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- Comment on Mewgenics - Official Trailer 14 hours ago:
If it didn’t say it at the start I think I’d still have recognised this as an Edmund McMillan game pretty soon
- Comment on Your TV is watching you 15 hours ago:
That’s what I meant by “never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted device”, whether that’s a Chromecast or your PC you can always plug in something else you trust more than the TV. Obviously finding something you can trust that does everything you want is another story.
- Comment on Your TV is watching you 16 hours ago:
My (very basic) understanding of a pihole is that it calls out to an upstream DNS provider (such as the one you’d be using without a pihole) and caches everything it gets back, meaning that it’s only making new requests when you’re querying a domain it hasn’t queried before. I can’t think of any reason a game would need to constantly be accessing different domains (except maybe for some kind of server browser?)
- Comment on Your TV is watching you 20 hours ago:
What games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?
- Comment on Nintendo GameCube is coming to Nintendo Switch's Online Membership 1 day ago:
Apologies if I’m coming off too grumpy, I’ve just seen a hundred similar comments over the last 24 hours from people outraged that a company known for unfriendly practices in an industry full of other companies known for unfriendly business practices have continued doing the same unfriendly business practices that are already happening everywhere.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 1 day ago:
Fair point, but I still can’t imagine they’ll be double that price for long. The only GBP price I’ve seen for a Switch 2 game is the MKW bundle which is only £30 more than the console on its own.
- Comment on Nintendo GameCube is coming to Nintendo Switch's Online Membership 1 day ago:
Same as the current Switch online, Microsoft’s game pass, and whatever Sony offers then?
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 1 day ago:
Aren’t consoles and their new game always ridiculously expensive on launch? I know Nintendo stuff often doesn’t drop in price that much but I’d be surprised if they stay this expensive for long. Plenty of other games to play in the meantime!
- Comment on Your TV is watching you 2 days ago:
The worrying part:
Most TVs on the market today come with a technology called automatic content recognition (ACR) built in. This is basically Shazam for TV — Shazam itself helped popularize the tech — and gives smart TV platforms the ability to monitor what you’re watching by either taking screenshots or capturing audio snippets while you’re watching.
The author then just gives up and says “maybe targeted adverts aren’t so bad”, concluding that the only way to avoid them is to buy an older TV. Fuck that! Either never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted devices, or go for a deep dive down the pihole.
- Comment on GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch 2 days ago:
Nothing excusable about it, you just shouldn’t be surprised that big greedy corp wants to maximise profits, and that an open system can run more games than a locked down console
- Comment on GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch 2 days ago:
Were you expecting to have every game available from day 1? I’m sure they could, but they are a business and they probably want to make money.
- Comment on Enter the Gungeon 2 | Teaser Trailer 2 days ago:
Not sure if I like the 3D look, definitely keen to see more though
- Comment on The NGage Has A New Boxed Game For The First Time In 20 Years 3 days ago:
I missed this at the time, that fold-out keyboard looks incredible
- Comment on lemsha.re - Lemmy shareable links 3 days ago:
Same in Summit. I guess there needs to be a standard that everyone follows, because currently I have a client which automatically handles normal other-instance links, and these link helpers actively break it!
- Comment on Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing) 5 days ago:
Interesting, does that mean there is just one primary account and to be part of a family group with it you essentially can’t have your own account or purchases?
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 6 days ago:
I think you’re only banned from carrying locking knives (or big knives) in public without a good reason, so on the very off-chance you were questioned by plod then “I’m a tradie going to work” or whatever should be a fine explanation.
- Comment on Mini Metro -- surprisingly simple but compelling game mechanics and fantastic UI design 6 days ago:
That’s probably because it’s a PC game that was ported to phones!
- Comment on Almost finished Gold and looking forward to starting Emerald. 1 week ago:
I think it was a combination of more space on the cartridge and better compression algorithms. The rumour was that Iwata wrote some miraculous code that produced enough space to include Kanto too, but I think that’s apocryphal.
- Comment on Almost finished Gold and looking forward to starting Emerald. 1 week ago:
You can tell that Kanto was an afterthought by how easy it is in comparison, it was still great though
- Comment on Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing) 1 week ago:
Because if they don’t then you can essentially just give a game away, and that means less sales
- Comment on Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing) 1 week ago:
How would you make it so you can only share games with your family? As in what technical definition of “family” would you use that can’t include your friends?
- Comment on Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing) 1 week ago:
Sounds like it’s no more DRM than the limits of a physical cartridge, right?
- Comment on Five GameFi in 2025：Popular Crypto Game Overview for March 1 week ago:
Brand new account immediately starts spamming about cryptocurrency “games”? Seems legit.
- Comment on 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm 1 week ago:
I was specifically thinking of the guy in bed with the really long arm!
- Comment on Is there any interest for a "Pokemon VGC"-like game? 1 week ago:
If you’re wanting to build a game, do it for you and not someone else. It’s going to be a difficult and thankless task, so make sure that you are enjoying the process!
- Comment on 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm 1 week ago:
Looks like a screenshot from Thank Goodness You’re Here
- Comment on PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post 1 week ago:
Also I wonder how it handles reposts, i.e. the same link multiple times in one community
- Comment on One-handed games? 1 week ago:
That’s an incredible username!
- Comment on Big Rigs, the infamous truck racing game, is coming to Steam this year 1 week ago:
what other game can you accelerate to literal infinity and beyond by simply driving backwards
Watch GDQ, turns out quite a lot of games!
- Comment on One-handed games? 1 week ago:
Super Mario Run was quite fun as a single-button Mario platformer. You could also try visual novels or point-and-click adventures, or even something just with simple controls like pokémon.