[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Heroes with herpes and villainous turkeys

Catching a virus from a girl in her thirties

Mouth parts all covered with pustules that sting

Those are a few of my favourite things

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 6 points 3 months ago

That egg looks great! Crazy value for less than $1

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 7 points 5 months ago

I used to love the Madness series and that game! There's a game on Steam by the same devs (at least I think it must be the same devs) - https://store.steampowered.com/app/488860/MADNESS_Project_Nexus/

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 6 points 5 months ago

Oh that's interesting! Explains why I always had difficulty chasing down shadow Mario on Switch

I'll have to check if it's possible to use analog triggers with the SN30 Pro+ on Dolphin...

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think slowing down on first party releases is natural at the end of any generation - once dev kits are available it just makes financial sense for new games to be built on the upcoming hardware.

Will Nintendo reduce the price of the current Switch's games? I doubt it (at least any time soon). Unlike the Wii U at the end of its lifespan, the Switch is still popular and people are still buying games like BOTW. And working on the assumption that there will be backwards compatibility, it wouldn't be consistent with Nintendo's strategy to reduce prices now.

I could see the new Metroid Prime being a Switch 2 launch title, and maybe they've been working on something like Odyssey 2 for that purpose. I doubt we'll see another Animal Crossing or Smash game for a while.

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah I think of sort of get it!

The public key is used within a function by the person sending the message, and even someone that knew the function and the public key wouldn't be able to decrypt the message, because doing so would require knowledge of the original prime numbers which they couldn't work out unless a computer spend years factoring the public key.

My only other bit of confusion:

  • If someone used a public key to encrypt the message "Hello", maybe it would spit out something like Gh5bsKjbi4
  • If someone else sent the exact same message I assume the outcome would also be identical, and therefore it would be possible by using common phrases to work out what was sent? I could type messages like Hi, Goodbye, Hola until I got to 'Hello' and realised it was the same output.
  • However I assume that a message like 'Hello, how are you?' would result in a completely different output (despite Hello appearing in both) and thus trying to work out any messages in a brute force way like this would be pointless.
[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 7 points 8 months ago

You're right about the fights, although I did find it quite fun picking up the guns and blasting my way through. They're all very beefy. For some reason it felt a bit out of character though - like using lethal weapons in Metal Gear.

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago

Very useful information, thank you! I'll look up some videos to watch the technique. Would using a teapot with an infuser have a similar effect to a gai wan?

Thanks for confirming that the tea doesn't expire.

Once I've got a hang of it, I'll bring some into work to share with the colleague that passed it on 😂

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago

Are we talking 1 on 1? I'm no expert, but didn't Spartans usually fight in groups with interlinked shields? So perhaps that type of shield wouldn't help much in this situation. I guess whoever could get a jab in between the armour of their opponent faster. My money would be on the samurai, but I think it would be a close fight.

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 6 points 10 months ago

I'm glad to see console and PC sectors growing. But damn, the revenue from mobile games is insane! Is that mostly from micro-transactions? I don't like that trend, but provided it doesn't impact console/PC games I'm not overly concerned.

Sure, you have plenty of free to play games with cosmetics still but it feels like the ubiquity of loot boxes is slowly dying down on console/PC (at least in the games I play).

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