PhobosAnomaly

I saw the exhibit and got a little bit emotional if I’m honest when it was revealed near the start of the show.

Partly because of the sheer scale of it right in front of you, but because of where it’s been and how much human ingenuity, experience, and hope was put into it to make it work.

Great stuff. Well worth going to if you’re ever at Kennedy Space Centre Center (man that feels weird).

Game Pass is cool and all, but the rebrands and weird omissions make it a bit of a shambles.

I still have an Xbox One, but I’ve got a chonky internet connection (at least for my area) and Cloud Gaming is a fantastic bit of kit. I was tempted to buy a cheap one-month Game Pass code and play this Black Ops 6 campaign and another game or two… but this isn’t on the Cloud Gaming service.

It’s shit like this that makes the high seas a far more attractive option. I know not every game is Cloud Gaming enabled, but one would expect that certainly all the Game Pass titles would be included.

Oh well, I just won’t play it I suppose, I’m sure I’ll find something else to do with those five or six hours!

When the Xbox 360 was out in stores, I wasn’t really arsed about getting one. My Dreamcast was still doing me just fine.

Mass Effect looked cool (it was), and Alan Wake had taken my fancy and looked great (it was).

What really tipped my hand into spending a couple of hundred quid on a console was… Doom. The XBLA version of the original.

I’m a massive Doom nerd, but the first time I heard the new positional audio of a Imp’s fireball in 5.1, I just about spaffed - and I took a day off work to hoon through Doom 2 and No Rest For The Living.

I think there’s something quite satisfying about playing a game on a device massively overspec’d for it. I played Quake III on a Pentium 3 450mhz with 64mb RAM and a TNT2 M64 card, and every new PC or laptop that I get, I still find it deeply gratifying installing Q3 and seeing it run silky smooth.

Well that’s just fuckin awesome, thank you my friend.

That’ll be a giggle on the weekend 👍

Awesome, so it’s usable without an account now?

Honestly, I never checked after I stored it.

I bought a second generation of Rift (no idea what model it was, but it was the second retail one, not including the CV1 or whatever dev build it was) - and it was fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

The moment they forced the use of a Facebook account, it stopped getting used. The visor, controllers, and sensors have been sat in a cupboard for a year or two.

I really should see if it has been jailbroken, or if there’s a way to utilise the Rift features without any Meta bollocks.

That single long-tone before the discharge roughly translates to “Bonsoir, motherfucker”.

I’m pretty sure a more natural translation would throw in a couple of putains but I’m neither qualified enough nor French enough to comment with any authority.

Patience is the key - I hate Denuvo, you (probably) hate Denuvo, and most devs hate Denuvo… once the magic first week or two are done, the new trend seems to be devs patching out Denuvo once their release sales have peaked so fingers crossed this will continue.

A cheaper, patched, DRM-less game a few months behind release. Winner.

I don’t miss the tool, I miss the general vibe and feeling of the late 90s or early 2000s.

CD’s for everything, over engineered autorun splash screens, the seeking of mechanical harddrive heads when computing a route, the sense of adventure, and the general positive outlook that consumer tech is working for us, not because of us.

I miss those days.

I miss the days of Microsoft AutoRoute. No internet connection needed - but you were stuck with the map and routes present in the release version that was on the CD.

Printing was optional and encouraged!

The laugh is, each and every one of them can actually mean “mate what a fantastic idea, let’s absolutely smash this” to the middle ground “k” all the way through to “this is the worst fucking idea I’ve ever heard, but no dramas we can sort that on the way”.

The end result will be the same.

I don’t get it. I mean I get it because it’s Ninty, but I don’t get why now?

Has there been something in a major new feature update that has finally tipped the scales into clearly taking the piss, or have the legal team at Big N finally seen their erections subside after the game’s launch and only now can move enough to do something about it?

Mater’s Tall Tales were absolute bangers. Not only were they funny in their own right, but the background details and cameos were awesome.

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Oh I like a pessimistic view - partly because it makes a discussion spicier, but also because it’s important for a user to understand the power that an instance owner wields!

Oh man, this is awesome - it’s wonderful hearing from the practitioners of the art!

I’m just trying to figure out what driver establishing the tipping point for breaking or the ban hammer - is there any empirical data to drive these decisions, or is the fediverse user base small enough that you act on “feel” or “professional instinct”?

Managing emerging technologies fascinates me so any input - including the germs you’ve already volunteered - is very much appreciated 👍

That’s a strong viewpoint and I appreciate where you’re coming from, but how many votedicks does it take to derail a post? I appreciate the fediverse is reasonably small in comparison to othe headline social media sites, but does banning one or two bots or people do enough to save posts from getting bombed?

Thamk you for the insight, instance administrator views are valuable and unique.

At the risk of sounding like I’m presenting a bad faith argument, why ban them? I don’t like the whole “free market” analogy but surely it’s one of the liberating features of federated servers, being able to to largely express your votes or content as you see fit within the legal framework of the host nation. Wouldn’t the odd one or two mass downvoters/upvoters/theyvoters ultimately be a statistical abberation or is the fediverse still small enough for this sort of shit to carry weight?

Open criticism of my view welcome, as always!

I was brought up on C, did a module of Java at uni, and am doing an algorithms course which is python heavy.

My other half - who’s quite handy with Python - looks in sheer horror at my code which is littered with semicolons.

I was stumped for half an hour figuring out why the Python interpreter was bouncing an error before it had even reached the main program logic… turns out a { before the block of code royally ruins the interpreter’s day.

Still, I live and learn.