I have a 19” compaq computer monitor for my 98 PC and a 27” Magnavox that uses S-Video

Yes, pretty much every active server on UO has one. This one is ours if you feel the fancy to hop on sometime (I go by VE_AG_RA on UO [long story])

I remember the good old days of the 300 pingers either being people on dial up or Aussies getting a morning game in. Yeah it’s be hard to scrim with that ping for sure. Thanks for sharing the game date URL. It’s a nice little site, we’ve used it a few times

Not sure if you read the article but it looks like organized crime is threatening to kill people on the “above board” platforms as well.

I also am against turning the state into the purveyor of gambling as it creates perverse incentive for the state to prioritize predating on problem gamblers and poor people in order to raise tax revenues. Money is fungible and as soon as the lottery becomes a funding vehicle for education it becomes the funding vehicle and you shift more of the burden off of the rich paying taxes and more on the poor to fund it.

I’m all for the state staying out of regulating vices but also the state shouldn’t be the one providing it to the populace.

Gambling is a moral issue, the prevalence of which is showing the degradation of the values of our society due to late stage capitalism. Unregulated capitalism places no value on values and only value in capital.

Don’t know if you are interested in COD UO but we have biweekly pugs every Tuesday and Sunday evening. I think the cod1 scene is pretty much like us. CoD2 seems to be the active community with a running league with like 9 teams or so.

Trying to build the community up on these old games

I am skeptical that it can grow to be a network the size of twitter, be ran as a for-profit, and not enshittify. I can’t think of a single example that hasn’t. Bluesky has ran as a public benefit corporation so far, but it has to keep the lights on somehow.

It took twitter years to run somewhat profitably. Even then Twitter was enshittified before Musk bought it. Premium subs are probably the least enshittified way to raise revenue, but ads and algorithms meant to raise engagement towards those ads are very much enshittification in action. That “normal people” have a high level of monetization they are willing to tolerate, is just grease on the wheels toward enshittification.

I admittedly have a limited understanding of the full operation of ATProto so please correct me if wrong. Appviews/lists/feeds are supposed to be the defense of ad/algorithm enshittification, anyone could write an appview with a different algorithm.

And this is why I assume that the network can only be run without enshittification, is by a benevolent provider. If Bluesky becomes hostile to an Appview that allows users to bypass ads or engagement farming, users can move their PDS to another relay that isn’t hostile to it. But there still remains the underlying reason that Bluesky would theoretically have become hostile to it. I don’t see how blacksky, for instance, wouldn’t also have to eventually take the same steps.

If twitter but with less right wing voices is what the people wanted then they will be sorely disappointed when bluesky enshittifies with no real recourse to prevent it. If everyone just hops on over to blacksky or whatever other 3rd party relay exists, they’ve still got the same problem. All the power resides in a single entity. Bluesky’s basic defense of their platform is that if they enshittify then ATProto allows some other benevolent corporation to take their place but has one major flaw. Corporations are not benevolent

I played this game all the way through without a guide about 3 years ago. It has NES jank but the only really frustrating parts are unlocking the dungeon with the flute and with the candle. Everything else had a hint to tell you how to find it or was just out in the open

The key was to write everything down. The dungeons are fine, it’s just the overworld that needs hints

I don’t pay for the Verge, and if I did and still saw ads, I definitely wouldn’t renew. “Maximizing profit” only works, if we fold. If we fold to ad supported journalism, then companies will plaster their sites with ads. The market regulates itself if the consumer is principled enough. The problem is that your average consumer is weak willed and less-than-principled. I’m fine going without even if it ends up being a pointless endeavor.

I get it, but reader-funded journalism is always better than advertiser-funded. But if the reporting isn’t worth paying for to you, I don’t blame you for skipping them. I feel the same way some times. One article might be worth paying for but I’m not so interested in what they report to justify a full subscription.

Seems kind of icky to immerse that young of a child into brands like that. I ended up letting my kids play Mario with me whenever they started showing interest in it which was around 3 or 4.

It’s probably harmless, lots of people buy apparel for their baby with their favorite sports team and such on it. I think I’m just so black pilled on capitalism that I can’t see it unbiased anymore. Sorry for a bummer politically adjacent rant on the Nintendo community…

This will probably be unpopular but the leftist - liberal infighting is my least favorite part of the fediverse and why I usually end up having to give people a warning before telling them to get on the fediverse.

This drama is kind of the epitome of that

Not sure that HDMI to component would be any better than just going straight component if your PVM doesn’t accept HDMI. Even if it does accept HDMI, it probably would be better to do straight component anyway. I would defer to your research as I’m not an experts on PVMs.

But personally I would probably just play ps3 on an LCD rather than a CRT. Most games, especially the last half of the generation were designed to plan on an LCD and it’s the easiest to connect and get good picture quality.

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The added content for the switch 2 looks underwhelming but I really liked wonder. It was a breath of fresh air after nearly 2 decades of new souper ports and sequels

PS3 comes with Composite cables. Why not use them instead of trying to downscale HDMI back to SD and adding lag?

Seems like a side-grade rather than an upgrade

Since coding isn’t my day job. I use slickedit as a nice fully featured text editor. Or notepad++ in a pinch.

Personally haven’t used a full IDE since netbeans 15 years ago in my university days

9000 IQ programmer starts every project rolling their own debugger instead of dedicating 8GB of RAM to vscode

That’s a fair point to disagree on. Fundamentally, I see it as a console that can also do PC stuff as opposed as a PC that can be played in the living room.

The price is probably more competitive for those who think of it as a PC first, I just don’t know if that is a market segment that can lead to a profit.