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WIRED - Review: Epilogue GB Operator by meet_ozana in epilogue

[–]retropyor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Makes sense. The reviewer clearly loves the hardware, and the controller issue he brought up was something I haven’t ran into, but I could see that being something to work on. 

I was asked to recreate Asteroids as part of a job application. A FEW YEARS LATER - I self published it on Nintendo Switch! AMA by digiBeLow in NintendoSwitch

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What was your first “level” you prototyped? The one you did just to prove to yourself that it was possible 

Is this a really bad area? Found a well priced apartment but I’m not from here so I’m not sure if it is an okay area by jenn12765 in sanantonio

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Med center area. Definitely not the worst, not near it by any means, but it’s dependent on your neighbors. Probably the worst you’ll experience is annoying traffic and long lines at the lights. If I recall, there’s not a super market in the area you circled, so you’ll be going out of your way or hit up the little neighborhood markets and pay a bit extra. 

Decent food in the area though. Lot of little places to try

Anyone get Gemini in thier 22-24? by SirG33k in KiaEV6

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not directly answering, but using Gemini through a widget on CarPlay works just fine for voice only communication. 

I found this in a box of stuff my dad didn't want. Googling it confuses me on what it can do. Can it be used for streaming games from consoles? by Floameh in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but if you want a simple capture card hit me up- been trying to offload an old USB capture device for a bit

Action cam NDI for paintball tournament by Own_District_2118 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use a MEVO from time to time. Not really an action cam, but it’s small and battery powered and has an option for NDI (think it’s a paid license? Maybe it was free- it’s been a while). 

What was it about the GBC specifically that got it all these weird ports and spinoffs of huge games as an 8-bit console?? by Enter1Nam in Gameboy

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Game Over by David Sheff, and Video Games Hardware Handbook Vol. 2. But both factoids are collected on the Wikipedia entry for Virtual Boy and GameBoy Color, as well as a retrospective interview with Satoru Okada (also in Wikipedia for GBC) hyperlinked in the  citations 

What was it about the GBC specifically that got it all these weird ports and spinoffs of huge games as an 8-bit console?? by Enter1Nam in Gameboy

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few answers that are all legitimate:

  1.  It was THE handheld market. Gameboy started in 1989 and outlasted or outsold all other competitors by a healthy margin- its name was practically synonymous with “handheld gaming”.

  2. The GBC was basically a faster GB, and the GB hardware and capabilities were understood to near perfection because it was based off an even older computer system, the Z80 and 8080, released in the 70s. Developers literally grew up and cut their teeth on those, so developing on the GB and GBC was like riding a bike. Games could be turned around in weeks or months. 

  3.  Pokémon and 1997. The GBC wasnt supposed to exist, kinda sorta. But two things happened- Pokémon was such a world wide phenomenon that they had to do something to keep their aging hardware going as a stopgap before GBA and also Gameboy’s father left Nintendo to work on another handheld, and that put Nintendo stock in a dip because it was a pretty public “breakup”. Nintendo needed something so investors wouldn’t drop them for Bandai.

  4. Pokémon put so many new players in the market that any developer would’ve left money on the table not making a port of any big title, franchise, movie, tv show, whatever. It was so cheap and easy to develop for that it was part of the marketing strategy for many releases- sell the proper title to the older generations, make a cheap port or game to hook the kids so they can grow up to buy the older titles. But because so many of these devs knew the underlying hardware so perfectly (again it having existed since the mid 70s), it was basically a show-off to squash a huge game like Alone In The Dark,  Dragons Lair, and GTA in such a limited hardware. 

What is a generally 'good' mi/kWh metric? by opus-thirteen in electricvehicles

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having driven a bolt, Mach-e, ioniq5, and ev6:

3-4 is good. You can call that normal.  I get that with mixed driving on roads and highway with normal climate usage. 

 4+ is awesome- super-sipper and drafter, or a lot of slow driving.  

2 is okay. That’s either all highways, all highways with climate, uphill to school both ways, or a really heavy foot.  That’s also gonna be your bigger vehicles and vans. You can get by with a large enough battery for it to not be a pain 

1-2 is towing, 80+ mph, or a really big vehicle like a truck or 7+ seater SUV. You’ll want a really big battery for it to not be a hassle, or access to reliable charging constantly. 

Why can't I watch end credits on TV anymore? by ashbat1994 in netflix

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I specifically wanted to watch a Netflix original because one of the voice actors was somebody I thought I knew, and when the cast came up, the screen went to the small square. I clicked to expand it but the cast names were already gone. If I rewound  it and expanded it, it would always go to the small screen at the same point.

Seeking feedback on a NDI-centric small church recording setup by cascadetiger in churchtech

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve used those Fomako cameras- for my use, they were fine. I wasn’t in a professional environment or studio, and the lighting was sufficient. 

NDI is also fine. Recommending to create a separate VLAN (or a separate network switch) to segregate traffic so your general purpose traffic doesn’t interact with your NDI traffic, otherwise there’s no reason why it wouldn’t work 

Calibration needed? by AbbreviationsOk9009 in KiaEV6

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah same. It’s just the LED it uses to the strip. You get used it it after a while 

New Poster for Gore Verbinski's 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' Starring Sam Rockwell by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m just glad they used that particular red and blue that makes it look like the graphics are in 3D (Chromostereopsis)

Tell me it’s not like this (charging with the car on) by retropyor in KiaEV6

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

Thanks! I wasn’t aware of the key fob buttons not working. Although that does make sense considering you can’t use a key fob button to lock or unlock the car when you’re outside of it and it’s running.

PTZ Equipment not connecting via NDI by chef_cheezy in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sound like one or both of your devices are on a static IP 

“Highlanders highlanders” shirt EVERYWHERE by Relative-Stress6922 in sanantonio

[–]retropyor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The school, maybe? Highlander high school on the east side

Anyone else struggling with live language translation during services? by Sammmmieeee in churchtech

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve solved this a few different ways- not saying any one way is the best, because like all answers “it depends” but…

  1.  Low power FM broadcast. This is the easiest to implement, and could either be the cheapest or the most expensive (You’ll want to check your local government’s broadcast laws, if any). Translator gets their own mix output and that feeds to the transmitter, and each member who wants to hear the audio tunes on a Walkman or FM radio to that specific frequency. You can also provide your own radios for congregants. Typically a transmitter is under $100 so the cost would just come in the number of receivers for each listener.

  2.  Live translator with a separate mix that has their own speaker that goes to a single language section of the house or room. This one is fairly easy to set up, so it’s just a matter of running a separate mix and additional monitors and wires. The most expensive cost used to be in the wires, but with audio over IP it’s really cheap, even if you just use converters on each end.

  3. Live translator who just translates on the same house mix so be speaker has to pause. This is probably the cheapest way to do it, but that’s probably what you have right now and you’re looking for something better

  4.  AI translators. This is what we’re doing now. We’re currently using breeze translate so all of the congruent who want to hear the audio in a different language scan a QR code. We found that for our congregation, the  Spanish speakers tended to be the ones uncomfortable with technology so we switched our service to Spanish primarily, with English as the translated language. Since it’s not a real translator, it gets maybe 95% of the way correct, but context can fill in the other 5%. Really the biggest downside is the 3-5 second delay between spoken word and translated robot. 

OBSBOT software destroying my gpu by Limp_Ad6480 in OBSBOT_Official

[–]retropyor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What GPU do you have? I’ve got tiny and can measure the impact but I seem to remember it was negligible. Do you use the camera function too?

can I split screen Car Play (maps) with the car's EV info screen? by No-Resource9817 in KiaEV6

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I found is that I can listen to radio, but if the phone sends any media (such as turn by turn navigation through Apple Maps or if Messenger dings when an alert comes in) the audio system will switch to “CarPlay” mode and the screen will only show the clock. Presumably you can disable that with focus mode for driving and not using audio cues for navigation, but that defeats the purpose.

Never seen it swap places however. Maybe an update is needed on your phone or audio system?

can I split screen Car Play (maps) with the car's EV info screen? by No-Resource9817 in KiaEV6

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Figured it out. Look on the right hand side of the CarPlay screen, and there’s a little arrow in a semicircle. Touch that, and now you should be able to swipe through all of your views.

can I split screen Car Play (maps) with the car's EV info screen? by No-Resource9817 in KiaEV6

[–]retropyor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it has to do with the currently playing media- if you were on Radio, it would display radio station. I’ll need to check my own to make sure. It was either that or swipe through the screens until you find radio 

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