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@Mauzuri There is a difference when this is like the 100th installment of the series that does pretty much the same, and there are a billion other game series doing pretty much the same.

@HeadPirate Oh, I found the cards now. Didn't know of those.
But they seem to have been for the Japanese market according to the article I read, and sensored according to Japanese norms of the time, and produced for a liquor company there.
Anyways, a tad less bad than the movies they have the license for.

@HeadPirate I don't think they did porn. They bought a license, in order to stop a certain movie from distribution.

@beartown Yeah, SMB3 and World are so much more imaginative, well thought out worlds which feels exciting to explore. They have that "kid in an imagination imbued back yard"-feeling. Even for the 100th time.

NSMB games are so bland. Gameplay is fine, but I don't feel any excitement for getting to the next leves, or finding some secret. Hope this will feel different.

@Mauzuri I didn't see any hate

I don't think it's a boycott at all when it's just not buing a product I am disatisfied with. E.g. It's not like I am boycotting seed oils. I just think they are bad for me, and avoid buying them.
Boycotts to me is when I am not buying something I would otherwise appreciate, but want to pressure the seller to make a decision unrelated to the purchase, or to make a statement to other decision makers.

This movement of character on top of thing, is something I have made without thinking of it in several toy games. If I didn't know the patent environment, I would consider Nintendo absolutely evil for even suggesting this as a patent.

They are obviously too general, and stupid and idiotic.
But, any company does need to do this, as long as they are granted by stupid and idiotic patent office workers.
They need them to be able to threaten counter lawsuit to other companies who claim to own the right to, say, using an avatar to move about, or making food in game, etc. The more general and idiotic it is, the better.
Though anyone would win in court over these, that is too expensive, so it works.
But sadly, small compnies can get screwed over, as almost any idea they have will infringe some patent.
In principle I support patents, but they can do more harm than good, and definitely in software.

I hope it's the same form factor and game compatible with switch. I've owned every single Nintendo system (yes, even every game boy and DS variant) except Virtual Boy. But I think I won't buy it if I have to get a bunch of controllers, can't play the switch games, etc. I'm getting tired of that side of video games.

What's do bad with "insider" trading? Do we really want share buying to be a gamble? And not something done with the best information? People in general should not buy shares unless they have some special knowledge that other people are unlikely to have. Otherwise it turns into a game.

@Stamina_Wheel It has nothing to do with some imagined "abilities is leadership". It's to do with what one is trying to do. Some types of activities are what some type of people want to do, other what others want. Leading requires some shared vision. People find together and do things. Having demands on some sort of "ideal" percentage of arbitrary divisions of people destroys natural spontaneous fruitful friendships, and makes things into this modern "corporation", the soul less institution.

What is Figma?

Spacestation Silicon Valley is probably what you should check out if you are looking for something to play. The ones above it in the list are good, but you probably know what you are getting, a polished formula. SSV has really cool music, is funny, and has interesting mechanics that is quite different from the others.

How is this a copyright issue? Or does that not matter as long as we feel it's in our interest to stop it?

Since the lion turd is nr 1, one could be ashamed of being high on this list.

I can't believe people actually thought that was worth watching. It was a demake. But I guess compared to other things in the cinema at the time, it was less cringey and any moving images without soul destroying cringe would make it to the top.

That said, Mario Movie also, is simply not cringe. And that goes a long long way in today's movie scene. It's fun, though a bit exhausting and not something I really could watch again, unlike classics like Lion King from the 90s, Moana and snow-white.

The frozen is also okay, allthough why it's so insanely high I guess is also all about what other movies were available at the time.

The main problem here is the parent. On many levels.
I don't like loot boxes either. But it's impossible to define properly. I don't think the law is the way to deal with it. It undermines the laws role.
I am fine with for example Pokémon go's way of being able to buy a few items every now and then. I loved that game, and wouldn't have played it if it wasn't free to play. A few microtransactions is fine. But the line between it being just an alternative way to get paid for a game, and predatorily meant to exploit people is impossible to define. In Pokémon go for example it's game mechanic is still chance based, it's not disclosed, and the items one require may or may not turn out to be as useful as one hoped. If it were disclosed completely how all odds in the game worked it would turn it into a non game.
If there was a rule to know which item one bought, the game designer would just move the cahnce mechanic to how that sort of item works in the game. This can be done predatorily, or in a natural way. It can't be defined.
But a law is an additional beurocracy that can easily lead to corruption.

While the game clips looks fun, the actual ad illustrated to me that I should create actual life and excitement around me, instead of playing games, and sit in isolation.
I mean, one can actually create something beautiful, either in relationship, with woodworking, go hiking, or similar.
Nothing wrong with gaming sometimes, but it can function as a drug as well.

@jsty3105 Why doesn't it work?

How does it make sense to be illegal to help people hack their own system.
Is it soon going to be illegal to help me when I lock myself out of my house?
What should be illegal is to have measures against people utilizing their own system as they see fit.
Whether you pirate or not is a different matter.

Haven't I heard it before?

Sounds very modern. Addictive, stimulating, super fun all the time, like eating raw sugar mixed with cocaine.

If it's copyright, then if it's not actually theirs, please sue them for exploiting the legal system to curtail your free speech.

This illustrates perfectly what's wrong with NL, just fanboyin for what ever Nintendo does. No care for door alpha channels at all. This is a clear downgrade over the original, just a tech showcase, while the real substance of door alpha tweaks, goes totally unnoticed.

Omg, those doors though! Sticks out like a sore thumb!

@ChongLiVsTongPo I didn't know about this "holding r2 to enable c buttons" trick. I remapped the buttons in the switch system to permanently be the directional buttons (which is the c button in the emulator).

@ChongLiVsTongPo I'm glad you're enjoying it too. Gonna do a dance myself My wife's soviet born (just barely) of Russian decent, so I like soviets dancing, lol.
Actually, while playing it now, she asked me about the game, and I'm like "yeah, so, I have to sneak around and shoot all these guys". She: "they look like russians". Me: "uhm, yeah, never thought about that, what a coincidence".

@PinderSchloss Yup, probably the 3rd best selling console of all time, perhaps set to become the 1st, is only relevant because of this game. That's a heck of a lot of nostalgia. I say, let people enjoy it, won't ya? Nothing sad about it, unless gaming is the most important thing in a persons life, in which case it's sad no matter what one enjoys.

Don't fall for the silly trick of mapping the controls to feel "modern". It will make the game not what it is meant to be. It's much better to remap the switch buttons to be more like the n64. You're supposed to be able to sidestep with the c buttons, while moving forward with the stick. It doesn't work well with using the stick as c buttons, as you'll just keep looking up or down. But with actual buttons, it's just a matter of getting used to. Makes the game much more fun. And you have to stop and aim with R, like a real person, not like a God who can snipe people while running like a madman. A big part of the game is finding the rythm of when to stop, when to run, getting used to guard movements, etc. Making controls "modern" is likely to ruin half your fun.

@-wc- I'm eating a fine piece of aged milk right now. That Stilton goes really well with this other fine piece of British culture.

@ChongLiVsTongPo Holding down the r button is how I aim, and how I always aimed in this game. It's part of the fun.

Also, one can't go modern controls in this game. It will first of all become boringly easy. And second of all one will walk too slow, as one needs the speed boost one can only get from having one finger control sidestepping and the other control forward motion. I can't imagine this game without that.

Once I mapped the controls, so A,B,X,Y, became the C buttons, muscle memory kicked in, and I could play this easily. I feel the controls are just different, but actually it's more fun than modern shooters. Aiming is a challenge, yes, but a good one. It's a different mechanic, which works well. My only problem is the A and B buttons, which must be meoped to someplace weird, like shoulder buttons, and hence I have to think when reloading or changing weapons. Takes some time to get used to.

And btw. the 16:9 option was always in this game, in case you didn't know.

Only people with insider info should do trading. Everyone else is just doing arbitrary financial decisions that screw up things.

What? Which CPU? I don't understand the article.

@IronTruth Because such vague hyped "super game" plans tends to be stuff made by desperate and clueless board members to fix worries of owners.

I don't think Sega knows anything about this super game or what it will be about either.

Sounds like the company is failing.

Regardless of who is lying or not. If you are offered something too low for what is your added value as compared to anyone else, then go elsewhere. Be glad someone else, with the right set of skills for the employers budget, gets to do the job. Taking to Twitter about it is not ever a reasonable thing to do in this situation, even if they were insulting. People are insulting, get over it, if everyone launches a Twitter war every time they are insulted, we will all die in nuclear war in the end.

Had to be Goldeneye. But almost chose Pilotwings. That is such an awesome game, with the best music.

@N64-ROX But it's not the unintuitive solution. You are sitting there writing lines of c code against the graphics interface. You of course have it in your deep intuition what depth buffers do, what draw distance is, how to juggle these settings to do stuff. You sit down and have the idea to draw a sky box, you think "okay, it's gotta be behind everything else", and immediately you know that the solution is to just draw it first, without writing to the depth buffer. If you even consider the other solution, you immediately know that it would entail figuring out some adequate size, mucking with the draw distance. It would probably actually be slower, as writing to the depth buffer, and checking the depth buffer actually takes time.

@Maxz This is probably the best reply anyone gave me on the internet. Thanks.

@N64-ROX The draw distance is a setting. It's not a hard limit. What they do here is turn off a setting to write to the depth buffer, then turn it on again. Instead they could set the draw distance to some big value, then turn it back before drawing the rest, if needed. Probably the same performance, just a bit more fiddling with numbers.

I hated to break it to you, but it's all an illusion. Did you know link is actually just some 0s and 1s in a list, like everything else in any game? He just looks like a boy to your feeble mind. And there are no "sizes" to anything, if you start breaking it down.
The sky is the blue stuff in the image. Is it a trick more than anything else in the image? Does it matter at all the particular math the developers used to fill certain parts as sky? One can jump from any frame of reference to another at any time while rendering a scene. They could have made it a big box in the frame of reference of the terrain, but there i nothing to gain. You wouldn't loose anything either. It doesn't matter. When it doesn't matter developer just make the size be 1.0, because why invent some other size?

Some nes game. SMB or Track&Field probably.

@demacho Which harmful practices?

@8itmap_k1d I was more concerned about the implied assumption that this has anything to do with marriage. Nintendo should just take care of all employees as they think best.

@8itmap_k1d But in japan, marriage is a union of man a woman for life, and the govt. only has it as a thing in order to provide a stable frame for procreation and raising kids and ease that activity.
To say gay marriage is illegal is like saying square circles are illegal. Sure, in the west we now think such a frame is unnecessary an we can coopt the word to mean other things. But Japan has a different concept and wants to keep reinforcing families procreating in traditional ways.

What is marriage for though?

Me and a friend once hooked it up to two TVs and taped over the part that showed the opponent's screen. It was fun a little while, but actually I like better when screen cheating is a thing. It just becomes part of the game. The fights are just way slower and completely different without it. It's not as frantic and fun.