@ThanosReXXX Nah, they're still around. I see one of their box trucks every once in awhile. I just haven't heard a peep about our software from them, so the assumption is that they're happily plugging away with it.
Currently playing: Pokemon Scarlet DLC, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch)
@Tyranexx Plugging, or patching like crazy, to keep up on their legacy hard- and software...
Phrases like those about square pegs and round holes come to mind...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX Too much changed too fast in the world for most people to have any understanding of what changed. More importantly the older generations never really understood it because it was so radically different from what they knew, too quickly without time to adapt, and the younger generations effecitvely had to learn themselves rather than learning from parents (and/or worse, learned from a broken education system staffed by the same clueless people who sold whatever the tech companies were selling them (probably through you ).) Ultimately big, powerful companies that make Standard Oil and the B&O Railroad look like bit-players, and rival the scale of governments painted a really happy picture in the early 2000's of one big simple easy to use totally 150% safe digital online world that's way safer than what you can keep at home, using their sophisticated network run by experts....and the public easily bought it because it seemed legit, and there was no historical frame of reference to lean on.
Step forward today with 2+ generations that were raised only in a transitory world where they had to invent reality for themselves because nobody could teach it to them, and the companies pressed on change change change change as fast as possible, change for the sake of change! And the big safe blanket they talked about all made sense....so the kids tough themselves that world and made it a reality. Except it's about the same reality as Stepford. Barely a veneer plastered on top of the broken husk. They live in a world and believe in it. And accept "you can't do anything about it it's just the way it is" (I want legal permission to murder every person who ever says that.) and we slip farther and farther into an illusory world. For such people without a prior world to compare, the companies are all trying their hardest to deliver what they say, and it's all really mostly safe....they don't understand just what fiction it all is, and they never will, because it's the only world they have existed in to compare. They can point and laugh at us for being old fashioned, because they don't understand the reality we actually remember and watched the broken systems such as "the cloud" sleezily sold through lies and misdirection. Once the kids are old enough, the lie is accepted reality. The age old truth of propaganda.
The schools can't educate against it because the schools are made up by those same clueless people, and are funded by the companies pushing it to begin with. They won't bite the hand that feeds them. Heck they educate them on how to push every detail about themselves online! How many schools have student social media/assignment/etc systems now? How many teachers instruct kids to communicate with them on Facebook?
I don't do horror....but I downloaded We Happy Few on Game Pass yesterday....it feels so appropriately accurate for the world around me I couldn't resist.
Not sure when I'll get to trying out EDF - I just started Ys VIII (and subsequently didn't have time for it) and may give Yoshi's Crafted World a spin, plus I have a few queued up RPGs I've been itching to get to so I'm probably occupied for a while I'll definitely download it though!
Edit: And yeah, I think a lot of the crowd that gets annoyed at the drive-by-posters in the news comments have taken up a home in the forums. It's a much less transient crowd in here.
Man, I wish I could enter the live chats here more often. The couple of times I've been in live chat during a Direct have been fun. Unfortunately, my job doesn't really allow that. I'd love if I had an office so that I could occasionally sneak in, but I'm not privileged enough to have one...and it's an open floor plan otherwise. The best I can usually do is listen to the Nintendo Treehouse segments (and rarely sneak a peek) while working.
@NEStalgia I totally get older, less tech savvy people kinda getting overwhelmed by newer and faster technology each year, but younger people, such as most of these celebs, millennials and school kids?
You'd think (and hope) that they'd know better, or would at the very least be more aware of the consequences of putting images or videos of themselves online or in the "secure" cloud on their smart phones...
As for Earth Defense Force: hey, no rush. Just make a mental note to give me a verdict, whenever you find the time to try it out. I actually found out it's the second game in the series, but that's supposed to have improved features, so that's even better. But good to know, I guess, if you find out that you like this one, that there is another game in the series, with an entirely different campaign.
@Tyranexx I don't really like the live chats. I find it enormously distracting to have a running wall of text next to a video, and I can't keep up with reading or writing, much less replying to someone directly, because the comment is either already gone, and/or replying directly to someone like you normally do, isn't possible, so all has to be done manually, and you'll never know if someone gets to read your reply, because by the time you've posted it, 20 new ones have already been added.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@AlohaPizzaJack Dang... indeed.
Only a little less than a month away. And to think that Nintendo's latest playtoy is over two years old already. Time certainly has flown, ever since we were thrown into the whirlpool of mixed emotions that was the reveal of the Nintendo Switch...
@NEStalgia By the way: I don't know if you already looked into this, or applied it, if you're still using Firefox, but just in case, I'll post it here:
What are my options if I want to use an unsigned add-on? (advanced users)
Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), Firefox Developer Edition and Nightly versions of Firefox will allow you to override the setting to enforce the extension signing requirement, by changing the preference xpinstall.signatures.required to false in the Firefox Configuration Editor (about:config page). There are also special unbranded versions of Firefox that allow this override. See the MozillaWiki article, Add-ons/Extension Signing for more information.
I actually found out that mine was already set to false, hence me not experiencing any issues with uBlock Origin and/or any other "unsigned" add-ons I'm using...
You know what was really cool today. I never bring my controllers with me on the road and i usually only play in handheld mode on my lunch breaks but today I brought my 8bitdo controller and propped up my switch on my dash board in my car on my lunch today. I'm still enamoured that I can do that. Even having the switch since launch im just in awe with how cool it is. I never played my switch that way so it was neat to do that way for a change
@ThanosReXXX - Well, I can neither confirm nor deny that was a drinking reference, but for the sake of quenching my thirst for injecting wrestling where it doesn’t belong; I’ll say, like any pro wrestler, it was half on purpose and half dumb luck.
@Tyranexx - Thanks! Tip noted. I kind of came to a similar conclusion. I’ll only wade in when I know the waters are safe.
@AlohaPizzaJack - I hope I’m free for the chats this year. Always some good excitement and unintentional comedy (you’re previously hobbitgamer, right).
@AlohaPizzaJack I mean I've played table top mode, handheld and docked obviously..but sitting in my car with it on my dash, using a wireless controller takes the cake
@ThanosReXXX fortunately the real fix was already sent out. The fix you posted was unfortunately one that highlights what i meant earlier. Only esr, nightly build, and dev unstable has that setting.... Release builds have it stripped out. They've taken to removing settings from about config when they don't want people playing with them, so release users had to wait for nanny Mozilla to allow them a fix....
They had an early beta fix if you turn studies on. I ended up doing it even though it means i had to send them my telemetry even if briefly.
We’re gonna be spending a night on the city, to celebrate mother’s day, and in part because I bought tickets for the Pikachu movie.
So I checked in two apps to reserve a hotel room, and the same room was about 70 dollars in one, and about 150 in the other, and that one had “40% off!”. Guess I’m just gonna delete that app.
It’s still more expensive than our usual hotel stays, but hey, fancy hotel every now and then can’t be bad for you. It can double as a mother’s day gift. 🧐
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