Moby

I really can't remember any sprite based 2D game on the N64 other than SimCity 2000, Worms Armageddon and Rampage. Everything else was 2D with 3D backgrounds or 2.5D.

I remember reading that the Saturn did well on Japan, but failed on the Americas due the lack of ports and translations, plus games being canceled to be made on the Dreamcast.

Its funny that both Nintendo and Sega dropped the ball making consoles that were hard to develop games to, so most third part went to Sony instead.

GTA 5 is 80% off, for the 2 people that don't own it.

I still find it funny that Pizza Tower was supposed to be a Clock Tower-style cartoon horror game.

After further deliberation 11 years later, maybe I should have traded the Quadwrangler to Guy.

1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

You often get a situation like this where there's some "unexpected" drama that brings everything to a halt.  But usually you had problems before that too.  I didn't follow TBH to closely, but weren't they supposed to have the goat character and all the story mode in the game at least two years ago?

I haven't followed it either, but they were releasing dev notes quite often for a while, but then they started to focus too much on the PvP side of the game.

Shanty was made free when they announced the character pass, but all they said about the story mode was "chapter 2 is coming along", which was supposed to be nearly finished by that point.

Most people are pointing towards their publisher, which might be why they "can't tell anything other than what was already said". Likely their money ran out and Modus wants to cut corners instead of backing a niche game.

Which is rather weird because things were going well until now, new characters, console versions, monthly patches, dev streams, EGS promotion, getting known people to do voices for the new characters (Patrick Seitz, Chris Sabat)...

They released the first character, 3-4 months later released the second in April, did a teaser for the third character a month later... then they vanished.

7 months later, they return and say "Here is that character we teased, also here is the last of the DLC characters, I guess. Story mode is scrapped, we are sorry"

2 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

That being said I'll still trust a crowd funded game or in development to get "done" more than I will a Paradox game.

I'd rather get kicked in the balls rather to give my money to "$500 DLC" Paradox.

New ENA and new Fesh Pince of Blair on the same day? Bless.

Them's Fightin' Herds will stop development, Story mode, future character passes and other crowdfund content scrapped.

Is the LabZero engine cursed?

Demo if he only drank water

By the rectangle, I thought it was that grate near spawn on 2fort, but the way the Scout rolls down made me think of every other stair in the game. Probably still 2fort, on that room near spawn leading to the intelligence where you often see sentry camps.

Retro is and always will be stuff from before the 90's. Vintage is from before the 50's.

Old is anything from 5 years ago or more.

A streamer I used to watch often put the stream on the "retro" category for any games older than the PS4.

Apparently it was just a clickbait to make people enter the stream, because of the non-descriptive joke title and the retro category, people had no idea what was being playing until they watched.

Finished Yakuza 7. Great game, fun and all that, but I still like 0 and Kiwami 1 better.

For a JRPG, I would put on my top list along Dragon Quest 8. Its basically the Saints Row 4 to Kiwami's Saints Row 2.
 

Overall, great game. Can't wait for 8.

I still want to get a CRT to hook up my PS1, Mega Drive and Master System.

Before we moved to the era of flat screens, we had 2 TVs, a 14 Inch Philco-Hitachi and a 29 Inch Gradiente.
 

The 14 inch one didn't had AV ports, only those old screws where you had to place the video forks and that single big antenna plug you had to screw. We needed an adapter to connect the PS1.

We eventually bought a flat 29 inch CRT and moved the old 29" to my room, but after 15 years of use, it started to fail and eventually stopped working. We bought a 32 inch plasma screen that we used a bit more than a decade, in fact, it stopped working a month ago.

No idea what happened to the 14 inch one. I still hope that one day I can get one.

I think I looked for a solution for that years ago, and everything I could find was "get fucked".

The display problem doesn't bothers me much because I always disable hibernation, just didn't bother disabling it until recently.

What really puzzles me is why the AMD drivers keep vanishing without reason. Windows updates are disabled, driver installation is disabled both on settings and group policy, but every other month it seems to just uninstall itself.

I am having a semi-constant problem where the AMD drivers keep uninstalling themselves even though I blocked Windows from downloading and installing drivers.

When I reinstalled them for the nth time, they also came with an update to my BIOS. While that never gave me any problems, this recent BIOS update brought a problem where my laptop no longer wakes up from inactivity if its on battery mode.

At first I thought that maybe it was a power/display problem, but no.

It DOES wakes up, but the screen doesn't. The DELL logo screen shows up, then it goes dark when the Windows login screen is supposed to appear. I can force the screen to go back if I plug the AC, close the lid and open it back again.

The laptop works fine on battery, as long it doesn't hibernates from inactivity.

I tried to downgrade the BIOS, but it doesn't lets me. I think I can force it by trying to force a restore.

Tried support, specified to the guy my problem and that it happened after the BIOS update. He activated some Memory Integrity setting, tried to update the BIOS again and said "that was all he could do".

Then he said I should reinstall Windows 11 back, even though I said I had Windows 10 installed for almost one year and the problem happened a day after a BIOS update.

Fucking hell.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/wb-100-play-legends

Very good bundle, but I already purchased everything but the last two games over the years.

So, I am just saying, but if anyone buys this and gets a spare of Not Left 4 Dead or Gottam Nights, I am available.

I have a Logitech G633 that is going strong for more than 3 years. The foam coat started to crack after a year due sweat, but I can easily find replacements online.

The P3 cable stopped working after two years or so, I tried asking Logitech for a replacement and they sent a whole new headphone. I bought a new cable for $2.

Official media of Edgy Anime Rayman eating sushi ans snorting coke off a naked cow woman isn't something I had on my bingo card.

10 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

I would think that it it is insane that Epic has a store and you can't get stuff like Jazz Jackrabbit or Epic Pinball on it.  That is, if it wasn't the case that you couldn't even buy a single Unreal game on their store.

 

It's like an alternate reality where George Lucas owned a competitor to Amazon and said "Fuck you, we won't sell Star Wars movies here, buy 'em on Ebay or something."

 

EDIT: Apparently they even pulled those games from GOG since the last time I checked?  Glad I picked up Unreal Tournament and Unreal Gold when I did then.

Its funny because Unreal Tournament 3 X was getting a free Steam version, announced early this year. Then Epic just removed it from all stores and deleted all master servers.

I got the entire Unreal bundle for $2, so I can't really complain, but still sucks.

1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

There is an obvious fallout here in not being able to read literature.  But to be honest that had been failing for a while, due to the Prussian education model doing its damnedest to make sure that kids hate reading for fun.  The bigger fallout is that even when speaking people who are "post-literate" have trouble parsing all but the simplest grammar.  This makes discussions of things like logic practically impossible.

That reminds me of my literature classes decades ago. Something that really irked me was that we were supposed to read Portuguese/Brazilian romanticism/realism/modernism books instead of something that would be interesting to kids/teens.

Because of shit like this I HATED reading.

I legit don't remember ANY of these books, they are all still in our bookshelf, but I really don't remember their contents.

The few I remember is one were the devil and an angel wait for the recent dead to bring them to hell/heaven (Auto da Barca do Inferno), with the moral being that you only go to heaven if you are a complete dumbass simpleton or if you died for God in the crusades (but you are a Jew, you go straight into super hell because even the Devil refuses to get you) and the second was about a poor girl whose life sucks and is entirely devoid of hope, until she goes to a fortune teller that says she will meet a tall and rich guy that owns an expensive car, and the twist of the story is that at the end she gets ran over by a tall, rich guy in an expensive car and fucking dies. (Hora da Estrela)

The books I actually remember were more lighthearted and adventurous, a group of detectives find out that a famous actor is a carbon copy of one of their friends, a group of kids fight neo-nazi aliens trying to absorb all the knowledge in the world, an old dude finds his will to live by protecting an ancient tree from being cut down.

Hell, I enjoyed Animal Farm more than those romanticism books.

I wish they had made us read stuff like Dracula, Frankenstein, Wizard of Oz, Pollyanna, Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

And talking about "trouble parsing", it also reminded me of my classmates, who were old enough to have a good grasp on our language, but whenever my teacher asked them to read a passage, they. would. read... like. this. pausing. every other. word. like they. had to. process. each word. before. reading.

It was either that or reading in a monotone.

On 08/10/2023 at 2:35 PM, Moby said:

Was chatting with my parents and brothers during coffee, when the conversation topic got to "little kids with unsupervised access to phones and PCs" because of my neighbor's loud and obnoxious kids.

 

Me and my brothers only got our first phone at 15 (my parents got their first ones at almost 40), barely used the internet back then due the lack of technology and we are arguably normal people, while they were given PCs and phones since early age and got diagnosed with autism. Then I remembered, my other young cousins that also were given phones since early age and had little parental care also were diagnosed with autism.

 

That got me thinking, does the combination of mind rot and overstimulation from constant unsupervised internet access, plus lack of parental care, causes autism?

 

Now, I am not saying "phone radiation causes autism", but just wondering that if someone spread that "unsupervised phone and internet access to kids causes autism", we would have less kids being raised with phone glued to their face.

 

....Nah, nothing would change.

So, was looking at the newspaper () and there was an article about "digital dementia". It talks about a study from a Canadian child hospital research institute, Alberta, about the surge of kids glued to screens since early age.

The study points:

- Lack of actual reading, because they are more easily distracted to whatever they find on the internet than with a plain book

- Short attention span, the overload of colors of sounds make usual reality and classes "boring", so kids don't pay attention

- Weak memory and info retention, since the info are only read superficially, they are quickly forgotten

- Brain atrophy, affecting areas responsible for memory and focus

It also points that kids should not have unsupervised access to internet and phones, kids under 6 should be forbidden of getting close, kids between 7 and 13 should be limited to 1 or 2 hours per day and social media should be allowed only to 16 and up.

But again, it won't matter for shit because shoving a phone or tablet on your toddler face with Roblox or Youtube Kids on is easier than being an actual parent.

Talking about email fuckery, this last week I was getting ungodly amounts of spam on my email.

It first started when some spam mail shared some file with my Drive. For some reason, Gmail knows the notification email itself is spam, but doesn't blocks the file from being shared.

I reported the file and email and kept going with my day. The following day there were 10 spams in my spam folder, all the same pattern, random first and last name, complete gibberish on the title and body and a pdf attached. Over time they got more and more bizarre, sometimes it was just numbers and random words, other times it was entire lines from some book and by the end it looked like really broken html code.

I kept blocking and reporting these, but more and more and more kept showing over the day.

There were two noticeable types, the first was the gibberish with pdf attached, the second was a fake porn/dating site, the handle is always a known page, but filled with emojis (something like "Fire Emoji Tinder" or "PornHub Eggplant Emoji Lips Emoji"), the email is always a bizarre looking mails that end with ".site".

These with the emoji titles were easy enough to set up a filter that automatically deletes them, but the others just kept coming.

I decided to not empty my spam folder yesterday and by the end of the day it had about 200 spam emails.

Today they finally seem to have stopped, no new spam messages the entire day.

31 minutes ago, Huff said:

I'm going to terrorisdt bomb youtube hq

How are you going to drive the entire submarine into there

Cool prompt: Character in color matching Warhammer Space Marine armor.

Or, Super Smash Bros Ultimate 3D render of character, action pose, white background

And why not mixing both

More notes from testing:

- It knows who Sans and Chara from Undertale are, no doesn't knows who Undyne is. It kept generating what looked like Undertale Skeleton OCs.

- "Holding knife" is considered an unsafe prompt. But characters holding guns or that came with their own weapons are ok.

- It insists drawing Amogus with arms.

- The Smash Bros prompt using Amethyst is downright blocked. But it works if you specify "wearing clothes" (???), although it only draws skinny Amethyst (twitter in shambles)

- It (sometimes) lets you use "George Constanza", but Jerry Seinfeld is blocked.

- The weird 'unsafe' block still happens randomly. I'm starting to think that this also happens on stuff that it doesn't really knows how to create.