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- Comment on Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Reveals He Started Work On A New Game 2 Years Ago | Retro Dodo 2 weeks ago:
Man, fuck the games industry.
- Comment on Super Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Reveals He Started Work On A New Game 2 Years Ago | Retro Dodo 2 weeks ago:
I’m not entirely sure why this is news. Do people think he gets put into a test tube or something when when he’s not needed?
He’s a professional game developer, he’s probably working on games constantly.
- Comment on Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo 1 month ago:
So I’ve thought about this a bit more. Games like this flash the screen black with a white square on the target, and then detects whether the lightgun is pointing at white or black. I guess they could take a picture of the TV and combine that with sensor data, put it into an AI and then figure out where on the screen the gun is pointed at? I guess that would count as “AI”?
I’m sure the diehard lightgun fans won’t find it accurate enough though.
- Comment on Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo 1 month ago:
… Does anyone know what the AI actually does?
Honestly, the fact that the article writer is shilling an AI product without actually explaining what the AI does is kinda making me doubt their journalistic integrity.
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 2 months ago:
My understanding is that at least some WoW players switched to ffxiv, which does seem to be popular and well updated. If you’re looking for a new game, might be worth a look?
- Comment on What were your (now retro, but not at the time) gaming wow moments 2 months ago:
Getting into Hyrule field for the first time in Ocarina of Time after being stuck in the forest for months or years. I got promptly destroyed by a pineapple.
I don’t remember much from my childhood, but that stuck with me.
- Comment on Exciting Addition to Xbox Game Pass: Crash Bandicoot, Mafia, and Creatures of Ava | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 months ago:
I don’t use gamepass, but I will say that the N Sane Trilogy is really good and well worth a go if it looks interesting to you.
- Comment on The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Jiggies of Time 3 months ago:
patch.wedarobi.com Tool where you can provide your own ROM and it’ll apply the patch for this game (and others).
Played this a while ago, and it was really good! Would recommend giving it a go.
- Comment on Fess Up or Call Out 3 months ago:
As a kid, I used to borrow my sister’s games and play them (which I think annoyed her because I always got further than she did…) and it got to the point where they “de facto” became mine and are now somewhere in my games collection.
I guess I feel guilty about it, but haven’t really spoken to her about it.
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 8 months ago:
TBF, they could probably make the “releases” page more prominent rather than having it buried in all the “code” stuff.
- Comment on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too. 10 months ago:
Right, so I’ve lived my whole life constantly being told that I can’t read social cues and that everyone else has this magical ability to understand subtext and all that. Which makes this article so confusing to me because it reads like the author is so oblivious to how people actually work.
The article can be summed up as basically:
- Turns out, people can find love by talking to each other and don’t need specially designed apps.
- But it can’t happen organically, you need to use some app to do so and look out specifically for love. Obviously.
- Relationships are entirely transactional and are based on your partner’s academic and business performance.
All with this creepy undertone that sexual harassment should be delegated to a footnote and subject to a cost-benefit analysis rather than, you know, avoided entirely.
- Comment on Banjo-Kazooie Patient Review: A classic in 2023? 10 months ago:
I grew up with Kazooie, so it’s nice seeing someone else enjoy the game.
Personally I never really had an issue with the controls, but that’s probably due to me learning them when I was a child. I can certainly see them being confusing if you’re not familiar with them though.
I did recently play a BK randomizer and a romhack recently and ended up binding C buttons to my controller’s bumpers and x/y buttons rather than the stick. But that was a pain because Retroarch is still buggy for me when you try to do it.
- Comment on Twitter/GitHubProjects has no chill 😅 10 months ago:
Anyone else getting that corporate “forced meme” vibe from this?
- Comment on A box of DevOps 11 months ago:
You know, at this point I’ve been writing YAML on and off for a while now. You’d think I actually understand the syntax by now, but I don’t.
- Comment on The N64 released 27 years ago today. Feel old yet? 1 year ago:
Yes. Stop reminding me.