Lost_My_Mind

Just to watch confused looks on customers faces.

"Our soup of the day is Chunky chicken noodle. Be careful. It's very hot, and also very wet. You won't be able to use a fork and knife on this soup. You'll need a spoon for sure! Did you bring your favorite spoon? No? I'll get you a spoon. It is a very basic spoon. Just made of metal. No gps navigation on this one though I'm afraid. You will have to navigate to your mouth manually."

And just watch as their faces try to hold a poker face of normality. They don't want to be rude, but also, this waiter is insane.

I haven't gotten her spam, nor heard her talked about in a while. Did she finally get banned?

So, I recently got a Retroid Pocket Flip2, but I've had a rough go.

I've been setting it up for the past week. I've had one major problem this whole time.

I'd go into ES-DE, go into NES, go to a game, and boot it up. Aaaaaaand I'd get a black screen with no context. Game wouldn't load. No error message. Nothing to tell me what I did wrong.

So I go into retroarch directly, and find it works just fine. Huh.

So off to google I go, and I got thrown for a loop, because apperently about 8 months ago there was an actual bug in the nightly releases that was patched a few days later. But that was 8 months ago in the nightly releases, and fixed, AND I only downloaded the stable version 1 week ago. But thats all google was finding.

The other thing I was finding was that this problem happens if you don't have the proper BIOS files. The problem with that is, the NES doesn't have BIOS files at all.

Finally I figured out theres a log file. And so I look at the log file, and it says Mensen.so was an invalid or missing file.

No clue what that means.

So as it turns out, ES-DE has preassigned default cores that it expects you to use for each system. Mensen is an NES core emulator, but I had downloaded FCE. And I only downloaded one NES emulator, because I figure it's the NES. How hard can it possibly be to emulate a 40 year old system on modern hardware, right?

Well, that's true. But ES-DE is specifically always looking for the default. In this case Mensen. When it didn't find it, it gave up. Didn't matter that I had a perfectly stable, and solid core emulator. It just gave up.

So what you do it, go into ES-DE, go to menu. Then Other Settings. Then Alternate Emulators. Then select the one that you want to be the default.

Now restart ES-DE, and load your game. Should work like gravy.

The only other reason you'd get a black screen is if you're using a system that needs BIOS files, that you never set up.

Hope this helps someone using google in the future! Happy retro!

You know the ones. Ambernic, Retroid, Miyoo, and the like. I swear they come out with a new handheld every 5 minutes. You can't even research the damn things before 3 more latest and greatest come out.

Anyways. I bought a Miyoo Mini. Love it. Hands hate it. Thought "This would be way better if it were bigger. Duuuuh, I'm an idiot right? Well 5 minutes after I bought the damn thing, they release the Miyoo Mini Plus. Which is just a Miyoo Mini, but bigger. So apperently I'm not alone.

Then I started playing my DS Lite with a flash cart, and loved THAT form factor.

Then they came out with Retroid Pocket 5. And I was in love. I had my hand on the buy button. And remembered how the Miyoo Mini played out.

So I said "If I still love it in 6 months, I'll buy it." Literally 1 month later after I saw that, they announce the Retroid Pocket Flip 2. Which is just the Retroid Pocket 5, in a DS style case, but only 1 screen. Which is fine by me. I never cared about the dual screen gimmick.

So I said "Ok, if I still love THIS in 6 months, I'll buy it."

Welp. 6 months passed, and last week I got my Flip 2. Now I'm in the process of setting it all up. And hooboy do I have all the questions.

I watched Retro Game Corps guide on setting it up, and thats great, but I also want discussion, and advice, and to share what I learn over time.

But if there is a community for these things, I'm unaware. This is the closest thing to an active community that I know of.

So. Who wants to talk shop?

I'm wanting to buy a Retroud Flip 2. Specifically the gamecube one.

Now on Retroids website, it's $229 + $25 shipping.

On Amazons website, it's $269 + shipping. However the amazon shipping is within the USA. (I think).

Is it going to be worth it to order straight from Retroid? Or are there going to be tarrifs? How much are the tarrifs?

So, what's the best Linux distro? Right answers only. Give details...

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I tried to explain the concept of cute aggression to someone who's never experienced it before. It did not go well. They thought I wanted to hurt puppies.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's when you see a cute thing, like a puppy. And it makes you want to shake the puppy and hug him so tight that his body turns into liquefied puppy batter that splatters all over your face.

.....I'm bad at explaining things.

I just had an amazing idea, that I need in my life.

William Shatner needs to perform a spoken word rendition of "Pants on the ground", in the spirit of "Rocketman".

Let's crowdfund this, and make it happen.

For a creature that's known for their fashion choices of wearing a white sheet, you'd think there would be more racist ghosts.

They come from a time when it was socially acceptable to be openly racist. Plus, if you go back about 1000 years or so, it was socially acceptable to just murder entire villages because your people didn't like their people.

But anytime you see a ghost, it's always like "oooOOOooooOOOO!! I HAVE UNFINISHED BUSINESS ON EARTH!!!"

Like, seriously??? Why would a ghost give a fuck if his finances weren't paid before they died?

And, can we talk about ghostbusters for a second? That one judge was like "Oooh, those are the famous criminals that were brothers! I sent them to death row"

But meanwhile they look NOTHING like humans. But somehow he instantly recognizes them. Are we led to believe they looked like ghoulish monsters when they were alive?

And the librarian looks like a human corpse. So, still human, but, like, after her body has been dead a few weeks. Are we to believe she died, and then her spirit stayed inside her rotting corpse of a body and THEN became a ghost, and retained it's final form?

Either way......never seen a racist ghost. Which I think has to be statistically impossible.

If you look at how the USA has progressed, the south is STILL stuck in certain trends that affect current day society. It's why they're the bible belt, but states like Arizona and California aren't reffered to as "the south".

Geographically it makes no sense. California, Arizona, New Mexico, they're all geographically south, but that's not what that means.

And racism in the south is just so much more amplified than it is in other states. When you think about it, the 1860s are not THAT long ago in terms of societies.

I think we're still being affected by actions from those times. A family experiences hardship. So they raise their kid to not trust those that caused it. And that kid grows up and does the same. Without a break in the chain, it just perpetuates more of the same.

So we're only about 8 generations removed from that time. It's really not that much. And OBVIOUSLY slavery is going to cause racism.

But what if the slaves were left on Africa, and the plantation owners just had automated drones that did all the work?

What would racism today look like?

How is that even possible???

If he wanted to, couldn't spez just buy it, and make it serve as a redirect to reddit? I don't understand how SOMEONE hasn't bought/used this domain for fediverse purposes.