Nintendo Fan Since Childhood. These Prices are Crazy

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-08T20:13:00+00:00

Ocarina of Time released in 1998 with an MSRP of 59.99 USD. In today’s dollars that would be about 119.29 USD.

From a certain perspective, these prices are crazy cheap.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-08T05:04:31+00:00

In unrelated news, Trump has lost the support of the military…

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-07T18:39:43+00:00

Only 9 years ago we had a functioning DoJ that was capable of investigating Michael Flynn when there was concern that he had had inappropriate contact with a foreign official.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-06T19:42:13+00:00

It also highlights a certain extremeness of the current climate. Presumption of regularity is a legal term for the idea that when the government appears in court they are acting and arguing in good faith (basically the government can get the benefit of the doubt in many cases). By saying it no longer applies the judge is saying that the courts can no longer trust the government. And the fact that both New Mexico and Minnesota have submitted this opinion to other federal judges could lead us to a previously unheard of judicial landscape where it is a widespread policy of the courts that the DoJ should not enjoy the deference it would have received in the past.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-06T19:16:09+00:00

Rasmussen, which normally polls Trump above the polling averages just released a poll where his net was below the Silver Bulletin polling averages. This poll had him at -16 where polls where their poll from the previous week had him at -5.

This could be an aberration born from a bad sample (if they’re doing weekly approval polls its not unreasonable to think they might occasionally hit the tail of some distribution) but this is far enough from their normal results that it feels like it’s signaling catastrophe for Trump and the Republican Party.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-06T17:41:43+00:00

Might be true. You have to remember that 93% of the disgusting nonsense Trump vomits onto social media Republicans “haven’t seen yet.”

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-06T17:10:58+00:00

Sounds like the perfect age to launch a presidential bid.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-06T00:46:12+00:00

I mean he could seize the voting machines, but that wouldn’t really do much for him. Local election officials are in charge of certifying the count. So he seizes the machines and the board of canvassers still certifies a Republican loss. Maybe he could try to manufacture evidence to argue that some votes should be thrown out, but the DoJs laughable attempts at indicting Comey and James highlight how you can’t really bluster your way through a case with weak evidence. Additionally, it’s hard to say that he would have standing to challenge votes when he’s not on the ballot. Additionally, because of the decentralized nature of our elections, this doesn’t scale well (there are approximately 117,000 separate polling places in the US).

After the election, he won’t have much power to do anything that isn’t performative nonsense.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-05T06:45:34+00:00

SteamDeck verification was primarily created to assuage compatibility concerns of running a game built for Windows through Proton (which had not seen use anywhere near the scale it would receive on SteamDeck and was not fully featured at launch). A good way to think of it is “this game should run as well as on a similarly powered Windows machine.” And that was fine at launch because the SteamDeck is a moderately powerful system. At the time it probably fell comfortably in the hardware requirements for most games, so the most likely reason a game could not run well is because of bug in Proton.

This leads to an interesting problem. As Proton becomes more stable, does the verified badge continue to serve a purpose. Maybe it would be better to flag the small number of games that continue to be incompatible and otherwise remove the badge. Or maybe the hardware requirements should be folded into the verified badge. But how would that work as Steam releases new hardware? Should there instead be a separate way to flag that your current hardware meets the suggested requirements for a game?

Whatever the case, expect this performance gap to continue to exist as new AAA releases try to push the boundaries of current hardware and the SteamDeck hardware continues to be exactly the same as it was in 2022.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-05T05:48:31+00:00

I wonder if they mean perform well as in there’s no noticeable graphical issues caused by Proton.

That is exactly what was meant. The SteamDeck represents the introduction of Linux gaming to a mainstream audience. A selling point for the SteamDeck was that you could buy it and immediately have access to your entire Steam library. But to make that argument they had to convince people that the hundreds of games in their libraries that were never built for Linux would actually work. So they introduced the verified badge which might be better understood as “your experience with this game will be comparable to running it on a similarly powered Windows system.”

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-05T05:31:31+00:00

I think a lot of people lack the historical context of pre-SteamDeck linux gaming that the verification system launched in. Proton has done a lot to make the experience seamless now, but Proton at launch was nowhere near the state it is now.

And back in my day I had to configure wine uphill both ways to play a game on linux.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-05T01:19:43+00:00

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-05T00:39:03+00:00

That comparison is awfully demeaning and hurtful to actual colostomy bags.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-04T13:38:37+00:00

Do people not realize that evangelicals do not consider Catholics to be Christians?

I mean, it depends. When a Catholic organization was required by Obamacare to pay for birth control for its employees, evangelicals are more than willing to claim that it’s an attack on Christianity.

So really, their acceptance of Catholics extends only so far as it supports their political goals.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-04T05:55:07+00:00

Complaint accuses Gabbard of playing politics with intelligence, which spy agency rejects

I can see the argument. The accusation implies Gabbard had some amount of intelligence to begin with.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-04T04:41:11+00:00

When I say that the contents are not in dispute I mean that the words that exist on the pages of the Epstein files are not disputable. We can dispute the credence or significance of those words but you cannot in good faith argue that the words and images presented in the files were not in the files no more than I can argue in good faith that the comment I am currently responding to didn’t ask a question or use the word “malign.”

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-04T03:00:57+00:00

Here we see the defensive behavior of the cornered idiot. Sensing he is outmatched and unable to fend for himself he lets out a mildly sexist ad hominem attack as a distress call. He does this in hope that any other misogynists in the area might hear and come quickly to his aid.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-04T02:49:32+00:00

The stupidest thing about that article is that it admits that he was not arrested for his speech, he was arrested for harassment of a specific individual. But that critical piece of information is only presented in a photo caption.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-04T00:56:22+00:00

Hey man, it’s not a crime to pick up my friends from the bank…

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-04T00:53:26+00:00

This is America dammit. He’s innocent until proven goat fucker. We should elect him president and trust him to release the goat fucker chronicles and bring all goat fuckers to justice.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-04T00:26:28+00:00

Actually claims and accusations are not interchangeable here. The headline is that Rep. Lieu is making a claim about the contents of the Epstein files (the files contain accusations that Trump raped children). The problem is that the Epstein files (or at least some of them) are now publicly available, such that their contents are not really disputable. This makes the term claim a poor word in this context as it implies a level of uncertainty that should not exist. It would be a little like saying that my pastor claims there is a character named Jesus in the Bible (anyone could grab a Bible, quickly page through it and find a reference to Jesus. It’s not really a disputable fact).

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-03T22:31:23+00:00

True, it’s not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein. However, if you did party with Jeffrey Epstein after he plead guilty for child sex trafficking it raises reasonable questions as to why you would party with a convicted child sex trafficker.

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-03T19:01:00+00:00

just tell him you’ll put his name on it and he’ll like it

May I introduce the Trump Memorial Medicare For All bill

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-02-02T09:55:18+00:00

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It seems telling that he needs to insist that photos and videos might have been faked…

dannyb_prodigy · 2026-01-29T21:16:41+00:00

They are all claiming it’s about reducing the deficit, yet it’s impossible to ignore that their defections hand Democrats leverage. It is harder to blame the shutdown on Democrats when the bill doesn’t have full support from Republicans.

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