Toribor

joined 11 months ago
[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 1 hour ago

I do this with Xbox controllers and it's very easy. Depending on the emulator you usually have to assign which physical controller should be used for which console input. Usually this is a one time setup unless you switch back and forth a lot between the built in a Steam Deck controller and an external one.

I recommend launching the emulator from Steam when setting that up so there isn't any confusion between connecting directly to the controllers vs using Steam Input. Once the setup is done you can launch individual ROMs directly from Steam.

You can even mix and match controllers. I've played Smash Bros with a mix of Xbox, GCN and PS4 controllers on the Deck.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 1 hour ago

It's definitely a glorified DLC that was stretched into a whole game. The new things are mostly good but 80% is just exactly the same.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 55 points 20 hours ago (11 children)

Cloaks would be cool. I know that's more of a fantasy aesthetic than a medieval one but they are cool enough that it shouldn't matter.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not really. If you have debts with a fixed interest rate your payments will remain mostly fixed too. That means even if your wage stagnates during a high inflation period the payments you're making on that debt stay the same in nominal currency but the real value of that payment (and the total debt) are worth less because of inflation.

That being said your total cost of living will probably still go up and whether anyone is 'coming out on top' during high inflation depends on their circumstances. If your wages don't increase and the cost of living goes up it may be harder to make debt payments even if the payment amount stays the same.

Imagine someone with a ton of debt from buying real estate. With a fixed interest rate high inflation can actually be really good for them. The value of their assets continue to go up and their debts deflate away because the money they're paying back isn't as valuable as it was when they borrowed it in the first place. The type of person befitting in this way probably isn't making most of their money from a wage though.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Asus Transformer Prime.

It was an Android tablet circa 2011, right at that time they were actually making 10" Android tablets. I bought one as soon as Android Honeycomb launched which had an improved UI and lot of new tablet focused features. I bought the optional keyboard/battery attachment and planned for it to be my tiny laptop replacement that could also play emulators and be used for reading comics. I wanted to like it so bad.

It never really panned out though, a large majority of which was because of the faulty Nvidia Tegra 3 chip. Awful performance issues, terrible wireless connectivity, overheating, battery drain and nonexistant software updates from Asus. I ran custom ROMs trying to squeeze it as much as I could but that meant I was constantly tinkering with it and having yet more problems. Eventually I even broke the screen (my fault) and painstakingly went through a whole botched screen replacement before finally deciding that it had been a huge waste of time and money and sent it to it's grave.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Generally when inflation is high it makes debts with a fixed interest less of a burden because the real value of that debt decreases over time. So if you're heavily in debt inflation can be helpful in some regards.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At one point I triple booted my laptop with Ubuntu, Windows 7 and OSX mostly just to prove I could. Weird times, a lot has changed since then.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 6 days ago

Yes, resolution is not the only factor. Bitrate is equally if not more important.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"What about you big guy? Soup or salad?"

"Oi! Wat? A Super fuckin' salad?"

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've even seen arrow keys that use Up, Down, Left, Right and it makes me sad.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's kind of crazy how off the rails this series got later down the line.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 1 week ago

Everything's a drum!

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