MajorHavoc

@MajorHavoc@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is for me.

  I love open hardware and the modern 8-bit game scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. With the specs fully open, hopefully we get a portable of this, at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which year was the most stacked for game releases?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One could argue Tetris could carry the whole competition alone, but it is joined by Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, Spy Hunter, and Gauntlet in 1985

  I would leave it at that, except Pac-Man, Frogger, Galaga, Defender, and Donkey Kong make 1981 a contender

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair point. I enjoyed the game later out of curiosity - but it wasn’t a “this is your only Christmas gift” kick in the gut, for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re all some random platformer which sometimes alluded to they had a movie name.

  That’s a good point. E.T. was not alone in this, and had more to do with it’s movie that many games that followed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played E.T. relatively recently to remind myself what the fuss was about.

  The game plays fine (with average Atari bugginess).

  It just stands out as an early huge miss for a movie tie in. Almost nothing about the game feels like the movie, or is particularly anything a fan of the movie would seem likely to enjoy.

  I say “almost” because the exploring kind of fits. The same exploring that is constantly frustratingly interrupted by pit falls.

  It’s really not that bad of a game, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue Superman 64 for the N64 is a worse game by all measures.

  I’ve spent some unfortunate time with both, and can confirm. Superman 64 is worse by a pretty large margin.

  E.T. is genuinely playable, after a needlessly awful learning curve. Superman 64 still continues to suck even for (shudder) players who have put in the necessary time to learn to play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you considerimg turning down a promotion (with more pay or progression to more pay?) because a couple of coworkers talk too much?

  I would rather space out while they gossip and daydream about all the extra money I’m going to make.

  I would absolutely not raise this concern with my boss. Since my job includes needing to work well with all kinds of people, raising your concern would be career limiting, for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone who played a lot of flight sims in the 1980s may have unconsciously taught themselves to invert and now they consider that their innate preference

  Yes. Yes, I do.

  For what it’s worth, I’ve played with my buddy’s controller while he refilled the chips bowl enough to give uninverted a fair try. I play fine at it. I just don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall IR game controllers of that era were only particularly bad when I got excited, nervous or too focused on the game, and let them point a millimeter away from the sensor…so they only really thoroughly failed exactly when it cost me the most in the game. Haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

  I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Luanti following Minecraft is nothing new. Mineclonia was an early pilot game for the engine.

  But there hasn’t been much effort on copying Minecraft lately. Mineclonia is done, and it’s great.

  We’ve had more mobs, animals, plants, textures, and such than un-modded Minecraft for a long time. (Which is unfair, as Luanti is a mod-first design.) But my point is the core Launti dev team doesn’t have to work on any of that.

  The most noticeable recent Luanti updates have been to make the configuration screens much nicer, and add I think to add native support for more graphics tricks?

  I’m not paying attention to graphics in Luanti. As others have mentioned, that’s not why I play it. I actually had a conversation recently about the best way to downgrade Luanti default graphics to match un-modded Minecraft.

  That said, the Minecraft team taking notice of Luanti would be new, as far as I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Importing Facebook posts into Mastodon or Friendica?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like a good approach. If your can get the posts into WordPress, there’s so many number scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin: We need you working 60 hours a week so we can replace you as soon as possible⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well sure.

  But possible within practical heat and power constraints and all that?

  Acting like it’s imminent makes me think Sergei either doesn’t have very reliable advisors, or they just don’t care about the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin: We need you working 60 hours a week so we can replace you as soon as possible⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible, much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.

  Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.

  If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

  It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a live stream of fedi plays Dragon Warrior Monsters⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is perfect, because the Fediverse is better than Twitch and Dragon Warrior Monsters is better than Pokemon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta: “We're Still Investing Massively In VR Gaming And Don't Plan To Stop”⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I get home I may post them.

  I would appreciate that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Handheld: Rumors And Release Date Possibilities Explained⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would welcome a price-subsidized SteamDeck hack kit…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favourite 90s platformer?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctor Monkey-for-a-head remembers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favourite 90s platformer?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I do think Spyro is a platformer. It’s a bunch of things, but I would have a hard time arguing any genre fits it better than platformer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To boost Bookwyrm, there should be a tool to scrape book data from Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ISBN Search is a non-monopolist source of the same information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What host names do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All swearwords, all the time. Generally puns on the servers purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Was the First 3D Platformer?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not Jumping Flash, after all? Neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds from the way you phrased this like you feel thatevery IOT device is just a ticking time bomb waiting to become a malware and privacy nightmare.

  If so, as someone with some Cybersecurity expertise, I just want to say that is a reasonable opinion supported by all of the data that I’m aware of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we called instances providers?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what resonates for me.

  We don’t have email instances, and email providers similarly block un-desired content, but there’s not a big fuss about missing out on specific types of spam. Lol.

  Similarly Internet service providers actually also block big blocks of malware providing domains, and accidentally sometimes block some great piracy resources. People who care learn to use a VPN or switch providers. Everyone else doesn’t have to think about it.

  I’ll argue that The Fediverse also carries extremely similar switching cost as an email or Internet provider. For an average user, “Let folks you care to inform know where you moved, and maybe copy over some favorite bookmarks.”

  Sure, different providers do try to bring different lenses on the same federated content, but most people aren’t served well by thinking about it on day one.

  I think shifting to the term provider is a lot more honest to the user about what to expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we called instances providers?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fantastic. Provider avoids the mostly baseless FOMO (fear of missing out) that instance can invoke.

  I think provider more clearly communicates that the majority of the desirable content is going to be available the same through any provider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  20,000 downloads at $3

  The ripoff artist made $42,0000.00. Apple made $18,000.00.

  The original creator made ~$2,000.00, after TikTok comments pointed people to the original.

  And

  “Apple encourages the parties to a dispute to work directly with one another to resolve the claim.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even as a collector, I've never laid my hands on one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. That’s true! There are DVD menu games with higher approval ratings than some CD-I games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge rejects Musk's attempt to block OpenAI's for-profit transition⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a timeline where I’m not automatically alarmed by something just because Elon supports it.

  This isn’t that timeline. Where’s the grift?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not old. Lalalala. I can’t hear you. But I’m not old, or anything.