First-time poster, long-time reader. I created a site that isn’t monetized to report on interesting tech and gaming, covering news and reviews, and wanted to share this post as I’m a huge fan of retro gaming and would love to see the Game Bub succeed. Rest assured, although this may appear to be self-promotion, I’m not earning anything from the site; it is completely ad-free.
Back to the subject at hand. We already have a few portrait handhelds that can play physical Game Boy carts, but we still don’t have one that plays landscape. There are rumors that Modretro will make a GBA handheld, but so far, there’s no news on that front. In comes the Game Bub, which is still in crowdfunding, but it does appear a manufacturer has been secured. Hopefully the project finds enough funding to get made, cause I would love to add the Game Bub to my collection.
Not only is it open source, it can play physical carts, which is a big deal to collectors like me, as I prefer single carts over flash carts. Of course, it has an SD slot, so you won’t even need a flash cart if you don’t want to use one.
I can’t be alone in wanting to see this funded, right? We absolutely need an FPGA handheld with a 3:2 screen for GBA.
Jumping for sure. Sucks everyone is so paranoid these days, but it’s also easy to understand why. Rest assured, everything on the site is written and edited by humans, and I wrote this post on Lemmy.
From what I can tell some key giveaways are excessive use of emdashes and emoji in lists. LinkedIn is a perfect example of everyone using AI.
But yeah, I recently launched my site in retaliation to all the slop out there (more about that here), as I’m just as sick of it as everyone else, maybe moreso because it’s destroying the field I work in while decimating the careers of many friends and coworkers.
The only AI that touches the site is in place of stock photos and logos, and that’s simply because the site isn’t monetized and doesn’t make any money. Me and the crew would rather put our focus into creating high-quality content, which means recording our own videos and taking our own images of products (we only review products we’ve actually hand tested), as well as writing our own words.
We don’t want to regurgitate news in a rush like the slop shops; we have no interest in writing endless affiliated bullshit recommending products a writer has never used. We want to dig in and report the finer details, the stuff other sites won’t cover because they think their audience are idiots that need everything dumbed down. And that’s the point of opening an independent site, one owned by the writers; we are free to do the job as we see fit, and that means doing it with integrity.
Thanks for the candid reply.
I utterly despise that it’s hard to tell the difference now.
Same, I feel ya, and like I said, can’t blame ya. It’s a real shitshow out there, hard to tell what is real anymore and what’s bots.