SmallDeadGuy

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by SmallDeadGuy 10mo ago
That just sounds like all you had access to was a Nintendo console, not necessarily due to your own choice. I missed out on all the early zelda, metroid, and mario home console games because we were a playstation family until the wii.
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by SmallDeadGuy 2y ago
I think they make a bunch of money having Windows being the default installed OS on prebuilt PCs and laptops. Gaming PCs and laptops are a pretty large market included in that. There's a chance vendors/builders might start to sell
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by SmallDeadGuy 2y ago
They've released a Warcraft Battle Chest which includes remasters of those games at three times the price (but also includes Warcraft 3), hoping to capture those old game sales into a more expensive offering. Awful for consumers to not
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by SmallDeadGuy 2y ago
Exactly this. My dad still demonstrates his CubeStormer and other Lego robots on behalf of Arm at trade shows, because both the Lego robot control unit and the phones used for camera/solver are Arm-powered. And CubeStormer 3 set the pr
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
No it doesn't necessarily change what the emulator is used for, but it changes the optics on what it's developed for. If you develop an emulator without any methods of DRM circumvention built-in, then out-of-the-box it can only be
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
Yeah I've used the candle trick with a Wii before too, but that doesn't mean it isn't a much larger barrier for entry than Switch games working most of the time with just a standard controller (and therefore keyboard mapping)
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
"Your entire gaming experience will be better if you spend twice as much on new hardware than something which came out 7 years ago, and also forfeit a bunch of other switch features like motion controls and detachable joycons"
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
Nintendo have typically been pretty good with backwards compatibility as newer versions of consoles come out. GBAs could play GB/GBC games. DS could play GBA games. 3DS could play DS. Wii could play GC games. Wii U could play Wii games
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
Most popular Wii games had significantly different control schemes than what is available on a standard PC. Afaik, dolphin was primarily used for things like Smash Bros but other system sellers like Wii Sports, Wii fit, and LoZ: Skyward Swo
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
A lot of games are only on PS5 and Xbox S/X, not available on PC or other platforms. So if it's exclusive only to other securely walled gardens, they still don't need to bother.
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
The yuzu people were doing things that are morally reprehensible. From what I've heard: * They managed a private discord with hired moderators that actively encouraged piracy. * They saved important releases to coincide with major ga
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
The emulator could have been developed and released open source without the ability to decrypt Nintendo games, which (I believe) is a copyright violation and one side of the lawsuit. And also not put the latest emulator builds and private d
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
How is the Switch overpriced and underpowered? I picked up a switch lite with a game as a bundle for my wife for £180 brand new. If you want detachable controllers and the ability to dock the Switch to a TV, you can spend more. But those fe
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
Unless you have any health issues whatsoever, or want to have a child, at which point you absolutely should not move to the US. Maybe the ridiculously inflated tech salaries in the US can compensate for that, but outside of tech I don'
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
If I ever win the lottery I'm dropping software engineering to do music somehow. I play guitar and learn music theory as a hobby, but only at a beginner/intermediate level with not enough time to practice and get to the next level
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
I thought LoL and Valorant e-sports was breaking records year on year? At least in Europe and Asia, I know the LCS is on the decline.
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
It's 100% for pushing the Samsung phones, the whole galaxy unpacked event theme was "Galaxy AI." Everyone I know has gone from upgrading every 1 or 2 years to 4+ years, including myself. Phones are much more expensive and ite
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
> If it's truly something consumers value... You're acting like consumers of medication have a choice. They _need_ certain medication and if the only option doesn't include safety inspections then they can't exactly j
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
Yup, same here! Used GameMaker extensively before getting into Minecraft modding and Ludum Dare game jams with different engines (LWJGL and XNA/MonoGame). 16+ years later and I'm a Senior Gameplay Programmer
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
> A billion is a tough number to understand I love using the money analogy for this: "If you earned $1 every single second, that's $60 per minute, $3,600 per hour, $86,400 per day. More than most people make in a year! Assuming
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by SmallDeadGuy 3y ago
It's exactly the same before tax: £59.30 GBP incl VAT ~= £49.42 GBP excl VAT ~= $60.29 USD
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by SmallDeadGuy 5y ago
By selling consoles at a loss, more people can afford to buy them bringing in a larger audience. And even the people who could afford a more expensive console will simply have more money for games.
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by SmallDeadGuy 6y ago
They do run their own platform, the Epic Games Store, which is PC only but trying to compete with steam. Want to know how much cut they take in the Epic Games Store? For things worth £50+ rather than £0.99 in-app purchases? It's 12%. T
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by SmallDeadGuy 6y ago
Fortnite is free. They release patches to the game weekly, with major patches every month or so, which are also free. The _only_ revenue stream in fortnite is cosmetic skins, which as a player you could ignore entirely and still play 100% o
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by SmallDeadGuy 7y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake : > Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake"[1]) are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone
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by SmallDeadGuy 7y ago
More convincing for the face, sure, but last I checked Schwarzenegger had much, much more body mass than in that video. Does anyone know if the technology for faking body shape (and accessories too maybe) is anywhere near as good as for fac
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by SmallDeadGuy 7y ago
It isn't, but the fact that you have two options (maintain yourself or switch to another solution) instead of a single option in the case of non-OSS (only switch to another solution) is a huge benefit. And, unless you're using som
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by SmallDeadGuy 7y ago
> Each of the apps provided purchasers with instructions on how to remove the app’s icon from appearing on the mobile device’s screen so that the device’s user would not know the app was installed on the device, according to the complain
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by SmallDeadGuy 7y ago
Fortnite is Epic Games, not Bluehole.
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by SmallDeadGuy 8y ago
Being the "techy" kid in a 7 person family meant I was responsible for setting up any new devices on our wifi many many years ago. From the number of phones/consoles/laptops set up on the same WEP key, I have the 26 digi

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