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drcouzelis , 1 month ago

It looks great! 🙂

OMG I just came home with a Sanyo DS13320 from the side of the road and I am ECSTATIC!!! It couldn't be more perfect for an NES, and it looks in great condition externally.

I haven't plugged it in yet. It doesn't appear to be wet anywhere outside or inside, so hopefully it was put outside after it rained this morning.

Should I do or check anything before plugging it in and trying to power it on?

drcouzelis , 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

Today I learned! :)

drcouzelis , 2 months ago

Pokemon Blue

FYI the internal cartridge battery that's used to save your game is probably either dead or nearly dead!

A multimeter should show the battery at 3.25v. Anything less and it could die any day. Changing the battery isn't too difficult, but it requires soldering.

This is my favorite tool set used to take the one screw out to open the cartridge, to check the battery.

https://www.retromodding.com/collections/tools/products/repair-tools-set

drcouzelis , 2 months ago

Yes! I use the Buran app (open source on Android) to browse it. :)

drcouzelis , 2 months ago

I honestly don't really use it, but I am excited about it in the future. :)

I installed it because of OSNews, my favorite tech news website. But the Gemini page seems to be down?

https://www.osnews.com/story/136770/osnews-launches-gemini-capsule/

drcouzelis , 3 months ago

Ohhhhh I thought you meant the phrase was "growing up r*****". Took me five minutes to figure out what you meant. It's just the one word, not the whole phrase. 😆

For anyone else confused like me, it's the pejorative word for a person with a mental disability.

drcouzelis , 3 months ago

Doom, or, gzdoom! You can use it to play the original Doom 1 and 2 games with modern mouse and keyboard controls on HD displays. And there's an endless number of fan made level packs to try.

As for open source AND free / open resources, there's Freedoom 1 and 2. I occasionally play them, they're fun, but a little lacking in stage design.

drcouzelis , 3 months ago

What games do you want to play?

drcouzelis , 7 months ago

Doom Eternal

I played on easy mode, over the course of months slogged my way through over half the game getting wrecked and HATING it. And then one day...

Everything clicked. I got into the Fun Zone or Flow State or whatever it's called. And I have been obsessed ever since. I play at least a few minutes almost every night for years now. I can now comfortably beat it in the hardest difficulty, including the DLC. And it never stops being so much fun and satisfying!

drcouzelis , 7 months ago

Yes! I've played through all of the DLC many times. Here's some details:

• There's "only" six new stages... but these stages are MASSIVE. It did not feel short to me.

• When it was first released, the difficulty was insane. But the developers realized this and shortly released a patch to remove or tone down many of the ridiculous parts. For reference, I don't consider myself a particularly good player (for example, I can't do the quick swap move between two weapons) but I can beat the DLC on the hardest difficulty, Nightmare Mode.

• The arenas / fights are the reason I play Doom Eternal, and the DLC gave me exactly what I wanted, more fights! Some of the fights feel like "throw more enemies at the player", which is what I wanted. Some of the fights feel veeeery gimmicky, but even those grew on me. For example, a room where like 20 Pinky Demons spawn in. It's surprisingly fun, challenging, and a nice change of pace.

• There's two new boss fights. The first one is VERY HARD, but I enjoy the concept. It's very video gamey, and provides some clever new challenges. The second, final boss fight... I was dreading it on Nightmare, but not only was it not too challenging for me, I actually kind of enjoyed it! Many people whine about the final boss fight. To me, it seems obvious the developers were going for a "Super Marauder" type of fight. Like, the regular Marauder battles but MORE. I thought it was clever!

• There's new suit upgrades. I don't really use them, but they're fun to collect.

• The one new weapon, the Hammer, is SO MUCH FUN.

• The new enemies... I love to hate them. Once again, they're pretty gimmicky, but I enjoy the new challenge. My biggest complaint is any enemies that make you wait to attack them. Like, I've got these amazing weapons but the game won't let me use them on this enemy. 😒😒😒

• I love the new music! I love the music in the main game too, but I find myself humming the music from the DLC more.

• THE ENVIRONMENTS. So, I got the DLC on sale for $10 each, and I was worried about wasting my money. UNTIL I STARTED STAGE ONE, took one look (I hadn't even moved yet) and immediately thought, this was worth it. Love the new stage themes / environments.

...I think that's everything. Let me know if you have any more questions! Yes, the DLC was well worth it to me, and I still enjoy replaying it.

drcouzelis , 3 months ago

Thanks for following up! 🙂

drcouzelis , 9 months ago

I don't have an answer to your exact question but I want to emphasize...

NOTHING in the history of humankind has ever existed like computer data. A 100% identical copy of videos, pictures, and music can be made almost instantly at what is essentially zero cost to the original holder of the data. Any comparison to "stealing" or to a physical object (a car lol) just falls flat because the situation is just so different.

Practically speaking, the world we live in, with computers everywhere, cheap storage, and easy fast internet access for so much of the world, has only been around for about two decades, maybe three. NOTHING like this has ever existed before, and businesses, culture, and laws have been very slow to catch up.

I'm not saying pirating is right or wrong, just that the whole idea is still so new that society hasn't caught up to it yet.

drcouzelis , 9 months ago

OMG I'm on a technical Discord server where some brilliant people spend all day responding to technical questions on a niche subject and it makes me SO ANGRY that all that knowledge is tucked away inside Discord, non searchable, and going to disappear some day.

So now I use the Discord Chat Exporter CLI program every couple of months to save all of that knowledge into text files on my computer.

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter