SimplyTadpole

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'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 weeks ago

"We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."

The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I feel like I'm the only one here who actually likes it when games I loved when I was younger become old/retro. I see it as a badge of honour, like them getting to enter the hall of fame.

Super Mario World isn't a bad game just because it's old, it's just as great now as it was in the 90s. Same with Sunshine. And it makes me happy knowing I grew up with these games - no amount of aging or growing old could take that away from me.

Elon Musk says it’s trans people’s fault that cis people are burning Tesla cars in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Please tell me where this is from 🥺

The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15 in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

Wow, you weren't kidding. Full-on death threats and nazi talking points... over a graphics driver.

Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana in c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This feels too good to be true.

The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Happy birthday!

The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Cars, NFS Hot Pursuit 2 (and Underground 2), Test Drive Unlimited, and The Simpsons Game (and Hit & Run). Mostly racing games lol.

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viva la onehundredninetysix :3 rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
USA President term limits in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Also, given how Trump's been even more incoherent and irrational in this election compared to 2016's, I'd be surprised if he's still grounded enough in reality (or even alive) to seek more terms in 2028 - he's already in his 80s and doesn't live a healthy lifestyle; he has supercharged billionaire-only medicine, but there are only so many miracles that medicine can do.

I guess maybe the Republicans would try to keep him as a front for PR (like a puppet president) while hiding the fact that he's senile from the population, and governing from the shadows. Which I suppose is barely better than direct rule from Trump himself.

USA President term limits in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Now I'm curious: if Person A serves two full terms as US president, then Person B (from the same party) runs and chooses A as their vice-president, and then steps down, what would happen? Would A be unable to be picked as B's Vice President in first place, or would A simply be legally unable to be sworn in as President after B stepped down and the Speaker of the House gets the position instead?

Pregnant teen died agonizing sepsis death after Texas doctors refused to abort fetus in c/texas@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

You say that as if 100% of Americans want this, I have friends there who never wanted any of this and I fear for them

The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election in c/leftism@lemmy.world
[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago

meanwhile im already seeing "moderate" "pundits" saying the reason Harris lost is because she was too woke and Democrats need to move further right 🙃

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Finally got this after two months of waiting! A bit uncomfortable and heats up easily, but it's still great to have a retro handheld of my own. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I spent the whole day flashing the MiyooCFW firmware onto it, customizing the menus, and testing which games ran well and which didn't (and constantly trying and failing to get Doom to run on it); I think I'm pretty happy with the end results now.

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Trying to remember an old Spider-Man game I played as a child... anyone can recognize it? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Hey folks, I've lurked on this community for a while now but haven't really posted anything until today. Sorry if this isn't really the right place to ask questions like this, but since this is a place for old games, I felt it'd be the most appropriate one...

I've been wanting to re-live some of the games I used to play as a child, and I remember how, back in 2004-2006, there was this Spider-Man game I used to play as a kid but could never beat. Lately I've been curious if I could finally do it now.

All I remember about it were three missions:

  • The first mission was some sort of "tutorial", where you'd have to use the web ability to swing across buildings and pass through a certain amount of these glowing green spider icons to clear the level.
  • The second(?) mission was about some robbers/thieves stealing a bank's armoured car and you had to capture all of them.
  • The third(?) mission was some sort of boss fight against a powerful guy who was apparently helping the thieves. I never got past this fight, he would always grab me - when he grabbed Spider-Man, I couldn't really do anything, he's just keep holding him and grunting occasionally; there might've been a key combination to break free from his grasp, but I didn't know at the time and always assumed it was game over and that I had to restart.

I understand this is really vague, but my memories of this game are incredibly vague and I barely recall much more. I remember I played it on a computer at least. I couldn't find anything like it on Wikipedia's pages on Spider-Man games, so I'm wondering if it might've been an unofficial game or something like that?

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Nokia rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 
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Cassette Rules (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 
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So happy to play the new Paper Daisy spinoff game that released today for the Playstation 2 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 
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I hate April Rules (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I'm not joking, I actually hate April Fools and I am NOT looking forward to tomorrow...

Sad thing is, I'd actually like April Fools if people made actually funny jokes with it, but instead it's always the same thing over and over with Discord mods thinking pinging everyone just for the sake of it is going to be funny

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catgirl rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 
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Has anyone managed to use 80_PA on Linux? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I wanted to play Test Drive Unlimited 2 multiplayer with the TDU World mod, but since I'm not one of the lucky few who owned the game back in the day (I was still a teenager when they shut down the game) I have to pirate it. Unfortunately, the tool required to do it while working with TDUWorld, 80_PA (https://github.com/Blaukovitch/80_PA ), doesn't want to work through Wine as it crashes immediately.

It's a long shot, but has anyone here used it?

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