TimLovesTech

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My Atari joystick still works, it’s more my Intellivision controllers. But having a nicer way to play on a modern TV with the original games with higher quality controllers would be amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two of my favorite consoles of all time. If they could do an updated retro console based on the Intellivision II and allow playing Atari 2600 games without buying a separate adapter I would be in heaven.

  I have bins of games, but my controllers did not age 40+ years all that well. 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t say it was. It was an example of a group that has been recruiting via games, the point of the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this isn’t about actual gamers, this about bad actors looking for chuds to recruit through games, which is not a new concept. It used to be chat rooms, and then forums, then social media, now games (as many have social features).

  I mean the US military, among others, have been using gaming to recruit people already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently playing Lords of the Fallen. I’m almost to the end, it’s been a lot of dying, but a lot of fun also!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon pricing makes no sense.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah lots of “drop shipping” folks on Amazon, they buy a pallet of whatever it is from the same source as the top seller and then do some magic to get the “buy box” (the company that shows as default seller). Once they run that person out of business they are free to raise pricing until they no longer are winning the buy box again.

  Amazon has also gotten bad with who it allows to sell on the site, and has been known to lump similar SKUs together, even ones from different sellers. This becomes especially troublesome when someone in the stack is selling counterfeit items.

  All that is to say, pay attention to who you are buying from, and be on the lookout for counterfeit items.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a 440ml can of beer the beer in can + can itself = 1 Imperial Pound [453 grams].

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently playing Lords of the Fallen and enjoying it so far. I would probably enjoy it more if I didn’t suck, but with enough full sends I have gotten past every boss I’ve made it to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best Buy had Starfield free with a 6700XT the other day when I was pricing out a move from Nvidia.