Totally agreed. Unfortunately I don’t see it happening in our lifetimes.

Would love to be wrong here though.

For sure. It’s not exclusive to Mitch.

But Mitch was the architect.

He’s the reason the far right got 4 SCOTUS picks, instead of the 2 they should have if they played “fair”.

Mitch also was the architect for filling all the judicial vacancies in the federal courts with other far right partisan judges.

He’s also the architect for the current state of the GOP, and was responsible for most of the Government shutdowns in the last 20 years. Him lamenting this potential shutdown is laughable, to put it mildly.

He’s been doing this since at least 2010 when the GOP shifted their strategy away from advancing their democratic platform, and instead winning by fuckery like gerrymandering, blocking all bills in the Senate (as he was the majority leader for around a decade) that might advance the Democrat roadmap/agenda, and then immediately turning around and blaming democrats for the bill his party just blocked.

Mitch is the reason why the GOP is kept in line today.

His departure from politics, forced or otherwise, will have a huge impact on the GOP. There isn’t another person in their group that can hold all the different groups together and keep them focused on making democrats appear to look bad, like Mitch.

As much as I hate the guy (and boy, do I), he’s a masterful politician. I mean that as the damning insult it’s meant to be.

What a repulsive human being.

It happens semi-regularly. Unfortunately it doesn’t turn out like you’d think.

The company immediately bankrupts itself, but all of its assets and funds are protected by S-Corp and LLC chicanery; so they end up paying less than they would have if they stayed afloat and got fined, and now they’ve got a “new” company with the same people doing the same thing that’s protected from lawsuits.

Because that’s how we designed the system.

And by we, I mean the oligarchs that keep us fighting among ourselves instead of at them.

Mitch is the reason we have a partisan, hack, SCOTUS.

Look, I don’t know what to tell you here. You’re downvoting me (or someone is) because you’re not understanding the point of what they’re doing. That’s ok, but it’s not ok to claim victory here because you don’t understand the point of what they’re doing, or you’re not knowledgeable about the intricacies of the retro gaming/emulation world.

It’s not to make an emulator for the general public. It’s to take an original board, and put it into a SFF (Small Form Factor) and have a perfect, 1:1 system that can play any Saturn game. Any game. No chipset issues. And it looks like an original Saturn, just smaller.

This appeals to a very specific set of people who care about compatibility and functionality of the games they’re playing.

It’s not a general emulator or general device. If you want one of those, you can already build one.

It’s a thing that does exactly what it says it does. And it appeals to a very specific type of crowd. Which is, apparently, not you. That’s ok. But don’t trash it just because you don’t understand it.

You can do a perfect ROM compression of the games you own on disk (or find one someone else did), and then play them on this sega saturn console and achieve 100% compatibility with the original game. This is not something an emulator can do. It can get close, but it will not reach 100% without the original hardware/chipset (usually).

Please see my reply explaining the differences

Please see my reply next to yours explaining the differences and why this still matters

Not exactly. Emulating the board and chipset is where a lot of emulation issues show up. ROMs are generally pretty easy to serialize/copy around. It’s the chipset/boards that are tricky and generally requires the boards being destroyed when reverse engineering them to figure out how to emulate the chipset features.

This would be a “perfect” emulation of any Saturn ROM/Game/whatever.

That can only be done with original hardware. Emulators get close, but all they can ever get is “close”. New versions of the emulator chipsets come out to address and fix bugs or API issues that are discovered later as additional games are played on the emulator.

It’s why not all games run on all emulators. There’s a lot of subsets based on chip compatibility and specifically, how close it is to the original thing that will only work on some subset of games; and you might need a different emulator to run the other games for a platform because of compatibility issues.

So, again, this is not an emulator.

This is the real deal. Just smaller.

Running a ROM on it is not emulating. It’s running a game file on the original hardware, and the compatibility will be 100%, instead of some smaller % that an emulated board/chipset would have.

The point is to attempt it and do it with the original hardware without “trimming” the board.

It’s an exercise in space management, not emulation.

Emulation is what it sounds like. Emulating the original thing.

This is the original thing. Just smaller.

Obligatory: Doesn’t fucking matter, go vote.

Or they took it really, really well.

Fuck Larry Ellison.

Now he’s going for super-villainy against people who’ve never even heard of Oracle.

This was worth the read.

This is assuming he had clean forks. Which I’m going to go out on a limb here, and guess that his issue is having clean dishes or utensils at all, irrespective of what kind they are.

Those two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Evolution was all like: Ok, so which mutations would you like to advance? The venomous thing? The aquatic thing? The electrocuting enemies thing? The no stomach hack? The “Fun at parties” hack?

Platypus: Yes.

Dicaprio over here taking notes

Hmmm, I guess that makes sense. It’s been a while since I’ve bought a gas mower, roughly the late 90’s/00’s hah, been using electric/battery since then.