I will never understand why people buy consoles. By doing so, rather than getting some kind of pc, you are doing nothing but paying a lot more in order to greatly restrict your options and make all your gaming utterly beholden to some corp.
It used to be the case that consoles were more convenient and faster to play games on. Now the opposite is true. To run a console game you have to make and sign into an account, be online, it will need to update its OS, then update the game, and loading times are enormous.
Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a Hidden Code Editor
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Re: Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a Hidden Code Editor
#152I read every word of the post (including quotations) and watched every second of the video. I've played on a Switch (owned by someone else). Can someone ELI5 what the issue is here or why there's any reason for remorse? Since it's a text adventure game, what's the difference between the game as allowed (text adventure) and the sandboxed bundled ruby? What's the difference between those 2 things? (A sandboxed ruby see…
One issue that can easily crop up - the sandbox has bugs that allow access outside the game. This makes the game suddenly more than just an adventure game, and could be exploited. This is what Nintendo is trying to prevent here.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that a bug though and not a feature? Also running the inputs to generate compileable code isn't feasible on the original console because of the required precision of the inputs and only possible on emulators?
No, a person can do it on a real console https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
Saying SethBling can do it, does not mean that ordinary people can do it. He is a very talented and focused individual.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sony removed the ability to run Linux many years ago, after it was determined that it was impossible to prevent a jailbreak as long as the second OS feature existed. I’m not aware of Xbox ever supporting this.
Two comments on that A) its impossible to prevent jailbreaks no matter if a second OS option exists or not and B) the Linux option was removed since it was seen as an unneeded expense. Its function for Sony was to keep the people motivated to jailbreak a console from doing so. After the removal of the Linux option the PlayStation was jailbroken.
OtherOS was officially removed due to security concerns. I'm not sure how to find this offhand but my recollection is that OtherOS was used to facilitate jailbreaking the system. Its function wasn't to prevent jailbreaks but to get people interested in programming for the Cell processor.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very off-topic, but I've seen this twice this week already: it's free rein (as in horses), not free reign [1]. [1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/15276/is-this-us...
But since "free reign" has been about since 1834, there's about a 40/60 split between "reign" and "rein", and both make the same sense, I don't think anyone except daft old prescriptivists would care now, do you? https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/03/26/rein-or-reign...
I'm not sure I buy that argument - according to the article it's a 20/80 split between "take the reigns"/"take the reins" with about the same number of samples. In that case, "take the reigns" seems egregiously wrong, and I question either the statistics or the sampled population.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
But since "free reign" has been about since 1834, there's about a 40/60 split between "reign" and "rein", and both make the same sense, I don't think anyone except daft old prescriptivists would care now, do you? https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/03/26/rein-or-reign...
I'm not sure I buy that argument - according to the article it's a 20/80 split between "take the reigns"/"take the reins" with about the same number of samples. In that case, "take the reigns" seems egregiously wrong, and I question either the statistics or the sampled population.
> In that case, "take the reigns" seems egregiously wrong
But still understandable with the kind of context - "take the reins" and "take the reigns" would be imply "take control", no? (Sure, it's clunky, but that's English for you.)
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I buy that argument - according to the article it's a 20/80 split between "take the reigns"/"take the reins" with about the same number of samples. In that case, "take the reigns" seems egregiously wrong, and I question either the statistics or the sampled population.
> In that case, "take the reigns" seems egregiously wrong But still understandable with the kind of context - "take the reins" and "take the reigns" would be imply "take control", no? (Sure, it's clunky, but that's English for you.)
It is understandable and doesn't "effect" my comprehension, but that doesn't mean that the net "affect" is equivalent or desirable. :)
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It is okay, just don't buy anything made by Nintendo unless you're ok with Nintendo's restrictive 'nanny console' TOS. You can run Linux and play GTA and Mortal Kombat on other consoles. Nintendo is geared towards people who like Nintendo.
> You can run Linux and play GTA and Mortal Kombat on other consoles. I don't know what you mean here. You can play the latest Mortal Kombat on the Switch, too.
He means that if you don't like Nintendo's restrictive policies, you're more than welcome to play the vast majority of the games on the other consoles/platforms they're available on.
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#159I will never understand why people buy consoles. By doing so, rather than getting some kind of pc, you are doing nothing but paying a lot more in order to greatly restrict your options and make all your gaming utterly beholden to some corp. It used to be the case that consoles were more convenient and faster to play games on. Now the opposite is true. To run a console game you have to make and sign into an account, b…
For me at least, the appeal is that the Switch is capable of being handheld on things like the commute and flights. PC gaming is not as convenient or portable, and mobile gaming is not nearly as pleasant of an experience.
You don't have to be online to run a Switch. And the Switch uses solid state memory so loading times are pretty good.
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If nintendo didn’t put DRM, publishers would avoid the platform, as they would see it as insecure. Blame the laws allowing this.
Sure, just like developers never make games for Windows PC.
Developers who make games for Windows PCs tend to fill them with so many "DRM" and "anti-cheat" measures that they might as well just sell them as a prebaked rootkit.