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AtomicPurple

@ AtomicPurple @kbin.social

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  • New Flashcard for Nintendo Switch. Team Xecuter might be behind it.

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    1. This shouldn't be an issue. Nintendo has allowed for carts containing multiple titles for years now. Inserting the cartridge causes all the games on it to appear on the home screen.

    2. The Switch is massively popular. Assuming the cartridge works and sells even somewhat well, we will 100% see games being shared in whatever format it uses. It might take awhile for the Switch's full back-catalog to be dumped and uploaded in the new format, but popular / recent titles will be circulated within a matter of days. If there's a way to convert existing XCI / NSP rips to the new format, there are plenty of individuals / groups who will race to get everything converted as quickly as possible.

    3. Assuming the cart is completely transparent to the Switch, which is likely to be the case, then I see no reason why updates wouldn't download as normal. If Nintendo is able to detect the carts and ban Switches that use them, it may still be possible to access updates by rolling them into the same file as the base game and loading them from the cartridge. Personally, I think the second option is fairly likely, as it's already possible to do this with NSP rips, and it's the method that offers the most resistance to whatever countermeasures Nintendo may deploy.

  • Anon gets groomed

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  • Same.I literally said "what" out loud three times while reading this.

  • $1 grilled cheese (Does anyone else here like their food super simple and plain?)

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  • This post makes me want grilled cheese, but I don't have any bread right now and all the stores are closed because Thanksgiving.

  • Using the "frog in boiling water" technique

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  • CDs have been making a slow comeback for the past year or two, and global CD sales actually went up last year for the first time in over a decade. If it's anything like the vinyl or cassette resurgence, I imagine it won't be too difficult to find places that sell CDs in a few years.

  • Identity's Kaleidoscope

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  • My partner has DID, and I've done a ton of research into it as a result. This story sounds extremely plausible to me.

    I've read multiple case studies where people with multiple personalities will get out of whatever situation was causing the disassociation, and over time some of the personalities will vanish / die off. There was also a very extreme case I read about where the fractured personalities managed to coalesce into a new whole, but it was a different personality than the original. Basically a fully formed identity that was suddenly living the life of someone they didn't identify as, and whose memories they couldn't really recall.

    Even in my partner's much less severe case of DID, the less prominent personalities will sometimes go dormant for months at a time. Haven't had any of them disappear fully yet, but it's at least theoretically possible from what I understand.

  • What will you do once windows 10 is deprecated and you have to update to windows 11 or 12?

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  • Not just technically. The killer combo of FOSS operating systems is GNU/Linux on desktop and Android OSP on mobile.I'm curious what the person you replied to is running on their phone if it isn't Android based.

  • ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google

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  • I've found that Reddit's search generally works when searching within a specific subreddit, but otherwise it's mostly useless.

  • Reddit is killing blockchain based Community Points

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  • I've only ever heard about it from things posed here

  • Anon gets challenged.

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  • Not to mention that useful information was harder to find and more difficult to verify, especially for niche technical topics like the inner workings of specific games.

  • Anons call Pawn Stars (transcription in body)

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  • No, that's not it. It was a video livestream that had the stereotypical hippie looking host sitting on the floor behind a table taking calls. I don't know if anyone recorded it at the time, but I'd recognize it instantly if I saw it.

  • Anons call Pawn Stars (transcription in body)

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  • I missed that, but I remember around 2011 there was some new-age cult leader guy doing a call-in live stream that got trolled until he rage quit.

  • Anon doesn't grasp rock, paper, scissors.

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  • The water jets they use to cut metal only work because the stream is so narrow. Hydro pump is more like getting hit with multiple full-blast fire hoses at once

  • Do y'all have dreams at night?

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  • My dreams tend to be way more intense when I'm stoned, but I have a much harder time remembering them afterwards.

  • You know the story about the the error message edited to say "Thank you for playing Wing Commander"? That doesn't actually happen in any version of the game.

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  • The version I've always heard isn't that the expansion pack "randomly fixed it", but rather that the issue was a memory leak that would cause the game to run out of RAM and crash after a couple hours. The extra memory of the expansion pack would just delay the crash for an additional 6-7 hours. I'm curious how true this is actually is now, as it seems like it would be easy enough to test.

  • Anon is bewildered

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  • Referring to his hypothetical children as "offspring" is what tipped me off.

  • Starfield has been cracked

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  • Yup.

    I was vaguely interested in Dark Souls for years, but every time I tried, I bounced right off it. I went through a cycle where every year or two, I would pirate one of the souls games, try it out, give up on it after an hour or so, and do it all over again the next time I was sufficiently compelled to give the series another shot. This happened until several years ago when I tried Dark Souls II, and for some reason it finally clicked. I played my pirated copy of Dark Souls II for about 10 hours, before a random crash corrupted my save file.

    After that happened, I immediately bought the game on Steam and proceeded to play it for the next month and a half, until I eventually beat it. I've since purchased every souls game plus Elden Ring on Steam, and recently imported a copy of Bloodborne GOTY edition after spending $700 on an exploitable PS5, just so I could play it at 60FPS. None of these legitimate purchases would have ever happened if I hadn't been able to repeatedly pirate Dark Souls for about five years.

  • Starfield has been cracked

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  • Which sucks, because Arkane was one of my favorite developers before the quality of their output fell off over the past five years. I loved the Dishonored games, and Prey is the single best immersive sim ever made. I was looking forward to DeathLoop, but it ended up being kinda meh, and Redfall has been so universally panned that I haven't even bothered to try it.

  • The cartridge art was always so kickass. You just had to use your imagination quite a bit...

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  • No, it was inaccurate, even at the time. The Famicom was built to cost and and mainly used cheap off-the-shelf components that were already obsolete when the system first released in 1983. The NES released in North America the same year as the Commodore Amiga, a system that actually was cutting edge, and represented a big leap forward in what home computers could do graphically. By the time Mega Man released, the Amiga was on it's second revision and other home computers were rapidly catching up to it's capabilities.While Mega Man was one of the best games on the NES, it ran at the same resolution as every other game on the system, and was stuck working within the same limited color palette and low sprite limit that were more than five years behind the curve when it released.

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    How much weed does the Volcano save you?

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  • My handheld vaporizer isn't nearly that efficient, but it is still crazy how efficient is is compared to smoking. Awhile back I was given a pickle jar full of bud, and it took my partner and I about 2 months to get through 1/5th of it. We ended up giving the rest to a friend who mainly rolls joints, and he burnt through all of it in under two weeks. I was genuinely shocked when he told me he had used it all already.

  • Martinet Stepping Away from Voicing Mario

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  • I'm pretty sure all the edutainment titles predate Charles Martinet as the voice of Mario, and I don't think Nintendo would ever make a game like that these days.

  • Nintendo 3DS, 2DS and DS @lemmy.world
    AtomicPurple @kbin.social

    I could use some help. Posting here because the DS hacking community seems completely dead.

  • Music Piracy @lemmy.fmhy.ml
    AtomicPurple @kbin.social

    Lossless Apple Music Ripper?

  • Reddit Migration @kbin.social
    AtomicPurple @kbin.social

    /r/bestofredditorupdates has been forced open after users voted to keep it closed indefinitely. They're currently running a poll on whether to become another John Oliver sub.

    www.reddit.com /r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/14f7bbg/poll_vote_on_the_future_of_bestofredditorupdates/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    AtomicPurple @kbin.social

    Mirror Rule

  • PC Master Race @lemmy.world
    AtomicPurple @kbin.social

    Installing Windows be like

  • Retrogaming @kbin.social
    AtomicPurple @kbin.social

    Tiny Tower of Power! I've combined my Open Source Scan Converter and MiSTer FPGA into a single PCB stack.