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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to play 3ds you have 3 decent options.

  1. Buy a 3ds for like $200. Hack and jailbreak it. This will be the most authentic experience.

  2. Buy a retro handheld. This will be a good experience and has the benefits that come with Linux based handhelds.

  3. Play on Android phone and use a 3d printed joycon holder. If you have a printer or friend with one and some old switch controllers this option is really cheap and mimics the OG form factor fairly well. I use this and while it’s not perfect, it is functional.

  The DS is resurging because there’s no mainstream handhelds now, the DS has a large library and was the most recent successful handheld.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA: Vice City's writing was "awful," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, but acting icon Ray Liotta "made it sound good"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Vice City was fantastic when it was released. It was one of the biggest open worlds of it’s day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA: Vice City's writing was "awful," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, but acting icon Ray Liotta "made it sound good"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I read this in the voice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 818 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, I’ll tinker with it over the weekend and see if I can get it going. I think just catching the mons is all he would want to do anyhow. Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 818 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How is cobblemon? My kid is really into Minecraft and I recently got PC couch co-op going and am wondering if it’s worth messing with settings to get new instances with cobblemon setup?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The game is advertised and sold as having split screen co-op. Having to mess with console settings to get it to work and the resulting experience being shit isn’t excusable. Of course I didn’t expect a full PC equivalent but I expected it to have a minimum of polish and optimization.

  If they couldn’t make the game do split screen decently, they shouldn’t put that as a feature. If the game can’t be run decently in single player, they shouldn’t have sold it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought Minecraft for switch to play with my son. What a shit experience it was.

  First off, it took like an hour of trial and error to even get the two of us playing in split screen. Then I realized that to render split screen the game had reduced the draw distance to like 1/4th of what it was on PC years ago. We dealt with it until we actually had a good area built up and the frame rate dropped to like 10fps. Then my wife accidentally let Minecraft update and it bricked split screen until I completely turned off the switches WiFi.

  Recently purchased Java for PC, spent another hour getting couch co-op going on that and it’s a completely different experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tax billionaires, insure millions: The CA wealth tradeoff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Need to be able to 5150 these psychopaths. This level of greed is a mental illness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A good reminder that it can always get worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was browsing for new restaurants in my area and someone unaffiliated with the restaurant had uploaded AI images of food. Like WTF?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arc Raiders is testing a PvE mode because "a large and growing group" refuse to hunt each other⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I basically detested the whole game. The core loop is just sneak and loot trash. Carry trash to extraction where someone will try to grief you. The guns felt meh. The AI voice thing was just weird.IDK if there was a story in there, but after 5-6 hours I was completely over it. Even with PvE I have no interest in the game itself because at its core it just felt like a shit version of fallout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question - Retro Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re cool, but as others have pointed out the roms that are pre installed are generally junk. They’ll pack thousands of NES roms because they’re small, and maybe a handful of PlayStation games. The SD cards provided will also be junk tier and need to be replaced because they will fail.

  The r36s is a great entry point, it’s cheap but has a large community so there’s lots of guides to make flashing a new OS and even curated rom packs. It’s far from perfect, but for $50ish all in and two hours of tinkering it gets the job done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This camouflaged speed bump⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I could see it in the thumbnail on my phone. It was so obvious I spent another minute staring at the foreground of the photo looking for an actual hidden speed bump lol. Different story in a vehicle moving 25+ when you’re not specifically told to look for it though.

  Spray paint a dick on it and it’ll be repainted within a week

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ads suck hard, but avoiding them was just one of the plethora of advantages of early streaming. Early Netflix had what felt like infinite content, on demand, for a fraction of the price of cable. That’s why the majority of cord cutters ditched cable; price. Avoiding ads was definitely a factor but it was hardly the main one for most of us.

  The modern streaming industry has embraced ads in a way that feels somehow grimier than cable because the ads are targeted and we all know it’s greed that’s put them there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Streaming killed cable though? Streaming was so good and reasonably priced I had no good reason to pirate. Now the streaming services are more jam packed with ads and as expensive as cable was, so it’s back to the high seas for me matey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure to check if hospitals in your city/state have forgiveness programs. When my wife was out of work we were able to get 80% of the bill written off. I make $100k a year and still qualify for like 40% forgiveness just for submitting paperwork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A third so far!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For most Americans- Marxism=communism=socialism=authoritarianism.

  Those same morons pine to return to the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s where we had FDRs socialist policies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Theft, massive amounts of theft. Both intentional and unintentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨modern classic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been in a house with a conversation pit, almost no Americans have actually seen one. They’re a leftover from the 60s and 70s when people were high on coke or “weight loss” pills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨modern classic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Millennial here. I just remodeled my kitchen and bathroom. It was a fucking battle to get my wife to agree to wood cabinets instead of bland white or millennial blue. I got her to agree to a deep sea blue tile for one shower wall because almost everything else in the bathroom was white or grey.

  Most people don’t have originality or any sense of color, so they look online and see these sterile white rooms that photograph well but lack character. They just mimic what they see because it’s easier than having actual preferences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 744 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a similar situation. It looks really fun but I struggle to make it past the first few days.

  There’s a painful learning curve that needs a way more comprehensive tutorial to overcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do elaborate on the accusations of "toxicity"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of us are pretty far left for the USA and believe the DNC is compromised by corporate money. I dislike the Democrats but the GOP is run by MAGA who I believe betrayed our country Jan 6th.

  Saying shit like this is almost certainly why I’m on the list lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They wanna see where the floor is. Like how dumb can you actually make them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major media company asks itself why major media companies aren't exposing what's going on--"Where's Mitch McConnell?" mystery exposes media failures⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. If I can make billions fracking and it costs me millions to shift the narrative for enough people to get my bill passed I’m still making tons of money.

  Most of us want the same things, just some of us have completely ingested lies and half truths the news spews. They legitimately believe all leftists want Marxist communism across the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong, 2 hours for a game is hella short, but too many games want me to spend hundreds of hours on them and just aren’t good enough to justify that kind of time investment. The best games respect your time imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just gotta find a decent private tracker and keep your ratio good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨May not buff out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are bmw wheels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Impossible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does automatically turn off after a turn, the only difference is really the second push in the same direction to turn it off. It just prevents the stalk from being pushed too far in the other direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, they haven’t even announced a release date. But I’m sure they’ll do typical Rockstar shit and charge the full $80 when they release it two years after console.

  There’s thoughts it’ll come to PC sooner than five did because Rockstar postponed PC port of five to work on the next Gen console release, but I honestly don’t even care. There’s like 20 games in my backlog and other great games will release before then. The large lapse in time between titles has me feeling totally fine never playing 6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to recall the last AAA game I even played when it was relatively new… Starfield I think and yeah, it sucked.

  Loving an indie called Surroundead right now. $5 zombie survival open world and some guy just made a multiplayer mod and I can’t wait to play with my buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me San Andreas was the best game. The mechanics were solid and the game had a whimsy to it that was completely thrown away with 4 and 5. I didn’t think the story writing was particularly good, but the characters and missions were super memorable and fun.