wizardbeard

A good chunk of the world is still stuck where the options are coal vs nuclear for base load coverage. Of course people are going to push for the safest option for large load needs.

We're generations away from worldwide energy needs being met entirely by green renewables and battery banks. I'll never be against expansion of those technologies, but nuclear is an important middle step that is far less dangerous than the most widely used technologies for meeting base load (coal).

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

What?

Coal plants are the ones that produce radioactive smog. Nuclear plants just put off steam. The radioactive material doesn't come into contact with the clean water loop that is used to spin the turbine and generate power unless something is catastrophically wrong.

The dangerous byproduct, spent fuel rods, are stored in pools buried deep, and radioactivity is drastically abetted by the spent rods being submerged in water.

Seriously, you anti nuclear people are like anti vaxxers. It's very minimal reading to learn how this shit works so that you can have valid critique, but no, that's too tough.

Open platforms

Care to share any of those? That would be quite helpful.

Is bugmenot still a good source for shared creds, or are companies getting savvy to it yet?

A good chunk of the internet in general as well. I don't see how this is in any way enforcable. So fucking many things do this.

Oh man, can't wait for all the physics engine abuse videos.

Saved you a click.

It's called Emerald Resprited. Has a Vanilla version with just the sprite changes, and a different version where all 386 are catchable and trainer rosters are adjusted to match up with each artist's contributions.

Incredibly inconsistent quality of the sprites. Just take a quick scroll through their google doc. Actual artist work right next to obvious child scribbles.

Turning the freakin hogs gay

I have an Aunt who ruined her life with drug usage, so that pretty much ensured I had no interest. She had gone sober long before I was born, but her life was and is still a mess, unfortunately.

Sex talk didn't happen until I had already bought my first pack of condoms and had used most of them. My parents seemed relieved to be able to avoid talking about it.

Yeah, RetroArch is something best used/enjoyed in spite of the lead devs. There's a lot of really cool and unique stuff it does, but the main devs have pulled some real bullshit over time.

Iirc, the creator of Duckstation has been salty about repackaging his stuff for a good while. He had disagreements with how RetroArch made a core from his emulator, citing some sort of licensing violation (not asure the validity). So someone forked his codebase and made the Swanstation core, and he publicly exploded and ceased development of Duckstation.

He must have come back at some point for his opinions to be relevant again I guess.

As far as I understood things, he's always been touchy about what others chooss to do with his code, even having negative reactions to basic bug fix pull requests.

Apologies if the other response comment covered some of this. I've got them blocked and I'm not going to even try to figure out who on my block list it is and why.

Sigma Star Saga is an odd RPG game where the random encounters are short side scrolling shmup segments. I really enjoyed the amount of it that I played, but you can get screwed in some encounters as it gives you a random ship each time, and some are worse than others.