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- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 hours ago:
Make your own Donkey Kong figure with papier mâché or something and stick a tag on it. Boom, one of a kind amiibo!
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 13 hours ago:
Amiibos are a bit expensive. There are a few DK amiibos, they should all work with Smash because amiibos have a character identifier that’s recognized between games and amiibo series.
The ones from smash bros and super mario series should be around the “normal” price (for me it’s about 13-15 euros). Maybe you can find a second hand one for cheaper.
There’s a new one with DK and Pauline for Bananza, like other new amiibos it costs a bit more (around 18€ for me). It unlocks a costume in Bananza as an extra.
There’s also an old Skylander DK figure that doubles as an amiibo if I remember correctly. It’s kinda ugly and cheap-looking, and probably not easy to find, but who knows.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 day ago:
UK gets EU nothing, UK has left EU.
And the way their politics have gone to shit with mass surveillance and powerful lobbying from anti-LGBT groups, I prefer them not being represented in EU anymore.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 day ago:
I absolutely don’t care what happens to 4chan, but UK starting to sue the internet for being available there and not complying with their bullshit is worrying.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
“Another fighting game character”, take a pick. At this point it could be Ryu, Ken, Terry Bogard or Kazuya Mishima.
And then you can throw Solid Snake, Pac-Man, Sonic, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, fucking Minecraft Steve and a Mii disguised as Sans from Undertale into the mix.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
My problem with Smash is I just can’t commit to one character and I’m just kind of bad at all of them. If anything, the most decent I get might be with the Links and Belmonts. I guess projectile jank is kind of my thing.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
Oh fuck, Hard DK has found his way to you too then :)
Streamer Alpharad got a “Hard DK” bit running since they got their ass handed over to them by a crazy Mario Party CPU DK that was just gambling like mad and winning everything.
They trained an incredibly good amiibo CPU DK in Smash they called Hard DK in reference to this.
- Comment on An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek 2 days ago:
I see where they’re coming from but seems a bit weird to embark your customers so they back your very specific demand to your employer.
I mean, sure, unionize, fight to make your job better or at least prevent it from getting shittier. But what kind of weight do people who use Kickstarter have in company policy? The only power they have is just to stop using it, and the employees obviously don’t want that. They even had to mention “pretty please don’t boycott Kickstarter” right here in the end.
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
Yeah, completely. Pauline’s got her time in the limelight right now, between Odyssey and DK Bananza, but Rosalina was just relegated to “bonus Peach clone that can do a swirl attack” in 3D World, and that’s basically it.
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
I prefer the first one to be honest.
2 botches things that worked very well before. Especially the camera that did a good job of always being in the right place in 1, but in 2 you suddenly have crazy angles and blind spots that play against you. This can’t even be explained by more complex level design, so who knows what happened.
Also they got rid of the hub for a small, disturbing looking ship and a very generic map, and they killed any trace of story. Those were two things that really set Galaxy 1 apart IMO.
On the new side of things, there were Yoshi, with different powers, and more challenges (but they kind of feel repetitive, because you end up needing to do the same things with just an additional timer or enemy etc…). And the last stars were quite a bit harder than anything in Galaxy.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 days ago:
Honestly, it’s not been terribly effective, and the ones who stir the most shit usually don’t do it for the right reasons.
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Galaxy is so great. Good flow, good looking, excellent music with a mix of epic and ambient… And a new character that got more personality from a short story and a couple dialogues than any character from the series ever had.
Too bad they never really knew what to do with her after that. Except Ubisoft with Mario + Rabbids 2, but… Meh.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 5 days ago:
Oh yeah, the old “make it a contest and have a bunch of people work for you for free” trick.
I hate that this kind of things work.
- Comment on A Fistful Of Yankees, an RTS x tactics hybrid with base building, with a spaghetti western setting, released on steam. 6 days ago:
Pesto-apocalyptic, Calzone the Barbarian…
I tried.
- Comment on Day 397 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
There’s Cadence of Hyrule, and the map shifts every game!
Okay, that’s a stretch.
- Comment on Day 397 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
It’s something I feel like more recent Nintendo games haven’t done.
References to past games are still a thing they do quite a lot. Weirdly enough in Super Mario Odyssey they went all in on Donkey Kong nostalgia. 3D world has the Comet Observatory, reimagined levels from 64, Bowser’s Fury brought back Bowser Jr’s paintbrush from Sunshine.
Breath of the Wild is chock full of references, ruins of old places, every land feature name is evoking something, be it a character, an old boss, whatever, music cues from the Temple of Time, Spectacle Rock dungeon, Dragon Roost Island…
Echoes of Wisdom borrowed like 70% of its map from A Link to the Past. Again. They already did that in A Link Between Worlds. Not a fan of that one honestly, I love ALttP, Nintendo please stop nostalgia farming it for subpar games already. I like my maps to feel fresh.
Mario Kart World is almost nothing but references, most tracks are from past episodes, and you can find stuff like SNES circuits on the roads around the official ones. And there are loads of remixes of past games music, from NES to Switch and everything in between.
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 1 week ago:
Not all games are about graphics, and this looks completely serviceable to me. I understand struggling with ASCII roguelike interfaces (never really got the hang of it myself), but everything here looks easily identifiable.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s what the image is suggesting. More like the kid might be culturally “out of touch” with their generation’s gaming because they play old games instead.
Like, you know, everyone’s talking about Fortnite and Brawl Stars and whatever mobile game is trending right now and they’re like, yesterday I got Fierce Deity in Majora’s Mask.
It’s a bit silly a concern honestly. They’ll take whatever they like in the end, and if that makes them the weird kid, well, that’s how they are, and they’ll survive. Been there, done that.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
“Cool” uncle (citation needed), did expose kids to games released 2 to 3 decades before their time occasionally.
I was a bit surprised that even rough 8-bit sprite graphics can capture their interest. An 8 year old trying to make sense of the pixelly mess that’s a Metroid creature sprite can be funny.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure the few overpaid execs that are “fuck you” rich are still there, and they’re probably richer than ever. However now they probably consider themselves too important to park with normal people.
Tells a lot about this guy and his ilk that he thinks you measure a healthy company to how many assholes actively flaunt their money with shallow luxury shit.
- Comment on Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Has Made Certain Bosses And NPCs Unkillable Following Backlash In China 1 week ago:
I mean, Hamilton exists. If people want to write crazy shit about historical figures or make games about them they should be able to.
There’s a 35 year old game series featuring stuff like leading Cleopatra’s army against the tyrannical rule of Theodore Roosevelt while Gandhi’s words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
- Comment on Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Has Made Certain Bosses And NPCs Unkillable Following Backlash In China 1 week ago:
I recently learned there was a musou/Warriors game called Bladestorm taking place during the hundred years’ war. The game was not great apparently but reading about the crazy anime takes on European historical figures and events is funny.
Apparently it has a sequel where Joan of Arc turns evil (including the stereotypical villainess costume change, of course) and leads an army of sorcerers and monsters to wreck havoc.
- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s also important to note that Grok is a reliable source of information about fuck all.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 weeks ago:
Ah ah ah boost that shit.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
6128 too, with the disk drive. I wish I still had that thing. Drive stopped functioning, and we got rid of it. Had I known back then that we apparently just needed to replace a freaking rubber band…
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 2 weeks ago:
Somehow the chatGPT US map generated a clean, correctly spelled French word for “Mondays” instead of Illinois.
Sorry, Illinois, Garfield hates your guts.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 weeks ago:
I did a Dr Mario clone around that age. I had an old Amstrad CPC I had grew up with typing listing of basic programs and trying to make my own. I think this was the only functional game I could finish, but, it worked.
Speed was tied to CPU, I had no idea how to “slow down” the game other than making it do useless for loops of varying sizes… Max speed that was about comparable to Game Boy Hi speed was just the game running as fast as it could. Probably not efficient code at all.
- Comment on Day 387 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
The Triforce quest was somewhat nerfed in the remake. You get some fragments immediately instead of finding a map to them.
And the new sail kinda makes wind control useless for sailing which I’m honestly not sure I like. This is just a part of the game’s theme they cut, there is such a thing as too convenient IMO.
- Comment on Day 385 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
IMO the cool thing about TP is the weirdness. There are those eerie choirs, even in the jingles, there are some quite grotesque designs, and a few quite disturbing and puzzling cutscenes.
It’s definitely the Zelda game for weird moods, maybe not as crazy as Majora’s Mask but more like a constant feeling of something being not right.
- Comment on Day 385 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Such is Aryll’s power. I am pretty sure she can invade people’s minds.
Exhibit A : just her being there is enough to change the background music in all of Outset Island to her theme.