I got it working. I wasn’t expecting it to be as simple as pasting 2 lines of code into a config file. Still not sure why emulationstation doesn’t see them, but at least retroarch does now.

Plus I fixed my issue of emulators not saving. I am SO excited with what I’m building. Every game from my childhood on one machine. Arcade, NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, N64, PS1, Dreamcast.

It’s all here. I turn on one machine, and it’s all here! 14 year old me is screaming into a pillow. 41 year old me wants to scream into a pillow, but is responsible enough to not want to wake up the neighbors.

No, seriously…I am legit screaming at what this is.

Password is WeirdAl.

Call it “the app formerly known as twitter”. It’s what the media does. It would piss off Elon, and it has a whole prince vibe to it.

Twitter has never, even dating back to it’s inception, never ever ever turned a profit. The whole reason Elon mockingly offered to buy it was because they were looking for, and struggling to find, a buyer. They just wanted to break even and walk away.

Instead Elon was like “Hur dur I got 43 billion for ya!” And Twitter was like “SOLD! No takesies backsies!”. And Elon was like “Wait, wut?”

And then Elon carried a sink through the lobby in protest.

I don’t know what to make of this. Regular tiktok just is sooooo offputting to me. The 50x overlays. The voiceovers which are the basis of the content, with the video that has NOTHING to do with the content. The chinese spying. It’s all just very bad.

But then I remember a federated version would be…different. I can’t imagine it would be like tiktok with text overlays. I can’t imagine the content would be similar either. It’ll be like “here’s the better way to sudo your linux…”

Which, as someone who doesn’t care about linux, I’d find it less offensive, but still wouldn’t care about it.

All in all, I’m not excited for it.

Bluetooth, and I’ll check again when I get home, but I’m almost certain it was already on x-Input.

STOP MAKING MIDDLE AGED MEN FEEL ELDERLY SIR!!!

…oh god. I guess I am on the younger end of middle aged.

sigh Guess I’ll buy a walker or something…

I wasn’t saying emulating is a bad thing. I was saying THIS community may not be the right place hor THIS particular piece of news.

Now if they shut down an SNES emulator, then I’d see why it’s here.

Also, it just occured to me that Wii might be considered retro…god I feel old.

If prison is modern day slavery, and judges send people to prison, then wouldn’t judges be the ones to judge about judging slaves?

…thats not a promise you can make. Infact, I’d argue that you’re inviting to get hacked, because now some hacker is out there like CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Unclear if I don’t get an inside joke, or if that’s a typo for 2017.

Ok…but how is Switch “retro gaming”?

the leader of a… terrorist rebel organization(I’m not entirely sure what to call al qaeda).

No no. You got it right.

Kinky is using a chicken feather. Perverted is using the whole damn chicken.

Well then you’re not protected from the bathroom skunks!

Well. Right now, putin is in an unwinable war. He CAN’T win given his lack of superior quality war machines and materials. His lack of combat experienced military personel, and his lack of air defenses. They’re losing literal thousands of personel (mostly soldiers) every single day.

If putin loses, he dies. He will be forcefully removed from his position and executed. He knows this. The united states knows this. Everybody in the situation knows this. Which is why for a very long time, nobody would allow Ukraine to use their weapons deep into russia in an effort to curb escalation. Because back against the wall, with no other possibility for winning the war, putin is going to eventually use nukes. He’s going to use nukes when it’s a situation of “fuck it, I’m going to die anyways. Nuke em.”

And as each day passes, russia gets further and further into a state of permanent national destability. This war is going to harm them for generations. Even before the war, they hadn’t replenished their population to pre-WWII levels. This is on-par with that. That should give you an idea of how badly this is going to damage their next 40 years. Hundreds of thousands of young men all dead. And eventually, russia will run out of men to send to the war. That’s when putin pushes the button. He’s going to nuke Ukraine. Probably Kiev. And it will happen before this war is over. Unlike hitler just killing himself and his wife, putin is going to try to take everybody down with him. Because that’s how big his ego is.

Only question is…does he ONLY fire at Kiev? Does he just go balls out and nuke everybody instead? Scorched earth kind of thing.

Only time will tell. If we live to tell the tale.

Do you ever worry that somebody could just forcefully grab you, unzip your pants and forcefully stuff hundreds of angry snakes into your pants? Or that you’re going to pull back your shower curtain one day, and there’s going to be a bear in your shower? Or that one day all the countries will just nuke each other for funsies?

I often worry about things that don’t makes sense. Like the one time my ex girlfriend was eating ice cream, and I wondered if one day she might give birth to a moose.

Can’t confirm. World is dark. Life is pain.

Pretty sure Japan wouldn’t agree with that last point…

Having not yet used this service, I can’t comment on the service itself. What I will say is that it sounds interesting, until I realized one VERY important detail…

Content.

This service is designed to bring you all the content that you feed data locations to pull from. Ok, that’s all well and good, but the problem is, there’s such a lack of content on the fediverse that it’s not overwhelming right now to just log into Lemmy, see the 3-10 replies per day. Log into Mastodon, realize you’re following like 6 accounts and 5 of them are bots, with the 6th one barely posting.

This service is like a very useful water pump to pull water out of a body of water, and distribute it to a more convienent tank…and then you place it’s input in the middle of the Nevada desert. Doesn’t mean the water pump is faulty, or not expertly designed. Just means it needs water to pull from.

That seems to be my frustration with the fediverse. There are very few content CREATORS, who don’t revolve around a few basic topics. Politics, Technology…and that’s it. And yes, I’m lumping video games, linux, computers, all that into technology. If it’s something you need a screen for, or connects to something with a screen, that’s lumped into technology.

I mildly care about politics. Under normal circumstances I don’t care at all. I usually say “let other people worry about it.” But these last 8 years have been just a constant barrage of bullshit, that it becomes necissary to care, as everybody is going to get fucked over otherwise.

Technology I have moderate interest in. I wouldn’t call it the most important thing to me, but I wouldn’t say I have zero interest either.

But then what…

Sports talk among locals is practically non-existant here (except for the Baltimore Oriols, who have a surprisingly strong community).

There’s a pro-wrestling community which seemingly has 4 active commentors, including mods, and 2-3 other people who pop in from time to time.

So I try to do my part to write at LEAST one entertaining post per day. Some days I write more. Most days I have half a dozen smaller bite size posts as little jokes or whatever. And then I try to post SOMETHING that people are going to disagree with. I feel like THIS post is that post for the day. Mostly because nobody likes to take responsibility for a community, and nobody likes being called out as being just a consumer, and not a producer of content.

And PeerTube is pathetic. Lemmy at least has some degree of variety. It’s not much, but it tries. Peertube on the otherhand is “EVERYTHING IS A LINUX VIDEO!!! ONLY LINUX EXISTS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!”

I can’t say I produce any video content, but with a linux only content platform, I can’t say I even consume either. It’s a service I want to like, but they make it so damned hard.

And Lemmy is easy to keep track of everything, and I run out of content usually within an hour. Even though I log in several times a day. It’s like drinking water from a shotglass when you want a galllon.

So I don’t see much use for this new thing. Not because it’s not a well made product, again, I have no usage experience, but because the sources it’s pulling from are barron dry.