chronicledmonocle
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- Comment on Preview: The Cerritos Crew Starts A New Comic Book Adventure In First Issue Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ 4 days ago:
Didn’t know there was to be a comic series. This is exciting.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 6 days ago:
OP doesn’t say how old their kids are. Could be teens with plenty of aptitude, but if they’re younger…the switch may be the better option.
As for emulation, I was more just was saying it’s possible. For single player games it’s fine, if done legally.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 6 days ago:
Yes this is true. I’ll edit my original post.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 1 week ago:
There is no “TV version”. The switch docks to a docking station to make it output to a TV. You just need a docking station and controllers to make a single Switch into a shared screen experience in the living room. Anyone’s Switch can use the dock.
Physical games are sharable, but only one device can use that game at a time, because they’re physical cartridges.
Personally, I’d go with a Steam Deck over a Switch, unless your family specifically is looking to play Switch games that are exclusive to it (which technically with emulation the Steam Deck can also play, but that’s not legal unless you own a switch and the game). The nice thing about Steam games is that Steam’s Families feature lets you share the entire game library digitally to 5 family members, so unless they want to play the same game at once, you only buy games once and they can all play them. There are also some games that let you own one copy and let multiple people play multiplayer at once on it, too.
Plus, games on Steam are cheaper than Switch games and the Steam Deck is only a bit more money upfront than a Switch is, especially on sale, which I expect it to be on sale for Black Friday coming up.
- Comment on I just finish to see all TNG movies. 2 months ago:
I honestly think Generations gets hated on more than it should because the Enterprise D is destroyed. People love that ship.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
There are plenty of “kids” movies and TV that are excellent for adults, too.
Listing a few:
- Bluey
- Most of Pixar
- Adventure Time (after Season 1)
- Star Wars Rebels/Clone Wars (again, after Season 1)
- Shrek
- Star Trek: Prodigy
This is not an exhaustive list, but you get the point.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
Yes they do.
- Comment on Who had it worse: Enterprise-D or Voyager? 2 months ago:
Voyager. Hands down.
“The Borg, Macroviruses, telepathic pitcher plants…the Delta Quadrant is a death trap” -Janeway-
When even the captain acknowledges it, it’s bad. At least Picard had Starfleet support at his back.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
To be fair, Rocket League runs fine in Proton.
Also, to be fair…agreed. Fuck Epic.
- Comment on Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam. 2 months ago:
I don’t trust any corporation. However, Valve has treated customers with respect and doesn’t try to bend us over. For that, I’ll keep buying from them.
However, I fear for the day Gabe Newell is no longer running the show.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 2 months ago:
Same here. I’d love to see what Valve have been up to.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 3 months ago:
As a Millennial: Hahahahahahaha fuck you no.
- Comment on AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaling tested: improved over FSR 2 but DLSS and XeSS are still ahead 4 months ago:
It’s DLSS an open standard like FSR? No? Ok then it doesn’t matter if DLSS is marginally better.
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 4 months ago:
Not saying they are. Just the ones that are the biggest and make the most money
- Comment on Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam 4 months ago:
I mean you could say the Steam Deck is “Just running KDE on Arch”.
The difference is how they implement it and what it’s used for. This could be huge for “apps” on the Steam Deck, for example. Or it could be a quirky experiment or feature nobody uses. Time will tell.
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 4 months ago:
Most of the time it ends up shovelware, though.
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 4 months ago:
I was speaking of the gaming industry as a whole. I know very little about this developer. Perhaps they’re one of the good ones swept up in unfortunate-ness.
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 4 months ago:
Game Publishers: complains about how users expect endless content
Also Game Publishers: Mostly pushes for live service games and Free-to-Play
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- Comment on Sonic Rumble - Announce Trailer 6 months ago:
Sonic Team is amazing. I’ve never seen a studio fail to make a good game for as long as they have and SOMEHOW still be told to make more.
The only good Sonic game in recent memory was a game that wasn’t even made by Sonic Team: Sonic Mania.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 6 months ago:
Chicken and Egg. Linux is barely above 2%. When it breaks 10-20% market share, I expect companies will start making native ports more common.
The fact that proton/dxvk/vulkan/wine let’s things just work with little to no changes is already pretty incredible.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 6 months ago:
I think it’s more important that it gives Valve a method of avoiding being shoehorned into a “Windows only world”. The Steam Deck is largely why Linux has pushed past 2% market share on the Steam Hardware Survey consistently now. Holo, which is the codename for SteamOS on the Deck, makes up over half of Steam on Linux.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not dillusional. Windows is still far and away the majority platform and will be for some time. However, there is a real, functional choice now that didn’t exist a few years ago.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 6 months ago:
Meanwhile the Steam Deck is selling like gangbusters.
- Comment on Discovery will be the first Star Trek show in half a century to end without a single Jonathan Frakes appearance 8 months ago:
What beef you got with Tilly?
- Comment on Discovery will be the first Star Trek show in half a century to end without a single Jonathan Frakes appearance 8 months ago:
Yeah the show would be so much better if they didn’t rely on Burnham as the “solver of all things”. Literally the first thing they do with her when she walks into Starfleet Command after the time jump is go “YO HAVE YOU TRIED THIS SOLUTION TO THE PRIONS?”. It’s like the writers can’t help themselves.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she has a stupid, uninspired speech that is a “These are the voyages” rip off at the end of the finale episode right before they inexplicably promote her to the Admiralty. It would be a fitting f*** you to end the show right in line with what the writers have done so far.
- Comment on Discovery will be the first Star Trek show in half a century to end without a single Jonathan Frakes appearance 8 months ago:
Meh. Looking forward to this show dying and making way for the good, new Trek shows, like LD, SNW, and Picard’s Season 3 (sorta).
So tired of Michael Burnham and her stupid “Magical Burnham Problem Solving Mary-su Solution Express”. Really too bad, because Saru, Tilly, Georgiuo, Statements, Adira, and basically all of the other characters are REALLY interesting in this show. Unfortunately, they didn’t relegate Burnham’s character for being a writer’s “get out of writer’s block free card” to the background and that basically doomed it.
- Comment on cows & cows & cows 10 months ago:
Man I remember seeing this video pre-YouTube. F*** I’m old.
- Comment on Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway 11 months ago:
I grew up with Star Trek Elite Force 1 and 2, Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates, and Bridge Commander. All excellent games that I played many, many hours of.
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 1 year ago:
The middle east has been fighting for thousands of years. Religion is a helluva thing.
- Comment on Star Trek and ... Kid Cudi? 1 year ago:
Who TF is Kid Cudi?
- Comment on What is your gaming "comfort food" and why? 1 year ago:
MechWarrior is a game series I’ve been playing since I was a kid. It’s basically big mech combat, but with very low TTK and lots of team strategy involved.