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- Comment on Why are people gurgling the switch 2 so hard? 2 hours ago:
Social media never was press.
- Comment on PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut? 12 hours ago:
Mirror’s Edge technically was on console before PC. Only for like two months, but still.
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 1 day ago:
high-tech gimp mask
Okay, I wasn’t sure how to describe this… This is perfect.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 1 day ago:
Not really. I am just a bit younger, growing up between the 80s and 90s. I still play old games, only those that aged well though, but sometimes decades after their prime. I play new games a lot too. And games from any time in between, as long as they do something right.
And there are many, many games around which you can bond just as well as you could back then. Not even talking specifically about multiplayer games (which I don’t play very much at all) I’ve always been a fan of “co-piloting” games, just sharing the experience of playing, spectating, commenting around a game.
Some games are fantastic for this. Some games are rich enough that you can share your experience and discover other people do stuff completely differently. This sort of always existed (for example, what’s the right way to complete Legend of Zelda?), and this is still true even for somewhat simple games, but possibilities have only increased in range. I am pretty sure nobody plays a game like Rimworld or Tears of the Kingdom the same.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 2 days ago:
Dude. Mario Kart sells consoles, not the other way around. You’re delusional.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 5 days ago:
I have the Switch 2. MK world is nice I guess, but it’s nowhere near what 8 was. It feels like they were so proud of their connected gimmick they decided they would create nothing for this episode.
8 cups, almost all of them redone old tracks. The “highways” connecting them feel very similar except a couple areas (and those include, again, bits of old Mario Kart tracks). I mean, the way they redid these old tracks is cool, but base MK8 also did that very well with its 4 retro cups, and had 4 main cups full of awesome new tracks. And that’s before DLC/Deluxe added 4 extra cups.
There’s a lot of music… But apart from that game’s theme, all of it is remixes from Mario games. The karts also are almost only rides from previous episodes.
The free roaming mode is frankly not that great. I had loads of fun messing around in Forza Horizons games, but here it’s just a bit boring. Challenges must be activated and interrupt your driving, they’re mostly so easy you can mess up and still clear them, and though they do track records, they don’t do anything to make you want to improve them. Also you don’t meet other players. For fuck’s sake, the last actual Mario game had you meet and play seamlessly along random people!
MK World is like 90% fueled by nostalgia. This is not what I expect from a new Mario Kart game.
- Comment on [Batocera] Is there any way to enable multiplayer gaming on Game Boy Advance using two locally connected controllers? 6 days ago:
I don’t know what’s included in batocera, but obviously, there’s a big difference between GBA and NES/SNES multiplayer.
NES/SNES multiplayer is one system with 2 controllers plugged in. To do multiplayer on GBA each player needed his own GBA, and you’d link those together.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 6 days ago:
You know, despite not really believing LLM “intelligence” works anywhere like real intelligence, I kind of thought maybe being good at recognizing patterns was a way to emulate it to a point…
But that study seems to prove they’re still not even good at that. At first I was wondering how hard the puzzles must have been, and then there’s a bit about LLM finishing 100 move towers of Hanoï (on which they were trained) and failing 4 move river crossings. Logically, those problems are very similar… Also, failing to apply a step-by-step solution they were given.
- Comment on Yooka-Replaylee | Demo Stinger Trailer | Play the Demo Now 1 week ago:
I thought Impossible Lair was pretty good. Of course, it was a complete different genre, and basically that genre was just “Donkey Kong Country”.
I played the actual YL after that one, and… Yeah, I went through it all and barely remember it. Sure, I don’t even have a lot of nostalgia for collectathons, except if you count the 3D Mario kind… But it was definitely bland, and had annoying design problems.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Backward Compatibility Tested - It's Good! 1 week ago:
I didn’t expect it would enhance framerate at all without a game patch to be honest.
I was expecting something like new 3DS, where all games that were not specifically patched for it ran exactly the same. But I guess the difference is that new 3DS must have run in pure hardware old 3DS mode for those.
I felt DQB2 was already somewhat playable, but I probably never did very crazy builds. I remember people warning that destroying mountains on the main island for example was a very bad idea, because they were supposed to limit how much of the island the game had to render. Maybe I should check my old island on Switch 2.
- Comment on Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days 1 week ago:
Out of the loop. What did gearbox do that time?
- Comment on OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions 2 weeks ago:
I mean, that sounds obvious to me after that one : www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-ai-chatbot-friend…
Nevermind having to talk to human people to buy food, the zuck thinks your friends should be AI too.
- Comment on Meta and Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries partner to build EagleEye, a new AI-powered weapons system, including rugged helmets, glasses, and other wearables 2 weeks ago:
I hate that both trademarks exist, but I’d say using a name form a Tolkien work to develop weapons is especially wrong.
- Comment on Special Edition 2 weeks ago:
Oops, my bad, didn’t want to antagonize anyone and possibly trigger a holy war of sort.
Enjoy your preferred form of altered yaest.
- Comment on Special Edition 2 weeks ago:
Hey, not all of us pal region people are weirdoes. I don’t want anything to do with marmite.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 2 weeks ago:
We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.
I don’t know, maybe bring back the fucking webrings or something.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux explains why his infamous Kinect game Project Milo was never released 3 weeks ago:
Kinect being nerfed is something that was known.
The device was supposed to handle the movement analysis on its own with an internal processor, but they cut costs and had it processed by the console instead. Causing a lot of extra load on it, and because of that kinect games probably performed a lot worse than they could have, and were probably simplified quite a bit.
Stop Skeletons From Fighting has a good video about kinect’s development : youtu.be/MmJ3LICVtsY
Of course, Molyneux is Molyneux, and just because of that, even with the superior kinect prototype, I’d call bullshit on almost all of the Milo demo.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
I am currently ingesting a cocktail of complex chemicals that are manipulating my sensory receptors, sending electrical impulses through my neural system and altering the balance of neurotransmitters in my brain.
Anyway, I’m kinda enjoying that sandwich.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
And Sonic the Hedgehog for being anti-authoritarian and having little PSAs about tolerance and being a good person.
That would be very funny to complain about those because those PSAs were enforced on the studios by the FCC. Lots of cartoons from that era had them, including fucking G.I. Joe (that’s where “Now you know, and knowing is half the battle” comes from).
Later Animaniacs parodied the shit out of these with absurd “wheel of morality” segments.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
The first trailer of Breath of the Wild had a lot of people literally wondering whether that Link was a girl. I didn’t see a lot of complaining about it, I wasn’t looking for some though.
Also, Gerudo town. I’m not sure what kind of mental gymnastics you’d need to shit on “wokeness” and somehow filter out BotW completely from it.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
Many diverse characters all fighting back against their unfair economic situation.
“… and that’s terrible.” .
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
I won’t. Nobody is able to define what “wokeness” really means to them because it’s mostly code for “subset of people I don’t want to exist around me”.
Surprisingly, that doesn’t sound very good when said out loud.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 3 weeks ago:
You’ve missed the part where that was actually something he said. Who cares about what the idiot’s exact kink, he had to save his honour telling people it wasn’t “really” porn.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 3 weeks ago:
No, no, you don’t understand, the girl was doing a magic trick! He only consumed that just barely legal content with professional interest in mind.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 4 weeks ago:
This certainly sounds the right way to do this.
But I really wonder about it being “just” incompetence, because their defence is “weren’t aware of this, just used assets left by a former Bungie employee that’s not here anymore”… And yet the art director had been following the plagiarized artist on twitter this whole time.
And they have an history of “just taking” when they think they can get away with it, as they’ve done with fanart. So, shitty studio culture sounds a definite possibility at that point.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 4 weeks ago:
Placeholder doesn’t need to be anything more than basic featureless textures on cubes, and you should own them completely. If you made your placeholder to look like it fits, you’re asking for it to be forgotten and left in place. Which might not be too bad if it’s finally not too out of place and it’s yours.
Especially in a professional studio, they should know better than using stuff they just “found” as placeholder. To me it’s either terrible incompetence… or worse, they thought nobody would care anyway.
- Comment on After saying negative reviews 'might just cause our death' and 'we've got a few months left in the oven', No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in 'immediate financial danger' 4 weeks ago:
Oh. That guy. Thanks for the reminder.
Important context for whatever he has to say, between the rants about teh woke gaem jernalizm and cancel culture, and being called out as an edgy harassing asshole by his own employees.
I guess there are some cultures I don’t mind being “cancelled”, if only it worked.
- Comment on Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered 4 weeks ago:
Those of us in Web3 gaming are well aware that things aren’t working
You can stop there. That’s because so-called “web3 gaming” solves a problem that only exists in the mind of the dozen vocal idiots that want it to happen. And that problem is mostly “I don’t really like video games, but I would play if that game was just about real money transactions instead”.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 5 weeks ago:
I’d hope even if it exists on managed workstations, it wouldn’t be able to change settings that are managed by administrators… If not, what the fuck.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 5 weeks ago:
I am pretty sure Microsoft doesn’t need an AI agent to access your settings.
However, that AI agent might be a new attack vector for someone else.