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mega drive mini was a specific product from 2019, and a second one came out in 2022. the AtGames machines all had their own names like the Flashback or the Gencore

https://segaretro.org/AtGames#Sega-related_products

a company that’s done licensed Sega hardware before

this is interesting. where the mega drive and gg mini hardware done in house by SEGA? because unless that was another company that they could recontract, the only other companies i can think of are TecToy, who were making functional non-emulation Master Systems well into the 2000s for South America, and AtGames, who the less said about, the better.

if SEGA Forever had been a bit later, they could have just licensed SEGA-branded Anbernic Arc-Ds. it’s a shame that initiative fizzled out so quickly

yeah, i’m intrigued by the idea of a pseudo-“dumb” phone to reduce mindless usage, but this is too restrictive to really work as a phone for a lot of people. those banned work and social apps have and will continue to supplant the phone features of a modern phone. if i got one of these, it would have to be a supplementary device, defeating the whole point! and for those of us who can use a “dumb” phone, they can just got get one for a fifth of a price

i don’t know the full story but iirc that was how the band Supertramp stayed afloat until they were successful, patronage from some rich guy

that’s how you end up on a chair zip-tied to the outer hull

i like the implication that they’re adding angry eyebrows in post

it’s like that old IBM slide days. “A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” i find that quote meaningful in a lot of contexts but it’s especially relevant when we’re actually talking about management

it’s a real shame, the swordplay in II was so much better than the awkward top down conbat of I. to me, II is much more of a sequel and ALttP was a step backwards, and then OoT onward was a sidestep towards the one-at-a-time wait-for-an-opening thing (which ironically involved a lot of sidestepping). i love all four games but i wish i loved the other three because of and not in spite of the combat

thankfully Hadrosaurus Games are making a Zelda II II

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@HadroSoft/116036622065887693

intelligence is knowing the AI is the tool, wisdom is knowing the user is the tool

even the article itself touches on the fact that devs are mad, multiple times. the 30% cut is outrageous and discoverability is awful and easily sabotaged by review trolls. one of steam’s biggest draws are it’s sales, which have led to an extreme devaluation of indie games- anyone charging more than 20 bucks is considered to be overcharging while AAA games climb higher and higher in price. those same AAA games are often only available on steam

to their credit, the work they put into proton and them making that publically available was excellent of them. it’s also good that they never tried to latch themselves onto the NFT and AI bandwagons. other than that, though? even if there was such a thing as a good monopoly, valve certainly ain’t it

“purity test” implies attention to detail which is the opposite of what i’m arguing. i’m advocating for a “stink test.” a lot of people here are arguing whether or not it should be ok to post art by a guy who stinks, but no one is arguing that he doesn’t stink. i don’t care if a comic inherently stinks or has the residual stink of it’s creator, i just want to open a window

that’s my whole point: regardless of if the comics were fine, later in life he was a jackass so who cares? we can look at every comic he ever made under a fine-tooth comb to see if those later values show up in dilbert at the risk of alienating the groups of people he hurt regardless of the comic, or we can just say “fuck that guy” and move on with our lives

i mean, yeah… let’s ban dilbert. even if adams was a saint when it was in serialization, posting it today platforms who he is today. we could pick apart edge cases all day but that’s a lot of work to maybe be able to post comics everyone has already seen, or we can err on the side of caution and spend all that time reading good comics by decent people instead

i thought you were kidding until i saw the wikipedia link. that’s fascinating, and very cool that they still have the penny

i absolutely adore this art style

emulate stadium emulating pokemon at 2x speed at 10x speed for u n l i m i t e d p o w e r

i passed over the first mario movie because the trailers made it feel to “look, thing from game!” and it seems like this one is doubling down on that just with nintendo instead of mario. it’s a shame, because mario’s wild setting is such fertile ground to tell all sorts of stories, and star fox could make for a great space opera in it’s own right. here’s hoping this upcoming zelda thing has some faith in itself instead of just trying to cruise on brand recognition

i suppose in the most literal sense, he’s a good leader because he inspires his subordinates to follow. no matter how ill-advised or hairbrained a plan seems, his crew will always follow through. granted those same ill-advised, hairbrained plans are a reason why many would argue he’s a bad leader, but the Romulan episode goes to great lengths to show how he never makes those kinds of decisions lightly, despite making them often. the alternate version of that same episode in SNW shows that a more measured, Starfleet response there just wouldn’t have worked, so there’s also an element of Doylist logic there- he’s a good leader because the writers say so, and his actions aren’t the best course of actions for their own sake as much as they are because they’re his actions.

the movies definitely make him more fallible, and if Kurtzman-era Trek has one single theme, it’s the deconstruction and destruction of the infallible hero-captain archetype. but even then, Kirk being both The Greatest Captain and a space cowboy are load-bearing pillars of the Trek mythos at this point

TL;DR kirk’s intuition has plot armor and you can’t retcon that without basically retconning all of Trek because of his in-universe and real-life mythic status. he’s an exceptional captain, and the exception that proves the rule

The company shared that it would go “all-in” on the mobile version of the platform in February.

TIL there’s a non-VR version of Horizon. wasn’t the whole point that it was VR? what’s even left if you take out the VR, just voice chat?

take 'em, i ain’t using 'em anymore!