[–] 1 point 17 minutes ago

I prefer restoration points, stored locally, since most of my work is less than an hour and doesn't need checkpoints. Sometimes something goes terribly wrong and I want to start over. But if it crashes? Yeah, restore me!

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  • [–] 2 points 19 minutes ago

    And half the time it's in a fucking browser.

    Hey quick rant, I'm a professor and due to budget cuts they cut our MS Office so it's online only. I was already getting into non-slop software but now I need to check for compatibility using the browser version, since podiums only have Office and we're supposed to use that.

    So what I'm trying to say is, I'm feeling this right now. Shit doesn't even have master slides or mathematical formula editing, ffs.

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago

    I'll keep that in mind. Quite a few of the games need a battery change but I think you're right about LttP. I emulate though so it's not as essential as it used to be, it'll be more relevant when I want to share the old ways with my kids when they're a little older.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    It's probably too late for me, but I don't think I care about saves older than 10 years. I can't even remember what I was doing in a game a week later, let alone a decade.

    Does it permanently bork any new saves, though? I know my SNES Z:LttP had permanent save issues but I think that's a different story.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Technically Yuzu was, allegedly, using something proprietary to run properly. I think the same is true of Ryujinx, although not sure. Now I'm not sure if it's true, given they settled out of court, and honestly we do know the REAL reason is the bottom line but legally they can't use that argument. Ironically I don't think it's even illegal to profit off an emulator, lol.

    That said, emulators are legal in the same way a bong is legal while weed might not be. It's technically illegal to use roms/isos you yourself didn't rip, even if you have the cartridge or disk (and thus, license) of that game because it's not a copy of your cartridge or disk, but it'd be pretty annoying to prove you didn't rip it yourself as you'd probably need to go into the code to see if there's a unique identifier. I'm not sure if that's ever been tested in court, though I wouldn't want to try it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    If you ever need to drive the point home, half of our states are only important to the people who live in them. Sure, California or New York is comparable to say, France or Germany, and impact the world stage; but our deep South or Midwest is probably more comparable to the Balkans or the Baltics, etc. I'm sure they're lovely, of course, but... they aren't exactly a focus.

    I say that, given an American can probably pick correctly where Spain, France or Germany are, roughly, but fuck us to know where Latvia or Albania are. Europeans are forgiven if they can't figure out which of our fucking rectangles is Wyoming.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Yeah, that's good to clarify; my girl attends a special school in the US that originally was designed to keep native Japanese kids up to date with language while living in the US because of a father's international work, etc., sometimes not even for a full semester. They've since had you start accepting US born kids too, so long as they're proficient in Japanese.

    They're housed within a public school but are ultimately private so they don't have access to facilities like that.

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