Yeah, there was a great video on YouTube I saw a few days ago that went over why Sony is backing Pocket Pair, why Nintendo is making this case about patents, why that’s a massive risk for Nintendo, and why Nintendo is willing to take that risk.

It largely seemed to come down to the Nintndo-Sony rivalry that started when Nintendo backed out of the SNES era deal to create the PlayStation. Nintendo is trying to crush Sony’s potentially viable competitor to their largest franchise and are making the case a patent case because that’s the only route they can pursue. If they lose, Nintendo stands to lose those patents.

The video in question

You would cause climate change in the form of nuclear winter with the press of a button.

I like it cold, press the button.

No redundancy? No high availability? No clustering? What are you even doing man? One server? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta bump those numbers up.

/s, obviously. You do you, and whatever works for your needs/budget.

Based on some other coverage I’ve seen, specifically from reviewers who were denied early review copies, it looks like BioWare/EA is doing what most companies do and shopping around for reviewers who will be especially positive. They’re just being especially aggressive with it this time around. It’s not a good look, but it’s expected for basically any major publisher.

It sounds like after the early press only event they did a while back, a bunch of reviewers who were critical of the game then got ghosted by EA’s PR people and never received early review copies.

So, like all pre-launch reviews take any reviews you’re seeing now with a grain of salt and wait until a week or so after launch to see the reviews that weren’t cherry-picked by EA’s corporate PR.

I think he meant the Ur-Dick, the primordial penis, the first phallus, the archetypal dong all men strive for.

I thought I had too much to drink. Turns out MC Escher decided to make a surrealist dachshund.

I love it, but it doesn’t pair well with soju.

Use Solaris. You can’t have mental health issues if your brain is on the wall.

If you’re in a country that typically drives on the left, and you’re driving in the far right lane on a three or more lane road, you’re still doing it wrong. That lane is for merging and exiting. The far left is for passing and the center lanes are for cruising. There might also be turn only lanes, which unless you’re turning can be safely ignored, because the only valid reason to be in a turn lane is if you’re turning.

Well, that’s awesome. I primarily game on Linux and steamdeck compatibility seems to largely carry over for my systems and no EA app is a definite plus.

Hopefully, the game itself is stable (Linux gaming not withstanding) and actually good, the marketing has been kind of hit or miss for me.

That’s excellent, truly, but what about first party DRM?

Is it going to require the EA app when purchased on another platform?

Give nothin’ back

They say it’s about 40% faster to watch. Which they say currently saves about 150 hours.

It’s a fan made project that cuts out the recaps, the filler arcs, and most of the OP and ED sequences, keeping one of each at the beginning/end of each arc. It then condenses a lot of the story arcs and reorders some events to (mostly) fix the pacing issues of One Piece and cut down on the run time while preserving the original story.

They’ve got a website out there, but I can’t link to it here, since it’s technically a pirate site. No pun intended. It should come up with a google search though.

I’d recommend it, can’t say why I’d recommend it, I just remember really enjoying Legion.

From what little I do remember, I think starting over would be a good idea.

I think it’s Legion; a series based on an X-Men character named Legion, who is Charles Xavier’s neglected schizophrenic son, but because of licensing issues they couldn’t include most X-Men characters and as a result they created a story that doesn’t really feel like any other superhero thing and is instead very weird and very trippy.

I haven’t watched it since it’s original run and don’t remember much more than that, but I remember liking it quite a bit. I might rewatch it soon.

Which is one of the reasons why I typically recommend One Pace over the actual series to people. It fixes just about all of the issues I had with watching the series. It also makes it easier to get caught up if you’ve lagged pretty far behind the weekly schedule.

I still occasionally fire it up and just walk around some of the hub cities.

I’ve tried getting into GW2, but just couldn’t really get into it.

Doesn’t help that I fell of contact with all of my old guild mates who were supposed to be switching over.

I don’t know about nowadays, but back in 2007 when I got bored with Runescape I switched to Guild Wars. Great MMO. Kind of dead playerwise now, but the servers are still up and it is soloable.

Not to be a buzzkill, but lemmy.world has a rule against posting links (even obfuscated links) to pirate sites. You may want to edit that post to at least remove the TLD.