slugabud 🦠🧣☕

under pressure

the origin of the term "copmuter bug" comes from a literal moth that crawled into a relay and shorted it

this is the entomology of the word

dammit, *Ryubing

fine-ish? development does seem to be slowly continuing on Rubbing and apparently even stuff like Pokemon Legends Z-A is playable though I haven't tried

it's not ideal, though ...

bsky.app/profile/nood...

BTW, if you're experimenting in RetroArch, to undo a shader simply set Shader Passes to 0 and Apply Changes to clear the current one and then you can load other presets

will return to this later with more experimenting. I prefer CRT shaders these days and while I'm not insistent that you yourself should use them, I urge you to give them a try with different games

I think especially for old school horror the blending and softening does wonders

crt-hyllian-ntsc

crt-hyllian-sync-composite

crt-hyllian-ntsc actually seems to do a better job of blending, but also seems to wash out the color a bit?

(sorry, forgot to mention, check alt text for labeling on all these)

no shaders

crt-caligari

crt-royale

crt-hyllian-sync-composite

watching that CRT video and it got me to load up Sonic 2 and check the waterfall with various shaders. will do more testing later, but so far looks like crt-hyllian-sync-composite is a winner with subtle horizontal scanlines and proper vertical blending

If your vampire goes quiet for more than 20 minutes. 🦇 [oc]

This game is a tribute to RPGs that came before, the action RPG to END ALL action RPG's, the game that reminds me why I play video games, and a celebration of gaming! This time I'm finally doing the original PC-88 version of Falcom's classic, Popful Mail!
youtu.be/spMcKsh1R-4

I don't know which would make me angrier: getting rewarded for doing this which would only further encourage me or not getting rewarded at all when I know I'm gonna keep doing this /just to be sure/ ...

A very cute and squishy-looking digital drawing of an orange cartoon bug. The bug is blushing and has hearts around it. A string of speech bubbles above the bug says: uh.. i'm bug... i am bug. i am so bug. i am a bug i like bugs

i have thought about this image daily for 4 years

oh worm?

Linux isn't really a thing I think a lot of us know in whole, just the pieces that help us integrate it into the portions of our lives where we need it. one bit at a time

np, I do hope it helps some! I think a big part of what comes next is learning how to gracefully fumble through this together (all of us, that is)

I work in IT and the thing I want to convince people most is that often I know very little BUT how to find the answers

I do think it was more desirable to keep NTFS support separate due to its association with Microsoft until recently when it was conceded as easing a pain point for onboarding people

Linux can be intimidating at first, I for sure don't know all this stuff, but you get a general feel for it which makes finding and pulling threads easier

most things are files that you can open up and directly configure if you know where to look (or what to search for to point you the way)

I see from your other post you got it solved. taking a guess, the modern file explorers try to bridge this gap for you (is it Dolphin?)

/etc/fstab mounts it on the OS level, so things that don't directly use the file explorer or its file picker may still have issues seeing the drive

this is what adding entries to the /etc/fstab file are for (File System TABle)

linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount...

been awhile since I've done it, but this should be the primary thread to pull

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

this looks sooo good. the first person dungeon crawling, the sci-fi aesthetic, THAT MONSTER DESIGN 💖

very excited

old portables (GB through Vita) are absolute peak because they understood and designed around the NEED to be put down at any moment instead of the absolute fucking opposite of never letting your attention span go $#&@! 🤬

the PSP's need for portability still limited the scope and innovated through that constraint

Switch 1&2 are honestly too much power that bring all the negatives of the modern console experience into the portable space

all my "I'll do it laters" catching up to me

that wasn't part of the deal! the deal is I do what I want and suffer no consequences???

yeah. still unclear to me if 3 is particularly hard in the series, but just general understanding of game mechanics seems to do

my tactics:
1. fuse like crazy to collect 'em all
2. use the ones I think are particularly sexy/spiffy
3. grind a little if 1&2 somehow fail me

I just saw this on a twitch stream and think I'm in love

Don't Delete Your Games (2025, USA)

map screen from Shin Megamit Tensei: Strange Journey Redux (3DS) showing a portion of a dungeon with many damaging floor tiles that only would've been mapped out if I had purposefully walked over them

did you seriously walk all across that damaging floor just to map it out when there was a clear and intentional path around it?

oh you know it!

FINALLY! RetroArch upgraded to 1.22.2 in the repos and that freaking Wayland/Vulkan issue is fixed. been waiting for that to hit since it was corrected in nightlies all the way back in September