Recent content by Exidous

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    Trump is the most corrupt US president in history

    Yeah, to the extent the case is the basis, they rise or fall together. I'm currently not even sure if the purported settlement was ever filed Edit: it appears the outcome of this case is optimal. Even if Trump actually had a case about his tax return leak, he permanently surrendered it in...
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    Trump is the most corrupt US president in history

    I wrote a whole thing before I realized the doom for the anti weaponization fund came over two weeks ago. Plaintiff Trump voluntarily dismissed with prejudice https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72207870/62/trump-v-internal-revenue-service/ The craziest thing about this isn't all the obvious...
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    Homebrew Not64 Update

    While I'm flattered to be confused with @Extrems , you sound like a bot. At least, someone using an LLM to write/translate his posts. Dear bot owner: it's an obvious design mistake having software whose job it is to read only check the first two letters of a name. That's a huge blind spot in...
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    Homebrew Not64 Update

    Think about it like you're setting up a coding bounty. It's a thing that you want someone else to do. You're trying to convince someone to work for many hours on something. You want to be able to say (1) what needs to be done (2) why it's worth doing (3) and as much preparatory work as you could...
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    Homebrew Not64 Update

    Porting a graphics plugin is a big job. AFAIK icepir8's graphics plugin is the default in Project64 Legacy. That was basically redeveloping PJ64 from an earlier version for older systems. It's plausible that it's in the right power/performance range for the Wii, but so were the PC emulators...
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    Hacking Emulation What is the best way to recover my Wii Shop purchases?

    I'm not sure if a local record of your Shop purchases exists. Wii might have a local record of all software that was installed on it (an aggregate of titleIDs? possibly not persistent between system menu updates). But I'm not sure anyone wrote homebrew to pull that. Understandably, most...
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    Hacking Emulation What is the best way to recover my Wii Shop purchases?

    AFAIK any official means is discontinued. https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-legally-obtain-wii-shop-channel-games-in-2025.667443/ ShowMiiWads is PC software that can extract wii shop purchases (wads) from a Bootmii nand backup. https://github.com/WiiDatabase/showmiiwads-mod (There are...
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    Shadow Maul Proving Lucasfilm Should Abandon Live Action and Focus Only on Animation

    Filoni is better than half of the directors/showrunners Disney has scraped up for Star Wars. He's a fanboy, but that's better than being a hack and disliking Star Wars. I don't think he's worse than Kennedy in his new role, for example. I also don't think he cribs from the EU more than other...
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    Homebrew Not64 Update

    Yes. It's just like a page file on a computer: using space on the hard drive as an extension of RAM. It's only using available blank space, it's not affecting existing data stored in NAND.
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    Shadow Maul Proving Lucasfilm Should Abandon Live Action and Focus Only on Animation

    Oh, it's no secret what happened. Lucas wanted to do more after Clone Wars (beat the pants off of the rest of the prequel era), offered to hire Tartakovsky to work in house. Tartakovsky turned him down. I love Star Wars, but Tartakovsky is way too talented to be Lucas's or (presumably...
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    SCOTUS about to kill Voting Rights Act

    Gerrymandering is taking up an outsize amount of the narrative here. The VRA by its terms doesn't talk about gerrymandering. It's about discriminating against voters on the basis of their race. The tools of gerrymandering are diluting or enhancing the influence of particular voters based on...
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    Shadow Maul Proving Lucasfilm Should Abandon Live Action and Focus Only on Animation

    So, thanks for the recommendation, it wasn't a waste of time. As far as Filoni's (self-)fangasms go, it's better than Rebels - although I wonder if the best ten Rebels episodes vs this would be different. It's got the usual show don't tell fails, stock characters, contrived plotting, and perhaps...
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    SCOTUS about to kill Voting Rights Act

    Ignorance of history isn't a solution. The entire body of substantive federal law concerning voting districts and race is from and following the Voting Rights Act. And I wasn't "appealing" to history, I was explaining in response to your obviously not even rhetorical question why majority...
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    A few questions about running GameCube games via WiiFlow Lite + Nintendont

    The button combos have been altered over the life of Nintendont. But there are both a soft (game) reset function and a soft (console) reboot function.
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    SCOTUS about to kill Voting Rights Act

    Adding one or more majority-minority districts is a historical remedy imposed by the courts. When a former Confederate state's white majority pulled all the stops to suppress black voters, the courts got more aggressive in crafting remedies. Generally, that would be the most severe remedy...
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