amberSuperMario

It isn’t bait. I believe her point is that it’s easy for communists to claim to be against eugenics and ableism, but in practice many of us are failing to live up to our claims. The Covid pandemic and masking is brought up because it is a major example of this. It is an enormous threat particularly to disabled people, and yet in practice most of the left is, by virtue of their actions, siding with the ableists and the eugenicists. DeadlyBunny was revealing this as well, it’s all well and good if we say we are against ableism, but if we are using ableist language, then it shows a lack of solidarity that puts off the disabled people we should be working with. If we talk the talk, we gotta walk the walk, you know?

And sure, maybe they should have reported those comments, but I mean, any of us could have and apparently none of us did. And rather than accept their accurate criticism of our behavior and reflect, they were spammed with downvotes and their criticisms were deflected. What does that say to our would-be disabled comrades? From my view, it says “shut up and get in line.” Who would stand side by side with people like that?

I love CRT displays, but I think an LCD is still fine, and it's definitely the more reasonable option. CRTs are inefficient space-wise, use far more power than an LCD, and are slowly becoming a collector's item. Plus, if you are using a CRT TV, you need to either own the actual consoles plus either the games themselves or a flash cart, or go through a lot of effort and potentially need special equipment to output a 15kHz analog signal from a computer/modern emulation device. I think a good shader to mimic scanlines and an analog signal like in your screenshot is the ideal compromise, but ultimately it's fine to just leave it to personal preference.

That being said, if you do have the ability to play these old games on a CRT, for sure go for it! No shaders can mimic the look of a CRT in motion, and games like Sonic where the screen scrolls very quickly especially benefit from it a lot imo.

your making this hapen….

Glad I could help! Same here, it’s really cool that the game is playable now, but I’ve never beaten it before so I think I’m gonna give it some more time to cook.

Did the emulator close completely or was it just unresponsive? When I installed the package the emulator was unresponsive but I just left it in the background and after like half an hour it finished installing. By the way, I also have a 1080ti and it runs mostly smoothly even with the 60fps patch, so hopefully the same will be true for you once the installation problems are solved! Other specs are an i5-10400 and 16GB RAM.

I've only played about 4 hours so far, but what I've played has been really fun! It's a little overwhelming, but these games always are at first. The atmosphere is great, I'm looking forward to better understanding the world because right now I'm just kinda vibing. Combat and exploration feels smooth, and it seems like you have a lot of freedom with how you build your character. I like the mutation system a lot, I've been playing a gunslinger bird guy and I grew a stinger, so now my strat has been to sting things when they get nearby to confuse them and then fly away and shoot them. There's a whole reputation system too which I think I'm gonna really enjoy once it gets rolling and I start making friends and enemies. Also, I was surprised to see there is controller support and it actually feels pretty good! I'm still using keyboard since it's a lot faster, but being able to use a controller will be really nice for days when my hands are hurting. Full disclosure though, I, uhh, acquired the game for free, so that might be influencing my opinion a little bit. Seems like a game I'd be willing to put money down on in the future though, once I have it.

i had to rebind the keys in caves of qud to this lol. using shift+arrow keys for diagonal just did not work with my brain

it’s pretty terrible. i made an account because most of the handful of people i followed on twitter moved there, and i like being able to see their posts without the worst ads imaginable constantly shoved between them (for now). aside from that, it’s an endless sea of the most awful blue maga creeps imaginable. i’ve been on the site about 2 weeks now and have apparently blocked 450 people so far.

man seriously fuck you. idc if this comment was already removed, i need you to know how disgusting you are. the fact that you feel comfortable enough to admit this and then act indignant when called out on it is just fucking unbelievable to me. or i wish it was unbelievable, but apparently everyone on this fucking website is some ex-klanner piece of shit! you should be ashamed to show your face in public, much less act as though you have any fucking authority on left matters. i don’t care if you’ve supposedly changed, i would never trust someone like you to fight by my side. i have zero faith that you people, the apparent majority of my “comrades”, would not immediately throw me and the people i care about to the wolves if it meant the slightest perceived victory for the western left.

Always mask in places that vulnerable and high risk people can’t avoid!

In other words, mask everywhere. The immunocompromised are all around you! They have to work, they have to go to school, they have to get groceries, they should not be forced out of their social circles and hobbies and into isolation at best, or killed at worst, for the comfort of reckless ableists. Children who cannot mask should not be forced to become ill! The destitute and homeless who can’t afford masks should not be forced to become ill!