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- Comment on Update 1 day ago:
It’s worth it to name Barrett “T” in the original PSX translation of Final Fantasy 7 as well, only for the singular scene in which this makes him refer to himself as “Mr. T.”
- Comment on Update 1 day ago:
Mine name is Glenn! Cyrus’s hopes and dreams… And now the Masamune… Forthwith I shall slay Magus and restore honor!
As an aside and since I’ll never get to talk about this in context again, every time I play through Chrono Trigger I am exactly the asshole who names Marle as Nadia, Frog as Glenn, Robo as R-66Y, and Magus as Janus. Because being a time traveler, I already know.
It is kind of weird that so many of the main cast canonically go by pseudonyms in the story. Kind of a four nickels situation, I guess.
- Comment on Hospitallers - crusading the Levant since 1113 CE 2 days ago:
I like this ancient and crusty airsoft version better:
At least we only pretend to blow up hospitals.
(Pop quiz! Let’s how your client handles images that are a thousand feet tall.)
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 2 days ago:
Her, and him, and whoever!
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 2 days ago:
They meet Legolas, an Elven warrior who can’t hold his drink. He’s taking the place of his older brother, Armolas, who can’t hold his bow. Their younger brother, Arseolas, has already lost his seat on the council…
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 2 days ago:
They meet Legolas, an Elven warrior who can’t hold his drink. He’s taking the place of his older brother, Armolas, who can’t hold his bow. Their younger brother, Arseolas, has already lost his seat on the council…
- Comment on kya 2 days ago:
His is a bit higher quality than that one, and I have no idea where he got it. It’s made of closed cell foam and is indeed printed on both sides.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
I was not aware it was released in that packaging, but I’m pretty sure that’s still a Playstation 1 disk dressed up in a PS2 style DVD case, meant to be used with the PS2’s backwards compatibility mode. To my knowledge SotN was never rereleased as a native PS2 title and wasn’t rereleased at all until the PSP version. (And then later the Xbox 360 and PS4 as downloadable titles, and also the ghastly mobile phone versions.) If you have a PS1 kicking around you can try it and see, I suppose.
For what it’s worth my copy is the green-stripe “Greatest Hits” reprinting, so what it’s worth is alas not much.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
I’m just being that guy on the internet as usual, but Symphony Of The Night is a PS1 title, not PS2. I’m sure OP can run a PS1 emulator on his Deck if he wants to, though. It is a great game.
- Comment on kya 3 days ago:
My dad had a college friend who did this back in the 70s, using all electromechanical components. Relays and solenoids and so forth. Hey, they were engineering students, what do you expect? From what he described it didn’t use a drum to display the messages, but rather had an array of six or seven of them that popped up from below, like bread from a toaster. It fit on the platform between the back seat and rear window of his car.
As the story was recounted to me, he did get hassled by the cops for this at one point due to flipping up one of the more expletive laden signboards at an unmarked patrol car. Ultimately they couldn’t find anything to nail him for over it, though.
Meanwhile, my brother in law keeps one of these in the door pocket in his truck:
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
Re: Final Fantasy games not tying together or having continuities.
Yes. Except, ironically, specifically Final Fantasy X, which had a direct sequel in X-2. Final Fantasy XIII also managed to have a direct sequel in Lightning Returns. Thankfully, if you care to think of it that way, it was crap and can be safely ignored.
Anyway, have an upvote for not blithely suggesting that everyone start with VII.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 days ago:
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 was pretty close to the peak of the series if you ask me, and the PS2 version was the superior one. THPS4 also came out on the Playstation 2. I see you already have Underground on there.
If you’d like something you can handily use to consume the rest of your entire life, Disgaea and/or its sequel will probably do you.
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are also legendary. I haven’t tried in ages, I have no idea if modern emulators can get the latter to run at a non-crap frame rate. It’d be a lot nicer if so.
Odin Sphere is an often overlooked 2D action sidescrolling fighting thing wherein you Norse In The North and beat the shit out of absolutely everyone. Its sequel, Muramasa: The Demon Blade is much the same thing except therein you Ninja In The Night instead. The latter stayed locked to the Wii to my knowledge but the former was on the PS2.
The PS2’s library is quite vast. I’m not going to go looking this up to prove it right now, but I’m pretty sure it’s got the most titles ever released for a home video game console (i.e. not the PC) in history. Even just trying out unknown games at complete random, it’s likely to be able to keep you entertained in one way or another basically forever.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 6 days ago:
I load my commas into a 10 gauge shotgun and fire them at the page.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 6 days ago:
Web browsers collapse whitespace by default which means that sans any trickery or deliberately using nonbreaking spaces causes any amount of spaces between words to be reduced into one. Since apparently every single thing in the modern world is displayed via some kind of encapsulated little browser engine nowadays, the majority of double spaces left in the universe that are not already firmly nailed down into print now appear as singles. And thus the convention is almost totally lost.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
The coffee grinders hung on at several of the grocery stores near me, but got relocated to behind one of the checkout counters. They hung on there for a number of years but finally these got removed as well, along with the option to buy coffee beans loose and by weight. The majority of shoppers probably just bought pre-ground. For what it’s worth, myself and my parents were the only people I ever saw buying whole beans or using the grinders, over the span of decades.
One of the froofy high end grocery stores near me does still offer bulk beans (along with their other bulk products like dried fruit, lentils, trail mix, etc.) but there are no grinders in the store. They probably assume anyone who’s enough of a coffee nut these days would rather grind their own beans at home, and they’re probably right.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
I think the implication is supposed to be that when you beat Bowser they’ll be turned back.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 1 week ago:
The synopsis in the manual also states that Bowser turned the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom into “stones, bricks, and field horse-hair plants.” In a given playthrough, most players probably smash a lot of bricks. Bricks which used to be Mushroom Kingdom people, who are now dead. Because Mario killed them.
It’s a big maybe on Mario being the hero because he may or may not actually succeed in reaching Bowser and rescuing the princess depending on how much the player happens to suck, and/or of Luigi winds up being the victor instead.
- Comment on bred 1 week ago:
I can make it weirder.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Version Delayed Indefinitely 2 weeks ago:
With the best will in the world, given the dire performance of Borderlands 4 even on much more powerful hardware, the notion that it was ever going to work on the Switch 2… how should we phrase this… was never realistic.
Randy seems more interested in running his mouth than getting anything done about the game’s performance issues on any platform, so this decision is hardly unsurprising at this juncture. The fact that they were able to pull the plug this close to the alleged release date also points to the fact that this was to be yet another one of those game-not-actually-on-the-cartridge deals, if they were even planning to make cartridges for it at all, so that would have been yet another nonstarter for many potential buyers. This whole thing was dead on arrival. The only difference is, now we know it’s official.
Borderlands as a whole doesn’t have a great track record on portable platforms anyway. The OG Switch version also had less than stellar performance, and the best that can be said about the PS Vita version of BL2 is that even with all the cuts and downgrades its frame rate is probably better measured in seconds-per-frame rather than frames-per-second. (I have direct experience with that one, being one of the six people on Earth dumb enough to actually own the Vita version of Borderlands 2. But in my defense, it was literally cheaper to buy the BL2+Vita bundle than to buy a Vita on its own. That’s right: It’s so bad, the Vita release had a negative retail value.)
- Comment on Is there a good way to check if all photos on google photos are locally saved on my own phone 2 weeks ago:
Well, grab any file manager app (I use Root Explorer, or the free version thereof) and you could check the count of files in your photos folder (probably DCIM\Camera) and see if that number jives with the number of photos Google reckons you have in your gallery.
Root Explorer can only view local files and can’t hook up to Google’s cloud services at all. So by definition anything it’s showing is physically located somewhere on your phone.
- Comment on Fall Sale Days are here 2 weeks ago:
There are still a few locations left in the world, and I believe at this point they’re all privately owned “Radio Shack Authorized Reseller” locations. I know for a fact there’s one in Petersburg, West Virginia.
The rights to the Radio Shack name are owned by Unicomer Group now, and they’re the ones running the lurching husk that comprises the web site above. Their product selection seems to consist entirely of white-box Chinese radios, headphones, Bluetooth speakers, wireless charging pucks, and other sundry cheap electronics of that ilk, but all bearing the Radio Shack brand name. But they also still sell batteries, apparently.
- Comment on Too soon? 3 weeks ago:
materially supporting state violence
Dingdingdingdingding.
Here’s the winner, right here. Fascist fucks want to go around pretending that only billy clubs and bullets and bombs count as “violence.” Inflicting mass starvation on people, withholding medical care, stealing workers’ wages they depend upon to survive, and brutalizing minorities and marginalized groups (oftentimes with actual up front physical attacks) is “just doing business.”
So news flash to the chucklefucks: That’s not how it works. State sponsored violence is still violence, and so it follows the oppressed have a right to defend themselves. It sure sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, don’t it?
But it turns out there’s an easy way to defend yourself from that sort of thing. All you have to do is not be a hateful fuck whose policies and actions threaten the lives of others, nor their right to exist.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
All of the updates and content expansions and so on and so forth have really made Isaac unmanageable in that regard. Throw in the fact that there are quite a few item drops that are objectively detrimental in basically every situation so that a not insignificant fraction of the item pool is just trash drops that nobody in their right mind would ever pick up, and it gets ridiculous quickly. Once you have enough unlocked that you’re regularly getting runs down into the lower sub-basements of hell, unless you’re an absolute guru the meta is literally just to meta. Know a couple of the game-breaking combinations off the top of your head and cross your fingers that you’ll run across all of the components.
This is in stark contrast to e.g. Dead Cells, which is why I’ve got such an immense respect for the latter. If you’re willing to adjust your play style slightly, every single drop in Dead Cells is a viable weapon that can be deadly in the right hands. You could be wielding a legendary golden abyssal trident, sure, but you can also just as well beat the shit out of all the boss monsters with a pair of frying pans tied together with some rope. It must have taken an immense amount of work to get all of that even vaguely balanced and ensure that there were no duds, wheras Isaac’s strategy seems to be more just throwing shit at the wall (probably literally…) to see what sticks, with a salting of deliberately adding things to troll the player for the lulz.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Binding of Isaac items are explicitly in that vein, in fact, given that its version of potions (pills) are indeed randomized on every run. I haven’t checked out the new update yet but insofar as I’m aware those still are.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I believe initially this was supposed to be part of the appeal. Any item may or may not screw you over if you don’t know what it does which is in keeping with Isaac’s theme of being beat down by your circumstances. Part of gutting gud was intended to be memorizing what the often idiosyncratic items actually did. Except now with years of updates and content expansions there are so many items it’s unrealistic to keep track of it all anymore. In the early days I might have disagreed with this but now it makes sense.
At least according to the patch notes you still have to collect an item the first time to get its full description, and the new descriptions don’t show at all until you beat Mom for the first time (i.e. you clear at least one basic run), so new players still get to experience the Fun and excitement of potentially getting hosed by an unfamiliar pickup.
- Comment on Day 416 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Hey, hey, hey. Watch the penguin-bashing, bud.
- Comment on Jonathan Tinpaw 4 weeks ago:
Twice.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 weeks ago:
…And have them able to run on zero consumer devices if the bootloaders are locked, and the manufacturers refuse to sign their ROMs for them. (Hint: they will refuse to sign their ROMs for them.)
- Comment on I saw what you did there 5 weeks ago:
harborfreight.com/momentary-power-foot-switch-571…
I have one of these on my big “real” table saw as well, because the location of its power switch is deeply inconvenient.
- Comment on The sheer amount of websites that are completely unusable without JavaScript 5 weeks ago:
For a web store you probably only need Javascript for payment processing. Insofar as I’ve seen pretty much all of the widgets provided by the card processors outright require Javascript (and most of them are also exceedingly janky, regardless of what they look like on the outside to the user).
You definitely don’t need Javascript just for a shopping cart, though. That can all be done server side.
