[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 year ago

They also don't have the thumb touchpads that Valve has put so much effort into. That's a huge form-factor advantage.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago

Honestly, as somebody who really loved the early era of Android gaming, I'm really disappointed how ephemeral it all was between the Play Store delistings and the absolutely atrocious approach to backwards compatibility in the Android OS.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 55 points 2 years ago

ITT:

"Nobody understands fedipact, Jabber, activitypub, Ruby, embrace/extend/extinguish, mastodon, lemmy, Java, federation, Kubernetes, XMPP, Docker, architecture, carburetors, Ikebana, midwifery, Filipino stickfighting, Zoroastrianism, hegelian philosophy, or XML but me, and therefore you're all morons with nothing to contribute to this conversation".

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 years ago

There's a huge discrepency between the scary warnings about Q* calling it the lead-up to artificial superintelligence, and the actual discussion of the capabilities of Q* (it is good-enough at logic to solve some math problems).

My theory: the actual capabilities of Q* are perfectly nice and useful and unfrightening... but somebody pointed out the obvious: Q* can write code.

Either

  1. "Q* is gonna take my job!"

  2. "As we enhance Q*, it's going to get better at writing code... and we'll use Q* to write our AI code. This thing might not be our hypothetical digital God, but it might make it."

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We all have hundreds of games that are $0, it's called "all the games in your steam account you already own that you haven't played yet".

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 years ago

Uh I'll stick to Firefox thanks.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 years ago

I can see the argument for hand luggage prices when most airline planes don't have enough room in the overhead compartments if everybody maxes them out, and the process of sorting that stuff out often adds substantial delays when loading and unloading. I'm not sure the right answer here, but I can see how there's a legit discussion to be had there.

But the "charging to sit next to your family members" has always been indefensible.

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[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 years ago

Other way around. Musk's backers wanted the state media label gone, so he applied it to legit sources so it would be destroyed by the outcry.

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F-Zero 99 has proven the viability of OG FZero gameplay on for modern fans.

My thoughts:

Fans are going to say "This means you should make a new #FZero successor to FZeroGX".

I'm going to disagree.

What this actually means is you should make F-Zero Maker as a successor to Mario Maker.

The OG tracks are 2D and simple, they could very easily be hand-made by players in an editor.

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I've been playing more #FZero99 (just made it to A- rank, best finish is 6th so far).

The game is excellent in some ways - the old Mode7 graphics look goddamned beautiful on a big modern HD screen, and they've done a brilliant job adapting the classic assets into new ways, like the new spin-attack. The game has a simple and clean design that adds only a little to the classic game - it handles like the original (which is similar to MarioKart without weapons), but now boost burns health and collisions drop coins that you can use to "superboost" which is a short-term access to an elevated faster track.

It feels very random, but in a fun way - like, if Fall Guys was too chaotic for you don't pick this up. Getting into top ranks in a race seems to depend on a lucky melee kill (which gets you enough health to abuse the booster), or pummeling a fortunately-placed Gold Bumper or two (which quickly give you enough coins for the superboost). Both of those are available on a pretty random basis. The occasional lag-spike adds even more to the randomness of play. But still, I'm enjoying it.

The big flaw imho is lack of variety.

I'm so sick of Mute City and Big Blue, after only a few days playing. The main game currently only has a 4 track rotation with 2 voting options, and voters always take the easier option. It's a problem that the original SNES F-Zero only had 15 tracks, and they're trying to keep it to Knight (Easy) League for now except for the "expert tracks" mode which is just Port Town 2 and White Land 1. They're obviously going to bring in the other leagues over time, but that's still only 15 tracks and some of those are hard-mode-remakes of older ones.

There's also only 4 cars to choose from - there's the speedy one, the brawler (important in these crowded courses), the fast-recharger (remember that health is boost) and the all-arounder. So good options to match your playstyle, but still: only 4.

F-Zero was a SNES launch-title that smashed it out of the park with music and gameplay and graphics and style, but it was obviously made under a deadline and so it doesn't have an amazing amount of content, and you really feel that playing F-Zero 99.

It's just too repetitive. I loved the OG, but I'd sacrifice nostalgia for some new, unfamiliar courses.

But yeah, if you've got access to Nintendo Switch Online, I'd definitely give it a try. You can't beat the price: Free is my favourite flavour. It's easy to pick up, the tutorial is pretty quick, and it's fun. And it's a Nintendo "99" nostalgia game, which means it's certainly going to be time-limited. Play it while you can.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Authentication servers do not run themselves, they need babysitting and patching and upgrading because this is users' passwords and secrets. Microsoft obviously does not want to keep managing this old login system because it's miserable unrewarding janitorial work for a sysadmin or a developer.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People switching to Unreal are like the ex-Twitter users who went to Tumblr and Threads.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 years ago

Queen Elizabeth was a good place to stop.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5060059

I'm going to be honest, Bonnie Crombie throwing her hat into the ring convinced me to sign up to vote against her. Ontario does not need a Blue Liberal NIMBY today.

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I'm going to be honest, Bonnie Crombie throwing her hat into the ring convinced me to sign up to vote against her. Ontario does not need a Blue Liberal NIMBY today.

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It seems like the whole feature is running wrong and should probably be hidden until it can be reexamined. Because every Lemmy server seems to have "trending communities" that are just empty new communities or are just single-user bot feeds. And those are fine uses of lemmy! But they're not "trending".

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 years ago

I honestly didn't know they still had Google Play Movies and TV still, I'd assumed they'd folded it completely into the YouTube movies brand already.

As a Google Play Music user, I'm retroactively angry. I would've loved that many years of GPM while they worked a couple (not enough) of the kinks out of YTM. And I wish I still had access to Google's music store, since Amazon doesn't sell in Canada and I hate having to install a desktop application to shop at Apple.

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