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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Yeah, as said, that’s going to be due to however your TV upscales things.

    Getting a dedicated scaler will help, but bear in mind that you’re taking an image that’s at least 1/4 smaller (might be less than that, can’t remember the math off hand) than your screen’s native resolution and zooming in on it.

    Using most scalers gives you a ton of options for how to zoom in. Straight pixels, bilinear (or trilinear) filtering, and some have various shader effects as well to emulate the style of TVs these consoles were made for.

    By using HDMI/VGA you are getting the clearest digital signal version of that image possible, but it’s still tiny, and any way you choose to expand it will have pros and cons.



  • Slap a silencer on and it’ll be just fine.

    Even most stealth games allow you to pop two heads at once if you’re fast enough the second guy can’t yell.

    I’m a big fan of Watch Dogs and Cyberpunk style stealth hacking though. Jump into the security cam network and kill everyone in the building using environmental hazards (and in Cyberpunk, spontaneous combustion and other fun tricks) while you sit comfy a block away. Real fun to still get the stealth mission objectives popping up after when you walk in like you own the place. Or when the game still has pre-scripted dialog about how tight security is while I’m walking through a pile of their corpses.



  • When it comes time to dedupe, I’ll bookmark all open tabs (you can do this per window using ctrl+shift+d), open the bookmark manager and pull them from the per window folders into a single folder, then run an addon to dedupe my favorites. Much faster than trying to do anything like that by hand.

    Once that’s done you can select all favorites in that folder and open them all up in a new window, but at that point I already have the bookmark manager open so I usually go through them from that.



  • I find this particularly funny, because the scene for Wii homebrew felt like the wild west for a decent while. There were many different iOS (think kind of like drivers, you’d install ones with patches applied so you could run non-nintendo code) installers that were almost all doing the exact same thing. Multiple loaders to run ISOs off USB drives. A couple of games leaked early. I remember playing Skyward Sword with a friend a few days early.

    There were a small few that tried to enforce not being able to use their homebrew apps for piracy, but they were largely derided for it. Riivolution was a groundbreaking app for arbitrarily replacing game files on the fly, but it had numerous things built in to prevent people from using it on anything but real discs. There was a decent amount of drama around that.

    Smash Bros Brawl mods were fucking amazing. There just wasn’t much like that on consoles before then.