Satiator By Prof. Abrasive

[Knuckle Duster]

Anyone using the Satiator yet? My concerns around it are:

Whether or not it will easily support CCD/IMG/CUE backups like a lot of the Japanese stuff that is already kicking around online archives.

How easy or difficult it might be to enable a quick save backup feature that pulls everything out of internal memory and drops it into a brand new folder on root. I just want to reset and dump the saves and not need to worry about the battery dying or micro-managing the contents of the saves.

How it will work with PSKai carts. Will Kai boot first and need a new update flashed? Does Satiator boot first?

UI themes and skins. Will it be eye candy, or eye cancer when using the thing? I just blue screened myself into a headache navigating through the Dreamcast game list on my USB GDROM. I need to lay down now.

[Joe Redifer]

Seriously though. Why? Boomers are a generation. They are blaming Millenials for everything. That's the joke of it.

Boomers curse about them wanting free rides in life, or make comments about school and college tuition. Blaming stupid kids for being lazy. The younger generations say OK boomer in a way to say "OK, shut up, you don't understand, you're confused." to old people that still throw themselves into every situation possible on Facebook and Twitter. I've seen more than a few bombastic old talking heads on American news media preaching and blaming "Millennials" on "Spring Break", carelessly spreading Covid-19 in Florida. And yet there I was shaking my head like: "Fucking boomers... Thinking a generation pushing 40 years old still goes on 'Spring Break' from college."

That whole generation had affordable houses and could go anywhere to get decent work. Their home assets skyrocketed in value, and building a home for 50 grand back in the day might have turned them into millionaires by now if they were in any inflated market. Yet they think the millennials are lazy and don't work hard enough. They think that the inflation in value that they reaped is going to magically repeat itself for their poorer kids that have lower wages, higher costs of education that is more competitive/devalued than ever, higher costs of living on food prices, and who are already priced out of most of the housing market. Boomers don't even know who they are complaining about half the time. Gen-X isn't half as bad in this regard.

LOL. OK Boomer.

"OK boomer" has simply become a way to lazily dismiss anything anyone says without providing an argument why their statement may be in error. That was not the original intent, but that's the way it is now.

[zyrobs]

LOL. OK Boomer.

"OK boomer" has simply become a way to lazily dismiss anything anyone says without providing an argument why their statement may be in error. That was not the original intent, but that's the way it is now.

I prefer "Cool story, bro".

[Mad Moham]

LOL. OK Boomer.

"OK boomer" has simply become a way to lazily dismiss anything anyone says without providing an argument why their statement may be in error. That was not the original intent, but that's the way it is now.

So how exactly is one supposed to refer to those of the Boomer generation?

I'm not changing the way I speak, Boomer is a generation in the same way that Gen-X is a generation and Millennial is a generation. If some prick who grew up in a time when property was cheap and career opportunities were plentiful wants to lecture me on how I'm lazy because he'd already paid off the mortgage and got married by the time he was 25, then the chances are he's a Boomer and he doesn't understand how the world works now.

[Knuckle Duster]

Kids these days.

[Centrale]

These "generations" are mostly fictions, as you can plainly tell that there is no sharp dividing line between the life experiences of, say, a "gen x" born in 1978 and a "millennial" born in 1982, or whatever. Choose any of the boundaries of these so-called generations. Variations in technological, cultural and economic factors can be found, but it's all within a continuum and didn't hinge on some sort of epoch that began on Jan. 1, 1980, or whatever year.

But as to the specifics of the "ok boomer" dismissal, to me it is a statement of exasperation for the fact that there are these people who are now willfully obtuse and feel they have earned the right to refuse to continue to learn. "Ok boomer" essentially means, now we are just waiting for your kind to die off so you no longer have any power to prevent us from taking action that makes the world a better place. But any such generalization is naturally offensive to the ones who do not fit the stereotype. Ultimately it takes a different kind of engagement to affect real change, so these conveniences of generations and generalizations are mostly self-defeating ways of blowing off some steam, even if kernels of truth can be found here and there.

[Mad Moham]

I posted this earlier then deleted it. But my local radio station ran a piece on Boomers vs Millennials last year and it was hilarious to hear Boomers phoning in and explaining that they worked hard for the $6000 they paid for their first home, only for Millennials to call in and be shot down for saying that they can't even afford a home and are still living with parents.

There's no way anyone genuinely believes that there's no difference in mentality and economic opportunity between generations. Its likely that people just ignore the differences until they are affected by it themselves.

[gamevet]

OK Boomer.

Seriously though. Why? Boomers are a generation. They are blaming Millenials for everything. That's the joke of it.

Boomers curse about them wanting free rides in life, or make comments about school and college tuition. Blaming stupid kids for being lazy. The younger generations say OK boomer in a way to say "OK, shut up, you don't understand, you're confused." to old people that still throw themselves into every situation possible on Facebook and Twitter. I've seen more than a few bombastic old talking heads on American news media preaching and blaming "Millennials" on "Spring Break", carelessly spreading Covid-19 in Florida. And yet there I was shaking my head like: "Fucking boomers... Thinking a generation pushing 40 years old still goes on 'Spring Break' from college."

That whole generation had affordable houses and could go anywhere to get decent work. Their home assets skyrocketed in value, and building a home for 50 grand back in the day might have turned them into millionaires by now if they were in any inflated market. Yet they think the millennials are lazy and don't work hard enough. They think that the inflation in value that they reaped is going to magically repeat itself for their poorer kids that have lower wages, higher costs of education that is more competitive/devalued than ever, higher costs of living on food prices, and who are already priced out of most of the housing market. Boomers don't even know who they are complaining about half the time. Gen-X isn't half as bad in this regard.



On the Satiator front, does anybody know how difficult it will be to enable CCD/IMG/CUE/SUB support? I don't think Prof mentioned supporting it yet and I'm going to prep a hard drive library I can dump onto an SD card.

Boomers are my parents, with my mother passing away in 2011 at the age of 67, after a short battle against Cancer. My dad turned 76 last december. I'm part of Gen-X at the age of 52.

Their houses were no more affordable for them, than a house is for you today. We lived in an old house back in the early 80s, that my parents picked up (Montana) for $38,000. That was during a time when my dad had what you'd call a good job, at $12 an hour (@ $38K a year) and my mom really didn't have a job. I bought our new home back in 2004 for $138,000. It's value has now jumped up to over $200,000, because of the growing economy in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I was only making about $40K a year and combined with my wife's income, around $70K. You can get in a house, with what is called a 1st time buyer's discount, where the down payment is waived. We only had to pay the processing fees, which were under $2,000. Our house payment, with insurance rolled in, was only $100 more than we were paying for rent, when we lived in a 1,200 square feet apartment.

I went to a tech school for a degree in the Applied science of Electronics. I didn't get a high paying job, right out of school. As a matter of fact, I ended up in a field that was not really what my schooling had trained me for. I ended up in the Network/telecommunications field, where I'd be installing fiber optic and copper network backbone services, along with the internal network cabling for businesses. It wasn't until about 10 years later, that I got out of most of that stuff and ended up in the service field, where I install the hardware and troubleshoot many different issues. I keep telling these younger guys that there is no money in pulling cable. They need to learn all of the other things that are involved with running a companies entire network. That's where the money is and I pretty much learned all of it on the job, with about 30% of it being figured out by myself.

Okay Boomer is a copout.

I look at my latin brothers at my work place and some of them are the hardest workers. They didn't have much in South America/Mexico, so are always eager to earn as much money for their family and work the extra hours to live the American Dream, which seems to be lost on a pampered American generation that never faced adversity.

[Black_Tiger]

If your Mother didn't need to have a job for your family to afford a house then they did have it easier than people do today.

[Mad Moham]

If your Mother didn't need to have a job for your family to afford a house then they did have it easier than people do today.

Exactly.
When I was still in school it was quite normal in my hometown to see families where the father worked full time, the mother looked after the home full time and they all lived in a house they owned. That living arrangement has become extremely rare now in my hometown and instead its now normal for both parents to work and the family are either renting a home or are living in a small apartment. There's always exceptions obviously.

Their houses were no more affordable for them, than a house is for you today. We lived in an old house back in the early 80s, that my parents picked up (Montana) for $38,000. That was during a time when my dad had what you'd call a good job, at $12 an hour (@ $38K a year) and my mom really didn't have a job.

I had this exact conversation with one of my parent's Boomer neighbors. The Boomer generation could buy a decent house for the equivalent of 1-3 years salary of a single person. There aren't many places where that's possible now and by the time I moved out of my hometown a few years ago it had reached the point where a single person needed about 8-10 years salary to buy an apartment (and no I'm not exaggerating).
There have been plenty of Boomers lecturing me on: "When I bought my first house". Yeah, when you bought your first 'house'. Not many people are buying a house as their first home now though. I'm one of the lucky ones who has been able to relocate and get my own place in a relatively affordable area, but most millennials can't do that.

[gamevet]

If your Mother didn't need to have a job for your family to afford a house then they did have it easier than people do today.

She occasionally had a job. She ran a paper route at night, which I'd sometimes ride along with her.

We did not have it easy. We didn't have new cars, or expensive clothes. I had to make my single pair of tennis shoes last for the whole year, and what clothes we got at the beginning of the school year, was all we got. It was a small town as well, so I really didn't have any jobs until my senior year of High School. It was all the motivation I needed to get out of the house and make money once I graduated. I did not like being poor. I worked my ass off for 3 years, while I attended tech school in Phoenix. I had to work 40 hours a week, along with about 20 hours of school. There wasn't a summer vacation either.

I had friends that had both parents working to afford a home, and their homes were a hell of a lot newer than that house from the 60s that we lived in. We did not live in a very nice house, or a town with a great economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby,_Montana

Exactly.

I had this exact conversation with one of my parent's Boomer neighbors. The Boomer generation could buy a decent house for the equivalent of 1-3 years salary of a single person. There aren't many places where that's possible now and by the time I moved out of my hometown a few years ago it had reached the point where a single person needed about 8-10 years salary to buy an apartment (and no I'm not exaggerating).
There have been plenty of Boomers lecturing me on: "When I bought my first house". Yeah, when you bought your first 'house'. Not many people are buying a house as their first home now though. I'm one of the lucky ones who has been able to relocate and get my own place in a relatively affordable area, but most millennials can't do that.

I bought my house for just a little over 3 years of my salary and after inflation(2004-2020), my house is still 3 times the value of my salary. Things haven't changed much. I'll put it this way. What my dad made back in the early 80s, is now what a shift manager makes at McDonalds.

The economy in the 70's was shit. They actually had it a lot worse than even people during the economic collapse 8 years ago.

[wowsux133]

What's up with all this Boomer/Gen-Xer/Millennial talk? I don't really want to reveal my age (technically... I'm a Zoomer, that's all you'll get from me), but damn is it annoying to listen to each generation rag on each other based on generalizations. No, not all boomers are entitled. No, not all Gen Xers are apathetic. No, not all Millennials are lazy bums. No, not all of Gen Z likes to eat detergent.

As someone who's not a Boomer or Millennial, I can safely say that I have equally found some people from both generations to be insufferable twats for different reasons. It's often my generation that pulls the "OK Boomer" and Karen crap. Every generation has it's issues. Blaming all the problems of the world on another gen isn't going to fix anything.

[Knuckle Duster]

OK Zoomer.

[wowsux133]

OK Zoomer.

Saw that one coming.

[Mad Moham]

I bought my house for just a little over 3 years of my salary and after inflation(2004-2020), my house is still 3 times the value of my salary. Things haven't changed much. I'll put it this way. What my dad made back in the early 80s, is now what a shift manager makes at McDonalds.

The economy in the 70's was shit. They actually had it a lot worse than even people during the economic collapse 8 years ago.

Come to my hometown, I'd love to see what you can afford for three years salary. Unless you're a hedgefund manager, or you enjoy living out of a storage unit, you won't get much.