capt_wolf
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- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 21 hours ago:
Absolutely, getting a PS2 was a game changer for me. DVD playback AND backward compatability. You had PS2, PSX, CD, and DVD all in one. I dumped my VCR shortly after getting it and mothballed my PSX. My 5 disc stereo collected dust until I sold it. Rigged it to my 5.1 speaker system to run on the same line as my computer. Between the PS2 and a properly equipped gaming PC, my bedroom was practically a movie theater, albeit with a tiny ass 22" crt.
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 1 day ago:
They’re actually all considered 6th gen consoles. There’s only a 3 year gap between the Dreamcast and the Xbox.
Dreamcast was 98 PS2 was 2000 GameCube and Xbox were both 01, the year Dreamcast was discontinued.
Dreamcast could have been a wild success, probably would have been, too. The major issue was that the Playstation was still totally dominating the market. 98 and 99 were both a ridiculously strong years for PSX title releases. Then the PS2 released and totally overshadowed it. Sega just couldn’t keep up… Nobody could. Not until the market kinda leveled out in 05-06.
- Comment on Check this shit out 2 days ago:
- Comment on Dark art drawn from nightmares I’ve experienced 5 days ago:
That’s not really a shit post, that’s fucking good!
Reminds me of a stinger for Adult Swim or something from the early days of MTV animation or the art style Liquid Death uses.
- Comment on This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel 5 days ago:
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
Step outside into the heat and your sweat will instantly steam them out. Thanks global warming!
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
“Dry-cleaners hate this one millenial secret!”
- Comment on Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.12 1 week ago:
What a weird thing to add all of a sudden…
Totally imagine that’s going to make the fight a cakewalk.
- Comment on The BIG List of Video Game Randomizers (now open source) 1 week ago:
Honestly, one of the most impressive out of all the ones I’ve tried. Entirely new game maps, plus soul and weapon randomization. Totally random effects, so you can end up with weapons that are completely useless and won’t hit anything, or one’s that fire like handguns. So much customization to make it as hard or as easy as you want. Also, I absolutely love that they also randomized the dialogue too. Sometimes it’s gibberish, sometimes it’s actually funny.
- Comment on The BIG List of Video Game Randomizers (now open source) 1 week ago:
Love this site. I check it almost every week to see if anything cool has been added. When retro games started getting boring for me, randomizer gave me a whole new way to play. One of my go to “I’m bored, but don’t know what to do” games is rolling up an Aria of Sorrow seed or one of the DSVania games to see what I get.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
I’ll take the shoebox(full of perfect diamonds, thanks xkcd!) and just for fun, the almost 10k calories of cheese for added wealth, opulence, and because I really love cheese. Some cheeses are worth hundreds of dollars a pound.
- Comment on Pills (Take Two) 5 weeks ago:
From a quick Google search, I saw a guy managed to fit 7,400 dollar bills into a shoebox. $10,000 bills are no longer printed but still valid, legal currency. Assuming that’s the max. That’s $74,000,000. You could dupe the box and net $148 mil.
However, thinking bigger. Go with a shoebox full of perfect diamonds. The value could conceivably be in the billions.
- Comment on If you've done the Final Fantasy marathon did you include FF XI? Was it worth it? 1 month ago:
I got my copy free when I bought my PS2 hard drive and never played it once.
I lost my best friend to that game. He got into playing it so much after high school that he basically stopped doing anything else. I’d call him to hang out and he’d ghost me to play the game instead. Eventually I gave up trying…
My friends now want me to get into FFO and I absolutely refuse.
- Comment on I don't have long left 1 month ago:
This is a little too coincidental…
This morning I woke up with sinus infection and my pack decided to self destruct…
Either I’m in the matrix or I’m gonna need some thoughts, likes, and prayers ASAP… Trying to find another one online quickly before my time runs out!
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 1 month ago:
Ah, the best series I had no idea what I was doing in…
That was kind of the point though I guess. Don’t know how many hours I spent in x2 just flying around doing nothing until I’d make a mistake and die.
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 1 month ago:
X-Com devs’ lawyers have entered chat.
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 1 month ago:
They’ve been a shit company for over a decade at least.
I got a laptop for my wife back when we were in college. It developed a problem with the monitor where the screen would look all corrupt after using it for a little bit. My wife, while reciting the prayer of percussive maintenance, would whack it and the problem would go away for a while. So I figured the connection had come loose. No biggie, just reseat it or replace it. The warranty had expired, so I cracked it open to see what was wrong. I reseated the cables in it and it worked… for a bit. Then the problem came back. Eventually we got fed up and bought another one, same model, figuring it was a fluke… It developed the same issue. Come to find out, Asus cheaped out in the ribbon cable for the monitor and installed ones that were too short for the laptop. Looking online, there were a bunch of people complaining about the same thing. The second one was bought used, so obviously there was no warranty.
Around the same time as I had gotten her the new laptop, I’d also bought an Asus ZenPad for her to read on. We’ll, that suddenly developed a screen issue too! Almost exactly the same as the laptops! My wife, ever eager to apply kinetic reinforcement, found that twisting the tablet a little bit also fixed the issue. I went online and, sure enough, Asus used cheap cables again! They would last just long enough for the warranty to expire before they’d detach.
Fuck these scammers.
- Comment on Steam is now banned in Vietnam 1 month ago:
Citing it as “an injustice to domestic publishers”, Vietnamese studios reportedly say that local game development “will die” if Steam is able to keep releasing games without the same government scrutiny as domestic games…
Yeah! It’s so unfair that one person can put their heart and soul into making a game on their own, self publish, and be successful! No way anyone else could possibly do that!
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 month ago:
As an avid coffee drinker… WHAT THE FUCK!?
- Comment on The one your friend borrows 1 month ago:
The specific design of the shapes is trademarked. Drawing circles and squares is fine. Using those specific shapes in a game meant for use with a Playstation controller falls under fair use. Otherwise using them in any way that it would seem like Sony would be involved, not so much.
- Comment on Check mate, creationists 1 month ago:
And be sure to report
- Comment on I cannot find it 1 month ago:
I love it! Tried to find you an audio file or even a copy of the music playing in the background. I’m at work though and searching UFOPorno on the company network is a little frowned upon…
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 1 month ago:
I mean, I’m a fan of regulatory action, in the same vein as what was proposed with net neutrality originally, and dissolution of the monopoly. The services Google provides are vital to the functioning of the internet, and as such, must be treated as a governed utility the same way internet provision should be, with tight definitions of services and regulations to control what can be done and when. In that regard, companies like Google and Amazon(in regard to AWS) would be classified as utility providers similar to ISPs with the same degree of accountability in regard to service provision, availability, transparency of policy and actions, liability, etc.
In addition, break up the monopoly accordingly. Entertainment services, telephony/internet/communication services, electronics development, however it would be appropriate. Problem is how many of those services overlap and likely where they’d argue that the company can’t be broken up.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 1 month ago:
Not really anything to do but draw attention to it… It’s not like we have an effective globally governing body to oversee something like this objectively.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 1 month ago:
Well, yes, but in a broader sense, they have way too much of a stake in the control of global communications altogether. Even just a hiccup on their servers or slight change to their system has a global impact, as obviously evidenced here. The world is dengerously reliant on a centralized private company for daily functioning.
Such a powerful entity shouldn’t be controlled by private parties and needs to be governed in a way that the benefit of the people is kept paramount.
- Comment on I cannot find it 1 month ago:
I expected Ufoporno…
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 1 month ago:
This sort of thing is why Google’s monopoly on the internet is so dangerous.
- Comment on ermmm 1 month ago:
They’ve gone out to forage for dorito and cheeto dust. Sprinkle some back in the computer and they’ll return! You have to keep them properly fed or they’ll leave! Don’t forget to leave a cap of Baja Blast in there every other week too!
- Comment on Nintendo DMCAs Yuzu forks on GitHub 1 month ago:
It also actually makes it significantly easier to find someone when their user name happens to be the same as 5000 other people.