anyone who wants to just play a GameCube game can run an emulator on their cell phone now. Fifteen years ago dolphin required a gaming PC and everyone had a Wii. Its literally ONLY collectors buying now
Oh yeah that. Yeah most won't let you unlock the bootloader. https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
I don't like emulating Nintendo vidya, so if I were to buy a GC vidya it would be to use it normally, making me an exception to that.
it's not the 1990s anymore and when you emulate something you get it at a higher level of performance and visual quality than you ever got on the original hardware and it gives you full control over how you want to play the game on your time. usb gamecube adapters are readily avaliable if you want to use the original controller, and its not like an NES where a CRT is part of the "historical experience" i definitely played wave race on my friends big screen tv in like 2001
I'm guessing it's some stupid trend called "brand awareness" by way of angering the customer. Don't tell PR people that angering customers is a great way to discourage repeat business, however.Cars are a kind of tech, right? They also have a lot of dumbass trends too. Behold this monstrosity from Ford
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The car is running. What gear am I in? Squint for long enough and you can see barely see that P is ever so slightly lit up, butthis thing is so fucking dumb. It's fucking impossible to tell in direct sunlight and also very easy to accidentally turn a little too much and go from D to P instead of R when trying to park.
By the way if you accidentally go into park while doing a maneuver, now the electronic handbrake automatically engages which will not disengage when you return to a driving mode. So to get moving again you have to press down the switch to deactivate it. Great when you've got people waiting for you.
I fucking hate this thing so much. You know the best part? It has Apple CarPlay but not Android Auto. So you get all these wonderful electronic gizmos but you don't get the one fucking gizmo that's useful!
Thankfully it's a rental car, I'm not dumb enough to buy something this fucking stupid and holy shit I'm looking forward to getting something with a normal transmission.
I just like using old real vidya I already have (and not "sailing the high seas").
I just bought another 32gb kit of ddr4 as it was the most affordable RAM I could find. There's no way I will spend over half my upgrade budget on just RAM. It looks like I'll be sticking with an AM4 cpu for my computer upgrade. Thanks AI overlords.
A few days ago, I was on a computer at home of family, where I have a local Windows 10 account. When I tried to sign in, I was greeted with this crap that tried to get me to make a Micro$oft account, and it took awhile to find the option to skip that crap and just log in. And once in, I could not sign into my GMail because "verification" needed.
This is why I still drive a 2003 car, and I will learn how to forge a crankshaft in my backyard out of soda cans to keep that fucker running if I have to.
It's over for consumer electronics and electricity; now it's all gonne be bought up by Ai; superconductors, Ram and GPU, water...
And with enough effort you can install Dolphin on modern homebrew/cracked consoles as well.
I'm not one of those "AI IS EVIL SLOP AND IT KILLED MY GRANDMA" people, but even I at this point hope the AI bubble to burst and go the way of NFTs, however seeing how people are overly reliant on stuff like ChatGPT nowadays, I don't think that will happen anytime soon. Guess we'll have to save more money on RAM, then...
I know, I should be rated late for this, but still.
the current biggest issue with gimp is bad ui, id say go krita, but that doesnt work with psd text layers yet.
I hate that GIMP devs decided to squeeze by default all the tools into groups only now that screens are large enough to comfortably fit them all at once. It just makes selecting stuff slower.