TimeSquirrel

TimeSquirrel, 8 miesięcy temu

loose 90% of the games you play as well

It's 2025, not 2007. This is a huge exaggeration. Maybe try it again sometime.

TimeSquirrel, 8 miesięcy temu

It's because you didn't spend a significant portion of your life learning how to create things from, for lack of a better term, your soul, and then had a machine rip it all away from you. There are good things and bad things about gen-AI.

TimeSquirrel, 10 miesięcy temu

Ayaneo is calling the Ayaneo 3 “the world’s first modular handheld,” because there’ll be other modular options too. An extra $139 buys a set of six modules that let you swap out your joysticks for analog sticks, a six-button microswitch pad for fighting games, or even D-pads and face buttons with conductive silicone underneath for a different feel.

Instead of carrying around all these swappable modules that I can lose, why don't I just use a controller of my choice plugged into the USB port? That's what I do now with the Steam deck.

Are people forgetting that these things are basically PCs? You could plug an office printer into them and use it if you wanted to for some reason.

TimeSquirrel, 11 miesięcy temu

But in this case they have had their lunch eaten by the steam deck, Rog ally, etc.

I see tons of people still using the old Switch. I have so far seen none other than myself and my kid using a Steam Deck.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

Ever since Mortal Kombat. They won't fucking drop it. 30-40 years of this shit already.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

You know what would be even more awesome? Open sourcing them like Id did with Doom and Quake.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

Yep. I still do challenges to see how many customers I can get to puke on one ride.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

Kerbal Space Program. But that's not "action", more like simulation, and, the entire game revolves around accurate, realistic physics, since it models actual space travel. So accurate to the point where you can build and test crazy real world concepts like the machine from that company that wants to put stuff into orbit by spinning it and then flinging it up through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

I will never forget getting excited at the old boot screen as a kid back in '96. That was the sound of the future arriving in your living room. A more hopeful time.

https://youtu.be/BOPViekdacQ?si=qDul2jWpr6CzMd0b

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

KSP. I colonized almost the entire system on chemical rockets alone with bases and ISRU fuel depots orbiting the smaller moons (I'd have to go to each base, do some mining, and refill the orbiting tanker station before every long mission so it's ready when I got there). I'm not at my PC but last I checked it was a couple thousand hours.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu (edited rok temu)

KILLING SPREE!

RAMPAGE!

DOUBLE KILL!

M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!

Edit: oh yeah and Duke at an arcade cabinet of his own game: "Don't have time to play with myself."

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

Devouring the queen and flattening pawns with one punch.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

Maxis did something like that once in the 90s with Streets of Simcity, where you can load up a city you created and race around in it.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

Mobile games are the equivalent of those "100 great games pack"-type CDROMS you'd find in the electronics section of stores in the late 90s/early 2000s. Not many invest serious money and time into gaming on a tablet or phone like they do on a console or PC, because games on phones and tablets are more like an afterthought. Something to do in between group chats and work emails.

TimeSquirrel, rok temu

Same here. My favorite game is Kerbal Space Program, and the graphics look like they are straight out of the early 2000s, but even with a 12 core CPU I still get crazy lag during explosions, staging, and other physics interactions. Transitioning from "on rails" flight to actually modelling physics when within a few km of something else has also not ever been smooth.