SimplyTadpole

@SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can try to help. Are you using Linux or Windows? (I admittedly don’t have much experience using git on Windows)

  Assuming you use Linux: usually, what I do is create a folder in my Documents directory specifically for handling Git projects (mostly because I like being organized), then open a terminal window there (right-click and press “Open Terminal Here”) or CD to its directory (for example, if it’s in home/<your username>/Documents/Git, run cd ~/Documents/Git).

  Then, go to the github page, click the green Code button, and copy the URL there, which you will use to pull its git repository. Normally, you would then do git clone <git URL>, but the instructions say this uses submodules, so you should instead use git clone --recursive-submodules https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp.git. Don’t bother making a specific folder for this project because git automatically does that.

  Then, make a folder inside the cloned git folder for containing the compiled build of the project (name it, say, “build”), and run cmake … (you may have to install this package first depending on if your distribution includes it or not) and then cmake --build. I think it then should be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PlayStation 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played with my PS2 quite a lot when I was young, particularly because it had a much better version of a game I grew up with (NFS Hot Pursuit 2); it then introduced me to other games I quite liked, such as Test Drive Unlimited.

  It sadly broke sometime around early 2018 because I didn’t take good care of it. Now I emulate it but still wish my console worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These guys just… wake up and think to themselves “what is the most comically evil cartoon villain thing I can do to hurt others today?”. Surreal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m VERY tempted to buy Fallout 4: Game of the Year edition due to my hype for Fallout: London (which releases in April of this year), but I’m worried of getting burned if it turns out to be a bad/disappointing mod. :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does SponsorBlock work with Invidious and LibRedirect in general?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone needs help⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, most of the people in places like that are people who already found their way out, and now just want to shoot the shit with other people who understand what they’ve been through.

  At least in my experience, that wasn’t the case at all. I used to hang out in communities like that back in the late 2010s, and me as well as multiple folks were people who still hadn’t managed to shake off their abusive narcissistic parents and needed an emotional support group. While yes, there were also multiple people who already had shaken off their N-parents, they certainly weren’t the only group and there were still many who either were still stuck living with them, or people who were living on their own but were still dependent on their parents in some way or otherwise forced to see them once in a while. And a nice chunk of the people who did manage to go low- or no-contact with their abusive parents still gave the emotional support for those of us who didn’t have the means to do so.

  Telling someone to seek professional help instead feels like such a slap in the face for people in such a situation because, for the most part, they literally can’t - at best, it’s simply because they’re completely financially dependent on their parents and can’t afford a therapist (and it might be resolvable if they get enough donations to afford checkups and their parents are the neglectful variety and don’t really care about that), but at worst (and it’s almost always at worst) they’re control freaks who believe therapy is a scam and you wanting to do it instead of “praying the depression away” means you’re not religious enough, or they would see it as an affront due to the implication of their child being traumatized by them and get furious and punish them, or be insulted/freaked out by them receiving money from strangers online and cut their entire access to the internet altogether. It’s simply not an option. So having an online emotional support group they don’t need to cough up money for is simply the next best bet for many, and while it won’t solve the problem, it’ll at least make it manageable. I know it did for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers. I wasn’t very thrilled about the change…