DigDoug

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless it’s an HD one, there’s no input buffer so it’s impossible for a CRT to have more than a frame of input lag. And the console needs a frame to notice your input anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are only a few reasons I can surmise that this would be the case:

  CRTs don’t add any input lag

  There’s no extra latency from being connected to the internet

  There’s no latency from bluetooth/wireless on the controller

  Because most older games are extremely badly optimised by today’s standards. The original Metroid slows to an absolute crawl when there’s more than about 4 sprites on the screen; the dragon boss in Mega Man (2, I think) was such a laggy, slippery mess that I gave up trying to beat the game; Ocarina of Time runs at 20FPS (worse if you’re in a PAL territory like I am), and that’s one of the better playing N64 games.

  I think you’re either noticing one of these extra sources of delay, or you’re blinded by nostalgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any game featuring any sort of animal, including people, is evidence that sex occurred. We should ban those too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people like Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when I first bought my Gamecube… I had to sign an agreement that I would never play a non-Nintendo property again. “How could they ever enforce this?” I thought. Little did I know that the next day, the Sony SWAT Team would be bursting into my house to extract my Playstation. It was absolutely terrifying.

  I haven’t played a single non-Nintendo game since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way to be⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Governments could easily get Ancaps on board by renaming themselves to Government, Inc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Nintendo may render…the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.”

  This isn’t just a warning from Nintendo that you risk bricking your console if you try to hack it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If Nintendo has the power to brick your console, then do you truly own it?

  This sort of shit needs to be illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and its not linux or mac

  Except there’s already a Mac version of GOG Galaxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like what GOG do, but gating features, even niche ones, behind a subscription sounds like the first step towards enshittification.

  Also, I’m sure as hell not giving them extra money until they fix their platform on Linux/Steam Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One-handed games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One really handy thing with the Steam Deck is the ability to remap all of the buttons (as well as the two paddles on the back for each hand), so one could probably make a decent one-handed control setup for 99% of turn-based games. Even ones that require the use of the mouse, given the Deck’s touchpads.

  Vampire Survivors requires nothing except the stick/dpad outside of menus (and I’m pretty sure you can use the touchscreen for menus, too).

  If your friend(s) are stuck using the dpad, it might not be suitable, but Crypt of the Necrodancer only requires four buttons or left, right, up, and down (and you can assign buttons for the button combos normally required to do things like use bombs). This assumes that they like rhythm games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  …but then your clothes might look like you’ve worn them before.

  What are you? Poor?