Love love love RetroDECK! Can't wait to give this update a look.

I do hope that this update will finally be the one that stops turning auto-save/auto-load back on, though; That's always a minor irritant for me - I turned it off so I want it to stay off, and I shouldn't have to go through every emulator I use at every RetroDECK update to turn that option back off again! I haven't finished doing it after the last time, yet...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnyway I don't really see a Stellaris replacement out there, and I want to play something like Stellaris. There are ten thousand FPS out there, gajillions of platformers, hundreds of puzzle games and so on . . . serious big scale grand strategy science fiction 4X? Right now there is one. Well, one that's any good, there might be one or two others but . . . not really. Which means it must be pretty hard to do, so I'm a bit forgiving of engine issues, and also means I got nowhere to go if I decide to get pissy over not much.

Just a maze-chase fan cruising by to say that I totally get what you mean here - some genres just don't have a lot of options!

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I admit it, I laughed at the "Fips Fest" line in the trailer. That's exactly my sort of daft humour, right there.

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Quoting: tarmo888You might not be able to show it on your Steam profile, but any website could read the data from blockchain and display them. That's even if Steam removed it from their API.

There's a website that already archives all that stuff, though, and they don't need the blockchain to do it. Not that the blockchain actually stores image-data in the first place.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismBut in all seriousness in my opinion LibreVoxe is way better than VoxeLibre and easier to remember and rolls off the tongue better IRL speech.

Quoting: wvstolzingThere's a free (public domain recordings, by volunteers, of public domain books) audiobook site called 'LibriVox' https://librivox.org/ -- they may have wanted to avoid the names getting conflated.

And also you'd lose the Voxel wordplay by putting the Libre first.

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I knew from when I first played it that the name would inevitably be changed eventually, and here we are. I don't know what the other options in the running were, but now they've picked one hopefully it'll let them branch out more than the old name would've.

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Quoting: whizseOh! New word learned!

See also, "twunt", which Spider also picked up from me and seemed most amused by.

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Quoting: scaineThat was NOT a game title I was expecting, but I'm sure it really benefits from its now-working audio.

I always love the confusion words like that cause amongst English-speaking audiences, hahaha!

Spoiler, click me

"Wan" is just the Japanese onomatopoeia equivalent to "woof", and "ko" is a female name suffix. It's often used in the titles of cutesy stuff about puppies.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyStrange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

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Quoting: tuubiYou keep dunking on it, but I swear it took at least a couple of days before we got bored with my classmate's Barcode Battler. I mean, it was a new gadget and we were nerdy kids in our pre-teens.

Hehe, I should be clearer, I guess (I may have mentioned this in another thread, but I can't remember for sure off of the top of my head, so pardon me if I'm repeating myself!). I've got no issue with the device itself (it's just not my thing), and the way I refer to it is jokingly.

What I took issue with as a youngster, and the reason I occasionally still mention it today, was how the British press were so disingenuous in claiming that the Barcode Battler was a true competitor to systems like the Game Boy, Game Gear, and Atari Lynx, and did so whilst banking on ignorant (and sometimes scared) parents guided by even-more-ignorant (and considerably more insidious and controlling) busybodies in their local communities.

Anyhow, a couple of days is probably a record with the device, to be fair. At any rate, it's still more usable than the SuiPlay0x1 render looks!

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