I boycott Amazon years ago already, when a warehouse of people died because employees were told that the government’s tornado warning was just hyperbole.

Amazon is an evil company that treats its workers like garbage, and practices some of the most vile anti-union practices.

I cancelled my Amazon Prime account and never bought a single item through Amazon anymore. I don’t buy anything from Temu either, by the way.

And yet there’s an incredibly high demand for playing old Nintendo games. When Nintendo occasionally sells emulated old games on newer consoles, they tend to sell pretty well. The NES and the SNES mini were much sought after and best-sellers.

So imagine if Nintendo offers the games in their entire retro library (that they are licensed to offer) with an official emulator for people to buy. That would evaporate the piracy of retro Nintendo games pretty quickly.

However, Nintendo doesn’t want that. They like completely manufactured, artificial scarcity. And so there’s piracy. A lot of piracy.

I might. Was quite a number of years ago when this was a hot topic on GBATemp when someone looked at the code of the NES mini.

They don’t want people to play their old games either. Nintendo creates an artificial scarcity by only occasionally releasing older titles to their newer consoles, despite that those older titles are quite literally running on emulators… Emulators that use a lot of the open source code the community they hate has created.

The only way it’s going to die down is if it gets replaced with the next tech bro buzzword.

The previous one was “smart”, and it stuck around for a very long time.

Yes. I caught on to this waaaaaaaayyyy back when League just starting getting traction, esports weren’t really a thing, and I also played some Yu Gi Oh.

Both has the same sort of design, as ilæustrated nicely by this meme; the match is nearly always decided early, and for the rest of the game you’re either just styling on the opponents, or you are getting styles on.

Victories didn’t feel good, losses felt even worse, and I began to understand why people rage and break their keyboard. Games like these fuel such behaviour.

Someone needs to see Measure of a Man. :)

Except Vision isn’t a robot, he’s an android. Or maybe more than that; a synthetic life form. He is his own person, with his own wants and needs. He can feel and develop opinions on things. He’s not merely a computer with a personality algorithm.

Can someone tell me about these cards? I’ve literally never heard of them before now. Obviously they’re not big performers, but what are they like?

I think NVidia is already getting a kick in the ass.

The first GPU I bought was a GTX 1060 with 6GB. A legendary card I kept using until just last year November.

What did I upgrade to?

Why Intel of course. The A770 is cheaper than a AMD of the same performance range, and has a weird quirk where it actually does better at 1440p than similar cards. Very likely the spacious VRAM, which is also nice to have for the 3D work I do.

I didn’t upgrade past the 1060 earlier because the 20 series wasn’t that big enough of a leap, and the 30 series is where a lot of Nvidia’s bullshit started.

Woaw, you must be attached to an overclocked card, if you’re so huge. XD

That is perfectly reasonable.

Unfortunately Organic Maps doesn’t really work well. I gave it a shot yesterday at work (I work food delivery on bicycle), and it couldn’t find half the addresses I needed to go to.

Same here in Europe.

This is highly irregular for several reasons:

Google adheres to official government positions, yes, but as far as I’m aware the American government hasn’t made the name change official yet. Members of the government have said that they’d do this, but I don’t think this idea has passed any process yet. So then why is Google “updated” their maps?

When Google adheres to official government positions, they are local. In example, when you’re in China and look up Taiwan, it’ll appear as part of China. In other countries it’ll appear as either an independent country or a disputed territory, depending on that government’s official position on the matter. What we DON’T see is something like “Taiwan (China)”, as Google supposedly has no intention on forcing the policies of one government upon another government, and as far as I’m aware the rest of the world hasn’t agreed to changing The Gulf of Mexico to The Gulf of America.

Oh blegh. Guess that pretty much decided if I’m taking the key key or not.

Om going to get this one through Humble next month. Honestly not even sure I should bother with it then, as it has always looked like a flashy but bland fps.

I don’t think it’s phenomenal at all.

The gameplay is pretty interesting, a pretty nice puzzle platformer with a somewhat unique mechanic. Graphics are really nice too.

But the game is very short. And the story is pretty bad too. I wrote in the Steam forums about how this game is the perfect example why The Prime Directive exists in Star Trek.

If I didn’t get this game through Humble Monthly and bought it instead, I’d have been pretty disappointed.

The alternative would’ve been putting actual effort into making a legacy collection run on modern systems.

Nobody complained about Star Wars Battlefront until its legacy collection came out and worked like garbage.

Nobody complained about The Sims until its legacy collection came out and… I’m sure you get the idea.

The Steam Box is back!