While I’d prefer to see every state and province represented, I imagine only metro areas matter here anyway. The dangers of the road are quite different when your largest city has a sliver of density compared to the rest, though by that token, density is probably a factor that even large states should account for (which would probably put NYC very low on the list lol)

Most people will download roms, which is technically illegal although with 30 year old games there usually isn’t much concern on enforcement (heck, even Switch games aren’t really enforced). The legal way is to dump the rom from the original cartridge, though, and there are tools for that. Honestly, as long as you own the original game I’m pretty sure you can just argue you have a license to play, though.

Generally you can’t share links to roms on communities, although I bet some communities are cool with it (/0 maybe?). Try not to go anywhere that looks suspicious, in any case. Most people don’t malware Gameboy games, though lol. They won’t be .exe in any case.

As for getting it to work, Android and iPhone have different emulator apps available on their respective stores. I tried MyBoy prior but tend to prefer Retroarch (which covers multiple systems, but is a like harder to setup). On Mobile, default has controls on screen so it’s pretty much plug and play though. It’s so much more convenient than digging up ancient systems, though!

That just sounds like… what was it called… Cleverbot? Lol

I love emulating old Gameboy games on my phone. It can play things all the way up to Switch, but there’s sort of a nice mix of nostalgia and simplicity to just go monotone. No micro transactions, no server connecting, nothing. Just me and the bits.

I guess that’s not terribly beneficial, unless you count my mental health.

Like NFTs before them, tech bros trying to squeeze a technology into use cases that really don’t need it.

LLMs are language models. What next, setup Stable Diffusion to do my taxes?

Full agree on the screw situation, although my most recent mobi addressed that with a sort of… turnable plastic lock thing? And a built in heatsink and “shield” for the gen 5 and 4 ports, so I haven’t had any issues with heat. I get the sense we’ll have a better standard as time goes in though, Gen5 is really really new.

But even the gen 3s are lovely. Maybe I just hate SATA cables, haha.

It really is amazing, and just popping an m.2 into a motherboard directly is just so… easy. And I think Gen5s are what, 2.5x faster than what you’re showing here?

My favorite Atlus game is Digital Devil Saga 1&2 but that’s not even people’s third thought when I say Shin Megami Tensei PS2 era.

I used to contribute to Quora when I was in grad school, since I was actually learning a lot of the stuff people wondered about. Between lack of mods and their monetization schemes though, can’t do that anymore lol

Reminds me why I stopped going to quora. Do they just not have a way to moderate leading questions? Those people obviously know they’re just posting their BS in the form of a question, jeopardy style.

Subbed in any case. Lol

I like this analogy and generally avoid using GPS (admittedly it’s out of laziness lol). The most insane part to me is I live where everything is on a grid and somehow people are still impressed I can figure out how to get places, even without having been there. GPS brain is real.

Bad news except you can’t trust TV either. Or reading the news, lately. At least regardless of the medium, general advice carries-- double check sources, learn which are credible, etc.

I just hope people are following links and not just reading headlines, right? …Right?

Hard to say but probably not. For instance I mention Hmong because they were political refugees from Laos in the 70s to various parts of the US as refugees, many of which didn’t move away after a generation. Only a few hundred thousand but they may make up a sizable amount of Asian in Minnesota and Wisconsin, not getting much say in where.

If you move by choice, as many modern immigrants do, usually you end up where there’s work, like California (and H1Bs and colleges get a ton of well educated East and South Asians). It was enough to make Irvine blue, which was astonishing!

And older generations? Probably on average close to where they originally landed (most people don’t move more than 50miles from home) but of anyone I’d see them most likely to move to like minded places, but work usually influences that more. Keep in mind, anything past 4th generation is pretty dang assimilated.

To be fair, it’s not a very well defined group. It’s heavily split by country of origin and economic status. Imagine differences between Indian men with traditional values, Hmong refugees settled in the midwest generations ago, 6th generation Chinese in Chinatown enclaves, or 1st generation Chinese recent grads from Beijing starting up in Tech, etc…

Other racial groups also lose out on interesting distinctions (e.g. Cubans are super red) but tend to still be fairly homogeneous in political views historically.

So technically it’s probably even redder across the board, although if I remember exit polling, black man are still blue.

Still close tho, and very depressing.

Checkerboard! Keeps it level if I keep the pattern.

I did once replaced half the brown eggs with white eggs and visa versa to screw with my partner. It didn’t work. I was just weird.

Yes but for a good reason; we’re waiting until the youngest kid is less sloppy. Old rug we had needed to be removed because of how gross it got after years of first born mess making, so we learned our lesson and are waiting. The anticipation actually makes me look forward to having a rug again.

You may ask yourself, why do rugs matter? Living room is weirdly shaped so it helps define the space and keeps furniture from sliding around. It helps maintain proper distance of couch to speakers and TV distance. Those who are not excited about a rug simply haven’t had to frequently push their couch back into place after it inevitably slides back every time someone gets out of it.

I like some of your posts, no need to feel discouraged.

Usefulness is probably not the right word, though-- haha.

Honestly their algorithm seems to mostly push low quality, South Asian, and/or AI generated content lately, when randomly playing off of something like Ms Rachel or Sesame Street. Nothing disgusting, although maybe a little trippy (in AI case). My daughter really digs the Bollywood inspired kids stuff though.

Yes, of course it’s normal. It’s not necessarily the writing; sometimes it’s the music or cinematography that’ll get you. For me it’s often a strong vocal, as a minimum I’ll get goosebumps.