Has anyone suggested "bin bags" yet? π
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I've been enjoying the Evercade Piko Collection 3 cart recently. When new carts come out I like to try out every game and go in-depth on a least a couple games so I have a reason to come back to it later after there's a new shiny out.
So I've been playing and streaming 40 Winks (I'm about halfway through now), enjoying some Radikal Bikers, and loving to hate the hilariously bad Sword of Sodan.
I'm a big fan of Evercade. "Plug and play" is a big part of their philosophy, there is definitely less messing around with the VS than there would be for a Pi or any other RetroArch thing one might create themselves.
If you're okay with using Discord, I'd recommend dropping into the Evercade Discord if you have any questions or just wanna hang out - lots of friendly and knowledgeable folks (about Evercade specifically, or retro games in general), regular high score competitions, and it's just a good vibe. You can find the link in the Evercade website if you're curious.
I'm sure that's what's happening in some cases, but I will say that every single person I know that takes stimulant drugs to treat ADHD need it to literally function on a day to day basis.
And no, I don't mean "function as an overworked cogwheel." I mean "remember to eat food regularly and in reasonable quantities." I mean "be able to remember to and stay focused on exercise to stay healthy." I mean "not be so constantly burnt out trying to catch up with chores that they have the energy to go out with friends." I mean "being able to provide more than sporadic, partial attention to their family or romantic partner." I mean "being able to fully enjoy their hobbies or other passions because they can focus long enough to actually take part."
I'm not suggesting there aren't people either abusing prescription stimulants for "the grind." And I'm not suggesting that some people aren't prescribed stimulants improperly when maybe therapy would be a better solution or even when there is no real problem to begin with. But I am suggesting that prescription stimulants have changed millions of peoples' lives for the better, including the at least 5 I know personally.
Number 1 for me are the Duke Nukem Collections for Evercade coming in November.
I played tons of duke3d as a kid so I'm excited to revisit it. But even more, I never got a chance to play the original DOS side-scrollers, so I'm pumped to get the new remastered versions. Even cooler that they're the first Evercade exclusives.
The trouble is that, as always, leadership fucked around and now workers are finding out.
Leadership overextended while money was cheap, now money isn't so cheap and the bills are gonna start coming due so they need to cut some "dead weight" which is largely gonna mean cutting workers to save on salaries and other liabilities.
And as always this is gonna make them look profitable enough to stay above water for a couple years until interest rates come down and money is cheap again. And that's when the cycle starts over.
The worst part is there will be no accountability for that leadership because this isn't a sign of incompetence. It is a sign of a system working as intended.
This mystery deal that fell through is a convenient precipitating event to point to, but this was always the going to be the eventual outcome of the way these companies operate.
You can see it happening...well everywhere but especially in tech and adjacent companies over the past couple years. Maybe next time it'll be another industry, but at some point folks are gonna get addicted to free money again and get all shockedpikachu when it stops being so free and they need to pay it back.
Yeah I tried to run my own a few times in a few different ways. It was easy to set up and great when it worked but I kept fucking things up every few months and spending a long time fixing it each time. Eventually I just moved to a hosted provider and not only is life so much easier, it's also much cheaper cause I'm not running my own RDS or Managed Postgres instance for the database like I was in AWS and DO.