How to argue with a Vegan (from goodest to bestest OWNS):

I) "they dumb ugly n different obv - like my neighbor kevin like okay like just go ahead and breed more dumb ugly kevins for eating purposes okay like we all got to eat okay 👌"

II) "My mommy made canned sloppy joe's when I was a kid and if I don't get the exact flavor profile and texture of mommies canned sloppy joe's I will be depressed and you don't want that do you so yeah can we get back to grilling this baby stuffed with his own mother's fermented lactation?"

III) "I've been punching people unprovoked my whole life I'm not going to stop now just because you woke people say it's wrong all of a sudden - also who cares how my wife feels about it?" *SMACK*

IV) "akshually ☝️🤓 We don't genocide wild animals completely - we make sure there will be just enough animals left for them to make more babies that your kids can shoot and stab for generations and generations to come 🤗"

V) "I pretend to give a shit about plant and fungal root suffering while not caring about animal suffering because of some woo woo thing experienced during a psylocybin/lsd interdimensional merge and like let me tell you about it for the next thirty minutes it was so profound on that sentience topic - we are like all connected man and now I literally cannot tell the difference between a screaming nervous system having animal in a carbon dioxide gondola and gas releasing from tomatoes pulled from a vine. I value the sentience of all things so much and that's why I won't consider ANY harm reduction for ANY of them.

VI) "I'm going to pretend you don't care about humans by pointing out your focus on animals even though humans are also animals also can you throw my '❤️ alligator alcatraz' shirt in the wash? Thanks."

VII) "I take weird shits and can't gradually increase my fiber intake like any other vaguely healthy person - my butthole is a special snowflake and my ego would rather slice the throats of a million babies before considering the 0.000000001% chance of wearing a diaper in any context - even though I regularly have explosive diarrhea from a lack of fiber intake."

VIII) "Woah man, to [platitude thought terminating cliche] their own. Not everyone has to agree with you about throwing babies in gas chambers - chill."

IX) "Ever been to a bodega? 🤔 I have never lived near one myself but LOVE to use the material circumstances of others to justify my own choices I LOVE COCAINE."

X) "Isn't morality like - all made-up tho? 🤷‍♂️ (just don't like made-up my own throat or those of whatever tribe I ascribe to). What's a universal ethical principle?"

XI) "You are going to argue via reason? Dawg, We are emotional creatures 🤦‍♂️ Appeal to mine, but don't expect me to appeal to yours - or any other animal for that matter."

XII) "I'm honestly just an incoherent piece of shit and love exploitating others, get a legal enforcement mechanism in place otherwise Whaddayagondoabootit (slavery was lit btw)."

XIII) [Unfalsifiable metaphysical claim in a country where seperation of church and state makes the argument legally defunct] "I only expect you to to take my religion seriously on justifications for violence in a legal context and no others and I'm somehow not a theocratic fascist. Do not ask me how we resolve a legal dispute if your God says something different than mine."

XIV) "lmao your not paying for sliced up kevin corpses is performative - get collective or you are politically unserious (I will not only do nothing personal or collective on behalf of sliced up kevins but will also continue normalizing and actively participate in financing future throat slit kevins - also - I refuse to reduce an abstraction of people to their real individual part in a collective - literally why even talk to me go talk to an abstraction 😂)."

XV) "Paying for the body parts of babies is the same as having a phone and driving a car I don't have any nuance at all regarding intent or what classifies as a commoditiy. I just love saying capitalism bad! Anyway, Epstein did nothing more wrong than we do it's all equally bad and if you say the word 'but' I'll cut you off and claim whataboutism have a good day I have a shed to cull."

XVI) "You want to police indigenous people? Gross. I will not examine how eating animals has historically or currently harms/kills/displaces/polices indigenous people, but actually, your worldview is the problematic one. Climate change will be super helpful in ensuring the continuance of their ancestral practices and is why I exclusively eat amazonian beef. I won't examine how their practices have changed as a result of the modern world - I just love to tokenize my indigenous monoliths 🫶."

XVII) "I am of a kind for thinking and others are a kind for being turned into pink blender slop on their first day of life. Why? because I said so. I said so and so it is. I am literally entitled don't ask from where that comes from. I made the line the fuck up - whaytyagunnadoboutitt? If a bunch of people agree, it means we are right. Someone said I am of a different kind? Nonono see I am of a very rational kind I am in the cool kids club ☝️🤓 oh a bunch of people said I actually *am* of a different kind? Slave me up cuties I guess whatamIgunnadoboutitt 🤷‍♂️."

XVIII) AI will fix everythin 🤖 and mass produce lab meat 🥩 someday for a select class of people that will be able to afford it until then just let me eat puppies and discharged 36 week old fetuses in peace get off the soapbox ffs the poors can eat bugs at least.

XIX) "Muh 👖 jeans 👖 are special tho this exact arrangement in fact shields me 🛡️ yes and why well because Isaidso. I am fine with blowing the brains out of a crying begging alien on their knees with different jeans than my tribe 🙄 I am tired of explaining this."

XX) their subjugation is muh freedum 🇺🇲🦅 no tread snek 🟨🐍 crybully 🥺 subjugation is hella American after all and if you don't like it just 👏 leaaavvvveee 👏

XXI) Intellectualize violating someone's bodily autonomy with violent intent - like a CHAD. ✨ WWCD ✨

XXII) UTILITYPILLMAX AND EXHUME MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT AUNT DENISE SO I CAN TURN HER INTO MUMMY JERKY IT'S LIKE A TOTAL WASTE NOT TO.

XXIII) MY DADDY FINALLY TOLD ME I AM A MAN NOW THAT I DRANK THE HOT BLOOD OF MY VICTIMS AND I NEED HIS APPROVAL SO BAD IM SO BEHIND ON MY PERINEUM SUNNING 😭

XXIV) U R GAI SOY 🥺 IZ BAD BECUZ I AFRAID OF BEING JUDGED BY OTHER HOMOPHOBES AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT ASK ME TO DEFINE 'MAN'.

XXV) beans poopoo and also it's poor people food and I am better than them how else will they know 😔

XXVI) MIGHT MAKES RIGHT TAKE MY WIFE AND END ME ITS THE 🌈 NATURAL ORDER ✨

XXVI) YES ALIENS CAN FARM US the idea of the APEX TOP OF FOOD CHAIN IS THE REAL ETHIC.

XXVII) OKAY MAYBE MIGHT DOES NOT MAKE RIGHT, BUT MIGHT - IS! WHO THE FUCK IS DAVID HUME? Maybe I don't understand morality at all 🫸buddy🫷 but you bet your ASS I'm voting for a chudlicker every election from now until I am dead and you bet your ASS I'll be judging the condition of your lawn for the rest of your life.

XXVIII) I AM SIMBA MANIFEST. CARTOONS ARE REALITY.

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u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 3 days ago

Cruelty-free dye?

I can find loads of natural or artificial dyes that are entirely plant based but never see any that list their product as cruelty free. Do products with such labels exist?

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u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 18 days ago
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Steam Overlay for Steam Input on Windows

I've seen a couple guides to get the game working on Steam Deck with proper steam input - I for the life of me can't seem to emulate those steps for Windows 11 with a Steam controller.

  • The All in One Launcher immediately disassociates from Steam as soon as it's finished launching, and the game will not launch within Steam, but will launch outside of Steam.
  • The AotR Launcher immediately disassociates from Steam as soon as it's finished launching, and the game will not launch within Steam, but will launch outside of Steam.
  • BFME1 launches as-is in Steam if pointing directly to the game, but Steam Overlay and Steam Input do not work - the controller profiles I select prior to launching the game don't interact with the game (not an issue with the profiles themselves I assume, but something to do with how the game isn't properly tying into Steam Overlay or other Steam services).

I have tried:

  • Reinstalling games & launchers
  • Setting to single core CPU
  • Setting Windows Compatibility Mode for Windows XP Service Pack 3
  • Closing Steam & relaunching with Administrator

How is everyone getting the steam overlay to show up as intended and the steam input to work as intended? Am I missing something?

Edit: It's a bit of a workaround, but I found a solution. Though I now for whatever reason can't even launch the game in Steam - SISR works both in and out of Steam. Steam Input is now working exactly as intended.

Edit 2: I lied partially. setting up via SISR when the game is launched outside of Steam does not produce virtual menus visuals (the virtual menus are still technically working but are not visible on-screen) - everything else however seems to work.

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u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 25 days ago

Retro Anime/Manga/Light Novel Games

I'm porting over this list from a comment I made as it is more up to date and will be more searchable. Every listed franchise below has a retro video game made before PS1/Saturn or for handhelds before Nintendo DS. I wanted to stick to consoles that are overwhelmingly 2D. I probably missed some things, please let me know if so!

Franchise with English releases or patches (not on all listed platforms)

  • 3×3 Eyes (SNES, SegaCD, PC98, FMTowns)
  • Ace o Nerae! (SNES)
  • Akira (NES, Genesis Prototype)
  • Aoi Blink / Blue Blink (PCE)
  • Ashita no Joe (SNES, Neo Geo CD, GBA, PC-88)
  • Astro Boy (NES, GBA)
  • Bastard!! (SNES)
  • Bats & Terry (NES)
  • Beyblade (GBC, GBA)
  • Bubblegum Crisis (PCE)
  • Captain Tsubasa (NES, SNES, GBC, GBA)
  • Chobits (GBA)
  • City Hunter (PCE)
  • Crayon Shin-chan (NES, SNES, GBA, GG, GB, 3DO)
  • Cyborg 009 (SNES)
  • Detective Conan (GBC)
  • Dirty Pair (FDS)
  • Devilman (NES)
  • Doraemon (NES, SNES, GG, Genesis, PCECD, 3DO, GBA, Wonderswan)
  • Dragon Ball Z (SNES, Genesis, GB, GBC, GBA)
  • Eternal Filena (SNES)
  • Fist of the North Star (SMS)
  • Fullmetal Alchemist (GBA)
  • Go! Go! Ackman (SNES)
  • Golgo 13 (NES)
  • Hajime no Ippo (GBA)
  • Hamtaro (GBC, GBA)
  • High School! Kimengumi (SMS)
  • Honoo no Toukyuuji: Dodge Danpei (NES, GG, PCE, SNES)
  • Iria: Zeiram (SNES)
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (SNES)
  • Kiteretsu Daihyakka (NES)
  • Lupin the 3rd (NES, SNES)
  • Macross (NES, SNES, GBC, PCECD)
  • Madara (NES)
  • Magic Knight Rayearth (GB, SNES)
  • Magical Princess Minky Momo (NES)
  • Magical Taruruuto-kun (SNES)
  • Maison Ikkoku (PCE, NES)
  • Mashin Hero Wataru (NES, PCE)
  • Miracle Girls (SNES)
  • Mobile Suit Gundam (NES, SNES, GG, GB, GBA, FDS)
  • Nadia of Blue Water (Genesis, PCECD)
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (Wonderswan, GBC Mahjong)
  • Obake No Q-Tarou (NES) *Released in US as Chubby Cherub with sprite swap
  • One Piece (GBC, GBA, Wonderswan)
  • Osomatsu-kun (Genesis)
  • Parasol Henbee (NES)
  • Patlabor (Genesis, SNES, FDS)
  • Peacock King (NES)
  • Phoenix / Hi no Tori (NES)
  • Ranma ½ (SNES, PCECD)
  • Record of Lodoss War (SNES, PCECD, Sega CD)
  • Saint Seiya (NES, GBC Homebrew)
  • Saint Tail (GG)
  • Sailor Moon (SNES, Genesis, GB, PCECD, 3DO)
  • Shaman King (GBA)
  • Slayers (SNES)
  • Speed Racer (SNES, Atari 2600)
  • Space Adventure Cobra (Sega CD, PCECD)
  • Sukeban Deka (SMS, NES)
  • Tenchi Muyo! (SNES)
  • Tensai Bakabon (SMS)
  • The Three-Eyed One / Mitsume ga Tooru (NES)
  • Touch (NES)
  • Urusei Yatsura (NES, GB, PCECD, Sega CD)
  • Venus Wars (NES)
  • Wedding Peach (SNES)
  • YAIBA: Samurai Legend (GG, SNES)
  • Yawara (PCECD)
  • Yu Yu Hakusho (SNES, Genesis, GBA)
  • Yu-Gi-Oh (GB, GBC, GBA)
  • Zenki (GG)
  • * Famicom Jump: Eiyuu Retsuden (NES) *characters from various anime/manga
  • * Super Robot Wars (SNES, GBA) *characters from various anime/manga

No English Patches

  • Aa Harimanada (Genesis, GG)
  • Aa! Megami-sama (PCFX, PC98)
  • Akazukin Chacha (SNES, GB, PCFX)
  • Appleseed (SNES)
  • Anpanman (NES, GBC, Pico)
  • Area 88 (SNES)
  • Be-Bop High School (NES)
  • Cardcaptor Sakura (GBC, GBA, Wonderswan)
  • Crusher Joe (PC-98)
  • Flames of Recca (GBA)
  • GeGeGe no Kitarō (SNES, GBA)
  • Genji Tsūshin Agedama (PCE)
  • Ghost Sweeper Mikami (SNES) *translation nearing completion (NintendoComplete has an uploaded video with a translation from 2022 but there is no real patch yet)
  • Hunter X Hunter (Wonderswan Color, GBC, GBA)
  • Jungle King Tar-chan (SNES, GB)
  • Kinnikuman (SNES, FDS, Wonderswan Color)
  • Kimagure Orange Road (MSX, PC-88, PC-98)
  • Marmalade Boy (SNES)
  • Ninku (GG)
  • Nintama Rantarō (SNES)
  • Prince of Tennis (GBA)
  • Ring ni Kakero (SNES)
  • Slam Dunk (SNES, Genesis, GG)
  • Space Battleship Yamato (PCECD, Wonderswan)
  • Yaiba (SNES, GG)
  • A ton more I don't know, especially for old computers or Game & Watch-likes
  • * Columns GB Tezuka Osamu Characters (GBC) *Includes Astro Boy, Black Jack, Sharaku and others
  • * Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin (NES) *characters from various anime/manga

No language

  • Dr. Slump (Bandai Acadia, LSI/LCD games (Game & Watch-likes))
  • Patalliro! (LCD Game & Watch-like)

One additional modern obscurity I know of as well, there is a Ghost in the Shell visual novel homebrew for GBC.

There is also a Galaxy Express 999 lost media game build for Sega CD for random info.

Kirby, Fire Emblem, Pokemon, Dragon Quest, SMT, Persona, Tales, Final Fantsay, Star Ocean, Street Fighter, Ace & Attorney, Sonic, Fatal Fury, & Kamen Rider have anime do they count O_o

I have also almost assuredly missed some gen 3 or below titles because the characters are unrecognizable, the anime aesthetic is not at all present at that point, and there is almost no shot of experiencing the game in english assuming any text is present.

This probably covers 99% of those interested.

Edit: Oddly enough, this gets us to exactly 100 intellectual properties with official releases. I didn't plan this.

u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 29 days ago

"I love animals so much, if I had the money I'd open my own animal sanctua-"

Have you 🫵🥸 talked down to a carnist today?

They will say this to you with a straight face and change nothing about their choices. Something something always morally correct 🖐️🥸🤚

u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 1 month ago

Theocractic fascism, for the animals!

God told me I can eat the flesh of the innocent (but he also didn't tell me I have to), so I guess the legal system will just have to cater to me specifically. Yes, even if it contradicts with the faith of my fellow citizens. Cows aren't holy so they can get necked, the hindi can leave if they don't like it (not the cows tho, lol in mah belly!) My will over the lives of animals (except doggo 👉👈) IS THE LAW as ordained by God. My violence is okay, unlike everyone else's 😏

u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 1 month ago

openfpgaOS SDK limitations?

We now have DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Heretic, Hexen, Diablo, ScummVM, Wolfenstein 3-D with a pico-8 core in development....how far can this go?

If anyone has any deeper insights, I'm looking for a layman understanding. It seems like this device has opened up in ways never thought possible or at least practical.

For anyone that might have greater confidence in answering based on the SDK specs:

- 1 of 2 PC ports of symphony of the night just released. Is a modern port PC port able to make the move?

- What of other N64, or PS1 PC ports?

- What of fan games Like sonic robo blast 2?

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u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 2 months ago

Up to date accuracy tests for various cores?

I know the agg23 NES core gets a perfect 128/128 via AccuracyCoin. Can't expect that level of perfection for everything!

What do users here know of for other cores from an accuracy perspective? Does anyone have any metrics or insights that are more data driven? Feel free to chime in with any known metrics for any single core.

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u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 2 months ago

On Palmer Lucky & the Ethics of ModRetro Purchases

Yada yada controversial guy yes lets skip that part! What I'm here to discuss is valid argumentation for finding the purchasing of these products agreeable while simultaneously finding Lucky's other pursuits and their outcomes disagreeable.

As far as I can tell the most upvoted post regarding the normalization in purchasing modretro products (for those who would have a problem with Lucky) seems to appeal to a 'but you have a phone' and 'all capitalism bad' kind of argument. As a Vegan I hear this crap all the time and I'd like to highlight why this does not work and provide a better alternative argument.

My issue with this argument is thus: not all capital transactions carry the same moral weight. If I was buying a personal human slave (and it was legal to do so) and someone wanted to call me out or correct my behavior it would be rather obtuse to say something like 'but all capitalism is bad so what's the diff? you buy a phone and some corpo nonsense (that you don't support or intend) is enabled through slavery and your dollars.' It's an argument that suggests you should be able to basically do any transactions you want because other bad stuff outside of your control happens that you disagree with. I for one, oppose normalizing and purchasing any product you want just because no legal enforcement mechanism is stopping you. I actually do put the onus on slave buyers for choosing to buy slaves - call me crazy.

There is however a better alternative argument to be made for purchasing these products. And it is this:

There is no evidence that buying these gaming products in any way increases the output of Lucky's military contracts or research divisions for those products.

To give a Vegan example (because I can't help myself), if I buy an impossible Whopper at Burger King, from a business perspective, it makes absolutely no sense for Burger King to put those profits into beef products that there is no customer basis for. That is just being dumb with money. Moreover, just like modretro products, there is no capital surge created by plant product purchases to move into the selling of animal products. This is largely true of niche product purchases, regardless of seller.

So all to say, in no way is purchasing a standard chromatic product an endorsement of or financial support for Lucky's military activity or his military products. Anduril edition is an arguable endorsement, but let's be honest about intent of the buyer it's largely for aesthetic and practically no one is going to suddenly support anduril as a result of the witnessing or using of that chromatic product. Could always find a way to remove that text too.

It is maybe arguable that FPGA programming in this context helps train staff for FPGA on military hardware but it is my view at least that FPGA programming requires expertice that will be sought elsewhere, and in any case it's a hard sell to put that hypothetical on the consumer.

It is also maybe arguable that purely on grounds of needlessness you should avoid these products because of the seller/producer, but that argument can extend in every way imaginable even including things like buying a cucumber. Much like no wide availability exists for stores with no animal products - no alternative exists for this exact kind of gbc recreation product. You could play the games another way admittedly, but not without integer scaling (often imprecise), pocketability size differences, or degraded build quality. Like I don't just want any cucumber, I want english cucumbers.

Anyway, I think this is worth considering for any modretro purchases or purchasers. I'm in analogue world and plan on staying there (and would frankly recommend it for most people), but the chromatic has great aesthetics, is very durable, and has arguably the most frame to screen accurate FPGA gbc out there. It will probably work until we are old as shit, and keeps this kind of experience alive.

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u/Spear_Ov_Longinus — 3 months ago