technology ashinadash • 6 days ago • 95%

Windows 11 delenda est. Also inb4 "don't". I feel like bluestacks used to be better but it gives off weird scuffed fremium windows software stink now. What's the best way to run Android apps on an x86-64 computer?

anti_cishet_aktion ashinadash • 1 week ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3433723 > This post was inspired partly by [@khizuo@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/khizuo) , thank u. > > I had her famous-unfinished novel-manuscript *Otros Valles* on my to-read list since I knew it was a thing, (maybe five years ago) but only when I went to look for it did I realise the author had deliberately wiped her presence from everywhere, basically. > > Back then I could only find a couple of her essays knocking around pirate sites, nothing more. Coincidentally they are [here](https://annas-archive.org/md5/2185c4b076c3e75a2b9c6020b1d0ec6d) and [here,](https://annas-archive.org/md5/450436665fd3b0ed5a0a2139934c74e0) with *Mutual Aid Printing* not being listed on her Goodreads page or anything like that. > > I guess the question I have is whether or not making a post like this is a bad thing to do? If you read *Mutual Aid Printing,* the author's intent of wiping herself from the general record as a sort of form of protest is very clear. So I've never really known how cool or uncool it is to even talk about her work. Should I literally not read her stuff, or is the broad statement more the point, and whatever you find is whatever you find? I guess it's kind of semantics, but there's a twinge in my brain that says yapping loudly about Berrout's work may be a foot-in-mouth move. > > The other thing, which Berrout also discusses in both linked essays, is that the writers' communities/interlinked social webs/who fucking knows, queer artist's collectives she ran in were often obnoxiously white. I think Ryka Aoki is the only published transfem poc I can think of? Binnie, Peters, Felker-Martin, so on... Please inform me if I've missed anything, I'm not a full historian, simply a dumbass. > > So aside from the fact that Berrout represents a rare voice in the space, I like how Otros Valles contrasts and almost critiques Nevada. It has none of the dejected, self-deprecating artifice. I dunno if I'm fit to talk about it but it keeps biting at my mind, and I'm not really sure if I should yap. Thoughts? Opinions? Criticisms? Call me cringe? ✨

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns ashinadash • 1 week ago • 100%

This post was inspired partly by [@khizuo@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/khizuo) , thank u. I had her famous-unfinished novel-manuscript *Otros Valles* on my to-read list since I knew it was a thing, (maybe five years ago) but only when I went to look for it did I realise the author had deliberately wiped her presence from everywhere, basically. Back then I could only find a couple of her essays knocking around pirate sites, nothing more. Coincidentally they are [here](https://annas-archive.org/md5/2185c4b076c3e75a2b9c6020b1d0ec6d) and [here,](https://annas-archive.org/md5/450436665fd3b0ed5a0a2139934c74e0) with *Mutual Aid Printing* not being listed on her Goodreads page or anything like that. I guess the question I have is whether or not making a post like this is a bad thing to do? If you read *Mutual Aid Printing,* the author's intent of wiping herself from the general record as a sort of form of protest is very clear. So I've never really known how cool or uncool it is to even talk about her work. Should I literally not read her stuff, or is the broad statement more the point, and whatever you find is whatever you find? I guess it's kind of semantics, but there's a twinge in my brain that says yapping loudly about Berrout's work may be a foot-in-mouth move. The other thing, which Berrout also discusses in both linked essays, is that the writers' communities/interlinked social webs/who fucking knows, queer artist's collectives she ran in were often obnoxiously white. I think Ryka Aoki is the only published transfem poc I can think of? Binnie, Peters, Felker-Martin, so on... Please inform me if I've missed anything, I'm not a full historian, simply a dumbass. So aside from the fact that Berrout represents a rare voice in the space, I like how Otros Valles contrasts and almost critiques Nevada. It has none of the dejected, self-deprecating artifice. I dunno if I'm fit to talk about it but it keeps biting at my mind, and I'm not really sure if I should yap. Thoughts? Opinions? Criticisms? Call me cringe? ✨

games ashinadash • 1 week ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3426878 Electric Underground is a funny guy, he's basically a "we must retvrn to arcade games" guy which is funny. He has a consistent framework for viewing gamerslop though and hits some pretty good mechanical discussion and critique here.

videos ashinadash • 1 week ago • 100%

Electric Underground is a funny guy, he's basically a "we must retvrn to arcade games" guy which is funny. He has a consistent framework for viewing gamerslop though and hits some pretty good mechanical discussion and critique here.

games ashinadash • 2 weeks ago • 100%

You remember Oblivion from back in the day. It's worse than Morrowind in a lot of ways but the real-time day-night cycle and the NPC movement was engrossing. Quests where you have to go find people, and they can be in tons of locations are so interesting. Sometimes you have to figure out when someone goes home, Idk. Also characters would occasionally exhibit quirky behaviours. Every subsequent Bethesda game diminished this aspect hugely, it's one of the things I hate about Skyrim most. Another series where the games never hit an early height of world sim again is Pokemon. Gold & Silver introduced day and night cycles that would have NPCs appear or disappear, wild pokemon encounters change, radio stations come on or off, certain items show up. For a system with 32kb of ram, it slapped. Other games have the cycle system but it's easily the most pronounced in G/S/C. The "life sim"/'you are a loser farmer' genre as pioneered by Harvest Moon (and now happily overtaken by Stardew Valley and its ilk) have always had this kind of system, and I do like those a lot but if a game's not "about" its scheduling, it seems like they're more likely not to have it nowadays. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl and its sequels had day/night at least, Metro did not... So if you know of any recent games that have really cool scheduling or realtime or day/night mechanics, hit me up. Also don't say Cybertruck'd 2077, game is boring and stupid :)

technology ashinadash • 2 weeks ago • 100%

I made the apocalyptic mistake of making a genzedong xyz account through the Matrix site, and it's one of those things that requires the blood of a virgin and the tail feather of a phoenix or whatever, and will spit out most passwords with `that is a very common password`. I fucked up by not writing it down, even though you aren't supposed to, so now I have forgotten it. I click "Password forgotten" in fluffychat.im/web/#/home and when I enter my email as prompted, I get an "unrecognised request" error. So I tried adding a recovery email from the Android app, from Settings \> Security \> Change Password \> Password recovery and pressing the `+` button. This produces an `Untrusted server "` error, very good quotes use. I tried several email domains and no dice. I beg of you to help. It would be cool if recovery email actually worked.

And it has all kinds of implications and context and shit. How the fuck am I supposed to tell what's just people doing things at random and what's a part of all-singing-all-dancing-shit-show the neurotypicals call "social norms"? Down with NTs. Honestly while it's really fucking annoying that refusal to participate could result in some silly neuronormo interpreting a completely innocuous action as an offense, and it can cut you off from social shit, I think it's basically the only way. The same button never does the same thing twice. Screeching rn.

games ashinadash • 3 weeks ago • 90%

And why grinding shouldn't exist. No, I will not stop, I can't sleep. Playing Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis on GBA has me thinking about this again: it absolutely blows me away to this day that I played a huge amount of Tactics Ogre(TO) on PS1 but could not get past the battle in Dorter where you see the swordsman guy. Got decimated by blackmages and archers. That's still the tutorial. You can't even buy gear for classes other than Squires yet. And I was at the same level as the enemy. I got roadblocked like this in Tacitcs Ogre: Wheel of Fortune on PSP as well, because really what the hell? What on earth was wrong with Training? So I get that the Training Battles from original TO are a cludge of a thing. Yes, it is kind of weird to set the game down and let it play itself to level your units. Probably shouldn't exist, sure. The removal of this in every subsequent Yasumi Matsuno tactics game really shows off exactly why it was there, though: grinding in an SRPG is fuckin stupid. Quick question: how good would XCOM be if a story mission wiped your squad in two turns and told you to go grind random worldmap battles? Not fun! This is what Final Fantasy Tactics, (FFT) and also TO Wheel of Fortune and Reborn, actually expect you to do, apparently. Every time I have asked, this is the answer: grind random battles. Grinding is kind of stupid in any game, "you must advance to arbitrary number to continue". Some of it happens because a designer can't really predict how a player will level, but whatever, it's something to be done away with. Turn based RPGs that don't suck commonly integrate Auto Battle so that if you need to grind it's quicker. And turn based RPGs usually have battles that can go by in a minute or two. Battles were already kind of slow in TO, but in FFT they're excruciating. Lots of stuff is slower, with bigger fancier animations, the camera always swings around, so on. It makes a nine-tile magic spell in TO look fast. So immediately this is a dumb waste of time that takes forever, even before the XP curve forces you to do several. But also, that early in the game, when you only have squires, FFT is shockingly rude. I didn't take any deaths but I came close many times. Battling those dumb forest creatures is a real slog at that point, which is why I gave up last time. Like, fuck any game that tells me to go grind tedious battles for literal hours before the tutorial is up. It also doesn't help that I think every single other element of FFT is worse than TO, that's just a bonus. Why is gear locked to classes? Is it such a problem if a Knight uses a shortsword, for fuck's sake? It limits your class choices to whatever is available in the shop basically. I thought switching my Squires to Knights might help me through that battle, but *oops no gear at all!* Why is the squad size six tops and as small as four? Pokemon parties are larger. I can't do anything, how can I split my forces for instance to do a basic pincer when each formation has at max three guys? Every early battle is "turtle up around spawn and let the enemy come to you", riveting. Why are the battlefields so small? 16×16? The GBA game has battlefields that are larger. Hell, TO has battlefields that are larger... I miss the huge castle ramparts with pockmarked fields leading up to a drawbridge, actually organic believable environments. (For an isometric game) There's never any room to get away... As a result of this movement and attack ranges are limited heavily as well. Why is healing a throwable? I know there'd be healing magic later but having early game healing be dependent on throwing potions is just hateful. I miss Kachua, who limps you through early TO with extreme range heals, to help get your game started. Why is magic awful? What are those mages actually *doing?* They put their hands up, a marker appears at Ramza's feet, and in a turn he goes up in flames. What kinda shit is this? How the hell do you counter that? Why are Matsuno and the gang so obsessee with SKILLS? Take away a core mechanic, make it a SKILL!!! In TO everyone could throw stones, block hits, counterattack. Now all of that has to be specced into with skills? Which are classlocked? I really hate this to death, seriously. When every unit can counterattack, battles are deadly and you have to consider the counter before going in for a move. I miss it, now you can just bonk half the time. Why is Wait Turn gone? This is a niche one but Wait Turn is so cool because your character's class, stats and equipment all affect it, so while it's innate to an extent you can influence it, move faster. Have lightweight, weakly-armoured high-speed killsquads. FFT's turns are just decided by speed like it's Shining Force II, which is fine I guess I just miss Wait Turn. The end result is that I have the single dumbest take online: Tactics Ogre Good, Final Fantasy Tactics bad. I hear it said constantly that FFT is designed for beginners, but *how?* I have played many tactics games (Tactics Ogre, XCOM EU and 2, Fire Emblem Awakening and Fates, Shining Force Sword of Hajya, Valkyria Chronicles) and somehow I get stopped like five hours in. Real video game??? Even though a Skyrim or a Sonic Adventure 2 or an Assassin's Creed 1 are way worse games that are way worse to play, and I really do not like them at all, Final Fantasy Tactics frustrates me infinitely. It really makes my lil gamer peabrain angry. It's such a slam-dunk idea: graft the Final Fantasy job system onto Tactics Ogre. Awesome! But they seem to have fucked it up in basically every possible way and now I have this game that I hate. Grrrr, why? How do I enjoy FFT?

music ashinadash • 3 weeks ago • 96%

It's from the 2010s, no idea on genre or what it sounds like. Know the cover though: Black background, with a side-on perspective of a figure sitting at a table. (possibly green tablecloth? maybe with flowers on the table?) The figure may have a blurred face that looks almost skull-like. Wish I had more, pls help me. It's a good album. Driving me up the wall... EDIT: It was Deathconsciousness, Have A Nice Life!! Thank you!!

furry ashinadash • 3 weeks ago • 98%

by @\_gegegek\_, [instant gram](https://www.piokok.com/profile/_gegegek_/) and [Nitter](https://nitter.poast.org/GeGeGek_) Featuring bonus serval!! Fuck Kemono Friends, I need more of this shit.  

furry ashinadash • 3 weeks ago • 100%

by @\_gegegek\_, [instant gram](https://www.piokok.com/profile/_gegegek_/) and [Nitter](https://nitter.poast.org/GeGeGek_) Oversized jumper <3 

furry ashinadash • 3 weeks ago • 97%

by @\_gegegek\_, [instant gram](https://www.piokok.com/profile/_gegegek_/) and [Nitter](https://nitter.poast.org/GeGeGek_) "Short jacket tall boots" is the new "short skirt long jacket" tbh 

games ashinadash • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Cannot sleep to save myself so- WHAT'S UP EVERYBODY, Wii U gang here again  I put some mGBA on my Wii U so I could try Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis on it. If you haven't read my Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together post, go make a meal and [spend a few hours,](https://hexbear.net/post/2787989) y'know just for context. Lmao. Easily the single biggest disappointment with the game is the Disappearance of Wait Turn. WT is easily one of the coolest things about Ogre Tactics and the rolling turn order is super fucking awesome, hardcore as shit, it's punches you gotta roll with but you can also influence it. Knight of Lodis just kinda gives up... it has Fire Emblem style PLAYERPHASE/ENEMYPHASE alternating turns where you can move any unit in whatever order. This is lame but not a dealbreaker. The UI and interactions/controls have also been necessarily crunched in the move from Super Famicom to GBA. Some of it is beneficial, like just A/B is easier than the original game's mix of A to select and B/X to cancel... but also movement is a little clunky now, and you cannot attack then move, only move then attack. Surprisingly enough though basically everything else has been retained. It's still the same type of turn-based tactical, unit-positioning-critical, height-advantage-heavy, physics-inflected battles from Let Us Cling Together, with none of the ugly messy changes the remakes made. The four "freely customisable" equip slots are still there, so you can load down a unit with whatever, hawkmen are still beloved, you can still do automated Training to assuage any grinding, there *are* "emblems" in place of the later Classmarks, but not all classes require them so there is still some degree of free switching. There is an entirely new set of magic but it works more like LUCT than the remakes' magic. It is cast in a very similar mold to LUCT. The game is gorgeous; it reuses some assets from (the village houses) and has similar looking sprites to the Super Famicom game, (comically the main guy's overworld/combat sprite looks like Dark Knight Lans) but the 240×160 resolution hasn't caused any damage to Quest's superb sense of visual design. All the art is beautiful, the character sprites still have exactly as much animation and expression complexity as in Let Us Cling Together, and the cutscenes are pretty much on par. It's technically very close to LUCT. That also (I guess) means it kinda runs like shit; I think Quest Corp was not very good at coding (or bug testing? optimisation?) because it seems like most of their games have bugs or technical problems. Knight of Lodis mostly has obnoxiously long 'CPU IS THINKING...' wait hangs before enemy movement, and animations that refresh at inconsistent speeds. Not very performant. The story also isn't up to much: it's kinda like the Korean War if Worst Korea hated the US. You play as a USMC recruit (Knight of Lodis) sent to the island of Ovis, long an imperial Lodis "protectorate", to "peace-keep" in a brewing conflict where the northern half of the island (sovereign, indepentent, ostensibly bad) seems to be agitating and skirmishing. Allegedly. I wonder how long it will take the protagonist to merc his commanding officer. The writing is a bit more obvious than LUCT but oh well honestly. I was really incredibly buttmad at almost every gameplay change they made to Wheel of Fortune and Reborn, but that's mostly because they were mucking around with an objectively perfect and completely flawless game. When it comes to a different game though, I think it's fine to play with the mechanice somewhat. While the omission of Wait Turn sucks, I'm honestly pretty pleased with how much of LUCT is retained within The Knight of Lodis. Given the limitations of the GBA, it's a pretty darn good rendition. Kinda cute. Playing Ogre makes me happy as fuck, I was getting my ass beat by the enemy's archers and having to fight my way uphill and levelling my lil dudes up a bunch, oh man I just fuckin love Tactics Ogre so much. How wonderful of Yasumi Matsuno and the game to make two of them!!! Literal Tactics Ogre 2: The Pre-Squeakwuel!!!!! Sorry Thracia 776, you got mogged by Ogre Tactics' little bro. Next time, promise.

games ashinadash • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Go ahead and shadowdrop this you COWARDS. Map and stat screens down the right side of the gameplay window. Thumbstick inputs for the touchscreen gimmick stuff in Dawn of Sorrow. There's almost nothing in this that you can't get out of just plugging these roms into MelonDS. Hell, the Definitive Edition patch for Dawn of Sorrow is better, removing the touchscreen elements and anime portraits. Another Konami L, smh.

videos ashinadash • 3 weeks ago • 96%

> chef ian brutalfoods tries to survive taste-testing 15 different instant ramen noodle packages Idk if this needs a cw but not all of the noodles are vegan. (sad tbh) no meat but bro is not vegan. INSTANT NOODLE GANG

games ashinadash • 1 month ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3263596 Assuming it even comes out. I know there are some gender-related mods and stuff for Stardew Valley, and Stardew itself was a huge leap over the enforced disheteronormativity of Harvest Moon. I would like it if Haunted Choclatier was more "woke".

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns ashinadash • 1 month ago • 100%

Assuming it even comes out. I know there are some gender-related mods and stuff for Stardew Valley, and Stardew itself was a huge leap over the enforced disheteronormativity of Harvest Moon. I would like it if Haunted Choclatier was more "woke".

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns ashinadash • 1 month ago • 100%

I am no longer asking   but if you were already an Ada Rook Enjoyer before this post then you're a TRUE TRANSGENDER PATRIOT  Fallow is a silly little 640×480 RPG Maker narrative adventure game by Famous Screamy Musician Ada Rook, which in ways feels like a heavily expanded version of a fruity little TWINE game, Perseids or something. It's a game of oppressive atmosphere, desolate landscapes, really good pixel art and very vague storytelling. The purples-and-golds of the burnt-out forests and dilapidated houses strike a really awesome contrast against the Game Boy green character sprites, sometimes highlighting the contrast between Isabelline's tiny living form, the massive/rotted out husks of old, dead electronics & machinery, and the collossal, alluring biomechanical structures churning away in the Skids. This world is dying, and I wanna know what the Dynon has to do with it. What the Machine Enthusiasts are after. What's in the clearing of the forest. Why it's no longer safe to be here. What's in the dreams. Rapid eye movement. All of Isabelline's sisters have disappeared. I've been trying to keep track of all the narrative threads, Isabelline's sisters and the three people mentioned in the carrier pidgeon note, the scripture referring to a Mary-Ann, the suspicious faceless creatures in the bulbs powered by vacuum tubes, but there's a lot going on. Do *you* know what the fuck is happening? I want to talk about it with you, so you should probably play it, nerd 

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns ashinadash • 1 month ago • 100%

A rambling, treatbrained manifesto. So let's say, purely for the sake of argument  that you and I talking about a movie or manga or a novel something, and you told me a little about something you like. However, I noticed that it only seems to have cishets in it.  No queers? Sorry, dropped. These are not the thoughts of someone normal. All media has cishets in it, though, or it used to. Until I was in my teens I didn't think about it too hard, but then I read this funny orange book, *Nevada* by Imogen Binnie. It broke my brain in several ways, but majorly, I didn't realise before then that we were allowed to have trans people in our narratives? I don't know why I'm like this, but it was the beginning of my downward spiral. I'm a sad little gay and always have been, so I was pretty desperate to see anything more than the average, straight people kissing, thing. Representation Matters. At first I was just obsessed with yuri manga and anime, and that was okay for a little bit. Who remembers *Miss Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles*? Or maybe *Yurucamp*? Raise your hand if someone sold you these as YURI and it turned out to be BAIT and you wasted your time because nobody would be honest about the queer content of an anime back then!!!  The only manga that remain in my Tachiyomi library are *So, Do You Want To Go Out, Or* and *After Hours*. From there, it was logical to move to manhua, manhwa, and donghua about women kissing. *Mage and Demon Queen*, or like *Soulmate*, *Ghosts of Greywoods*, so on. When I literally *ran out* out of decent webcomics about women kissing though, I stumbled my way into the murican (and it seems to be a deeply amerikkkan thing, or at least a western thing) romance novel. I have no idea how I did, but this increased my pool of stuff considerably. The other thing it did was reconnect me with trans people in fiction. Look, if you know, you know. In movies it's only ever really *The Silence of the Lambs* or *Boys Don't Cry*. TV shows, it's all dramatic reveals on crime shows, or whatever. Bad unfunny sitcom jokes. Video games, don't even fucking try. *Code Veronica* deserves to be bullied. Despite the absolute *state* of things, I was always keeping my eyes open for trans rep, and I mean you could have been reading the *Wandering Son* manga, or any amount of low-quality ultra-misogynist gender-essentialist "genderbender" dogshit. I long for a future where kids don't have to deal with shit like that when lookin' for queer manga. Novels, however, have funny tagging systems. Goodreads is so trash thanks to Amazon’s enforced decay of the site that frequently books end up with the wrong tags. And so, anything with two queer women who kiss in it sometimes gets filed under “romance”, even if it really should not. As a result I ended up discovering *Detransition, Baby* through my adventures gathering gay stuff. And hey, as it turns out, author Torrey Peters is at least aware of Imogen Binnie. Oh, and there’s a novel by Casey Plett, too? And then there are even more novels with transfemme protagonists outside of that??? In fact, probably a few hundred???? So here’s the thing, right? There are probably less than fifty films with trans people as protagonists, or even major characters. There are definitely less than fifty video games in that category. Novels, though? I have read thirty-six and have a further sixty on my immediate watch list to read. Probably another 40 or so on my Goodreads To-Read. If you limit yourself by rep in any other medium, you’ll be running out basically instantly. There actually are enough queer and trans books to sustain yourself on.  I do not wanna be inside the mind of your cishet protagonist, go away. Cis queers are fine, but I would really prefer you write someone cisn’t, because we can do better collectively than forcing cisgender representation down people’s throats, I mean keep that in the bedroom please. My decision has been: I will simply never read another book with a cishet protagonist, usually. Last one I did was *Neuromancer* by William Gibson, and holy shit did that ever reinforce why I’m doing this. It’s not an irredeemable text, but I don’t want to put up with that fucking shit. /r/menwritingwomen might be a stupid subreddit but it has a point. At time of writing the last I read any book with a cishet protagonist was in 2020. Conversely I am always interested in a decent cis queer protagonist too, like I can easily enjoy a *Girl Flesh* or an *Our Wives Under The Sea* for whatever other aspects of queer existence they might poke at. I am most enthusiastic for transfemme protagonists though, (I wish I could find nb transfemme leads but tagging makes it hard) however I am amicable to many different queer protagonists, from regular cis lesbians to nonbinary transmascs to agender peeps. Anything goes as long as it’s not cishet. Representation of trans people by way of our own voices is more or less a fresh development of the last eleven years, so I consider myself sort of a cut-rate historical observer as well. A lot of these books, especially the ones about trans women, have their little spot on an ever-growing web that extends outward from the starting point of Orange Book, and I try to keep tabs on what sort of funny developments are ongoing. I have to read *Cuckoo* by Gretchen Felker-Martin and *Brainwyrms* by Allison Rumfitt. It’s been enriching to see how different genres and writers interact with trans fiction, and what gets depicted and doesn’t. I am an enthusiast of trans and to a certain extent broader queer representation. It is a beautiful little blossoming flower of love and I need to touch it at least once a month or else I will die. Down with cis, up with trans.

Take for example [my banner image.](https://hexbear.net/u/ashinadash) On mobile you can see Isabelline standing at the opening of whatever the fuck that is, looks great. Roughly a 16:9 window, maybe 1.85: On desktop she is cut out  scope asspect ratio looks awful. Mods pls 

chat ashinadash • 1 month ago • 100%

Alternatingly, gabapentin either works great and has barely noticeable withdrawal, or a hellish acid reflux suffering tablet with the worst withdrawal in the world and I am once again a victim of the opioid crisis. My doctor suggested gabapentin when I asked for an anxiety med, cool idea or no? It's an off-label use so I might be a victim again. My impression so far is that it feels like a very lightweight version of loprazolam, goofy and relaxed. I'm still stimming ofc but I'm also calmly vibing, and I can still feel my emotions which is nice. Pls tell me how over it is ✨

games ashinadash • 1 month ago • 97%

Good ol' buttcraft  I don't really mean in terms of mods, but like go off if you wanna. I'm a lifelong Minecraft enjoyer, played it basically from Alpha right up to release, and dropped off around 1.2ish. I've played it in bursts again over the years, but the more weird stuff they add the more weirded out I feel. I just wanna build houses with sloping rooves, sheesh... It does kind of make me wanna just give up and play Legacy Console on Wii U or something weird. [Minecraft boomer alert I guess] I don't totally hate what they've done with the game itself but it's clear that the launcher is a lost cause. Plus how does Java chug this badly on a Ryzen 2600? I have to choose between a performance mod that makes the game run, or pad support, because one of them uses Fabric and the other uses the other thing. Remember when Minecraft mods was just dumping .jar files into the game's directory? I mean to ask, what is the way cool kids play Minecraft nowadays? Are there cool alternative launchers or modpaks or a specific version or whatever I can play that's cooler than Microsoft Occupied Minecraft and are more fun?

games ashinadash • 1 month ago • 100%

As preface, nobody who actually cares about games gives a shit about 240p on a cathode ray tube display, and any well-adjusted person will simply play Playstation games via Duckstation or something instead. That is the way to do it. If you suck and you're me though, you might have found one of those 30" Toshiba TVs with the Orion tubes from like 2000 for free and decided to do something about it. Aside from CRTs being basically cooler OLEDs (deep deep contrast, bright colours, but also instant response time) 240p is actually pretty funny looking. There's nothing wrong with playing these games on a flatpanel with scanlines, some scanline settings and filters are actually very good. But look at these progressively drawn lines of phosphorescent light:  So maybe if you're as deranged as I am, you wanna play Playstation games with black inbetween every line on this radiation phosphor machine, how do? There's no way to load PS1 backups from a hard drive or SD card on a FreeMcBoot PS2 that I know of, (if possible please hmu) and while modern x86  PCs can be made to output 240p it's kind of a bear involving goofy software config and a weird component converter. You can buy a Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 or Orange Pi, which have composite video out that is pretty good and can do 240p. There are even [LakkaTV builds](https://lakka.tv/articles/2024/05/02/rpi-composite/) for 240p for these things. But to my mind, the most efficient option is [Wiistation.](https://github.com/xjsxjs197/WiiSXRX_2022) If you're a  you probably have at least one Wii sitting around. I have three, one of which I found in a literal garbage bin at my last job. Your Wii has also possibly been supplanted: not only is Dolphin a really good emulator, but also a Wii U can do absolutely anything a Wii can on a flatpanel. But for whatever reason, the Wii U does not do 240p, where the Wii does. If you look around on useless loser spots like [stormfront,](https://old.reddit.com//r/WiiHacks/comments/12hmdkm/what_is_the_best_psxps1_emulator_for_wii/) the "common knowledge" is that the Wii is 'just not cut out for PS1 emulation'. This was true back when WiiSXR was the only option, akin to how Wii64 is not very good. But since 2022, some utter nerd has been patching up that PCSX fork as WiiStation and it's actually really good. It has HID controller support, so you can hook up a Dualshock 3 for some authenticity but the Wii Classic Controller Pro stands in for a PS1 Dualshock pretty well. It has disc swapping, tons of options, and it keeps getting cool and funny updates that make it perform better. Most recent one came out in March.  I have tested WiiStation with a bunch of hard to run (for low-end systems) Playstation games, like Vagrant Story, the original Driver, Klonoa Door to Phantomile, Metal Gear Solid, Ridge Racer Type 4, Wipeout 3 SE all work great at 100% speed. So what doesn't work? Tekken 3 drops the occasional frame (down to 59.10fps) but is mostly pretty good, Neversoft's PS1 Spider-Man is a shockingly difficult game to run and tanks into the 40fps zone routinely. It's been performing better as the dev improves CDDA streaming and stuff but it's a torture test for this emulator. WiiStation also has pretty much the same compatibility issues as PCSX: you'll remember from [this essay](https://hexbear.net/post/2787989) that the Playstation version of classic alltime great Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is a hacked together mess full of fucked up code. It runs pretty well on WiiStation, but still spits out "Failed to load save." when loading any save from memcard. Idk what is wrong with PCSX's save format, but you could use savestates exclusively to get through. I might submit an issue on the github to be hilarious about it. Wii homebrew development is extremely sleepy at the moment and nobody really talks about it, so it's not surprising that WiiStation flew under the radar. The Wii already has a killer niche as a dirt-cheap 240p gaming machine to hook up to a CRT for NES, Master System, Mega Drive, and SNES stuff, so to me adding "it's a pretty dang good Playstation as well" to its resume is funny. I like that about it.

games ashinadash • 1 month ago • 88%

I was watching "...why Skyrim?" by Razbuten on sloptube this aft and it's so weird that it finally took Starfield for people to realise. Like Fallout 76 wasn't enough, only now are negative things people were first saying about Skyrim in 2012 finally bleeding into mainstream consciousness. It's so wild, like wow they ruined the magic system? The game has worse writing than a PS1 era Mega Man X game??? Skyrim is just shitty Game of Thrones?? Welcome to thirteen years ago!! Bethesda hasn't made a really good game since 2002, but it'll probably be years before that realisation sinks in.

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

Inspired by [this dorky exchange I had,](https://hexbear.net/comment/5213347) thank u BountifulEggnog. I want to know what your gender means to you, how you define it, what it means for you to "be" that gender and how you define it. Don't fuss about 'correct definitions' or anything, this is about your experience, I want to know what it means to *you.* How you relate to that gender, perceive it. Genders have a social construction aspect and is very subjective, so I think people's subjective, personal views of their own are both important and interesting. Inquiring mind wants to know!  ::: spoiler I'll share some of mine I guess. I was a trans woman until the contradictions sharpened to a razor's edge after reading Gender Outlaw and The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto. My brain got cracked in half. I have always hated the effects testosterone would have on my body, so estrogen was a given, but while I do identify with certain things that are commonly associated with being a woman... *if nothing is inherently gendered, what even is a gender?*  I had a whole little episode about it in the megathread once. As I went on from there, I realised that while I like certain things about "being a woman", equally I found I'd been sort of stifled by trying to fit into the social role. The women I have always related to most are the cis autistic women who basically yeet presentation in favour of dressing for sensory comfort. Almost kinda non binary, in a way... The more I interrogated binary gender in relation to myself, the more I dug up stuff like this. Also I didn't really like that "woman" is associated with cis people a lot, I really like the trans part of my identity, feel a lot of love for it. I've felt freer and mentally clearer and truer to myself as a Non Binary Transfem, it's cool and funny. What does it mean to me? It represents my goofy sometimes-androgynous presentation, my lack of cissie gender, how being neurodiverse influences my view, being a funny noody goblin. Share yours =) :::

chat ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

I do feel stupid for feeling this. India is currently on fire and also flooding iirc, by contrast here in  it's not much hotter than recent years. I am lucky enough that we have a portable AC to run in the bedroom. It's not the literal heat, our room is an ok temp honestly. But the heat seems to be breaking down my joints and bones, I feel like a decrepit corpse weighted with lead rn. This is the first time I'm feeling this too, didn't happen last year so my body is maybe decaying again. I think it's heat exhaustion, I am making sure to drink and stuff but I just feel sluggish and sore, I am scarfing ibuprofen to little avail. Weh!

videos ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

> being a huge nerd means i care SO DEEPLY. about how people read books. but more importantly, i care about having access to those books. regardless of your stance on booktok books, you should be fighting against book bans. every day is an opportunity to think critically about literature, even now. especially now. analysis rocks! love u all! Usually videos about whatever the hell "booktok" is are trash, but this one is pretty cool. The only thing I wonder about is, the average Amerikkkan has long had appalling taste in books, right? Big bestsellers have been popularly viewed as slop and yet hugely popular since probably like, the 1980s, right? This is not new, just the social platform? I hear about "the trope-ification of media" and I think back to 'bodice rippers' and stuff. Easily the wildest application of the term "manufactured consent" I have ever seen however 

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns ashinadash • 2 months ago • 98%

Like wow, transphobes have no consistent standards and will harrass others based on chromosome layout, hormone levels, fertility, and whatever other contradictory trash they can dregde up? Sheesh, it's almost like transphobes and terfs have never had any consistent logic. Almost as if the point is just to uphold white cisheteronormativity and oppress everyone who deviates. My brain is trying to conjure quotes from both Gender Outlaw and the Gender Accelerationist Manifesto, but my brain is melted. Poking holes in these people's logic is not an effective comeback to them, they do not really care. They gotta uphold cisnormativity and put the boot down on anybody outside of it in any way they can. Anything to support their goofy gender hierarchy.

games ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

Femboy Fantasy Tit Tacs I really thought slamming my way through Tactics Ogre would prep me for this. I'm only like eight hours in and already I have underlevelled characters I can't do anything with. I haven't even started messing with classes yet, please help. Save me, training battles. Also why team size so small  EDIT: Why are black mages evil. Ranged lockon fire attack that kills you. EDIT2: the best strat for black mages is kamakaze basically. They have a lot of range and can snap to targets freely, so running next to another enemy will result in their multi target fire killing one of their boys.

technology ashinadash • 2 months ago • 95%

So obviously Ian Cuttress and Anand Lal Shimpi both left the site almost a decade ago, and the current crop of writers are whatever. I mean, check out this [Zionism 14900KS review](https://www.anandtech.com/show/21378/intel-core-i9-14900ks-review-the-swan-song-of-raptor-lake-with-a-super-fast-6-2-ghz-turbo) in which the phrase "represents the last processor to end an era as Intel is removing the 'i' from its legendary nomenclature for future desktop chip releases" exists. My comrade in chains, Anandtech was one of the first sites I recall reading that complained about how nonsensical the "Core i" branding was! Everybody hates that shit! Intel branding has always been dogshit!!! There's also [this Arctic Freezer 36](https://www.anandtech.com/show/21360/the-arctic-cooling-freezer-36-argb-cpu-cooler-review) which does not feature the cheaper-and-better Thermalright g@mer line coolers which are very popular right now. A lot of their laptop reviews lately lack many comparison data points, so on. It's kinda sad. Aside from having a really good layout that worked on the 14.4k throttled rural internet I had when I was 15, I also just really enjoyed reading stuff like the 2008 ["Best Dual Core At $70"](https://www.anandtech.com/show/2757) comparison between the Pentium E5300 and Athlon 7850, or basically any graphics card reviews between 2008 and 2013. That [GT 240 hitpiece](https://www.anandtech.com/show/2906) is a banger. The old laptop reviews of stuff like that [Gateway Id49c](https://www.anandtech.com/show/3940/gateway-id49-mixing-the-bag) taught me exactly why 768p laptop screens looked like garbage. I got like 70% of my computers autism from Anandtech, it was often a really handy reference guide. Nowadays I try to read it and it's just junk like you see above. Some of it reads like press copy, almost. Nothing as funny as [blowing out multiple AM2+ boards with a Phenom 9950BE,](https://www.anandtech.com/show/2559/8) no joy. Makes me sad. Is this what it feels like to be a bitter, nostalgic boomer?

videos ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

I found this GDF nerd from [@thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/thirtymilliondeadfish) 's account iirc. Nice lil video going through and destroying all the common arguments for the Zionist failstate.

music ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

Soon every Ugly Death song will have a video.

I understand that the beautiful french Sandy Bridge hexbear server is very busy and hexbear does not want spam. But I gotta post!!! It's just my inbox hexbear, promise I am not doing spam... I just gotta reply to 40+ messages...

videos ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

Aww yeah boyee.

technology ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

Sorry for this kinda gamerbrained question. The Xbox 360, Playstation 4, Xbox One, honestly most consoles after the Playstation and Saturn have shared memory pools. It allows flexibility in how much memory and VRAM developers want to assign, right? Why does the PS3 not have a shared 512MB pool of GDDR3? It caused all kinds of problems, most notably with Bethesda games. Is it the Cell Broadband Engine needing the specialty XDR memory? Is it an artifact of the Nvidia RSX graphics chip being added late in development? Looking back I a)most wonder if the split memory was more of a problem than the Cell tbh.

electoralism ashinadash • 2 months ago • 98%

Aside from more hilarious gaffes, will they do something really stupid like try to argue he's unpopular or illegitimate because he got shot at? I know Biden said he hadn't heard the news, which was hilarious frankly.

chat ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

Welcome to the latest in my series of "weh touchin grass" posts. The joke of this post here is that I got tested for allergens as a kid, primarily for cat and treenut allergies, and it was revealed that I have a minor allergy to trees and grass   My absolute favourite internet interactions (other than big stinky discussion posts <3) are when I can actually get to know people, sorta. Because Autism this sometimes takes the form of an internal "dossier" of facts n traits about people that I add more to as I observe or talk to them. It sounds weird but I promise you it's fine, you have to trust me. More than a couple of times I've had really fulfilling connections with people, which is not something I can really say about people irl. *egh irl people* Thing is though I can only really even do this online. Social interactions do not start for me irl. Anxiety is so fuckin thick that the couple of times people who seemed cool or interesting have approached me, I have literally run away. I can't do it, is all. Fhis is also why I never followed up on poking that queer place in my town or finding orgs or whatever, I would die if I went inside a place. I could take either an SSRI/SNRI or maybe loprazolam about it? But fuck that, seriously. The former flattens me, and the latter... I'm already taking tram longterm, am I gonna add barbituates to that list?? So I'm gonna keep being a weird little anxious ball that can only talk to people through a keyboard. Statement On Touching Grass. I love you bear website.

badposting ashinadash • 2 months ago • 100%

it's not late at night everywhere, get up and post for me, slothful burgers