oh no, dare I ask?

we back baybee

I want one too but I play so few games that I think it’s just pursuit-of-shiny-toy. if it weren’t linux, I’d already have talked myself out of it. but more linux games means I might actually play something other than Disco Elysium for the Nth time.

yep np

sending it now, let me know if you want a little extra as a buffer

it made more sense when custom hardware for games could deliver more consistent results than what was possible from PCs. but that stopped being true in the 2010s so they just started buying the parts from the usual vendors. that’s also one of the reasons consoles got so much more expensive – they’re literally just PCs now and cost at least as much as.

I meant that it doesn’t actually have to emulate much. it just runs the game as if it were native, more similar to how wine works than old school emulators. with the older consoles, it has to translate the instructions from the original code into instructions for the PC hardware and insert software approximations of stuff the hardware does on the physical consoles. this invariably makes what used to take just a few instructions take multiple hundreds of clock cycles or worse.

but on the ps4, it’s just a “fancy”, underpowered desktop pc. (fancy, as in, they talked Intel/AMD into providing a custom version of their normal cpu/gpu that could run within the power/thermal budgets of the ps4 – so it runs slower than it would if you built the computer yourself.) it’s not easy to get the games themselves running as a developer for the emulator – you have to teach your computer how to read the executables and interpret them + provide system library equivalents, but you don’t have to fake entire pieces of hardware that don’t exist.

the ps5 is even further down this path… it’s just a low tier desktop PC running a custom OS built on top of one of the BSD’s (iirc). it’s why the ps5 -> PC ports come out so much faster than previous gens – don’t have to do all that much as a developer to get it working on PC. I’m honestly surprised we don’t have a functional “emulator” for it already.

ps4 might be easier because it’s pretty close to commodity hardware. there’s much less actual emulation that needs to happen. ps3 was weird and bespoke.

ohh, my ears are going to thank you. the KN95s hurt them after awhile.

you mean '20, right?

the legal battles over project 2025 are happening in the supreme court now. in what way has electing a democrat fought the implementation of project 2025?

yeah we killed power to what appears damaged. we won’t know what else is fucked until we can get an electrician to look through everything this week.

you realize going to bat for a genocidier is categorically worse than bitching about wokeness, right?

my wife is very angry that I’m looking at cute mice pictures and talking about how I want to keep them. she just doesn’t get it.

I think the mice ate the wiring going into our stove. when we flip the breaker to the stove, there’s a strange, electronic clatter that sounds somewhere between popping corn and arcing. no smell of anything burning. also, a volt meter plugged into the same phase reads 20V lower than outlets on the other phase.

but they’re so cute I wanna keep them

7 is lit just cause you play as a left-wing paramilitary doing ecoterrorism, taking down the megacorp that is the government. I expected them to tone that down in the remake but they managed to go full “the ecoterrorists did nothing wrong”, instead, and you spend most of part 1 organizing the slums for community defense against the megacorp/cops. dunno who’s reading theory at square, but props.

I’ve seen that video and I love him to death – it’s just that my experience with microwaves has always been… well, just don’t use it, do literally anything else. I kinda want to buy a fancy microwave just to see if they actually work. to date, every microwave I’ve ever had has been one that came with the house/apartment, so probably the cheapest unit from walmart whenever they installed appliances. I’ve never actually bought a microwave before.