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- Comment on Does Nintendo ban Nintendo accounts opening up eshop from a hacked 3DS / 2DS? 20 hours ago:
The servers are not really dead. One can not buy new games, but the Nintendo account is still active and checked for legitimacy, as you can download purchased games. And some other functionality are still working on eshop. My fear is, that a list of games and game IDs are uploaded when connecting.
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- Comment on The YouTube Playables Builder lets creators build games with Gemini 3 1 week ago:
Can’t wait for the masterpieces to contain security issues.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 2 weeks ago:
The fact that Clair Obscure Expedition 33 was well received as the best game of the year, and found out there was some use of Ai afterwards… tanked it reputation. But the results speak for themselves. This game does not look like Ai slop. This means, companies are motivated to hide this fact even more.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 weeks ago:
But that is then something else you compare to. Indie refers to be indipendent from publisher when developing the game. At some point at the end of the development, the game has to be published, but that’s not what indie means. And major first party store holder are excluded from this for obvious reasons. But if you want, then count Valve indipendent. That’s not our discussion here.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 weeks ago:
Take 2 owns Rockstar. GTA 6 is not an indie title. BG3 is developed and published by Larian Studios. BG3 is an indie title. CD Projekt is the publisher. CD Projekt Red is the developer, there is nothing strict about it, they just have similar names.
I think you confuse with developed without publisher and releasing the game to the public. It’s like saying Steam is the publisher, after the game got released on Steam.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 weeks ago:
Are you trolling? How is GTA 6 an indie title? Rockstar is under Take2 publisher. Same for Witcher 3, which is published by CD Projekt. The developers are CD Projekt Red, two different things. And Baldurs Gate 3 is an indie title.
You should randomly put popular game titles into the mix, without explaining your point. Whats your point again?
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 2 weeks ago:
So it did not got more expensive then.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 weeks ago:
Alright i didn’t know they have a publishers.
What constitutes an indie game will always be debated,
How? It’s a well defined term. If you don’t have a publisher and are independent, that’s what indie means. It has nothing to do with budget. Even an indie game can be AAA, because the term AAA refers to how expensive it was. These are two different subjects.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think E33 should have qualified as an indie game to begin with.
Besides the Ai talk, why do you think so? It is an independent game, without a publisher.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 2 weeks ago:
stop it
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 2 weeks ago:
No, you ignore that both models are different classes. You compare 64gb model without SSD against 512gb SSD model. It’s like saying the 2tb model is more expensive.
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 2 weeks ago:
$649: 512GB LED vs $549.00 512GB OLED
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 2 weeks ago:
I have nothing negative to say about the Touch Pads, in fact I fall in love. But the Touch Screen is not very good, especially compared to who good touch works on smartphones in example. Didn’t know it was improved too!
- Comment on The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured 2 weeks ago:
The oled model is roughly the same price as the original Steam Deck launched. And there are so many improvements, not just screen and battery. And given that other devices get more expensive over time, and with the higher RAM prices than before, its actually a good price; relatively speaking.
- Comment on [Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate the honesty that its a self promotion, and not disguised as a normal post! Seriously.
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 2 weeks ago:
Oh Google… Someone should sue you too then.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 2 weeks ago:
I can see a new film; Terminator: Rise of the Vending Machines
- Comment on LibreWolf remains AI-free! 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. I was one of those who was interested in LibreWolf for long time. Just recently I had to give it a pass for different reason (but for comfort reason as you). Good to read experiences that talk about the “issues” too. I guess LibreWolf could be used for everything that does not require logging in into a website; in example random websites and websearch and so on. But then, maintaining and using two different browsers would be super annoying (for me).
There is also Waterfox, which got some update recently, with version number 6.6.6! I will look into this and how it compares to LibreWolf.
- Comment on LibreWolf remains AI-free! 2 weeks ago:
I was so close to accept LibreWolf and finally make the switch from Firefox. But sadly LibreWolf does not support saving in Browser passwords. Its because of security concerns, I get it. But look, I want to save passwords in the browser. And sadly this killed LibreWolf for me.
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- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 weeks ago:
They really don’t need to hype it up. Most players know they do amazing work. In worst case, people get disappointing.
- Comment on Which RSS are you using? 3 weeks ago:
I use Thunderbirds built-in RSS reader.
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 3 weeks ago:
As said, there is nothing Nintendo can sue for. Therefore, what Cease and desist should it be?
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 3 weeks ago:
Sued for what? There is nothing Nintendo can sue for. Also we talked about Cease and Desist before, not sueing. Also can you explain me, if you are right, why Nintendo didn’t do that with prior decompilation projects of Mario and Zelda games that reached 100% and are played on a variety of systems now?
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 3 weeks ago:
This is not what happened to Yuzu. They gave up, because the Yuzu team would lose the case. Nintendo collected evidence in their Discord server, how the developers of Yuzu shared Tears of the Kingdom millionth of times. It was 100% not legal. On the other side, we are talking about legal projects like decompiling.
If you are so right, why didn’t Nintendo Cease and Desist prior projects? What makes it Twilight Princess so different or special, that it will happen now? I know why, because Nintendo can’t do anything here. Cease and Desist letters are a personal request, not a legal threat. If the team ignores it, nothing will happen.
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter what Nintendo cares, if it is legal.
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 3 weeks ago:
Never happened with many Zelda and Mario games before. They are on the safe side, if the code is 100% self written. The assets are not part of the project, they can be extracted from the official games. This is legal.
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 3 weeks ago:
Some of the best stuff in gaming will never be part of an official Game Awards. That’s a shame.