This doesn’t have the head tracking capabilities of the VR kit, as you only insert the Switch which doesn’t have a gyro without the joycons.

22 titles actually, of which 14 were released in the US.

Not sure I care about the game itself, but the art style is beautiful!

I think it’s a fun novelty, but locking the actual software behind the Online+ Expansion pack instead of including it with the (no doubt expensive) accessory is a bit crap.

It’s a thing in the UK.

I wear a helmet when riding my bicycle.

I’m child-free by choice and I think there are a lot of good reasons not to have kids that I would probably share with antinatalists. I think there should be less population growth. But radical “no-one should be born ever” antinatalism goes to far I think. IMO the whole “being born without their consent” argument doesn’t work, as the whole concept of consent doesn’t exist for a nonexistant being. In order to make any kind of choice on whether you want to exist, you need to exist first. If you make the argument that not having kids is sparing them from suffering, then you can just as easily make the argument that you’re depriving them from ever feeling love or happiness, which they “didn’t consent” to either.

That’s fair, but I also don’t see a problem in voicing criticism about aspects of the game I don’t like. Especially if I do like the game as a whole. People should not see that as an attack on their personal enjoyment of the game.

I like the game, but I definitely think it deserves some criticism. I really don’t get the thinking behind not placing a bench directly in front of every boss arena. The run-backs don’t make the game harder, just more frustrating. It’s also something I disliked in older Souls games, but thankfully they realized the problem and fixed it in Elden Ring. And some mechanics are just baffling, like benches that are locked behind a paywall, which you have to pay every time you want to access the bench. Why on earth would they do this, with currency already being as sparse as it is?

As long as it’s not an insane NK-level dictatorship, yes I personally would. I’ve been to China before and talked to a few people there who were more critical about their regime than you might think and didn’t hesitate to talk about it. Of course you need to read the room and maybe not go shouting “Free Tibet” on Tiananmen square. And I wouldn’t pick any fights with nationalists either. In many countries, democratic or otherwise, there are certain topics that you probably shouldn’t bring up with strangers. But I think that it’s ultimately a beneficial thing for people from democratic countries to visit countries like China and vice versa. It contributes to mutual understanding. I personally wouldn’t hesitate to visit China again. I totally get why the situation would be more difficult for you as a Taiwanese though. If you can’t smile and walk away if someone tries to provoke you, maybe it’s not a good idea to go.

No, they have the same form factor but they do have improved read speeds over Switch 1 cards. They’re not as fast as the internal memory or MicroSD express cards though. In Mario Kart, the card takes about 20% longer to load.

You can’t sell GKC after downloading of the game, as far as I understand the system.

Then you don’t understand it correctly. GKCs aren’t locked to an account. When you’re finished with the game you can sell it to someone else and they can download and play the game just fine (as long as the Switch 2 servers are still running). You won’t be able to play it anymore after you’ve sold the card though, as it needs to be inserted to start the game. Source

No explanation was given as to why they didn’t forgo the key card altogether and just release to the eshop only.

TBH compared to digital-only, having a GKC is still a preferrable option, as it can be sold when you’re done with the game.

I think a better option for cases like this would be a cartridge that contains the compressed game data which can be installed to the local storage, as is the case with the other consoles’ disks. But presumably the Switch 2’s OS doesn’t even have that capability right now.

I agree that there didn’t seem to be much negative sentiment and it was great to see. Just to point it out though: the reason Silksong crashed the store while even successful AAA-games don’t is that Silksong didn’t have preorders while AAA-games do, meaning there won’t be millions of people trying to purchase the game at the same time the second it releases.

It’s probably 80-90% of what AI image generation is used for TBH. Reddit, Deviantart and any art platform that hasn’t explicitely banned it are filled with it. Even Lemmy has quite a lot.

I don’t know if it’s mostly my own biases against AI, but I feel similarly. These images often have an odd sense of emptiness to them. Something I’ve noticed with more recent AI-generated images is that while the hands etc are now more often than not perfect, characters often have a strange sort of stare, where instead of looking at something or at each other, they look at nothing in particular. A lot of AI images are also overly shiny and glossy, which gives them an unnatural look.

I trust them to generally do their due diligence and report the truth. As with all press agencies, there will be exceptions to this and instances where journalists spread false information. In those instances, I expect them to correct their errors, which I believe they usually do. There will also always be some level of bias with any journalism, at the very least in choosing what to report on and what not to.

No soldering is required. Just disconnecting and reconnecting some pretty tiny ribbon cables.

I’m not aware of any. IMO the best way to get this would probably be to mod some original joycons with hall effect sticks (quite easy to swap) and ergonomic grips.

No. You’re probably thinking of “game key cards”, which don’t actually contain the game, but not all Switch 2 games come on those. Cyberpunk is on a proper game cart, which does contain the full game.