New Options Emerge For GameCube Nostalgia

Nintendo trademark filings have offered a hint — albeit an unreliable one — of a retro-Gamecube console release. For those who can’t wait, a highly unofficial emulator is in the works for the Switch.

The trademarks are for the Japanese market and relate to the GameCube in the context of both videogame hardware and software, rather than being for more general merchandising.

Such trademarks have previously been a clue of a device such as the NES Mini being in the work. However, there’s no guarantee as similar trademarks were filed last year relating to the design of the original N64 controller. That sparked speculation an N64 Classic could get a release, something that’s not happened (yet).

GameCube fans who want to play on an official Nintendo console may soon have a somewhat tenuous way of doing so. A YouTube video shows Dolphin, one of the more popular GameCube emulators for PCs, running on a Nintendo Switch.

It’s very much a work in progress at the moment, specifically described as a proof of concept. Right now the performance falls short of 30 frames per second, making a visibly jerky picture. The emulator doesn’t yet support multiplay and doesn’t work in docked mode or with the Joy-Cons detached.



Toxic Star Wars Fans [Comic]

“Toxic” Star Wars fans have been all over the news recently, so cartoonist Tom Preston (Andrew Dobson) drew this comic illustrating how some of the actors of the franchise have been treated over the years.

Even if you dislike what is being done to the franchise, actors are not responsible. Everyone should be treated with respect.

[Source: Tom Preston (Andrew Dobson)]



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AI Bot Writes an Episode of Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting

Keaton Patti, the man who had an AI bot write both a script for a Saw movie and an Olive Garden commercial had the same bot create an episode of Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting by having it watch the show over and over again. As you’ll see the end result is nothing short of brilliant an perfect.

See, told you it was brilliant!

[Keaton Patti on Twitter]

The Geektastic Cosplay of Montreal Comiccon 2018 – Part 2 [Picture Gallery]

As promised yesterday, here is the second part of our photos from Montreal Comic Con 2018. If you’ve missed part 1, you can check out the pictures right here, and as usual, ff you see yourself in one of our galleries, and want a high quality version of your photo, be sure to let us know via the contact section on top of the site! Part III coming later this week, so stay tuned!

iPhones Biggest Clue To Having High Income

Owning an iPhone is the single most accurate hint that an American is rich according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The organization revealed the stat in a research paper on the pattern of a growing divide in the cultural, lifestyle and economic choices of differing demographic groups in the US.

One of the questions it addressed was which brands gave the most accurate clues of the owner being high-income. That was a comparative term defined as being among the 25% of highest earners among people with the same household set-up (such as “single householder” or “married couple with dependants.”)

Crunching the numbers, based on extensive 2016 data gathered from surveyed households, it was discovered that if all you knew about a household was that somebody owned an iPhone and you then guessed they were high-income, you had a 69.1 percent chance of being correct, compared with a 25% chance if you guessed randomly with no information. (Put another way, 69.1% of households with an iPhone were in the top 25% of incomes for their household type.)

That was narrowly ahead of iPad ownership on 66.9 percent, Verizon Wireless use on 61% and owning an Android phone on 59.5%. It’s that last number which raises some serious questions about the statistics as iPhone and Android cover the vast majority of US smartphones. Given than one recent estimate had 77% of Americans owning a smartphone, it doesn’t seem to add up that more than half of smartphone owners fall into the high-income category.

Either way, tech dominates the top ten list for 2016, with other products linked to high income including HP printers and fax machines, AT&T cellular use and Samsung TVs. The only non-tech items were Kikkoman soy sauce, Cascade Complete diswasher supplies and Ziploc bags.

It’s a big change from similar analysis in the past. A 2004 list had Land O’Lakes Regular butter as the top brand indicating high-income status, with Toshiba TV and AT&T long-distance calling the only tech items. In 1992 the top spot went to Grey Poupon Dijon mustard, just ahead of Kodak film.