Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@dev_ric metal fatigue :)

Snapped a metal garlic crusher in half by accident while using it, feeling pretty badass tbh (it was old)

@erincandescent Yeah my problem charger wise is I haven't bought a laptop since 2013 and so I haven't needed anything more powerful than 20W. I have USB C cables from things like cheap Bluetooth headphones which are power-only, and ones from controllers which are data-only. They look identical

@kojack Thanks! The only problem with these is they're almost certainly unlicensed. But I can probably live with that.

I knew one person with a NES but they got it in like 1992 as a curiosity and we all thought it was mad when you could have had a SNES, Megadrive or even imported PC Engine by then. Mario was good but you could play SMW by then. It got here far too late and cost silly money for what it was

@kimau I just hope the labelling on the cables is actually readable with 50 year old eyes

@TheZeldaZone It's so much worse to have something that looks like a standard but is wildly non-interoperable in invisible ways. Would have been better to have different shaped connectors, each of which was 100% standard in every way

I already have a ton of USB-C cables that are all different from each other in terms of capability, and you just have to "know" which one works with which device. If it's written on the cable, I sure as hell can't read it without a magnifying glass. The consortium really designed a stinker with this one, horrible ports to clean, varying standards for cables and power, it's just a mess

I continue to dislike the USB-C landscape with a passion. Got my wireless charger but it (of course) doesn't come with a charging plug. Using the only USB-C chargers I have (20W) fails to work. In the small print (not on the product description when I bought it), it says they "recommend" a 30W charging adapter. Plug it into my PC (100W+), it works. So it's mandatory not recommended. How can one "standard" have so many fecking variations 🙄

@TomF yeah I’m thinking retro more in the sense of “from my childhood” which is of course entirely subjective. A lot of stuff that's filed as “retro” feels not massively different from modern 2D games to me, compared to the weird shit we played 😄

@drakeblue I got a SNES when it came out but it doesn’t feel properly retro to me, since I wasn't a kid anymore by then. Love the look of your game, reminds me of Oids on the ST

Looking for this stuff just leads me to a ton of Nintendo IP and like, have you any idea how late/expensive the NES was here, about 3 people bought one, we were all playing Pyjamarama and Hovver Bovver

Does anyone do T-shirts themed around 8/16 bit retro games, but the weird British ones? I want a Fat Worm Blows A Sparky, Ant Attack or Spindizzy T-Shirt dammit

@kojack No-one else has been replacing sticks for free because of drift though. It would be far cheaper for them to eliminate the problem

@kojack I can't imagine they won't be. They've had to pay so much for the free joycon refurb program they'd be mad not to. It was kind of implied in the video with the stick flourishes but yeah I don't have concrete confirmation

I only really use my Switch for exclusives but damn the Switch 2 looks real nice just as a physical thing. Less fiddly joycons with hall effect sticks, nicer screen (I had the OG not the OLED) and a new Mario - lets face it I'll be getting one https://www.nintendo.com/successor/en-gb/index.html

@yora they’re unaffiliated, I’m sure they’re just scanning the public info of users, I should probably see if O can make my email private (although horse has bolted on that one really)

@Bobbins I wonder if the problem is largely the idea that everything orbits around “the industry”, when actually the “industry” part is just one slice. The only slice some people care about, especially the C-Suites. But you could entirely ditch the industry part and there would still be games, because ultimately people make stuff because they want to (also why they put up with shit conditions to do it as a living). So the industry is the disposable part & should sit the hell down

Ugh I guess everyone else on GitHub is getting GitSponsers crypto spam too? Give it up idiots, you’re a couple of years late on this bandwagon

@GeekAndDad spanner is a great word TBH, both a tool and a mild insult (“you total spanner”) 🙂

@kr4ft3r @bbbscarter @runevision yeah exactly - imagine drawing your top-down dungeon maps on graph paper, as so many of us old folks did - that’s canonically an XY coordinate system. Need to add height, use the next letter along 😃