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Reply to comment by twovests in meet my beautiful baby RG35XX portable retro emulator console by devtesla

Intelligent Qube is an early PS1 game where you play as a little guy blowing up cubes with the right timing to clear out other cubes. One of my favorites, simple to play but addictive and hard to master, the look is extremely cool, and the music is incredible and not what you'd expect at all. Just an insanely good use of the Playstation and plays great on the RG35XX.

The RG35XX is in a real sweet spot, I think. What made me pick it is that I was specifically looking to play game boy games, and it's a really cool bonus that it plays PS1 games. It's cheaper than other options, and powerful enough to play through that entire library. The big competitor is the Miyoo Mini Plus that's coming out soon, but it's going to be harder to get and it's a little less powerful. Both of these handhelds have a cool community that offers things like custom software and hardware mods which is cool.

Another cool option is the ANBERNIC RG353M, which has joysticks for the ps1 games that use them and can play Dreamcast games, but that's twice the price of the RG35XX. I'd consider it if it played up to PS2 and Gamecube games but it doesn't.

Retro Game Corps has a great video covering other options, but in general if you want to emulate more than a PS1 you're gonna start getting less convenient, more expensive devices if you want to play all the games you'd want to, until you eventually just get to a Steam Deck. And like a Steam Deck is really cool but I don't need that to play Chono Trigger Lol

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Reply to what keyboard do you use? by twovests

cooler master used to sell the cheapest keyboards you could get with cherry switches but they've gone up in price. they've lasted forever for me

you can try the old method I used (it looks like the cheapest ones with cherry switches are from cherry themselves Lol). tho tbh if I was gonna replace one of my keyboards I'd probably get a ducky lol

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devtesla wrote

Reply to comment by voxpoplar in all roads will lead to Bing by emma

I thought that was gonna be what the rant was about Lol.

There's an Eric Trump tweet saying that google was censoring results because if you searched "Mob" it showed Mob from Mob Psycho 100, and every other search engine showed pictures of a mob. His screenshots of every other search engine was Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo, and were identical, because all are just Bing.

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devtesla wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Why are we getting so much more spam of late? by flabberghaster

Our pages are on Google, what I meant was that links out from our website don't increase a site's page rank. Google (used to?) look at how often a site gets linked to from other websites and those sites got a higher rank, so what spammers are looking for are a way to pretend that a site is genuinely linking to them to get a higher page rank. We've told google "don't use these links to increase page rank" tho tbh that probably doesn't do much Lol

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devtesla wrote

Reply to john wick appreciation post. (spoilers, cw movie violence) by twovests

R-rated action movies don't really get made anymore. The home video market that sustained them has significantly shrunk. Casual movie going where people would just come to the theater and see something actiony doesn't happen as much. The stars that made them got too old. So yeah, anything that would have been in that space usually gets pushed down to PG-13, or just is really bad.

So yeah, people finding an actually likable dumb movie for adults, in this mix of repetitive kiddie franchises, with a cool star in the center was like ice water in hell. It hearkens back to a previous mode of consumption that had a little more magic to it.

Of course, they immediately turned it into a franchise that removed the mystery from the world building and makes the tone more generic. OH WELL. The movies are still pretty good.

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devtesla wrote

Reply to hey remember home phones? by neku

There's thousands of dollars worth of things that people used to buy that got replaced by cell phones: personal cameras and camcorders, portable game machines, PDAs, car GPS systems, mp3 players, etc. Bluetooth speakers have replaced non-networked hi-fi except for niche stuff, I feel like complete replacements happen all the time in audio equipment. I bet if I went back to a 60s kitchen I'd find so much stuff we never use anymore. Go back even further and life looks totally different.

Consumption habits keep changing all the time, and we're gonna see a lot of things die as resources dry up.

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