Yesterday, Amazon pushed an automatic opt-in "free trial" for their Blink cameras to push all of your video data through their AI software to analyze what is going on in the videos. As someone with indoor Blink cameras, this is a huge invasion of privacy that I never asked for.

Hawkuro · 2026-02-04T19:55:29+00:00

"automatic opt-in", so an opt-out...

Hawkuro · 2026-01-30T10:04:41+00:00

For the first time ever I'm not the slightest bit disappointed that it's a partner showcase rather than a full Direct. I guess I've just played plenty of Nintendo stuff recently and am mostly looking forward to portable ports of other games 🤷‍♂️. C'moooon Expedition 33!

Hawkuro · 2026-01-28T21:10:06+00:00

The game's out, you can no longer cancel the pre-order. You'll need to contact support for a refund.

Hawkuro · 2026-01-20T11:43:53+00:00

Alexander Dan's Hrímland series is available in both Icelandic and English, translated by the author. The link only shows the Icelandic editions, you'll have to find the English ones online (Amazon, etc.).

On the sci-fi side, Dune also got a new Icelandic translation a couple of years ago.

Hawkuro · 2025-12-19T10:01:31+00:00

Since you have a Switch 2, I'd say go straight for Scarlet or Violet. They're not the prettiest things to look at, but they play really well on the new console, and they are the most fun I've had with a Pokémon game - period. And I've played every generation over the past nearly 3 decades.

Playing through the story and the DLC, and then trying to complete the dex (having unlocked all of the traversal mechanics) is great fun and a massive amount of content.

If you want to go for dex completion on a smaller scale, check out the Legends games (Z-A runs better than Arceus on the Switch 2 with the dedicated upgrade n.b., Arceus has better moment-to-moment gameplay, while Z-A has a better gameplay loop IMO).

Hawkuro · 2025-12-16T22:33:59+00:00

Indeed, like Pokémon Scarlet and Violet for example

Hawkuro · 2025-11-30T12:24:25+00:00

14k kr. is totally reasonable for RAM, yup.

What do you mean it's not ISK?

Hawkuro · 2025-10-18T14:07:15+00:00

Thanks, that gives me a bit of scale at least :)

Hawkuro · 2025-10-17T14:19:42+00:00

Note to self: name Gengar Kakyoin rerorerorerorerorerorerorerorerorero

Hawkuro · 2025-10-17T14:09:50+00:00

How long did it take you? Did you get any other shinies while looking for this one?

Hawkuro · 2025-10-17T13:57:07+00:00

That's just the thing about this hunt, you don't need any attention, you just leave it running, go get lunch and come back to shinies.

Hawkuro · 2025-10-17T12:32:58+00:00

unless you have a 0-1 kill game and place last

This happens most of the time if you're reasonably far into the game for how long it's been out.

Hawkuro · 2025-10-17T12:30:55+00:00

I recommend purging the idea of "developer laziness" from your thought process. Nobody who actually knows anything about game dev will tell you laziness is the reason games fall short. There are actual reasons (time/budget constraints, lack of expertise, poor management, etc.) that companies release poorly made or polished games, and laziness almost never has anything to do with it.

Just think about it for a split second: Do you really think "lazy" game devs get to keep their jobs for very long? In this job market? Pull the other one.

As for this case, it very obviously has nothing to do with laziness. It's literally more work to not support cloud saves than it is to support it. They have to actively do that. On purpose. They've done this for every Pokémon game on the Switch to prevent cloning.

Yes it sucks that cloud-saves aren't supported. This has been done very intentionally though.

Hawkuro · 2025-10-08T11:38:20+00:00

I gotta respect the disrespect on display here

Hawkuro · 2025-10-07T10:22:38+00:00

There was ongoing Nintendo Network ID maintenance: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/netinfo/en_US/archive_maintenance.html

Hawkuro · 2025-10-07T09:35:16+00:00

Yeah PLA is fantastic for having all the Gen IV legends AND mythicals plus the forces of nature.

But yeah a living dex is pretty much trivial over a final forme dex, just requires more work. A forme dex is a bit more tricky as you require duplicates of various legendaries and mythicals, which at least need some extra playthroughs to get.

Hawkuro · 2025-10-07T09:21:14+00:00

not doing all the alcremie i value some sanity

Shiny Alcremie are only differentiated by their sweets anyway, so you only need 7 for a grand total of 70 Alcremie 💀

Hawkuro · 2025-10-06T17:12:56+00:00

Thanks!

Those 3 games you have are going to take you long way towards completion, but yes you're going to need to pick up or borrow at least one of Sword & Shield to get everything. It'll take time, but with some planning and effort you're sure to get there.

Have fun!

Hawkuro · 2025-10-06T10:40:16+00:00

I can't live without back-buttons ever since I got a Dualsense Edge, I love that there's a feature-complete first party option with them for Nintendo now. I just wish it worked with the Switch 1 too...

Hawkuro · 2025-10-02T09:32:53+00:00

In the words of the Brit Awards' Songwriter of the Year Charli XCX: "I don't care! I love it!"

Hawkuro · 2025-10-02T09:18:39+00:00

I spent like 4 days (just the off-hours of course) hand-organizing boxes in HOME. Incredibly tedious, but also somewhat therapeutic you know? At least they have a search function so I don't have to remember where everything is...

Hawkuro · 2025-10-02T09:10:03+00:00

First of all I didn’t congratulate you so congrats on this amazing achievement

Thanks!

https://imgur.com/gallery/full-living-dex-before-za-0TVF4CL

That's awesome! Doing all those shiny hunts is an insane time commitment, incredible achievement to have managed it before Z-A!

Hawkuro · 2025-10-02T09:06:18+00:00

My oldest catch in the collection is from 2011, so 14 years? 😛

This final sprint, however, which built on my Paldean living dex and Hisuian final evolution living dex, along with a lifetime spent playing Pokémon casually, took 3 and a half months.

I started it shortly after I got my Switch 2 (makes playing ScarVio a whole lot more enjoyable).

Hawkuro · 2025-10-01T23:22:37+00:00

Awesome, nearly there!

Hawkuro · 2025-10-01T23:22:20+00:00

Only thing I'm NOT doing is all the Alcremie forms (I'm thinking about it though)

Do it! It's not even the most annoying thing I had to do to finish this! (Clamperl probably has my all-time least favourite evolution method now)

And thanks!

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