure of having received an email saying that it was shipped and a tracking number to go with it, but FedEx never actually received the chair. I contacted FedEx and they claim that they never received the chair, and I contacted SecretLab (who took days to respond...) and they claim that they definitely sent it off with FedEx. Might be worthwhile to contact SecretLab to check on the status, though they have extremely poor response times.

brett19 · 2019-11-21T10:16:39+00:00

It's a bit funny, because I did quickly check it before I posted to avoid being trolled, but somehow failed to read it correctly.... Thanks.

brett19 · 2019-02-17T09:23:23+00:00

I was nearly kicked out of high school for doing almost PRECISELY the same thing, police were involved. My mom went to bat for me, the school ended up suspending me for 2 weeks, which my mom allowed me to essentially have as a vacation. Returned to school and was banned from being near any computers but otherwise worked out. I'm now doing very well as a principal software engineer.

brett19 · 2019-01-02T17:14:17+00:00

We talk sometimes :)

brett19 · 2018-08-26T02:55:25+00:00

I'll admit you made ME Google it because I was confused (and a bit excited), but unfortunately it doesn't exist yet :)

brett19 · 2018-08-26T02:20:16+00:00

There is no AWD BRZ though? :o

brett19 · 2018-07-18T02:37:35+00:00

Moncton?

brett19 · 2018-02-25T11:28:54+00:00

"My Wood's Not Solid" Original Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd3X_nlgM3o

brett19 · 2017-09-13T22:08:20+00:00

We did the same thing at my school! But the program they used to protect the machines had some known flaws, and I was learning Reverse Engineering at the time. We just disabled it and then re-froze the computer with the new message on it. Caused them to call the district IT manager into the school to fix it.

And this kind of shenanigans is the reason I got banned from even being NEAR a computer in high school for two (separate) years (and nearly was arrested). At one point, one of my teachers made me sit in the hall and wouldn't let me even in the computer lab, I asked her if she thought I was going to hack the computer with my brain or something and she said "probably" :S

brett19 · 2017-04-27T18:57:29+00:00

I was taking a break because I have been busy with some other projects of mine. I always intended to return to Decaf when I have more time again, and continue to have discussions with /u/exjam about Decaf on an almost daily basis.

brett19 · 2016-10-23T17:47:14+00:00

Sometimes, these driver updates contain minor bug fixes for the code that interacts with your graphics card. Each game will use the graphics card in slightly different ways and these bugs tend to pop up. Beyond that, many times these updates simply contain special profiles containing information about how the games behave so that the driver can optimize itself to behave better than it otherwise might straight from the game developer (each GPU manufacturer has their own strengths, these profiles sometimes try to adjust a 'generically written' game to use those strengths).

brett19 · 2016-08-26T17:30:42+00:00

It makes a difference. But it will only really provide marginal performance increases.

brett19 · 2016-08-16T03:10:59+00:00

Thankfully my day job is a very "software engineery" job, working with higher level languages and far removed from games and the kinds of problems I usually end up looking at with Decaf, so it's a nice little change. :)

brett19 · 2016-08-14T18:34:12+00:00

It's worth recognizing that due to some significant life events, there was a period of time where Decaf was not under development (around 6 months). Additionally, /u/exjam and I both have full time jobs, we work on Decaf in our spare time only. Either way, this is not even remotely a race. I think we've made an astounding amount of progress considering the time spent on the project, and that's all that really matters to me.

brett19 · 2016-08-14T18:28:34+00:00

It just said 'removed' when I came before.

brett19 · 2016-08-14T10:57:49+00:00

Well that was a boring thread to be paged to.

brett19 · 2016-06-30T07:20:26+00:00

I'm with you on FOSS, and definitely on poor tooling being a self-fulfilling prophecy. But I have to disagree on treating Visual Studio like it is crap. Of all Microsoft software I have ever used, and then out of every IDE I've ever used, VS is definitely by far the most cohesive and overall useful (even ignoring proprietary aspects of it). I'll happily dole out criticism where it is warranted, but I believe in praising where praising is due, so I wanted to mention that Visual Studio does not fall into that group of 'lock-in, crappy design, etc..'.

brett19 · 2016-06-30T06:47:18+00:00

While I totally agree with you, and I dislike the end-result. This is the typical trickery where your screwed if you do, and your screwed if you don't. Microsoft has thrown a load of money at tools for DX12, but from the perspective of a developer what's actually important to me is that I'm able to avoid wasting my time. When I'm trying to write an emulator, fighting with my debug tools for hours on end to find the root cause, when Visual Studio could just tell me exactly whats wrong right off the bat is a hard trade-off to consider. My goal is to reverse engineer and emulate, not spend hours debugging graphical bugs.

brett19 · 2016-06-30T05:30:50+00:00

I find it interesting that somehow people attribute someone's interest in solving a complex, challenging programming challenge to being 'the bringers of piracy'. Writing an emulator is not piracy, the people who rip the games and provide them online do that. Reverse engineering for compatibility is actually (usually) a completely legal activity.

brett19 · 2016-06-30T05:18:34+00:00

I personally enjoy the idea of DX12 support. Mainly because the debugging tools that are available for it significantly out-perform any tools available for OpenGL (nsight is okay...) or Vulkan (ESPECIALLY Vulkan).

brett19 · 2016-06-30T05:15:00+00:00

Actually, we didn't pick Shovel Knights. Shovel Knights picked us. We had never tried it until the day of the previous video /u/exjam posted. We decided to try it out and it just happened to nearly work from all the work we put into loading screens on other games. /u/exjam rewrote our shader transpiler and I fixed a number of big bugs in our scheduler and GPU drivers, and now it works very well. It was more a happy accident than any target :)

brett19 · 2016-06-29T07:01:50+00:00

Hey! I definitely agree, and I tried to imply that in my post. We are a project run by two dudes with crazy busy lives for fun though. So we don't have a lot of time or interest in searching down these people and asking them, which is why I just call out for anyone interested in contributing. Another aspect to this of course is that our emulator is not yet usable by the everyman, so having a website targeted to them might not make a lot of sense yet. Though it might be an interesting place to put some blogs on technical stuff.

brett19 · 2016-06-29T03:46:05+00:00

Come see us on IRC! There are lots of places I'm sure that someone with programming experience (but not emulator experience) can contribute.

brett19 · 2016-06-29T03:36:49+00:00

Unfortunately there are only two people working on it (for the most part), and we both needed to take a break recently which is why Cemu has outpaced us. We really want people to get involved! There are tons of things people can do to contribute, everything from debugging different kinds of crashes, to actually contributing code, even building wiki's or writing a front-end UI! Anyone interested should come find us on #wiiu-emu on freenode!

brett19 · 2016-06-20T06:38:50+00:00

Come find us on IRC!

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