Billiam

Let’s face it: that trailer was just bad. We already knew MP4 was in the works; there was nothing that was shown for us to get excited for. No new enemies, no new suits, no new abilities, no new weapons. If I had to guess, I’d say the team was told to put something together for Nintendo Direct at the last minute, so they threw together footage from the intro level. It worries me that Nintendo wants to drive the hype from the existence of MP4, instead of the content of MP4.

I don’t know; I’ve not had any issues personally.

Good news!

Perfect Dark was remastered in 2010 and is part of the Rare Replay you can buy for the XBox. Exactly the same, but with HD graphics.

Oh, you don’t actually like ARPGs. So why are you complaining about them?

I guess the genre is just dead.

Diablo IV’s current season is pretty well regarded, from what I’ve read.

The Last Epoch is good.

Grim Dawn is fantastic.

And of course, Path of Exile is doing Path of Exile things.

What’s this “genre is dead” thing?

Oh shit, this one is interesting:

“I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up. But I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse. He’s taken a lot from a lot of people. I speak for all men, women and children. He’s put his foot on our necks. Ron DeSantis and other people like him can suck our dicks.”

— Donald Dillbeck, American murderer (23 February 2023), executed by lethal injection

Children’s author Roald Dahl’s last words were “Ow, fuck!”

A nurse pricked him with a needle to give him morphine as he lay dying of blood cancer.

according to the article Gabe only owns about 25% of the company

The source for that number is the same Xitter that made up the rumor in the first place:

Insights from Dior, a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community, reveal that Gabe Newell owns less than 25% of Valve.

Valve is not a public company. Unless Dior is on the board of Valve, or know someone who is, he doesn’t know the makeup of the ownership structure. Wikipedia cites a Forbes article that says Gabe owns “more than half” of Valve, although that article was published in 2011 so it’s possible that’s changed.

Did platform fighters exist before Smash?

By “platform fighter” do you mean a game where your goal is to increase damage to your opponents in order to knock them out of the arena, as opposed to draining a health bar?

If so, I don’t recall any before Smash, though my interest in pre-Smash fighters ended with the SNES.

Speaking of innovation, the N64 was the, if not first then what I would call the first modern, console to use thumbsticks. The Dualshock was the second controller made for the PlayStation.

Star Wars Rogue Squadron?

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer?

Someone should remind the angry mobs that they should be angry mobs.

It’s not; you’re just looking at the beginning of automating creativity when labor automation has been going on for over a hundred years. The introduction of new tech is always more disruptive than refining established tech. Besides which, VA is particularly sensitive to disruption because every VA does essentially the same job- one AI can be programmed to speak in thousands (millions?) of different voices, whereas one manual labor job doesn’t necessarily require the same actions as another.

Also it’s funny you complain about laundry, given how much doing laundry has been automated.

So uh…

For someone who loves N64 games but has literally never used git, how would one go about compiling this?

Geralt’s flowing locks caused Nvidia cards to crash comes to mind.

60hours of content

That’s a weird way to spell “microtransacted live service”.

And I’m sure the reason you’re mad about this now, and not three months ago, is because of ethics in gaming journalism, right?

1. Nobody is locked out. Nothing has as yet changed.

2. The Steam page has said “PSN account required” since day one. Anyone opposed to creating a PSN account on moral grounds and bought HD2 has no one to blame but themselves.

Learn how to use your distribution’s package manager.

Also

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

covers what, about 60% of Linux desktops?

My own theory seems dumb to me, how could they be so shortsighted?

There are countless events in human history where that question could be asked. Thinking long-term about the health of the environment and the species just doesn’t seem to be within human capability.