Grangle1
@Grangle1@lemm.ee
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 1 day ago:
That said, they’re not likely to license an already made AI for their projects either, which is also nice.
- Comment on Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking 2 days ago:
Falkon is better for privacy than stock Chrome or Firefox, but I still find Brave or LibreWolf better than that.
- Comment on The Most Loved Video Game Character in Every Country 1 week ago:
If they’re just scraping tweets, it’s probably looking at mentions of a million and one regular guys in the US named Sam Fisher and not the character.
- Comment on Do people actually starve themselves to play games like World of Warcraft? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been a part of two different friends’ attempts to quit addiction to MMOs. A high school friend had a problem with Everquest back before WoW. His brother recruited us friends to help give him alternative stuff to do like movie and other game nights. We succeeded, and he was able to put the game down. Some college friends and I were not so successful in pulling one of my roommates away from WoW. Activision Blizzard have it literally down to the science of addiction.
- Comment on Nintendo Insiders Considered An N64 Handheld To Compete With The Game Gear In The 90s | Retro Dodo 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, the N64 had just as long a lifespan as the other consoles at the time. That said, the Game Boy was still selling like crazy, especially with the Pocket and Color out in the N64 era, and the Game Gear was already effectively dead by then. I don’t know what Nintendo would’ve been so afraid of there.
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 3 weeks ago:
It just wasn’t a problem to them and it was a problem for people they didn’t like (whom they call Nazis, various “-ists” and so on if they dare think differently from them). Now it’s flipped and it’s a problem for them but not the people they don’t like. Every platform needs some form of moderation, but that moderation can run the risk of being too harsh on certain groups depending on the opinions of the moderators. Dorsey himself admitted this was happening at Twitter (being too harsh on legitimate conservative views (not just real Nazis) because the mods didn’t like them) to Congress before it was sold, and he did little to nothing about it. Now the moderation seems to be at the whims of however Elon is feeling on any given day, and due to his own stances, liberals are now getting the brunt of it. It really would be nice to just have somewhere where only the very extremes of left and right, and any actual illegal content, would be moderated out and the mods could keep to that no matter what “side” they or ownership is on. But I know that’s just a pipe dream.
- Comment on Demo For Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Now Available | Retro Gaming News 24/7 4 weeks ago:
At this point I’m just quite happy Capcom went back and localized it at all. I know they were planning to at first and then staffing issues hit, but after 15+ years it seemed they were just going to ignore it, especially since localizing games like these with so many other aspects outside straight translation can be a lot of challenging work that can require a lot of communication between the dev team and localizers.
- Comment on “Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
The SEC also regulates trading in stocks, which are contracts that show ownership, just of a portion of a corporation instead of a piece of art. They’re both classified as securities because they can be bought, sold and traded as investments where people can stand to gain or lose large sums of money in said trades. They work in very similar, if not identical, ways. If the NFT did not function so much like a stock investment and was just something you could buy or sell as a regular good, then the implementation would not be so weird.
- Comment on Rumble boss ‘departed’ from Europe after Telegram CEO arrest 4 weeks ago:
My mistake, I meant Telegram. I get the two confused.
- Comment on Rumble boss ‘departed’ from Europe after Telegram CEO arrest 4 weeks ago:
With the proliferation of actual illegal material on Signal I can at least understand Durov being arrested, even if I’m undecided on whether I agree with it. But why in the heck would they reasonably go after Rumble? It’s just American conservative YouTube. I haven’t heard of any actual illegal/illicit material (political opinion pieces don’t count, that is in fact free speech) at all connected to Rumble, or at least no worse in proportion to YouTube or Twitch.
- Comment on The Exciting Return of Backyard Sports: A Nostalgic Revival | Retro Gaming News 24/7 4 weeks ago:
But could he beat Matt from Wii Sports?
- Comment on Which was better in 1996: Nights into Dreams or Super Mario 64? 5 weeks ago:
Sonic Team’s follow-up to the Sonic franchise. Released on the Sega Saturn, so despite it being one of the Saturn’s better-selling games, few people played it back when it was new. It has a decent cult following of fans and seems to be generally regarded as a good-but-not-spectacular game (like a solid 7-8 out of 10), it’s nowhere near Mario 64’s caliber.
- Comment on Atari announces the 7800 Plus console coming this winter 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t help that the games weren’t there for it either. But the vicious cycle of “console needs games to sell units -> devs won’t make games for consoles that don’t sell” was in full effect for the 7800, and really any Atari console after the 2600, except maybe their Lynx handheld (which still lived in the Game Boy monolith’s shadow just like every other competing handheld).
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 5 weeks ago:
There were popular MMOs before WoW, such as Runescape and Everquest. WoW just took a popular genre and rocketed it into the stratusphere.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 5 weeks ago:
Legend of Zelda OoT followed up with popularizing a targeting button (good ol’ Z-targeting) to focus on one object or enemy in a 3D space and move around it or fight/otherwise interact with it. Such targeting has been a standard feature of 3D action-adventure games ever since.
- Comment on What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? 5 weeks ago:
Of the games I can think of, probably Super Mario Land.
- Comment on What are your favorite Nintendo 64 games? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty “basic” in my choices. Both Zelda titles, Mario 64, Mario Kart, the three Mario Parties, StarFox 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Kirby 64, Banjo-Kazooie. I just bought an N64 a few weeks ago partially because I wanted to experience the games I had growing up again and also play a bunch I missed. I tried Mischief Makers because it looked interesting and I enjoy the unique mechanics but the controls are hard to master enough to feel like I even have a basic handle on them.
- Comment on Google is close to making its biggest acquisition ever | CNN Business 2 months ago:
Even the privacy/security people I follow say that despite Big Tech (MS, Google, Apple, etc) being privacy nightmares, they are pretty solid on their security, or at least no less secure than the alternatives. But when you combine efforts to maintain that security with those privacy nightmares, you get what you mention.
- Comment on Fess Up or Call Out 2 months ago:
I think our parents eventually made us give them back in the end, but my brother and I certainly held on to a bunch of our friend’s Game Boy games a lot longer than he originally meant to lend them to us.
- Comment on What's your financial cutoff point on game collecting? 2 months ago:
It would really depend on the individual game itself as to what I would pay, but I suppose if I had to give a hard upper price limit, I would probably say $100. Don’t care what the game is, I’m not spending triple digits on it, old or new.
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 4 months ago:
Exactly. Until around 2005 with the advent of affordable HDTVs and the war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, anything more than what came stock with your TV, which was usually standard definition picture and stereo sound, was something of a luxury. Sound bars were only really starting to become a popular thing.
- Comment on MultiVersus - Launch Trailer 4 months ago:
I’m guessing they made significant changes, but although I didn’t think this game was too bad the first time around, I don’t have too much hope for it. The only successful revival of a game after being taken down temporarily that I can think of is Final Fantasy XIV.
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 4 months ago:
Seriously, if I hear “X, formerly known as Twitter”, one more time… It’s been over a year. If people don’t know the name has changed by now, I don’t know what will help them.
- Comment on Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” 4 months ago:
The term “dark pattern” refers to any deceptive practice, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, that online websites, apps, etc use to get people to do the site/app’s desired behavior, such as in this case, not cancel their Prime subscription. Not all of these examples may apply in Amazon’s case, but some examples would be making the fields or buttons for canceling or keeping your subscriptions different colors or sizes, making the default choice to keep the subscription, making you view a bunch of ads to keep the sub or go through a bunch of other pages before canceling, or hiding the cancelation option in fine print in a corner of the site. The “dark” part means that the average person usually doesn’t notice the deceptive nature of the practices.
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 4 months ago:
The eternal excuse of those who profit or benefit from children getting involved in things they shouldn’t.
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 4 months ago:
Yeah, I’m a Jerboa user too. The left-right swipe is my only criticism as well, mainly because it can be sensitive when you’re just trying to scroll up or down.
- Comment on Sonic Rumble - Announce Trailer 4 months ago:
There have been some generally well-received games since Adventure 2, like Generations, which you mentioned, along with Colors, Mania, and Frontiers seems to be generally liked enough.
- Comment on Sonic Rumble - Announce Trailer 4 months ago:
Some of them also worked on the recent release Penny’s Big Breakaway. More platforming, but not with quite the emphasis on speed.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN 4 months ago:
Very few third-party games remain exclusive to one platform forever, so in those cases I’m usually content to just wait it out until the exclusivity deal is over then pick the game up on a platform I own. Sometimes the wait can be pretty long but I really don’t have much of a sense of FOMO most of the time.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 4 months ago:
Yeah, thanks for the catch. That is what I mean. FreeTube is great, I use it on my PC.