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On 4/8/2024 at 11:22 AM, Kid.Lazer said:

I have both a switch and a Wii U, and only ever had the original Mario Maker. I kind of wanted to get Mario Maker 2, but after crap like this, I don't want to give them more money for a game that will become worthless.

I'm confused, you wanted Mario Maker 1 on a console that was universally panned but won't buy Mario Maker 2 on one of the most successful consoles of all time? Mario Maker 2 has significantly more features, courses, and players. Wii U was dead on arrival. Mario Maker 2 is Nintendo making up for past mistakes. There's nothing wrong with closing down obsolete game services no one is using anymore

11 hours ago, mariushm said:

I actually don't mind this, seems like measures that could help people with addiction issues or personalities prone to addiction  (like for example bonuses or rewards for buying several days in a row could cause players to have thoughts like "i have to buy again this day or I'm gonna miss a reward",  "gotta collect them all", "I'm the player with most consecutive daily game purchases", crap like that)

how in the world do you not mind relentless CCP government overreach

On 12/21/2023 at 2:16 PM, E-waste said:

Windows no longer allows this program compatibility, and Wine keeps these dlls packaged as part of the program.  So now Linux has better backward-compatibility for Windows software, and it will hopefully help push more Linux use.  I have stopped using Windows for my desktop system as I am not tied to non-game programs that only work on Windows, which I hope in the near future, more programs will be cross-platform and also that there will be more programming options designed with this idea in mind.

I don't believe any of this for a second

An obsolete OS doesn't get endless software updates?

The sad part is there still isn't a space game that matches what Star Citizen is capable of. I hoped Starfield would be a lite version of Star Citizen, and it ended up being Outer Worlds with JRPG levels of useless dialogue

Star Citizen had to remove a planet at some point because they "ran out of space" or something. I imagine we don't have the current technology to make Star Citizen the way they advertised, or if we do they would have to start all over. Worth it? Which way should they go? I have no idea, but I have a few fond memories in Star Citizen that quite literally could not have happened in any other game, so it was worth the money and brief play time to me

I feel like the people who write posts like this are the same people who complain they have to write 500 words for a paper

On 8/19/2023 at 1:16 PM, Cosmic Emotion said:

I stopped watching after the Linux Challenge. A connoisseur could see Linus was insanely biased against Linux. A real shame.

what choice do you have when you can easily delete your entire desktop when trying to install Steam?

It doesn't matter if he should have read the (very badly worded) error more closely. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11 have never given me the option to delete my entire desktop when I install Steam.

And more to the point it's absurd to me Linux was sitting on the tools to get a lot more games running on their OS with a lot less effort but it took a multi-billion dollar company with the profit-incentive of not letting their product fail (Valve) to get it done. The cost of relying on people who work for free, I guess.

Linus doesn't have a bias, his videos just showed Linux still sucks

8 minutes ago, nyanbinary said:

 

can't trust a word you read on reddit, especially text posts

what are you only allowed to share your views/opinions if you've been apart of the club for 1+ years? lmao

On 6/30/2023 at 4:08 AM, LAwLz said:

I don't really get why people use Plex.

Why not use Jellyfin which doesn't lock basic features like hardware-accelerated encoding behind paywalls? Or something like Kodi if you don't want transcoding at all (like me).

make jellyfin apps that 1: exist and 2: don't suck and i'll switch

I'm starting to side with whoever makes reddit mods the most upset

some billionaire needs to buy reddit and unshackle the site

i'm not talking about the protests

2 hours ago, XNOR said:

I hate growing up and slowly finding out that all the entities that gave you joy during your youth, like Nintendo and Disney, are actually dystopian megacorporations who are actively adversarial towards their customers.

 

Nintendo is working so hard to be evil, for so little gain, and very likely a significant negative gain. It's not as if blocking emulation on the Xbox is going to stop or slow anyone even slightly interested in emulating one of their games. In all reality, Nintendo couldn't make a dent even if they went fully nuclear on anything and everything even tangentially related to emulation.

sorry man, not allowing people to freely pirate your games isn't evil. you'd do the exact same thing in Nintendo's position, the difference here is you don't have a long list of IP worth a truck load of money worth protecting

Should Nintendo release these games on their own platform? Sure, they already do on the Switch for a lot of old, popular titles. I wish they would do more. But seriously on what planet do you deserve to play Nintendo games on a competitor console? Nintendo wants money. They by and large deserve it with how high quality their games are compared to most competitors. They want you buying their games on their platform, not pirating them on a competitor platform. Truthfully I'm astounded these Xbox emulators survived this long

1 hour ago, jagdtigger said:

Well if its an EOL console and the game arent sold anymore TBH at that point it isnt piracy and shouldnt be treated as such..... Just imagine if suddenly dosbox would get nuked for the same BS reason.....

It is by legal definition piracy to play an emulated ROM from any company that the company did not sell you.

Sure, would it be better for Nintendo to release an official emulator software and ROM store that everyone can buy? Of course, but it's not gonna happen.

Nintendo has and always will be protective of their IP. You would be too if yours was as valuable as theirs.

2 hours ago, aisle9 said:

It's a trade show. It's not for gamers. It's for people in the trade. If gamers show up and drool over stuff, fine, but it was there for industry insiders to show off their shit, not for someone to walk in and act like the kid at Target hogging the Super Nintendo. If it's been priced to the point that industry insiders don't want to show up, then yeah, they done goofed.

GDC is for industry in trade, E3 was always for showing off their games to sell to gamers

3 hours ago, Techstorm970 said:

The games released with the console were underwhelming and the GamePad was really awkward.  Plenty of good games released after the fact, but Nintendo's consoles are primarily driven by Nintendo's own titles.  When those are decoupled, it doesn't go well; we saw this with the GameCube, too, though that flop wasn't as bad.

 

I loved playing Pikmin 3 and 007 Legends on it.

They also advertised it as what looked like an add on for the Wii for like 2 years, and named it the Wii U, which made people think it belonged to the Wii. I remember telling my friends I bet their next system would be a hybrid console/handheld because the gamepad was close to that, even though it disconnected easily and the battery didn't last very long and it was heavy. Then the switch came out and Nintendo made up for it

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

The feel of the music is lost in digital formats and digital conversion. 100% analogue is the only pure way to hear the real sounds

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

How many of you who claim this would successfully pass a blind test? Because for the most part audiophiles always fail blind tests

On 3/1/2023 at 7:10 AM, Mark Kaine said:

its funny because just yesterday i thought why in all hell would anyone voluntarily use plex (amongst similar amateur hour apps) and there u go. still funny, and perplexing (no pun intended ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) 

Plex has apps that actually function

7 hours ago, Skipple said:

Therein lies the issue. Nothing of value is lost. Sucks for the players, but perhaps they should direct their anger at those causing the issue.

 

Can you imagine if any other developed country did this? Oh, no more Genshin Impact for you, Timmy. miHoYo isn't good enough friends with the US Government...

that wouldn't be a bad thing either

Blizzard's just going to sign another deal with another chinese company

i take it back this game is garbage lmao

9 minutes ago, Jon-Slow said:

After so many years of playing games, I have developed a sense to tell how much a game is going to suck from the marketing material, I've also played the demo tho. This is going to be one of the worst reviewed games of the year.

user reviews maybe, absolutely no chance for mainstream critics. looks fun enough for a $30-40 price though

A Chinese copycat of Adobe Premiere enticed users with a lifetime option, and when they realized they can ditch it and make more money because of their increased popularity, they do. Not really surprising

When's the last time a big-boy merger actually got blocked? I feel like the merger will get approved in a week or two regardless

still waiting on all the Bethesda killer games the last Unreal Engine update was supposed to bring

On 10/18/2022 at 7:20 AM, jaslion said:

The funny thing is that due to its open source nature one can fork ubuntu and call it noadubuntu or something silly.

 

Thats the fun thing about open source stuff. Make users too pissed and they might just make their own version from the point where you last left off and keep taking all the good improvements whilst removing the bad.

Also the downfall of open source. Everything gets splintered, and it's just ten times easier to use Windows