Retroid Pocket Flip 2 (Cows Ascended)

[echo lynx]

Wait isn't this a rpflip2 channel???

Not discord drama channel?

Is that this channel's insanity?

Magic product slate fell into politics and security cameras without new news

[sacred kindle]

what's the lore 👀

[limpid ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/costco-guys-costco-guys-fries-bag-gif-13189347508500410222

[coral valley]

It can't be as bad the retroid discord lmao

[echo lynx]

Any general channel is susceptible to insanity sans news

If you get news to discuss there is sanity

[limpid ledge]

Put the fries in the bag

[coral valley]

I probably shouldn't have cropped the screenshot so much, now it looks like I'm the one saying it

[limpid ledge]

That's funny tho

[coral valley]

Idek how gun control got brought up in a flip 2 channel

At least the drama in this discord is somewhat related

[echo lynx]

Oh I just got what you were saying ya the magicx channel was about that bad

Everyone vs progamer

[coral valley]

Now I'm interested

[echo lynx]

We're already off topic so I'll explain

[random tulip]

Lol. Is it off topic channel tho? Seems fair game

[echo lynx]

It was right round the time of the tariffs

As could be predicted, there was a reddit post

[coral valley]

Nah that was from the official retroid discord rp flip 2 channel

[echo lynx]

Reddit, a famously liberal platform, had a unshocking liberal response

So did everyone here

[coral valley]

Yeah I'm not gonna comment on tariffs until I do a little more research, I also want to wait to see how it all plays out

[echo lynx]

Standard opposition to the stupidity of tariffs

[random tulip]

I think framing sensible gun control as a liberal response is weird. Considering it's popular with both parties

[echo lynx]

Standard opposition to the guy that created the tariffs

[random tulip]

Its just an anti corporate response

[echo lynx]

Progamer disagreed

He woulda voted for trump

Voted afd last weekend I think

[onyx hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/popcorn-guy-relaxing-popcorm-popcorn-gif-26404903

Yikes

[random tulip]

Tarrifs have been historically and research wise never beneficial UNLESS your country has competing industry. Which we don't

[echo lynx]

Just the mod retro chromatic

[echo lynx]

So I got mad

It came up a few times again

[limpid ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/rexx-gif-9702250898267477260

[coral valley]

https://tenor.com/view/monster-hunter-psp-friends-wave-dancing-gif-4971789327499259941

[echo lynx]

And there really was no magicx discussion for quite a time

[onyx hazel]

Afd is basically neo fascists

[echo lynx]

In the other channel, I was talking with Bobby about college n shit

[onyx hazel]

Here we go

[stray dagger]

you guys are going in the wrong direction with your topic again

[echo lynx]

We haven't been in the right topic for ages

[stray dagger]

this is the retroid flip 2 channel tho

[echo lynx]

Even when there was news it was nothing but argument

[coral valley]

https://tenor.com/view/gravios-monster-hunter-monster-hunter-gravios-freedom-unite-monster-hunter-freedom-unite-gravios-gif-15686648486933118643

[echo lynx]

Eventually the discussion shifted to security cameras

I hate Arlo

And I expressed my issues with Arlo

[onyx hazel]

This whole server has got a wild hair today 🤣

People are getting impatient with the info drip

[random tulip]

They are. But like. People don't seem to care. Which is also crazy. Lol

[echo lynx]

Such as their stupid policy of not shipping their hubs with internal storage

[onyx hazel]

Parallel with what’s happening in the US

[coral valley]

What is afd

[random tulip]

Elon being like "you see the cool wave I gave" to the Afd and they like "we love it"

[echo lynx]

Immigration and economics is the only thing voters care about

[random tulip]

Far right German party

[echo lynx]

A party in germany

Far right

A lot of what liberals do is try to stop them

[limpid ledge]

Shout out Germany

[stray dagger]

conservative German party 20,8% of the population voted for last week, branded as far right by the media

[limpid ledge]

Hold tight the people there

[random tulip]

Basically German MAGA. Except instead of Jewish people it's immigrants this time

[echo lynx]

But recently they had to ally with them to gain a majority

[echo lynx]

Branded as far right by facts

[stray dagger]

*illegal immigrants

[random tulip]

So give them papers. That's the only difference. Lol

[echo lynx]

Who is going to Germany 😭

[stray dagger]

literally politics of the CDU/CSU in the 90s

[tacit latch]

well actually, I don't want to get overly political here, but strictly speaking if a country's manufacturing capacities are underdeveloped, protectionist measures like tariffs are one way to promote building up the industrial base that's lacking at home (because industries that are under developed need protection against more competitive imports from more developed industrial bases abroad)

[random tulip]

It's a difference of paperwork

[echo lynx]

Shockingly, we move forward

[stray dagger]

no thx, all the rape, stabbing and terrorist attacks is a horrid argument for that

[echo lynx]

What was once a liberal policy is now far right because we always move left

[swift hamlet]

Any new news

[onyx hazel]

Cowards looking for someone else to blame

[echo lynx]

Nationalism was once leftism a few hundred years ago

[tawdry dove]

nope

[onyx hazel]

Just like here at home

[echo lynx]

Now it's straight right

America first

Germany first

[swift hamlet]

https://tenor.com/view/peace-out-gif-3584473422170938815

[random tulip]

I'm 99% sure it's like US immigrants where they commit less crimes and then get scapegoated for all the woes. But it's whatever. Eventually there will be fascists all over and we'll have all new things to be worried about. For now we can just enjoy gaming handhelds we never actually play games on 😆

[echo lynx]

It's all immigrants really

That's all there is to modern politics

Look at these guys

Don't you hate them

We'll stop them!!

Vote us!!!

[random tulip]

Eh. Let's cool it off. And go back to RP flip. Heh

[stray dagger]

we had literally a bunch of terrorist attacks and shit during the last months, but sure

[onyx hazel]

Fascism is definitely the solution, for sure

That’ll fix it

[coral valley]

I shouldn't have posted that screenshot 🤦‍♂️

[random tulip]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Germany

[echo lynx]

This guy lived here from 2006 and hated the government because he thought they were trying to promote islam

Doesn't sound illegal to me

[random tulip]

Like. Terrorism has always been a constant. Especially when they're involved in the middle east and surprising Muslims. Same with US

[echo lynx]

Sounds like an afd voter

[versed vigil]

What do you mean, he’s “definitely” has done that in all of his videos. People “totally” aren’t being irrationally petty and over exaggerating a single incident into being a nonstop constant with him.

[random tulip]

But the whole "it's getting worse" thing is just a lie to drive votes. But it works

[echo lynx]

Yup, permanent resident

[stray dagger]

was illegal back in 2006 and all, but whatever, also that guy clearly wasn't right in the head and posted a lot of contradicting stuff, basically there is one right form of Islam for him, but whatever

[onyx hazel]

Fascists love their alternative facts

[coral valley]

Done what exactly? The only other video that kind of pissed me off was the "Diy Oled handheld" video, every other video seems to be a standard review

[random tulip]

They just love fear. Fear = unthinking power

[versed vigil]

Taki Udon has constantly claimed to have invented all handhelds and founded Nintendo, didn’t you know?

What do you mean he’s never said anything like that? He totally has.

[limpid ledge]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[random tulip]

Make people afraid of something. Real or fake, and they'll vote for anyone who promises to protect them

[versed vigil]

Sarcasm.

[coral valley]

Wait I just missed the sarcasm my bad

[limpid ledge]

The joke still make me laugh

[coral valley]

Yeah

[limpid ledge]

Man what a time

[stray dagger]

oh boy, I will rather go and play Yakuza instead of reading this political bullshit here any further, especially as you guys have no clue about German politics

[jagged blade]

Color people are planning on buying

[coral valley]

Black or blue

[onyx hazel]

I’m just here to bash the fash

[limpid ledge]

Bro politics is like bad food bad everything but it's necessary

[onyx hazel]

🤷‍♂️

[random tulip]

Funny when Americans say the same things about Europeans. As if we're too dumb to see the obvious about each other 😆

[limpid ledge]

Black all day

[manic grove]

no politics kthnxbye

[random tulip]

I'm getting the transparent for sure

Watermelon hands down my fav v1

[jagged blade]

I want to see the actual colors. Renders are always a bit off.

[coral valley]

The transparent looks really good in the photos but I feel like it won't look so vibrant irl

[random tulip]

That's true

I'm over GC and 16-bit. Id maybe do a white?

Id love a yellow but higher end stuff never does yellow

[coral valley]

Black and red 🤞

[echo lynx]

Any evidence for him being illegal at any point in time?

[jagged blade]

I like a solid blue color

[echo lynx]

Oh sorry

[versed vigil]

Yeah, let’s go back to our regularly scheduled bashing on the Retroid Discord and ignoring we usually end up doing the same things.

[echo lynx]

Grr joey 😡

[sacred valley]

I disagree with the tariffs/import fees but most Western countries get them wrong or even worse. It's not a Trump only issue as many Americans think.

[random tulip]

Yeah. They just rarely accomplish positives. There's like very slim scenarios where they're good. And 99% of the time those dynamics aren't there

[versed vigil]

Alongside exaggerating everything said by Taki Udon to be significantly worse and pretend people outright making him into a nonexistent straw man is totally ok.

[coral valley]

Yeah I mean I get the idea is to strengthen the American industry but I just don't think that's actually going to happen, we rely too heavily on other countries especially for technology

[random tulip]

You need to spend 5 years prior building industry to compete

[versed vigil]

Doesn’t help when they do literally nothing beforehand to actually have US alternatives ready and available before enacting it.

[echo lynx]

Chips act first, then think about tariffs

[versed vigil]

Yup.

[echo lynx]

Tariffs are great if done well

But that's not what happened here

[coral valley]

Yeah, It's not something that can be accomplished within one presidency

[versed vigil]

Yeah, like a lot of things in economics. “It’s great in theory, but then someone fucks it up”.

[coral valley]

There's a very good chance the next president will roll back a lot of the changes

[floral pebble]

Don't like 90% of countries already have tariffs? That was the impression I got from most euros/aussies

Along with "lol stop crying stupid american"

[hybrid viper]

Really wish people that don't like guns moved to countries like Australia or the EU Instead of trying to destroy the one country that gives it's people arms. Having the means to fight tyranny is worth almost anything.

[versed vigil]

They do, and usually they actually have that money going into shit like Universal Healthcare. We have politicians that outright don’t believe in Universal Healthcare being a human right.

[echo lynx]

thats kinda the point here

[copper burrow]

The fuck did I walk in on

[echo lynx]

not only do people disagree

school shootings are NOT worth it

[sacred valley]

We are talking about the hinge technology on the Flip 2

[copper burrow]

This is excellent rp2 flip talk

[versed vigil]

Just a recent but common situation for this Discord server.

Oh I’m sorry, I meant the Retroid Discord, it never happens in here.

[sacred valley]

Not related. Those are funded via income tax which is also higher in those countries.

[versed vigil]

Oh really? So where do tariffs go for them?

[echo lynx]

Not in canada

[floral pebble]

I think the flip 2 would be excellent to play while waiting at the doctors office. Or even bread lines.

[copper burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/popcorn-guy-relaxing-popcorm-popcorn-gif-26404903

[onyx hazel]

About to put the US in USSR

[sacred valley]

Idk it's going to be different in every country. Gov Healthcare spending in America is funded by income tax. We have lower income tax and no single payer system

[onyx hazel]

In Soviet America, portable game device plays you

[random tulip]

If only that's what they'd be used for. Most likely leaders will encourage us to turn them on each other

[noble canyon]

retroid discord will always find some way to get politics brought up lol

its kinda funny

[white prism]

Wtf are these rumour mill channels on? Politics and discord politics in the couple of ones I’m in 🤣

[sacred valley]

They pay for their healthcare via imports? Honestly question, it will be different in every country so idk

[coral valley]

Lack of handheld news = talking about irl news

[manic grove]

I look away for 10 mins...

[versed vigil]

“The politics will continue until Retroid’s advertising improves.”

I’m in agreement with you, and I still think this channel should’ve stopped with this convo a while ago.

[random tulip]

Eh

This is all retroids fault

[coral valley]

Woah that is not what I was trying to say

I was just joking

[random tulip]

Lol

[copper burrow]

And by replying to it we're just kicking the can down the road 😄

[random tulip]

Yup

[white prism]

Isnt there an off topic channel or something, these rumour mill channels seem such a weird place for it

[random tulip]

I got time to can kick right now tho

[copper burrow]

So, rp2 flip gonna be $250 yeah

[manic grove]

politics isn't allowed in off topic posts either

it never ends well

[versed vigil]

Oh, I thought you were just being sarcastic and commenting on the fact that we seem to talk about literally anything but the Flip 2 without news.

[warped leaf]

i might have had a few beers too many but i think i read "guys, terrorism in germany is a constant, why vote against it" or something along those lines

[copper burrow]

Oh it never does, nobody can be trusted to be reasonable with it xD

[formal latch]

I don't know about some of you, but I've had enough of IRL news and use gaming to escape... Can't y'all just make a group DM to talk about this stuff?

[manic grove]

slowmode on, tyvm

[versed vigil]

Yup, Slow Mode is definitely reasonable.

[coral valley]

Oh well yeah that's what I meant

[hybrid viper]

If you look at the fall of Rome, societies operate on a cycle. A rise, stagnation, decay, then the fall. No civilization has ever been immune to this cycle. The US is great, but so was Rome. There will come a time we need guns, our
founding fathers knew this.

Too much has been sacrificed to allow ourselves to be disarmed. They will say it's for our own safety, this is the biggest lie of all.

[manic grove]

great, not the place for that though

[random tulip]

Too bad we're way dumber than our founding fathers were

[warped leaf]

speak for yourself

[random tulip]

The fact that half our country praises someone posting about being king, when our founding fathers would have shot him in the face, and I think it's a valid statement

[warped leaf]

you saying "terrorism has always been a thing in germany, it shouldn't matter for what you support" is the most disgusting thing i've read this week

[onyx hazel]

That’s not really what he said. You’re being disingenuous

[random tulip]

Then you never read what I said. I said it's not getting worse despite their claims. And historically it isn't. The rise in illegal immigrants hasn't created more terrorism. It's just used as an excuse to dehumanize and persecute brown illegal immigrants. And scapegoat them for any of the financial woes the country is facing. Trust me, I'm American, I know how wealthy elite use racial divides to distract while removing money from your pockets 😆

[warped leaf]

you are american so you have no idea who carried out those attacks

[versed vigil]

…You know, there is a little something called Google right?

[blazing burrow]

Flip 2 news when

[uncut crescent]

FREEDOM TO TALK ABOUT OUR BOOTLEG HANDHELDS

[versed vigil]

Ok, time to move on to the topic Stubbs gave us. Anyone got a plan for something more custom with their Flip 2?

[coral valley]

Attaching a portable monitor

[ocean cedar]

Flip2 would be a nice portable console. (Like to attach to a TV)

[uncut crescent]

I wanna see if they'll release rainbow buttons or something along the line of Saturn buttons! Also 5 mins for a cooldown is a bit much tho, is there a lower number xD

[random tulip]

Yeah. Besides the transparent I'd love some color ways besides the one we got

[coral valley]

2ds xxxl

[versed vigil]

I’m currently planning on either getting the Black one and the GC’s buttons to redo my current RP5 with the Flip 2, or to get the Ice Blue and and (assuming the same buttons will work) remake my RP4 Pro in having an “Ice Blue DualShock 2” color scheme.

[uncut crescent]

Ooo

[stray dagger]

man, as lovely as this is, I still don't fully dig it without going all the way on the GCN layout too tbh

[coral valley]

It's all coming together

[uncut crescent]

Tri-DS xD

[versed vigil]

I also had plans for a regular Gray PSX themed Flip 2 using the SNES-US option, but if they have the same color for the Vertical (or hell, if they have the 16-Bit EU or even Retro “Grey” option, I’m not entirely too picky about it), then I’m definitely doing the PSX theme for that instead.

[ocean cedar]

Is that the official tpu case dyed black?

[versed vigil]

Nope, it’s the PartTimeCAD clip case, I just put it underneath the RP5.

[rigid thicket]

Clip cases are best cases.
Especially ones that you can clip on the back and doubles as a grip.

[versed vigil]

Agreed, I’m still hoping for the Portal to get one solely since that would save way more space (when paired with the cloth bag included with the Portal) than what the official case takes up.

[mystic void]

Bro WTF did I open up chat to lmao

[stray dagger]

don't bring it up again, this channel is in slow-mode due to politics being brought up and was even temporarily closed

[mystic void]

Cracking up lmao

[echo lynx]

Don't bring that up again, we decided google is real and finished

[coral valley]

So if we promise no more flame wars can we turn off slowmode?

[mystic void]

Yeah please lol, I just brought it up cause it was literally the first message I saw

[random tulip]

Haha. Concurrence on Google existing

[rigid thicket]

Gotta give it a day for everyone else to wake up and react to that mess 😂

[vital belfry]

He said 200-250 depending on d1100 or 865, no?

[stray dagger]

250 would be hard even for the SD865

[vital belfry]

250 would sting, hope they can do 230

Also why are we in slow mode, what happened, why is this needed

[stray dagger]

yeah $229 would be appropriate, $239 would be the max where I would still bite the bullet without waiting for black friday waiting on the slow mode

slow mode was needed due to our fellow morons bringing up politics and shit getting funky here

[versed vigil]

Oh god, I’m definitely not gonna envy what NexLevel is gonna be seeing if that ends up happening.

[rigid thicket]

I think I can stomach a slightly higher price than expected if the pre-order discount is good, but ideally it's no higher than $249.

[stray dagger]

NextLevel saw, reminded that "no politics" are to be discussed and then came back like ten minutes later to this shit show still going on and that's why we are in slow mode and then Stubbs came in and locked the channel for a few minutes, is IMO what happened here

@rigid thicket don't give them ideas, $229 or we riot

[coral valley]

Yeah that's about right

[vital belfry]

If it’s 249 I’m gonna blame you

[random tulip]

yeah, feel like 250 is pushing it

[coral valley]

Higher than 250 is "I'm just gonna buy an odin 2 mini" territory for me personally

Oled be damned

[versed vigil]

Yup, and unless people do enough reading in advance to see what Nex said, this could very easily end up coming back to the same topic due to way more than just Superbottle seeing it at once.

[random tulip]

should be pretty easy to avoid

[coral valley]

Should be yeah

[stray dagger]

fair enough I guess, but while I'm not generally opposed to discussing politics and hold no grudge over different opinions (even if I consider some simply uninformed and/or idealistic), it's unfortunately not the case for everyone, so let's simply try not to bring this shit up on our Chinese e-waste server

[random tulip]

i mean would be easier if retroid flip 2 news actually existed. rumor mill is a dumping ground for tangent conversations 😆

[coral valley]

Pope?!

[warped leaf]

whoa pope is back?

[stray dagger]

woah, hello Pope

[echo lynx]

It just turns into #general without news

[warped leaf]

we scared him off

[random tulip]

haha, we saw him! @stray dagger and yeah, i'm always open to discussion, even through DMs if anyone is really that interested. with just a requirement that a spade is called a spade

[versed vigil]

Yeah, I noticed it earlier and welcomed him back in the Vertical Channel.

[coral valley]

Well that depends on what exactly do you mean by spade? (Satire btw)

[rigid thicket]

Like a shovel in Shovel Knight.

[random tulip]

haha, most definitions we'd all to agree to. It's usually just denial because it hurts Team A and I'm a big Team A fan

Shovel Knight clearly plays for Team B anyway

[fluid stone]

The original image of this is probably my favorite Nintendo render, it's so good

[vital belfry]

You need to lure him with pictures of 6 face button wood grain handhelds

[gentle badge]

Unfortunately I work weekends

[warped leaf]

welcome back 👋

[ocean cedar]

Why’d you leave

[fluid stone]

I want a full game of Mario characters flying around in n64 controller planes

[limpid ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/the-boy-is-back-runjdrun-the-boy-has-returned-theyre-back-they-have-returned-gif-26954980

[stray dagger]

gotta pitch to Nintendo to include a N64 controller cart in MK9

[gentle badge]

I got called old on another discord for suggesting the Wii.u layout of the flip 2 would be peak for boomer shooters

[coral valley]

The retroid one I assume?

[vital belfry]

People are just afraid of the unknown

I ain’t waiting for this stupid slow mode let me edit my last message instead

Wii U layout might be the best thing that has ever happened to flip handhelds

[limpid ledge]

Pope🥹🥹

[gentle badge]

I just hope the vertical has 6 face buttons and one slider/stick so we can have the beeg psp, the n64/sega handheld, and the boomer shooter DOSBOX clamshell all offered by retroid at the same time.

[calm oracle]

Wdym you are old boomer

[limpid ledge]

Pope is like OG Senior

[vital belfry]

Still below the age average for this server

[warped leaf]

i think the vertical will be a clamshell too

[calm oracle]

If Pope is Old
Any of these YouTubers are dust

[gentle badge]

Dpad looks too close to the screen for that on the render

[warped leaf]

retroid doesn't have anywhere to go with a vertical that either fights with the 406v or the ayaneo dmg, with a mid-end clamshell it would be a more unique product

[stray dagger]

straight out Pocket DMG with SD865 for $209

[coral valley]

Both of those have pretty significant drawbacks though

[gentle badge]

Ayaneo dmg screen at a much more affordable price + more flexible single stick layout with 6 face buttons for Sega/n64/arcade would do it tbh

[random tulip]

But er. Accurate? Lol. It was the worst layout for CoD when I had it. But I still played. Lol

[warped leaf]

if they can do that i'm glad, i think it would be a bigger banger as a clam though

[stray dagger]

what? it's great for shooters
I clocked 300+ hours of Blops2 on Wii U

[mystic void]

Bro straight up

[limpid ledge]

With no trackpad

[gentle badge]

I mean the first two installs for me on the flip 2 if I get one (waiting for reviews since I already own an rp5) are gonna be duke3d and Morrowind

[floral pebble]

You know what's great for shooters? A mouse

[random tulip]

Insanity. Maybe on the big pad..on the pro controller it was like pinching the top of a milk jug

[noble canyon]

How old is pope lol

[stray dagger]

oh yeah, always on the pad, only bought a Wii U Pro Controller at the EOL

[mystic void]

It's better than RP5 layout. Current rp flip 2 layout is miles above rp5

Edit: fuck slow mode

[coral valley]

My hand cramps like crazy on mouse and keyboard. Controllers all the way, I don't care about competitive shooters anyway

[gentle badge]

Just turned 36 last weekend - was born just in time to be able to lord it over zoomer co-workers that when I was born there was still an “East Germany”

[limpid ledge]

He is OG Senior

[random tulip]

Yeah. So it might honestly be great here too. On the controller you just had to do everything near the top. And the center of gravity didn't really match. I remember cramping. Hehe

[noble canyon]

Jesus Christ that’s old I’m 22 lmao

[stray dagger]

zoomer calling people in their 30s old should be declared assault

[placid girder]

youll get there

[gentle badge]

My hair is greying but my hairline is secure, inshallah

[noble canyon]

Hair loss isn’t in my family genetics

[warped leaf]

same, still have my heavy metal mane

[limpid ledge]

HUH IM 21 HOW YOU ARE 36

[coral valley]

He was born 36 years ago

[warped leaf]

imagine, there's even older people out there

[noble canyon]

You see, when a man and a woman love eachother very much

[stray dagger]

I think most people here are in their 30s, if not older, the kids need to sit down and behave themselves

[limpid ledge]

Happy belated birthday pope tho 🙏🏾✨️

[coral valley]

I'm 20

[versed vigil]

Considering I’m only 23 (soon 24) and I’m already dealing with body aches I should’ve only had to worry about at 40 (it’s not from natural causes and was from getting hit by a car, but still) I’m inclined to agree with you given how it makes me feel when a fellow 20-something says that.

[tacit latch]

I'm honestly shocked to hear we have people in their twenties here

[warped leaf]

people out here younger than the gba

[coral valley]

It is kind of weird I admit, I don't even have nostalgia for most of the games you would emulate on most retro handhelds

[limpid ledge]

Shushhu 🤫😭

[stray dagger]

bennie boy is barely born, 2005 god damn it, Paper Mario TTYD is older

[tacit latch]

no no, power to you, I don't have anything against it, just surprised lol

[versed vigil]

…I hope that isn’t including PS2 or GC/Wii, cause you’re gonna make me feel old if you say that.

[random tulip]

And he's not even the oldest person here

[warped leaf]

being 20 the normal thing would be to be nostalgic for the 360 generation

[coral valley]

2004 actually, I just like the feeling of exploring old games and seeing how they've changed. My first real console was the gamecube followed by the ps2 and wii

[floral pebble]

When I was a young whippersnapper we had to smash rocks together to throw the spark back and forth.

[versed vigil]

I know, but there’s not much that can emulate 360 beyond handheld pc’s. So I’m technically still safe from that kind of damage.

[random tulip]

My bro bought our NES with his own money. Of course he also fried my PS1 trying to install a mod chip so...

[tacit latch]

unfortunately this

[limpid ledge]

Nope deffo not late ps2 generation /early 360 generation

[warped leaf]

i mean, i'm 32 and my nostalgia is for late ps2 and early 360 myself

[stray dagger]

dude, they would have to be nostalgic for PS4/XboxONE and Wii U, nobody starts playing as a baby, normally someone born in 2004, would be out there gaming by 2010-2012

[random tulip]

I have nostalgia of the times. But I really don't want to go back and play the games. Lol

[coral valley]

Anybody remember the leapfrog LeapPads? Those were my shit back in the day

[versed vigil]

I will admit though, the fact we’re slowly getting more handhelds than PC that can play PS3 is both fun and very harmful to my nostalgia since it reminds me that those released around 19 years ago.

[warped leaf]

unless people count nostalgia as "i played this when i was 6 years old and don't remember anything"

[tacit latch]

that counts to some degree

[limpid ledge]

Have you forgotten people had ps2 because ps3 was expensive at launch day as well

[random tulip]

Mine was called am etch a sketch. Is that the same thing?

Also I remember playing super Mario RPG at 9 on snes. SNES is my nostalgia system

[gentle badge]

I grew up playing nes, ms dos, snes, ps1, and n64 in roughly that order which is why I’m here lol

[uncut crescent]

Im sitting here like "damn... im in the middle at 25"

[versed vigil]

Yeah…Sony fucked up with that price…at least they learned their lesson. I refuse to acknowledge the existence of the PS5 Pro

[coral valley]

Nah, they're pretty obscure so I wouldn't be surprised if most don't know about them, they were meant to be educational handhelds basically, I used to play a star wars the clone wars game on one a lot

[mystic void]

I grew up poor so I also grew up with nes snes etc lol. However gonna join the 30s crew soon enough

[warped leaf]

my older sister had a megadrive, i sadly have no memory of that besides a little bit of kid chameleon, i don't think i ever even played it myself

[random tulip]

N64 was great, but I can never go back and play those graphics. It was both the best and worst of times

[stray dagger]

I mean sure enough some may have had a PS2 around the kid used, my parents had a NES I occupied on Sunday mornings too, but if he is born in 2004, getting his own PS2 around the age kids wish for games and stuff seems unlikely

[uncut crescent]

Still young, but becoming old at heart xD! Grew up with my GBA and my mom's N64 before I upgraded to the Wii and DS

[versed vigil]

I pretty much grew up entirely on hand-me-downs plus my family getting the PS2 for the DVD Player with my first proper handheld that was mine from the start being the DS Lite (forgot I actually had the Dialga/Palkia limited edition before the DSi, which I was sharing with my brother, but was still considered mine to keep).

[mystic void]

Also very soon for most of you, you'll stop caring about age lol. At about 24-25 it just literally starts melting together

[coral valley]

Yeah what with the financial crisis going on and everything when I was growing up most of my consoles came from pawn shops

[random tulip]

First assassin's creed on PS3 was also a pivotal gaming moment. Was like, holy shit, this looks real

[stray dagger]

everyone born after 1999 is forever a kid in my eyes, no changing that

[warped leaf]

people also just bought the 360 after seeing the price of the ps3, that's why it almost won the generation lol

[floral pebble]

They'll never know the fear of y2k

[tacit latch]

you get used to it, I never had a PS2 growing up and PS2 era games look like shit to me at first glance now, but if you give it a chance you acclimate to it after some time

[uncut crescent]

.... this is a mood, i didn't think I would feel until last year

[limpid ledge]

Not unlikely in the uk ps3 was expensive as well so people would had xbox 360 early one or ps2 or wii with psp or ds aside I had ps2 and games was still released on it

[warped leaf]

i still can't believe i was 27 when covid happened and 5 years have gone by

[coral valley]

I was in high school damn

[tacit latch]

I regularly forget my exact age lol

[random tulip]

You're probably right. Helps that for some systems and games there's now shaders and whatnot that can make them look better than they did on their og systems 😆

[uncut crescent]

Covid happened a year after I graduated High school lmao

[limpid ledge]

I was leaving high school ( secondary school in uk)

[stray dagger]

Y2K was fun, but I think 9/11 kinda had an bigger impact on our generation

[warped leaf]

many ps2 games are hard to play now, we've really improved in game feel and quality of life to be honest, from that era i mostly pick the games i'm already familiar with

[coral valley]

The ps3 and Xbox 360 era was peak. Probably the biggest leap in graphical fidelity ever

[warped leaf]

it's when games started being actually modern without all the caveats we have now, i agree

[stray dagger]

lol nah, also not many good games

[versed vigil]

I had literally all of my most important college classes (in terms of the fundamentals for my major) during Covid.

I couldn’t learn anything since I’m a kinetic learner and they were all lab courses that for online learning had to effectively tell you the answers and not teach anything, so that royally has screwed me over even before getting hospitalized for a whole year. To the point that I recently had to move to a different college just to redo those classes and actually make it reasonably possible for me to graduate.

[tawdry dove]

people dont know the real y2k bug happens in 2038

[limpid ledge]

Mannnn ps3 and xbox 360 was last gen to bring different types of games from each major gaming company

[coral valley]

Halo 3?!!!

[random tulip]

I had my first kid during covid so it felt pretty normal to me. Just the normal not sleeping the first 6 months, etc.

[coral valley]

Social life was rough after lockdown

[versed vigil]

Eh, I wouldn’t really call it great when it was outright the worst era for anyone who was fans of series from Japanese third parties.
(Capcom in particular was really rough).

[limpid ledge]

Uncharted series Gears of War series Infamous series Max payne 3 Gta IV And Gta 5 I can go on and on even halo 3 4 reach osdt

[tacit latch]

it was easier for us in our thirties because we didn't have a social life to begin with

[floral pebble]

Yeah, it was really tough staying inside and not talking to anyone irl during covid. Good thing we're not doing that anymore

[coral valley]

The first party exclusives were undefeated though

[warped leaf]

i agree, but it was probably the best period for western devs

[stray dagger]

out of these only Uncharted 2 was really good

[echo lynx]

Magicx should do a horizontal with that screen

[versed vigil]

Yeah, and then they immediately got cocky and started pulling pretty obnoxious shit.

[stray dagger]

gotta go to work and back home to be alone and away from people

[warped leaf]

not immediately, they started boiling the frog

[coral valley]

The ps4 exclusives were pretty great too, that's when xbox really started going downhill though. Nowadays exclusives just don't make as much sense unless the console has some unique gimmick

[gentle badge]

Ps1 is the best console ever made

[echo lynx]

Might just be the pro controller ergonomics

[stray dagger]

SNES

[limpid ledge]

Let me not speak this is big bro opinion not mine 😭😭🤣

[random tulip]

not gonna lie, i spent my entire 360 career in college playing modern warfare

probably my least diverse period of gaming

[gentle badge]

I switched to pc gaming exclusively after n64/ps1

[echo lynx]

I guess I'm an ant

I'm below the weight class in some of these discussions

[versed vigil]

Oh no, even before that Gen with the first Xbox they were already calling their DirectX stuff “the Manhattan Project” in private development (for the exact worse reason anyone can interpret).

And even then guys like Phil Fish were acting out pretty damn early in the gen.

[limpid ledge]

Really I didn't even know about pc gaming until 2022

[echo lynx]

Slow mode is gone

[random tulip]

I had a PC. I just only played wow on it. WOW and CoDMW were like 90% of my gaming for 4 years

Would raid until midnight. Take a line of shots. And head to bars. Lol

[warped leaf]

i was always a pc gamer, only stopped for a bit in the 360 era up until i got my own pc around 2010

[coral valley]

I only made the switch to pc last summer really

[stray dagger]

it was always pretty normal to game on PC and console back in the day

[versed vigil]

Phil Fish himself I can’t remember, when he specifically said his iconically bullshit statement, but I feel like I remember he at least only said it later towards the end of it.

[random tulip]

Steamdeck has brought a lot of new faces. Most of my console friends are pretty comfy starting there

[limpid ledge]

Xbox downfall was not continue build momentum after 2011 I felt sony was really fighting again

[stray dagger]

like I ain't playing Rollercoaster Tycoon on console

[random tulip]

Lol

Sim City

[stray dagger]

nah, that was fine on SNES

[limpid ledge]

Steam deck for me I don't know it was so beautiful to see the games that you used to play on console on handheld

[coral valley]

Yeah that's why I'm turning my legion go into my main pc

[versed vigil]

Although even then, I’ll at least not blame western devs for the absolute nonsense guys like X-Play were pulling…

[stray dagger]

man, I haven't put hours into some strategy-building game in ages

[random tulip]

Holy shit. I forgot it was even on SNES. Lol

[coral valley]

Handheld gaming is just superior

[floral pebble]

Console gaming fits handhelds the best

[echo lynx]

Pc + switch 2 looks appealing

[random tulip]

I dunno man. I can't thank Gabe enough. He had a vision. Most of what we have now wouldn't exist without him pushing it through. Will always get mad props from me

[echo lynx]

I'm pretty patient

[limpid ledge]

Then I knew okay handheld gaming I need that shit

[random tulip]

Oxygen not included has eaten up some nights

[echo lynx]

There are so many games in the world that by the time you play them all there are so many more

[coral valley]

Once I get a proper egpu setup it's all over for desktops for me. I'm gonna lose some performance by using the handheld as a display but 🤷‍♂️

[stray dagger]

I was honestly contemplating to build something powerful just for FF7Rebirth

because fuck Sony and their PS5

[random tulip]

I just quietly work on my backlog. Unless there's something friends won't shut up about. Then I just play it when they all do so they don't spoil the shit out of it for me

[stray dagger]

no games aside from one timed exclusive and they made the damn machine more expensive since launch

[limpid ledge]

Word Gabe is really a genius

[random tulip]

He just does what he wants to do, and doesn't have shareholders. If only other companies did the same

[coral valley]

I mean it's lowkey nintendo we have to thank ngl, despite their scummy actions

[limpid ledge]

Especially Nintendo as well

[floral pebble]

Sega really showed us the way with game gear

[random tulip]

True. They'll always get my respect as well. Scary to think what gaming would be without them and valve. Sure we could rip off IP constantly. But it'd all be ass IP

[supple skiff]

pineapple

[floral pebble]

Valve just copied the design

[limpid ledge]

I didn't even look at switch like that until 2022 as well I was thinking ohhh that's why people got swtich in the first place

[rigid thicket]

Dreamcast was the first dual screen console 🙃

[stray dagger]

without the Switchs success I doubt we would have gotten handheld PCs like the Deck

[coral valley]

....right

[random tulip]

Game gear just ate too many batteries. My parents got tired of buying them 😆

[stray dagger]

mine shit the bed over my Gameboy advance battery consumption, and got me one of those rechargeable battery packs

[random tulip]

GameBoy Advance SP was another big one for me at least

[random tulip]

Yeah. Back when game gear launched they made one. But it lasted like 2 hrs. And took 4 to charge

[uncut crescent]

For as much as they do stupid shit, Nintendo paved the way for Valve to take charge. Without either of them, we all still he back in the Atari 7800 days

[versed vigil]

Nah, if we’re counting that, then it’s technically PocketStation.

[echo lynx]

I feel like an ant now

[limpid ledge]

Yep deffo

But I wish playstation didn't abandoned handheld scene it's sad

[random tulip]

What a boring and depressing world it would be if the industry only had Peter Molyneux as a backbone. Lol

[versed vigil]

Yup, the Nintendo Seal of Approval is the original reason we can even get refunds for a non-functional game in the first place.

[rigid thicket]

I don't think companies realized how many people would take potential portability over raw power until the Switch was all in about it.

[uncut crescent]

Nah nah, it was the Game and Watch that did it first xD

[floral pebble]

Psp felt like the first proper real games for handheld

[versed vigil]

Since in the Atari days, most games flat out were non-functional and stores would just tell you to get fucked if you tried returning it.

[coral valley]

And then compare that to the eshop now.... how the mighty have fallen

[echo lynx]

Pokemon red was plenty long

[versed vigil]

Or at least that’s what my dad told me.

[echo lynx]

But chains of Olympus does feel like

A big title

[versed vigil]

Hell no, it’s still better than Atari.

[random tulip]

It helped what age the Nintendo generation was at that point too. We were all starting to adulting. Portability is how we were able to play anything

[uncut crescent]

we don't talk about the E-shop

[floral pebble]

Yeah but it's still a mobile game, the graphics was huge

[coral valley]

Does atari even count in the big 25

Hydrogen bomb vs crying baby

[versed vigil]

It was literally the “Big Me” when they were the main company around before Nintendo even did games.

[tawdry dove]

violently dismembers a portion of the eshop every console generation

[versed vigil]

Yeah, Atari had virtually no competitors beyond arcades before the first game crash.

[echo lynx]

I was watching a displaced gamers video

I find it funny how there was no change in TV's for 60 years

[coral valley]

Maybe, but they've been out of game for long they can't really be compared to modern Nintendo imo, right now we have the Big Three, which might turn into the the Big Two if xbox doesn't step their game up

[echo lynx]

Then the second computers pop up there's change

[tawdry dove]

I mean atari is pretty dead and owned by hasbro now, if you count traditional with digital games they would be ~9th place for "game" companies

[versed vigil]

I should note I’m mostly running off of what my dad and Older sister would tell me about it, but unironically that shit would immediately have put them in the far distant first place of “scummiest company around” if they were around and doing that exact stuff today.

[coral valley]

I'm not including pc because it gets a little more complicated

Valve is kind of in their own lane

[limpid ledge]

Xbox is probably done this point they didn't no marketing until once or twice on tv like Starfield launch or this is xbox ad

[versed vigil]

Hell, the literal origin for Easter Eggs in games was the fact that the devs for an Atari game (that I currently can’t remember the name of) had to hide their names in the game with fun secrets since they were literally not allowed to have any form of actual public credit for making the game.

[tawdry dove]

still arent in some studios

[floral pebble]

Hasn't Xbox actively dissolved their console? Everything is an xbox they just want you to buy the streaming service

[echo lynx]

Hasbro??????

[limpid ledge]

Value is always the main front of PC

[echo lynx]

Fuck na

[echo lynx]

Everyone knows about steam

Even the kids

Epic games is just free games and fortnite

[versed vigil]

Yup, but at least it isn’t the literal default for everyone.

[coral valley]

I have like 40 free games on epic that I haven't touched

[limpid ledge]

Honestly yes and no we still xbox series s in stores but xbox series x is like 50/50

[limpid ledge]

And GOG is like Physical media of PC

[tawdry dove]

xbox dont sell well but they still sell

[coral valley]

The series s is actually pretty good for more casual gamers

[limpid ledge]

Like me who was inactive with gaming like 4 years

[versed vigil]

I’m all for hating on modern console companies for what they do, I refuse to ever pretend any of them were worse than what Atari originally was, because that just downplays how utterly horrid Atari was.

[tawdry dove]

80s tech was pretty cut throat, looks at apple/microsoft in that era

no back left unstabbed and no code/tech not worth stealing

[versed vigil]

Almost everything any modern company has done can be traced back to being a heavily watered down version of the shit Atari pulled.

[coral valley]

What did they do? They're a little before my time

[versed vigil]

Yup, at least nowadays they have to pretend to “play nice”.

[gentle badge]

I had already been playing strategy games on PC while playing platformers and RPGs on console - but then Morrowind came out for PC and I was all in on that

[random tulip]

yeah, i wish i had been more into PC RPGs back then

kinda missed that whole wave

never even really got into skyrim

[gentle badge]

I am getting back into retro crpgs and modern throwbacks to them these days - just started skald: against the black priory, playing Morrowind again, legend of Grimrock and planescape torment are both on the backlog, etc

[random tulip]

Yeah. It's a sick list. I really need to dive back into those and see what I missed

Shit, I haven't played any witchers yet

[copper burrow]

Skald is nice

[coral valley]

I love rpgs but I sometimes wish they didn't take 100 hours minimum

I've put like 40 hours into the Witcher 3 and I don't even think I'm halfway through the story, let alone the dlcs

[blazing burrow]

Grimrock is so good, it reminds me of an old Mac rpg called Scarab of RA.

One of my favorites, on System 6 😆

Older Might & Magic titles are also worth another look. 6, 7 & 8 especially

[random tulip]

My problem is I'm a completionist. I need to learn how to just beat the core quests of this stuff so I can experience it and move it off my list. Lol

[coral valley]

Same, which is even worse because for whatever reason I tend to like games with longer run times

[jolly kayak]

Perhaps someone will do a second screen mod on r/sbcgaming

Screen extension

[tacit latch]

you guys surprised that Ice Blue beat GC in the polls?

I found that kind of interesting

[limpid ledge]

Nope

[rigid thicket]

Someone brought up that the transparent bottom "fills out" the otherwise empty space since you can see the internals and I think that might be partly why it's more appealing.

It would've been a neat design choice if they offered a two-tone colour option that had transparent bottom inner parts.

[random tulip]

Nah. GC is super cool. But the system colored ones will always appeal to people who feel nostalgia for that stuff. Most people just want white and black. And transparent is always cool too

[ocean cedar]

SNES all the way

[random tulip]

Yeah. I'll probably get it. But SNES was one of my fav systems growing up

[craggy kestrel]

I'm going black, I've got the SNES Flip and I like it but I want something different for the Flip 2

Ice blue has me worried about hinge and I'm not quite a fan of the GCN one since the c-stick placement doesn't match the normal controller

[severe ridge]

the fact that a thousand people voted means good things for them

[coral valley]

Only 19% for black? Heresy

[floral pebble]

I kinda want a red one

[unkempt ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/smartphone-scroll-swipe-phone-iphone-gif-5822550

This is me trying to find anything on topic on here

Hopefully all the drama and politics BS is over with

[tacit latch]

that's pretty much discord in a nutshell tbh

but as a general rule if you have to scroll a lot to find something of substance then nothing interesting really happened

[coral valley]

Yes we've made peace now 🙏

[unkempt ferry]

I know there isn't much to talk about the Flip 2 but c'mon we don't need that stuff here , we are all handheld nerds

[floral pebble]

The lack of substance is the interesting bit

Just not particularly informative

Or on topic

[coral valley]

Once this comes out we're gonna have to move the political talks to the vertical channel😞

[wintry rock]

I was like "Oh, lots of poasts - did they announce the price?" But then it was just Discord being Discord.

[coral valley]

Price reveal tomorrow

Maybe

[rigid thicket]

It's gotta be soon if they want to stick with "early March" for pre-orders, ahaha.

[severe ridge]

in my experience, chinas definition of "early" in a month is literally all the way up to the 15th of a month

[versed vigil]

Please don’t.

[severe ridge]

that might be a form of terrorism

https://tenor.com/view/kekw-twitch-twitchtv-twitch-emote-kek-gif-19085736

[fathom geyser]

People also probably miss having a transparent option since we only had the backplate mod on the 5

[opaque harbor]

missed from going 1 whole year without it

[fathom geyser]

True 1 year in this hobby feels like forever yet it all goes by so quick

[wary briar]

price

and releasea date

when

[jolly kayak]

I think i might be an imposter yall

I downloaded retroarch on my phone for the first time today, and (with an 8bitdo controller) this has been the best experience of goodboy galaxy, after having tried it on rg35xx, rg35xxsp, rp4p, and rgb30. Steam deck is nicer but it's heavier.

So now idk if I want a flip anymore lol

Or any emulaiton handheld

[random tulip]

The modern human cattle love to consume. The longest wait is the wait before consuming more

[jolly kayak]

Have I evolved beyond cow form?

Am I... the farmer? 🤠

[blazing burrow]

Who is the udder

[coral valley]

https://tenor.com/view/nikki-o-nikki-o-me-nikki-o-thats-me-me-nikki-o-thats-me-nikki-o-gif-26079923

[severe ridge]

mildly inappropriate cow gif go!

https://tenor.com/view/cow-walking-udder-teat-gif-8021157

[jolly kayak]

Rad enemy idea for game

[coral valley]

In his own lane fr

Battle cats

[jolly kayak]

Battle cows

[coral valley]

Like the game

[jolly kayak]

Oh LOL

This is what flash games used to be like

R.i.p. flash games

Speaking of which

Is there a portmaster version of flash

Flash master?

[tawdry dove]

theres kinda a retroarch core

[coral valley]

Wasn't there a flash archive that was made a while ago

[jolly kayak]

Yoo

I wanna play some commando

Or final ninja

Raft wars

[tawdry dove]

I say kinda I dont think it works well or at all on most devices

[coral valley]

I remember playing the old poptropica on it

MAN I LOVE POPTROPICA

[jolly kayak]

Good times

Rubble Trouble anyone?

[coral valley]

Commando 2?

That game kicked my ass ngl

[jolly kayak]

Commando Assault

I could only ever beat the hacked versions

[coral valley]

The music was crazy good

[jolly kayak]

I was so happy to find Commando series was based on Iron Slug which has a game boy advance release

[jolly kayak]

Commando really makes you FEEL like a Commando

🫏

[coral valley]

Real time strategy AND shoot em up❗️❗️❗️

[jolly kayak]

Gimme gimme

[noble canyon]

Retroid handheld scene at its most toxic isn’t even a fraction as toxic as 90% of gaming communities at their least toxic

[coral valley]

Oh for sure, still, it is a bit funny how quickly the topics can escalate

[noble canyon]

It’s always funny to hear ppl talk about things like that while I’m in like hundreds of more discord with way way more drama even on a mild day

[jolly kayak]

Oh lawd

We got the "bro I've seen way worse" guy

[noble canyon]

Smash community lmaooooooo

Literally any community that may have at least a quarter of the user base be under 18

Will probably be infinitely more toxic

[severe ridge]

we will have to try harder

[noble canyon]

Yea u guys need to pick up the slack

[coral valley]

Most smash players are older though aren't they

[noble canyon]

No the average competitive player is like 17-25

[coral valley]

The more you know

[noble canyon]

And the average player that’s not hardcore competitive can often be a minor

[jolly kayak]

All the old people have wrist problems or something idk

[tawdry dove]

qq, status of flash RA core

[noble canyon]

Mix in the fact that Steve from Minecraft is so good in the game that he’s basically banworthy and he’s a character where most people who play them are under 18 and ur gonna see some crazy harassment towards children

[severe ridge]

rite of passage to shit on kids online in a game

[noble canyon]

True

And this is probably infinitely less toxic than the COD community

Let alone something like the Genshin fandom

[severe ridge]

"oh your new at this? get shit on"

[noble canyon]

Or league

[coral valley]

The bigger the community the more toxic

[noble canyon]

Not always, Kirby community pretty tame

[severe ridge]

cod4 noob tubes across the map into spawn was always good for a freak out 😄

[noble canyon]

And it’s relatively big from what I’ve heard

[coral valley]

Bigger than smash? 🤔

[jolly kayak]

Some cases folks need to grow a spine imo

[noble canyon]

Yea maybe not that big

But its not small kirby fan art and kirby specialists exist everywhere

But tbf I don’t really know many ppl who pretty much only interact with Kirby stuff

There’s not much substance

None of the retro handheld creators have been cancelled. The most controversial by far is DNA mobile gaming but he kinda just is all over the place and a bit reactionary not like an objectively bad person or anything.

[tawdry dove]

The guy who makes the steamdeck add on screens?

[noble canyon]

So you could do a lot worse tbh

[coral valley]

Could also do better though

[noble canyon]

He does that yea but he also did some shady stuff with es-de I think and he got in some heat for his retroid reviews since the review is… not good

Calling rp mini not bright enough for outdoors and double downing is a take for sure

[severe ridge]

hes past due for shipping his first round of preorders

https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/comments/1j0aez0/dna_screen/

[noble canyon]

Yea

[tawdry dove]

yeah thats pretty tame

[noble canyon]

Taki and Retro Dodo also had their fair bit of controversy but it’s really nothing interesting

[tawdry dove]

thought it would at least be emu dev shitfit teir

[severe ridge]

i mean, dna DID have a shitfit

[coral valley]

Dna just comes off a little arrogant at times but nothing crazy

[severe ridge]

when he got called out for selling pirated apps

[noble canyon]

Like the worst of the community outside of individual randos is just ppl who are a little egotistical

[blazing burrow]

This is now cow chat

[severe ridge]

hes banned from here and most other discords related to retrogames lol

[severe ridge]

did u see my cow? 😄

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/dance-happy-happydance-excited-cow-gif-19565685

[blazing burrow]

It was udderly the best

[severe ridge]

i had one other but i lost it

the guy drinks milk and turns into a cow and it cycles

it was WEIRD 😄

[noble canyon]

Tahlreths also controversial but he’s not really retro handheld adjacent just an emu dev but he was kinda just at worst a dick

[blazing burrow]

Retroid Flip 2 COW

[noble canyon]

Wasn’t even like he was being racist or anything he was just kinda socially inept but talented

[severe ridge]

most devs are exactly that lol

[tawdry dove]

oh no its late and stubbs is drunknly changing things

[noble canyon]

But this is mostly tahlreth

[blazing burrow]

Just wait until tomorrow

[noble canyon]

Other emu devs sometimes get driven a little crazy

[severe ridge]

i already failed to get drunk today, 8ox of rum down the drain

[noble canyon]

But tahlreth was like actually toxic

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/fuddersngmi-gif-27294365

[versed vigil]

…What did I just walk into and why is the channel now Flip 2 COW?

[coral valley]

TOMORROW⁉️⁉️⁉️

[noble canyon]

Even his own discord mods didn’t like him

[blazing burrow]

New discord who dis?

[noble canyon]

He’s well known for going out of his way to constantly berate members in his discord

[severe ridge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY

[noble canyon]

Pretty different than an emu dev having a bad day because someone asked for the 6th time to make a game run on a potato

[blazing burrow]

Still early

[coral valley]

Wait why

[severe ridge]

kitty city is my fav of this guys

[blazing burrow]

For Sparta

[versed vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/backup-gif-25086097

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-spin-gif-21779457

[blazing burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-cow-gif-17428338243821361151

Retroid Flip 2 (ONLY COWS)

[jolly kayak]

Hahahhaahaaaa

That's great

[coral valley]

Look at what you've done Retroid

[blazing burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/look-what-you-have-made-look-what-you-have-done-palpatine-darth-sidious-emperor-gif-25258247

[jolly kayak]

They'll all be lining up at the slaughterhouse once prices are announced

[blazing burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/gates-open-moo-cow-running-gif-15420220

[coral valley]

https://tenor.com/view/i-hate-you-anakin-star-wars-gif-10358450

[blazing burrow]

People are going to think we're calling them cows, but we just want to have only cows posted here

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/invader-zim-cow-alien-spaceship-abduction-gif-3520264

[blazing burrow]

Cows until Flip 2 news

This is how we bring down the system

[severe ridge]

cows vs aliens you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrw1VMRNFUg&pp=ygUKY3lyaWFrIGNvdw%3D%3D

[blazing burrow]

Don't remind me of KTR1!

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-snowboarding-cow-snowboarding-winter-winter-sports-gif-19209531

[jolly kayak]

Flip 2 is $250 reaction

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/snow-man-j-pop-abe-ryohei-abe-chan-abepyon-gif-23560801

now back to regular cow posting

[jolly kayak]

I need to stop eating before bed

Stomach doesn't appreciate it

[tawdry dove]

god so many cow gifs that go way over the line

[severe ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-cows-cow-dancing-cows-daning-meme-cows-dancing-gif-17757819826705584286

[blazing burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/christopher-walken-fever-cowbell-more-cowbell-prescription-gif-16839976

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-wrestling-gif-7932659

[jolly kayak]

Devs POV

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-bobblehead-eat-more-chicken-gif-7923028292004738129

[jolly kayak]

Does that translate to

Play more games buy less handhelds?

Games are chicken

I get it now

[coral valley]

Chicken 😩

[jolly kayak]

Chicken shishkabobs are really good

[severe ridge]

found the one i was looking for

[blazing burrow]

I am not good at compressing gifs for discord's 500K sticker limit

[severe ridge]

mastertingus morning routine

google that

[blazing burrow]

immediately does

[severe ridge]

i used to have it as a gif lol

[blazing burrow]

My wife walked in the room at this exact moment

[severe ridge]

[blazing burrow]

she is shaking her head at me

so many udders

[severe ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/pikachu-gif-13575853101874488635

[blazing burrow]

If Flip 2 doesn't come with udders we riot

https://tenor.com/view/meet-the-fockers-nipples-milk-me-greg-robert-deniro-gif-14876822

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/travolta-lost-farm-cities-skylines-travolta-lost-larry-skylines-travolta-lost-cs-gif-26862995

where flip2

[severe ridge]

a handheld with an ibm nipple would be cool actually for mouse stuff in games

[blazing burrow]

now we wait

[severe ridge]

haha you linked that to him

[severe ridge]

is that dms lol

[blazing burrow]

this means it is 100% happening

[severe ridge]

they could sell it as a skin

[blazing burrow]

that is my dumb DM to him yes

Although not dumb, because we need this now

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-gif-26611671

[severe ridge]

what will the channel look like if we just all post the same gif a hundred times

https://tenor.com/view/cow-gif-26611671

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/kalypso-kalypso-media-railway-empire-railway-empire-2-trains-gif-1087015806798408820

[blazing burrow]

I showed him our thread name, he accepts this, and knows the pressure is on now

[severe ridge]

cow intensifies

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-viralhog-relax-rest-cool-off-gif-22343629

[blazing burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-eating-cute-cool-wholesome-gif-13676080160876117043

[severe ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/yay-cow-funny-cow-calf-milk-spill-gif-23956125

[blazing burrow]

NEXT WEEK NO MORE COWS? Let's see 🐮

[severe ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/thesimpsons-bart-simpson-dont-have-a-cow-don't-have-a-cow-dont-have-a-cow-man-gif-269547880223598654

[tawdry dove]

https://tenor.com/view/cowanimated-cow-cows-gif-13671727856550360343

[blazing burrow]

Etsy will save us

[severe ridge]

people wanted a gamecube mini, talk to this guy
https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/comments/1ffp8xw/rp5_rp_mini_skins_for_fun_zelda_and_all_the/

[blazing burrow]

Hold on I got this

[severe ridge]

its funny cuz only the box was cow print

[blazing burrow]

I might have fucked up

We'll get a beige skin with a floppy drive

[severe ridge]

Noctua theme

[coral valley]

Halk tuaw

[blazing burrow]

[severe ridge]

looks like theres at least 3 free emoji slots for the server......

[blazing burrow]

We finally capped out our emojis, this is impressive

219 animated emoji slots free though!

[severe ridge]

now find 219 animated cow emoji

[blazing burrow]

that is a job for tomorrow, and every day until Flip 2

[severe ridge]

10 cows per day till release

[blazing burrow]

Sleep well all, thanks for entertaining my unhinged brain 😂

[tacit gorge]

political comment warning:

||you can’t be real. afd ties to neo fascism get exposed all the time. you personally may not want to believe it, but it’s facts and it’s actually old news.

you do you, you vote whatever you want. you may think afd does provide solutions for you. that’s fair. but calling them a conservative party and denying their fascist scheme is not.||

[silent canopy]

|| 99% could vote for them, they'd still be far right and fascist. ||

[severe ridge]

||cows go moo||

[hybrid viper]

When you have 400,000 channels dedicated to Chinese handhelds but not one single politics channel

[severe ridge]

stubbs could make a cow channel for politics

[severe steppe]

How will this affect handheld prices?

[warped leaf]

just forget about the flip 2 and use this channel for only politics

[tacit gorge]

lol probably not at all 😊
but hey, who knows?

[echo lynx]

Please no my integer scaling it's flickering spare me!!!!!

[echo lynx]

Here we go again

Does it really matter if I can see the comment when it's going to start the convo again?

[left turret]

i might pickup black flip 2 and mod it into ps2 buttons

[tacit gorge]

sir this is discord.
is it really necessary to comment on that? if you do not like to read messages in a spoiler, you are free to just not do that. you were warned about it‘s content. just ignore it.

[opaque harbor]

Why does this channel say only cows?

[copper burrow]

people got very dumb in here yesterday

[opaque harbor]

There is yes

[floral pebble]

Cows have 4 stomachs so they can rechew their cud 20 hours later

[opaque harbor]

The flash archive is called flashpoint I think

[random tulip]

I would buy the shit out of that skin

[fluid stone]

Is this a minecraft movie tie-in

[random tulip]

Need to vote on cow skin

[plush silo]

https://youtu.be/o1KjP-sfayU?si=G1TGUVANn4WVbAQH

[random tulip]

love that' it's just the flip 1 the whole vid

i mean it makes sense, we don't have any real shots of the v2

[naive hollow]

What is this channel name lol

[random tulip]

We on a cow strike until we get more info

Maybe we'll get more info today tho. So shouldn't be long

🐮 🐄

[naive hollow]

lol

[unkempt ferry]

I'm going to throw some steaks on the BBQ in protest today

[uncut knoll]

Except for the promotional images, we have nothing else

[fluid stone]

https://tenor.com/view/goodhairday-cow-hair-sass-sassy-gif-12705775809296912870

[random tulip]

Well. And the stats and dimensions and colors

We're only missing dates and prices

[wintry rock]

I go to bed for the evening and come back and there's a cow color scheme for the Flp 2 now? WHERE ARE THE PREORDERS? I MUST PREORDER NOW!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!11!!!

[rigid thicket]

If there isn't someone at Retroid peeping this and setting up a secret black/white two-tone colour option they're missing out.

[echo lynx]

Does it really matter if I read the comment when I know it's going to start the convo?

[coral valley]

I would like to avoid another lockdown of this channel

[remote basin]

lowkey wasn't considering buying a flip 2, but this might push me over the line

[chilly hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/amiga-cow-sesame-street-grass-eating-gif-18450317

[fluid stone]

Shell needs more black spots

[rigid thicket]

Oh just going ham.

[remote basin]

ooh yeah, that's good shit

https://tenor.com/view/cow-earthworm-jim-well-done-gif-15706297

[jolly kayak]

This looks like an 8bitdo edition. Soooo cleannn

[steady osprey]

What did I miss overnight lolololol

[rigid thicket]

This channel is oddly exciting to wake up to for reasons completely unrelated 😂

[gentle badge]

I find the retroid flip 2 somewhat lacking in sophistication

Ok that’s probably enough cow tools

[tacit latch]

call it the camoooflage colorway

[jolly kayak]

Please can we have
CowOS
cowTools
cowManager

[gentle badge]

I would unironically buy this

[gentle badge]

Portmooster

[rigid thicket]

If nothing else, I hope someone makes a cow pattern skin/sticker for the Flip 2 now 😂

[tacit latch]

isn't Rocknix technically due for a rebrand, since it's no longer just for Rockchip devices?

[versed vigil]

It already wasn’t considering they were already still updated Rocknix versions of their older JELOS builds for non-Rockchip stuff like the S922X devices.

[blazing burrow]

😂

[blazing burrow]

F seems iconic!

[random tulip]

The masses have spoken

[echo lynx]

If people sent rp4 pros to the rocknix guys, could they get Linux for the Rp4 pro/ d1100 RP flip 2

[tacit latch]

unfortunately no, because the dimensity chips aren't open enough for that to happen

[echo lynx]

Damn

If device manufacturers wanted Linux for their android only dimensity devices, could they get Linux on them?

[echo lynx]

Is that why panfrost is only for mali gpus used in rock chip chips?

[versed vigil]

It’s because of the fact RockChips are among the only few APU’s with Mali that people can actually swap in a custom driver for.

[echo lynx]

What makes them special?

[chilly hollow]

GOAT design. Or is it COW design?

[echo lynx]

The chip manufacturer is the one doing it?

[versed vigil]

Basically just the fact that they’re completely open source in their software.

They aren’t exactly special in that they’re the only ones who do it (since there are other APU developers that allow that level of tinkering), Rockchip is just the most readily available.

[echo lynx]

But the rock chip are pretty weak right?

Relative to like Odin 2

[wary briar]

what the frig

i came in here

and now we are cows

so umm

moo?

[tropic surge]

https://tenor.com/view/thesimpsons-bart-simpson-dont-have-a-cow-don't-have-a-cow-dont-have-a-cow-man-gif-269547880223598654

[copper sequoia]

Needs more udders

[gentle badge]

Cow beer

(Technically it’s an auroch)

[icy bramble]

Idk how the "this channel is always off topic" allegations started but they weren't true until admins stepped in and actually made it off topic???? It was pretty consistently about what little information we had on the flip 2.

[gentle badge]

The cow theme is a strategy to disarm much more controversial and heated off topic stuff about European politics, a similar thing happened when the ktr1 channel was temporarily made about aliens when it got too spicy

Though I guess since I made that beer I should’ve posted in #1203441526726852720 😉

[wary briar]

lol i remember that ktr1 thing

man that was weird

also the main person is such a toxic person

(not nil, the advocate for kt, shigeru or whatever he is)

[echo lynx]

No

[coral valley]

He's lowkey right

[gentle badge]

Part of the issue is that I feel like there isn’t much to tell or speculate on for the flip 2

It’s just an rp5 with a hinge

Price and date is all that’s left

[coral valley]

It's gonna be 300 retrillion dollars

[icy bramble]

Talk about what games you think will be fun on it

Talk about what colors you wish it had

[rigid thicket]

Weird choice for a grip, but sure.

[wintry rock]

100% unironically, I would buy this.

[rigid thicket]

Whoops, missed a layer.

[versed vigil]

Don’t ask, just walk away and wait until someone finally gets Stubbs under control.

[wary briar]

stubbs is always in control

[fast sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-gif-15771832987556307213

[wary briar]

i still havent forgiven him for removing my beloved RG353m and retroid 3+ channel

[wary briar]

5090 when?

[versed vigil]

Ok, finally! I was looking for an explanation that wasn’t just “cow”.

[fluid stone]

If I can't get succulent Retroid milk from my Flip 2's massive udders I'm gonna scream

[fast sonnet]

when that level of performance gets in the sub $500 range

[wary briar]

thats the 5070

buy it

[fast sonnet]

bish that ain't sup $500

[wary briar]

whats it supposed to be

[fast sonnet]

IDK sub $700

either way I'm good on GPU for a long while as long as publishers focus their teams for optimization

[wary briar]

thats the thing

i dont think they will

and alot of devs are complaining 8gb vram isnt enough

and its limiting them

[fast sonnet]

which is probably due to shit engine optimization

UE5 seems to be really bad with this

[rigid thicket]

It used to be devs would optimize and develop new ways of compression 🥲

Now they just slap in uncompressed textures and call it "HD"

[fast sonnet]

remember when games on PC were less than 20gbs

like Titan Quest Anniversary with all the DLC is like 19gb

[wary briar]

they were complaining before ue5

its just louder on ue5

im hitting 15gb vram with my 4080s

and im liek

DO I NEED 4090?????

[fast sonnet]

Jesus fuckin christ

I think it's time to let AAA gaming die for a while

[rigid thicket]

But yeah, it's mainly just uncompressed textures everywhere.

[wary briar]

I WILL SEE ALL THE PIXELS

[rigid thicket]

Like, we don't need uncompressed 4K/8K textures everywhere.

The heck you guys doing.

[wary briar]

its one of those, yes you don't need 32gb desktop ram, or more than 12gb Vram

[fast sonnet]

killing a fridge dragon

[wary briar]

but the computer/system WILL use it

if you have it

[fast sonnet]

currently with MHWs and my browser on the side, that 32gb is needed

[wary briar]

and the worst part is...........i only play tekken mostly

and im still on that

[wary briar]

im debating do i get 128gb right now

im hitting 98% on 32gb

[rigid thicket]

Some apps/games will just use whatever's available.

[wary briar]

and i dont want to upgrade from 64gb if that isnt enough

[icy bramble]

Nah I understand why you wouldn't want texture compression that can fuck shit up

Look at Sonic's shoes lol

[wary briar]

thing is

[rigid thicket]

That's just bad compression with low res textures.

[wary briar]

with more vram, you can load more textures, so even if you are on lower quality preset, the texture should make the game look better anyways

[tawdry dove]

and are you going to notice in motion

[wary briar]

I WILL SEE ALL THE PIXELS

[icy bramble]

Yes

Especially around all the specialty material maps in modern games that are often half res precisely to save up on compression that then get compressed so you can see the compression artifacts in what's supposed to be finer detail lighting

Like cmon

[rigid thicket]

I can't believe the Pokemon games can look so bad when there are other Switch games that look so good.

They could save a lot of power if the world textures matched the visual aesthetic of the characters.

[coral valley]

Games usually use as much vram as possible, it doesn't necessarily mean you need more

[fluid stone]

What's sad is this still looks significantly better than ScarVi

[rigid thicket]

Like, there was no need to have terrible looking "realistic" style floor textures when the characterse tend to have smoothed out visuals.

[fluid stone]

Someone posted this comparison and I thought at first that the top was one of those out of bounds low detail versions of an area lol

[rigid thicket]

And instead of employing tricks like software texture recolouring and overlaying I bet they just used a bunch of unique textures instead bloating up VRAM usage.

Feels like that top screenshot was in handheld mode...but it could also be that the bottom one is "Switch 2 Enhanced" 🤔

[copper sequoia]

Udder perfection

[uncut crescent]

Moo

[echo lynx]

mhm 9070 xt

[plush silo]

That seems about right given the given dimensions on the specs sheet for the Flip 2 are also very similar to the Flip

[severe ridge]

yep, i just wanted to post the confirmation since people had wanted to debate it before even tho we actually had measurements

[versed vigil]

Oh no, they flat out said that it would be a Switch 1 game alone, there wouldn’t be a cross platform version on Switch 2.

Jury’s still out on if it won’t get something like a Switch-2 update for fps, but that’s in fact what they’re effectively saying it will look like on the Switch 1.

[versed vigil]

In terms of Pokémon games before Z-A, that’s because every pokemon game (until supposedly this one) has outright had only 2 years of dev time for each game, and they’re working with minimal full time devs.

It’s an annoying situation where the execs are pulling bullshit because most of the money the Pokémon franchise makes is in merchandise, and the games are effectively just a means to the end of making more pokemon for that merchandising.

[versed vigil]

And yeah, I’m currently wondering wtf people are talking about with “Z-A looking as bad as ScVi” because did they play ScVi? That shit looked way fucking worse than what we’re currently seeing with Z-A.

[warped leaf]

the scope seems a lot smaller for z-a

[versed vigil]

And ScVi looked unironically even worse in the earlier advertising.

[warped leaf]

i haven't played scarlet and violet anyway so i can't say

[uncut crescent]

Its ROUGH

Like

[warped leaf]

yeah that i know

[uncut crescent]

You can tell this was rushed out for a deadline

[versed vigil]

So if this is supposed to be the same level of early footage for Z-A, that actually looks like it’s gonna be a really big upgrade from ScVi.

[uncut crescent]

I said it before and I'll say it again: holding my tounge till the full release or data mines

Which ever is first

more or less Datamine

[versed vigil]

I agree on waiting for the idea of it getting better than what we’re currently seeing, but currently? I’m still going to still say this is already a pretty big upgrade from ScVi.

[uncut crescent]

Oh im not disagreeing at all

Im just keeping my expectations leveled until the release

[versed vigil]

Cause ScVi was fucking awful in regard to that stuff, even if you could debate there were still some good parts to the game. Trying to pretend that Z-A is somehow “as bad” is literally just a completely undeserved compliment for ScVi.

[versed vigil]

That we can agree on, I still don’t fully trust that the execs were being honest about changing how things work in development, considering they were fully willing to lie like dogs in claiming “the devs love being rushed to hell and back, and they also love having a low staff to work with”.

[fluid stone]

The intent is to provide the developer with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different benefits

[versed vigil]

Intent of what?

Do you mean the structure of Game Freak’s development process?

[fluid stone]

Of crunch I guess idk I just wanted to reference that one EA comment lol

[versed vigil]

Ah, got it.

[swift hamlet]

Will we get any footage of the flip 2 in use before preorders ?

Maybe some asmr of the buttons, joysticks, hinge

[wary briar]

still too early

which cow is better

if all i care about is PS2

specifically Death by degrees