BlueSquid0741
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- Comment on Bi-weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 8 hours ago:
I’m fairly sure when you load it up with that dlc active, it warns you that it will be significantly more difficult.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
Bendigo, mate. This is the Australia group. I know what it was like, my wife was pregnant and on the front lines of COVID response at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
Implying doctors or the nurses providing the vaccines withheld information around side effects?
I don’t believe that for a moment.
I was given detailed information when getting these vaccines.
And a discussion with my wife who was a nurse at one of the vaccination centres, covering themselves regarding potential side effects was the priority.
- Comment on 'Cooker, anti-vaxxer, sheep': The people Australia's COVID-19 response forgot 5 days ago:
Ridiculous. All vaccines can have side effects, of course there were going to be people who had adverse responses to the COVID vaccines. Disbelieving people about this is an absolute joke.
- Comment on D008: New pocket-friendly gaming handheld presented with Nintendo 64 and PS1 emulation chops 1 week ago:
And likely this doesn’t either. It’s probably “technically playable”.
- Comment on As a word of caution for those buying physical used games on Bluray, check the disc for holes. 1 week ago:
Send the disc to activision and tell them you need a replacement for this damaged disc. Just to see how it plays out at least.
- Comment on Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series? 1 week ago:
My thoughts on the series:
I used to play the DOS version of NFS1, and it was a blast at the time, but it’s outshined as new games came along.
NFS2se - I only had the demo, but it looked amazing showing off the 3dfx cards. If you play this one, it’s so janky. Absolutely horrendous driving physics, and looking back it was all flash over gameplay.
NFS3 Hit Pursuit. My friend got this for Windows as a “send in a coupon get a free game” deal. So much fun, we spent hours and hours with this.
NFS Porsche 2000. I loved it. I played it so much and for years and years it was my favourite racer.
NFS Underground- my brother had a hacked OG Xbox, so he rented the game and copied it to the hdd. We played this like crazy. I was 18 and just finishing high school if I remember correctly, also my gf had just moved away to the city, so I wasn’t having a good time. This game was a great distraction and super fun.
NFS Underground 2. I played it for a few hours only. I’d moved away from home and was a poor student, so I pirated it. I didn’t like the open world concept so I didn’t play it much.
NFS Hot Pursuit 2010. I got this on PS3 when it was released. I had a lot of fun with it. My partner has the remaster on her Switch, and it’s still a good time.
That’s all I’ve played in the series, and for me the winner was Porsche 2000.
- Comment on The country is done for 1 week ago:
It’s fine. Outside of visiting the United States I never hear anyone say zee. Even the American guys at work say zed.
We explained to our 4 year old, when she was 2, why she might hear zee on tv. She gets it and goes “it’s zed!” when she hears those shows. This is a nothing problem.
- Comment on Who was our best Prime Minister and why? 1 week ago:
Telling us how resilient we are isn’t cutting it?
- Comment on Acting more Australian to foreigners for a laugh only to realise I'm being less Australian than I would be with other Australians. 2 weeks ago:
I grew up in rural NSW and I’ve been called British, New Zealand, American, South African. 🤨
I felt better when I visited friends in the US and ran into some mates from Perth who’d been there a few months and they said “it’s so good to hear an Australian voice again”.
And one of their new US friends heard me talking and were like “oh my God another Australian!”
So it seems to be just people in Melbourne and Sydney can’t pick my accent.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
And add to that the story behind DXVK, which was the turning point around 2018 for Linux gaming. Valve hired the guy who created it, so they could develop it professionally instead of as a hobbyist. With it remaining open source and free.
Yes, they do it because it helped them achieve what they wanted. But they don’t lock it down and they work with a lot of OSS which is then upstreamed.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
That’s definitely not the way it works.
My partner has a switch. We both created as account on it. She buys digital games on it and everything that’s installed appears in the games list.
Anyone that picks it up can see that game list. If I’m playing then I pick a game from the list and it asks which account is playing and I can choose mine or hers. Then the game starts.
- Comment on Square Enix Unveils Die-Cast Miniatures of Retro Consoles 1 month ago:
Makes sense. Remember all those classic Square RPGs on Sega consoles.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title 1 month ago:
What? Is this true? FF7 remake is a sequel?
Or is this like sequel theory in that Rebuild of Evangelion could be a sequel to Neon Genesis Evangelion?
I find the entire FF7 remake thing too convoluted (like a soulless cash grab) so I’ve ignored it for the most part.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro console? 1 month ago:
Mega Drive. It’s just the best.
Someone already mentioned also tracking in the Mega CD and 32x, but it didn’t need it anyway.
It’s again backwards compatible with the amazing Master System if you have a cartridge port converter.
It’s untouchable. And it’s the only console I have hooked up to my TV. (My partner has a switch but it’s on a different TV!)
- Comment on FPGA PS1 Teased By MiSTer Pi Creator Ahead Of PlayStation's 30th Anniversary | Time Extension 1 month ago:
I’ve seen their name come up, and believe I’ve clicked a few videos. IIRC, their videos seem to be the “real deal” compared to the glut of similar content creators shilling the latest aliexpress handheld.
Is there anything else I should know Taki Udon for?
- Comment on Celebrate Pokémon Emerald’s 20th with Stunning Art ROM Hack 2 months ago:
Oh wow… Squirtle, Ekans, Nidoqueen, Alakazam, Rhyhorn, electrode…
What the hell is going on with Oddish!
- Comment on Seibu Kaihatsu’s Lead Angle Coming To Nintendo Switch And PS4 | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
My memories of the original are that it was called Dead Angle.
- Comment on Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? - NNRG Week 56 2 months ago:
I like the NNRG series. I played a lot of these have on my 64 back in the day, and it’s fun/frustrating to see the perspective of someone who didn’t have those games.
- Comment on Castlevania Dominus Collection Now Available on Switch | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
Excellent games that really needed to ditch the touch screen gimmicks.
- Comment on GoRetroid Announces The Retroid Pocket Mini | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Similar with ETA Prime. The channel is now just ads for random drop-shipped retro devices.
- Comment on Love replaying PixelJunk Monsters 2 months ago:
I loved this on ps3. I thought I had it on GOG, but apparently I have it on steam instead. Before this I’d only played Tower Defence games on a flash website that had been clearly drawn using paint, so seeing one professionally made was very nice.
- Comment on Question, anybody know who NiGHTS is? 2 months ago:
The character is named Nights. Right? I thought that was the point of the title.
- Comment on Which was better in 1996: Nights into Dreams or Super Mario 64? 2 months ago:
People have different tastes so to some people Nights is a better game.
I don’t want Mario and I don’t want 3D platformers. I don’t think Nights is a great game but I’ll give it 5 minutes at least.
- Comment on What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? 2 months ago:
Definitely some earlier Sega titles. Teddy Boy, My Hero, Wonderboy. Easy to grab at to entertain my toddler for half an hour so they get switched on fairly regularly.
- Comment on [8 years] Somehow I had never tried Starbound, so I went in totally blind and recorded my experience 3 months ago:
I used to play it a little bit. I was playing so much Terraria and this one seemed super fun too, but after a while it just wasn’t clicking as much to keep getting me to come back and play more.
- Comment on What have you played this week? 3 months ago:
I played Fallout 2 again last year whilst I was on a few weeks break from work. I was hoping to capture the magic of the summer of 98/99 when I spent my entire school holiday playing it.
We’ll that doesn’t really work when a toddler and pregnant partner need you all the time… but still super fun and it was to nice revisit and bring back those memories.
- Comment on Purrs like a kitten 3 months ago:
Uh, remembering how sharp those bits of steel were.
- Comment on Shoot em ups & run n' guns 5 months ago:
Some more modern run and guns - Blazing Chrome and Huntdown. Both of those are a good time.
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 5 months ago:
