[-] graymess@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

That's actually really funny.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

It's like he wrote an already weird sex scene description, then right clicked every word and chose the last synonym on the list.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago

Right? If it's years in prison either way, they're about to find out what real eco terrorism looks like when protestors are ready to go all in.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

Disagree. Tying it to SS just means it's a requirement for retirees who need government assistance. Rich old people driving the biggest, fastest cars will get to continue driving recklessly. Same thing with the person below who said the test should be incredibly expensive. Disagree. That only hurts the poor who may rely on their car in cities with terrible public transit infrastructure. In-car driving tests should simply be mandatory every few years for all drivers.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago

Cool. I might watch it now lol. Getting confirmation by a showrunner that a series will get to complete the overarching story they had planned is like a huge green light for me to check out a show I missed the train on earlier.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

How long until the majority of the Internet is inaccessible to non-Chromium browsers because the pages "don't support them"?

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

This is unreal. I'm looking forward to a new wave of modern ports for N64 games I missed.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago

Considering every Fallout game from the last two decades made top 20, I'd say yeah it's probably the show lol.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

I agree with the titties.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

It's not really worthy of Patient Gamers because I bought it shortly after launch (in an actual box at Best Buy), but the Orange Box was one of the most absurdly good deals I've ever seen. I can't even calculate how many hours I've gotten out of it because it ended up on an old Steam account, but TF2 alone is easily my most played game ever.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You have plenty of answers already, but one thing I want to point out that might not have been mentioned yet: The DS line of handhelds are unique hardware; the Switch is not.

By that I mean there is a vast library of games developed over ~15 years that were designed for the dual screen layout. Don't listen to what anyone tells you about emulation; those games are much, much better when played on actual Nintendo hardware, not because they run poorly on emulators, but because your phone, monitors, Steam Deck, and TV are one horizontal screen. Every alternative layout I've seen for emulating DS games is an awkward compromise to fit two screens on one. It sucks, it doesn't look good, and you'll have to change the layout on a per game basis because one size absolutely does not fit all.

Now look at the Switch. It's a standard 16:9 720p touch screen. Everything that can and will ever be built powerful enough to emulate a Switch will display those games in the way they were intended to be presented. When Switch emulation is perfect (and it's most of the way there) there is no compromise. You can already play Switch games on other handheld devices at higher resolutions and frame rates than the Switch itself can handle and it's an objectively better experience.

I only offer this perspective because you're talking about a very long term view of device ownership. We are now well past the period of game development on two screens as it existed on the DS line of handhelds. I highly doubt that phase of game design is ever coming back. And like it or not, many of those games are best experienced on the original hardware they were designed for and that will probably still be the case 20 years from now. On the other hand, we already have a plethora of alternative hardware options for games made for the Nintendo Switch and those numbers will grow considerably between now and 2044.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

You're in luck! There are millions of people playing games on Twitch. Who knew?

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