Kinda makes you wonder who’s in there.

Can’t wait to play Fatal Fury for 10 minutes and then get bored. No shade against FF, just depression things.

Yep. Hardly any of that registers as a blip on the mass market. People have been calling for Nintendo to give up on hardware and just make games for other platforms for decades. Then the DS line happened. And then the Wii. And then the Switch. Each one pushed the boundaries of what the gaming space could be, despite the spec nerds raging at the lack of horsepower.

Nintendo does a lot of shady shit, but once Sega exited the market they were the only true gaming company left in the console space. PlayStation? Xbox? Just a small part of larger corporate empires.

I’m fucking thrilled that Steam picked up on the hybrid format. Not everyone wants to screw around with maintaining a PC. I was in corporate IT for 25 years and want nothing to do with any of it anymore. Enormous PC game library, consolized experience, and a big push to Linux, all with the Deck? That’s awesome from every angle. It’s always good to have more options. And if they can sell a hundred million more units, Nintendo might start having a problem. Until then, I’m pretty sure they’re just going to continue to print money.

People have been conditioned to understand numerical console increases for over two decades now thanks to the PlayStation.

And they even managed to do it while Microsoft counted to potato.

I had a coworker who was convinced that the whole thing was a scam. That it was just an upgraded Wii with a weird controller. So he went out and got a secondhand Wii U console. Just the console. Gave it to his kids for Xmas. Got mad when it didn’t work. Eventually got a gamepad (and maybe the power brick? I don’t remember if it’s cross compatible) and ended up spending more than buying it new.

I’m pretty sure even he can follow Switch -> Switch 2.

I’ve got small dumblights that are motion-activated and run on AAA batteries. Bought one for the bathrooms specifically so getting up in the middle of the night to take a leak doesn’t involve turning on the full light. They worked well enough (and they were cheap enough) that we now have like 6 in various places.

I bought a cheap silicone grip case for my 3DS XL. Night and day difference. Not so cheap was the Satisfye Switch grip, but they both make playing handheld so much more pleasant. Both *systems sacrificed ergonomics for portability. Adding grips reduces portability in exchange for ergonomics. I’m okay with that.

That’s exactly it, thanks! Probably the most trippy time I’ve noticed it is when a friend of mine put up purple fairy lights for Halloween. At the edge of my field of view, each light got split into distinct red and blue lights. Made me do a triple take.

How to piss off management with one simple word.

Does the image look three dimensional to anyone else? The colors are creating an illusion of depth on my phone screen.

Do you wear glasses? I get pretty noticeable chromatic shift with mine, where colors seem to move independently of each other the steeper the side viewing angle gets.

starts applying clown makeup

Yeah, butt are they desperate and loaded?

I found 3 tolerable except for the boss battles. It just wasn’t the same after Activision acquired the IP. The devs behind GH1 and 2 (Harmonix) moved on to make Rock Band. Activision flooded the zone and mostly killed the genre due to oversaturation over a decade ago. DLC for RB4 ended just last year (thanks Epic, and fuck you).

One of these days I’m going to dig out my CRT and hope my PS2 guitars still work.

Text messages are faster IMO

I’m a huge fan of The Who. Not so much Pearl Jam, but goddamn they did a fine cover of Love Reign O’er Me:

https://youtu.be/IAeKLnbj2I8

This came up in another thread recently. T-Pain knocked War Pigs out of the park:

https://youtu.be/YhjIs2Htzdc

Blind Guardian is niche enough that they’re not going to be on many people’s radar, let alone for best cover ever. But their version of Mr. Sandman always brings a smile to my face, if nothing else than for the iterative nature of each verse.

https://youtu.be/hAwqllUUJZg

Mad props to Ms. Ballbricker for not breaking. Legendary scene.

(problem with ARP tables or something)

If I had a nickel for every time clearing the ARP tables fixed something, I’d have a shitload of nickels.

Take what someone else can use (not sell), chuck the rest in a hole in the ground in the middle of the woods.