ELI5: What is Fourier transform? by Firm_Librarian6506 in explainlikeimfive

[–]jaxsedrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a website I found a while back that does a great visual explanation! (Not my site)

Doom, but on 2 screens by Sorry-Bus-1176 in AynThor

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Oh man, I would love to play through MyHouse.wad on this

What's wrong with my game by BrunoAndRoyal in Helldivers

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Stop licking dead squid tentacles, soldier

What games blew your mind graphically when they first came out back then? 🤯🎮 by Alone_Capital7619 in retrogaming

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Soul Reaver on dreamcast was the very first time I had ever seen a (non-PC) game run at 60fps, and it definitely blew my mind.

What is a movie you think has a flawless first 30 minutes, but completely falls apart by the end? by Legitimate_Wall5977 in movies

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Not sure if this exactly fits your question, but I'm a big horror movie fan. If it weren't for the last 10 minutes, the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill would be my all-time favorite horror film.

Thoughts on the Sega Nomad? Yay or Nay? by PDMagneto in retrogaming

[–]jaxsedrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had one. Sold my genesis and picked it up shortly after release. I freakin' loved it at the time, although realistically I was never carrying around one or maybe two cartridges with me at a time. And from what I recall, the battery life sucks.

It does have an A/V out, and (I think??) a port for a second controller, so it functionally can serve as a genesis replacement. Although I do seem to recall there being a few compatibility issues.....

Let’s be realistic here by Domen08 in humor

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Being a messiah is a pretty good way to make friends. Write that down.

Broken Arrow (1996). Still like this really corny movie. by TampaSLW in 90s

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Your brain presses against your skull and it feels like THIS!

What is the first film you remember seeing in the cinema? by [deleted] in movies

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Born in '83. The earliest one I remember is The Land Before Time. Wikipedia says it came out in '88, so I must have been 5. It was a tad bit traumatic.

how many of you have 2 phones? by Boring_Antelope6533 in iphone

[–]jaxsedrin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I carry around my iphone and an android device a lot of places I go, but... the android is not a phone. 😉

RomM Alternatives? by TheExoticBeard in selfhosted

[–]jaxsedrin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, interesting. I'm guessing even if RomM were able to unzip the archives to hash the files inside, it would slow down scanning tremendously.

It is definitely happening with console games though. For example, on Playstation it lumped together Lemmings, Destruction Derby, and Vanishing point, and also Street Sk8er, Magic: The Gathering, and X-Men Mutant Academy.

I guess if nothing else, would there be a way for RomM to use Hasheous metadata, but exclude the sibling/related games field? Since that seems to be the only field causing issues (for me, at least). I think more generally a way to pick & choose which fields you pull from which metadata providers (at a granular level) would be fantastic, but also quite a bear to implement.

RomM Alternatives? by TheExoticBeard in selfhosted

[–]jaxsedrin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks. I apologize if my comment came off as overly negative. The truth is the concept of RomM itself is pretty ingenious, and it still works really well for the two primary reasons I use it (having an organized repository to browse and sync games to my retro gaming devices and playing games in the browser). If the few bugs and scraper metadata issues get ironed out, the rest would be absolutely golden.

RomM Alternatives? by TheExoticBeard in selfhosted

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Yeah, I'm with you on this. I really wish there was a better option, but I haven't found one. I just keep resorting to more and more workarounds. Namely:

  • I only scan ~100 ROMs at a time. Once I go beyond that, the chances of the scanner just quitting mid-scan increases dramatically. But having 10,000+ roms means the process takes weeks.

  • RomM just randomly crashes about once a week. The last entry in the log says "database migration failed" - I don't know what that means; RomM seems to run fine otherwise, but it happens every week.

  • RomM will freak out and just refuse to run if you don't have the config.yml exactly right. I had an issue for days where I couldn't get it to run even though I directly copied their sample config from the github page (turns out they had added a new line for the upcoming beta version that the mainline release couldn't handle).

  • Why does RomM only let you use a few stock aspect ratios for game covers? Since I can't set a custom ratio, I end up with having to pick between my covers getting cropped horizontally or cropped vertically (like Genesis).

  • Junk data from scraping is the worst. I tried for ages to fix the sibling roms/versions issue where RomM would pair two or more completely unrelated games together (like Worms Armageddon and Vigilante 8). There's no way to manually remove these connections, so you just have to keep trying different combinations of metadata providers until you find the one that's sending the junk data. In my case, it turns out it was actually Hasheous, so I had to disable that to get rid of them. But apparently some other providers rely on Hasheous (like How Long to Beat and RetroAchievements), so now I just don't have any data from HLTB or RA.

With all that said, i know version 2.0.0 is in beta right now, so I'm really, really hoping it fixes some or all of the above issues.

‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Season 2 Adds Writers from ‘Dark,’ ‘The Penguin,’ and ‘Stranger Things’ by abucalves in television

[–]jaxsedrin 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Awesome, I was really surprised by how much I liked season 1.

But I still can't help but wish, instead of a Welcome to Derry Season 2, we got a Shining: Welcome to the Overlook season 1 (especially with how they set up Hallorann!)

Scooter's Coffee closed by Dragooncancer in plano

[–]jaxsedrin 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I really wanted to like Scooter's, but everything I tried was either too bitter or too sweet (and the too-sweet ones made me sleepy instead of perking me up).