I think the top link is busted, it just goes to the red image on a loop.

Time To First Byte 0 to 800ms.

“It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users, whether it’s text, images, or parts of the user interface.”

They’re bragging about now meeting the minimum standard. LOL.

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about

“Our cars are now faster than ever! They can go as fast as 55 mph on a standard highway!”

Saturday before Easter… 17 or 18 year old kid was going on and on about how he couldn’t wait to get home so he could play Call of Duty all night, and this and that… lots of swearing, lots of talk about shooting and destruction.

Me: “I dunno man, don’t you have to be in bed early so the Easter Bunny will come?”

Forget the orbit… remember the song…

https://genius.com/Monty-python-the-galaxy-song-lyrics

“Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving
at 900 miles an hour.
It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second,
so it’s reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me,
and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm,
at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.”

For point 1, this sounds like a class action waiting to happen.

You buy a Nintendo console, Nintendo says you broke the rules and bans that console, now non-Nintendo games won’t work on it because it’s banned from reaching online services.

“2124-4508”

I’m going to spoiler tag all the Nintendo legal-ese because it’s A LOT.

It boils down to this console is banned from logging in online. So a couple of questions:

1. Do you HAVE to be online to play Switch 2 games?

2. If the ban is correct for user violations, why ban the hardware? Why not ban the account?

I kinda had the opposite experience, I had been a PC gamer for years before the Xbox came out, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Aliens Total Conversion, Hexen, Rise of the Triad, Quake, Unreal…

By then I had kind of burned out on FPS, so when I heard about Halo I was like “I dunno… another FPS…”

Then I played a demo in the store and was like “Shut up and take my money!”

Speaking of consoles here.

Valve really operates in a different market from Microsoft or Sony, but what hurt them was a couple of things:

1. Repeatedly skipping Gamescom essentially told Sony “Yeah, we don’t care about Europe.” And the sales numbers show it. Sony owns Europe.

2. No differential between console and PC. Launching the same game at the same time on PC and Xbox doesn’t incentivize people to a) buy games on Xbox or b) develop games on Xbox. Why bother if it’s on PC the same day?

3. Focusing on digital vs. physical takes games out of stores. On a recent trip to Target they had a nice big Playstation section and a nice big Switch section. Hey? Where are the Xbox games?

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/target-not-selling-physical-xbox-games-anymore.1679241/

Solitaire.

He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?

Every piece of news on the Switch 2 made it sound less and less impressive.

I’m the opposite of you, I pretty much buy EVERY console and I’m skipping the Switch 2 for now.

1. Price is too high.
2. Game prices are too high.
3. Cartridges aren’t games, they’re download keys.
4. Demo that should have been included is a paid demo.
5. Features are pay gated after 1 year (camera).

If you absolutely need to entertain the 7 year old, get a Switch OLED. It’s a better deal.

A GREAT game to play with kids is called “Stacking”. Looks like there’s a Linux version so you might be able to get it running on the Pi:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_(video_game)

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, OS X, Linux

The gag is this…

You play the smallest of a set of Russian nesting dolls and you want to re-unite with your family.

In order to do that you have to solve a bunch of puzzles in a world filled with other Russian nesting dolls.

You can jump into any doll one size larger than you, and you can jump out to be one size smaller.

Each doll has a specific skill or ability, so by swapping bodies, you use the various skills to solve the puzzles.

The challenge is, you might find one that has the right skill, but you’re too small to jump into them, so you have to find the right chain of dolls to size up and size down to do what you need to do.

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/oEJtypcyL5I

Well, define “Reasonably Priced”. I dig the Steam Deck for that kind of thing.

I hope they have a voice over because when you get to that line… “And none of them ever saw Stu Redman alive again…” it’s a jaw dropper. :)

Needs to be at least two, if not three films to work.

Missing:

The entire concept for the Blues Brothers came from the tiny Eugene Hotel in Eugene, Oregon when Belushi was there filming Animal House.

The hotel regularly held blues performances, of which Belushi was a fan, when he wanted to perform some pretty basic numbers, Curtis Salgado took him aside and was like “No, no, no, I’ll teach you some REAL blues numbers…”

https://www.curtissalgado.com/belushi-connection/

There are 3rd party Switch 2 games? 🤔 I thought it was all 3rd party ports of Switch 1 games…

Lets say you find an instance that meets your requirements, given the lack of email validation, what’s going to happen is that instance will be host to trolls and spammers, top to bottom, and then it will get defederated from the rest of lemmy.