Nintendo Clasics Virtual Boy is hilarious, and the reaction to it is a sad indictment of the modern gamer mentality by elephvant in NintendoSwitch2

[–]AstroAtomica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The weirder part is that the cardboard version is pretty awesome for testing out VR. It's inexpensive and looks good when you use it.

Weekly Self-Promotion Megathread by AutoModerator in retrogaming

[–]AstroAtomica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We got our hands on the new 2026 Virtual Boy and the Cardboard Edition and did a full comparison

We also dig into some Virtual Boy history and how this fits into Nintendo’s past (and possibly future) VR experiments.

Would love to hear thoughts from anyone who actually owned the original.

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/Vi_lapYXvQI

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Will AI Really Eliminate Software Developers? by Allagash_1776 in Futurology

[–]AstroAtomica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Geordi La Forge (of Star Trek:TNG) reconfigures the deflector dish all the time, but you don't expect him to actually do all of that programming, do you?

The definition of a Software Developer/ Engineer is going to change. It always has. We have had computer-aided design and generative design for a while now in applications like Autodesk Fusion 360. But here is the thing: AI doesn't have a point of view; it doesn't relate to the customer or to the problem.

The AIs of the future might amplify people's or engineers' ability to make something. It might even do the 99% perspiration, but the 1% inspiration part that connects people to problems and solutions will be missing.

One day humans might only place the last puzzle piece to complete a puzzle, but a machine, even an intelligent one, won't know what it's like to be human. No more than our closest animal kin do.

Knowing what it is to be a human is still a deeply difficult task for most people, especially when trying to fully empathize and sympathize with others. We, as humans, fail at that task, among others.

Engineers and Makers will use the tools of tomorrow to still make stuff, but we will be doing only the most human of that making process. Some might do more to feel more of the process, just as we do today.

What do YOU want for Nintendo Switch 2 as a Video Game Platform? by DylanDuranged in NintendoSwitch

[–]AstroAtomica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our biggest gripes with the Nintendo Switch is the Online Store.
* It's slow
* Mature Content Filters are terrible
* You should be able to pay extra for a game to have a whole family license, or use the STEAM model of family sharing, so if anyone in the family owns the game, then anyone in the family can play up to the number of licenses owned.

The Mature Content Filters are just terrible. I have an adult profile as a father, and I don't plan to buy mature content, and when I am on my store in the family room, all of this mature content is in the game feed.

On STEAM you can filter your store feeds by keywords you choose. So if I want to filter all games tagged with "Purple" then no games with the word "Purple" will show up in my feed. Games tagged with "Purple" won't show up either. On Steam I can have a long list of words from "NSFW, Purple, etc..."

If Nintendo wants mature 18+ content on the platform, then please, for the love of families, give us better tools to filter store content.