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#on the SWITCH and their EMULATION ON THAT THING IS FUCKED UP?!???
emdotcom · 15 days
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I hated the Switch so fucking much, I gave mine away so I didn't have to have it around, anymore.
That said, very excited for the people who intend to play that new pokemon, when it comes out.
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halcyone-of-the-sea · 5 months
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I wanna hear your head canons about Gaz (sfw or nsfw, or both,what ever you want), you write him so well 😩
—In His Head
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╰┈➤ ❝ [Collection of his SFW and NSFW quirks.] ❞
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This man is literally the only one in the One-Four-One I could see having/keeping a long-term relationship without much challenge and/or angst. Johnny’s a close second, but Kyle takes the cake because I love him and I’m biased towards men with brown eyes.
Gaz strikes me as incredibly attentive and kind—especially to someone he loves and cares about in more than a friendly way. He’s a breakfast-in-bed type of boyfriend even if he’s tired. Long date nights that leave you both laughing and losing track of time until it’s late at night and you have to get back to your flat before the sun comes up. I’m talking fancy/casual/anything that he feels you emulate at the time of going out. 
You want to dress up? He’s already called for a reservation at the expensive restaurant down the street. You’re tired from work but want to do something with him? An easy dinner is already cooked and a movie is playing on the telly—your favorite drink is in your hand before you can slip off your shoes near the door.
Gaz has that boyish charm that I talk about often. He’ll make you laugh, gasp, and wheeze even when you think you can’t. 
That isn’t to say he’s never serious, because he is. 
When the weight becomes too much, he’s by your side when he’s off from deployments. He pulls you into one of those tight and all-consuming hugs, head on top of yours and lightly rocking you back and forth while you cry it out. Whispering into your scalp and rubbing his hand up and down your spine. Gaz breathes you down, concern tight in his face and his jaw clenched to restrain the flood of what he wants to say—you only need him to hold you and tell you things are going to be okay, so that’s what he does.
NSFW-wise, he’s just as attentive. He’s not inexperienced, either—he knows how to please you and has no trouble forsaking his painful hard-on just to get you off as many times as it takes with his fingers/mouth. 
Personally, I think he has an oral fixation. Loves watching you writhe above him as he goes down on you, or, heaven forbid he gets you to sit on his face. Goes absolutely feral as his face gets drenched and he feels your nails on his scalp. Moans/groans/grunts unabashedly as his hands grip your thighs and ass, letting your hips jump and tighten around him. 
Does not care if you’re worried about your weight. 
“I wouldn’t be asking if I didn’t want it, Love.”
Make him go lightheaded. He’s begging you. 
Gaz is a switch—top, bottom, doesn’t matter, he’s making you feel good and you’re making him feel amazing so it doesn’t bother him if you suddenly shove him over and climb on top mid-fuck. His hands snap and help you ride him, head tilting back into the pillow and mouth opening in breathless groans. 
I don’t see him as incredibly into rough sex—he would never hurt you, and anything that involves that would make him nervous about your safety. Very light breathplay is alright, but he’s not going to apply more pressure than a light squeeze. Gets upset if he finds any marks beyond hickeys on you—kisses them and mutters apologies into your skin as he continues rutting into you softly. 
Very into overstimulation and edging on both parts. 
Bring him to tears and leave him wanting you until he’s physically shaking and trying to grab at himself even as he’s hissing at the slight sizzles of pain. 
But, above all of that, he always wants to see your eyes while he’s pounding into you—missionary is his go-to until you decide you want to move/change/etc. The man just likes making sure you’re enjoying yourself, and that in and of itself helps get him off. Moan for him, be as loud as you want, it’s like a present as your eyes go all glossy and pleasure-drunk.
Will tease you about it though. I don’t make the rules.
“That good, Love? Yeah? Fuckin’ hell, hear that down there? Dripin’ for me—c’mon let me hear it, then. Let me hear those sounds from that pretty mouth. There we are, just like that. No need to be shy.”
Just slam your lips to his to shut him up, he can’t resist you—it’ll even make him move a bit faster.
All and all 10/10 boyfriend/husband material if you can deal with him being away for long periods of time for deployments. 
No doubt he always makes it up to you on leave.
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I shouldn't have to make this post but Nintendo fans are trying extremely desperately to position the company whose cock they love the taste of in a good light and are generally doing this by spreading misinformation about the legalities of emulation so let's go over a number of the fabrications shall we?
Emulation is illegal to monetize This has so far been one of the really big ones that's taken traction, usually partnered with the sister lie that yuzu was paywalling access to early access builds. These are both lies, and are untrue. yuzu is far from the only modern emulator to be monetizing itself, plenty of mobile emulators do it, but developing an emulator for money is entirely legal. We have pretty much all of our emulation precedent set thanks to a series of lawsuits in the very early 2000s thanks to Sony suing an emulator called Bleem. There's a lot to say about Bleem, but Bleem was a commercial emulator. You could buy Bleem, in stores. At no point was there ever a court decision that Bleem was wrong to do so (despite Sony's best efforts).
Emulating current generation software or hardware is illegal. This is also wrong, and kind of fundamentally misunderstands a lot when it comes to emulation. Once again, Bleem was at the time emulating current generation software. It was a generation in its twilight, but Bleem first released in March of 1999: the Playstation 2 was not out yet. The reason why current generation software does not tend to be emulated is because we do not really have the tech or processing power to do it yet. The Switch's lower specs are entirely the reason it has had an emulator developed well ahead of the PS4 or the Xbone.
Yuzu's early access build allowed people to play Tears of the Kingdom ahead of release date This one is a couple of different statements packed together, and while I'm given to believe there's a chance other games may have been playable ahead of release, this specific statement is a lie, and maybe the funniest one on the list because it's a lie that's not even backed up by the lawsuit.
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The lawsuit is extremely clear in its language that it was modded instances of Yuzu that could play Tears of the Kingdom ahead of release date, not publicly accessible builds of Yuzu. Nintendo's argument here lies in Yuzu being open source: part of the lawsuit alleges that Yuzu is responsible for any and all acts of piracy done by its users, whether or not they used official or modded builds of Yuzu. This is, of course, a fundamentally fucking insane position to argue from. It is not a particularly uncharitable reading of this as an attack on open source software to begin with, as this precedent would make any developer liable for ANY illegal action taken by someone who modified their code. Supporting this, in my opinion, makes you an asshole and liable to be clocked in the fucking mouth.
4. Literally anything involving this screenshot.
I've seen this screenshot maybe three or four times with different takes on what exactly Illegal is happening here and I'm pretty content to just call it vibes at this point. Whether this is an intelligent screenshot is a different matter, but no one has been able to point to anything actually illegal being done here. There is already precedent in allowing one to make their own back-ups of software they own, even if decryption or bypassing copy protection to do so, which is a large majority of software. Switch games are not the only games that are either encrypted or have copy protection, and this is both not the earliest generation to do it AND its not the only industry that does it.
The only point of interest here is the date, which I've seen literally no one bring up, but this correlates into another point: personal piracy is still not something Yuzu is liable for. It's a dumb thing to broadcast, but it doesn't change anything material about the software.
5. Yuzu folded because Nintendo had a smoking gun
I, I just, I'm sorry this one isn't just a lie its a really naive and incompetent view of the faults of our legal system. If anything, the settlement seems to indicate the opposite. If Nintendo was sure they had Yuzu dead the rights, they wouldn't have fucking settled. Both parties need to agree to settle! Nintendo is actively interested in trying to set legal precedent that emulation is illegal, because Nintendo is great at saying obviously wrong things with a straight face.
This could be a reason, but remember, this was a civil lawsuit, not a criminal one. Civil lawsuits have a difference in how evidence is handled, and it's pretty likely that Nintendo just has more evidence than user does on account of being able to afford a larger legal team and having planned for this lawsuit in advance, regardless of how strong that evidence actually is. It's why most of the arguments in the lawsuit read kind of insane. Civil lawsuits are not handled "beyond a reasonable doubt".
There's also the fact that legal cases can be extremely expensive, even when you know you are absolutely in the fucking right. I want to link this video by James Stephanie Sterling as evidence of this. They were completely in the fucking right, and the lawsuit still took an incredible amount of time and monetary expense to argue, and that's against an opponent who you could reasonably confuse with a scarecrow. This is ultimately how Sony eventually "won" against Bleem. Bleem never lost any of its lawsuits against Sony, in fact Sony ballsed it up twice against Bleem, but Sony continued to file lawsuits against Bleem and its company over and over, until Bleem literally could not afford it and went bankrupt.
There's also the matter of precedent. If Yuzu had taken this court, and lost, it would be really bad. There's a lot in this court case that you don't want precedent leaning towards, and due to, uh, America's current political climate and judicial regime, there's a fair chance the judge would have just sided with Nintendo anyways. Settling the lawsuit, while to be entirely clear, sucks complete ass for Yuzu as they were basically eliminated, protects the sphere of emulation as a whole.
So what was the salient parts of Nintendo's case?
The parts of Nintendo's case that hold the most weight have to do specifically with the encryption keys used to de-encrypt Switch games, and how those keys interact with the DMCA. There's no legal precedence to back this up, this is thoroughly untested grounds. This is actually where the buck stops with the Bleem cases: this one never went to a judgment for Bleem and hence never established precedent.
There's a pretty reasonable chance that Nintendo had a chance to win the lawsuit off of the back of this point. This doesn't make it a guarantee, but it's the part of the lawsuit that's actually important.
What happened with the settlement?
Well Nintendo got to legally extort the Yuzu devs and their parent company for $2.4 million. This is, strictly speaking, chump change to Nintendo but I in particular hate this part of lawsuits with a passion. In addition, as per the conditions of the agreement, all copies of Yuzu that were released and in development under the purvey of the company must be destroyed, the company and its devs can no longer work on Yuzu in any way possible, and they cannot work on any other emulation software. This is why Citra also closed down by the way: it was an unfortunate emulator in the cross fire. This in and of itself, is a tragedy, since this is basically court mandated brain drain. Undoubtedly Yuzu will be forked and someone will continue development on "Zuyu", but the loss is still felt.
Why should I care? Piracy is illegal.
This is where I'm going to wax philosophical for a moment, but Frankie my dear, I do not give a damn. Nintendo could have had full legal rights to do this, and I would still be of the opinion that Nintendo's legal team are ghouls and shouldn't feel safe showing their faces. This is how I felt when Nintendo shut down Emuparadise. Whether something is illegal does not impact whether it is right. Laws exist in a state of being able to be both just, unjust, or both.
Emulation is extremely important in the preservation of gaming as an artform, something that the game industry is extremely against in all forms. There's money to be made after all, and attempts at making sure that games are available to play are often attacked and criticized. This is part of the reason I'm so against the existence of copyright law. It doesn't matter what the intent of a system is, but it does matter what the system does, and it's transferred an overwhelming amount of power into the hands of large corporations while largely screwing small creators over.
I do not believe art has a price tag to it. I do not believe that art can and should only be enjoyed by the people a company has decided to sell it too. I do not believe that companies like Nintendo should be able to throw their legal weight around and ruin people's lives. You should be able to play Mother 3 and Shin Megami Tensei without having to wait for their parent companies to decide they actually want to sell it to you.
Piracy does not inflict meaningful damages to Nintendo. Despite Nintendo's whinging, Tears of the Kingdom sold over 20 million copies in half a years time, something that we can estimate to have made Nintendo about $1.4 billion in revenue. We live in a game industry which does not care about its game devs: it's perfectly willing to underpay them, to overwork them, and to eventually let them go. Nintendo is not innocent here. They have a history of mistreating their contract workers, and I personally know that these are not the only allegations that hold water.
In short, fuck Nintendo. Pirate all Switch games until the end of time.
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ed-mnsn · 2 years
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sitting on eddies face
eddie munson x afab reader
smut! 18+ minors dni
a/n: i wrote this in a solid 10 minutes and it’s really self indulgent and mostly me rambling but nevertheless i hope you enjoy. i am an avid #eddiemunsoneatspussy supporter
GODDDDD I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT EDDIE TAKING CARE OF YOU WITH HIS TONGUE. no like listen. eddie eats pussy and he loves it likeeeee. lives to eat pussy. you’d just be making out slow and lazy for what feels like hours, his hands roaming every inch of your skin, your fingers tangled in his hair… he just wants to taste you, take care of you, make you feel good. jesus christ all of a sudden he’d be like ‘i want you to try something for me’ and sure you’re all for it, but you’re expecting it to be doing something to him….. but then he’s scooting down his bed, laying flat and you’re so confused. and he’s like ‘cmon get on top’ and you’re all ???? and he’s just grinning like an idiot bc god he wants you so bad. ‘sit on my face’ he’d say, so sure of it. and you’re wary of it at first. you trust him and you’re down to try new things but this is a little nerve-wracking to you… but he just coaxes you towards him, has you swinging a leg around to land on the other side of his head. you’re still hovering, your cunt just waiting over his mouth and he is smiling like an idiot. you look down at him and he’s gripping the back of your thighs and telling you how pretty you look and how bad he wants to taste you. so you indulge him, because he is great at eating pussy after all. but this, god this was so different. you kind of restrain yourself at first, not fully settling on top of him. but he’s gripping you so perfectly, pulling you down to his mouth with all his strength. he smothers your folds with his lips, licking so hotly everywhere. he latches onto your clit and you cant help but grind down onto his face. he’s cursing, moaning, mumbling, going on and on about how fucking hot you are, how sweet your pussy tastes. you’re not any better as he licks into you, tongue-fucking you so deep that it’s almost confusing. you have a vice grip in his hair and you finally give in, letting him take all your weight. he would find it fulfilling to die with his face buried in your pretty little cunt. he uses his grip on your ass to move your hips along with his movements and you’re dizzy at this point. you’ve never felt pleasure like this, his hot breath inside you and his tongue, god, it’s indescribable. you scream his name and you can literally feel him smile against your cunt and he’s never ever been happier. you grind down onto his face, chasing the pleasure and you’re so so close you could cry. his name rolls off your lips over and over and he just takes it as you use his mouth to get yourself off. he’s whispering words like “sweet girl” and “fucktoy” and you cant see straight. he fucks you thoroughly with his tongue, and right when you need it most he switches to your clit, swirling snd sucking and biting, and letting you hump him to your content. you cry his name as you cum, this orgasm ripping through your body like never before. you’re shaking, doubled over, clutching his curls and wimpering as he rides you through it. it feels like a hurricane has passed once you come down, breath racked and thighs trembling. you peek down at him, almost scared you smothered him half to death. but christ, you’re just met with that sweet idiotic smile. you climb off him, barely able to hold yourself up so you just flop on your side. when he looks at you, you’re kind of embarrassed. his face is covered in you, your slick. his mouth, chin, dripling down his neck. it was raunchy, but humiliatingly so, it made your pussy throb. he wipes his face on his sheets, emulating a dog a little bit. “i literally will never forget that.” he says, and you’re blushing, hitting him. but its the full truth. he reveled in your pleasure, fucking basked in it. he creamed his pants while you were riding his face, and while he didnt say it out loud, you could see the wet spot in his boxers. that cunt of yours was entrancing and he wanted nothing more than to spend every minute of the rest of his life with his head deep between your thighs.
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witchwyfe · 1 year
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the ugly sweater party | kook friend group
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I pairing: platonic kook friend group x female reader, platonic (non-canon) rafe cameron x reader, platonic topper thornton x reader, platonic kelce x reader
I précis: ugly christmas sweater party with your friends!
I word count: 1,125
I content + warnings: mentions of alcohol, mentions of food, cursing, mentions of being drunk, mentions of throwing up
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On Figure 8, any holiday was an excuse for all the college kids to come home and throw parties. You’d been to ragers the night before Thanksgiving for God’s Sake. You love Christmas time. You and your friends always end up drinking too much eggnog at a party and regretting it the next morning. But your favorite is when someone throws an ugly sweater party. You and your best friends have gone every year since high school, and this year would be no different.
“Alright, no complaining okay? I don’t want a repeat of Halloween.”
“We didn’t give you that hard of a time.” Rafe whines, scowling.
“We didn’t, you did.” Kelce reminds him, nudging his side. 
“Shut up.”
“Anyway,” You cut off their bickering before it can fully start, glaring at the boys. “This year, I picked them out, and—”
“How is that any different, you pick them every year?”
“Because no one else ever offers to pick.” You narrow your eyes. “Remember two years ago when I let Rafe be in charge?” You wonder. 
“It wasn’t that—”
“You wrote merry x-mas on a white t-shirt in sharpie.” You cut him off. “That was so fucking stupid.”
“We didn’t even get top three for best sweater.” Kelce frowns, shaking his head in disappointment.
“Anyway,” You start again. “Imagine if I could speak without getting interrupted. I was going to say that Kelce and I picked them together.” Kelce smiles, moving off the couch so he can sit by you. 
You pull out two large bags, giggling slightly. “Oh-kay,” You say slowly. “Who wants to see?”
You and Kelce share a look, matching grins on your faces. You nod at Kelce, watching as he hands a folded sweater to Rafe and to Topper.
“Santa’s nice little boy?” Topper splutters—incredulous. You and Kelce burst into laughter, leaning against each other.
“Santa’s naughty little boy?” Rafe says, flipping the sweater around and holding it to his chest. 
“You guys can switch if you want,” You manage between laughs. “But Kelce and I thought those would suit you pretty well.”
“Are these baby clothes?” Topper wonders seriously. The writing on the white sweaters does in fact, emulate Christmas onesies that say things like—my first Christmas—Kelce went above and beyond finding the design your own sweater site.
“This sounds so wrong,” Rafe frowns, shaking his head. “That’s fucking messed up.”
Kelce is practically cackling now, laying on the carpet. 
“What do yours look like?” Topper wonders, glaring at you.
“Oh!” You giggle, nudging Kelce again. You pull two more white sweaters out, checking the tags before handing the correct one to Kelce.
You unfold them, unveiling the matching sweaters to Rafe and Topper. Yours says Merry in red cursive, Kelce’s says Christmas in green. 
“They go together!” You say, tone saccharine. “Just like yours do!”
“What the hell?” Rafe complains. “How is that fair?”
“Think of it as payback for the sharpie incident.” You grin, laughing evilly with Kelce. 
“You didn’t want to help pick them out.” Kelce points out. “And we asked. Many times.”
“What was it you said, Top?” You wonder, furrowing your eyebrows. “’I don’t care what they are, just pick them. I don’t have time for this shit.’”
Topper’s face reddens, the sweater falling limply in his lap. 
“We wanted to do those big sweaters, like the two-person ones, but a four person.” Kelce says. “But we decided not to, because we knew y’all would hate that.”
“That would have been hilarious, come on.” You grin, looking to Kelce who nods in agreement.
“Thank you?” Rafe says like it’s a question. “Don’t know if I should be saying thank you for something that alludes to me having an inappropriate relationship with santa.”
“Hey, you said it, not us.”
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“Come on guys, we’re gonna be late!” You call up the stairs. The four of you decided to pregame at Topper’s house, since his parents were out of town. 
It ended up being much less of a pregame and much more of a listen to Rafe whine about the sweater he hadn’t even put on yet. You and Kelce had each taken a shot of peppermint schnapps though! In an attempt at Christmas spirit. 
You and Kelce went all out, deciding to match your whole outfits—ripped jeans and Converse—to pair with the sweaters. 
Finally, Rafe and Topper trudge down the stairs, Rafe quite literally dragging his feet, his footsteps reverberating on the staircase.
“Oh, look at that!” You coo exaggeratedly, placing a hand on your heart. “My boys, looking so cute!”
Topper gives you a dirty look, Rafe muttering curses under his breath. Kelce snickers at their obvious disdain, even more so when you share a look with him.
“I’m never forgiving you guys for this,” Rafe declares, looking between you and Kelce. “Just so you know.”
“Oh no,” Kelce feigns a pout. “____, he said he’s not gonna forgive us for this.”
“Shut the fuck up,” Rafe groans, effectively cutting off whatever snarky comment you were preparing to make.
“Okay, whatever, no more complaining.” You announce, giving pointed looks to Rafe and Topper. “You’re so grumpy, Rafe, we just need to get some eggnog in you,” You giggle, happy when a smile—albeit a small one—finally makes its way onto his face.
“Alright boys, get together so I can take a picture!” You giggle, whipping your phone out of your pocket. 
“Get closer together,” You scold. “Rafael, smile for God’s sake.”
“Please, enough with the mom photos, can we please go now?”
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“Someone grab my hand, please!” You whine. “I can’t walk without a hand.”
Rafe sighs, holding his hand out for you to take. Topper has his arm around Kelce, trying to guide him to the car.
“____, come on sweetheart, we need to get you in the car.” Rafe says, tugging your arm gently. 
“Want a snack,” You whine again, leaning all of your body weight onto Rafe. “I’m so hungry.”
“If we get into the car, we can go and get something.” 
“By the way,” Kelce is slurring his words as he turns to face you and Rafe. “____ and I are picking the sweaters every year. First place in the ugly sweater competition, baby!” He cheers.
You squeal gleefully, pumping a fist in the air. 
Topper is mid-pushing Kelce into the car when he jerks away, bee-lining for a nearby bush. He’s emptying his stomach, bent over at the waist.
“Aw, Kelcey,” You coo, rushing over to him. Despite your intent to comfort him, the second you’re close enough, you’re throwing up as well. 
“Every fucking year.” Topper sighs, shaking his head.
“Merry Christmas.” Rafe laughs, rubbing your back.
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blueskittlesart · 9 months
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how do u play zelda games... or are u just very familiar w the lore without having played all of them? i only have a switch and have played botw and totk it's the only console i've ever had and i'd like to play more games like ocarina of time and wind waker and majoras mask but idk how to access them and also. expensive 😭
i've played every game I talk about on here! I try not to talk about ones i havent played bc i don't have a full understanding of them lol. for me it's been about 10 years since I started playing zelda games so I've had some time to get this many under my belt but I can definitely recommend some good games & methods for new players!
since you said you only have a switch, i'll start with legal ways to get older zelda games on the switch. many of these will be expensive and arent actually the method i recommend to play them but. for the sake of being thorough. im gonna mention them.
skyward sword HD remake (highly recommend!!) this game would probably be a pretty good starting point after botw and the remake is notably easier to play than the original. it is $60 tho when the original game was $30. so
NES and SNES virtual consoles which are free with a nintendo online subscription have the original zelda, zelda II, and a link to the past on them. as a new player i wouldnt SUPER recommend any of these but alttp is definitely worth it if you DO end up liking some of the more modern games in the series.
the dreaded n64 virtual console has oot on it but im just straight up gonna tell you not to buy that shit. oot is a must play but there are millions of better ways to play it
the fucking $60 links awakening remaster. don't buy this
the way I personally played most of my games is either via console or hacked console. if you're willing to invest in a secondhand wii to hack you can emulate basically any console that came before it, including the n64 for oot and the gamecube for wind waker. if you're willing to invest in OR you have an old 3ds lying around (preferably that hasnt been updated recently but you can get around that) you can hack it to play GB/GBA/DS/3DS games, which includes link's awakening, minish cap, albw, oot 3d, and majora's mask 3d!
if you're looking for a COMPLETELY free option, my next suggestion is emulation. you want a decent PC to be able to run most of this shit without speed drops, and some newer consoles won't run perfectly no matter what. wii games especially are really dicey because of their reliance on motion control so there's not a lot of emulators out there for them.
for anything before the N64 (majora & any game released before it) I recommend the MAME vintage game emulator. this thing was originally built for arcade games but runs a lot of vintage consoles pretty well too and is generally intuitive and user-friendly.
Visual Boy Advance is a good option for GBA games (link's awakening, 4 swords, minish cap, oracle games.) these may also work on MAME
Desmume for DS games (phantom hourgass, spirit tracks)
Citra for 3DS games (requires high processing speed & decent graphics card, most laptops will not run it) (oot & mm 3d, albw)
for gamecube (wind waker) I used dolphin emulator on my hacked wii so I can't vouch for how it'll run on anything else but i believe it should also be able to emulate wii games? (sksw, tp)
hope this helps fuel your loz adventures! if you ever have specific questions about emulation or hacking i might be able to help also lol i hate paying for games so i do this a lot
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harocat · 9 months
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Heartbreaking thoughts about Tantai Jin hour. I'm just thinking about how the whole first timeline of the series, Tantai Jin had no idea that Li Susu and Ye Xiwu were two different people.
Literally, from his perspective, Ye Xiwu just started being nice to him out of the blue after months of physical and emotional abuse; whipping him every night, leaving him out in the cold essentially to die, and letting him almost starve.
Yet, after Li Susu transmigrated into her body, he still wholly and unabashedly fell in love with 'Ye Xiwu', opening his heart wide open to her and offering his entire self up to her. He loved her almost unconditionally; even when he thought LSS poisoned him, he forgave her the moment she came back. Even after LSS really did do the soul shattering nails, though he tried to hate her, it wasn't possible.
And I can't think of many other things that speak to the depth of his loneliness and need for affection than that, because it seems like he just went 'well she's different now' and didn't even bring it up. Like this man was abused to the point of near torture for MONTHS, by the real Ye Xiwu, but it was just 'in the past' for him. Maybe a part of him was going 'I've changed, so maybe YXW has as well', but the thing is that even when Li Sisu questioned his morality at points, he never retorted with 'remember what you used to do to me?' He wouldn't use the behavior of the real Ye Xiwu against her even when it was relevant. This poor man is so fucked up.
Because this wasn't like, an abusive relationship where the real Ye Xiwu was kind to him sometimes and interspersed it with cruelty, then Li Susu came along and turned to just kindness. It was a total personality switch. He never brought it up. He was that scared of not being loved. The level of pain, the level of desperation he must have been in to just go 'well it doesn't matter because she's nice to me now', and to go as far as to even see LSS as a light, a person he aspires to emulate and the moral center of his world, despite the real YXW's behavior, is immeasurable. It kills me.
One of the reasons I love immortal era of them the most is because he knows all of this now. He knows the woman he loved was NEVER Ye Xiwu, and I think it's really important for forming a genuinely healthy relationship between the two. I can imagine a weight he didn't even know was there just lifting off his chest the moment he realizes it's Li Susu he's loved all along, and how freeing that must have been (we sort of see this in the scene where he realizes it's not him she hated, but the devil god). As cute as they are in the Jing Kingdom arc, and yes they are so cute, the baggage is immense. They can only begin to drop that when all the truths come out between them.
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etrosgate · 8 months
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everyone go play 999 for the nintendo ds. NOT THE PORT. the ds.
im serious about this.
9 hours 9 persons 9 doors for the nintendo ds is a masterpiece of a game, with wonderfully snappy dialogue and a quickly paced narrative that avoids many traps of visual novel writing (such as being overly obvious and repetitive) with a ludonarrative cohesion that makes SO many of its aspects initially perceived as flaws into an active strength of the experience. the endgame twist is very possibly the best in gaming history.
i think i've made it pretty clear that i really fucking love this game, and recommend it to everyone.
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i used to say "the ds version is better, but it's fine if you play the port for its various quality of life features" but im no longer able to have that stance, now that i know the extent of how it kinda butchers its narrative. it's not super obvious, but that subtley honestly makes it worse to me.
it's the difference between a good game that had cool concepts but kinda shaky execution, and a masterpiece.
this boils down to the "novel mode" versus "adventure mode" format that they decided to build the port on.
if you choose to play in adventure mode, it removes almost all of the narration and rewrites that aforementioned incredible dialogue to awkwardly shove in some (not all) of that information, resulting in overly obvious and clunky writing that seriously drags some scenes out. the descriptive text in general is actually incredibly important in a way i can't describe, and though it will forcibly shift to novel mode to show it to you very occasionally, it's not Nearly enough and you will miss out on some of the most memorable striking moments because of it. i cannot overstate how much the impact of the ending is affected by this.
if you choose novel mode, you do get all the narration (very important). HOWEVER. the writing is still the adjusted one done to facilitate only playing adv mode, so now the dialogue is overly obvious and clunky and slow AND repetitive (all the things i said 999 very cleverly avoided 🤔?) and then, for some ungodly reason, it is actively difficult to play the game in novel mode. the game will Constantly shift you back to adv mode so you have to spend the entire game checking to make sure to switch back (something even i found difficult to do as someone who'd played the ds version).
so neither way to play the port is good. in addition to the aforementioned changing the final puzzle to be worse. and a LOT of ludonarrative things i cannot actually get into due to spoilers.
"how much of an impact could these small changes actually have?"
well this is anecdotal, but me (and many other people i know) who originally played 999 on the ds and thought it was a masterpiece, years later went on to play the port version and thought "huh. it was still good, but it's like the magic was gone. i guess it's just not as good as i remembered, one of those things that doesn't hold up to your memories of it."
and then we replayed the ds game. and found out that the game we remembered DOES still exist! it's just as fantastic, the magic IS THERE. the port just made the game worse!!
anyways, so what were those quality of life changes i mentioned earlier?
in the original ds version of 999, every time you reach an ending you have to start from the beginning of the game again, fast forwarding through the text and replaying the puzzles. (the port changed this to having a flowchart where you can just jump to decision points)
HOWEVER
as someone who Very recently replayed the ds version, i truly don't think this is as much of a pain as you might expect.
skipping text isn't a big deal. yeah it takes a bit, but it's easy to watch a youtube video or something while you're waiting the 5 minutes it takes. using an emulator, you can even speed up the text skipping to an even greater degree. if you can't physically hold down the button, you can probably find something to hold it down for you, and on an emulator you can rebind the key to be something easier to do that with (like the space bar)
redoing puzzles isn't a big deal either. not only do you still have to redo some puzzle rooms in the port version anyway, it can be pretty fun to figure out how to essentially speedrun rooms you've done before, and you don't redo them that many times (i would recommend a walkthrough anyway for deciding which endings to get, so making that redo time even shorter is a bonus).
if you really need the accessibility of voice acting, i would genuinely recommend watching an LP of the ds version instead. yes, i really do think some guy from 10 years ago reading out the text will give you a better experience than a genuinely good cast of voice actors reading the port's.
btw, if you're scared off at the prospect of reading a little more now without being able to choose adventure mode... if you've played danganronpa (and most of you did!) 999 is shorter, faster-paced, and has LESS READING.
okay im done.
i'd recommend THIS WALKTHROUGH, even if you don't want to use it for the puzzles, it'll give you good info for how to get each ending (especially recommended for true ending), and a general order to do them in. i'd recommend doing getting all the endings (except coffin, which is just the true end cut short) EDIT: thank you to tlblitz for recommending this walkthrough, which gives additional hints for the puzzles instead of just telling you solutions outright
if you've already played 999 (or are just curious about specifics), this video details all the changes mentioned here and more, and it gets all the way into spoiler territory (it can be nitpicky at points, particularly at the beginning, but maaaan did it open my eyes to everything i had subconsciously picked up on in playing the port)
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i forgot to mention. if you emulate the game, there's a visual glitch that messes up the sprites a little, but you can fix it really easily! in DeSmuME, go to Config>3D Settings and set the renderer to OpenGL
also, here's a mod that increases the text speed, if you find that bothers you.
and i figure i should put my reasons for not just tolerating, but loving the hassles that come from the ds version onto the base post (reposted from another reblog)
major major 999 spoilers below (and some vlr spoilers too)
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to me, one of the coolest aspects of 999 (and zero escape in general) is how much the experience of playing it reflects the narrative
the final twist isn’t just that the text on the bottom screen has been akane, but that you’ve been playing as HER the entire game, not junpei (and with turning the ds upside down for the sudoku, you finally do so for the first time)
in the narrative, you spend basically the entire runtime getting to know her as June, but in the ludonarrative, (the actual Playing the game) you get to know her as Zero. and those annoying bits are a big part of that.
every time akane reaches her death in a timeline, she has to go back to the beginning and start over, because that’s how her powers work. she has to redo all the puzzles, has to wait through all the dialogue until she gets to a point where she can nudge junpei to another route. (in vlr, sigma+phi have a flowchart not just because it’s more convenient, but because that’s how Their powers work).
so subtly, without noticing, you start to reach her point of view. the first time you see the ninth man die it’s shocking and horrific, but even just on your second playthrough the horror doesn’t affect you much. for junpei and everyone else, these sequences are just as terrifying in every route but not for you, cause you’ve seen them before. you can’t be affected by them in the same way, what matters now is the futures you haven’t seen yet.
speedrunning puzzles by skipping the clues and zoning out while you wait for the dialogue to finish aren’t just game things, but diagetic events, of akane going through the motions of something she’s done over and over.
when i replayed the ds version recently (something i hadn’t done in a LONG time), i felt so close to akane in a way i never did in the port, because i’d been through the same experience as her. i understood how she could be such a kind and sensitive person who rationalizes away putting all these people she loves through all those the moment to moment horrors in pursuit of a timeline where she and everyone she care about lives, because i’d become detached to them through repetition too.
i completely understand why people wouldn’t enjoy that, but i’m a pretentious gamer who LOVES when mechanics are technically “worse” in a way that is characterful or thematic. so the frustrating bits of 999 add to that experience much more than they detract from it for me haha
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ahoneesan · 14 days
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not to be a little well actually bitch but. the yuzu/citra thing happened bc they were actually not being very buttoned up about piracy. as i understand it they literally had builds of their emulator behind their patreon paywall that could play totk before its release date. that aint being "buttoned up" abt piracy. much less whatever the hell went on in their discord server. yuzu with their little patreon painted a target on their back. nintendo is not your friend at all but lets not kid ourselves here.
this also does NOT set a precedent! not a legal one, at least, which would have been set if they had gone to court with this. emulators exist in a legal gray area right now and neither nintendo nor YOU want this shit to go to court bc theres no telling which way it would land. so shut the fuck up and play your video games. dont go charging people for better piracy.
furthermore i think its likely this Actually happened at least in part due to switch 2 gettin pushed from this holiday into march of next year. thats the real greed on nintendos part. anyways read some reporting on this shit and dont whip yourself up into a frenzy bc of some piracy moral fiber in yr bones. the world has rules and these things can be understood if you calm down and take a second to learn about em.
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Rayday's Swap AU ~ Angel Dust
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Here's the first design I did for my silly lil' AU! Swap Angel Dust ( meaning he has the personality of Valentino and all )
More information about the design + "sprites" under the cut
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The black sclera - I know about the theory that characters with a/two black sclera(e) have sold their soul and all, but since that's not entirely confirmed ( and also has questionable due to Husk's flashback to when he lost his soul to Alastor or whatever where he has black sclerae before losing ) I decided to keep it.
The curly-er hair/heart motif - I tried to give Angel more of a heart motif as I thought it'd fit ( not to mention Valentino sort of has a heart motif. ) I also just like adding heart-shapes into character's hairs whenever it's fitting. :3
Freckles/facial markings - I decided to make it a single heart on his right cheek because having multiple ( hearts or dots ) on his face was cluttering it up.
His golden tooth - Yes, I know it's on the "wrong" side. I just thought it'd balance out the heaviness in terms of darkness/detail. ( Dark sclera to his left, freckle/facial mark to his right, golden tooth to his left. )
Spider mandibles/abdomen - Since Angel's original design doesn't have much of a spider motif, apart from the multiple limbs, there isn't much the screams "spider." The fact that Valentino is pretty clearly a moth also helped with this decision, which might mean I'll turn down the moth motifs for Valentino ( we'll see though when I get around to him. )
Arm fluff - The arm fluff servers to emulate the wing-sleeves Valentino has in the actual show, but in a way that makes more sense if you ask me ( cuz where tf does the wing sleeves go when he's not wearing his wings as a coat??? ) It also just adds a lil' bit more character imo.
Hands/nails - This was mostly inspired by actual spider feet ( most spider feet are surprisingly cute tbh ) Their feet are basically two claws hidden behind a bunch of fluff that sort of looks like two toes/hooves. The hands and nails both count for the claws of actual spider's feet. Do note that his feet look a lot more similar to spiders' though. Just thought I'd mention.
No coat - The silhouette was already pretty busy with the arm fluff and abdomen, and I honestly wasn't willing to get rid of either. This meant I had to sacrifice the coat, sadly, though I think it leans into another motif I tried to lean into a little more:
Drag queen inspo - Simply put I tried to lean into the drag queen thing a little more. I know he's not supposed to be in drag 24/7, but still. Also, yes, I know about the stereotypes about drag queens being predators, but a drag queen can be a bad person without it being blamed on them being drag, similar to how a gay person can be horrid without the horridness stemming from them being gay.
Why Angel is suddenly thick as fuck and big ass hips - The reason why he got thunder thighs and wide hips suddenly is cuz of padding. He's still skinny as fuck underneath all that. It's also why I added no fluff to his thighs, as he's wearing white stockings over the padding to hide it better/keep it in place and all, all the while making it seem it's actually part of his body.
Height - Characters keep their height despite being swapped in my swap AU. This means Angel is like 8 ft or something.
Color scheme - I've decided to mix color schemes for most- if not all- characters. This means I'll pull some colors from their original color scheme, while others are pulled from the character they're being swapped with. In Angel's case I obviously got his body colors from his original design, while his one-piece(?) main color comes from Valentino's design.
Why there's no name change - I've decided to switch The Vees over to The As. It was a bit hard finding someone to swap Velvette with, but I figured it out in the end. I just need to actually design the swap design and all.
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Here's the design alone without any background ( 2 arms and 4 arms versions )
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jpitha · 9 months
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The Dreams of Hyacinth 12
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The buzzing of the call woke up Nick. He came to consciousness slowly, confused, tangled up in Eastern and Selkirk. It took a minute to realize what it was. His implants were buzzing with a ping from an outside source.
Nick sat up and remembering the things that Queenie taught him, checked the source and opened the connection. It was static, but he expected that; it was an encrypted link. It must be Sunny calling. He applied her keys and the message resolved.
"Hey meatbag. Got some news for you. I've got some information on your missing AI."
"Sunny?"
"Who else, fuckface? Ancestors, I can't stand BIs. How do you even sleep? The whole process squicks me out and makes me uncomfortable. You just go unconscious for hours at a time and are fine with it." Nick could see Sunny's avatar on the call shudder. "Anyway, I don't have much. That person did not want to be found, if they even exist at all." Sunny stops and her avatar looks thoughtful. "Nick are you sure this person exists?"
Nick wasn't actually sure. He said as much to Sunny. "We were ordered to find her from Jameson. He said she was his daughter, so we assumed she was real. Why would he lie?"
Sunny peered at Nick and raised an eyebrow. "Ancestors be damned you're thick, Nick. He's got all kinds of reasons to lie." Sunny looked down at something. It was only an avatar for their voice only call, but it did a decent job emulating her expressions. "Nick. I'll give you the info I found, and I did run right up against the contracted fifty hours, but." Sunny sighed. "I can't believe I'm being nice to a BI, what's come over me." She started again. "Nick, you might want to leave this one. Delta off Hyacinth, go start somewhere else. Jameson is a big hat here on Hyacinth, but only on Hyacinth. Even if you went in-system to Luna or hell, even Venus you'd probably be free of him."
"Wait, what? Why?"
Sunny gave Nick a look. "Because this whole thing stinks and I think that if you look deep within yourself, you'll smell it too." Sunny starts ticking points off on her fingers. "All you were given was a name and a statement that she's Jameson's daughter. Then you were stuffed full of cybernetics - you've even got a full starship piloting suite, something that as far as I know only went to Colony Captains. Then you were turned loose on Hyacinth and were picked up by Houndstooth almost immediately and told the same basic thing. 'Go get Yon.' Still no description." Sunny shook her head. "Nicholas North you are being played."
"To what end?"
"Fuck if I know, Nick. You didn't pay me to find that out." She raises a finger. "And before you ask, you don't have enough. I'm out. She gestured at him and a file appeared in his vision. "Here's what I found. Use it or not, I don't care. I'm just telling you to leave this one be because I'm so fucking caring about the lives of BIs." In a flash, she switched to the old, bubbly Sunny. "Don't call me again Nick! I'm deleting these encryption keys. If I see you in The Basement, I never met you, and I expect you to act the same way." Her fake Smile was sickly and disconcerting. "Bye Nick! Fuck off!" Sunny closed the connection.
Nick layed in bed, trapped by Eastern and Selkrik for a while longer. He used the opportunity to think about their predicament. Nick opens the file and uses Sunny's keys to decrypt it. As the decryption finishes, the keys evaporate, their job complete.
It's... not much to go on.
The report is peppered with little comments by Sunny, pointing out details and parts that - to her - don't add up. There might be an AI who goes by Yon when they're in a body and they probably claimed Hyacinth as a residence within the last fifty years. Nick stops a moment when he reads this. He knows that AIs can be old, and so long as they keep up on maintenance don't really die unless they're killed, but the fact that Yon may have lived on Hyacinth within the last fifty years is not a lot go go on. Reading further he sees that Sunny agrees with him that the timeline is way too wide to be effective. Sunny also points out that the moment she tried to dig deeper than superficial details she would get attacked by anti-hacking algorithms. Her annotation mentioned that they were "Real dark stuff too, not the normal watchdogs."
At the bottom of the report was an image. Sunny actually went through the effort of mimicking a handwritten note.
"Nick. My goodness you're fucked. If I were to guess, I'd say Yon did exist, but has nothing to do with anything in the last half century. You are being sent on a wild chase. I don't know why, and I don't care why. If you don't value your continued existence, bring it up with your employer. If you do value your continued existence, sell all your shit and book passage away. Doesn't matter where, just delta."
The note was then signed "Sunny" with crudely drawn hearts and daggers stabbing a stick figure of a person - probably a BI.
Nick leaned back in bed and sighed. He slowly and carefully extricated himself from the tangle of people in the bed and padded towards the kitchen. He got some coffee and tea going and once it was ready padded to the living room. Sitting on the couch, he carefully took a sip of the hot coffee and put his head back, leaning against the top of the couch and stared at the ceiling a long time.
After a while, Eastern and Selkirk came out, looking concerned. Selkirk came over and sat next to Nick while Eastern went and got coffee and tea for them. "Nick, what's wrong?"
"I got a message from Sunny."
"Not good news, I take it."
As they were talking, Eastern came in and handed a mug of tea to Selkirk.
Nick looked at both of them. Together, he thought. Together they'd get through this. "Sunny says that basically there might have been an AI that went by Yon who might have claimed residence on Hyacinth, but she wasn't able to pin down her living here anytime in the last fifty years. Basically, if she was real, she hasn't been around here in half a century." Nick sighed. "Sunny also said to never call her again."
Eastern and Selkirk were stunned into silence. All three of them stared up at the ceiling. "So, what does this mean?" Eastern was so quiet she was almost whispering.
"Means we've just gotten confirmation we're being played." Selkirk glowered into her mug of tea, her ears and tail fluffed out angrily."
"Yes, but by who? Jameson? Doesn't make sense. He seemed adamant that he had a daughter. He even gave Nick and me fucking cybernetics. Houndstooth? Siobhan wouldn't go through all that effort for nothing." Eastern rubbed her temples. "Argh, it doesn't make sense. Nothing makes sense."
Nick sat up suddenly. "What if that's it?"
Eastern stopped rubbing her temples and looked at Nick through the corner of her eye. "What's it?"
"What if that's it. What if Jameson and Houndstooth think Yon exists, but she doesn't. Or did, but not anymore. What if it's not us specifically being played but Hyacinth."
Eastern and Selkirk sit up and stare at Nick. "Why though?" Selkirk flicks her ears.
"If I knew that, we wouldn't be as fucked as we are." Nick stood. "Come on though, let's go pay a visit to Jameson. I've got an idea."
"A good one?" Eastern stands up with Nick.
"Oh Fuck no. This is incredibly stupid." Nick laughs. "But I don't have anything else."
The three of them left Eastern's apartment and walked out to the square. Nick looked at Eastern. "I don't have a Hopper account, and I don't know Jameson's address. Can you call us one?"
Eastern fumbles for her pad. "Sure Nick. We're getting pretty low on funds though, so unless we get a payout from Jameson we're taking the metro down to the bottom and then back up here when we're done."
"I thought we had an expense account." Selkirk puts her hands on her hips.
"We did. We burned through it."
"Hmmph. Some expense account."
The Hopper descended while they groused about money. Everyone climbed aboard and dashed across arms to the industrial arm where Jameson lives.
As they approached his building, there were a few of Jameson's goons sitting outside in folding chairs playing cards and watching videos on their pad. They looked up as the three of them walked up. The one by the door nodded and opened the door. "Jameson is in the back Eastern, check in with Kelly at the front desk first though, okay?"
Eastern, Nick and Selkirk were fully taken aback. This was not how they expected to be treated. "R-right you are. Thanks" Eastern answered and the three of them headed in.
In the comfortable waiting room, Kelly was where they saw her before, once again watching videos on her pad. She looked up as they entered. "Hey Eastern, Nick, Selkirk. I'll let Jameson know you're here."
The three of them sat on the chairs in stunned silence.
After three or four minutes the door opened and Jameson himself wheeled out to the waiting room. "Eastern! and Nick and Selkirk! How are you? Healing up all right? It's good to see you? You need a drink? Come on, come with me to my office and we can chat."
Eastern, Nick and Selkirk stiffly stood up and followed him into his office. This time there were no guards behind them to slam the door, no chairs with straps, no beds. Just Jameson's desk and a few chairs. They sat down stiffly and watched Jameson wheel himself behind his desk and connect.
"Ah. That's better. Now, what can Jameson do for you three?"
Nick couldn't stand it any longer. "Jameson, we think Yon doesn't exist, or if she did it was a half century ago. Are you sure she's your daughter?"
Jameson looked at them with an odd expression. "Who's Yon?"
Eastern's voice was a whisper. "What?"
Jameson shrugged. "Who's Yon? Never heard the name before. Are they an AI? Should I know them?"
Nick's mouth opened and closed a few times, trying to make words come forth. He stopped and took a long breath and held it a few seconds, letting is out slowly through his nose. "Jameson, a few days ago, you told us to find your daughter, an AI named Yon. You installed the cybernetic suite into me and Eastern to help find her. You asked us to find out where she was and bring her back."
Jameson frowned. He glanced down on a display built into his desk and his brow furrowed further. He pressed a button on his desk, and there was a bassy alarm. Nick could hear the thundering of feet and what sounded like shutters coming down. After no time at all, there was a crackle of a speaker on Jameson's desk. "We're locked down boss. What's up?"
Jameson pressed a button on the speaker. "Get the logs. Last two weeks. Institute a change freeze. Full work stoppage until we get the logs and they're gone through with a fine toothed comb." Jameson looked up at Eastern, Nick and Selkirk. "For what's it's worth, I believe you. This room has quite an advanced suite of electronics and sensors setup to detect if BIs are lying. You three are not lying in the least, but what you're saying does not match up with my memories. I remember giving you and Nick the cybernetics because you two had volunteered to be pilots on a starship."
"Starship? Jameson, I've been on one starship in my life. I took a Starjumper from Parvati to here, and that was it."
Eastern nods. "I've been on more than Nick, but I've never been on a Starjumper, never left Sol."
Selkirk's tail swishes. "I haven't been on a starship since I came here a quarter century ago"
Nick looks at Jameson "Which is all to say, I don't think any of us would volunteer to pilot a starship."
Jameson nods. "Exactly. Either you're lying - which if you are, fuck you're good enough that you can have my job - or my memories were edited. It's not impossible, but it's difficult and even more difficult to do without prior knowledge. But why?"
Nick's shoulders slumped. "That's what we were hoping to find out. We have no idea."
Selkirk's ears perk up. "Wait. Houndstooth took us almost right after we left your place. Someone Eastern knows... Siobhan maybe? She said that they had hired an AI to work for them and they were supposed to be in the coffin box that we stole. For a while we thought they meant Yon, but clearly if she doesn't exist, then either they're talking about a different AI or... they..." She trails off, worried.
Jameson looks up at the ceiling, thinking. "Siobhan, Siobhan... works for Houndstooth? Eastern, she's got red hair, freckles and those weird green eyes?"
Eastern nods. "That's her."
Jameson looks worried. "Eastern, she died six months ago."
Everyone swings their head around to look at Jameson.
"She.. died?" Nick felt the ground slipping beneath his feet. He started feeling dizzy.
"Yes. Died in a Hopper crash actually."
Eastern looks worried. "But wasn't she picked up after a job went bad?"
"The job you were with her on, and you ran away?" Jameson smiled. "Don't feel bad about that, by the way. You were right to run. But yes, she got 3 months probation because they couldn't pin anything really bad on her. Aggressive loitering or something stupid like that. After I kept mild tabs on her in case she wanted to come back for more work. I got a report that she was on a Hopper that crashed. She was the only passenger, dead."
Nick shuffles in his chair awkwardly. "So who spoke to us after we got picked up?"
"Now that Nick my boy, is a good question."
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fiveais · 6 months
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I'm convinced everyone ran to Bombrush Cyberfunk and left me alone in a room to ramble- here's a bunch of Switch Headcanons under the cut to organize how I want to treat this character for, like, art and writing.
Switch:
With context of his bio:
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-The part of him that is responsible for his personality and sentience is actually a broken group of functions/one big program that was actually responsible for handling updates and “placing” updates in their rightful sections of programming.
-His actual sense of self is constantly updating in realtime and because of this he somewhat struggles with making certain judgements on the fly. It makes him seem risky and foolhardy on occasion when he doesn’t mean to.
-Him wanting to be challenged and his competitive streak is born out of a need to have a sense of control over himself and his actions that he otherwise would assume to be from the Citynetic company part of his programming.
-Refers to Citynetics as “The Company” both internally and externally. He tries so divorce himself away from them as much as possible because he doesn’t like to think himself as property/an asset.
-His personality is at least a couple tebibytes of broken code both solid and “wet”.
-His entire mind is composed of something like 80 tebibytes. It’s a stupid amount, but it’s the future. He uses solid state, and what I’m making up as “wet” memory. Wet memory essentially passes information back and forth in a sort of physical state that’s suppose to emulate human synapses. It’s responsible for abstract thinking. It’s physically a small amount and surprisingly easy to replicate if you know what you’re doing.
-The rest of his coding is also broken, but it works because of how his creators burnt a lot of money on designing and programming a computer that would be hard to corrupt, but had rudimentary intelligent in abstract thinking and decision making. The broken parts are meant to be able to work independently with a clear divide to keep anything else from corrupting, but the security is fucked. He’s able to run third party programs just fine.
-Most of the corrupt parts of his code have to do with his system (for example: language options and temperature regulation).
-If you look closely with his hat off you can see where he got bopped.
-He also has a little upside down triangle on his forehead.
-Uses a lot of colloquialisms and what sounds like west-coast surfer/skating slang terms. Picked this up from a bunch of hooligan skaters there were around the construction site he was stationed at.
-If being self-aware and having agency is a drug then brother he is high as a kite (part of why he is so carefree).
-The workbots were created with being able to be physically expendable and have easy interchangeable parts, but Switch lacks the intuition to know what part goes where if it’s not obvious. This has to do with that broken code stated above and that he’s a slightly older model.
-His body highlights (the yellow parts) can and will change colors, and he doesn’t have a lot of control over it.
-I kinda pinned him as an ENT/FJ (based on the few lines from the Blaze game). Maybe enfp?? Everything is novel and new and by his very nature alone he’s very creative/unusual for a mechanical being.
-One of the first things he did as a free agent is socialize with the skaters that were by his worksite. His very early sentience is full of formal-language and is very clipped and concise due to how the human supervisors talked to the workbots and to each other.
-According to Citynetics he’s considered an asset loss. They’re still processing the paperwork for the cost loss. They won’t be happy with that number.
-Because the company sunk so much into creating a self-sufficient construct of a mind that was prone to independent sense of identity in mock ups they came up with a failsafe that immediately terminated the “wet” part of any workbot that strayed outside a certain threshold. It would be replaced.
-Workbots his generation and after lock up when they’ve sustained enough damage for self-preservation so that the company proxies can retrieve any salvage/reinforce building integrity.
-Switch will lock up because his body goes into a kind of “panic mode” if he’s stressed enough because his system is bugged out/somewhat fried.
-Legit only knows about physical pain in theory and will continue to try to conceptualize the idea for a long time.
-Scared of thunderstorms and of water. He’s aware that he’s essentially a walking lightening rod and stays the fuck inside when it’s thundering. He’s scared of what might happen.
-Water is obvious, he’s water-resistant, but he can’t be submerged or exposed to exceptionally heavy rain or he will fry. He locks up when he’s in anything more than ankle-deep water.
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callmearcturus · 1 year
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What made you choose the odin over other similar game boxes?
GREAT question because there are a LOT of options out there, I even did a big post about them a while ago when folks were curious.
I actually started out with a Retroid Pocket 2+ as my first device. I hugely enjoyed it, played a bunch of DS games on it as well as a lot of PSX games. I think the current iteration of it, the Retroid Pocket 3+, is an excellent pick if you want a midtier device. At this point, the RP3+ is like a Odin Lite Lite.
My issue with my RP2+ was that I really wanted the ability to stream games from my PC, because I am a pirate yo ho ho and I wanted access to that much more robust library. Also, my interest in the Dreamcast/Gamecube/PS2 console generation is at its peak right now and that's the library I want to play comfortably.
So when I got a bonus from work, I bit the fucking bullet and got the AYN Odin Lite, because it also happened to be like 50$ off at the time.
(Oooh, which it currently is right now too, go figure!)
For the curious, I loaded my RP2+ with literally as many games as I could stuff into the things and I gave it to a friend as a gift.
I was worried that I wouldn't use the Odin enough to justify the purchase..... but then I immediately put like 20 hours into Pokemon Unbound and I completed Persona 3 Portable. And then I used Parsec to play the entirety of Persona 4 Golden and I am now 80 hours into Persona 5 Royal. And now I might spin up a playthru of SMT4 or the PS2 version of SMT 3 Nocturne, unsure.
Here's the reasons I like the Odin, even though its one of the pricier devices you can get:
Yes, it costs 200USD for the Lite model. But the Lite model does pretty much everything the more expensive Base and Pro models do with minimal compromises. Also for 200USD, you get extremely good components, very comfortable professional feeling buttons and joysticks-- like, this thing feels slightly better than a Switch Lite, honest to god. Unless you wanna dual boot Windows, you don't need more than the Lite.
It has Wifi 6 so it streams like a fucking dream. If the Odin itself can't handle emulating a game but my computer can, I can play flawlessly from Parsec. As I mentioned before, a few weeks ago I was sitting in a cute coffee shop literally like 25 miles away but was playing Persona 5 via Parsec. It also works natively with Game Pass streaming perfectly.
Even without streaming, this fucker is BEEFY. I personally love it for PSP games. Playing at 4x or 5x resolution makes the games look stunning.
My biggest problem with my CFW 3DS is the battery. I tend to play games for 4ish hours at a time, and then put the thing aside for a few days. With my 3DS, the thing will HAVE to be left plugged in or it will be dead by the next time I wanna play. This also means I can't just drop it into my bag to wait around for time to play, it'll inevitably be dead. My Vita and Odin can live in my bag for over a week before I have to worry about the battery. That is HUGE for me.
The Retroid Pocket 2+ very comfortably and ably played up to the DS and most Dreamcast games, but PSP was a crapshoot and even some PSX games weirdly could only run at x1, which was disappointing to me. The Odin Lite can play everything I want to play and as a bonus it can do what seems like half the 3DS library and about 40% of the PS2 library, which I would like to revisit.
Cracked devices and emulation are becoming a hobby of mine as everyone sans Microsoft works around the clock to make their enormous back catalogs fucking inaccessible. The fact the 3DS shop is closing soon pisses me off so much I can barely express it, I think that shit should be illegal. There are so many games and frankly works of art that are going to be completely inaccessible legally! FUCK THE ESA!
Point is, this stuff is important to me. I back up games I never intend to actually play on my external hard drive just in case. But out of all the devices I have played with, my favorites are easily the Odin and my cracked Vita. Both are miraculous, and I feel like I'm literally defeating my "hmmmmm what do I wanna play" indecision thanks to them.
That said, depending on your needs, I still think the Miyoo Mini and the Retroid Pocket 3+ (current iteration of Retroid) are excellent choices. As is a Vita! My god I love my Vita! I've never been a fan of any of the Anbernic devices and would avoid them.
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drbased · 5 months
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I think the reason certain people can't shake off and resolve parts of their childhood is due to an internal confusion. You see, I think we all carry within us this belief in the fundamental separation between 'child' and 'adult' - that there is a child's mind, and an adult's mind, and ultimately there is little in common between them, and 'growing up' means progressing from the stupid and naive to the wise and aware.
But the older we get, the more we start to realise that 'growing up' involves the realisation that you agree with your younger self more than you could have ever expected. But there's a confusion there: how can you ever resolve the horrors you went through knowing that if you went through them now you would kick and spit and tell people to fuck off and fly on a plane to a different country never to be seen again? How do you resolve things like childhood bullying - weren't they also mini-adults, capable of the same reason and empathy that you had at the time? And now they walk around in this world, presumably 'sorry' for their behaviour, but dismissing it as childhood nonsense, something they've 'grown up; from? And what can be said about the full-grown adults of your childhood, who justify their behaviour with words like 'discipline' and 'children should be seen and not heard' and 'I needed to beat some sense into you'? Do they not remember being children, of lacking the words to explain that their own hurt was wrong? And if they do, why did they so easily switch to viewing your childhood self as a dreaded 'other' - and not even the abusive ones, but the kindest ones, too, also saw you not as capable of reason and empathy, but rather as a mere child.
In the end, you have to come to the conclusion that childhood is not a different self but a fragmentation of the self, and as you 'grow' you slowly put parts of yourself together, building a fuller picture of understanding. But the human brain is great at interpretation, and just like a black shadow in the dark that you interpret as various objects before it comes into view, your understanding of the world constantly shifts and morphs as you gain comprehension, as you progress forward in time.
The ultimate realisation comes in the recognition that it is easier and more comforting to see something as 'other' instead of putting in the work to move forward and build comprehension, especially if there's something to be gained from not understanding. But on the flipside, certain things feel so integral to the center of the picture that they must be constantly assessed and reassessed. People repeat their parents' mistakes because that cruelty seems alien to them, and they wish to emulate it, to normalise it, to understand it, and also that they, too, wish that they could have gotten away with the cruelty; they will perpetuate cruelty to some extent out of spite, and will never admit it to themselves. The fact is that people do that exact same process of perpetuating cruelty whethere they're 4 or 84. Some people put the pieces together of compassion at an early age, and some people never want to - and those reasons will be fundamentally alien to you. A lot of things will be alien to you, for no matter how much you want to formulate an understanding of the bigger picture (oh, how we all wish we could comprehend the bigger picture), the picture will always be yours; it will always be your comprehension, and that comprehension will shift; maybe one day, you'll realise you were perpetuating a cruelty that you didn't realise, and your whole perception of existence shifts, a new piece of the puzzle in place.
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osheamobile · 8 months
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So during the summer sale I picked up a Steam Deck - the reason being, we were thinking about getting a Switch, but then we realized we would have to get games for the Switch, and the thing about consoles is that you cannot cough legally cough keep playing your games on whatever new console comes out, but we have collectively been amassing a bunch of games on our Steam accounts over the past fifteen years and also you don't even need to jailbreak it to add more things, so that won out. Also it was on super sale during the Summer Sale so yeah, good deal all around.
Folks, this thing is nice, I got all my classic emulators on it and everything on my Steam library, and this morning I even hooked up the free games I get on my Epic account because fuck those guys they're not getting my credit card information ever but free games are free games.
Summer sale is over, but the fall sale is just around the corner (only 364 days until Halloween dot gif) so, I recommended y'all the games I've been obsessed with lately
Tell me what your favorite PC games are and why you love them
I don't care if it's a big name or not, whether it's already popular or relatively unknown. I want to know what resonates with you about it
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clatterbane · 3 months
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Most, if not all, Windows laptops dedicate one of the function keys to disabling and enabling the laptop touchpad.
TIL that this is a thing. The hard way. I was starting to think that my touchpad was just suddenly borked, but thankfully toggling that key did indeed bring it back.
To make things even better, I've had this one for over a year now. 🫠 There are still a couple more manufacturer-assigned keys up there with the brightness and volume controls, etc. bearing cryptic symbols which I haven't really wanted to poke at unnecessarily to find out what they do. Even if this is making me sound uncomfortably like my own neurotic Luddite grandmother, when impulse control has never been my strongest suit. (Though, she would honest to goodness stab at random remote control buttons and then call one of us up there to bring it back out of menus and shit.) Probably ought to look this info up, if nothing else. 🙄
The hell of it is that I'm not even aware of having touched that key anytime recently. This was another case of "run thing in emulator, lose control of the pointer"--which is not so unusual.
On this occasion, however? Terminating the process didn't bring it back. A "fuck it, I'll switch over to console and restart the mouse service" didn't either. Rebooting didn't do it, and the pointer just wasn't showing up at all when I tried booting into Windows--because why not, at that point. Then it really started looking like time to go looking for some further troubleshooting info.
Thankfully, toggling that did fix the situation immediately. And at least I will hopefully remember if that ever happens again.
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