Hahaha hahaha. That is all
Yeah I only had a Genesis and I shared it with my brother and we had TWO whole games for it and the occasional rental. I don't remember what they cost back then, but I do remember that games cost more than what I could really get as a birthday present. I didn't buy a console myself until the Xbox came out and I was older by then.
I was very lucky though, my Dad worked for an old school (like guys in a pile of junk in an old house programming) company. His boss liked me and used to give me dumb little projects in trade for discarded computer parts. Sure, none of it was good, but to play the shareware stuff I'd download off BBS or cheap stuff I'd get at Radio Shack it was way more than enough.
That's not really new. I wonder if he's been suicided yet.
Why I stopped being a framerate snob
This needs to become a thing. One guy I used to play with, I'm pretty sure you could have made a game called frame rate simulator built just piss him off when the numbers were like 0.000000000000001% lower than his expectation. Yeah, I don't understand playing games to sit for hours and optimize settings then stare at a fps meter the entire time so you can go into a rage when the number changes for any reason whatsoever.
How Sweet Baby Inc ruined a game called Flintlock
How do these small companies get infiltrated so easily? Is it just cuckery of the owners/founders? I mean this company is tiny and has made one game. Why are they hiring an outside COO at all, then they can't just tell her to piss off when it's clear she's destroying the game? My best guess is they are selling their company out to investors that then demand DEI and shit. You know what, if you want to make a game, just self fund it and make what you can. If it's fun it doesn't have to look or feel AAA and be big budget and require a ton of outside money.
Maybe AAA deserves to die.
Yes.
Dead Space 2 Remake
No.
I'm the oddity that actually liked Inquisition. I think partly because it did a decent job of allowing you to be a spellcaster without being an FPS game with your hands or a wand or something. Lots of games are great at letting you be "melee with spells" or something, but you want to a cloth draped wizard? Yeah sure it's here good luck. I don't remember the story at all though, chosen one something or other. Definitely no good. They also did a horrible job making it too easy to get stuck in the awful early zone that's just green grass and boring side quests, so that's what most people played. The other zones are all much better.
Still, though, I think that might have been my last Bioware game. Depending on timeline. Nothing like KOTOR or DA:O. I've actually got Jade Empire I've been meaning to play too.
We already have this with signs for "Men" and "Women". They are the ones who redefined those words to be something else.
Exactly, it sure seems like Counter Strike still does well after however many years.
There's nothing wrong with more of the same.
Empire of the Ants looks cool. I'll have to check it out later, but I never end up giving strategy games their due. They are usually designed for autistic obsession and I move on to something else. Still looks cool.
Felix the Cat
Well, that's something I forgot about. I remember when I was in elementary school playing some sort of Felix the Cat DOS game at a friends house that I never did play again. I think it was a CD and at the time those were not something we could copy so I couldn't take it home. Yeah, I haven't remembered that in 30 years. That's not these games though.
I felt like they had been shooting themselves in the foot over franchises even before the propaganda became front-and-center. People that wanted a Call of Duty or Halo or whatever just wanted more of the same game with some fancier graphics and new maps in the end. Of course if they had just made these games instead of what they did, the game journalists and Youtubers and all the tiny voices amplified would have cried "omg it's just a DLC, don't play this, we need more changes!" You know what, people still buy the dreadful EA sports games with a roster update and a pretty menu every single year...
Yeah one thing I forgot is how much kids are comfortable playing things on phones and tablets. Those touch controls make me want to throw the thing across the room.
I'd still be shocked if Nintendo goes away from that any time soon. They have a strong library of games people want that don't seem to be losing ground as badly.
I always thought console "wars" were for stupid 12 year olds arguing about teraflops and triangles.
It could be forseen with consoles basically becoming PCs. Terms people still use like "PC port." It's not really much of a port, they are the same architecture. I imagine most devs do a ton of the work on PC first, not like the old days where you would serial port to a dev kit. Even Sony sees there's money in opening up their games to more of a market with the work involved being minimal to do so.
I don't see consoles going entirely away, tons of people don't care about anything hardware and just want something to play their two or three really mainstream games on. Sony will keep making them. Nintendo will keep making them, if you call the Switch a console. It's more of a dockable successor to the 3DS.
A lot of my complaints about PC were addressed so I went back, with the added benefit of being able to run old games and emulators the easiest of any platform too. Now lets get rid of Windows.
As long as they import some spotted dick for them too. It’s probably already the state food of California.
How do the brits have so many uses for faggot? I didn’t know this one, but the cigarette one too. I remember reading a book and couldn’t get over a part where it said they “liked to have a fag every now and then”
I’ve found myself accidentally downvoting posts just from pressing a touchscreen to scroll or something before. If i see it I remove it, but just one possible explanation
I keep going back to Brave unfortunately. Librewolf has been good a lot of the time though. It just seems every time I use a non-Chrome/webkit based browser there's always a site that doesn't work. So, I guess I'd go back to Librewolf if I woke up tomorrow and Brave was gone.
Oh thanks I will grab this to play with my cousin later, it's tough to get a teenager to try anything new but this looks dumb enough and the price is right.
Oh wait Tom Holland, he's the bony little guy that plays Spiderman isn't he? I was confusing with Tom Hardy...
So I guess in the proper feudal system, Lord Montague saves Romeo from a life of misery with this thing and if he's actually desirable he gets a beautiful woman. Juliet still wins, as she is arranged to be married off to another undesirable disfigured person of a prominent family.
Or in the modern system, she turns tranny and joins the 41%.
Spencer said publicly traded companies have to show constant growth or else nobody will give them money.
This is an argument, and in my opinion a fallacy, they constantly perpetuate to call out capitalism. It's part of what's broken with the stock market too, and he's not wrong they will be unhappy with him along with driving his stock price way down if he doesn't present growth. The thing is, a continuous flow of steady profit, without growth, is still healthy capitalism (excluding adjusting the not-growth for rampant inflation). If you make a game that every year makes a $10M profit consistently every year, that should be celebrated as success. The commies just don't want to look at that because they only listed to wall street talking heads and speculators screaming for growth, growth, growth, as what is and only is capitalism.
Regarding Xbox though, can they even make consistently profiting games? The proportion of total gamers : those playing Microsoft games is what's really broken. How about just making some fun games without preaching a ridiculous message, and see where that gets you.
I've done okay with rentals outside of what you'd call hipster liberal areas, but that's in America where such places exist that aren't shitholes. Rural small-to-mid size towns in red state. Cheap to buy and easy to rent if you buy right. The rent isn't that crazy but I don't lose money at all. I've not had to evict but I've heard it's pretty easy in the state. My tenants stay in, pay, and don't trash the place. I fix things that are broken without much complaint and don't run the rent through AI models to extract every little cent. Works fine for me.
Although I may start to sell out if any tenants leave. Not that there's been a lot of issues, just I've built up quite a bit of capital there, maybe I'll try commercial real estate or something. For now, if they keep paying I'm going to leave them be.
Is it safe for me to say the English words presented here in both new and old are from officially released translations of the games? I just want to know what I'm looking at, particularly that with the old version of P3 shown it's not a fan translation or AI translation.
I made a ton of money in my early teenage years as a result of what would have started out with games. Starts as an elementary school making maps, hacking games, things like drivers, memory management, other things you had to do in DOS. Am I really in IT now, no, but that's by choice. The learning that resulted from that gaming had me learning people skills and business as a 13 year old trying to sell websites and tech services and continued to the point it paid for my entire college education with not a cent of debt coming out of it.
I don't think it applies less now. Well, maybe somewhat as things are a bit easier. I never had consoles much, we had one at one point, but never really had the money for games. I did have access to computers because my Dad was in IT.
How many people have left Twitter over "misinformation?" It seems like they are all still there bitching about it to me.
Is it deleted? Can't see the post
They really can't help but make it easy to compare them to animals.
If they get to something like Assembly, do it with a simpler setup like a Gameboy, NES, Genesis, etc. Z80, 68k, or 6502. It's all super well documented, simple, and you can do most of it with an emulator so you can get live access to the contents of the address space and registers and such. It's really useful to learn how the computer actually works, how putting things on the screen is really just a memory location, etc.
It's still an awful place to start though. I'd do QBasic just for ease of playing around and debugging. That's what I started on years and years ago I was probably 6 or 7. It's also got a nice help file for syntax. Then see what they are interested in. I personally love low-level programming and optimization, which is kinda a useless skill anymore. Everyone likes engines and high-level stuff now.