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- Comment on Jack Black 2 hours ago:
They probably use the proprietary Face Off ™ technology.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 22 hours ago:
Civ 3 was the first game in the series that didn’t feel like a big improvement (graphics aside of course). but you always love your first Civ.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 22 hours ago:
I had that game for the Atari 2600 and unlike E.T, it was a great game.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 day ago:
I still have my copy in my own little museum in my office with some of my favorite (or in this case most notorious) games. Does that count?
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 3 days ago:
Yeah, I’m a little jealous of that cool ass setup. I used to have something like it, though not as nice.
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 4 days ago:
I like that “Name” was on there. You know, in case he forgets.
- Comment on Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games gets acquired by KRAFTON 1 week ago:
Gross.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 1 week ago:
I’m surprised they had to outsource that as they have been producing so much shit for decades.
- Comment on Every time 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, life would be improved if people brought everything on fancy wooden planks. I would replace FedEx and UPS in a heartbeat if my stuff arrived like that instead of being spiked onto the ground like a volleyball.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 2 weeks ago:
I oddly enough do have a working floppy drive, but that doesn’t seem like a solid solution lol.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, I never saw either Thexder or Socerian in local stores at the time, nor I had even heard of them. It doesn’t look like GOG has them listed, but I’ll keep an eye out so I can possibly give them a try.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 2 weeks ago:
Come to think of it, I think it was parallax scrolling that Id Software figured out that hadn’t been done properly before. I had never encountered any of the Japanese DOS games in the DOS days. I imagine there just wasn’t distribution of then in the US I guess. I would have loved to see some Nihon Falcom games.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 2 weeks ago:
I loved both for what they were. There were a bunch of great arcade games ported to NES they were just totally different, but awesome games and both Ninja Gaiden and Double Dragon are on that list. Strider was a notable one too, where the NES was great, but so hard most people couldn’t get to see much of it.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 2 weeks ago:
I don’t feel that those ports, or this Ninja Gaiden one, were horrible or “mistakes” (I owned this game and Megaman 3 for DOS). The PCs at the time didn’t have the specialized hardware to do smooth side scrolling, and John Carmack and crew’s novel way to do it without the hardware was still their secret. It was honestly the best side scrolling game you’d find on PC despite the jank.
- Comment on It's just loss. 2 weeks ago:
This is highly depressing to see first thing in the morning.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 2 weeks ago:
I have to admit, the GBA SP was pretty hot. I still have mine.
- Comment on found my Civilization ][ poster while going cleaning 3 weeks ago:
I made so many mods for Civ 1 and Civ 2. Civ 2 is also my second favorite (4 being my favorite)
- Comment on "This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven 3 weeks ago:
A 33MHz DX 486was great. If you got stuck with a slower SX CPU, things were frequently not so hot.
- Comment on "This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had great luck using Intel NUCs and home servers and HTPC boxes. Since those are now gone, I have found that Beelink is the most cost effective replacement when I needed to revamp the setup. My biggest complaint on them is that the cooling fans on them are not super reliable and it is not easy to find compatible replacements. I had to order them direct from China and there are a few wiring incompatible variants. I ended up with one of them being the wrong type and I had to resolder the leads to match the existing broken fan.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I just assumed they hired the same person that was previously in charge of naming Street Fighter games from Capcom. I was sure the next Xbox would be named something like Xbox X 360 Series X Alpha Championship Edition with Hyper Fighting
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 5 weeks ago:
I like the way you think.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t count as non-violent, but every kid I have played it with has thoroughly enjoyed the TMNT arcade game (as well as the Simpsons game that plays similarly. If you play with them you can essentially carry them through the game and they are just along for the ride, but feel like they are part of the team.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
From what I understand there are better dongles now than that they can perform better than the Apple dongle, but the one everyone raves about that was $20 - $30 or so is now hard to come brand is going for closer to $80 (I think it is the Jcally JM20 Max). I don’t see a reason to bother spending more money chasing this crap now that I’ve had to buy both my wife and I standalone music players. What I do know is that the first company that releases a decent phone that has a headphone jack that fits my other needs is getting my Money. If Fairphone has brought it back, it would have been them since they have decent ROM alternatives (though not GrapheneOS).
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
I’ve used three: one was generic (it was at the time the only way to get one that could charge and have a headphone out in the same dongle), one was from Fiio (surprisingly bad sounding, maybe worse than the generic in some ways, but better build), and one was the official Google dongle (sounded clean, but was super weak. Couldn’t power even my lightest headphones that weren’t IEMs). The only one I still have is the Google dongle because the others broke, but I don’t use it because it still kinda sucks. I ended up being forced to buy a phone without a headphone jack fairly recently because Google more or less killed my Pixel 4a and there were no replacement phones with headphones jacks that I could put GrapheneOS on. I ended up buying myself a portable music player to list to music on. My phone is now only for listening to music in the car and it sucks :(
- Comment on Sign me up 5 weeks ago:
Is Zohran’s wife way cooler than we thought? It looks like it has the girls from those cool clubs in movies that I have yet to find in real life.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
My wired earbuds cost more than ten times that and will probably last me until I retire. The vast majority of those USB-c to 3.5mm adapters are cheap crap that have a worthless DAC and/or fall apart after a short time. I have purchased my wife three such adapters since she decided it was worth it to get a phone without a headphone jack and none of them have been good.
I ended up having to buy her a separate portable music player to use. So thanks for that Google, Apple, and the rest of the greedy shithead OEMs.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 5 weeks ago:
It absolutely does not require too much space. And you can still buy phones with headphone jacks, just not any of the (ironically) higher end models because OEMs know they can push their first party bluetooth headphones to these customers.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 5 weeks ago:
We used it for our dev and systems groups at my former company for a while and really enjoyed it compared to anything else that was around. When it went away, we switched away to IRC due to how easy it was to host and maintain. I actually don’t see a big overlap between Wave and chat and Gmail for how people use it, but I suspect that was a big part of the problem. The uses where Wave was superior didn’t really catch on until Slack came on the scene and had MS and Google then scrambling to make similar tools.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 5 weeks ago:
Google Wave was actually pretty awesome. Google just had no idea what to do with it and it was too heavy for phones of the time.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 month ago:
That seems bizarre based on the prices I see, maybe they are intentionally undercutting the others locally in your area specifically. Whole Foods was by far the cheapest place to buy eggs earliest this year and were obviously using them as a loss leader (we’re talking less than half the price of standard grocery stores in the same area).