BigTrout75
@BigTrout75@lemmy.world
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 2 days ago:
The Genesis is such a great console. I love how it really tried to bring the arcade home. Street Fighter 2, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Strider, Air Buster, Out Run and come to mind.
- Comment on Another Russian CEO found dead in mysterious circumstances 3 days ago:
Did he accidentally ate some plutonium?
- Comment on Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal 4 days ago:
I’m translating that to “They will die a slow death”.
- Comment on Billy from the retro gaming YouTube channel The Game Chasers has passed away 4 days ago:
That’s so sad. Glad that we had time watch him and his videos. He will me missed
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 weeks ago:
🤔 The PS5 is 5 years old. I’ll pass.
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 4 weeks ago:
Technically a good burrito though.
- Comment on GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down 5 weeks ago:
All your base are belong to us
- Comment on Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue 5 weeks ago:
Recently saw a robot bar while in vacation. I didn’t try it. The first thing in my mind was his crappy the alcohol pours were going to be.
- Comment on Meixco | Daily murders fall to lowest level since 2016 1 month ago:
“Murders” because they were all stabbed in the face?
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 1 month ago:
Bring on the games that require AI
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
That’s what I’m thinking. There goes the Internet.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
Ha ha ha, 🤣
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
Can you have age verification and anomaminuity?
- Comment on Microsoft Says It Has Stopped Using China-Based Engineers to Support Defense Department Computer Systems 2 months ago:
Um thanks
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 2 months ago:
Just going to take a little peak
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 2 months ago:
The game I play the most lately is “Collect the free games”.
- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 2 months ago:
I had to manually change my Steam settings to exclude adult games. The previews were showing CLOSE-UP hardcore porn games. After flipping through a couple previews, I decided to block. I’m a simple person who likes shmups.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 2 months ago:
I’m I the only person who liked the arcade and was disappointed by the NES port? NES game is not bad, but the arcade was a brawler like Double Dragon.
- Comment on Tape drive backups 2 months ago:
Forget the tapes. This is hard to say but just pay for online storage. It’s $9.99 a month for 2TB from Google and Apple. Your data will be safe and accessable by family if something happens to you. You could also get a cheap NAS like device like this a.co/d/dgsnQbr and maybe every couple of months you create a offline backup onto another device.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster 2 months ago:
Nice advert
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Mario 64. Never really had the patience before, I would rather play PC games. It’s pretty fun. Gameplay is where it’s at.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 months ago:
Translated: Adults 18 to 25 are using there parents healthcare and are not paying for the crappiest healthcare being offered at their first jobs.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 months ago:
Hard to beat Super Mario Brothers. I tried other classics, bunch of arcade games, but my son never liked them. Ms. Pac-Man might work. The big hit with us was Wii sports.
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 3 months ago:
Usually I would be digging through some old forums for examples from 10 years ago. Or searching stack exchange. Personally, my usage is scripting and programming sites has totally deminish.
- Comment on 'Fortnite' Lobbies Can Now Have Up to 92% Bots - Players Are Furious Over Supposed OG Season 3 Update 3 months ago:
Back in the day we dreamed of games with large war zones and hundred of people. Sadly, technology wasn’t advanced enough. So we would have bits running around everywhere. Simpler times😂
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 3 months ago:
I have an A1 and it’s been a fun learning 3d printing. I got it before all this started last year. While I’m happy with my device I’ll probably just wait for it die or a major upgrade comes along. Elegoo looks nice.
- Comment on So many bands emphatically demonstrate that successful communication is not about what you say, but how you say it 3 months ago:
Peaches for free
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 3 months ago:
Depends on what it is. As a reference lookup for a simple programming function and with an example, it’s been a game changer.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 3 months ago:
Reminds me of the time I shared my Internet with my friend who was in another apartment. We just created a Wi-Fi bridge with dd-wrt. That was 15 years ago.
- Comment on Starbucks' new drive-thru in Texas is the coffee giant's first 3D printed store in the US 4 months ago:
🤔 there’s some jank on this print. Guess they’re just going to accept it.