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- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 18 hours ago:
I strongly disagree with the premise that there’s a “wrong” way to play retro games.
I understand your sentiment here and you are right too. What I think is, that the wording on this title here is misunderstood. Emulating (old) games without Shaders is not faithful or accurate in the looks. It looks “vastly” different and thus means it looks “wrong”. I interpret the “wrong” in the title as “not faithful”, instead as “bad”, like this: You’re Probably Emulating Retro Games Not Faithful (you need CRT Shaders for the oldschool look)
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
There are two variants, one with motion-blur and one without. Besides that, often shaders have additional settings. One can change settings and save it as a new Shader Preset and use that instead. I have described it here: thingsiplay.game.blog/2024/10/19/…/8/#learn-and-e…
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
Shaders are not only useful for CRT emulation, but also to get the look of handhelds:
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
- Comment on Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! 6 days ago:
Probably just a coincidence. Most likely maybe.
- Comment on Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! 6 days ago:
I prefer websites and services who just ask if I’m older than 18.
- Comment on Rocksteady ends Suicide Squad development less than a year after release 1 week ago:
You can say what you want about the game, but that they make an offline mode for players who purchased it is commendable. At least game is preserved in this way. The only downside is, that nobody is allowed to buy the offline game from that point on. Hopefully they decide against de-listing it on Steam.
- Comment on Water + hot oil 1 week ago:
Those who did, can’t tell anyone anymore.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
So you are saying I am hypocrisy, because you could not find posts in my history criticizing China? And that makes my critique about the US less true or acceptable? I no longer believe in good faith of your discussion here and will end discussing with you. You have the last word if you want.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
Because another countries takes away freedom and eliminates the free market, makes it a non argument if the US does the same? The US is doing the same what China does.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
Tik Tok is not much worse than Facebook. The only reason is because Facebook cooperates with the US agencies, while they don’t get the information from Tik Tok. US does not like that citizen data is going to China instead being able to collect it themselves. From privacy standpoint of the end user, it does not matter who has the data; lost privacy is lost privacy.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 weeks ago:
Ban Twitter too, if you ban Tik Tok. Don’t do half ass job if you are taking away users choice.
- Comment on Cloudflare Logs Suffer Critical Failure, Losing 55% of User Data 2 weeks ago:
Clownstrike + Clownflare = Circus
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 shenanigans 2 weeks ago:
Hmm that’s also a problem. At least the YouTube link is in the description here. I also always make sure to add a YouTube link, just for “backup” reasons.
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 shenanigans 2 weeks ago:
Happy to see Invidious instead of YouTube as the main link. :-) I also use Invidious, but mostly link YouTube directly still. Will swap it too next time (if I do not forget to). About the game itself, I did not play it so cannot say much.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 weeks ago:
No need for sorry and its understandable. Especially if one of your games or products where stolen or used without the license, and therefor want to bring attention to the subject. I can not even imagine how much automation must exist in the web, that’s only job is to steal and “repackage” data just to sell it on another platform. Happens with videos, with blog posts, with photos, … games… and basically anything one can imagine.
- Comment on Spotify suddenly cut off app developers from a bunch of its data 2 weeks ago:
Reddit all over again.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 weeks ago:
But this game is a physical cartridge for an old console. It’s not just patching and rereleasing in digital form. And it will be shipped in a box. So this is not something that can be automated (at least not by everyone, other than Amazon maybe).
- We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024)itch.io ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 10 comments
- Comment on Modern Vintage Gamer: The BEST Emulators of 2024 2 weeks ago:
Would you eat something where you don’t know whats inside? For me its like going into a Restaurant and they promise you it will taste wonderful, without telling you whats inside, only showing how it looks from outside. Would you eat it? That’s kind of what a proprietary emulator is for me. And I don’t have much to choose from, unlike vegetarian food (you can even make your own food out of the parts you buy). Sometimes I straight up have no other choice than use proprietary software (like Steam for Steam games, even the games are proprietary…).
I understand the nature of your comparison. We are making a compromise and accept that we have less to choose from, for our greater good and goal.
- Comment on Modern Vintage Gamer: The BEST Emulators of 2024 2 weeks ago:
Not if its not absolutely needed to. In example Steam is a pass, or back then when I was using Nvidia cards the proprietary drivers was a must have too. I even have proprietary drivers installed for the gamepad… (and hate myself for it) BigPEmu is “just” another emulator and I can play the Jaguar games on RetroArch already. So yes, I avoid proprietary software by principle, but do make exceptions. I’m not a purist. I’m still curious to how it compares to my current solution.
- Comment on Modern Vintage Gamer: The BEST Emulators of 2024 2 weeks ago:
Unironically, to me it was besides RetroArch (I know what it is, its not an emulator in itself, I could discuss this all day long) it was actually Yuzu. That’s because I played BotW and TotK this year on Yuzu. Otherwise its RPCS3, Xemu and Cemu off course. I’m surprised he didn’t mention Xemu at all.
As for BigPEmu, its unfortunately proprietary software. So I’m not going to test it, but wonder how it compares to Virtual Jaguar core in RetroArch.
- Comment on Google seeks to undo Epic Games antitrust win over app store 3 weeks ago:
In that case, its all Google I agree.
- Comment on Google seeks to undo Epic Games antitrust win over app store 3 weeks ago:
But that is a decision the user takes, not Google. If people don’t want to install alternative stores because its too much work, then its not Googles fault. The problem is that phone manufactures do not have the alternative stores installed (besides Samsung). Its entirely in the hands of phone manufacturers and they should be sued over, not Google.
- Comment on Google seeks to undo Epic Games antitrust win over app store 3 weeks ago:
I just want to play games.
- Comment on Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects adopt platforms Mastodon and PeerTube as main communication channels 3 weeks ago:
I live seeing the EU more and more adopting open source and decentralized technologies. Looks like the EU will be the leading role in that regard. The US might not do this, because they like to collect information and don’t want to give information to the enemy. I guess something like that. And Japan? No idea what the state of this topic is in Japan.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you can buy a DLC to have additional functionality. Or you need to pay micro transactions with each cooking. No money is wasted.
- Comment on [Game Giveaway] Dark Sector, made by Digital Extremes before Warframe, is free to acquire until the 30th 3 weeks ago:
I’m not ashamed of my pile of shame. Will add the game to my library. Thanks.
- Comment on Sony reportedly prepping PlayStation 5 portable, plans to battle Nintendo's handheld dominance 3 weeks ago:
Are you really cherry picking some big media outlets like IGN? It was another IGN moment where most peoples opinion did not match what IGN rated. They gave the Steam Deck 7/10…
At launch it was not well received, with many issues, being overpriced and the only compatible earphones being very expensive and not available too. It was an embarrassment through and through at launch across almost all media and users. I’ve read and watched reviews and opinions. You are not being honest here, as some of the biggest issues are fixed just recently and some over the course of 1 year since it launched.
- Comment on Sony reportedly prepping PlayStation 5 portable, plans to battle Nintendo's handheld dominance 3 weeks ago:
The Portal was definitely not well received. It was a marketing disaster and an embarrassment.
