sjmulder

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[–] sjmulder 1 points 1 week ago

I did get the M30. It's delightful but there's one problem - it looks like The Lion King is one of the few games the Retro Receiver has a problem with. Any button presses while holding a direction on the D-pad interrupt the direction on the D-pad. So a roll becomes a crouch and a running jump becomes a standing jump. I've reached out to support, hopefully they can help, otherwise I'll have to return it.

[–] sjmulder 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I ended up applying something called Liquiwire, which seems to work well so far! I can finally play The Lion King properly again ^_^.

[–] sjmulder 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That looks interesting and worth trying. I'll have a look to see if I can find anything like that locally

[–] sjmulder 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Is buying a used controller out of the question?

The backup plan is to do either that or get an 8bitdo M30 with a retro receiver!

 

I have the Mega Drive gamepad variation pictured in this article, where the d-pad is connected to a plastic circular piece on the back of the PCB where it triggers 4 rubber buttons.

But the down direction is very unresponsive. I've cleaned it well in the hopes that sticky plastic was the cause, but it wasn't.

Any tips? Replacement rubbers, a piece of padding maybe?

[–] sjmulder 23 points 2 weeks ago

It’s how non-Latin Unicode domain names are encoded, in this case one made out of Japanese characters. I suppose it depends on the browser whether or not it shows them.

[–] sjmulder 7 points 1 month ago

“Nationalists of all nations: unite!”

[–] sjmulder 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The A12 protest is very willing to coordinate emergency routes, in any case they allow for emergency service passage (this regularly happens), and their location is easily routed around. Overall their impact is less than run of the mill roadworks and not comparable in the slightest to a major event.

[–] sjmulder 4 points 1 month ago

I hope they don't organise marathons or street fairs where you're at, or worse, resurface a road.

[–] sjmulder 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

It was surreal to read about talk of extremism, social disruption and the calls for corporal punishment (by police), long jail sentences and more, all for a 5-10 minute delay caused by the A12 blockade, when the day after I was helping out at the Egmond Half Marathon there was real disruption, where people really couldn't go places with their cars... not to mention events like the Dam tot Damloop or Amsterdam Marathon that effectively put parts of our capital city on lockdown. No calls for water cannons there.

People might say "Those are not the same!" and that's true - sport events are not a constitutional right.

[–] sjmulder 109 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To balance it out, they should have 1 Israeli patient for every 39 Gazan patients.

[–] sjmulder 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The sad irony of that site asking me to accept tracking by them and their 214 partners.

[–] sjmulder 5 points 2 months ago

I used the last of my leave days for the work mandated time off between Christmas and New Years Day. We have plenty, but I used so much for holiday and activism. So I haven't taken the customary full two weeks off and will be back at the office on 2 Jan. Don't mind it, I like the quiet office.

 

Here's a writeup of my experience this year! It's been a lot of fun, especially hanging out with people here and on Mastodon. Thanks everyone, and Eric in particular!

 

Selaco is a first person shooter on the GZDoom engine. It's currently for sale on Steam and in early access.

The GPL source code is included with the game. I'm not interested in playing the game but I am curious about the source. Can someone upload/mirror it for me somewhere? It doesn't seem to be on GitHub yet.

(Obviously this is legal, it's the very point of the GPL - GZDoom is free to build upon but under the condition that those freedoms are retained)

 

Props to everyone getting in their daily miles or more for another year!

For me it’s year 4! 🎉 Wasn’t a great running year though, didn’t hit 1000 miles. But there were a few fun runs including the Dam tot Damloop, a Mud Masters event and a local event in the middle of a heat wave.

For the curious, see e.g. https://www.runeveryday.com/

 

Oat milk and other non-dairy alternatives are currently taxed as soft drinks in the Netherlands and will go up in price when the tax on what the Dutch call ‘limonade’ is increased [2024]

the government takes the official healthy eating guidelines, known as the schijf van vijf or ‘wheel of five’ at its reference point, which recommends people eat several portions of dairy products a day, including milk or yoghurt.

Plant based milks have ‘other ingredients’ and ‘the impact of plant-based dairy alternatives have not been sufficiently researched to comment on,’ the minister said

 

Thought I'd share mine because most of the visualisations out there show the rocks sliding one cell at a time, all together. That looks nice but for my solution that's not how it works - I walk every row/col with two cursors.

Code here: https://github.com/sjmulder/aoc/blob/master/2023/c/day14.c

The visualisation is emitted right from the solution using a small library which dumps frames to ffmpeg.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sjmulder to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
 

I have the original Gran Turismo and Colin McRae Rally 2.0 for PS1 on disc, playing on a PS2 slim and PS3. On both, I can steer with the D-pad but not with the analog stick, even though both games advertise analog controls on the box.

The PS3 controller doesn't have an analog toggle button but the PS2 controller does. Pressing it enables the analog stick but it feels like it's still digital.

How is this supposed to work?

 

Last Saturday, ten thousand people converged on the Utrechtsebaan in The Hague right between Parliament and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate to demand an end to € 37.5 billion worth of fossil subsidies.

Once established, the blockade was solemnly opened by XR musicians performing Mozart’s Requiem.

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