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> why I should prefer driving against some punks that spend their evening crashing into the other players on purpose So you don't like Twisted Metal (great PS2 game) or Mario Kart …

I didn't realize you could directly download peer-to-peer to another Switch using "match version". I haven't tried that - does it work without internet authorization ("checking if …

> When things get out of hand organizationally it makes sense to call for a snow leopard, but it comes at great cost so you better make big changes in the system so the same mistak…

> When Windows ME and Windows Vista came out, people hated them even more than they usually hated Windows, so they did not use them. Microsoft was forced to respond by making a not…

Prices have gone up since then, but at the time this article claimed $7/fps for PS5 vs. $17/fps for Steam Machine (which attempts to provide a console-like experience): https://www…

Interesting - I have (fortunately) not run into these issues (yet), but found a list (with specifics) at https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singlep... Most of the…

If gog.com went away tomorrow, downloaded games and installers should be copyable to another PC relatively easily (so far this has worked 100% for me at least). I'm not sure how ea…

With the exception of a few (regrettable) "game key" cards, physical Switch 1/2 games are usually playable offline with just the game card and the console. This is part of the appe…

Next month (September 2026) looks pretty good: Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Dawn of War IV, Wolverine, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Orbitals, Silent Hill: Town…

Someone has discovered existential dread.

How about something like clang's -fbounds-safety?

Pretty much this. Everything is a timed exclusive and eventually available on PC through emulation etc. That being said, it's still nice to be able to easily run something like Dem…

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951461

Great tiny tapeout project; hopefully this will result in drop-in replacement Z80 parts for vintage machines as well as new designs and homebrew systems for CP/M etc. Then there is…

GTA6 is presumably a timed exclusive, so why ignore other timed console exclusives like... FFXVI, FF7 Remake, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Stellar Blade, Ghost of T…

Large publishers (and studios) tend to go for large games and usually some combination of sure bets (series, remakes) with a smaller number of riskier bets (new properties). Fortun…

There are still lots of great games though.

> Nothing worth noting released on those consoles Have you heard of Elden Ring? Or is your complaint about cross-gen, timed exclusives, and PC releases? Or that there aren't enough…

If we actually owned the game software, then digital downloads would be fine.

Customer service was already replaced by rubbish automation; AI simply adds to the endless voicemail maze and the "your call is very unimportant to us..." delay before "all represe…

One Immovable Fact that AI Companies Hate!

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of thei…