I have done semi complex move combos with Cappy in SMO, not sure what you consider “the” tech though.

Doesn’t matter. It’s cool to pull off, but it’s not required in any way. And most importantly in the end those combos are not programmed that way, they’re a string of independent moves that are directly associated to their button.

I have no idea what is supposed to connect “get a boost” to “rapidly alternate left and right direction buttons while you drift”.

The way to make MK more skill based was to balance item distribution, which they started doing decently after MKDS.

It’s not like drifting is automatic in modern MK (well, it is in auto mode, but it’s meant for complete beginners and it sucks for anyone who knows how to play). You’re still calling all the shots regarding when to drift and for how long. It’s just less annoying to do.

You’re calling that “dumbed down”, but I’d call the old input arbitrary. I don’t see the point of hiding a major gameplay mechanic behind a complex input. You don’t use a cryptic button combo to jump in a platform game.

I didn’t like MKDS very much.

I like how they got rid of the left-right bullshit on drifting after it. It’s just annoying and achieves nothing. And it’s especially bad having to do that on a d-pad.

I also think Wii is the one that really started balancing items a lot more fairly, though 7 and 8 refined it even more.

Game Freak is a third party studio. Apparently their next game is going to Xbox, PlayStation, and Windows but not the Switch.

Not the first time it happens too.

They made a seemingly simple 2D cartoon-style game called Tembo the badass elephant that could probably run on anything, and didn’t port it on either Wii U (not surprising) or 3DS (a bit more surprising).

The way they framed that was hilarious (and obviously, a lie). They said they were making the promotional art, with the title card, they added platform logos, XBox One, PS4, Steam… and it looked good like this so they decided, yeah, let’s stop there.

Poem for your sprog, right? Not been on reddit for a while, but encountering a post from that guy was generally a fun moment.

My parent’s TV is absolutely terrible, and the source menu is a big part of it.

It doesn’t show sources that have not sent any input since the TV was turned on. So when trying to get the Switch on it, I’d need to start the console first, then push the source button… and the menu is so slow to appear that the Switch has gone back to sleep mode before I can reach it…

Most remote design is honestly atrocious. Somehow they keep hiding “source” in random spots, when it should be one of the most important buttons. The obscure pictograms are all over the place, and most buttons will never be used by anyone.

Wow, Shizof does it again. This sounds awesome, adding that to my MO2.

I had only seen the trainwreck of a boxart from Konami’s castlevania double pack on GBA.

But the actual cartridge is hilarious too. Silly cartoon title wordart, baby blue background with funky sunburst pattern, not a single mention of the two titles that are included…

Perfect, the way IGA intended.

Oh yeah, these terrible execs from other companies who veto female protagonists on principle, insist on implementing the same list of a thousand terrible features in all games regardless of genre, and harass their employees while being protected by HR and the CEO.

Wait, no, those are not the bad ones. You know the bad ones because they’ve worked for toothpaste companies.

In Hollow Knight there’s an accidental one at a pretty climactic moment. Hornet shouts something to get you ready for the big fight. It’s in her usual gibberish language, but lots of people hear it as “GIT GUD!”

There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately… If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.

At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you’ve been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter… Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.

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Regarding how quickly Instagram started sending them personal stuff… Letting an app access your location, especially if it’s not a one-time authorisation, is basically telling it who you are.

There was a newspaper investigation recently on data brokers, they approached one to get a sample of their data. It was “anonymous” data, only in the sense it didn’t contain names. Using Apple’s advertiser ID, they had no problem building profiles from specific devices and could easily identify a lot of their own employees, simply because their routine around a location made it clear it was their workplace. And from there, it was not hard to find out on the data what their home address was.

It probably took only location for the burner phone Instagram to know that this is either the same person, or someone closely related to them.

Basically the only positives of getting a key card rather than getting the game from the e-shop is being able to lend the game to anyone or resell it. Nothing else.

Most people I could lend the game to are in my online group so I could do this with virtual cards of e-shop games too, including DLC, and I basically never resell games. One could remark that you need online and a functioning e-shop server to lend a virtual card…but you’ll also need it to install a game from a key card anyway.

If a game is going to require the internet to install/reinstall and is going to sit entirely in my console’s memory, I am not carrying around an extra empty bit of plastic just to be able to start it. I used to get the games I could in physical form, but to me, they finally made it. They essentially made physical cards worse than full digital in every way.

Not sure, but I understood that comment to mean “it would be worth getting angry against YouTube if the videos they removed were about rufus”, not that rufus itself is wrong.

It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.

The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.

Congratulations on not having an addiction problem. If you can “not notice it” and still play the game, you’re not the target.

Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.