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Yea, if you update your game with new stuff that causes performance issues on older things, then just put up a warning about it and call it good

Sometimes these companies do way too much





>This is one Direct before the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct on April 2nd that’s coming up soon
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What Sony could do is patch restrictive DRM software into all their games that checks the hardware info and fails to boot if you’re on “an xbox”.

They’d definitely do that, they’ve already used what amounted to a Rootkit for DRM in the mid-2000s, so your idea wouldn’t even be the worst they’ve done lolol




>I spent a week of my life doing this so you don't have to. Today we're gonna try and use the OneCore API to run modern games on Windows XP! Will anything work? Or will I spend over a hour troubleshooting a bunch of problems? Featuring: CLI Epic Games client lolol
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>this one is more entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB1EuWMuSqU
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https://archive.is/2025.03.06-011758/https://www.ft.com/content/4ab9efe7-36bc-44ff-b2cd-06eb2c38203a > > ::: spoiler Tap for article > # Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing > > ## US group has sought to broaden its appeal to a mass audience > > ![Discord co-founder and chief executive Jason Citron](https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fc8281b93-1de6-49e4-9a1e-16fb48a33d99.jpg?source=next-article%5C&fit=scale-down%5C&quality=highest%5C&width=700%5C&dpr=1) > > Video game developer Jason Citron founded Discord in 2015 © Kimberly White/Getty Images/TechCrunch > > Discord is in early talks with banks about a public listing, according to people familiar with the matter, in a sign of a possible revival in the sluggish US IPO market. > > Founded in 2015 by video game developer Jason Citron, [Discord](https://www.ft.com/stream/42c52c5f-e7f3-430d-b592-5caa08de5a31) offers multi-person voice, video and text-based spaces to its 200mn global monthly active users. > > The San Francisco gaming chat platform was considering listing as early as 2021, according to people familiar with the matter. However, many technology companies and investors have put their [IPO plans](https://www.ft.com/ipos) on hold due to political and market uncertainty. > > That is expected to change this year as interest rates have fallen and US President Donald Trump has laid out a more tech-friendly regulatory agenda. > > Discord was last valued at about $15bn in a 2021 fundraising, according to PitchBook. The company’s revived IPO plans remain subject to change, one of the people said. > > “We understand there is a lot of interest around Discord’s future plans, but we do not comment on rumours or speculation,” the company said in a statement shared with the Financial Times. “Our focus remains on delivering the best possible experience for our users and building a strong, sustainable business.” > > CoreWeave, an [artificial intelligence](https://www.ft.com/artificial-intelligence) cloud computing provider, filed for a New York IPO this month that would raise about $4bn and value the group at more than $35bn, which could make it the largest tech flotation of the year. > > A series of valuable start-ups, including fintech groups Stripe and Chime and data platform Databricks that had been forced to stay private far longer than planned are expected to reignite plans to list their shares. > > Discord initially found popularity among gamers, as well as retail trading and cryptocurrency communities, but has since sought to broaden its appeal to a mass audience. > > The company has largely shunned advertising, in contrast to larger rivals such as Meta, X and Reddit, in favour of offering its users premium features for a fee. > > In 2021, it attracted interest from multiple Big Tech groups, rebuffing a $12bn takeover bid from Microsoft. The recent IPO plans were first reported by The New York Times. > :::
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Really hoping (He probably does) he has a succession plan in place to prevent that when he’s gone



GameMaker Studio is going strong.

Now that is a name I haven’t heard in a very long time


Well if it’s anything like EVE online these “wars” are rather resource intensive on the underlying infrastructure lol


Thanks for the tip! Looks like Brighter Shores is headed by none other than Andrew Gower himself, so it’s probably the most RuneScapiest RuneScape successor lmao

FlyKnight kinda looked like RuneScape, but I think I’d rather try out Brighter Shores lol


Might be a by-product of their uber strict work philosophy


least pirate it.

Don’t gotta tell me twice lmao

It’s a shame really, Sony is one of the last of the prolific single player AAA producers, everyone else seems intent on shoveling multi-player crap out and maybe doing SP as an after thought:(



Yup, I haven’t been able to get back into RS3 for years now when in the past I’ve been able to at least have annual stretches of play

There’s OSRS still, for the moment “uncorrupted”, but it’s basically starting fresh even when your account existed when OSRS was Runescape


We’re kinda there already, the OnePlus Open can be had for ~1,300 which should be about right around a “high end smartphone + tablet”

Plus, foldys have been on the market long enough now that you can snag a good deal on the used/refurb market if you’re patient



Ig, but you can expect a Li-ion to last about 2-3 years, it’s not that much of a chore to open it up every 3 years, especially after the first time


If you already opened it to install this, why didn’t you just buy an actual replacement from China?

ETA:

This is (probably) a Blackview Tab 12 Pro

I found a proper replacement ranging in price from $10 to $30 depending on if you wanted a Stateside store and faster ship or willing to wait for AliExpress.

This is a solution in search of a problem


Straight outta the scummy debt collector playbook


Search on my screen stopped working reliably for me a while ago, and it didn’t work in apps that are blocking screenshots/sharing


Not sure what CtS is using, but I don’t think it’s the normal screen capture API, because it works in apps that block screenshots


Nobody’s forcing you to be here.



Seriously? A source on the authoritarianism of China? Oh idk, there’s the Great Firewall of China, um the whole Winnie the Pooh thing. Why don’t you go-to China and start posting “Fuck Xi” and see how quickly you get arrested. At least here I can say “Fuck Biden”, or Fuck Trump without worry.

Oh, I’m on .ml that explains everything so this’ll probably get removed to, can’t have the truth breaking through on .ml lmao


Pretty good, if only their Government wasn’t so authoritarian with a habit of making people “disappear”








Use Librewolf and Mull instead.

And keep an eye on the Ladybird browser, eventually FF forks will die should FF go full-tilt enshittification, but hopefully not till Ladybird is fully ready


Ladybird is a completely new open source browser with it’s own from scratch engine, so that’s one that hasn’t been forked from any other browser


Labybird is a completely new upcoming open source browser, complete with its own from scratch engine

Theres also Servo an open source engine led by the Linux Foundation


There’s always the Ladybird browser and an independent open source browser engine called Servo that’s under The Linux Foundation


This is just the beginnings of the enshittification of FF. There are others out there, Ladybird for example, deserves our attention being built completely from scratch engine and all. Though it’s not slated to become fully usable until 2026 because, they’re building the engine from scratch lol


It was less than 2 days that Yuzu made their announcement. They didn’t carefully consider shit, they had their exit plan in case Nintendo came knocking and it was to run for the hills like cowards wasting the opportunity to set a real precedent and possibly protecting the future of other emulation projects.

And they were a company, all liability rested with the company, not the people running it, so they could have easily run it into the ground fighting and then went “whoopsy” and declared bankruptcy like so many companies have done

They were cowards.


It wasn’t completely unwinnable, it was legally untested waters and could have gone either way, had they fought and won they would have even set a precedent for future emulation projects.

This wasn’t some 2 person team project. It was a company with real money that could have fought and laid the foundation for the future safety of emulation. And because they were a company all liability laid with the company with no personal liability risk to the founders. But they didn’t, they settled in less than 2 days, tucked tail and ran with the remaining money.

Cowards.



You mean what Pocketpair is doing right now? They’re both businesses who should have known they would come up against Nintendo at some point.


Yuzu, and before any of their apologists come on here, they were a company that reportedly had millions in the bank and could have fought.


In case anyone was wondering, Pocketpair has already announced they’re going to fight Nintendo.

Unlike a certain other company that folded like a coward in 2 days after a simple C&D letter, took their money and ran.


Nintendo: Can we sue them over the designs?

Lawyer: Not really, this shit is impossible to prove

starts closing the money briefcase

Lawyer: But we can sue them anyway


Motorola Backflip FTW!