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   ArdainianRight (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 08:03:12 JST ArdainianRight
   https://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/pokemon-scarlet
   https://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/pokemon-mystery-dungeon-explorers-of-sky
   Why are video game critics allowed to exist?
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 08:03:11 JST 寮

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     @ArdainianRight Which is why nowadays people skip over the "professional" reviews, and go straight into the user reviews instead.
     But we're not allowed to submit user reviews anymore until days or weeks after release these days after what happened with The Last Of Us 2.
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     @ryo @ArdainianRight I didn't know anything about the game, so, totally neutral. Watching a video about it now. It seems to have a lot of problems, which is the focus, but that's not even the main issue for me, it just looks really fucking boring. What is even the point of these games? Who are they made for? BORING! BOOOOORING! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 09:37:34 JST 寮

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     @TerminalAutism @ArdainianRight To give an as simple as possible explanation, people who played The Last Of Us 1 before were very enthusiastic about part 2.
     Then weeks before release the "game" (if you can even call it like that) got leaked out, and it was shown that not only it's not a real game but a "cinemetic experience" (so basically, it's a movie in which you occasionally have to press a button to continue), it's woke as fuck too.
     
     Absolutely nobody liked it at all, all the "professional" reviewers rated it 10/10, whereas actual customers rated it 4/10 at best, 1/10 at worst.
     People were trying to return the "game" to stores en mass, to the point that some stores stopped taking it back.
     What also turned out is that the "professional" reviewers actually got paid big sums of money to deliver a 10/10 review.
     So they got so butthurt, they started deleting user reviews, and made up new rules like "from now on you can no longer submit user reviews until days or weeks after release".
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 09:43:43 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo @ArdainianRight I watched the video about the new Pokemon. Jesus Christ, the game looks so boring that I did something by accident with my neck and/or chest and could feel my heart in my neck for some reason. I think I almost vomited my heart out somehow out of sheer boredom. May have to go play some Ridge Racer to restore my HP.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 09:53:53 JST 寮

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     @TerminalAutism @ArdainianRight Do you think I re-setup my old SFC and N64 consoles recently for no reason at all?
     I did that exactly because the new gaymes are just no fun at all.
     Everything these days is about milking money even post-release, play online and have the gayme be always online because we can't have you spread a fake virus that doesn't even exist to begin with and we want full control over the product you paid for, and "look at this non-binary NPC character, OMG it's so horny!!".
     
     Meanwhile, the old games is pure gameplay, offline single player, and actually require skill in order to complete rather than a creditcard.
     
     I used to play one 3D game back in the Ubuntu 6.06 days, it was online-only, but it was actually fun to play, free and open source, and it even ran om my back then 512 MiB RAM Celeron laptop just fine.
     
     Remember when Ubuntu still required 256 MiB of RAM and 3 GiB of storage to install?
     I do!
     
     Just look at the system requirements of 6.06, compare to 22.10, and prepare to cry.
     https://www.getmyos.com/ubuntu-6.06-lts-breezy-badger
     https://www.getmyos.com/ubuntu-22-10-kinetic-kudu-october-2022-desktop-64-bit-official-iso-download
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     peony (sweet_peony@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 10:55:33 JST peony

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     @ryo @TerminalAutism @ArdainianRight I was actually debating on buying a more expensive computer to handle newer games, but then I remembered that I don't really play modern games and am playing on an emulator 99% of the time.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 10:57:31 JST 寮

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     @sweet_peony @ArdainianRight @TerminalAutism I have yet to check if my old 2007 laptop can actually handle emulators, now you mention it.
     Sure, they handled it perfectly fine in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but most emulators too got updated to be more suited for newer hardware in the meantime.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:10:06 JST 寮

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     @TerminalAutism @ArdainianRight
     > I never had to plug the old consoles back in
     
     I had to do so from time to time simply due to a lack of space.
     But whatever, Wii U is gone, Wii is gone, Switch is in my closet, PS4 is gone now that I can just watch DVD movies on my ThinkPad using the Ultra Dock (or just pirate it, which I primarily do for new content anyway, but still useful to have something to play DVD videos if you're renting them and want to pirate it along the way too), though my desk is now primarily occupied with multiple laptops and a x86_64 tablet, and a custom built PC under my desk, and 2 mini PCs turned into servers (Devuan and OpenBSD) next to the desk.
     
     But I bought an extra desk which I could put a monitor on that happened to have the old AV input natively, so I could set up an SFC and N64, and even a GameCube if I really wanted to (that one is still on my closet due to the lack of games I have yet to beat) on it.
     And it works surprisingly well, way better quality than those AV to HDMI adapters, even though the monitor is a 32" screen (and I literally can't get anything bigger than that, because again due to the available space).
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:10:07 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo @ArdainianRight I never had to plug the old consoles back in, they never went away. And I actually don't remember Ubuntu being that light, I started using Linux around 2012, maybe a little before that too, but very briefly. Never used it before Unity, and never used it after it either, other than maybe Ubuntu Server one time, and some of the variants like Lubuntu and Xubuntu, before I knew how to install desktop environments.
     
     Initially used it because I was curious, and then Windows 8 made me even more interested because I knew I would never switch to that. And then Windows 10 made me really start having the "okay, I better get ready to use one of these distributions as my main system" mentality, and then I started learning a lot more, a lot more quickly, and a few years later I was using Gentoo and then experimenting with BSD because in my circles, it was already known that Linux was pozzed.
     
     And Linus getting kicked out by the trannies was the final "okay, this OS is going to die one day" kick in the ass, though I already knew about how awful the foundation was before that. I also accidentally destroyed my Arch system at the time, so I took the opportunity to try a bunch of random OSs. Even tried eComStation (OS/2 successor). Even an AROS distribution (AmigaOS-inspired). Somehow never got to Solaris, but that may actually be viable. Maybe the only viable option that is more niche than BSD, other than maybe Haiku (ran pretty damn well on my ThinkPad, actually).
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:11:41 JST 寮

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     @TerminalAutism @ArdainianRight Also, Solaris was a proprietary OS, there used to a an OpenSolaris too, but Oracle killed it after acquiring Sun, and others just forked it and made OpenIndiana.
     So if you want to give it a try, I recommend you'd go for OpenIndiana instead.
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:12:23 JST Terminal Autism

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     @sweet_peony @ryo @ArdainianRight I need a more powerful computer to play new games... from 10 years ago. Or just an HDMI monitor, actually, I could play them on my PS3. Actually, most of them run fine on one of my laptops. Only exception that I know for sure is Dark Souls. Kind of a big deal, I only played that for almost 800 hours. Not quite enough.
     
     I still haven't even beaten the game with no weapons and armor. But that's only because I need multiplayer assistance (specifically duels with members of the Path of the Dragon covenant) so I can get enough Dragon Scales to get the Dragon Torso Stone so I can have the claws. I already did a level 1 run, but I could also do it at level 1 at that point and it wouldn't make much of a difference, since nothing but HP and stamina would matter at that point, and you don't need more stamina if you manage it, and you don't need more HP if you don't get hit.
     
     Maybe I could do it alone, but it would be rough. I killed the Asylum Demon bare-handed, but killing Drakes bare-handed to farm the scales I think may be too crazy even by my standards. 5% drop, and they have over 1000 HP each and are very dangerous in general, and they can fly. Maybe throwing firebombs at them could work (poison probably won't work, they are too resistant to it). Would take a really long time, though, since 30 scales are necessary, and there are fewer than 10 that I could get for free. So, multiplayer is required so that it doesn't take a billion years, unless I can duplicate them somehow (should look that up). Though with multiplayer, maybe the other person could give me a Calamity Ring, for even more bragging rights, and an excuse to play even more.
     
     This is a really long post considering that you may have no idea what the hell I'm talking about.
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     @ryo @sweet_peony @ArdainianRight Probably can handle everything up to PS1/Saturn/N64. So, no Dreamcast/GameCube and cup. Definitely no PS2, not even quantum computers made by advanced alien civilizations are powerful enough to run PCSX2.
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     peony (sweet_peony@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:16:02 JST peony

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     @TerminalAutism @ryo @ArdainianRight Why do these emulators need to be run on hardware that's more powerful than the hardware that they are based upon? Genuine question, I am not very knowledgeable about this.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:16:02 JST 寮

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     @sweet_peony @TerminalAutism @ArdainianRight Because the OS you're using takes up resources too, and the emulator maker can't make a 1:1 product unless the entire official codebase of both the hardware and firmware and drivers and software and so on one day would leak out.
     Or the official emulators would get reverse engineered into being able to play commercial ROMs, because Nintendo/Soyny/SEGA/Atari/whateverelse used to release official emulators to 3rd party developers in the past.
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     @ryo @ArdainianRight @TerminalAutism That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Much appreciated.
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 16:38:05 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo @ArdainianRight I hook all of them up to my CRT TV with a switcher. Other than my PS3, because the games are 16:9, and I only have a 20 inch CRT, so the games are way too small. Better off playing that on HDMI, but I don't have it anymore. Though I sure would like to have a 40 inch CRT. Maybe an Astro City cab as well. Good for arcade games, but I also heard of people hooking consoles up to those. But yeah, I also have no space, and I don't intend to stay here, so getting any of that would be a bad idea.
     
     Computer monitors are very good, but mine has a cracked solder joint, and I have no equipment to discharge it with, and I want to make sure that it's safe before touching anything. Anyway, there is actually a lagless HDMI to VGA converter, so you can use HDMI systems on old monitors. I could get one, but I'll probably have to pay import taxes and it may take forever to arrive, and even then, I only have one monitor and I already use it for my computer.
     
     My controller situation is not ideal either. I play most games with either my arcade stick (2D games), that is a wooden box that digs into my wrist, or a bootleg PS2 controlled that feels cheaper and shittier than you can possibly imagine. The lever's engage distance is also way too long for me. I miss some quick movements because I'm not forceful enough with it. Problem is that life goals come first, and buying things that are hard to move would get in the way of that.
     
     But when I can, I'll get a used stick with a nice solid case, some good mounting plates, and some different levers. Probably a Seimitsu LS-32 and a Crazy Dongpal Korean lever because I'm curious about it. Maybe a Saturn controller for PC, I heard that the Retrobit one is very good. Also a pad for 3D games. Kinda curious about the Power A GameCube controller. It has two shoulder buttons and I think a good d-pad, unlike the original. Interested in that because the GC controller has a really nice shape, a nice main thumbstick, and the most satisfying triggers ever made.
     
     Also kinda interested in trying a Hitbox, though I would probably build my own. I want one with two up buttons. One for the thumb, for fighting games, or any game where you press up to jump, and another up button above down, because I think playing something like a shmup with up being on the thumb may be very silly. People argue that they are cheating, and they are, because they can do things that other controllers can't, but at the same time, they are becoming the standard, and if everyone is cheating, then you better cheat too and cheat better. Though stick is very comfortable, and more different from typing, so I may keep it just for ergonomics as long as it's sensitive enough while still being precise.
     
     Fuck, another wall of text that may mean absolutely nothing to anyone here.
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 16:38:25 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo @ArdainianRight I know about that. They are all distributions of illumos (IlluminatiOS?).
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     @sweet_peony @ryo @ArdainianRight Additionally, some developers are very very incompetent. But really, it's always going to be heavier because you are trying to run the games on hardware that they were not meant for, so you have to emulate it, and video game hardware can be very weird in some cases (like with the PS2 being a 128-bit system).
     
     Ideally everything would just run in FPGA systems, which is technically not emulation at all, the hardware just behaves exactly like the original system. Systems like the MiSTer use that technology. Not everything is perfect yet, but theoretically, with that technology, you could have one system that perfectly replicates every console that it's powerful enough to do, 1:1. You can have all the advantages of emulation while still being 100% accurate. That would be the future of past gaming, but everyone will be either dead or enslaved within like, 10 years, so probably not.
     
     https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mRi9lj8Lzic
     https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=CJBBfxX-E4c
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