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- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 3 days ago:
Or eating toe funk
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 days ago:
Yeah, the continued support and extra modes made me so happy to be an early supporter. I also like the more original NES style games of the series and I am very excited for the sequel.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 4 days ago:
The DS is quite literally the only system that I ever sold going as far back as the Atari 2600. I hate, hate , hate how they forced the touch screen gimmicks for it in games that it didn’t belong. It was the only blemish on an otherwise outstanding game in Dawn of Sorrow. It ruined all of the Zelda games made directly for the system IMO.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 4 days ago:
I leaned the other way, but both were good.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 4 days ago:
A bunch of good ones have already been mentioned (SOTN, Nine Sols, Super Metroid), so I’ll just mention some that were missed.
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (sequel to SOTN, just as good if you can get past the DS touchscreen BS. The new remaster might get rid of it)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (made by Iga, creator of Castlevania: SOTN, Dawn of Sorrow, and others)
Salt and Sanctuary
The Messenger
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 4 days ago:
When I was much younger, I wanted that idealistic thing too. I was so optimistic about new tech that would come out. Decades of companies working on promising tech and turning it into a dystopian or anti-user mess have beaten that spirit out of me. I don’t want “smart” anything, and I certainly don’t trust any of the companies possibly capable of doing these things to be in charge of actually doing it.
- Comment on Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
This really, really sucks. WhoSampled is awesome, especially for sample heavy music from the 80s and 90s. They’ve been around over a decade, weird to call them a startup. While I am pissed, if Spotify came and offered me a truck load of money for something I was running and probably making little to no money, I can’t say it wouldn’t be tempting.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 5 days ago:
I can’t say I loved the Game gear enough to go that route, but seeing as I have had people try to argue with me that E.T. for the Atari 2600 is actually a fine game, there are enthusiasts for everything.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 6 days ago:
Adobe has been their own worst enemy for decades and their one true skill is fucking things up. The best thing about Adobe trying to make their own OS would be that it could wipe them out.
-signed, a long time bitter former Adobe user that still has to support their shit
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 6 days ago:
“IT history” :(
Oh, well, time to go back to my crypt.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 6 days ago:
No way, unlike Windows 11, the PS3 was actually quite a good product.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 6 days ago:
I figured the backlight was a big part of it. crazy that people actually modded a game gear
- Comment on GTA IV Is A Snapshot of the World Before It Changed 1 week ago:
I don’t really even recall the “web” being one of the rougher places. It was Usenet and IRC, aka places where you could actually deal with other people directly, that were the livelier area. They were also more fun for that exact reason.
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 1 week ago:
Using Ai to build power plants that will be used for AI to build more power plants that are used for AI to make a bunch of slop. TECHNOLOGY!!
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
It’s like riding a bike, you’ll be on it in no time!
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
Yeah, and it was more like $60 at the beginning of the year before all the tariff bullshit. So, do keep in mind that the build quality isn’t going to be incredible, but my daughter has been using hers for months and with no issues other than having to learn how to send texts T9-style and the GPS navigation is a little annoying to use.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
I bought her a Nokia 2780 Flip.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
My daughter switched to a Nokia flip phone and has been enjoying it. So even some gen z are over the bullshit.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 week ago:
This is also why I have never considered the Switch a portable system. It was a hybrid that was never quite a “real” console or a handheld, and thus made compromises on both ends. I personally never used the Switch undocked, I’d have rather they sold a fixed model with no screen or joycons that just plugged in.
The real reason that Game Gear was so power hungry is that it was just a Sega Master System crammed into a handheld. This is why it felt wildly better and more advanced then the Game Boy. Sega did the same thing years later with the Sega Nomad aka a Genesis crammed into a handheld.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Even with a 40 hour work week, this can be how it ends up. With a 60 hour work week, I’m surprised you can even fit in the cleaning. It’s rough. I don’t many recommendations anyone else hasn’t already mentioned (try to work less hours, which may not be possible). I think you need to, somehow, try to fit in a small window of time that is just for you. Even if it means giving up a small amount of sleep. I had to do this to retain some sanity. I found that trying to prep my meals in batches saved me some time as well. I used to work 40 hours a week on paper, but there was also an hour unpaid lunch and 2-3 hours of daily commute, so I was gone from home 12 hours a day. I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and the only thing I can say that as the kids get older it gets easier. When they can feed, dress, and entertain themselves, it makes it much easier. Also once they eat adult meals so you aren’t making several different things at once. Hang in there man.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 week ago:
I did too, but my Dad ended up buying me one of those tiny handheld TVs with a 1" screen instead. It was more a novelty that anything, it sucked down batteries faster than an actual Game Gear.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 week ago:
The battery life was hilariously bad, it was almost the defining trait. It was made especially prominent since it was being compared to the OG Game Boy which could go 20 hours on four AA batteries. The GG could only go about five, if you were lucky, on six AA. Mine basically lived plugged into the wall with a long extension code so I could use it from anywhere in my bedroom.
- Comment on The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton 1 week ago:
This is so fucking crazy, I love it. The fact that they already have a previous model on the market you can buy is so surreal.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 1 week ago:
I have been using my Sony DS4 gamepad (wired) with no issues, requires no setup. DS5 gamepads also work well, but I had extra DS4 controllers just sitting around. I greatly prefer them to any of the Xbox gamepad personally.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
I feel both of these strongly for the same reasons, also GoW had all the sluggishness of a Souls-like which immediately made it not fun to play.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
I felt that way for the first couple of hours and then the parrying “clicked” with me. Also you get some items/skills that make parrying easier/stronger.
- Comment on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Bad Game Hall of Fame 2 weeks ago:
The only good side of E.T. is that it kick started the implosion of Atari which lead to me getting many games super cheap in the following years. There was a local store Zayre, which later changed the name to Ames, that constantly had Atari games on heavy sales. After the NES released, I picked up a bunch of games for $5 each. Of course, it was hard to enjoy them knowing the NES existed and I didn’t have one yet :)
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 2 weeks ago:
There is no limit, but I am also a big fan of Daggerfall and thus clearly insane.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 2 weeks ago:
I tried it and it was good, but not worth the money to me. Since that time, everything has been going more and more to shit, so while I am not there yet, everything else could eventually get shitty enough that I will maybe then be good to pay monthly for a search engine.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 2 weeks ago:
I’d be a min-maxing hoarder that never used stuff. In all honestly, I should probably try to be more like that minus the hoarding.