To me, it was Raptor Call of Shadows, a very nice shmup where you could buy new weapons between missions

I miss the times when I found 5" phones big. Now they just seem small because everything else is pushing 7"

I wonder if that’s the most expensive Doom. 75 dollars, yikes

I guess the joke can’t run Crysis

What those leaps do result in, however, is major performance gains.

Which many devs will make sure you never feel them by “optimizing” the game for only the most bleeding edge hardware

Then there’s efficiency. What if you could run Monster Hunter Wilds at max graphics, on battery, for hours? The first gen M1 Max MacBook Pro can comfortably run Baldur’s Gate III. Reducing power draw would have immense benefits on top of graphical improvements.

See, if the games were made with a performance first mindset, that’d be possible already. Not to dunk on performance gains, but there’s a saying that every time hardware gets faster, programmers make their code slower. I mean, you can totally play emulated SNES games with minimal impact compared to leaving the computer idling.

Saying “diminishing returns” is like saying that fire burns you when you touch it.

Unless chip fabrication can figure a way to make transistors “stack” on top of one another, effectively making 3D chips, they’ll continue to be “flat” sheets that can only increase core count horizontally. Single core frequency peaked in early 2000s, from then on it’s been about adding more cores. Even the gains from a RTX 5090 vs a RTX 4090 aren’t that big. Now compare with the gains from a GTX 980 vs a GTX 1080

Final Fantasy 4 (2 on USA)

The generational leap from PS3 -> PS4 wasn’t that significant already, and that happened more than 10 years ago. The biggest difference seem to be lights/shadows and texture size, the latter of which balloons game size and can tank performance

What about fifa my player carreer mode? It’s both RPG and sports

The majority of Square’s games from the era are some of the best they’ve ever put out, like Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve (1 and 2) and Threads of Fate (aka Dewprism), so they’re always good choices.

Mega Man X4 is also one of the best of the X series. X5 is still good, avoid X6, it’s very clear how rushed the game is once you start playing.

I’d put Jackie Chan Stuntmaster in place 25 of Die Hard Trilogy and Soul Reaver on 16 in place of Gex, though every in game cutscene of Soul Reaver is unskippable, but the voice acting is pretty much the very best of the console and holds up well even today.

Silent Bomber decidedly deserves a playthru, as does C12 Final Resistance

PS: really hard to read the “mentioned once” list, it’s all a single line without commas or anything

My dummy understanding is that each instance could be considered a “client”, in the sense that they’re always on the lookout for data from other instances whenever the latter generates new content. Either that or, when one connected user checks what’s on a different instance, it downloads to the local cache, ie: if I, from programming.dev, am the first to check this thread, a copy gets saved locally (cache) in the programming.dev server, which might check back on the original source in the case of any edits.

They’re the same, no?

Semen becomes super sticky and kind of “curdles” when mixed with water and becomes significantly harder to clean off.

Dry clean first with toilet paper or some disposable cloth, then wash with water and plenty of soap.

We need to get off the internet. Or at least off lemmy. Probably better to get off the internet more often, otherwise we’ll just find something else :/

Regarding Fable, get the original first (fable anniversary on steam). Since you’re big on JRPGs, you might want to check out Ys, Trails and FATE series. You will definitely want to check out Metaphor ReFantazio

You can also experiment some of the “only on PC” or “best on PC” games like Cities Skylines or Planet Coaster (try the 1st game for both) - neither has an available demo, but will definitely run on your computer. Wait for a sale, shouldn’t take too long. Factorio, on the other hand, has a demo that lets you experiment and get a good feel of what to expect of the rest of the game. If you’d like something comparatively simpler and better looking, try Satisfactory instead (no demo)

On the RTS front, you can actually play the first Starcraft 2 campaign for free, though you need Battle.Net instead of Steam. That game can be a good introduction to the genre and, if you enjoy it, I can point out some other games in the same vein.

A personal recommendation of mine is Palworld. I like the gameplay loop.

Also, please learn to use commas.

Catherine Full Body Alan Wake Ni no Kuni2 The forgotten city Until dawn A plague tale 1 innocence TLOU1 Uncharted

People not caring about their privacy and their data being collected and sold to everyone. “Eh, it’s not like my data is worth anything”. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be sold, moron. All those spam and scam calls you receive? Yeah, that’s because your “worthless” data is being sold, resold and spread out everywhere. But hey, if you fall for a scam and lose, dunno, 50k dollars, it’s not a big deal, huh?

Just a reminder: if the intent is to get people off bluesky, xitter or threads, the masses won’t care about servers, they’ll only care about whether “people are there”.

Maybe I’m delusional and severely underestimating how doable this is, but I really believe Mastodon needs to change the way it deals with new users if we want it to actually grow into a strong social media, keyword social (it needs people).

The irony is that each server, as they’re running their own version of mastodon (or similar federated program), could edit their code to make the change so that the first page a new user sees is the local or global posts coming in. I don’t know how many bother to add any bit of code that differs from the main source, but I suspect it’s a very small fraction, which means the real decision falls on the main mastodon maintainers who, if comments on previous mastodon focused posts are anything to go by, very rarely accept changes to UI/UX

Were there any comments on lack of repairability or the obtuse insistence on removing physical keys?

Call them murican. Everyone gets it, even the usa-ians

Thing is, it’s “United States of America”, much like “United States of Mexico” and, before 1968, “United States of Brazil”. So when they call themselves americans, they’re technically correct.

The closest you can get is a malamute, assuming the wolf in question is like a grey wolf