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how much longer do we have to wait to get μLED screens, hurry up and make them engineer people

re: now that we have an SNES, a wishlist of games for it: 

oh yes and Kirby Super Star

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re: now that we have an SNES, a wishlist of games for it: 

oh! of course Final Fantasy II (IV) and III (VI) too

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now that we have an SNES, a wishlist of games for it: 

Already have:
Chrono Trigger
Illusion of Gaia
Lagoon (oof)
Donkey Kong Country
Super Mario World

Want:
Super Mario All-Stars
Terranigma (repro cart)
Super Metroid
Mega Man X (at least the first one)
maybe some Donkey Kong Country games?
A Link to the Past
Secret of Evermore
(_not_ Secret of Mana because we (will) have the Mana Collection)

Anyone know any other classics or hidden gems we should add to this wishlist?

dammit now people have me thinking about body-swapping and trying on a friend's body for a while

so it turns out the thing that would solve all our problems with audio/video stuff is called an AV receiver and they are incredibly expensive and loaded with features we don't need x.x

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

today is the only day you can boost this but only if you also live in purple grid world

I wonder how feasible it would be to create some kind of post-processing video filter that would remove rapid flashing from old video games because there are games that are Really Good and yet that I can't recommend to friends because photosensitive epilepsy

@heytanuki@snouts.online @Hi_cial@snouts.online I guess technically someone's name being their username is a valid greeting too, because you can just greet someone by saying their name too

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I like it when people have usernames that are also ways of greeting them, like @heytanuki@snouts.online and @Hi_cial@snouts.online

meta stuff 

well, I never previously felt the need to lock follows (i.e. put them on an approval-only basis) but with the current influx of bad actors I think even on awoo there's a bit of a need for it right now.

weird thoughts 

Thinking about headless hyenas....

Hyenas seem to be on my mind a lot lately. Maybe I should try being one sometime.

I like that ancient didactic inscriptions of an alphabet are called "abacedaria" just because that's abcd with vowels and a latin ending stuck on it

the sound that a laserdisc player makes is quite scary

it sounds like the disc is going to fly apart or something

I like how DVD originally stood for digital video disc and then people started using it for non-video things and they tried to rename it digital versatile disc but all they really did was make it end up not standing for anything

i wonder how many times this message has been converted between electrical and optical signals by the time it reaches the person reading it

re: Tech problems, cleaning up our TV space 

For the devices being plugged into the TV, we ended up getting some little switches. Hopefully they help.

I'm not so sure about the component/composite one because I don't know how our TV determines whether it needs to use the component or composite decoder.

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re: Tech problems, cleaning up our TV space 

Additionally, this gives us:

1 TV
1 SNES
1 PS2
1 Wii
1 X360
1 Wii U
1 Wii U gamepad charger
1 Nintendo Switch dock
1 PS3
(also 1 bug zapper because that was the best place to put it)

that all need to be plugged into a power outlet in the TV area. Of these, there are two that require extra space for a wall wart: the Switch dock and the SNES.

Currently, all of these are plugged into one of two power strips that are chained off each other. We just ordered today a 12-outlet power strip to hopefully help with this mess.

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