Until Google realizes normal.people would rather use this than take part in their AI search, and block usage of it outside of businesses.

Both, it’s both.

Oh my gods, I thought we were going to have to wait another year for the PC version after the PS5 one released. I am now VERY hyped for this release! EDF!!

The PSP and Vita servers were already down for a while, but you could still play at least 4U and Generations online. I think you still can right now. But yes there are community servers and you can play online on Citra!

This is why I always favor games and gamemodes you can still play offline or locally than online ones.
Still, pour one out for my old, 850h savefile on MH4U, I had so many great times with that game.

Gaben isn’t going to last forever. But honestly the only other good games storefront is GoG. I’ll continue using Steam for as long as it’s still good.

Since I have to use wireless, I did find myself a pair of those for my new phone. Still waiting for them to ship, though. Over the ear hooks are pretty nice, I used to really like them years ago when they were more common, before the damn rubber in-ears.

I just got a new phone that doesn’t have it, and I very strongly miss it. I hate having to charge wireless devices. Everything that I can, I get wired.

Doesn’t help much that lately it’s been getting harder and harder to find good compact wired earphones, most companies pivoted to wireless… And of those that I find, most are the in-ear type with that rubber tip you squeeze deep into your ear… I also don’t like that. Guess I’ll have to move to over-ears for everything.

I feel like I’m about to get into these android based emulators. Which of the Retroid’s do you reckon I should go for? This new 2S seems really nice. I want mostly to play arcade games, PS1 and Saturn games. PS2 and Dreamcast would be a nice bonus.

Dude gotta have extended lungs. Ain’t no way man.

Don’t. Use your own words or don’t even respond to the thread.

I really like the interface and features of Firefish, which I just joined like a month ago. May it continue long and prosper!

THE GODDAMN PEAR! I saw people get banned over it lmao. Yeah, good times back then. Being online was a lot less bullshit.

Nintendo first party titles are very stingy with sales. Many third party titles however, go on some pretty good sales with decent regularity. You might also want to make a Japan/Hong Kong/Singapore account to grab Asia-exclusive games sometimes, if those interest you.
As for the games I own and would recommend, there’s:
-BOTW
-Metroid Dread -Dead Cells
-Hollow Knight
-Crimzon Clover: World EXplosion
-Burnout Paradise
-Fast RMX
-Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate (or Rise)
-Atelier Ryza (or Sophie)
-Mario Kart
Just some general, off the top of my head recommendations. If you want recommendations of specific genres, I might be able to recommend further.

Oh my god I used to LIVE in Ultimate-Guitar back in the day. It was the first actual forum community I got into, and I played a lot of guitar, so I was always into the culture and news.

School of Rock, it kinda became a Christmas movie with my family, we watch it every year. Jingle All The Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger is the other one.
Then there’s my personal favorite, Pacific Rim. I absolutely adore that movie, giant robots fighting kaijus. Too bad there was never a sequel.

Very much so! They add a ton of content to an already pretty content-rich game, and after you have them, you’ll barely notice they weren’t part of the base game before, except maybe the Castlevania one because of the obvious difference in theme. Still, lots of quality content that adds tons of variety to your runs!

While not necessarily retro, I’d add that the modernly available Shadowrun games are VERY good, although they’re more cyberpunk fantasy than reaaaaally urban fantasy.

Mastodon, and in general, the microblogging side of the Fediverse, is much much more varied than Lemmy or kbin, and your choice of server actually doesn’t matter much because there are so many, and in several different interfaces and flavors. There’s Misskey, Calckey, Pleroma, Akkoma and many others that I honestly consider better than just Mastodon to interface with the Fediverse at large. And, like I said, they all talk to each other just fine. I’m personally using a few Calckey accounts, check out their .org website to find a listing of some open registration instances and go take a look inside!

Main PC is a gaming rig with Windows 10, side PC for work is Linux Mint with a Win10 dual boot partition just in case something fucks up in Linux, but I haven’t needed it in a while. I am not upgrading to Win11 for as long as I am able.