What's something you grew out of/moved on from/phased out?
How do you feel about it now? Fondness? Embarassment? A nostalgic ache?
Why did you end up moving on from it?
Was it a conscious decision, or was it something that happened over time?
Whoops! Didn’t realize I was double posting.
I’m super excited for this.
I never played Banjo back in the day, but I emulated it a few years ago. Unfortunately, I kept hitting its limitations (camera, frame rate) which gave my playthrough enough friction that I ended up dropping it (I think it was the water level that finally did me in).
Being able to play the game with modern quality of life should be fantastic, because I did really like the game in spite of its rough retro edges.
Maybe this is a candidate for a future CGA month?
I’m potentially in on this.
I tried a sort of DIY version of this earlier in the year using an 8BitDo Micro and some tiny suction cups to stick it to my phone screen.
The suction cups work well for keeping the controller in place and making the whole thing feel like a single unit, but I couldn’t find ones that were low-profile enough to keep the controller from rocking a bit whenever I used it. I really want something that feels completely sturdy.
I’m also a sucker for Atomic Purple, though I wish they changed the button colors, because I think the purple-on-purple look cheapens it quite a bit.
Meanwhile, I actually prefer not having a USB connection only because I broke my phone’s USB-C port by stubbornly trying to fit it into a different GameSir controller with a case on (which it’s not designed for).
I’m not fully sold on it yet, but I’m considering backing it.
+1 for StoryBundle and Fanatical. The quality of their selections isn’t as good as Humble Bundle, but they still have the occasional solid bundle (IMO).
Digiphile is one to watch. They’re a new bundle site made up of former Humble Bundle devs. They’ve only had one book bundle so far, but I’m hoping for more from them.
Also, it’s not limited to bundles, but the most comprehensive list of DRM-free offerings I’ve found is here.
RetroDECK, my favorite Steam Deck emulation solution, just released a full rewrite of their program.
The devs’ goal has always been to create a clean, easy, all-in-one pack of emulators and tools for running old games on your Steam Deck. However, as they developed this, they began running into issues with trying to have so many different components in one single flatpak.
The article goes into some of the technical considerations that prompted the full rewrite, and I think it might be interesting to other developers here, even if you’re not interested in RetroDECK itself (I debated putting this in ~comp since the article really isn’t about games).
They also have a blog post about their architectural changes, complete with diagrams, should anyone be interested in more information about it.
Fantastically knowledgeable and helpful, J-Chiptunator (as always!)
I’m hyped for Racing Lagoon — just have to finish Wind Waker first!
It’s me being cheeky.
A lot of the northerners I’m around will make fun of southerners for not being able to deal with a little bit of snow, when to me, the same shoe fits them in regards to rain.
I’m not endorsing either sentiment, rather I’m highlighting that it’s easy to misjudge what you don’t experience. Southerners don’t know snow like northerners do, but northerners don’t know rain like southerners do.
Where I’m currently at, when it rains, it’s mostly a drizzle. If it ever does pick up, it’s only for a little bit, and you still have decent visibility while driving. The thunder we get is rare and subdued — at most a low growl, and never a heart-stopping “CLAP.”
Where I used to live, when it rained, it was a thick, long-lasting deluge. If you were driving, you only had brief moments visibility in-between wiper swishes, even on the fastest setting. When this hit, everybody knew to slow way down and follow the tail lights in front of them, because those were literally the only things you could see in such intense rain.
Hydroplaning was our black ice.
The thunder was so loud and so booming that it felt like a higher power was mad at you specifically. You could feel it in your chest. It could make you jump out of your seat and quake in fear.
If I had to boil it down, I’d say that I used to regularly experience the blizzard-equivalent of rain on a regular basis (a torrent?), where we measure the precipitation in inches. Meanwhile, I’ve never seen any rain even remotely close to that intensity here in over a decade.
I haven’t lived in your area specifically, so I can’t say which of these is more accurate to your experience, but hopefully that helps make what I’m saying more clear!
Yup!
The absolute worst rain I’ve experienced in [being vague about my specific location for privacy reasons] is maybe a tenth of what I used to experience in [being vague again about where I used to live for privacy reasons]
I had a co-worker from Florida up here, and we would commiserate about how much we missed “real” rain.
As someone from the south who moved to the north, I constantly have to explain this to people I know.
They’ll make fun of snow for gridlocking southern states, and I’m like “you know they don’t have plows and salt and shovels all at the ready down there, right?”
Meanwhile, if there’s even a sprinkle of rain here, people completely forget how to drive, and I’m like “y’all would never survive an actual thunderstorm in a car.” (Note: I don’t actually say this because my “polite” southern upbringing taught me to judge fully but silently. 😂)
A powerful blast of cold air from the Arctic is expected to sweep through much of the United States over the coming days, bringing snow and ice to nearly 30 states and affecting nearly 160 million people, forecasters warn.
The National Weather Service (NWS) expects "life-threatening cold air" to slowly track from the High Plains and Rockies in an eastward direction from Friday.
Meteorologists say temperatures could plunge well below freezing in some areas.
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Appropriations bills are bills that direct funding. They have to pass in order to keep the government running. This was part of the reason why the US federal government shut down in October — Congress couldn’t agree to pass their appropriations.
As part of the re-opening, the government decided to extend the deadline for some appropriations bills until the end of January from their original October 1st deadline.
A rider is an unrelated policy matter that gets added to a bill. It’s called a “rider” because it’s essentially hopping on the main bill “for a ride.”
In this instance, Republicans had added anti-trans measures as riders to the budget appropriations bills, and Democrats were able to successfully have those riders removed as part of the negotiations process.
Now, the package has been released—and for the moment, transgender people can breathe again. The final HHS and Education bills contain no anti-transgender provisions: no ban on hospitals providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, no threats to strip funding from schools that support transgender students or allow them to use the bathroom, and no mandate forcing colleges to exclude transgender students from sports or activities like chess or esports. The bills are strikingly clean. As such, they avert yet another protracted shutdown fight in which transgender people are once again turned into political bargaining chips—and, at least for now, remove Congress as the immediate vehicle for new federal attacks, should they pass as-is.
I ended up double posting this, sorry for anyone who caught the second one!
I’m very excited for this. I’ve really been enjoying the QoL mods I installed for Wind Waker which modernize the game quite well. This doing the same thing for Banjo is great, especially given the native game’s frame rate and camera issues.
I’m thinking this might be a good candidate for a future CGA?