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Wyvern mentioned that medicating someone without their knowledge is bad.

So I provided an example of that, taken up a notch.

It might be worth noting that I was running Azahar through Vulkan... which ... I think is currently listed as an 'experimental' level of support by Azahar's website.

It recommends OpenGL for better support and stability.

I ran around more in Kokiri Village, no more audio spikes. I think its just due to how certain cutscenes quick load scene transitions.

Also, I completely didn't expect this to just work, but it does:

The secondary screen, that's touch sensitive on a 3ds?

Well the Deck's screen is touch sensitive as well.

Worked just fine to navigate through the map and item menus and what not, just poking the Deck's screen itself.

So, I have literally never used a 3ds emulator before, ever.

EmuDeck set up Azahar in a few minutes, a few minutes more for me to find an OoT rom, a few minutes more to dl it...

...a few minutes more to figure out that the EmuDeck parser thing either isn't working at finding 3ds files ... or I am a moron and you just install the .cia (what a file extension name) into the Emu, in Desktop mode.

Add the Azahar emulator itself into steam library via EmuDeck which launches Steam Rom Manager...

Back out into game mode, launch Azahar, launch OoT, and yep, it works, also wow I forgot the 3ds has two screens, Azahar's default render screen sectioning for this is weird, but it works!

Turn on performance overlay, looks like I'm getting a solid 60 fps, rendering the main game screen at double the DS's native resolution.

Start a new save file, go through the intro sequence, run around in my treehouse room a bit...

All works, save for a few instances of the audio playing... a bit too fast, or too slow, for maybe a split second, in a few parts of the Navi flying really fast intro sequence.

... So... seems to work just fine, basically?

Probably I could tinker with Azahar's settings a bit to see if I can iron out the mild audio quirks, but I'd say thats pretty good for a total elapsed time of about 30 minutes, and me having literally zero experience with 3ds emus, much less on a Deck.

EmuDeck handled making up the control scheme layout in Game Mode, which worked fine in game, automatically, I just had to deal with some mild awkwardness of double clicking on OoT with the trackpad to launch it.

Yep, this is always a factor, even with PC games.

For example: the Switch 2 uses an ARM CPU.

That is different in significant ways than an x86/64 CPU.

How the system allocates memory is also... a confounding factor.

Sometimes you have just one kind of RAM shared between the CPU and GPU. Sometimes there are different kinds of RAM for the CPU and GPU.

It looks like the Switch 2 is sharing LPPDR5 RAM between the CPU and GPU, as the Deck does... on the Deck, you can use CryoUtils to manually adjust how much is allocated to which.

The Switch 2 will... maybe have a standardized allocation for all games, or allow certain games to adjust the allocation.

And then if course there is port quality, and proton...

It gets pretty complicated to estimate just purely from specs alone.

Hence why the PC centric crowd is so much into empirical testing via benchmarks.

... yeah.

Shits gonna get real bad.

Like Great Depression 2.0 bad, but this time shanty towns are all classed as illegal homeless encampments and Trump has publicly stated multiple times his plan for the homeless is literally concentration camps in the middle of nowhere or outskirts of cities, that kind of bad.

I mean, I can be as much of a pedant as you and post an unsourced definition of 'ip theft' ... or maybe you could just admit you'd never heard of the term 'ip theft', or are unaware of its use.

Its a pretty commonly used term, especially amongst government regulatory and business organizations, as well as academics who study policy, in the US.

The term itself, its phrasing, is intentionally constructed to frame copyright infringement as a form of theft, stealing something that doesn't belong to you.

The psychological framing of the term is meant to frame losses from someone committing copyright infringement against you as equivalent to losses from being robbed.

The entire point of the usage of this term is to mold public perception.

Here's some examples where very prominent US institutions/organizations use some construction or variation of 'ip theft' as an umbrella term to refer to all kinds of copyright, trademark and/or patent infringement:

FBI

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/countering-the-growing-intellectual-property-theft-threat

KPMG (huge business consulting group)

https://kpmg.com/us/en/articles/2022/theft-intellectual-property.html

DHS (Homeland Security)

https://www.dhs.gov/intellectual-property-rights

IPRC (Intellectual Property Rights Center)

https://www.iprcenter.gov/

And finally, literally IPTheft.org, which basically functions as an all-in-one training/resource hub that connects business people to all kinds of resources to report when they have suffered... IP theft.

https://www.iptheft.org/

The entire original comment chain that lead to what I replied to ... was all about playing word games with slogans, progoganda, public relations.

The law may be 'clear', but it is clearly bullshit.

It is absurdly deferential toward the rights of megacorps and hostile to the rights of consumers.

Laws are supposed to reflect and codify morals and ethics, arise from them... not determine them.

But, as we slip more and more into a cyberpunk dystopia of hypercapitalist megacorps being able to basically just buy legislators, judges and laws, it will become more evident that the government is just entirely a facade directed by them.

This whole article is about a lawsuit in America, you know, the land of the fee, home of the early and very expensive grave?

The place with the ongoing fascist coup that's dismantling all the government agencies that regulate corporations, after the richest man in the world just bought an election, and more recently openly tried to buy a state judge, and though he didn't succeed, will likely face no penalty for doing that very obviously illegal thing?

Also, as far as at least acquring a pirated game?

Its not that hard.

Now hosting them? Sharing them?

Yep, you're right, that's a bit more difficult... but hey, be clever enough to not get caught, and thats the same as being rich enough to write your own laws.

Unless I'm missing something, China is doing a lot of trade with Russia in goods that help the Russians build their own military gear...

whereas, under Biden, the US was doing that with Ukraine, and basically also just directly sending them something like half our mothball reserve military equipment, lots of ammo and arty shells, and a good deal of fancy newer stuff (HIMARS), and also very actively leveraging our intelligence assets/network to directly assist in operational planning.

In fact, Trump has about faced so extremely hard that the EU could potentially make a trade deal with China that includes the EU buying a whole lot of shit they had been selling to Russia, so that the EU can better supply its now increasingly levels of / plans for its own military production while choking off Russia's ability to do the same.

I am autistic and do not find that offensive at all rofl.

I often wish I could live somewhere that was some kind of safe haven, a zion for autistic people.

We can be extremely productive and creative when our boundaries are respected, but uh, when they aren't, we either shut down or freak out.

I guess my only quibble would be... I do not 'suffer' from autism any more than a gay or lesbian or trans person 'suffers' from ... being innately different from the social norm in a way they cannot fundamentally change.

Queer folk 'hide in the closet', autists 'mask'.

It is society that causes us to suffer by generally consistently refusing to listen to us, respect and understand our differences, and instead pathologizes and patronizes us as 'sick' or 'ill' in some way.

If they start trying to 'cure' us, that'll be basically a kind of genocide.

Autism does not have any known cause.

Genetically, there are some clusters of genes that seem to be present more often than not in Autistic people...

But it is very, very far from being any kind of conclusive 'we found the autism genes.'

... And if you look into a whole lot of pharmacology/psychiatric research, you'll find that a common practice is to give mice who are gestating chemicals that cause literal brain lesions and other physiological abnormalities and deformities, and this causes the brain fried mice to be less social, so they call that a good proxy of autism, and then test their drugs on these 'autistic' mice.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28472621/

This model is still common in modern studies and drug development because back in the 70s, a good number of pregnant women who took valproic acid (depakote) during pregnancy, gave birth to babies who were... well, to put it bluntly, retarded, seriously mentally impaired, as well as having mutations.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Valproate

But hey thats basically the same thing as autism right?

So yeah, many current psychiatric explorations 'with the potential to develop a drug that treats the symptoms of autism'... are literally just retardifying mice with massive brain damage inducing chemicals,.pretending that is autism, and then testing their drugs on the retarded mice to see if it changes something.

... And thats all without RFK Jr in charge.

copyright infringent is commonly also referred to as IP theft, theft of intellectual property.

unauthorized use, sale, or distribution of ip is ip theft.

when it comes to software, basically , unless your software is distributed under some kind MIT or GPL or other copyleft liscense... all of the software legally is ip, and using it in an unauthorized manner is copyright infringement... which is also referred to as ip theft.

so yes, ip theft is a form of theft, and gaming companies and lawyers and other lawyers have been successfully suing other people and other companies into oblivion over this basically since the industry began.

have you just never head of the term 'ip theft'?

... Meanwhile, the bond markets are continuing to freak the fuck out, and the yield curve has now inverted and univerted three times before an actual 'official' recession has begun.

For those that don't know, a yield curve inversion is when short term bonds offer a higher yield (interest rate) than long term bonds.

That... it not how that is supposed to work.

Generally speaking, a longer term bond should be riskier due to the amount of things that can possibly go wrong in that longer amount of time, as compared to a shorter term bond that pays itself back in less time, with less time for unforseen nonsense to happen.

Every single US official recession in the last ... 50, 100 years? has occured after first, the yield curve inverts, then it uninverts, and then an 'official' recession follows quite rapidly.

....Except fucking now.

Now we are in a situation where the yield curve has inverted then uninverted three fucking times without an 'official' recession actually starting.

This is unprecedented.

As of right now, the 6 month T Bill and the 5 year T Bond have roughly the same yield, and everything in between has a lower yield, the lowest point being the 2 yr.

... Its supposed to be basically a line going upward on the y axis of yields, as you move rightward on the x axis from shorter to longer term debt/bonds.

The bond market right now is more or less saying we are gonna be in for 2 years minimum of economic decline.