I am still on my GTX 1060 3 GB, probably worth about $50 at this point lol

Pokemon MMO’s are the entire different thing. I am not 100% sure how they developed them, but they seem to be just reimplementations of original game mechanics, but while reusing original assets.

And yet I don’t understand why you say they are not taken down by Nintendo. Couple of them were already closed down because of copyright infringement, and they made big news about that.

They will eventually be all taken down. That’s the point. They have no legal framework to exist, and Nintendo could strike any time they want, like Rockstar did with the re3 project.

They also have valid reasons to think that these projects are causing them to lose money, since they give alternative (and technically better) solutions to play their old games, without buying any Nintendo hardware or software (unless you dump your games, but let’s be honest. You don’t).

Exactly. But somehow I got downvoted heavily for saying the obvious.

No one says that the actual source code (C or whatever) is “piped out”. The machine instructions (in form of a binary) you have before decompiling is the code that is executed by the machine/emulator is copyrighted like any other data on the disc/cartridge. You are not writing the game yourself if you are decompiling it. And it’s logically a derivative work. The fact that the resulting “instructions” is not the source code that developers wrote is as expected. It won’t create it from thin air.

I don’t understand what kind of mental gymnastics you need to do to think that you are doing something original here.

The code itself is also copyrighted. Decompiled code is a derivative work.

I won’t say if that project is legal or not, but expect it (and many others) to be taken down by Nintendo soon. Make a local copy if you want to preserve it.

You know what gives me stress? Websites that reinvent scrolling.

I definitely agree with most of the points but I don’t get what do you mean that you can’t move to testing, because that’s what I literally did recently by upgrading from bookworm to trixie with no issues whatsoever and I have Nvidia card, although older one (GTX 1060 3GB).

Drivers being outdated is not a big deal, unless you use recent hardware, then it might make sense to make a jump to current testing release (trixie), or just stay on testing indefinitely.

Also it being “barebones” is a good thing in my eyes, since I can configure it how I want.

That’s weird. It worked for me just fine. I have GTX 1060 3GB.

So it’s the overly complicated version of a system that’s on more sane platforms like Steam? Ok.

The problem with that is when you have some computer on the LAN that is running Windows, it doesn’t always work and who the fuck knows why.

Original Diablo or Diablo 2 (not sure about the latter though, haven’t played it yet, lol)

I am pretty sure it was possible even like 15 years ago through unofficial app on Google Play. What’s new here?

IDK. I see plenty of RTX 3060’s and 4060’s around for relatively cheap, but I didn’t follow the evolution of PC components in years, and my GTX 1060 still works, lol.

I’ll be riding my bike till I feel and die.

I really dislike any game with difficulty scaling. It might make some sense, if you fight random bandits in the middle of nowhere, since they had time to level up a little, but in most places it’s just annoying.

I’d rather have my character level up and be able to literally destroy everything with one hit when I spend a shit-ton of time making it stronger. See: Gothic games or classic RPG’s.

A romance story is good if’s not half-assed and a game doesn’t depend on it. 16-bit RPG’s did it well.

Huh, did they make an alternative I don’t know about?

We just want a good GTA game… Fuck this monetization bullshit.

Well I don’t know… it will end in October. Time surely doesn’t fly that fast…

It’s a very useful site, but I don’t get the competition thing. If you want to finish the game fast you speedrun it, not play casually.

There’s no way I will ever get rid of my desktop PC (and my 3DS I guess).

That’s just not true. They have their own emulators, but most of the time they are inferior to community ones. I think Virtual Console releases used some kind of optimized emulators for their hardware, but didn’t care about accuracy, etc.

There’s nothing new in this article. And I don’t think Nintendo ever said that emulation is illegal, just emulating their games is, which technically is true to some part at least in the United States, where sometimes you need to circumvent some security measures to get games emulated which is a forbidden (this is mentioned in the article).

I still haven’t finished Witcher 3 :/

Minecraft.

Firefox is absolutely horrendous on mobile. A lot of websites don’t render properly, or when scrolling everything jumps around. Browsing Facebook is especially bad. Also UX is a lot worse than competing browsers.

At least Samsung phones are only bloated with Samsung apps, which in most part you can uninstall or disable. Although it’s still fucking stupid that when you buy a new phone you need to do a lot of maintenance just to make your phone work as it should, and not slow down because of shitty apps.

You don’t need to play new games to have fun though.

I’ve just finished playing Half-Life (or in fact, the fan-made remake Black Mesa), and Half-Life: Uplink (the demo version that was released after the final game, and it consisted of a short non-canon scenario that’s not included in the final game, but lately was included in the 25th anniversary version).

I will be playing HL: Opposing Force and Blue Shift next. And in general I am planning to fish every Half-Life game this month (except Alyx since I don’t have good enough hardware for me to enjoy it, and playing it on GTX 1060 3GB is not enjoyable at all), and if it goes well Portal games as well.

Absolutely nothing, like in the past like 5 years.

Currently (re)playing all Half-Life and Portal games in order they were released.

Technology is incredible!

~Random NPC in Pallet Town in Pokémon Red/Blue

There’s a new flight simulator? Shit, I still haven’t played the one I bought like a year or two ago.

It’s a huge deal for hardcore fans, but I am overall against these practices, since they are just illegal, period.

There are a lot of fangames that contain regions and their Pokemon from original games, with some enhancements. You could try these.

That’s probably something a person who has no clue about Pokemon could say. You underestimate how many mechanics older games contain, since like half of them are not obvious for casual players. Although I am not sure about gens newer than IV (Diamond and Pearl is the most recent I’ve played), since I haven’t played them. But most people agree that the best games were around that period (Gen IV, or V), and they only become worse over the years.

To be honest I really think that an AI surprising human brain in many ways is a matter of time, but what people don’t tend to talk about is whether or not we are slowly approaching the limit what we can do with technology, because I already see tech progress slowing down in some areas.

Mouse and keyboard, optionally a Xbox Controller or similar.

But my least liked one? Probably any PlayStation one, I hate them all.