Kelly
@Kelly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Exclusive: Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa, the media powerhouse behind 'Elden Ring' 2 days ago:
Wikipedia lists their gaming properties as:
- Spike Chunsoft
- FromSoftware (69.66%)
- Acquire
Acquire is a name I associate most with Tenchu but it looks like the developed the Mario & Luigi game that released a week or so ago.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 3 days ago:
Given that each charge is only for $33,000, so about $100,000 total, I expect a settlement will be reached instead of going on this fight.
Unfortunately that would be the worst outcome for everyone else.
The patents need to be contested and invalidated or smaller devs will feel they can’t use these mechanics.
- Comment on Super Wonder Boy 3 SNES Gameplay (Hudson Soft) Super Nintendo 4 days ago:
I was a sega kid so I played the monster land / dragons trap fork of the franchise that introduced what we would now call ARPG and metroidvania elements.
I thought the Nintendo side of the industry was playing the Adventure Island reskin? I’m surprised to see a Wonder Boy based on the OG mechanics on SNES.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 days ago:
Time travel?
- Comment on What's the best super nintendo game based on a movie? and why is it alien 3? 5 days ago:
I would propose Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition, its more of a Jurassic Park inspired kill frenzy than a coherent game but I had a lot of fun with it.
- Comment on GOG Launches Preservation Program for Timeless Classics | Retro Gaming News 24/7 6 days ago:
They have some per-title historical breakdowns and recent change logs here:
- Comment on Colin Anderson Calls GTA 2 the ‘Unsung Hero’ of the Franchise | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 weeks ago:
Is the Retro City Rampage / Shakedown: Hawaii guy working on anything?
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 4 weeks ago:
Does Edward VIII count?
He surrendered the Crown … but was then made a Duke.
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 4 weeks ago:
The water is just sitting there, not eroding through salts.
Is the ocean still or famously active?
But all jokes aside freshwater is salt free because it has been distilled by the evaporation/cloud/rainfall part of the water cycle. When rain falls in the ocean it mixes pretty quickly.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
10s of MB software with the rest of the disc as CD audio was standard for the time.
Even with those constraints PS had noticeable mid-battle lag as it loaded in animationss.
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 4 weeks ago:
sign near a sick/old person name
With postal voting and mobile polling places the sick and elderly are given opportunities to vote in Australia.
Even without those facilities it would take a fair bit of effort to identify and sign for a statistically significant number of sick/elderly.
- Comment on Why did my bus driver want me to not pay the fare and instead just "TAKE A SEAT!!!" 1 month ago:
Where i am if the ticketing machine is down the diver will ask people to take a seat without paying. The usually use the same phrase as your driver.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
Eyeballing the login screen may give some insight, you’re right that its probably unwise to try real creds if you don’t recognize the server.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
Home network or corporate?
Its a windows server, if you are using widows too you can try establishing a RDP connection with Remote Desktop Connection.
- Comment on NES, Atari 2600, Sonic Green Hill LEGO Packs Discontinued | Retro Gaming News 24/7 1 month ago:
I enjoyed the green hill zone set.
The others seem a bit pricy!
- Comment on Does anyone watch Google, Microsoft, etc the way Cop Watch watches cops? 1 month ago:
I’m getting interesting results with this:
www.google.com/search?q=tech+industry+watchdog
I think naming a particular tech vendor is likely to get different results compared to using generic terms.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Any other topic I would agree …
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wondermark has had some great ones over the years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Without knowing anything of your history this question looks like its in bad faith.
If the question is legit then type “sealioning” into a search engine and read a few of the results.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
The fact emulators are faster than the real hardware, can you blame them?
This is a problem Nintendo has had a few times before, choosing weaker hardware makes it much easier for other platforms to match and outpace them.
My first time playing Pokemon was emulating Pokemon Red on PC. For some reason they put it in Australian stores around a month after the US release so emulation was the only way.
Similarly GBA was playable on PC very early in its cycle. DS/3DS was a bit less attractive because of it screen layout and inputs but that kind of quirk aside underpowered handheld hardware is just asking for emulator support.
- Comment on New Storefront Law Tells Us What We All Should Know: We Don't Own Digital Games | Time Extension 1 month ago:
The bill text is concise and surprisingly readable.
…legislature.ca.gov/…/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_i…
They will either need “affirmative acknowledgment from the purchaser” of their rights or provide a “clear and conspicuous statement” clarifying the buying a digital good is a licence situation.
They provide this definition:
“Clear and conspicuous” means in a manner that clearly calls attention to the language, such as in larger type than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding text of the same size, or set off from the surrounding text of the same size by symbols or other marks.
For “affirmative acknowledgment” my guess is something like PlayStation does currently might become common. Every time I checkout their purchase button is disabled until I tick a checkbox with this statement:
I request immediate access to my purchase and acknowledge that I will not be able to cancel my purchase once I start downloading or streaming the content.
Both of these scenarios should be displayed as part of the checkout flow, not hidden away in the ToS/EULA.
- Comment on Square Enix Unveils Die-Cast Miniatures of Retro Consoles 1 month ago:
Square Enix also bought Taito so they had titles from the Bubble Bobble, Space Invaders, Double Dragon, Chase H.Q series on Sega Consoles.
- Comment on Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)? 1 month ago:
Not currently supported but it looks they they are actively scoping the feature with the intention of implanting it soon.
- Comment on From a cyber security aspect how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install? 1 month ago:
Sure, repartitioning works too.
- Comment on From a cyber security aspect how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install? 1 month ago:
You install your own windows? Do you really know if the pre-installed windows gets deleted?
This one seems to be easy to manage. Formatting the disc seems easy to do.
- Comment on When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less? 1 month ago:
It can be interesting to see the questions that make it to hot questions.
Its a little sample of the various communities.
- Comment on Nintendo Japan plans to stop repairing its Classic Edition consoles 1 month ago:
I had assumed they were a one and done appliance that would be replaced if under warranty with the faulty unit going to e-waste.
- Comment on Are thongs less prone to whale tailing than strings? 1 month ago:
The word was selected by the American Dialect Society in January 2006 as the “most creative word” of 2005.
TIL
- Comment on What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices? 1 month ago:
More than anything, the problem is apps.
True, its a real chicken and egg situation. No one what to use a platform without decent app support but no one wants to develop for a platform without any users.
