mctoasterson
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- Comment on What are some good YouTube channels about the Nintendo 64? 11 hours ago:
MetalJesusRocks for some hidden gems type of content.
MVG for technical or development deepdives.
Karl Jobst for speedrunning content.
Retrogamecorps, Taki Udon, Wulff Den, and ETA Prime for emulation.
All those channels cover various content besides just N64, but they’ve made some of the best N64 game related content.
- Comment on Plus-Sized Elf Will Be Uncensored on HIDIVE 22 hours ago:
Hilariously the French title translates to “Fifty Shades of Fat: The Elf who loved French Fries too much”.
- Comment on Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Softball Interview; a scathing critique of 'brand safe' influencers 4 days ago:
I just take Marques for what he is - normie entertainment tech channel.
All marketing hype associated with Apple is always to be taken with a grain, nay, a shovel of salt.
- Comment on The internet connects people 6 days ago:
Agree. Not every hobby and common trait is automatically a “community” nor should it be.
The tiny house community The pickleball community The eating ass community
etc.
- Comment on Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative 1 week ago:
This summarizes it pretty well. Two things can be true at once. Reddit sucks ass and I haven’t gone back since the API changes. Simultaneously, the default Lemmy experience is extremely offputting to all but certain subcultures. Not everyone is a antiwork activist, Arch Linux evangelist, open socialist, or actively transitioning. Totally fine that all these groups have their communities, but it gets kinda old seeing 90% of the feed filled with these topics.
- Comment on "Plus-Sized Elf" Character Elfuda Named Ambassador for the Japan French Fries Association - Collaboration Visual 1 week ago:
Thicc
- Comment on Palmer Luckey's FPGA Game Boy clone lands just in time for the holidays | TechSpot 1 week ago:
Or it is just an extremely common retro style motif dating to the 70s/80s, color coordinated with the base device color schemes, with no particular intended political meaning whatsoever.
Occam’s razor is a useful blade.
- Comment on "Narenare -Cheer for you!-" New Key Visual, PV 3 weeks ago:
Not familiar with this title but could it be that character suffers injury in the plot of the series itself, hence being shown in both states?
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 1 month ago:
Broadly speaking, ray-tracing is a graphic rendering technique that produces more accurate light reflections (and realistic looking graphics) but is demanding of rendering hardware and therefore associated with modern games and consoles/PCs.
The project I linked is a decomp specific to Perfect Dark that uses existing ROMs. Basically it builds you a standalone runnable Perfect Dark with more modern enhancements, but I don’t think it supports ray tracing.
The project in the original Tom’s Hardware article appears to include a separate tool that is generic and could potentially be used on various N64 games with user-supplied ROMs. I don’t see a list of games that are supported so I can’t speak for Perfect Dark.
I know there are raytracing plugins for n64 emulation but I’m not sure which Retroarch core and settings would support that. Probably requires experimentation to see what works and what doesn’t.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 1 month ago:
I just used the i686-linux steps here:
github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark
As with most of these decomps there is no copyrighted material included in the link and you have to provide your own ROM (and a very specific version of it) in order to build and get it to work.
After that I believe I just copied the folders to the Deck, mapped it as a non-Steam game, added updated artwork with the steamgriddb plugin etc.
I might have messed with the controls a bit but I don’t recall. There is probably a more detailed Steamdeck-specific guide somewhere if you care to dig.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 1 month ago:
Can confirm that 60fps Perfect Dark goes hard on the SteamDeck.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
Just imagine. If you install Amazon video on an external streaming device and hook it up to a new Roku TV, you could get the pleasure of looking at multiple layers of Pause screen ads.
- Comment on self hosted newbie question about moCA router 2 months ago:
I know Google Fiber generation 1 setups were Fiber to the home (to a “Fiber Jack”) with a provided router that had 1 gigabit Ethernet port and a coax/MoCA output. Then each TV receiver box got its connectivity via MoCA (most if the customer homes were already set up for cable to any area there was a TV) and put out 100mb ethernet from each of those endpoints.
What I’ve never heard of is an ISP offering a MoCA coax to your house and you having only a MoCA receiver. Seems more likely the person asking the question actually just has a cable modem and could put their own router downstream of it if they wanted?
- Comment on Unreal Tournament 2004 20 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 2 months ago:
This was amazing. I remember having LAN parties first with UT99 then with Counter-strike and UT2K4.
Those LANs were peak gaming for me.
- Comment on Sokushi Cheat • My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! - Episode 11 discussion 3 months ago:
Never heard of this but would consider giving it a try. What is happening in the thumbnail here? Generic fan service or something relevant to the plot?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“O-counter”? Is that legitimately for tracking hoe many times you blow your load to a particular scene?
People are really into advanced metrics these days…
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 4 months ago:
I remember TR3 was a huge disappointment after 1 and 2. The new mechanics weren’t very good and the level design was more confusing. I remember they added the Desert Eagle pistol and it was a giant brick (seriously the model consisted of probably 3-4 polygons total).
It really felt like they were just milking the franchise at that point.
- Comment on Anti-racism be like 4 months ago:
And yet the Santitas chips girl is still going strong like a boss.
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 6 months ago:
Sriracha Mayo
- Comment on It's that time of the year again! 6 months ago:
Do you get irritated when Americans refer to the famous Austrian bullpup rifle as the Steyr “Ogg”?
- Comment on Safe to say peanuts into a US school too? 6 months ago:
Many theaters I’ve been to in the US stopped enforcing the “no outside food” thing. Last time I went to the movies there were dudes walking in with Chipotle or sub sandwiches and no one cared.
- Comment on We don't judge here. :) 7 months ago:
Her: “No I meant I’m a software engineer.”
Him: “Oh. I also hate myself and want to die.”
- Comment on An unofficial PC port of Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark is available for download, featuring mouselook, widescreen, FOV & 60fps support 8 months ago:
If anyone has this running on Steamdeck, lemme know.
- Comment on How Did Anyone Beat This In The Arcade? 8 months ago:
Billy Mitchell or Todd Rodgers might claim to.
- Comment on Akira Toriyama’s coming back for a new Dragon Ball series 8 months ago:
I’ll wait for abridged.
Cat loves food, yeah yeah yeah yeah
- Comment on ‘Daredevil’ Hits Reset Button as Marvel Overhauls Its TV Business 8 months ago:
Maybe they’ll make it from first person perspective to save production costs.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
FYI I’ve got a Samsung TV pointed at pihole for DNS and it blocks all of Samsung’s stupid telemetry (possibly some menu based ads too, not sure) but it is ineffective against YouTube due to the way they serve ads.
The ads come through unless you can magically recompile their YouTube app. An alternative would be to build a small form factor streaming PC and run YT in a legit browser with blocking and privacy plugins.
- Comment on Introducing Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration 8 months ago:
Maybe I’m misunderstanding but wouldn’t it just be easier to use a good private tracker, assuming you can get an invite?
- Comment on Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft | First Look | Netflix 8 months ago:
Based on the style, bow and climbing pick emphasis, and secondary characters in the photo, it’s probably a verbatim port of the Tomb Raider (2013) story.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 9 months ago:
I understand what the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms is. Literally no gun manufacturer is conducting initial sales to “any random person” due to the extremely strict laws governing FFLs. They would be committing federal crimes if they did that.