“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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Cake day: July 25th, 2024

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  • This seems super bizarre in the face of bsnes. ZSNES as a name nowadays is basically nostalgia bait; base ZSNES – of the popular “big three” of bsnes, SNES-9X, and ZSNES – is the worst SNES emulator you can be using. Meanwhile, bsnes is fantastic (and even, for nostalgia pandering, has the falling snow as an option if that would break the bank).

    “Who on Earth asked for this?”, is my question. “Classic development style” in the case of ZSNES was shitty, highly inaccurate HLE that worked just well enough for popular titles. It’s a honking heap of shit at this point that, in 99.99% of cases, you’d only use because you don’t know better. I have no idea what this new version does that’s remarkable enough to warrant its existence.











  • I kind of understand fashion shows with exotic outfits not meant to show off things people will actually wear but just to make a statement within an artform.

    I will not now, not ever understand the wankery at car shows where automakers will design concept cars not even close to anything a human being will ever be regularly driving. Yeah, some artistic design goes into a car, but even more than fashion, the designs are constrained predominantly by engineering challenges.

    It’s just: “Hey, I know we’re intentionally ruining the planet and bribing/extorting your governments to let us, but maybe one day it’ll be cloaked in the aesthetic of a shitty sci-fi utopia instead of a shitty sci-fi dystopia.”