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I would not have bought it, no. I don’t really buy games.

Also it was like 50-60 euros, that’s a dent in my monthly drinking budget man, I can’t take that. It’s like one nice or two semi-nice or three okay bottles of rum.

cope and act like piracy was doing them a favor.

It’s you who’s “coping” actually.

The EU commissioned a study on piracy affecting sales some years back. When it came back as “no negative effect, perhaps even a positive one”, the EU lowkey tried suppressing the study.

https://felixreda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf

There’s the actual study.

And here’s the news about the suppression.

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537



Me and my brother pirated it, loved it, bought it. (Especially because the multiplayer works on pirated version and very simply so.)

Piracy increases sales.

Remember the PS1 demos? Had I been of working age back then, I’d have bought half of them merely because I loved the demos.


Idk man, should’ve seen the shit she was writing. Also she’s a pretty big deal in the cracking circles afaik.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_(cracker)

But yeah nothing there to disprove your hypothesis though, but the way it’s been going in the world, there’s definitely more Russians pretending to be Americans online than the other way around. Lemmy is chock full of Davels ([email protected])


On my last computer I downloaded the Harry Potter game and it was cracked by Empress, a vicious anti-trans right-wing Russian woman. I just hung out in a telegram when the game was released and man the toxic shit she spewed was nasty. Proper fking nasty.

And I purposefully disabled the security on my PC and installed something she made.

Yes it was stupid, but I was lonely and really nostalgic for Hogwarts and felt less like donating actual money to a billionaire trans-hater than possibly giving a Russian trans-hater access to my machine.


I absolutely did not. However I don’t own the Switch, my brother does, and we only reminisced about Goldeneye the once and perhaps I managed to shoot a window in the first level, or perhaps even a guard or two, but no, I didn’t figure out a control scheme.

I’m actually unsure how I played it with N64 in the first place. Did I move from the C-buttons when freeaiming… hmm… I remember at least trying the D-pad setup as well. But I feel like d-pad side wasn’t good because less buttons. Honestly can’t fkin remember. Would need to play with a N64 controller to remember I think. Or perhaps it’s just lost. But I do remember we actually did freeaim and and strafe at the same time, whereas the regular scheme didn’t properly allow for that iirc. (Due to the whole lack of two joysticks)

Also mandatory mention about how shit the N64 joystick was. There were some friends I’d give the good controller to to even out the odds but some weren’t ever allowed near the good ones, because they used way too much force and would’ve shat the good ones as well.


Before dual analogu we also had the fucking bizarre control schemes in 007: Goldeneye

https://goldeneye.fandom.com/wiki/Control_style

I don’t even remember which one I used. Goddamn it was hard playing that with a Switch controller and not remembering at all in the year of our lord 2025 when I had last played like in the 90’s. Even though I used to be pretty much the best person on the game from eveyone I knew. Granted I wouldn’t say I had a massive difference to my brothers but we ofc had a huge lead on everyone else as we were pretty much the only home with a N64 in the town. We also had 4 controllers. Times have and will never ever be better than sitting with brothers and friends playing Goldeneye or Mario Kart while grandma is making pancakes in the kitchen and occasionally providing commentary. She definitely knew what the Blue Shell does. RIP. <3


Idk man do you live where hares do? They all constantly look like they’re on meth


In B&W you played a god essentially, and you’d have a sort of pet. Not your avatar, but something independent that you had to sort of slightly motivate to do things.

It probably had some “AI” in it and the author is now trying to assert his ideas led to AI, despite him probably copying as much for his code as any coder today.

I genuinely don’t know I can’t be arsed to open it but I’m guessing something something those lines. Someone will come along and tell me how wrong I was.


He did write “the” correctly. He didn’t write “are” correctly.

You however wrote “how much of a cringe child your made yourself look like by writing it”.

Which is… sort of ironic.


Pff never existed bro. Youre dreaming.

Back in like 2000 aimbotters were more plentiful than now. Some all-seeing eye privately servers lol

Youre idealising history you never experienced


Rich, meh. But if you sell em before the bubble bursts, you’ll make some profit at least.



2000s were the peak crossroads of old and modern life and its fun to look back

FYI in ten years kids will be saying the exact same thing about the 2010’s, just like they did 10 years ago with the 90’s and for my gen it was the 80’s-70’s.


I mean, it’s not necessary, but neither are HD resolutions or high framerates.

It has seemed every beautiful in some things.

It’s not necessary, but like, lots of things aren’t. The tech in itself isn’t horrible, it’s just horrible usecases which make it bad. Even if most usecases are horrible. Some aren’t.

Edit for instance we have much the same power computers with my brother, aside from me having an outdated GPU. Last year when we played HP Legacy for a bit, I would say that his was far prettier when utilising Ray tracing, and the whole game is a sort of feast of aesthetics, so. Although his rig wasn’t potent enough to have great framerates, so playing was still better for him as well without Ray tracing. But the scenery without much action still had good framerares so we saw rhe difference. Idk perhaps it will never be good but


Okay that’s not nothing but 200 000€ / year is hardly top 1% in EU, I think.

This is what slop gave me:

Based on available data on income distribution in Europe, a rough estimate for a gross annual individual salary to be in the top 1% across the EU would likely fall above €200,000.

When I asked how much you’d need to make in a year to be in EU top 1%. Didn’t even mention 200 000.

So yeah upper class but not necessarily top 1%. In Lithuania they’re probably top1% but not on the EU level.

Sorry for being pedantic, you were close enough tho





“List all notable video game characters”

Oh cmon

Might as well ask someone to list the top songs of every year since the 80’s.

Edit nvm it’s not even characters, just games.

Pong is from like 1972.


So… Theyre complaining that his own time he put in was a donation worth over 500€ and he failing to disclose that, he’s made a mistake that can result in… dismissing the whole movement?

Seriously. How is it possible every fucking day there’s something that just steps over the line, despite the line moving every day.

It’s beyond impossible to do any sort of political satire currently ffs


Cute petition, but sadly you can be absolutely certain it ain’t going nowhere

“Not going anywhere” isn’t the same as “completely meaningless”


There’s a whole bunch of shows I may or may not have illegally downloaded, which then were cancelled due to lack of interest or something. If I could’ve made a direct donation to influence that, I’d have happily contributed like 100€ for the shows to continue.


HMD, Human Mobile Devices. Afaik a lot of them are former Nokia. Or it’s a light rebrand and not a new corp. Dk. Some connection though





I was stoll using the first wireless one as a BT controller to play switch games last year. The battery gave out imo, otherwise zero issues.


Idk man.

29 years ago this came out.

The traditional controller for PS1 didn’t have joysticks. You needed a DualShock for that, or it’s predecessor the Dual Analog controller.

But yeah year or two here there, the DualShocks and PS controllers after that were very good controllers.

But those first decent ones came out more like at the turn of the millennium than halfway through the 90’s as you imply.

Back then it ps1 without joysticks and from 96 on N64 with extremely shitty joysticks. Gamecube came out in 2001 and Nintendo had clearly learned it’s lesson — to an extent.


minus the TERF nonsense, and wizards shitting on the floor.

I get the TERF stuff, but why go after such a highly regarded part of official canon lore?


the OG NCC-1701 Enterprise with your pals.

If only had VR still. And pals…

Seemed like great larping. I would’ve jizzed at the chance of something like that 25 years ago when I was doing just that essentially, but the GPU was just imagination. Now it’s like half real and I have zero friends (period) who would be willing to play something like that.


I probably will, yeah.

Or I was going to. Would’ve got 5070 ti, but didn’t have luck with the stock when it came out then drank most of the money, thought to give it a bit of time.

I’m gonna wait a few months to see how this turns out after 5060ti comes out and whatnot.



I think you forget not everyone lives in the same place and under the same marketing that you do.

“Ethnocentrism”, I believe it’s called.


This is word for word what people said when the 40-series came out.

“this Gen definitely sucks. Just get a 3080”



a nazi salute is pretty much anti-everyone, man.

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_


There seems to be additional settings though? I’m still on android 14 (oneui 6.1, had huawei up until last week or so). So perhaps they put Wifi and mobile data separately under that arrow?

Can you draw down different menus based on whether you draw from left or the right side of the top of the screen? (I had that in huawei as default for a long time now but had to enable it on this samsung)


That’s probably your mobile connection? Are you translating or does an English android say “Internet”?

What’s the symbol?

There’s also an option you can turn on that allows you pulling the menu down from the right side of the top of the screen, and you get the whole menu. I tried linking but for some reason I haven’t been able to upload images with my new phones for some reason. And then pulling down from the left side will just bring down the normal menu.

You can also reorganise the tiles so you have your most used in the quick bar.