cerebralhawks

@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entertainment would be a lot less shitty if there is a legally-enforcible International Law that bans the act of cancelling TV Shows and forces all TV Shows to have a decently written ending.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I get where you’re coming from, but how about forcing authors to finish books before abandoning them (e.g. Game of Thrones) or dying before they finish them (Wheel of Time). See where I’m going with this? ;)

  The problem is, some shows have planned outcomes. Babylon 5 was a sci-fi show in the 1990s (Star Trek Deep Space Nine was actually loosely based on it, though that may be anachronistic to members of the current generation — not saying you are) that had a planned four seasons. They wanted another one, so they had to shoehorn some stuff in to make it work.

  Supernatural is a much better and more recent example. It was planned for five seasons, but it was pushed out to, what, seventeen seasons? Something ridiculous like that. The show was printing money and the cast and crew were willing to work on it, so they kept churning them out.

  Game of Thrones, like Fullmetal Alchemist and Tokyo Ghoul in Japan, had their shows catch up to their source material, so the show was forced to write their own ending. With Game of Thrones, the author walked away from the series (but he is writing spinoffs). With Fullmetal Alchemist, the author finished the series, and a second anime series was commissioned that started with an anime original episode, summed up what the first series got right in 9 episodes (covering something like 25 episodes!), and then finishing out what the author wrote. Tokyo Ghoul’s second season was completely made up, and did things the books (which weren’t written at the time) didn’t do, like kill off a major character. So while they did wait for the series to finish before continuing, they didn’t explain when that character came back in season 3. Oops. Conversely, and I think much worse, The Promised Neverland ended before its second season came out, but instead of doing five or six seasons like they could have, they just crammed all that extra content into one season. There are episodes where crew members have demanded their name not be attached to it — some have no writing or directorial credit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, the Macintosh in 1984 had the menu bar. Amiga had it, too. Now, the dock — that came later. I remember System 7 or Mac OS 8 had a zip-tie pull-out thingy on the left (and Microsoft 2000 copied it). I think the actual Dock as we know it now came in OS X. And there were clones (e.g. AquaDock) until Apple started handing out C&Ds and lawsuits. I tried a couple (on Windows), none of them were great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t give BIOS/rootkit access to a game I like. I’ll just play it on Xbox.

  I feel like Riot is doing gamers a favour here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan and Germany were allies in World War II.

  That’s why when anime takes place in a foreign land, it’s either outright declared to be Germany, or it’s heavily implied to be Germany. Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) appeared to be Germany until the country was named… in season 3 which was 5-6 years after the show started. At the end of season 3, I should add. Fullmetal Alchemist was set in a country that was based on Germany. Their head of state was called the Fuhrer and the whole thing was set to resemble Nazi Germany. SPYxFAMILY takes place in Cold War-era Germany, except East Germany becomes Eastonia and West Germany becomes Westalis. The capital? Berlint. They’re not even hiding it. Then you have The Saga of Tanya the Evil where a cruel Japanese salaryman dies (is murdered) and he is reincarnated as the little girl version of Hitler, plus magic. The country is called the Fatherland and it’s very obvious what they are going for. Oh and of course she’s leading the charge to take over the world. To be fair she is called Tanya the Evil, so they aren’t glorifying her actions… but the Japanese creative empire we all love is a bit weirdly comfortable with Nazis and Nazi-era Germany… less weird when you realise that historically, they were allies in that war.

  Funny that they’re both our allies now… but while anything Nazi related is strictly forbidden in Germany, it’s practically celebrated in Japan, to this day. Fullmetal Alchemist came out in 2003 (the anime, anyway). SnK, 2013 or so. Tanya the Evil was around that time. SPYxFAMILY is new and new episodes are coming out weekly. Though to be fair their show is post-WWII and Eastonia (East Germany) is portrayed as the enemy, and Westalis (West Germany) is seeking peace, though they’re using the exploits of their top spy (the main character’s adoptive father) to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this answer because it also implies that Princess Toadstool/Peach is/was never in any real danger, they’re just acting in a play and you’re playing the hero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least on a Mac we can choose bottom or left! Wild that Microsoft won’t give Windows users the option.

  Of course you could say Mac is dorky with its always on menu bar at the top, but I quite like it. Even on my laptop with a notch it’s not terrible. And I like the status bar (right side of the menu bar).

  And of course on Linux you can just have it any which way you want it.

  I still generally prefer windowing on Windows 11 to macOS Tahoe. Since Sequoia (the last version) we’ve had basic windowing (and before that, free apps like Rectangle to shoehorn it in), but what Microsoft started with Aero Snap in Windows 7 has never been “the Mac way.” I think the old Mac users prefer a controlled chaos on their desktop. I like a more elegant setup. I like how I have Windows set up at work. It doesn’t quite work as well on Mac, to try to do the same thing, but I wouldn’t trade my Mac for something like my work PC, even if it could play more games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it unusual if I am a woman but I do not smell "fishy" down there?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People who say this are idiots.

  I had a good friend about 30 years ago who kept telling me vaginas smell like “tuna and bologna.” I didn’t pick up on it at first, but later realised he was saying this for his little sister’s benefit — who he hated, for some reason. (I liked her. She was a sweet girl. Took me way too long to realise he was just an arsehole.) I haven’t been with a lot of women, but I’ve since learned he’s wrong. I’ve never been with a woman who “smells fishy.” (He got his payoff eventually, he got her to blurt out “my pussy doesn’t smell like that!” in front of their mother, and we got sent away, I assume she at least got scolded. I wish I’d had the imagination (and the guts) to tell him hers really didn’t smell like that… partly to see how long it would take him to get it.) (We were not friends long. I couldn’t be friends with a guy who treats women or girls like that.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They sell phones at a loss because their overpriced service makes up the difference. They sell phones at a loss because you will ultimately pay more over the life of the plan. Take my iPhone 16 Pro Max 512GB (I traded an older phone to get it, but you can look up the retail price, or look up this generation’s, I’m sure it’s about the same) and multiply $25 times 24 (months). Now add what Verizon charges for one to 24 times what Verizon charges per line. Verizon users pay way more, even though the phone seems “cheaper.”

  I challenge anyone with Verizon to post their bill for one line of service with unlimited 5GUW (ultra wideband, I believe). I also get unlimited LTE and base 5G, but after 50GB, it’s de-prioritised. Doesn’t matter, I use maybe 5GB a month on a busy month. Never been a big mobile user. Anyway, I pay Visible $25 a month, and Visible is owned by Verizon and uses Verizon towers. Anyone can get Visible, but they don’t have stores and Verizon stores will not help you. You download the app (iOS or Android) and it does everything. Only service is via chat, no phone support. Same towers. Same coverage. They do have subsidized phones, but not as many, and it’s strictly new customers only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, this guy was kinda trying to game the system (I read the article).

  You can buy an iPhone straight from Apple (he bought the iPhone 16e) and it’s not locked.

  This guy went to Verizon, bought a phone from them, and intended to skip out after a month and go to a cheaper MVNO. I don’t disagree with the ruling — he was acting within the rules, and Verizon changed said rules after he signed the paperwork — but this guy doesn’t seem like a saint. I mean, fuck Verizon and all that, no sympathy for Big Red, but this guy was totally taking advantage. Of course, if Verizon makes a deal and he follows the letter of the law, I’m with him, but also, people like this make phone deals worse for the rest of us.

  Remember when you could get a flagship smartphone for $200 straight up and you just had to keep service for 2 more years? If you were happy with your carrier it was fine, it wasn’t even new customers only. It was like, once that 2 years is up you’re eligible. Verizon even bumped up my eligibility by 2 months when my phone was boot looping. I told them I needed a new phone, either they had to help me or I would be forced to take my business to another carrier, because I couldn’t just not have a phone for 2 months. They said “you know what, you pay your bill on time, we want your business, what phone do you want?” (Then they tried to talk me out of getting an iPhone, 6s, because my last two phones were Android. I said IDGAF about platform wars, the iPhone 6s is the best phone out right now (this was before the Pixel 1 was even announced! But the same year it came out) and it’s the one I want. Rocked that phone for four years.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 517 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, Halo… the main image that showed up in my feed looked almost like part of Mass Effect 1, but the vehicle wasn’t right.

  Same generation, but Mass Effect has a remaster, Legendary Edition. It’s been on sale on Xbox for $6 USD a couple times (what I paid for it)… and that’s for all three.

  While I suppose they are technically three games, the intended use of the product is for you to import your clear save from the previous one to start 2 and 3. Your decisions from previous ones carry forward, even minor choices in the first one playing out in the third one.

  For straight shooting, Halo wins, particularly against Mass Effect 1 and 3, but I think Mass Effect 2’s shooting was competitive to shooters contemporary to it. Though, it and 3 are a bit more like Deus Ex or Star Wars where you have tech/magic stuff you can do in addition to the guns. I tend to stick to pistols and assault rifles, but I’m known to throw a bit of magic here and there, especially the ones that eat shields.

  As far as Halo, I only completed the first one (and did it on PC with keyboard/mouse). Played the first couple maps of the third one on Xbox, never could get the hang of it though. Only single player, never multi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 51]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Finished My Hero Academia over the weekend. We may rewatch it in English after a couple years, just to say we did, and because we’ll miss this series and these characters. We watched the Japanese dub because it came out first, and because we’re manga readers. My wife read all the manga chapters when they were new. I think I jumped on the manga after the first or second season.

  Currently watching The Summer Hikaru Died. This is a Netflix series, and I think it was a simuldub? So we’re watching that in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The market is kind of a trap. They sell the expensive, high end stuff for the suckers who are willing to buy them, and for those who demand the absolute best — for whatever reason.

  They all sell cheaper phones. This year, it was incredibly obvious that, dollar for dollar, the iPhone 17 is the best iPhone deal, but Apple got shit earlier this year when they released the 16e at the price used 15 Pros were going for (when the 16 Pro/Max was the latest model). The 16e has a couple advantages over the 15 Pro, like the custom Apple modem and… I think there was one other thing? Very minor though. Apple used to sell a cheaper phone, the SE, and the SE 2 and 3 are modeled after the iPhone 8, but they have the guts of an 11, the difference being, the 3 supports 5G. I had the SE 2 and got it for $250. It was $200 but I paid $50 to go from 64GB (base model) to 128GB.

  These days, you can’t get an iPhone that low. You have to pay more, or pay with your privacy and go Android. I’ve heard lots of great things about the latest Galaxy A phone. It’s $200, it’s 128GB storage, 4GB RAM (a bit low for modern Android… even a bit low for iOS), “decent-ish” cameras, 6.7", 1080p, and it refreshes up to 90Hz. Apparently, it’s a pretty decent phone for the money.

  But honestly, privacy or otherwise, I’m kinda done pretending Apple has the high ground or that one brand is inherently better than the other. I still like Apple for the Mac. I don’t like the direction Windows has gone (though I quite enjoy the Windows 11 machine I use at work, and I’ve set it up differently to how everyone else has theirs… I would not choose Windows for my home computer, if it could even run it). As I said, as others have said, phone makers have good phones at lower prices, and the high end is kind of a scam. All you’re missing out on with cheaper phones is AI (which I don’t need or really care about missing) and high end gaming… which I also don’t care about. Apple has some “AAA” Ubisoft and Capcom games like Assassin’s Creed and Resident Evil games on the iPhone, and apparently they look great for running on a <7" screen, but I’m not interested. I’ll take a run in Subway Surfers every now and then, but for actual “gaming,” I have an Xbox for that. I just want my phone to be a handheld personal computing device, and that’s not a good look for gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are skin readings a thing when it comes to psychics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone posted a similar thing a couple days ago, except it was a guy who posted. Said he was 15. Said they asked for the exact same thing.

  Sounds like a scam they’re running on social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the longest, hardest fantasy rpg out there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hack, or its modern incarnation, NetHack. (No relation to the .hack comment. That’s a game based on an anime. Hack is a Roguelike from the 1980s, came out shortly after Rogue itself, follows a very similar format, and is arguably if not definitively the oldest true Roguelike currently developed. I mean, you can get NetHack on iOS and Android, not to mention all modern computers, and it still looks like it’s running on UNIX in the 1970s. ASCII art and all. Though there are “tile sets” that give it graphics, the original does not have any [graphics] to speak of (aside from the icon, I suppose). You are the @ symbol (well, that’s the symbol for humans), floors are periods/full-stops, walls are dashes and pipes and plus symbols for corners, dirt paths are pound/hashtag, and most monsters are letters (and uppercase is not the same as lowercase; d is dog and D is dragon, IIRC).

  It’s a procedurally generated game. You start on floor 1 of a dungeon, and you have to find stairs down (>) and advance to the 35th or 37th (I forget) floor, at which point the Amulet of Yendor has a chance to spawn. The game is won when you exit the dungeon via the first floor. The bad ending is doing it without the Amulet (including right at the start!). You live a long life in obscurity. The good ending is exiting with the Amulet, in which case you live a long life, rich and famous. If you die, you get a tombstone showing what you accomplished. And you can potentially leave a ghost behind which you can fight in later runs (and get all those items if you defeat it).

  The game is based on D&D, so you can level up. It’s also based on Tolkien lore, and there are a ton of neat things you can do (for example, engraving the name Elbereth, IIRC, into a floor space means certain enemies treat that space like a wall. Walking over it gives them a chance of being able to pass over it. It’s also turn based, you pause the game by not doing anything. Time only advances when you move. Hunger is also a thing, so you have to find food, or eat what you kill (some enemies are poisonous, and some give you perks, like eating a Floating Eye sounds disgusting, but you can see life forms through walls from pretty far away.

  Did I mention the game is 100% free? And actively developed?

  www.nethack.org/common/index.html ← Latest version released February 2023. So not actively actively develped, but updated more recently than, well, most games in this thread! Considering this is a game from the 1980s, that’s pretty impressive! They’re still fixing bugs and adding features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the longest, hardest fantasy rpg out there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the PS2 game they split into four parts and put an OVA DVD in each one, and charged $50 for each? If so, I only played the first one, and it was not hard. But, I only played a quarter of the full game.

  For anyone who hasn’t heard of .hack, it was an anime series that famously inspired Sword Art Online (first a book series, then an anime, and later it had games of its own). .hack was an original animation, meaning it wasn’t based on a manga or light novel, like most anime. It itself was an amalgamation of existing MMORPG tropes, based around a loner who couldn’t log out of the system. But SAO copied .hack wholesale, though SAO fans argue that the author of the SAO books, Reki Kawahara, merely started writing the SAO books while .hack was airing and didn’t actually watch it, despite being a Japanese citizen and professing to love both anime and RPGs. But of course he never watched a show that merged him, and all the exact similarities between his books and that anime are entirely coincidental. In fact, the writers of .hack may have read his stories and used them to steer the direction of their show! /s (if the sarcasm wasn’t obvious).

  I mean, don’t get me wrong. SAO is way better than .hack. The books, the anime, and the movies. (The games are trash, though. I got one on sale for like ten bucks and feel like I got ripped off.) There are over 2 dozen books in the main series, to say nothing of the spinoffs, and the first 17-18 of those books have been made into audiobooks, featuring the lead voice actors from the anime. Someone optioned the series to make a Hollywood movie of it, but nothing’s ever been announced and that option may have expired by now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have actually met, spoken to, and joked with convicted murderers. And people who committed far more heinous crimes.

  I have a very interesting work history.

  The fact of the matter is, someone who has murdered another — beyond a shadow of a doubt, I don’t mean to include those falsely convicted — does not necessarily mean to kill YOU. Unless they’re a psycho or something, most killers have killed because of some circumstance that put another person in the way of their life. I’m not saying they absolutely had to kill the person. Just that had the circumstances been different, they wouldn’t have necessarily killed someone at all. Sexual predators are different. They target their victims and set up the circumstances, in most cases. But killers? Not necessarily a threat to you, unless you are necessarily a threat to them. Even serial killers. Serial killers just have a body count. Most of them don’t want to kill everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HyperCard on the Macintosh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss HyperCard. I guess you can do most of it in Keynote, though (Apple’s version of PowerPoint). There are also websites. I don’t think HyperCard did anything a web page couldn’t.

  It was fun to play with, though. I built a bibliography of Stephen King books in school. I remember bringing all my SK books from home to scan the covers. Borrowed a couple from the library (this was in high school, and yes, they actually had a couple). I may have gotten some covers online, but I’m not sure. It was a long time ago. You could easily find them now, but back then I’m not so sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt is very salty. Sugar is not that sweet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing is, sucralose (brand name: Splenda) is 600 times sweeter than sugar. If you open a Splenda packet and a sugar packet side by side, you seem to be getting less sucralose. The fact is, you’re getting a LOT less sucralose! Most of what is in a Splenda packet is filler material that is safe/harmless to consume. I feel like you would be sick if you ate a teaspoon of raw sucralose, but I’m really not sure what would happen. I would not want to find out.

  Some say it’s bad for you… I think, largely, this either comes from ignorance (simply not knowing), or fear of a repeat of the aspartame scare of the 1980s (Equal/Sweet-n-Low was thought to cause cancer — it didn’t, but, like the Tylenol scare (where someone opened a bottle and put something else in and someone got sick, leading to those tamper-proof seals you can’t fully remove — that’s why you can’t — it made people wary), or even being part of or affected by Big Sugar propaganda that says fat, not sugar, makes people gain weight (“after all, it’s right in the name”), but the fact is, one Splenda packet in a normal cup of coffee (6-12oz) or two in a larger, gas-station sized (20-24oz) cup is so little of the material, it won’t really do anything to you.

  Salt is salt… unless it’s kosher salt or sea salt, which tastes better but lacks something table salt has? I dunno. I mostly just use table salt. In small amounts, of course. I don’t think anyone who cooks skips salt entirely — unless they use MSG, which is a lower-sodium alternative that is also the subject of a conspiracy theory — that Chinese buffets use it to make you fuller, faster. (Sodium, or consuming less sodium, will not make you feel full. Rice, on the other hand, tends to expand in the stomach. But that’s more to do with rice, and not at all to do with sodium.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best version of GoldenEye 007 was too good to exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild. So a leaked version exists and it’s fully playable and beatable but they just won’t sell it? Weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best version of GoldenEye 007 was too good to exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That got canceled? I thought it got leaked. Thought I played it once. Like the first mission. Fever dream?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I’m sick I often get nauseated, almost like vertigo. So my answer is none of them.

  If I’m not nauseated, any of them. I play a lot of low-impact, easy games. Animal Crossing on the Switch is both of those, until you see a knee-high tarantula! (They are in the game and are big because they’re not to scale, like most of the bugs. They run away from you though… unless you have a net out, in which case they will attack! You can’t die in AC though, they just knock you out and you wake up in front of your house, no harm no foul.)

  I play Blue Prince on Mac and on Xbox (it’s also on PlayStation and PC). It’s a puzzle game, kind of a deck-building (but not really) building game (also not really). It’s pretty unique. I absolutely suck at it, but I like taking a run every other day or so. It’s fun to fail at. You have to get to the 46th room of a house, but its 9x5 grid resets every day, and as you come to a door, you choose the room to “build” (or blueprint, the name is a pun) and when you run out of moves, you call it a day and try again the next (in-game) day. It’s weird but it’s pretty chill. There’s one scene where you think there will be a jump scare, but it never happens (entering the Security Room).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Hero Academia Final Season Epilogue Visual⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, a bit disappointing — I hope we get a better one after the episode. Firstly, best girl isn’t even there (and doesn’t belong as this is 1A and 2 teachers). Second, it’s… just the characters. Nothing special. It’s not even the most recent Deku (who has half his head shaved following the fight). Everyone looks their best. I’m guessing this is “this is the way we were before everything went to Hell.” Except, and third, Hagakure’s nerfed. Yeah, invisible girl is cute and all, but she’s not really invisible anymore, and so therefore she has no real superpower. She can still refract light from Aoyama, but she can’t show as much skin since she’s visible now.

  We should get a better visual after the episode. I mean, there was one at the end of the manga.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny, because a selling point of the Switch 2 version of Animal Crossing is that not only can you talk to other players, but you can connect the webcam and see each others’ faces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but Tom Nook doesn’t run the store anymore, his nephews do. Tom Nook is offering two home storage upgrades, I think 7500 items, and 9000 items. (Yes, it should have been 9,001 for the meme.) They aren’t saying, but the last couple storage upgrades came with perks of some kind. A new recipe unlocked. One was the storage shed, which lets you access your home storage anywhere on the island (hint: keep one in inventory, plop it down wherever, it’s a Bag of Holding, essentially). Though I think that was the first storage upgrade.

  But yes, the store, Nook’s Cranny, should get an upgrade. So should the tailor’s, though I’d argue it is upgraded. There should be a base model that only sells the clothes on display. And, once you’ve received all of Sable’s gifts (the patterns, from talking to her and getting past her mean streak), that should unlock the tailor’s shop as we know it now, with the fitting room and the online component.

  That’s how I’d upgrade Nook’s Cranny, actually. A way to buy all the variations (or at least unlock them in catalogue) of an item, or buy more stuff that they don’t show on the floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s weird because the DS family had mics, and a fair few games took advantage.

  Hotel Dusk: Room 215 wins it for me for games that took advantage of the DS’s unique hardware features, but I’m sure there were other contenders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Razer Kishi. That’s what I have — but mine only supports Android (I have one of each). It’s USB-C, but doesn’t support my iPhone 16 Pro Max. That being said, if your controller is recognised by iOS, it should work. I use the 8bitdo controller that looks like a Super NES controller, only it has analogue sticks and a second set of triggers (like a PlayStation controller). Works great.

  But yes, since Apple revamped the Files app, every app that exposes its files to iTunes/macOS should have its files accessible right in Files, and you can move from the app folder to the download folder and vice-versa. It still isn’t as open as Android, but functionally, it’s just as good. I have no problem moving files between my iPhone and either my Android phone, or my wife’s. What you really need for this is an app that will set up a file host, and that app also needs to expose its files to the Files app. Have one host, have the other connect to it, two-way communication over WiFi. No AirDrop needed, they just have to both be on the same WiFi network (could be one’s hotspot).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally no iOS restrictions on Delta.

  Okay, say we’re standing face to face and I’m showing you my iPhone. I swipe between library pages showing you my games. I go into Final Fantasy III and show you a 50 hour save. Then, to your astonishment, I swipe up to Home, then uninstall the app. “But your save!” you say, but I’m just smiling. I go into the App Store, re-download Delta. I show you my empty library. Then I go to sign into Google Drive, turning my back for privacy. I turn back and show you I’m hitting Enter/Submit/Log In/whatever. We watch as my games repopulate the library. I open Final Fantasy III. My save is intact.

  You’re excited. You want Delta too. So you download it on yours. You have the games at home and you’ll load them up later, but you wanna get some time in on Super Metroid right now. So I scroll down to it, long press it, and tap AirDrop. You swipe down, long-press your connections widget, tap AirDrop, and change it to “Everyone for 10 minutes.” Your iPhone shows up, and I AirDrop you the game. Your iPhone receives it, and it opens in Files. You tap on it, it gives you the option to open it in Delta. It’s now in your library. And backed up to your Google Drive account, if you set that up.

  Android guys have some better options than Delta, for sure, but they also kinda wish they had Delta.

  Delta emulates only Nintendo and only up to the NDS. That said, as a Super NES gamer, you should be aware of better ports on later systems. Most notably IMO, Zelda 3 on Super NES vs Four Swords on GBA. Four Swords is a multiplayer thing, but it also includes Zelda 3 but with better translation, widescreen support, a better inventory, updated translations, and some other fixes. Of course, if you’re running a JP Zelda 3 1.0 for exploits and speed runs, well, that’s different. (You can do that, too.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, the best parts of the Animal Crossing 3.0 update are free. The hotel, which is based on the Happy Home Paradise DLC (which is $25), is free. The bonus features are mostly free. The ones locked behind the $5 Switch 2 Edition upgrade mostly require Switch 2 hardware, like mouse control, higher resolution, and the party/multiplayer bonuses. And being able to call villagers by name. I though the Switch 1 had a mic, too, but I’m not sure. Maybe it does and that feature will be available on both Switches, but the video made it seem like it would just be for the Switch 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I just don’t think the Switch.2 will be where they launch it. While I’m not one of those guys who says the Switch is a minor iteration, I do say it’s a necessary iteration but still just a Switch. It’s just the 2025 Switch. Bigger, more powerful, mouse mode, higher resolution, some nice stuff to have… but it’s still a Switch.

  Thinking about Animal Crossing releases, did the 3DS XL or New 3DS get a new Animal Crossing? Pretty sure it was just New Leaf, and Welcome Amiibo was sold on the eShop. Did the DS Lite or DSi get a new Animal Crossing, or was it just always Wild World (or City Folk, the other being NGC or Wii)?

  I don’t doubt they’re working on a new Animal Crossing, but I don’t think it will be on the Switch.

  It might also matter if you could get something closer to Animal Crossing on computers or rival consoles. Similar games exist but they aren’t that similar. I think Stardew Valley is the main one, but the recent Disney game would be a contender, too. And the Hello Kitty one. But Nintendo knows they don’t have any competition in the space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not making a new Animal Crossing for the Switch 2. They’re making a free hotel add on for New Horizons that is the DLC but toned down. And adding multi crafting and strafe terraforming. Oh and mouse controls and the ability to call villagers via the mic for the Switch 2. $5 for that.