[Nerrel] A Word on the Death of Switch Emulation
  • haywire7 haywire7 1d ago 100%

    Emulators have always existed alongside their consoles. That's to only way you get enough talent involved in a project like that. Difference is these days computers are fast enough to emulate the consoles much better and the architecture they use is a lot closer to what the PC is using anyway in a lot of cases, or at least a documented strain of ARM with a few custom tweaks.

    The people working on the emulators are pioneers forging a path that takes a massive amount of time and effort. Trial and error, tweaking and ironing out the kinks can last years.

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  • Super hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild.
  • haywire7 haywire7 2w ago 100%

    Didn't The Incredibles have a backstory like that where supes are basically illegal after they caused too much collateral damage?

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  • German supermarket Aldi's fake discounts breach EU law, top European court says | Euronews
  • haywire7 haywire7 3w ago 100%

    In the UK at least they'll show a price then a member special price next to it, they used to have a while section of them in the catalogue they sent out each month.

    Other items list prices then special discounts at the till for members.

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  • German supermarket Aldi's fake discounts breach EU law, top European court says | Euronews
  • haywire7 haywire7 4w ago 100%

    Costco? The members price when you have to be a member to shop there?

    Always thought that was weird.

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    People seem to really dislike Destiny 2. Why haven't they ended it yet?
  • haywire7 haywire7 1mo ago 80%

    I still play, I can see me running out of desire to play as much with the changes to the way new content is delivered.

    Unless something changes soon for the better I can't see the game staying afloat for more than the next couple of years. Which is a real shame.

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    Spectre Divide Reduces Cosmetic Skin Price from $90 to $70 After Backlash
  • haywire7 haywire7 2mo ago 100%

    No cosmetic items should cost more than £10/$20 imho £50/$70 is a full game for crying out loud.

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  • Phone companies to be asked to help tackle rise in snatch thefts
  • haywire7 haywire7 2mo ago 100%

    I guess the thinking is making them next to worthless means they'll get stolen less.

    Most networks will bar a stolen pones IMEI if it's reported but that doesn't stop them so this would have to be a step up.

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  • Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created
  • haywire7 haywire7 2mo ago 100%

    Forgive me if this is an overly simplistic view but if the ads with cookies are all served on Google's platform say then would all those ads have access to the Google cookie jar?

    If they don't now then you can bet they are working on just that.

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  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
  • haywire7 haywire7 2mo ago 100%

    There are a lot of games that work. Still some that hold out, mainly due to their shitty anticheat software.

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  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
  • haywire7 haywire7 2mo ago 99%

    Great. So managing printers, network settings and quickly comparing settings from two places becomes a weird game of screenshots and guessing.

    Remote support workers of the world collectively shake their fist in despair.

    No way on this planet I will be able to explain the new UI to your average office worker.

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  • Look at both Commercial & Homemade dog
  • haywire7 haywire7 2mo ago 50%

    Ok I'll bite.

    One of the best things about dogs is the unconditional love. Look up any list on things people like about them and it's there.

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  • Look at both Commercial & Homemade dog
  • haywire7 haywire7 2mo ago 93%

    He had a choice between a dog that seemed happy and asked for nothing and a dog that immediately asked for love and praise.

    That is what I'm seeing.

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    Switch 2 cartridge format leaked via patent
  • haywire7 haywire7 2mo ago 100%

    The first generation DS could play GBA games.

    The original Wii could play GameCube games.

    The 3DS ran DS games.

    The GBA ran GB and GBC games.

    The WiiU could run most Wii games.

    Nintendo has history making backwards compatibility a selling point of it help sell consoles.

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  • 47% of U.K. Millionaires Say They’re More Likely to Leave the Country After the Recent Election: Report
  • haywire7 haywire7 3mo ago 100%

    If they leave they'll be less idiots with more money than sense around so I'm all for it.

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  • TIL there are fidget guns for children
  • haywire7 haywire7 3mo ago 100%

    I doubt going children even care that it's a fidget toy, they'll still be mindlessly clicking the clicky bits on it or waddling around shouting pew pew pew

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  • TIL there are fidget guns for children
  • haywire7 haywire7 3mo ago 96%

    Cap guns, potato guns, water guns, just plain clicky/sparky/light up guns and so on, guns for kids are nothing new. Fidget in the name is a gimmick to use bright colours and sell plastic guns to more kids.

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  • Is there any advantage to tying game logic to frame-rate?
  • haywire7 haywire7 3mo ago 100%

    Someone else may be able to offer a better solution but it's more to do with events being tied to the draw of a frame.

    Update positions of objects, check where things are each time a frame is drawn. Speed up the rate frames are drawn at and the logic does those checks much, much faster. Causing issues.

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