bbbhltz

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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Pas des découvertes récentes mais...

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I only know Infinitime, wasp-os has some games.

 

Developer Zerodiv put a couple titles on sale today

The Strikers 1945 series, Gunbird 1 and 2, Zero Gunner 2-, Samurai Aces and some others are discounted until 8 October.

I might get one of the Strikers.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago

I think it is a blurry line.

Video games have always used terms like "next generation" in marketing, so that does have an influence. My students think PS4 is retro. They think iPhone 13 is retro!

When I was in my early 20s we didn't consider CDs retro or vintage, and that was the early 2000s when the tech was around 30 years old.

Before we also had big jumps, or at least we were told they were big jumps.

Analogue to magnetic tape to digital 8-bit to 16 to 32 to 64...

If I had to write an essay on the topic, I would focus on the aspect of "the way things were..." Meaning that something could be thought of as retro if the process of making it work vastly differs from the current process.

The PS2 didn't have HDMI, but it did have internet connectivity. There were wireless controllers, but they were a little different from today. The TV was probably a CRT so you had to change the channel to make it work. Magazines still had demos sold with them...

My conclusion: a young person can probably figure out how to get a PS2 up and running, so it isn't retro technology, it is just retro gaming.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I don't want to make generalisations. I have worked with people from all around the world as a teacher at an international business school. A thing that comes up quite often is a certain close-mindedness of people in China. I never would have noticed this myself, but it was my own students from China that mentioned it to me. I've only been to China once for 3 weeks and I while talking to people I did hear some comments about other nationalities that made little sense historically. My friend that I was visiting there basically said that anything bad that happens in China is caused by foreigners or Uyghurs which sounds like BS to me.

Why a child, though? That's some evil shit. Get that person's phone and look at ther social media, I bet their WeChat is filled with anti-Japanese shit.

The majority of my international students are very worldly and open-minded, and every year there are more like them.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Loved Nier: Automata. I didn't finish it completely, I think I got through Nines' playthrough and stopped after that and sold the game.

That music sticks in your head though! Have you seen the Anime?

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

I'm trying to get into shmups. Just playing whatever I can find on sale on Switch. Mostly Raiden IV x MIKADO Remix on loop. I think I might be getting better!

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

Yes

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/preferences#behavior_preferences

Tabs and Windows

Open new thunar instances as tabs

Whenever you launch thunar while an existing thunar window is already open, a new tab will be added to the existing thunar window instead of opening a new window.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This could be a Thunar setting or a xfwm4 setting in addition to being a FF setting.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I ended up using Khal too. Hesitant at first, it wound up being good enough for me, especially when it comes to mass importing events. It syncs with my CalDav and phone when using vdirsyncer. 5 to 10 minutes fiddling with the config and haven't needed to change anything in years.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another term for shmup or Shoot 'em up

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

You can still install Rockbox on many different MP3 players, that comes with little games like that...and Doom.

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm still considering getting one of these

 

Sharing this because of my recent growing interest in the genre and because this is one of the series that I've actually played a bit.

Pre-orders are up on play-asia and elsewhere https://www.play-asia.com/search/Raiden+NOVA

 

Recently I've been looking into expanding the number of shmups in my library.

Which games should I prioritise getting? Any that I should avoid?

 

Hi all,

My former family doctor has been doing some odd things these past few months.

I moved away so I haven't dealt with this person in years. My mother, however, is at an age where having a family doctor is very important.

Here's the deal. Among some other odd interactions, 2 events have happened that worry my mother and seem peculiar to me:

  1. GP prescribed heart medication to my mother years ago. The proof is in the system. My mother still has the prescription because she is a hoarder. The pharmacy has the record. My mother recently consulted a cardiologist who is convinced that the problem that medication treats is not my mother's problem. Cardiologist asks, "who gave you this and why, I need to talk to them." Mother tells them. Phone calls exchanged. GP says, "no, I did not write that script." They refuse outright and have continued to double down on that statement ever since.

That was odd. And it slowed things down for further treatment.

But then...

  1. Recently a new health issue lead my mother to the GP. The doctor prescribed medication for the problem. But, they wrote the prescription on a different doctor's pad. Not by mistake. They left the room and came back with the other pad. My mother noticed it go down but still went to the pharmacy. Sure enough, this doctor that my mother has never consulted is listed as the prescribing doctor. My mother read the insert for the medication and it notes not to take it in combination with other medications that she is currently prescribed. She has decided not to take it.

I just wanted to bounce this off the wall here and see what any of you thought. Should I encourage my mother to find a different doctor?

 

Avant de dépenser encore des sous sur des blocs de micro-plastiques, que conseillez-vous comme remplacement de filtre Brita ?

C'est principalement pour le calcaire. L'espèce de bâton de charbon fonctionne bien ?

 

After Clarkson pointed out that Cher was the only musician to have number 1 songs over seven decades, the Grammy Award winner noted that she and the Rolling Stones actually shared the accomplishment.

"Two of us have," Cher said. ""It took four of them to be one of me."

Cher is savage

"Can I just say one other thing?" Cher asked. "I changed music forever with ‘Believe.'"

Yup.

 

“People online are like, ‘Scott's the worst character. Scott's the villain of his own story,' ” said O’Malley. “They really love to harp on that now, which no one mentioned in the 2000s. But yeah, so we thought let's give them Scott as the villain of his own story, let's do it proper.”

Having never read the novels, but being a fan of the film, I was looking forward to this series.

It was odd and wacky and colourful.

"That New Casting" was a great surprise.

 

The other day my son was messing around on my PS4. He went into the library and launched Geometry Wars³: Dimensions.

My wife and I heard the music and were like "YES!" and now our family is re-addicted to this game...after 6 years or 7 years of never touching the thing.

What are games you forgot you had and "fell" back into?

 

5 decades later...

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