Doesn’t beat the stupidity of tumblr actually using the term “female-presenting nipples” in their policy.

We need measurable quantities to be able to compare them. How many ships have their face launched?

In this case the problem is not even DRM, it’s that the game was entirely streamed from a cloud service. People buying that technically never had the game on their device and were always dependent on a server that would be shut down eventually.

This is the future big tech companies want. Not owning anything to the point the game doesn’t even exist on your device. I say fuck them.

Chicken is like “Tell me about it.”

This is what I feel happened with Starfield (not to the same extent, but still).

Everyone hyped the hell of it, it released, huge collective “meh”, and two weeks later it was mostly forgotten.

I had already had enough of Todd Howard and Bethesda’s bullshit at this point, so I was just wondering why that was even hyped so much to begin with.

At least I used to like Bethesda. I don’t even give a shit about GTA, so Rockstar can crash and burn for all I care.

Between that and the “gold vortex”, looks like they thought “just” translating was boring (no matter how much of a messy process it really was back then)… So they just thought they’d mess with the game as a challenge and for the hell of it.

Never had a PS1, my first console with optical discs was a gamecube. The obvious trick is Metroid Prime 1 & 2 trying to guess and load the next room while you play, and delay the door opening when it hasn’t finished (which is especially obvious when you try changing paths). Also the short corridors between most big rooms, and unskippable elevator animations between areas.

Mass Effect did a similar trick on the 360 too, with its awkward dialogues during elevator rides. The longish citadel elevator made sense, but there was one between the two Normandy decks too, which was quite silly. I mean, the ship is not that big, this must be the slowest elevator in human history.

Is that a thing now? Long-ass slop intro with not even an attempt at tackling the actual subject?

Fuck.

AI moderating AI advertizing to AI talking to AI.

Just checked, I had no idea the family had no first names for more than two decades of strips, and only got them in the 60s with merch and adaptations.

Apparently even Gomez’s name was not known until the TV series, and Morticia and Wednesday were named just 2 years before, when dolls were made based on them.

There’s an app, Petit Computer/SmileBasic, available on Nintendo consoles since the DSi and Wii (then had 3DS, wii U and switch version). It’s a programming language that has a lot of features using the target console’s input/output capabilities (touch screen, 3D, gyroscopes, etc).

On 3DS there was a feature to share files (code, image…) through the app’s server, but some wanted to be able to share their stuff in other ways, so they didn’t depend on the app server or so they could share locally with a PC for example.

Someone made a modem kind of program with it to transform the file into a sound sequence, emit it, receive it on another device through mic and retransform it to file. Max transfer rate 92 bytes per second with error checking.

I mean, snail was an egg too, just slimier.

I wish but the fake cartridges (game key cards) they’ve introduced with Switch 2 are terrible too.

Also the occasional shitty time-limited FOMO releases, even as downloads (Super Mario 3D All-Stars, the translated version of Fire Emblem 1).

And the shift since Switch 1 from letting us buy legacy games to a subscription model.

This is an actual famicom/NES game? That’s quite impressive.

He’s working hard on destroying that one, don’t worry. The quest experience has only gotten worse with every update.

I was like “wait, weren’t there people measuring the Earth-Moon distance with lasers?” so I had to check…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiments

At the Moon’s surface, the beam is about 6.5 kilometers (4.0 mi) wide

Oh.

He was a king, and died old (after trying to cheat death, which is why he’s been punished). So yeah, safe to assume he had a wife.

In some versions of the myth, she is even mentioned and unknowingly plays a part in his plan to trick the Underworld gods.

She’s starting this complaining about a casual game of table tennis so it’s not exclusively board games, it’s like… the concept of playing a game? And apparently, not only as a party activity, but in general.

Very weird take.

There are three mentions to alcohol, one for each potential social interaction in that article. So I guess I know how the author parties typically.

I’d rather have the games, thank you.

Anthropic writes a shitty roleplay every other week and somehow it still makes the news.