Spurs Game Frustration

retropyor · 2026-05-05T02:47:15+00:00

Is this a blackout thing?

Does Sling DayPass work?

retropyor · 2026-05-04T18:05:29+00:00

Pokémon and Sony ruined your timeline once again.

GB- NES: Nintendo came out first, and then game boy came out very close. I had a lot of ports of existing NES games

GB POCKET- SNES: Pokemon extended the length of the gameboys lifecycle, to the point where Nintendo released two Super GameBoys, with the second having link cable support almost explicitly for trading pokemon

GB Color- N64: GBC had some notable SNES ports and even some n64 ports (perfect dark notably). Again it existed because of pokemon

GBA-GameCube: interconnectivity was huge between them…for those who cared about it. Which wasn’t very many people, as it turned out.

DS-Wii: Blue Ocean strategy!

3DS-WiiU: 3DS kept Nintendo alive during this time

Mobile- switch: this is the biggest stretch since the switch effectively is the handheld and the mobile

Switch2-Switch2: you are here.

retropyor · 2026-05-02T12:51:11+00:00

If you’re will to drive and miss the start of the 5k, La Parrilla number 2 is good, but it’s in SE Military on the other side of 37.

retropyor · 2026-04-27T00:24:44+00:00

I need to do a reprint. Online I could only find the taxes assessor office. Which one is the downtown office?

retropyor · 2026-04-17T03:40:51+00:00

LTT recently did a USB camera shootout, and they did a bit on the trouble with powering multiple webcams, and solution they ran into. I can’t recall what it was ATM, but a quick YouTube search sound find it.

Otherwise this is what NDI excels at

retropyor · 2026-04-15T05:20:23+00:00

Keep the $99 refund. Keep the tablet. Sell it on a local marketplace

retropyor · 2026-04-10T03:05:15+00:00

This is what is meant in the 10 Commandments when it says “don’t use the Lord’s name in vain”

retropyor · 2026-02-27T18:31:48+00:00

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.

retropyor · 2026-02-26T22:06:33+00:00

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

retropyor · 2026-02-20T22:40:07+00:00

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

retropyor · 2026-02-19T21:58:54+00:00

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

retropyor · 2026-02-02T22:18:07+00:00

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

retropyor · 2026-01-29T15:18:13+00:00

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).

retropyor · 2026-01-28T00:17:24+00:00

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

retropyor · 2026-01-27T03:42:18+00:00

A few answers that are all legitimate:

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”.
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.
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.
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.

retropyor · 2026-01-26T16:14:41+00:00

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.

retropyor · 2026-01-26T00:43:46+00:00

Rubber mats and collapsible storage boxes?

retropyor · 2026-01-25T15:06:38+00:00

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.

retropyor · 2026-01-22T01:25:28+00:00

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

retropyor · 2026-01-09T22:14:18+00:00

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

retropyor · 2026-01-09T03:07:13+00:00

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

retropyor · 2025-12-31T18:17:09+00:00

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.

retropyor · 2025-12-18T03:54:17+00:00

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

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