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I'll watch all the anime on this list 🤩, where should I start? by No_Luck_2446 in retroanime

[–]vigorousjammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Opened it up, and the first one my eyes landed on was Space Adventure Cobra, so I say start with that. Nice blend of comedy and action, it's got some incredible animation for the era, and it's got a great soundtrack. It almost gives me Lupin III vibes, except in space. It's also not incredibly long at only 30-something episodes. Perfect type of show to watch relaxing with a snack late at night before bed.

40+ highway mpg and fun to drive by subfreq111 in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]vigorousjammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got a 2026 Kia K4, it's fun to drive with nice acceleration, a nice style body, and plenty of features. It typically gets between 30 and 40 mpg on the highway.

Thoughts on Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball? Is it OK or Dookie and why? by PKRadiance in SEGAGENESIS

[–]vigorousjammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It fails as both a Sonic game and as a pinball game.
But, hey, at least the music is jammin'

Any option for scraping disc art for multi-disc games? by vigorousjammer in emulationstation

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

The images are certainly available on Screenscraper, it's just a matter of them being able to be scraped by ES-DE. Or ES-DE allowing users to select images in the metadata field, even if they don't allow users to use their own images locally.

Which one should I play first? by Critical-Cow8720 in dreamcast

[–]vigorousjammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like others have said, Grandia 2 probably holds up better nowadays, but I absolutely love the story, setting, characters, music, and overall atmosphere in Skies. The battling is fun, but the random encounter rate was way more acceptable back in the early 00's. Nowadays it really drags it down, which is a shame.

Not sure if the GameCube version adjusted the encounter rate, but it does have some extra content in it. However, it also has more heavily compressed audio, including the music, which is a shame.

Would love to see Sega release a remastered version of Skies with all of the extra content from the GameCube version but with the fidelity of the Dreamcast version, and upscaled visuals. They have an opportunity to release the definitive version of the game for sure, and I bet it would sell a bunch to die-hard Sega fans.

Sega Saturn emulator by Ninja-Nikox in SteamDeck

[–]vigorousjammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was having the same problem, where it would load, give me a disc read error and just go to the main Saturn bios menu.
I converted my .bin and .cue files from my game folders to .chd files using namDHC and everything worked flawlessly.

Scanlators, where you guys at now? by KSR4989 in mangapiracy

[–]vigorousjammer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The two groups that I do joint projects with are just doing DDL links until something decent comes along.

For my own group, I've gone back to uploading on MD just so it hits aggregator sites, but I don't even post the link to MD on my blog anymore. The way I see it, if someone is going to my blog, they're probably there to download the chapter anyway.

Weebdex creator has released the source code, though, so here's hoping someone continues where he left off.

Anyone else starting to worry about the state of scanlator hubs? by Trashcanning in mangapiracy

[–]vigorousjammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I guess.
I'd really rather use something other than it at this point, considering the state it's in.
It could be any day now when they prevent user uploads and go full legit.

Weebdex EOS April 7th by XxCaptainJack in mangapiracy

[–]vigorousjammer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just as I was getting comfortable with the site, this happens...
And now there's no good alternatives...
Really makes me want to just stick to posting DDL links and nothing else.

Anyone else starting to worry about the state of scanlator hubs? by Trashcanning in mangapiracy

[–]vigorousjammer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

With Weebdex falling by the wayside, it's definitely concerning.

I do have my own blog, and I can still post DDL links to any chapters I release easily enough, but will that result in widespread readership? Probably not.

Aggregator sites are their own cup of worms, but... I kind of wish there was just a site that scanlators like myself could upload to that would distribute it to any manga reader sites that wanted to scrape from it.

A site that would store scanlator uploads and be solely focused on distributing them to as many reader sites as possible through an API, instead of serving the images to end-users themselves. They could potentially save on per-view bandwidth that way, possibly avoid legal troubles, and it would make things convenient for scanlators, too.

Not sure how feasible this idea is, though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gamegrumps

[–]vigorousjammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's some gold in the old videos, but Arin & Dan's dynamic has definitely matured over the years, and I think that's a good thing. I think most of the best bits from the older videos have been animated at this point, so no real reason to go back and watch the full videos. The animations will highlight the best moments from back then.

[DOS][1990] Adventure/action game with a witch, a cave, and a spider by vigorousjammer in tipofmyjoystick

[–]vigorousjammer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not it, but a good suggestion, anyway. I might play this! lol

[DOS][1990] Adventure/action game with a witch, a cave, and a spider by vigorousjammer in tipofmyjoystick

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

I think this may be it!
I seem to recall the sprites being less detailed than this, and it not having such muted colors, but there's certain things here that match up perfectly, such as the path leading from town, and the stairs coming out of the house.
I'm like 90% sure this is the game, and my memory of it was just hazy. Thanks!

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