RoabeArt [he/him]

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Cake day: October 13th, 2020

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  • Most of them are usually some bootable Linux distro/emulator/frontend suite, such as Batocera or Lakka. Unfortunately I can’t speak for which ones are good or shit. There’s also the possibility of the cheaper ones having some kind of malware payload on them; definitely don’t plug one in to a desktop/notebook that you care about.

    If you’re tech savvy and already have the game ROMs, you could actually build a Batocera USB stick yourself and load the ROMs to it. There are lots of tutorials on YouTube etc.




  • RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.nettoMemes@lemmy.mlJerkoff
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    6 months ago

    I “love” when a show like Law and Order has a scene where the cops go to arrest somebody who is later proven to be innocent, and it’s always at their workplace, or a busy family function, or a restaurant. The cops proceed to loudly accuse the person of the heinous crime right in front of their friends/family/neighbors/coworkers.

    Then later on, the actual perp is arrested and no mention is made again of the innocent person they practically eviscerated in public or in front of their loved ones.

    It’s like these shows exist to subliminally train you to passively accept cops treating you like shit, even if you’re innocent.






  • I need to get back into OSM. Pokemon Go was the reason I initially started contributing. The game uses (used?) OSM map data, and certain Pokemons will spawn near certain biomes (water, woods, etc).

    My little cousin played the hell out of PG around 2017-2018, and they mostly played it around the big park in our town. At the time, the park appeared on OSM (and by extension PG) as a featureless green polygon with a few roads and footpaths. In reality it has a bunch of woods, streams, a pond, playground, public pool etc. So I did a quick readup on how to add stuff to OSM and I gave the park a digital makeover. I even walked around the footpaths with my phone and marked them out with the GPS so that they would appear in the map more accurately.

    Unfortunately it was quite a while before Pokemon Go updated its OSM database, and my cousin lost interest in the game by then. But I kept at contributing for quite a few years, adding random stuff in spurts and stopping for a month or two








  • RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzWormholes
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    1 year ago

    I still remember the way my science teacher explained a hypothetical warp drive (like how it is in Star Trek). He took a black towel, representing space, and laid it flat on a table. He set down a miniature model of the Enterprise on one end of the towel, then accordion-folded the towel up so that the other end was close to the ship. He moved the Enterprise over to that end of the towel, and unfolded it so that it was flat again. The Enterprise was now on the other end of the table.

    An overly simplified visualization, but it really illustrated the idea to my ten year old brain how space-time could hypothetically be bent to make fast interstellar travel a possibility. Also it made me realize that warp speed on the Enterprise wasn’t just a super powerful rocket or something.