TotesIllegit

@TotesIllegit@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Wii good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got a Wii to play RE4, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, and a couple GameCube games. I still need to get the component cable (I’m on composite, which isn’t ideal) but I’m finding it just as fun as I remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshots of what I'm playing, day 1: progressing through Sonic 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember planting so, so many rings in a single place with debug mode enabled in Sonic 2 just so I could play through each stage as Super Sonic without effort- aside from the super slippery controls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Bradbury’s Upcoming Retro Gaming Movie ‘Ctrl AI Delete’ Passes 50% Funding | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was the only thing I could think of with that title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For C&C fans, Tempest Rising is C&C in all but name. The most recent playtest felt like a hybrid of Tiberian Sun and Tiberium Wars. It’s not out yet, but I’m very excited about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Wiiimote and Nunchuk combo needs a little tweaking (maybe make the wiimote more like a nunchuk for ergonomics, give it an analog stick for coarse camera movement) but it was the most comfortable controller ever since I could place my hands in different positions relative to one another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 1 of someone finally posting screenshots from a screenshot-worthy game, until I forget to post screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy them; they’re a small, mundane, humanising element in a sea of (often bad) news or game trailer links in my feed.

  Though I also appreciate the parody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | California governor vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Noise alerts should be limited to imminent threats or severe safety warnings (fast approaching a slower vehicle in the same lane, seatbelt not fastened, etc) but not for activity that a) may actually be totally legal, and b) may cause panicked, reflexive actions, or c) may cause confusion for the driver.

  I could also see it get really annoying for those of us without functioning cruise control trying to go the speed limit consistently, depending how close to the speed limit is started to beep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 69 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. Also, I like the storyline you’ve got going with the respawns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 44 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This bug has been around for a while. It’s apparently reliably repeatable if you know how to manipulate it, but I haven’t looked into it too much myself. For context, I’ve been playing Phas on and off since 2020.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What category is games like Life is Strange and Until Dawn?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re effectively visual novels with light gameplay mechanics for navigation or making some narrative path choices. At least, that’s how I felt about Until Dawn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Genesis Patch Brings A Bunch Of Improvements To Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah! These were really fun for me to play as a kid, and I did like the Raptor ending in particular, but I always wanted a bit more, given how much effort it took to get to the end. Especially the Grant campaign.

  As a kid, though, I just wish the map would change and display the next level on the map once you finished the third stage. Even if you couldn’t pick your route anymore, it was always frustrating not really getting to see my progress after that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with graphics resembling PS1 or PS2?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been enjoying Signalis. It’s a survival horror game with a top down 2.5d perspective and a late ps1-early ps2 graphics style. It’s very reminiscent of the older Resident Evil games where ammo is scarce(more or less is available based on difficulty), inventory space is limited(adjustable limits are available in settings), and there are specific rooms with a storage container where you can store items and save your game (there is no autosave or checkpoint system; you have to manually save your game), but it very much feels like it’s own thing.

  I picked it up on a whim when looking for games with female protagonists to play on a new-to-me hand-me-down Steam Deck, and it happens to run perfectly on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the USPS, FedEx and UPS give a crap about weed shipments since Hemp sprayed with th same terpenes and looks the same as weed has been shipped legally for 9 years now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not hard, but it’s still a hurdle. Warrants also can’t be requested from a judge by just anyone in the USPS iirc, so the start of the process often relies on an employee taking time out of their day to report something they deem suspicious in the first place, likely in an understaffed and overworked office that’s not built to handle the package volume of the area they serve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the USPS, FedEx and UPS give a crap about weed shipments since Hemp sprayed with th same terpenes and looks the same as weed has been shipped legally for 9 years now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, the USPS can’t unilaterally search your letters or packages because, as a government institution, it would be a major violation of the 4th amendment- even postal inspectors need to get a warrant to open a letter or package that’s not expressly addressed to them if it was in the care of the USPS. I think the only exception is when it’s an ‘Operation Santa’ letter, and there are regulations in place for how those get handled to protect the privacy of the sender.

  The private parcel and package companies probably don’t have to abide by the same restrictions because they’re not government owned and operated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s frustrating for me is when the PC side cripples mixed-input entirely even though I just want mouse-look, gyro aim, and analog movement from my controller without any aim assist. (Looking at you, Destiny 2 and Halo.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a tale as old as time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a couple. For one, they specifically promoted her on Twitter even though she’d been monetizing the work of other people without their knowledge or consent, and her use of their videos are practically never transformative enough to fall under fair use. It may have been a while ago, but a company with very aggressive copyright practices promoting a content thief doesn’t look great.

  She escalated an issue she’s having on YouTube by allegedly engaging in offline harassment and doxxing his home address to millions of her followers on Instagram. YouTube is inextricably linked to this because her videos, and his videos criticizing them, are hosted by YouTube, and YouTube is earning ad revenue from all of that. She may have used Instagram to perform the alleged harassment, but people tend to follow online personalities on multiple social media sites, so there’s definitely audience crossover.

  Her audience trends young, and she’s had at least one or two videos taken down for violating community guidelines involving bullying, iirc. At the moment, there are rumors that a video of her on Omegle doing blatantly illegal shit has been reported to the FBI, and that the video had been up on her YouTube channel for nine years, though the video has since been deleted.

  He’s not calling for YouTube to act just on the offline harassment, but the full collection of provable bad behaviors on the site on top of the potential harm he and his family could face as a result of her present illegal actions and access to a platform with a lot of reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like it would mean charging Valve money for the privilege of using Valve’s own infrastructure every time a player installed a Unity game after a major PC upgrade/reinstall or after uninstalling that MMO they dumped every other game in their library try out.

  Steam could probably bake a ban on software that uses installation trackers into their developer/publisher ToS, or ban the collection or transmission of Steam user data related to installations, or something similar.