The last Lan party I went to was in 2015. My friend Andrea wanted one for her birthday. Most of us bought laptops. Only one guy brought his gaming desktop. We played some Serious Sam and other random crap. We're all older, so we were remembering a forgotten era even back then.
... but I remember even in 2012 there were still cyber cafes if you wanted to game on one of the super high end machines and talk to other random gamers.
I'm not sure if I ever actually tried the Bleem! release. Did it get an actual release? The demo could do a handful of games, but the dude also coded a lot of stuff in assembly and didn't have version control and constantly screwed up his code base and took over a year to release. It's was a fucking mess. When it did release, I think I had completely forgotten about it.
ePSXe could play every PlayStation game I threw at it with very few bugs, including a few Final Fantasy games, Star Wars games, Einhänder ... random demo CDs I got from PizzaHut .. all on a Pentium 4 laptop with a GForce4Go in it.
Bleem! was way earlier on the Pentium 3 era with Windows 98, so yea maybe it was more performant. But we'll never know because it used so many low level system calls it could never be ported to Win 2000/XP.
oh man, I shit you not I still have a Bleem! CD-key somewhere. It had like 18 tracks on it, many of them non-standard, to use as the DRM for the never released Bleem! emulator. It was quickly overshadowed by the opensource ePSXe emulator (which I played and beat Final Fantasy 9 on)
Reverse engineering is not against the law in the US or Australia. In the US, emulators and reverse engineering have a decent amount of legal protection, especially for archival purposes.
The case with Nintendo and Yuzu is a weird one because apparently those devs were kinda shitty, didn't release a lot of their source and charged for certain releases. There are other open source/free Switch emulators (that still require you to provide your own Nintendo BIOS/ROM dump, so no infringement in the code) that Nintendo hasn't touched.
This is also for reverse engineering multiplayer protocols for a game service that is literally going away forever. In the 90s, games allowed you to run local servers on your network using the game itself (like Counterstrike). Blizzard was the first to go after the opensource bnetd, which let people setup Warcraft/Starcraft servers locally instead of depending on Blizzard. They caved and went away, but they didn't actually test the case from a legal perspective.
The scamdemic and anthropocentric climate change are certainly a combination of psyop turned neo-proto-religion .. and they were intentionally pushed by some for specific interests.
Israel is a bit interesting. The Last American Vagabond had a supercut a few weeks back of Netanyahu backing wars in Libya, Syria, Iraq .. like literally the "7 countries" list Richard Clark talked about in the W Bush days. It could be argued every one of these wars starting with HW's Gulf war was a war for Israel. These wars served no purpose for American/Europe. If true, Israel hugely benefits the Military Industrial Complex™.
..but I still concede your point .. even that doesn't really affect the average American or Aussie or Indian or most people in the world. They are highly divisive topics that are being used to fracture the human mind.
MKUltra never really ended. It just kinda expanded to the entire human population with access to the bullshit we call news.
I haven't listened to the show in a few weeks, but whenever they did talk about Israel they never seemed to take a side. It seemed like they always acknowledged there was something fishy about the Oct 7th op. Has something changed on the show?
The Last American Vagabond has had some really good coverage on Israel/Palestine. Hey recently had on a guest that went over the history of the region going back before the Ottomans into the 1700s and 1800s.
Justt to nitpick, this bastard who literally wrote the book Manufacturing Consent said that people who didn't get injected with the most experimental and least tested preventative drug in modern medical history shouldn't be allowed into grocery stores and would be on their own for food.
He also openly defended Slobodan Milošević and loves communism.
I wish they'd just get the fuck on with it. All this waiting has me stressed out. A giant asteroid would be more efficient, direct and devoid of morality.
One of my favourite recent games was God of War Ragnarök (92/100) .. but Loki's love interest, Angrboda, is such a bad visual design. She's got diversity, but they could have done that and not made her look so meh. I hope they ditch her in the next game.
I've flown a lot over my life and I just hate planes more than anything now. America's TSA is the absolute worst. I've already flown around the world and spent a year backpacking and all that ... I'm glad I've gotten it all out of my system before the scamdemic. Masks and mandatory testing was the nail in the coffin for flying for me.
I still want to do more travelling, but I think it's going to involve a lot more slower driving adventures for the foreseeable future. I live in a big country. There's a lot to see via truck.