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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite retro racing game?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I did some of it, enough to unlock a few of the AX characters and some machine pieces, but yes, incredibly hard.

  Among the unlocks, Daigoroh was cool. Ultra-light, but enough energy to boost most of the time with a crazy spark effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite retro racing game?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah. And then you’ve got one of those crazy hard story mode challenges where you pretty much have to destroy as many opponents you can to have enough juice to win. The one with Michael Chain and his gang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have literally no idea how that came to your mind immediately. It’s very funny to me that it did though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, ear in particular was what I thought about. There are very tiny bones in there. I’m pretty sure they didn’t replicate a functional human ear, so those have no impact on anything.

  Many bones in the hand and foot are also locked in place together, so modeling each one seems, well, I don’t think it’s a waste of time, but at this point you’re making an art performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite retro racing game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably F-Zero GX. Though I’m older than that, I wasn’t playing racing games a lot before that. An older game I’d enjoyed a bit was POD (: Planet Of Death).

  I’ve played Mario Kart quite a bit, starting back with super, but I can’t really pick one as my favorite retro racing game, because the one I like the most is 8. Though Wii came close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s clear they made this weird on purpose but still, so many questions…

  the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots

  Oh yeah, definitely a huge step in that direction…

  Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones

  That’s all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I’m sure absolutely all of them were necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The MSXBOOK Is A New Laptop Based On The Japanese Home Computer Standard | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  MSX laptop? Is this freaking La Mulana?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 214 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, big wrestler tiger not to your liking apparently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, randomly happens in the festival plaza after the main plot. Honestly not that interesting despite the premise, there’s barely any plot to be found, just the most basic excuse to have you fight a couple battles with past villains and it’s over very quickly. They’d advertised so much around Rainbow Rocket that I was a bit disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree on the story point.

  Worst part IMO is that original SuMo had the most interesting antagonist the series ever had, and Ultra decided fuck that, let’s rewrite that character in the most boring way possible and drop a random threat out of nowhere instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve heard about this, yeah. That sucks. It could be as simple as one or two splash screens with the original studio in credits, and it’d be okay really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That would have been a correct way to do this, yeah. I’ve seen it done like that too, for example Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Hyrule Warriors Définitive Edition has both port and original teams in credits.

  Going so far as removing a cool little ending song just because the video clip happened to reference the old studio is petty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want him to find it because I want the over-the-top movie dramatization of that guy’s descent into madness.

  He can have part of the movie revenues, if he’s smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how much, but there was stuff missing.

  For example the filter that makes everything kinda blurry and dream-like, and a whole ending sequence video with a song, artworks and animations.

  Worst part is that video was not removed for a lack of time or anything, but just because it included credits and a logo from studio Clover. You know, the people who made the game to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a sign that says “Shout to enter”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune, Lost Eden And MegaRace Composer Stéphane Picq Has Passed Away Aged 59 | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The soundtrack in Cryo’s Dune was definitely a huge part of the experience. That was a very trippy game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Body horror, the skull kid, the impending doom when you look up at the sky...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure about ESRB, but for Europe, PEGI revised their ratings since then.

  3D Zeldas used to be rated 7, but nowadays they’re 12. Including remakes of old games. OoT and MM 3D had their rating raised.

  Being 3D automatically bumps ratings up, even Mario Odyssey and 3D World got a 7 vs Wonder’s 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kate update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if they’d found a way to force people to do a handstand and push a button with your nose, it’d be even harder.

  Drifting is not some secret combo technique, it’s basically half of what you need to do to play Mario Kart. To me it feels as stupid as if I had to do hadokens to jump in Super Mario Bros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kate update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know some disagree, but I hated the way you’re supposed to trigger drifting on DS. That left-right spam served no purpose and was terrible on a D-pad.

  So glad they got rid of that bullshit after DS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Mario Kart Double Dash the best one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love MKW but bikes in Wii were very overpowered compared to karts. They tried to balance the four vehicle types in MK8 (DX), and now they more or less all have their strong points.

  In particular the Bowser bike in Wii was incredible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule the talking movie industry in tycoon game Hollywood Animal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why there hasn’t been a business simulator where you could live up the glamorous, extremely vicious, exploitative, and horrible life of a movie studio owner in Old Hollywood.

  The Movies, 2005.

  Technically not just old Hollywood, it goes through the 20th century with technological advances and world events that change movie trends.

  Since it’s a business management game from Bullfrog Lionhead, it did have some grit to it.

  I welcome new takes on this though, the movies didn’t age well in some aspects (aspect ratio most notably, ah ah ). I know of Blockbuster Inc that tried to remake that already but the reviews are not great. I’ll try this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, that’s why the immersion-breaking magic compass thing exists in Oblivion (and most open worlds since). Bethsoft devs explained it once.

  Stuff is relocated a lot in development, and this means having to rework all dialogues refering to directions, occasionally missing some. It was even more unfeasible for Oblivion in which all dialogue is voiced and would have to be re-recorded.

  So they just removed all directions from the dialogue and now you’ve got 100% accurate floating tags telling you exactly where to go, even when you are not yet sure what you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actual ammo vending machines. That can be tampered with. Great.

  Could we not Torment Nexus the rest of Bioshock, please?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, if you people wanna ditch the Kingdom and join the club, I don’t think it’s too late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s because I played them too late, but while I mostly had a blast playing HL2, the first one never clicked for me.

  I know, it’s been very influential and new when it released, but it was still quite straight a FPS game. Whereas HL2 is like a crazy theme park of different ambiences and mechanics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Said to be Considering a Surprising Replacement for Bob Iger: EA CEO Andrew Wilson - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the sense of Pride and Accomplishment everyone got from that game back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Jewels look like they were ripped straight out of the Reddit Gold playbook⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube pushes whatever format feels popular to them at the time, like when they started giving absurd weight to shorts.

  Even content creators that pretty much only do long, focussed videos started to hack useless bits of them to put in shorts as an aside, just because the algorithm would make their channel basically invisible without a few of them.

  If youtube starts the same kind of shit with vertical streaming, you can be sure they’re going to pop everywhere, no matter how fitting the format is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So now their solution to the whole “don’t you guys have phone?” situation is to keep designing for mobile but port those everywhere.

  I think I’ll keep not giving a shit, thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m usually rather passionate about space exploration and stuff, but we don’t need to send people to Mars that bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing mostly expeditions for a while (on PS4, occasionally VR : on a non-pro PS4, this is rough). I am getting a PC VR headset soon so I am waiting for that to double dip and make a clean save again.

  Good thing is there are ways to unlock past expedition rewards on PC. I’d have no way to transfer them otherwise. They need to stop this limited time FOMO bullshit. I understand why the old expeditions themselves can’t be maintained but there should be ways to get the unlockable stuff.