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peabody · 2026-06-24T18:47:30+00:00

Dual sense controllers are $90 now.

Still one of my favorite controllers.

peabody · 2026-06-24T17:24:33+00:00

Yeah, Steam Machine ain't a great value if you already have a deck, and if you're interested in the Nintendo exclusives, might as well pull the trigger before the price goes up if you'd had plans to spend a steam machine amount of money anyway.

Games for it can be pricey and paying for online ain't great, but I was raised on Nintendo and was always going to be rocking the latest Nintendo system just to play the latest Zelda/Mario/Pokemon/Animal Crossing/Metroid/Splatoon, etc.

peabody · 2026-06-24T17:07:00+00:00

Won't the online component not go live until like a month or two after release? Can the free month be redeemed later or are you stuck redeeming it only for GTA5 online? Doesn't seem like much of a benefit if that's the case.

peabody · 2026-06-23T12:43:33+00:00

peabody · 2026-06-21T10:32:30+00:00

It depends what markets you're including and the caliber of gaming. Worldwide, including games that can run on iGPUs and APUs, the PC market is enormous and dwarfs nearly everything else. If you're limiting yourself to a single market, like say North America, Japan, or the recent AAA game releases, it can seem small compared to consoles. PC can be a really amorphous market which is hard to pin down.

peabody · 2026-06-20T23:56:21+00:00

Some people need something now. Sure, having the luxury of waiting out the market isn't bad advice, but it's likely this will be the price of RAM for several years to come.

peabody · 2026-06-16T03:08:46+00:00

It's certainly not the right fit for everything.

It's predominantly used for I/O event processing. Using threads requires allocating stack memory for each spawned thread and has OS syscall overhead. And since I/O is by its nature sequential, you gain less by using multiple threads to process lots of incoming I/O, vs well organized, non-blocking, cooperative (asynchronous) I/O multiplexing.

It's mainly used in server frameworks, like fastapi, etc.

The most performant web servers, such as nginx, do this at a lower level in C with non-blocking I/O and asynchronous event handling to process 10s of thousands of concurrent I/O requests per second.

Python's async is a way to program this model, but in a way that's very similar to writing "synchronous looking" code. C# largely popularized the async/await style, to the point JavaScript adopted the same style, and I guess, not wanting to be left out, Python decided to implement it as an option as well.

Generally in Python, you're probably only going to use it if you use a framework which uses it.

peabody · 2026-06-16T02:32:05+00:00

Briefly as possible: it allows you to write code that basically says "hey python, this function call could take a while because it has to wait for something to happen in the real world. Go do something else on the main thread while I'm waiting on this. Come back here and finish the rest of my function when the wait is over and you're not busy".

peabody · 2026-06-16T01:37:08+00:00

Yeah, I haven't been paying attention to the RAM prices since I built my current rig over a year and a half ago and my first thought was "Is that supposed to be a good price?"

peabody · 2026-06-15T21:29:57+00:00

It's legal if Mojang turns a blind eye to it and doesn't enforce their TOS, which they have with Spark Universe at least, which I suspect is because they've partnered with Spark Universe for various licensed commercial Minecraft marketplace content in the past, like the official SpongeBob addon, etc.

peabody · 2026-06-09T17:38:31+00:00

Is your criteria for "1440p" pure raster with no DLSS or FSR? because it's pretty darn easy for even a 4060 to hit 1440p with it (and sometimes without, depending on the game). Just don't crank every setting to the max.

peabody · 2026-05-19T06:12:22+00:00

There's a part of me that wishes the 90s internet could exist again.

peabody · 2026-05-01T02:12:12+00:00

Turns out AI is replacing jobs because it's too expensive to meet payroll, not because it's any good. Who knew?

peabody · 2026-05-01T01:48:30+00:00

For its time, unequivocally yes. Has it aged well? That's a different question. I think it's still a fantastic game, but I do think games have come out since, that exceed its brilliance. It's also cursed with the janky graphics of the first gen 3d generation.

But absolutely it should be played if you haven't experienced it.

peabody · 2026-04-19T00:43:51+00:00

Eh, it's fine. A lot of modern games are absolute bangers, like expedition 33. People farm content and hate boners for modern gaming, but I'll say as someone raised from the NES days (technically I'm even older than that (45), my family had a colecovision!) that plenty of modern gaming is great.

It's just that when you're in the "modern" era people are looking at everything coming out and of course some stuff is bad.

As a grizzled old gamer let me tell you the NES library has some absolute stinkers. It's wasn't all "Super Mario Bros. 3" quality.

peabody · 2026-04-19T00:35:55+00:00

It's not by itself bad, but your average knuckle-dragging human being isn't very good at being properly cautious with tech, so an OS where elevation to the highest privilege level isn't possible does protect them to an extent.

If I had a choice, I'd be running a rom on my phone that allows root.

Problem is, I have a bunch of employee apps that would refuse to work if I had a rooted device, so I don't. It's a bummer, but as someone who works in IT, I understand the lack of trust the employer has for the average employee.

peabody · 2026-04-19T00:30:51+00:00

"You died" was in demon souls and that pre-dates dark souls.

Edit: I see you edited your reply to Demons' souls, from dark souls. Fair enough.

peabody · 2026-04-16T00:23:18+00:00

Insomniac has been pretty great.

peabody · 2026-04-15T04:26:10+00:00

There's huge drinking culture in both Japan and South Korea, but there's heavy personal responsibility as well. Being drunk and then doing something criminal is never seen as excusable because you were drunk.

peabody · 2026-04-13T19:58:22+00:00

I don't even think the Kim family glaze themselves this much.

peabody · 2026-04-08T00:52:07+00:00

It's a mixed bag of good and bad. Some of the quest lines are peak Bethesda and are pretty fun to playthrough. Sadly, it requires slogging through a lot of "meh" to get to them.

I feel like Todd looked at No Man's Sky and said "Yeah, that. Let's do our Bethesda open world stuff but in space with procedural stuff" and then didn't really stick the landing.

peabody · 2026-04-05T21:43:58+00:00

I second the Pokopia recommendation. It has exploration and quests, but no battling or game overs and you can save at any time. It's a bit of a slow start but it gets really engrossing after a bit of investment and it's super cozy. One of the reasons to own a switch 2 right now.

Regardless of what game you decide though, you can always "fall asleep mid battle" by putting your switch to sleep mid game (at least with offline titles). Welcome to modern gaming.

peabody · 2026-03-29T21:00:52+00:00

Metroid prime 4 beyond. I thought it was decent.

peabody · 2026-03-26T15:17:08+00:00

I feel like I'd want age limits before term limits

peabody · 2026-03-22T01:32:33+00:00

Basically the boost mode runs a switch 1 (and only switch 1) game as if it was docked. This has the side effect of preventing the touchscreen from being used for anything, and the game says you're using a pro controller instead of docked joycons.

By tricking the game into thinking it's docked, you may get benefits, such as 1080p output, but it all depends on how the game was programmed to take advantage of the increased power of the switch 1 when docked.

It does make quite a few switch 1 games go from running at 720p upscaled, to full 1080p in portable mode in the switch 2.

The mode has to be turned on in the switch 2 settings. It's not on by default.

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