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- Comment on Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade 2 days ago:
My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.
- Comment on If a Lemmy user has the same name as a community, how can I tag the community on Mastodon? 1 week ago:
I think that’s just a way of getting a link to the community, but it doesn’t actually tag the community in your post. I just tried it, and the post does not show up in the community that I mentioned with
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- Comment on Shenmue II 1 week ago:
If you close the program, you might lose information. Like where the sailors are.
- Comment on Video Game Websites in the early 00s 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, I even recognize a few of those! I miss that era of web design.
I found some old websites myself a few months ago and put some links on my blog. These aren’t archive links, they’re still up in their original form.
Pasting a summary below:
Sonic Team, https://www.sonicteam.com
A bunch of websites for Sonic Team’s games are still up, dating back to the Sega Saturn. Here’s a few highlights:
- Sonic Adventure, for the Dreamcast, released in 1998.
- A blog from the music team about their trip to a recording studio in New York. Check this one out with Google Translate, it’s amazing.
- Photos from the trip
- Space Channel 5, also for the Dreamcast, released in 1999.
- Sonic R, for the Saturn, released in 1997.
- Nights into Dreams, also Saturn, relased in 1996. The footer mentions Netscape 3.0.
- a page about the story with a very 90s era background
The King of Fighters. This fighting game series still has some of the original marketing sites up for its earlier
titles.- KOF 98 "Unlimited Match". I’m not sure when this was made. This is for the 2008 re-release of KOF 98. The copyright date says 2007 and there’s a Wordpress logo for the favicon. However, everything else about the website screams <marquee>"1998."</marquee> It’s using tables for the layout and font tags for text colors. I’m wondering if there was an existing site for KOF 98, and they gave it an update for 2008 without changing the way it was written.
- KOF 2000. A great example of how a site would sometimes have completely different layouts for each page.
- KOF 2002
- A general information site about SNK’s games, last updated in 2009, but looks like it was designed before then.
Honorable Mention: Team Fortress 2, https://www.teamfortress.com
This one is newer, of course, but still has some hallmarks of mid-2000s web design. I point out some things about it in the blog post.
- Sonic Adventure, for the Dreamcast, released in 1998.
- Comment on My time with Anbernic's RG477V 2 weeks ago:
Thank you! That is good to know.
- Comment on My time with Anbernic's RG477V 2 weeks ago:
I have a couple of questions, one about this device and one for anyone just in general:
- For Android games, does this have the actual Google play store? Or do you need to use the Aurora store? And if so, do you use a throwaway account because Google might decide that they aren’t OK with that someday?
- This is available with 8 GB or 12 GB of memory. I’ve never played PS2 games on one of these handhelds before – would 8 GB be fine for that?
- Comment on My time with Anbernic's RG477V 2 weeks ago:
Great review! And wow, this thing looks fantastic. After using a horizontal retro emulator, I wasn’t sure if I would ever want a vertical one again. Horizontal just immediately felt so much more comfortable for me. But this one definitely looks tempting. Also, the vertical handheld I have, a Miyoo mini, is really small, so maybe that’s part of my ergonomics problem.
- Comment on Among games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 3 weeks ago:
It’s amazing just how much better games have been from indie devs and smaller publishers. I don’t see a single game from EA, Ubisoft, or Activision on there.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t been to one that uses cards, but I would prefer tokens or actual coins over the card. The only arcade near me is a bar arcade, and all of the machines take quarters. I love it.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The only one I’ve tried before is Wekan. I’m not a heavy kanban user, I just basically wanted to put sticky notes in columns, and it worked for that. Looks like it has the features you’re needing, though. There’s read-only demo here: https://boards.wekan.team/b/D2SzJKZDS4Z48yeQH/wekan-open-source-kanban-board-with-mit-license
It looks fairly mobile-friendly, and I think they have Android and iOS apps, too.
- Comment on delicious wrap 5 weeks ago:
Baconator Aero was the best design trend.
- Comment on How do you healthcheck your containers? 5 weeks ago:
Same here. I’m the only user of my services, so if I try visiting the website and it’s down, that’s how I know it’s down.
I prefer phrasing it differently, though. “With my current uptime monitoring strategy, all endpoints serve as an on-demand healthcheck endpoint.”
One legitimate thing I do, though, is have a systemd service that starts each docker compose file. If a container crashes, systemd will notice (I think it keeps an eye on the PIDs automatically) and restart them.
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- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 month ago:
Finding cheat codes for Sega Genesis games was my introduction to the internet. It was so fun getting to tell other kids at school about cheat codes that you knew about for their games.
These days I don’t, mainly because they don’t seem to have them anymore, and also because if I’m not enjoying the game with its base mechanics I have plenty of other games in my backlog that I can check out instead.
- Comment on Fatekeeper - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
I was just thinking “Hey, this kind of looks like Dark Messiah.” And then he kicked an enemy off of a ledge and I thought “Oh it’s 100% a sequel to Dark Messiah.”
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 months ago:
I’ve always thought it was both. I’m definitely no expert on Metroidvanias, since I’ve only played the one (if Dead Cells counts as one). I actually thought the term “Metroidvania” was about the movement and combat – today I just learned that it’s about the exploration and finding things. You do at least have to do that in the bank level, if I remember right. And the castle level.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 months ago:
The only one I’ve played is Dead Cells, and it’s fantastic. I haven’t even bought any of the DLC, the base game is already endlessly replayable. I also listen to the soundtrack at least once a week.
I definitely want to get around to playing Hollow Knight and Animal Well at some point.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 months ago:
Wait…you can just do that?
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 2 months ago:
I don’t think that is true, but I certainly like the idea of it being true.
- Comment on Godot Engine – 2025 Showreel 2 months ago:
These look great, I love the diversity of art styles on display here.
The title “The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck” cracked me up. :D
- Comment on Day 477 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
This is making me want to replay this game. I don’t really remember much about the story of this one, but I do remember than the slow motion mechanics were much better than those of the first game.
- Comment on Inside ARMSX2: Interviewing the Team Reviving PS2 Emulation on Android (my article!) 2 months ago:
That was a great interview, thanks for doing it! And I bet the devs enjoy getting to talk about this kind of thing. There are plenty of blog posts about what new features are coming out in open source projects, but very few interviews like this one.
It’s cool how everything right now is still (mostly) focused on translating x86 to ARM, but how we’re starting to hear talk about native ARM. I’m guessing that there won’t enough of a push for that, though, until Linux ARM PCs become more popular. I’m definitely looking forward to that.
- Comment on Bluetooth turns itself on every day after Android 16 update 2 months ago:
Thank you! That was it. Not sure if that’s new or if I just hadn’t noticed before.
- Comment on Bluetooth turns itself on every day after Android 16 update 2 months ago:
Thank you! That works.
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- Comment on 3 months ago:
My barber would be all the way over on the bottom right. Makes literally like 300 cuts just while I’m there and I’ve never even seen a tape measure anywhere in the shop.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 3 months ago:
Nice, glad to hear that the original, non-remastered Crysis is available! If I remember right, Crysis Remastered is actually an update to the console port of Crysis, and the console versions simplified how your powers activate, making it easier to do on a controller.
- Comment on Immich finally goes stable, a talk with the team 3 months ago:
There’s a photo of the back of the case here, which describes how to use it: https://immich.store/products/immich-retro
So it sounds like it’s a bootable Linux image, with Immich already set up on it.