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I don't have to watch commercials with streaming. I value my time too much to watch A: shows I don't want to see at times I can't control, and B: 1/3rd of the time spent sitting watching ads. Heterosexual TV is dead to me. All I crave is the raw gay horsepower of streaming content.
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Interesting. I see that a lot of those stations are out in the Valley or Berdoo though. Any idea what it's like in the South Bay?
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Sep 22, 2016 05:42
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Broadcast TV and broadcast network shows suck nuts. However, the only reason I have cable is because Comcast held their 150mbps internet connection hostage behind an $8 non-HD cable plan. The box is sitting unused in my closet.
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Sep 22, 2016 05:43
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Geirskogul posted:I don't have to watch commercials with streaming. I'm just throwing out close to effortless alternatives. Grand Prize Winner posted:Interesting. I see that a lot of those stations are out in the Valley or Berdoo though. Any idea what it's like in the South Bay? Scan for channels and see what shakes loose. I'm in LBC and I get all the ones in English that matter. You should have no problem in South Bay since you aren't in the shadow of Signal Hill like I am. Robnoxious has a new favorite as of 05:46 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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Sep 22, 2016 05:43
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True. If all you want is television, there are free options, like you said. I didn't mean to start anything. I'm 30, and I feel that I've grown up seeing the growing pains of different digital technologies finally give people what they've wanted since TV has been invented: on demand content. We invented television before we invented a way to record it. Since the concept of a screen you watch has been around, people have been trying to figure out a way to save broadcasts to watch later, and I think streaming or saving is finally understandable and accessible by the common person. DVRs were, to me, just a well-marketed stopgap. But if all you want is the news, live sports, or background noise, terrestrial TV is better than its ever been. Queen_Combat has a new favorite as of 05:52 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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Sep 22, 2016 05:45
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I want it all. I just wish I could afford $220 a month to have it.
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Sep 22, 2016 06:49
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And here I was thinking I was probated for something! Woohoo threads back!
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Sep 22, 2016 10:47
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Saw some people lament over the price of the games they played as a kid. If you're not collecting seriously you can get reproduction cartridges pretty cheaply. Really I don't care if it's official or not, I've got an earthbound cart that cost me $20 :p
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Sep 22, 2016 12:08
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If you do that you might as well download a rom and emulate it.
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Sep 22, 2016 12:46
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SwissCM posted:If you do that you might as well download a rom and emulate it. Emulation is for nerds 
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Sep 22, 2016 12:48
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Nah, nerds know that true 1:1 emulation is rare and tend to opt for flash carts on real hardware
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Sentient Data posted:Nah, nerds know that true 1:1 emulation is rare and tend to opt for flash carts on real hardware Seriouspost: the most important reason I don't bother to emulate if I can help it is that sound emulation will never work to a degree I'm satisfied with. The second most important reason is I have all the hardware (and original games) anyway so why bother with an inferior experience  (Save states would be a good answer to "why bother" but hasn't really been an issue for me.)There is, of course, an obvious solution: emulate on a Linux system so sound won't work at all.
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RetroArch's rewind functionality is like save states on crack and about as addictive to use.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Seriouspost: the most important reason I don't bother to emulate if I can help it is that sound emulation will never work to a degree I'm satisfied with. The second most important reason is I have all the hardware (and original games) anyway so why bother with an inferior experience Buy a real SNES and use an sd2snes is the best of all worlds
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Buy a real SNES and use an sd2snes is the best of all worlds
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Casimir Radon posted:It's a bit expensive but I suppose it would be made up for after loading up a few really rare games. IIRC they do have limitations. I'm not sure how a flashcart differs from an emulator under the surface, but I'm pretty sure the flashcarts won't play games with any sort of hardware wizardry under the hood (so Star Fox with its FX chip, Tales of Phantasia/Star Ocean with their expanded RAM trickery, Megaman X2/3 with the C4 chip I think, and some others).
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sd2snes can emulate the Cx4 chip that Megaman X2 and X3 used on its FPGA, it can also do Star Ocean/Tales of Phantasia if you load the uncompressed ROM. What sd2snes can't do is SA1 (which is used in Super Mario RPG), SuperFX, or the random co-processors used in a couple of Shogi games. A bunch of SNES games like Super Mario Kart, Pilotwings and F-Zero also had an extra DSP chip in them, sd2snes can emulate that on its FPGA as well, and you can buy a Super Everdrive that has that DSP chip soldered on. Also SD2SNES has support for MSU1 hacks, which is a pseudo CD add-on, adding things like CD quality background music or FMV intros. Instant Sunrise has a new favorite as of 18:45 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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Instant Sunrise posted:
welp 
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doctorfrog posted:I counted myself as broke and unlucky that all I had going was an old 2600 and a Game Boy, but I amassed way more $20-30 games of the latter, and around 40 of the former, than I ever would have if I'd had an NES. It's way easier to get a parent to give you five bucks toward a $20-30 game than one that costs $50-60, at least in my house. I remember occasionally getting NIB games that were on clearance at Walmart or ToysRUS. I got earthbound for $15 at walmart because it had been in the electronics locker forever. I found the manual back today but not the game. Though in looking I did find an SNES Cart organizer. I had way more games than this but they are god knows where. Along with a shitload Atari/NES/SEGA/N64 games and accessories. Unless someone threw them out 
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yoloer420 posted:Really I don't care if it's official or not, I've got an earthbound cart that cost me $20 :p Is it playable to completion? IIRC some of those earthbound reproductions end up triggering the game's notorious copy protection bullshit
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Jerry Cotton posted:There is, of course, an obvious solution: emulate on a Linux system so sound won't work at all. Nobody said you need to use a retro Linux distribution  Leave Linux alone! 
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Buttcoin purse posted:Leave Linux alone! Yes, all alone in a voiceless universe.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yes, all alone in a voiceless universe. Where do I sign up for this.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yes, all alone in a voiceless universe. Sweet rapture
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Mak0rz posted:Is it playable to completion? IIRC some of those earthbound reproductions end up triggering the game's notorious copy protection bullshit Yeah, they are based off the cracked roms, so it works fine.
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Carth Dookie posted:Where do I sign up for this. http://www.ubuntu.com/download
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Sep 23, 2016 12:37
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Here https://www.linuxmint.com/download/gnome3
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Linux is a pretty good tech relic since you need a four year old computer to install it on if you want all the features like video and audio to work.
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linux is really awesome and useful and all but if you use it for personal computing youre just kind of a weird loser imho
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smelling magic cards was an addiction i had and still fap to
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if i won the lottery id donate to making wii64 better, with a small incentive and a larger on if it gets completed
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thathonkey posted:linux is really awesome and useful and all but if you use it for personal computing youre just kind of a weird loser imho It was really good for running on my laptop because all I really wanted to do was surf the web and watch youtube or whatever, and I didn't need windows which was stupidly resource intensive for it. Was basically perfect for that.
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Who owns a laptop newer than 5 years old anyway?
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thathonkey posted:linux is really awesome and useful and all but if you use it for personal computing youre just kind of a weird loser imho  The only people I've met who use it for something other than work are weird hardcore proponents of it, who seem to take immense pleasure in complaining about Windows and bragging about their level of technical knowledge. "What's that, your Linux is the safest and most stable OS ever and can never be hacked or get a virus? Wow, I had no idea! The Linux security division must be pretty busy analyzing every program ever made and fixing all the exploits!" Hell, I use it occasionally for work, but it's not some life-defining bit of tech for me and it's got it's fair share of issues. No reason I should limit my choice of OSes just to make a statement that most people wouldn't even acknowledge, much less understand.
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The Gasmask posted:
Slightly off topic, but that bolded part applies to way too many Mac users as well in my experience, and to be honest it's probably the biggest reason why I'll never get a Mac. As for Linux, I'm one of those wierdos who uses Linux as my main personal OS. To be honest though, 95% of what I use my computer for is either listening to music, watching videos or using the internet and Linux is absolutely fine for all of that. If I really need to use a Windows program then I just use Windows inside a virtual machine. Server-side Linux is fantastic and very widely used for a reason, but desktop Linux will never become mainstream. It just requires too much loving around and/or there's too little software available for most average computer users.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Slightly off topic, but that bolded part applies to way too many Mac users as well in my experience, and to be honest it's probably the biggest reason why I'll never get a Mac. Uhh I think you'll find Mac is a linux.
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It's got a lump of BSD kernel code (mostly FreeBSD, now) grafted onto a Mach microkernel, with a userland that's a weird mix of BSD stuff and Apple in-house projects, with a strong NextStep inheritance. No Linux kernel code in there, though they've grabbed some GNU userland tools. ... In my defense, the desktop at home runs windows.
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I run linux as a desktop os in my study, windows 10 in the living room for games and media center duties and my chromebook has linux on it too. Stuff works okay, it's interesting that WIndows 10 is causing me more issues nowadays than my linux stuff does.
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Linus is really good these days and is so easy even I can install it and is in no way a relic and as such, is not a proper topic for this thread. Mods, I expect a quick response.
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8 track betamax posted:Linus is really good these days and is so easy even I can install it and is in no way a relic and as such, is not a proper topic for this thread. Mods, I expect a quick response. Yes ban 8 track betamax for trusting anecdotal evidence.
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