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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.

I think he's wrong on meta being a success. He looks at it as a competitor to games, which leads him to rightly conclude it's not going to be that.
However, he fails to realize that meta is not a game, but a drug playing on the weakest in human souls, on status, recognition, on FOMO, etc. Everyone will hate their life in meta, buy few will manage to stay out.

Scalping of items causes it's availability to those who really want it the most. The fact that it's selling for a high price only reflects the fact that most people just throw it in a drawer and forget about it. The alternative is mostly that the price is infinite, i.e. it's just not available at all. For some reason, that is ok, but the moment someone dares provide a service for the price they are willing to do it, it's something to complain about.

This online thing seems to be getting better. And with the additional MK8 DLC thing coming, I might consider online expansion again. Still feels a bit weird that it's so much extra for a package that will basically displace my time for enjoying the basic NSO service. I might play SNES a few more years, and when I'm tired of it, might then upgrade, or not, we'll see.

Not only lack of activity, but also lack of good nutrition (primarily whole natural foods containing vitamins D3, K2 and A, in their natural state ), makes for weak health and bodies. You need both.

The world is insane. The activity should be stopped, and that should be the end of it. Damages should only be possible to take from people who actually benefited, limited to the amount they benefited. Companies involved with intent should be shut down and assets given to the offended party. If this is not workable, then I prefer ending copyrights as a thing that people with guns should be allowed to enforce by a law. The world did fine without them, we can manage again.

I fond it despicable to jail someone for making tools. And even more despicable to give that sort of behaviour moral support by saying it's deserved. Buy what tops it all, is a site that does this, while at the same time making money writing about how cool all the mods and hacks are that result from it.

I might try it. But I don't play MK enough to warrant paying for a long while for extra tracks. I don't get why they don't just continue with the VC. That was an awesome selling point for Nintendo. I'm probably not getting the next Nintendo console, because the PC is starting to be a better solution. I don't want to have 15 consoles hooked up. The PC has some amateurs making better solutions than Nintendo, not by more effort, but simply by not being stupid about it.

I interpret it as Nintendo saying to fans that it's okay to start downloading ROMs for retro gaming, if that is the more convenient option to play what you have bought for the 5th time already. I take a pragmatic approach to private copying. I prefer paying, but I'm not jumping through insane hoops to pay for the same thing, often in worse condition, when I know that the easier and better thing would be to port the existing shop solution to the new hardware. And I don't think Nintendo minds, they just mind when people set up solutions that actually compete with the convenience of their new technologies. Keeping it low key, is key. Sure, there is the share holders to think of, with their short sightedness. But I think the actual workers prefer to keep their games played by new generations in the best experience, in stead of spinning to make new tech for the sole purpose of selling it as something new. They know this slowly kills the community and appreciation of their creations. I think copyright should be 10 years, to make room for selling things and establishing a reputation, but then I don't see why it should be protected any more really. I'll still prefer respecting the law as it is, but within reason, and pragmatically.