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   Balrog Booger (balrog_booger@dumbopinions.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 09:11:48 JST Balrog Booger

   Good God, I hate Windows 11. It’s just so unresponsive. Why does it take a solid 3 seconds for the start menu to find Terminal, and then when before I hit enter it freezes for another 3. This stuff is instantaneous on Linux

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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 09:12:38 JST 寮

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     @balrog_booger My experience using WinDOS for the first time: "why the fuck do the `ls` and `rm` commands not work!?".
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 09:14:38 JST 寮

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     @balrog_booger I'm talking WinDOS XP era, back when I was in middle school.
     That's far before the PowerShell was even on Microshaft's TODO list.
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     Balrog Booger (balrog_booger@dumbopinions.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 09:14:39 JST Balrog Booger

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     They actually have added those in PowerShell, but I still hate using it

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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 09:57:24 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo @balrog_booger Never played DOS games on DOSBox? I did, especially for Doom before finding out about Chocolate Doom, which is definitely accurate enough for me.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 09:57:24 JST 寮

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     @TerminalAutism @balrog_booger I played the original PC98 era Touhou games in Anex86 via Wine.
     So basically an emulator inside of an emulator (Wine is actually a compatibility layer and not an emulator, but whatever).
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 11:03:43 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo @balrog_booger You did that too? I briefly tried an emulator that runs natively, but it didn't work out. When I first started using Linux, I also used Magic-Engine running in Wine for PC-Engine games.
     
     Emulation on Linux is actually horrendous. You can't even get a decent dedicated NES emulator, all of them have massive issues. Half of the emulators I try, I end up crashing just by clicking on the menus. Happened with mupen64plus (or whatever the shitty Python GUI is called, specifically), happened with Nestopia (and I think I couldn't fit the game to the screen without stretching either, and it also didn't work in one or two more emulators), happened with Yabause (a Saturn emulator). A lot them aren't even on it.
     
     Even the ones that work just fine on Windows. Fucking awful. RetroArch works, but it's RetroArch, it sucks ass. Horrible user interface and it just keeps fucking up my configurations for no reason, and all the save states broke after updates (because Linux is an operating system for disgusting updooters, so you VILL use the most recent version of everything) so I can't use them to practice hard stages anymore.
     
     I run an old version of MAME in Wine to this day and it's fucking bullshit. Sure, I could use the most recent version, but then I have to download a new complete set of games every time it gets updated, and fuck that, especially when MAME sometimes breaks games on new versions.
     
     Some do work well, though, like Mednaffe, that runs a lot of stuff, except it doesn't run CD games, and I'm guessing that I have to mount the images as a digital drive like it's 20 years ago. Fucking bullshit. Bizhawk should work too, but I'm not installing C# on my main machine, fuck that. I'll probably use that when I have a separate computer just for gaming, though, because it's highly recommended for TAS ( https://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources ), so it should be very accurate. Anyway, once that's set up, regardless of the OS that the emulators run on, that OS will almost never be updated. I will install everything and not even connect it to the internet after that.
     
     Then again, the MiSTer FPGA should eventually replace almost all of them. If it happens, I'll only need one of those, at least two (one for vertical games) CRTs (or maybe a couple New Astro City candy cabs but that would require owning home and having space even more), a nice arcade stick or two (maybe a cheap Hori RAP V3 instead of this wooden box that digs into my wrists, and also with a different lever or this one but modded, gotta experiment with that because the engage distance on the JLF that I currently have is too long), a nice pad or two, and the consoles that I care about that it won't replace, like the N64 (because it's a 64-bit system), the PS2 (not even emulation for that is all that viable because it's a fucking 128-bit system and was probably made and delivered by aliens from the future), the GameCube and the Dreamcast, all modded because fuck optical drives, they are too unreliable and always the first thing that breaks.
     
     Other than that, just PCs that can run the games that I care about, which wouldn't cost a fortune because good games don't tend to require very high specs. Old PCs are getting expensive, though, and it would be nice to have at least one from the very early 2000s. Also, a PS3 may still be worth having around, and a 360 for shmups (from what I hear, they are unreliable because of bad lead-free solder, so maybe I can fix one by redoing the whole thing), though I would have to cover up the mark of the beast logo. Maybe an original Xbox too for the few exclusives that it does have (like Shin Megami Tensei NINE, that I maybe will be able to play eventually). Though 360 emulation at least for shmups looks pretty good already, and maybe some of the PC ports are fine (though that always requires research since so many ports are shit and have too much input lag), so it's not super necessary.
     
     I am enough of a lunatic that figuring how how to emulate the fucking Panasonic 3DO is on my list, because I want to make a Super Street Fighter 2X 1CC video on it, because it has a CD soundtrack that very few people have heard, and that deserves more attention. Also need better Saturn emulation because the RetroArch core likes to crash every now and then. Good thing that I postponed recording Akumajou Dracula X: Gekka no Yasoukyoku anyway, because I can't do Soul Steal and Maria's dragon spell with this stick like I could when I used a Seimitsu LS-32. Though that input is really picky for some reason. It's kinda like Sol's super in Guilty Gear (except with one more direction, it's like back, then backwards half circle and then forward), or Ky's (his is just backwards), and I can do those just fine. I'm guessing that the game just wants me to do it a lot faster because you were expected to do it on pad, which I did back in the day.
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 11:04:12 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo @balrog_booger I actually broke the character limit and had to make another post. That's what happens when I talk about video games. That is one kind of post that could cause some random person to show up and say "username checks out", again. I have too many thoughts and too much information in my brain.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 11:13:51 JST 寮

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     @TerminalAutism @balrog_booger
     I have a Super Famicom, though still looking for a power cable that won't start smelling like fire smoke 2 minutes after plugging it in.
     
     > That's what happens when I talk about video games.
     
     So you're a video game otaku でヤンスね！
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 12:23:13 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo @balrog_booger That term does describe me. I'm an otaku overall, about a few different things. I ended up having good general knowledge because I tend to absorb new interests, generally because of hobbies that I already have. So, anime and games got me to use computers as a kid and now here I am with a ThinkPad W500 running OpenBSD, after trying most software in existence. Most my of interests have either anime or gaming as their origin point ( Related: https://odysee.com/@TerminalAutism:5/Counter-Currents-and-Getting-Into-Everything-Because-of-Evangelion:5 ), and I have flexible tastes in the first place and like every genre. Reminds me of a segment in Game Center CX that I think was called "everything I need to know I learned from video games".
     
     I like to optimize everything as well, and that includes optimizing the experience of the hobbies, and if you want to optimize gaming, it's pretty easy to end up learning some electronics and learning how to solder and how to repair and mod hardware, and then ending up building keyboards to optimize your typing and computer usage, and then maybe getting interested in other peripherals, maybe getting into 3D-printing to do this stuff. It's especially easy for that to happen when I see people that I think are cool doing it and kinda absorb new interests from them.
     
     The advantage of being like this is that it's fun and interesting, and the disadvantage is that it makes me incomprehensible to most of even the small amount of good humans on this planet. People generally don't care this much even about one thing, and it's much rarer to care this much about a combination of multiple things that seem unrelated, but that are somehow connected.
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