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Think I'm gonna pin this. Not planning on using this all that much for the foreseeable ever. Gonna update the website's code to post updates elsewhere. Follow me there if you want said updates and aren't already doing so.
Gideon Zhi
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Gideon Zhi
@GideonZhi
Localization, etc.
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- Nintendo: We just issued a mass DMCA takedown for 8500 git emulator and adjacent repositoriesPlayStation: we just pissed off a playerbase so hard it set new records on Steam Xbox: we're shutting down multiple successful studios to reprioritize development Nintendo: Switch 2!
- Alright, I think I've condensed my thoughts. There's a lot here, so, thread incoming:
- Replying to @GideonZhiSo for what it's worth, I have a Switch. I also run Yuzu. I buy the games I emulate. But the Switch itself is just a really poor experience, especially in comparison. The handheld ergonomics are awful, and the framerates are bad. It was (usually) okay in 2017! But not in 2024.
- Replying to @GideonZhiI'm curious to see what the successor looks like, but the Zelda piracy fiasco aside this feels like Nintendo trying to save face by stamping out a legitimately better experience that they don't currently provide.
- I just called my rep to say in no uncertain terms that, despite being a lifelong Democrat voter and voting blue all the way down the ticket this year, that I absolutely *do not* support Pelosi for Speaker in Congress 117. I encourage you do to the same. ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_…JUST IN: Pelosi launches formal bid for Speaker in next Congress hill.cm/GRUysWu
- Replying to @GideonZhiBy now you've probably seen that romhacking.net is effectively dead. In the end, it's probably for the best; the site was built in the mid aughts and its backend hadn't been re-engineered... ever. Consequently it was costing its administrator hundreds of dollars/month.
- Replying to @GideonZhiAnd finally, it's been pointed out that towards the end of their life Near used they/them pronouns. I'd forgotten this and am mortified at misgendering them :(
- Replying to @GideonZhiI'm even angrier at comparisons being drawn between disgruntled staff and the scum-suckers that drove Near to end his life. What happened to Near is an absolute tragedy and I sincerely hope there's a special place in Hell for the human garbage that tormented him.
- Replying to @GideonZhiNightcrawler, the admin, was burnt out, and I sympathize. I'm burnt out too! But he existed as a single point of failure for the site and exerted iron-fisted control over community-created content, and categorically refused basically all offers of help over the last decade.
- Replying to @GideonZhiSo, yeah. Mourn for RHDN. But this was not the outcome anyone wanted, and Nightcrawler is *not* the victim here.
