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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 13:48:14 JST 
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Yeah, and the Game Boy Color, I had the (I think rarer) transparent one, but not the purple transparent. The Advance and the GameCube also had a lot of colors, though. Then from the Wii and onwards, you could only get other colors through special editions, which is lame. And now everything is just black.
And from my perspective, N64 games weren't really harder, because I breezed through most of them, but some of my favorite GameCube games are Super Monkey Ball and F-Zero GX, and those are both basically arcade games made by Sega, so they're pretty challenging.
I like the GameCube a lot. Nintendo's games on that were pretty original. Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, those were all pretty unique. Even Mario Kart Double Dash, you have two characters per kart, and that's different. Metroid Prime was also a departure for the Metroid series. So, Nintendo was really in a "let's do some different things" mood back then for some reason.
Of course, N64 games were very original at the time as well, but they are overall more influential than say, a Mario Sunshine, or a Wind Waker, games that Nintendo didn't really try to copy that much, for some reason both kinda water-themed. Then again, the 3D Mario games tend to vary a lot more than the 2D ones, even after that with Galaxy and I think probably Odyssey (haven't seen it, would play if I could).
But yeah, I like Nintendo up to the GC, the Wii is where they started getting kinda questionable. I actually played Metroid Prime with the motion controls, and they work, and the controls in the original game were kinda clunky because they didn't just copy normal FPS controls... but it's awkward, it's not something that made me excited to play the game, it was a hurdle that I had to deal with to play it (because ignoring the controller, the game itself is good), and I don't like that, to the point that I never played 2, and honestly, I'd maybe rather just replay one of the 2D ones instead, just so I don't have to keep pointing at the screen all the time.
Would have been better if they just gave me a mouse and a keyboard like Sega did with the Dreamcast (for games like Quake and Typing of the Dead, that the pad is really not sufficient for). Maybe even a touchscreen like the Wii U (though fuck having to buy that console and needing that expensive-ass pad). I don't know how well that would work for a first-person game, but I know that it worked well enough for Kid Icarus Uprising (though that's third-person) that it didn't ruin the game. Though I would rather play that with just a pad and they should port that to an actual console.
Anyway, one game that the motion controls were kinda fine for was Pikmin, because that game involves pointing with a cursor. Good game, by the way, I like Pikmin. I assume that Pikmin 3 on the Wii U also plays well, because while touchscreens and disgusting and I hate them, they are good for pointing. Also kinda interesting for Mario Kart with the wheel, and for those sport party games that I never played because to me, it feels very silly to play games like that alone. That's stuff you play with other humans when drunk or high, or something, not alone. It's a game for people that have friends available in real life. I'd rather play Mario Party alone and get annihilated by bad luck and cheating, that's about as sad as I'm willing to do.
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 12:11:17 JST
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Really, it has more to do with the consoles being more reliant on software in general, than with actual internet connections. And also only easier than consoles that bothered even trying to prevent that, unlike some of the CD-based consoles, I think every console before the Saturn may have had no copy protection at all.
The Dreamcast also had none. Though that one is weird, because it has region-locking, but only for games that aren't pirated. So pirated games burnt on shitty CDs are technically better than the originals, because they run on any console. Not sure if you ever did that for the DC, but it's fucking weird. The actual disc images are too big for a normal CD a lot of the time, but you just burn them to CDs anyway and somehow it works. I used a patched Imgburn for that, when my DC's drive still worked.
Though the Dreamcast is not in the category of consoles without internet, because it was the first one to have that... kinda. Only kinda, because the Sufami had the Satellaview attachment that no one in the wests know about, but you probably do. I actually played BS Zelda, for that, and beat the two quests, because I found patched ROMs that work on emulators. And because I'm a fucking maniac, I guess. Did it right after beating both quests on the original NES game again in basically one sitting, I think. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 11:58:17 JST
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Yeah, and then right after that, the Wii was basically just a GameCube with motion controls. And the video quality is slightly lower from what I read, so it's technically inferior, but it also has a proper DVD drive, so the games can be bigger.
But then that sold too well and Nintendo decided "fuck making good consoles, let's just make gimmicky bullshit" and they have been bad ever since. Though the GameCube already had the gimmick of being a cube. Looks very cool, though, not gonna lie. One of the best-looking consoles ever made if you ask me. Also came in so many colors, because colors were a thing back in the day, unlike today. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 06:59:41 JST
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"Sony made the switch before nintendo"
Yeah, but it doesn't say Nintendo on it, so it didn't sell. Nintendo is the Apple of video games. Except the consoles aren't that overpriced... unless they're older "collectable" consoles, then it's exactly like Apple again. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 06:57:31 JST
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I owned the PS1 and still own PS2 (it runs PS1 games as well), PS3 and PSP. Got all of them when they were from a generation or two ago, and for cheap. Only ever owned official games for the PS3, because it's a Superslim (which is a funny name, because it's still absolutely enormous and the biggest console that I ever owned), so it wasn't possible to run pirated games on it at the time, and the price for the physical games was reasonable anyway, but now it is possible. PS2 has a Matrix Infinity mod chip (as well as software that I installed on my memory cards, with a file manager to load programs from, a media player, and a game loader that can load games from USB, ethernet, or a hard drive but only on the fat model), PSP has custom firmware that I load from an SD card (and games of course, but also some emulators), which is also basically what you can do to the Superslim as well. https://social.076.moe/url/56174 -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 13:16:30 JST
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The Invidious front pages are horrendous. Nothing but channels that I always ignored just from thumbnails and titles, and sometimes channel name. I actually started collecting soyfaces from the thumbnails, to mock them, to spin a negative into a positive and maintain my sanity.
Sounds like a joke, right? But it's true. I don't know if I can post multiple images because I haven't done it yet, but here are soy12, soy15, soy17, soy22, and DT2 and dtsoy4. I have like, 30 of them. https://social.076.moe/url/52256 -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 12:56:13 JST
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"it looks like it's made in the 1990s"
That really makes my blood boil. Oh, so it has actual design, it actually looks like something instead of just a flat piece of shit Windows 10 clone, and somehow that is now a problem. Fucking faggots. https://social.076.moe/url/52263 -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 12:14:03 JST
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 12:12:48 JST
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Don't forget Wiby!
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 12:48:54 JST
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I don't know, I think it's pretty neat ( https://yewtu.be/watch?v=w3NfOeecMkI ), and I could use it over Linux. And it's like, version 0.999999, so it can't be that difficult to get it to work on a single piece of hardware... right? And Stallman is basically irrelevant. He doesn't really do anything other than writing retarded things.
Also, I wouldn't say that everything GNU in general is all that bloated, not compared to pretty much everything else, other than even more niche systems. They would never make a Firefox/Chrome-tier abomination themselves, that's for sure. Though they do like their features, I guess (and I do as well, I'm the "maximum amount of features for the smallest possible cost" type, not a mememalist).
I think the biggest negatives would be their core utils, I guess, because anything used in scripts may be run a trillion times in a loop, and you really want maximum performance there, but also, shell sucks, so whatever. Also, bash is slow, but you can just use another shell for scripting.
Lost the rest of this comment because it failed to be sent and I only noticed when it was too late, and fcitx can't save long comments. Anyway, glibc is probably the worst consequence of not maximizing simplicity, because it all the security issues that some people say it causes, and because many programs depend on it and can't be built with musl, I hear.
In some cases, accusations of bloat confuse me. People accuse Screen of being bloated compared to tmux. The binary is half of the size of tmux, though, at least on my system. And it does things that tmux doesn't, like displaying sixel images in a compatible terminal with img2sixel -P. Also, selecting text without a bunch of white space, so that its copy mode can actually be useful.
People also accuse Emacs of that, compared to Vim, but the Emacs binary is 6.3 MB and Vim is 4.9 MB (both with GUI support, to be more fair). Not a huge difference (though there are .el files as well, that are now compiled, and maybe some Vimscript stuff, that will never be compiled ever), and Emacs is a lot more than just an editor, it's a whole programming environment and programming language, with a daemon, terminal emulator, file manager, web browser, ridiculously powerful markup language, shell, IRC client, package manager and much much much more, and all of those have image support, and it can also run as a daemon. All of that involves either interacting with or editing text in some way or another. Not to speak of everything it can do with additional packages. 1.4 MB more and it can do a lot more than Vim does or even could do, because it's not really even a sane comparison, they are just too different.
But yeah, it's all a value judgement. You want programs to run smoothly, but other than that, it's all about what features you want or don't want, and also how the program will be used (again, something that will run repeatedly in a loop is different from an interactive program). That's why I'm not into the mememalism thing. I want as many available features as possible for the smallest possible cost.
This can be achieved through brilliant designs that are simple, but that get a lot of flexibility out of that simplicity, so it can be extended much more easily and to a much greater extent than overcomplicated corporate bloatware, so that a lot can be built on top of it and people can use it as a foundation to built their own environment on. Some people, though, if they went just a bit further on the mememalism, would be saying "Unix shells are bloat and do too many things, just use Windows' cmd.exe instead".
Don't know what my point was, I write too much. And I haven't been sleeping enough so my head almost hurts. I am currently nerfed and cannot use my full power. https://social.076.moe/url/50551 -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 12:41:58 JST
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He should be censored. Because he's against freedom of speech, his should be taken away. His standards, not mine. He should be given what he's asking for and treated how he treats others. Natural law. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 10:22:19 JST
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Yeah, hardware massively complicates this. Though ARM is no better, because ARM computers are special snowflakes and are completely closed, and you pretty much get what you get and can't expand it at all, it's worse than x86. I hope RISC-V catches on and does better. Hell, I hope GNU makes the Hurd kernel work at least on it, if nothing else, because as soon as free hardware becomes available, there will be no reason for them to focus on anything else.
But it's a real shame that things ended up like this. It's another example of how everything in computing tends to go in the worst possible direction. Everything that becomes standard is almost inevitably the worst shit that happens to be available. We could have PowerPC desktops now, but nope, it lost to the x86 and got wiped out. Maybe we could have SPARC, but it was never used outside of servers and workstations.
By the way, both OpenSPARC and OpenPOWER have OpenFirmware (Check it out, it's very cool: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KvxxAeuhPp0 ), which is built into an implementation of Forth. You can run programs directly on the firmware, no other additional OS required. Why don't we have that? Hell, why aren't OSs just built on top of powerful languages like that in the first place, why all these layers of complexity? From what I have heard, a window manager has been written for it, and even a Forth-based Emacs clone and some games. It's just ridiculous that this is not possible on every single computer. To me it seems like the things that are allowed to become popular on the consumer market are deliberately picked specifically to restrict the user, and to prevent individuals from being able to do too much themselves.
You can also see the amazing things that were done with MIPS CPUs in 90s and early 2000s consoles. But nope, x86. And the only alternatives are shitty locked-down ARM single-board computers that can't be expanded and that run like, two OSs, if you're lucky. And with no standardization, so each OS has to support each device individually, on top of the OSs themselves being clunky and barely even designed.
Also, don't forget Mezzano ( https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Wd_-h5kRQLo ). It's an OS written entirely in Common Lisp. Still only runs on VMs as far as I know, but it's very impressive that it exists in this environment of very complicated computers and also nothing but Unix clones everywhere, and also an architecture that wasn't exactly built for that type of language (probably quite the opposite). I assume not made by many people either, and if that's the case, they must be insanely productive. https://social.076.moe/url/50258 -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 12:55:15 JST
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"How do we prevent the unraped from discriminating against rapists?" -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 12:53:33 JST
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The only problem will be when those guys inevitably bite the big bazooka, kick the bucket, whatever amusing euphemism for dying you prefer. Or when they themselves go in a bad direction. Like, imagine if Theo becomes a tranny and goes completely insane. Pretty sure I joked about that somewhere before.
Then you have the entire project run 100% by someone that you dislike, instead of arguably just a loud minority plus people that just don't want drama and don't want to get involved with other people, and a bunch of soyboys that are just afraid of saying anything.
At this point, I have accepted that I just generally don't like tech people (which shouldn't be surprising, I don't like most people, and all tech people are people). Almost all of them are wimpy conformists that don't know anything other than a very specific skill, and they think that being able to do that one thing makes them smart when it really does not.
There are few people that I know a significant amount about and that I still respect. It's a small group. One is definitely Terry Davis, he deserves all of it and was the hero that humanity needed but didn't deserve, and another example of someone of a prophet or wise man archetype, that was killed by his own civilization, that then collapsed shortly afterwards. Other than him, maybe people that designed old systems and languages, but I don't actually know much about them.
Chuck Moore also comes to mind, the creator of Forth. I read some of his writings and watched some interviews and I like him too. Really, he took simplicity in computing to an extreme that I don't think anyone else ever did, and I heard tales (from things written by old people) of how absurdly skilled he was, how he would take other people's programs and make them massively smaller and simpler in a very small amount of time.
Also Gary Kildall is another likely candidate, if the accounts of what he was like are correct. Some other designers as well, I'm sure, but once something is done by a team, you really don't know who did what. Generally one guy takes credit for managing the project, but it wasn't something that a single person could ever take credit for, it was a combination of ideas from different people.
Of course, this is now impossible, because every system has to be connected to enormous, endless layers of complexity. It's very unfortunate, I would like to live in a world where everything is simple and it's normal for people to make their own OSs, but we're about as far from that as we could possibly be. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 11:43:44 JST
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People involved in software projects are such faggots... is my natural reaction, but at this point I'm not even sure that they are actually worse than the average. Like, you can't have a group of people of any significant size and not have it be like that or worse, at this point. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 11:38:20 JST
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Oh, nice GIFs, by the way. Appreciated. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 11:29:45 JST
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When that inevitably becomes the only option, I'll probably just go to the stores with a mask and a hammer and take what I want, and break whatever physical barrier happens to be in the way. Not like there will be a more reasonable choice at that point. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 13:29:31 JST
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I don't mean any of those, I mean the next Carrington event, that will fry all electronics on the planet, which is essentially the end of the world as it exists today, and the death of almost all humans (mostly from killing each other over resources, though the way that things have been set up, a lot may be killed from the inside, because of the graphene), even if the poles don't shift, causing massive floods and earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and extreme climate.
People will survive, though, just not many. And some of the worst people are some of the best-prepared, for that. -
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 13:24:56 JST
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Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 13:22:46 JST
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If people had brains, then would never go to war. If you're willing to risk your life, risk it trying to kill the people trying to force you to go to war, not random people that have done nothing against you. Unfortunately, they are just homo, no sapiens. Bunch of goddamn homos.
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