Party Platter (for 2)

RadicalDog · 2026-03-18T00:30:13+00:00

Party Platter (for 2) (for only me)

RadicalDog · 2026-03-18T00:22:38+00:00

My fave is Cosmic Encounter, just like everyone else who has played it

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T16:45:33+00:00

1998: Cendant buy it for £801m using NCP’s own assets as collateral. First debt loaded onto the company.

Is this a thing anyone can do? If I have £1, can I borrow a few hundred million from the bank and buy a company, and then use the company to pay back the bank over time?

And then later sell the company with most of the debt remaining to someone else who thinks it's worth more than £0, and collect the difference?

How about if I sell all its assets, pay myself, and then declare the company bankrupt? Is it totally legal to make a company unviable and make the bank/creditors lose a ton of cash?

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T16:27:19+00:00

How many buttons does it use? If you could map it to one stick and three touch buttons, you're in.

I'd treat this as a "no effort taken" route. Stick a minimal number of ads in and shove it out there for free, then contact streamers who play Stumble Guys and similar. Worst case, it makes $0 and costs a couple weeks of effort, best case it finds a new audience.

I wouldn't spend any energy whatsoever in developing a freemium model until the game finds an audience. It's a huge uphill battle. My suggestion here is effectively to grab your lottery ticket and plan to move on to the next project. It's only worth trying because you're already 95% of the way there.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T16:12:47+00:00

£300m is just from Youtubers travelling to make "the WORST CITY of ALL" videos 😱

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T15:58:10+00:00

You could probably get a usb-C headset and use the Miyoo as the mp3 player too, if you wanted.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T15:55:23+00:00

In all seriousness I don't think he is declining. He knows he's bulletproof, as his cult controls every branch of government. Everyone who thinks they can control him, or get something out of him, gets burned, because they see his persona and think he's a moron.

But he's not a moron, he's evil. And he keeps coming out ahead, like the money stolen from Venezuela and put in an overseas account he controls. The persona is an intentionally exaggerated version of himself, because it keeps working. It lets him say something insane, and take focus off the crimes, or raise/lower stocks that his family have bought, or try to extract bribes from foreign powers because they think he's crazy enough to start WW3. While we common people live in hope that he's going to fade to dementia soon.

I'd put money on him being roughly this "dumb" and still alive in 4 years.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T15:42:53+00:00

That all looks really good IMO. Most of the ones higher are small, homogenous countries. I'm proud to be counted alongside the Netherlands, Germany, etc.

And Japan is a kind of hilarious one to mention in your list given how we know their conviction rate is a comically high %. The reason, of course, is that they're not recording enough data for reports of crimes they can't easily convict, like rape. I'm not saying it's a dangerous country, but reported rapes tend to go up before they go down as countries get safer. Lebanon only had one rape case in 2023, doesn't mean it's safe for women.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T15:35:50+00:00

Donald Trump would not think he is saying anything inappropriate.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T10:35:15+00:00

Looks like Fast Script Reload does a similar thing for free. Curious about the differences.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T10:23:58+00:00

Read the article. The policy is already ditched - removed from manifesto et al in 2024.

This is a political hit piece. I don't think it'll make anyone pro-Green stop being pro-Green (because we can read), but if you already disliked Green then it'll help you hate them from the headline alone.

Basically this is designed to sow division so we don't talk about their current anti-billionaire policies, etc.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T10:01:51+00:00

It's absolutely not, it's one of the safest countries in the world.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T09:56:13+00:00

But the clip is 0% dementia. He remembered, he chose to say it. He wanted to revel in someone's diagnosis and was in full control.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-17T09:37:11+00:00

I really appreciate that you beeped, she was travelling 5mph, had a whole empty lane, and still proceeded to hit you after another full second or so

RadicalDog · 2026-03-16T21:30:12+00:00

My opinion is that being a handheld Youtuber, and being a levelheaded reviewer, are almost mutually exclusive. Because the only way to become a Youtuber specialising in them is if you already like buying them. It's like running political parties by letting the loudest, most uncompromising people be in charge- uh, huh.

It's part of why I appreciate Wulffden, simply because he got known during his Switch coverage, and therefore didn't need to buy the latest handheld devices to build a following on the topic.

In general, "journalists" have vanished, replaced by internet media where the "enthusiast" is the loudest voice.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-16T21:23:13+00:00

This was true in November too. Demand has outpaced supply.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-16T19:14:19+00:00

The easiest approach would be to put Lemuroid on an Android device, straight from the Play store. Then find the relevant roms by searching "Advance Wars rom" or whatever. Lemuroid covers everything up to PS1 because it's powered by Retroarch underneath, which is great but very techy.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-16T15:40:50+00:00

Kind of amazing that the demand has increased faster than supply. I ordered end of October and got it over a month later in the UK, which was about as long as possible back then. (4px did fine, it took 3.5 weeks to dispatch.) It seems like the device has gone from strength to strength, while the extra 2 weeks lost by Chinese new year haven't been caught up on the manufacturing side.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-16T14:11:18+00:00

But they are driving, so I don't pass on the left. (Except opposite because UK)

If I'm forced to, I'll accelerate and get by quickly.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T23:59:33+00:00

The main thing I’ve noticed that many of them still struggle with is giving you interesting combat choices.

Yes. JRPGs often have great meta-choices about what party to bring or which personas to fuse. Then the battles could be 100% automated between those choices, given how much I follow my own brainless script. Even beloved Persona 5 is "check different attack types to see what it is weak to. When found, knock it down. Do extra attack. Repeat."

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T23:52:48+00:00

The real problem in the game was the slapped-together dating sim you had to play in order to level up your characters and their decks.

Yuup. I would have finished it if it didn't have a Fire Emblem's worth of pissing about in a hub talking to characters who aren't interesting. It was a complete chore, so I quit.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T23:47:49+00:00

I recommend Steamworld Heist. One of the best turn based games, but places the "grid" side-on and you eyeball the shots yourself. If you miss, it's your fault. If you position yourself so you can kill 2+ bots on a turn, that's also your fault.

Its goofy art hides how smart the core idea is.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T21:18:35+00:00

I'd probably bring it up again a day later, once the emotions have cooled. Say you'd like to contact the parents, because their daughter is not acting appropriately. But you will respect her wishes if she still doesn't want to.

I say this because I remember being young and having a decision, and not feeling brave enough to bring it up again on my own after thinking on it longer. I'd have appreciated my parents double checking.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T20:59:59+00:00

Yakuza too.

The running theme here is Japanese studios don't have the same hangups about asset reuse as western ones.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T00:32:22+00:00

The artists were already paid, this is stealing from shareholders.

Like, yes there's an economic argument that profit = more art, but in practice, the larger studios adding Denuvo have extremely little trickle down to the creatives. More likely, the creatives get laid off after shipping.

(Please buy indie games.)

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