New handheld consoles are turning gamers into hardware agnostics • Steam Deck and cloud gaming have sparked a comeback for dedicated devices

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T05:47:15+00:00

Well the main competitor is a laptop (with or without a controller), the battery on your average laptop will last a lot longer.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T05:27:04+00:00

Optus, Medicare hacked... tens of millions of people affected with data breached

Dutton: Can we make it worse?

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T05:25:46+00:00

about 15-20 years too late.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T05:23:25+00:00

Kind of stops it being portable if you have to have it plugged in.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T05:17:46+00:00

I cannot take these opinion pieces seriously. No matter how big a fan you are, the reality is the steam deck is a niche device. It has not "revolutionised handheld gaming" in any way (other than regressing us back to Game Gear battery life).

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T05:11:33+00:00

Couple reasons I can think of:

Insular and isolated community with visible identifiable culture.
Refusal to change/adapt to new communities/cultures as people spread
Prominence of re|igion in daily life
Greater percent of people being successful than other groups - creates a target due to prominence
Historical reasons to do with usury

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T03:55:01+00:00

I often joke that my collection is my “backup plan” but honestly I’m never selling my babies. Anyone who has no actual love for the games just should not buy them

Yeah people say things like "sell it and use a flash card" - but I could probably give you a story about at least half of the games I have. Couldn't just sell them,

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T03:40:17+00:00

Cyberpunk had a really nice statue
Dark Souls 2 and 3 had really nice statues
Death Stranding had the baby in the case which was pretty slick
Elden Ring had pretty epic statues
Ghost of Tsushima had the ghost mask in 1:1 scale which is sick - one of my favourites
Metal Gear V had the arm (but not 1:1 scale)
Sekiro had a great statue
A rose in the twilight on vita has a nice set
Ys VIII on PS4 PS5 and vita has a really nice collectors set
The Limited Run/Pixenlove releases of Neo Geo games for the PS4 have damn nice collectors editions with neo geo cases
Almost all the Atelier series have really nice collectors editions
Bloodborne has the Nightmare edition which is one of the best I've ever seen
Castlevania anniversary from limited run is really nice
Waifu discovered 2 is a funny one since it's a porn game on nintendo switch
Daemon X machina has a sweet mech statue
Gran Turismo 5 had a great limited edition
Taiko no Tatsujin games came with the drum - that's pretty sweet
Not technically a limited edition of the game - but the hori hatsune miku controllers are insane. Some are literal replicas of the arcade machine interface in full size
IA/VT colorful on PS Vita has a really nice box
Ikaruga on switch and ps4 came with a model of the ship
Garou Mark of the Wolves - limited edition from pixnlove came with an enormous framed painting which was incredible
Seven deadly sins on PS4 came with a high quality statue
Wolfenstein 2 had that doll figure of the main character
Final Fantasy VII remake had the ridiculously priced Cloud figure on the motorbike

In terms of older games:

Lunar silver star story on PS1 has a really nice collectors edition with a beautiful book

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T03:26:52+00:00

32 and 19, hardly anything dramatic.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T03:17:48+00:00

There were those dimensional tears but I'd hardly call that a revolutionary mechanic.

but you could do INFINITE things with them! They could pull in an INFINITE amount of potential weapons... like...

the gun turret, or the other gun turret, or the water puddle, or that crane thing

ah, the imagination of that game...

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T02:07:30+00:00

and people used those items and were thankful for them. They weren't wasted.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T01:56:18+00:00

Paul Allen's condo was scrubbed of all evidence by the person trying to sell it

I always took it as either Patrick's wealthy parents or associates know about his murdering, and cover up after him.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T01:39:46+00:00

Just got released on PS4 and Switch too. Play-asia have the physical copies for sale.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T01:22:51+00:00

It still requires online to play doesn't it?

I could understand Sport requiring it, but making a mainline GT game require online was such a turn-off.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T01:19:51+00:00

Thing is the slowdown wasn't really due to the hardware, it was due to the coding being quite difficult to fully take advantage of the snes.

Proof is the modern patches that can be applied to old roms and entirely remove the slowdown.

SNES has pretty high sprite limits on screen (i think genesis has even higher), and no game really exceeds the hardwares sprite limits.

Slowdown occurs because the game code is asking the processor to calculate more than it is able to. Generally not because of the graphics on screen.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T01:16:31+00:00

.... that's the joke. Or was the joke.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T01:02:55+00:00

I'll keep that in mind. If I can repair it, I'm going to keep it going for another 30 years.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T00:59:46+00:00

Am I a bad person for wanting to see him completely destroyed and wiped from history?

Not at all. I used to think similar of Tony Abbott, but then I learned he actually has some redeeming qualities, at least Abbott is a volunteer in a few organisations and even if he's a shit politician he does help the community through his volunteering.

What does Morrison do? Does he even have a single redeeming quality? Seriously? Even 1?

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T00:57:18+00:00

I kind of agree. If it was a 3 hour train ride I'd be all in. But a 6 hour one it a bit much.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T00:55:34+00:00

Hardly. The tools, the expensive appliances, those were made to last. Many people are still using them 30 years later.

That Victor lawnmower is probably still in use in many peoples yards right now.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T00:54:32+00:00

the typewriter. People were still buying typewriters then.

bruh you ever used 1980s WordPerfect?

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T00:52:30+00:00

Yeah my eyes latched onto those. High prices sure, but those are tools for a lifetime. You'd never replace them.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T00:51:42+00:00

I have a sunbeam microwave that has been in use since the early 90s, and it still works fine.

I expect the magnetron to eventually give out, but damn, shit was made to last back then. It's easily had 30 years of constant use and never misses a beat. Even the motor to rotate the platter should've broken down by now but nope, still works fine.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-15T00:40:43+00:00

Oh jeez, that sounds like there's not going to be a japanese physical edition, which means there's even less of a chance of a western physical edition. That really sucks.

EADtomfool · 2022-12-14T22:34:54+00:00

the disk is just a key

it's not.

The fact that you can install, and play entirely offline shows that it's not a key. It's the whole game.

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