SlurpingPus
@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 2 days ago:
Thanks for telling me to go find evidence for your own position. That definitely supports your argument a whole lot.
However, excuse me if I choose to ignore your request as patently ridiculous.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 3 days ago:
It definitely has to do with quality. Firstly, Nintendo distinguished themselves from the competition starting with the NES through quality control for the software titles, resurrecting the entire US market after tons of shovelware saturated it in 1983-85. By the time of the 16-bit consoles, Sega specifically profited off of allowing stuff that Nintendo wouldn’t, like more violent games. Nintendo’s legacy of quality family-friendly titles is pretty damn obvious, and when one is buying their console, they’re also buying into this ecosystem, knowing that they’ll have a new Mario Kart game to play with friends.
Secondly, you’d do better by citing any examples of indie devs providing hardware and software of equal quality and innovation to Nintendo’s, instead of empty statements. For example, Playdate is an interesting handheld console that definitely looks well-made, and is designed by Teenage Engineering known for music gear like synths. It has a crank on the side, and aside from that, a d-pad and four buttons, a black-and-white screen (not grayscale) with 400×240 pixels, a 168 MHz CPU and 16 MB of RAM. It costs 230$ (originally 180$) with twenty-four games, and 40$ for twenty-four more. I bet most of the games are retro stuff like platformers. Do I admire Teenage Engineering’s output? Oh yeah. Would I buy this if I had 270 spare bucks for a handheld console? Fuck no.
I also had an R35S gifted to me by someone more than a bit into emulation handhelds. It has way better specs than Playdate and okayish quality of the inputs. Only, the battery went fully and irreparably dead after a year of it lying around, and moreover, the battery may be pierced by the screws holding the case in place when the battery expands with age, which may lead to a fire.
Guess what my primary handheld emulation device is? A PlayStation Vita gifted to me earlier by the same person. Reportedly it can lie about for months with a game paused, draining barely any battery charge.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 3 days ago:
is anything they do more innovative, interesting, or good
Is it not? Do the ‘indies’ sell devices with novel gaming mechanics that are bought by the millions, at a small fraction of cost to the users as you say? Do the ‘indies’ sell games for the whole family to enjoy, by the millions?
I’ve never owned a Nintendo device, and I’m still jealous of what they’ve done. If you aren’t, you’re severely lacking the appreciation of what gaming devices could do and how Nintendo strayed out of the trodden path time and again.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 3 days ago:
Why would it not be? Do you consider yourself so dumb that you automatically pay whatever sum Nintendo request for any new shiny thing?
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 3 days ago:
NoJ
regulations
I see someone didn’t watch at least a half-dozen films about Japanese zaibatsus, starting with Kurosawa’s ‘The Bad Sleep Well’.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 6 days ago:
I have a couple other PSP tactics games in my ‘maybe play sometime’ list: ‘Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command’ and ‘Tom Clancy’s EndWar’ (along with ‘Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas’ and ‘Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2’, which are tactical first-person shooters).
But if you ever have real hankering for oldschool isometric squad turn-based tactics, check out ‘Jagged Alliance 2’, or perhaps its remake ‘Jagged Alliance: Back in Action’ (although the remake apparently was received poorly, and has cut out some humorous plot cutscenes). Both games have expansion packs, see the series page, and also the modding section on 2’s page.
[[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagged_Alliance_3][Jagged Alliance 3]] was released just three years ago, but I don’t know anything about it, though the reviews seem pretty good.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 6 days ago:
Well, figuring out that it’s not the exact same game was easy, since it’s made with the Unreal engine.
I’ve actually read excerpts from the original’s Wikipedia article yesterday, and it says there that Firaxis’ reboot started as a plain remake, but gradually strayed from that, and the combat system differs somewhat.
Reportedly Julian Gollop, the designer/developer of the original ‘UFO: Enemy Unknown’, considers ‘Xenonauts’ to be a faithful reimplementation, and the game also has very good reviews. Gollop also made his own spiritual successor ‘Phoenix Point’, but it’s not received as well.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 1 week ago:
They seem to have taken the least-compatible course for preservation, when emulators work fine already (after many years of false starts due to folks believing that Xbox just had an x86 under the hood).
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 week ago:
There were also games from that series on GBA, NDS, 3DS, and five games on phones.
Again forgot: I’m not sure that the PSP games are officially translated to English, since the series primarily targets the Japanese market. But there might be fan translations.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 week ago:
Forgot to mention: ‘Sid Meyer’s Pirates!’ is reportedly good on PSP, and it’s in my queue as a classic economic sim.
‘Pilot Academy’ is a remarkably difficult flight sim. Try also ‘R/C Stunt Copter’ on PS1 for extra credit.
There are several ‘Airport Hero’ games, from the ‘Air Traffic Controller’ series, aptly named for being simulators of ATC.
I’ve also heard good things about ‘428: Shibuya Scramble’, which is a detective visual novel adventure.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 week ago:
I mean, Wikipedia says that the 2012 ‘XCOM: Enemy Unknown’ is a ‘reimagining’ of that first game, however my memory isn’t so good as to remember what the original was like in details. I can say, though, that probabilities <40% do result in hits sometimes, which is a definite upgrade.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 week ago:
Then you’re probably all set with Dirtywave, but you could also be interested in looking at SunVox for Android. It’s a combination of a modular synth, tracker and sequencer. Has a rather peculiar interface, and has been around on portable platforms like PalmOS for twenty years.
I’m not sure that the app can currently be bought, since the author is in Russia and will certainly not receive the money (not right away, at least), but afaik one can pay him directly and he’ll arrange the apk.
For my taste, SunVox is too much in beep-boop territory, so I prefer desktop trackers with some gnarly samples and effects, but the app is definitely good.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 week ago:
If you’re into racing games, you could try ‘Colin McRae Rally 2005’ — it’s quite good and even requires a bit of knowledge about racing setups.
‘Race Driver 2006’ is also alright, it’s an expanded port of ‘TOCA Race Driver 2’ with lots of content and okay physics.
There’s ‘Twisted Metal: Head-On’, which is reportedly pretty good and in the vein of the first two games in the series (which had a different feel from 3-4 and probably ‘Black’ too).
If you’re into making music, check out LittleGPTracker: it’s a tracker-style app that works on PSP among other platforms and allegedly can load samples, as a tracker should. Inspired by the famous LSDJ for the Gameboy.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 week ago:
Vita doesn’t have too many good original games, though it works well as an emulator of PS1/PSP/SNES etc. that also has a few bangers. I’m currently playing through the remake of original XCOM, which is great except the interface was obviously made for the faster PS3.
There’s a shitload of visual novels for some reason, though.
- Comment on Trailer love, trailer life 4 weeks ago:
From what I’ve heard, houses in Japan are torn down after twenty years and rebuilt anew. Absolute craziness from the European standpoint, but I’m sure there must be a reason for it like the propensity to earthquakes and tsunamis.
- Comment on Mel Brooks has passed the age of 100 4 weeks ago:
I see you’re too stupid to understand when you’re told to fuck off for being a worthless cunt.
- Comment on Mel Brooks has passed the age of 100 4 weeks ago:
Please don’t be rude to people falling for exactly what I was aiming for. Multiple communities here and on Reddit exist for the very reason that many people don’t look at the community name closely.
- Comment on Mel Brooks has passed the age of 100 4 weeks ago:
He’s been around for a hundred years, and is now in his hundred-and-first.
- Comment on Mel Brooks has passed the age of 100 4 weeks ago:
I had to stay up very late to post this on NYC time, slept little, and am in about the same condition today.
- Comment on Mel Brooks has passed the age of 100 4 weeks ago:
The idea isn’t mine, but Brooks is the perfect person for this. I hope I can pull this a bunch more times.
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mel Brooks has passed the age of 100 4 weeks ago:
Ironically, I had to use Imgur because Lemmy.world disallows posting and uploads via the VPN that I use, and direct upload chokes due to some stupid shit the regulator and providers around here are pulling.
- Comment on It is only a matter of time before private citizens are arrested and charged with crimes for owning/using powerful computer parts and software without official permission and authentication 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Imperial system slander 3 months ago:
Well teach him better then!
- Comment on Imperial system slander 3 months ago:
Yall should switch for good once all the old fucks die.
- Comment on Why do we dance and hop when we desparstely need to go number 1? 3 months ago:
Exactly, this depends on the circumstances. E.g. cats tend to bury the waste so it doesn’t smell, while other territorial animals piss on everything in sight to mark the land. Nevertheless, when an animal is jumped by another, they often drop deuces all over while hitting the road dramatically. There’s a recent-ish clip on Reddit of two hippos fighting, wherein one of them decides to do the helicopter distribution of dung in the middle of the altercation.
- Comment on Why do we dance and hop when we desparstely need to go number 1? 3 months ago:
Not really, it’s well known that animals tend to shit and piss, dropping the weight and encumbrance, right before executing on the fight-or-flight response. People are likewise prone to soiling themselves in fear. So idk why it’s the other way around when just going about on my walks, but I’m not gonna complain about it when my city doesn’t have many public toilets open at night.
- Comment on Why do we dance and hop when we desparstely need to go number 1? 3 months ago:
In my unscientific experience, if I’m on the go, the piss can be kept it, for an hour and more. If I stop, I don’t think willpower alone will prevent me from pissing myself. So the dance is probably simulating the conditions of being too busy for a toilet break.
- Comment on Lmao 3 months ago:
Afaik Tineye hasn’t been updated in years. Both Google and Yandex find a bunch of images, including an image with a different backround and darker-skinned Aladdin with his jacket still on, but striking the same pose.
