Definitely a thing. Dolphin has support for netplay, and Melee in particular has a great rollback implementation in Slippi. Fightcade for classic fighting games, mainly arcade.
Feels like it should be widespread across emulators, but I guess I’ve only really happened across it in that handful of cases.
This right here. I’d rather my email stay the source of truth for auth, but totally sympathize with website owners that don’t want to store and protect any sensitive user data (like an email address and password).
I do wish some sites would offer the magic link option if they don’t want to keep password hashes. It has problems too, but can be a simple way sometimes.
On some level I know the OAuth flow should be pretty safe. The idea that I have one identity that gets me into multiple sites makes a lot of sense. And I’m already using the same email in most places, so it’s not like I’m anonymous anyway.
And yet… I can’t convince my paranoia that ‘sign in with Google’ isn’t oversharing. I always worry that authorizing with other sites will give too many permissions to see/alter Google/whatever data, or that clicking it will take me to a fake Google/whatever page where I give away my creds.
I like to try and pick a mix. I’ve been leaning more mage lately. Sometimes magic is super op, sometimes it’s just an interesting system. Sometimes it’s neither tho, and just clunky. So it’s really kind of a toss up on whether that’s a good decision.
Warriors are probably the best pick lots of times - just because gear systems often incentivize them. Finding a cool sword or shiny armor isn’t very exciting when you’re just hurling fireballs all the time anyway.
“We built the phone in between” [a smart phone and dumb phone] is a pretty appealing tag line. In the last half of the 2010s, when I finally dragged myself into getting an actual smart phone, I really wished I could get a flip phone that was more capable. The feature phones still on the market at the time seemed to be right out of 2003.
This implementation seems a little off. It has the flip form factor, and can run most android apps, great! But then it sounds like they arbitrarily block browsers and ‘social media’? I think just leave them out by default, and let people go that route if they want it. The form factor already limits how well some of those would work.
Consciousness: a Very Short Introduction.
I can’t vouch for that particular book, but the VSI series is usually a good bet.
!kagismallweb@lemmy.world is basically an RSS feed of little blog posts. I’ve randomly seen a bunch of interesting stuff on there.
It’s the first game that came to mind for me, too. Destruction there is very satisfying!
Buuuut people keep shooting at you. When playing it, I got constantly annoyed with the TPS elements and just wanted to tear stuff up. After a bit I bounced for that reason.
Pretty much the same. I’ll look at the post or headline or whatever and make my assessment of if I want to see more like that. If I see downvotes already there tho, I try to figure out why. Sometimes the post does turn out to be spammier or more controversial or more factually wrong than it first appeared.
Actually now that you mention it, I just checked and it seems like links in profile aren’t even clickable or selectable from the Loops Android app, so that’s annoying.
I usually make an acct for each distinct fedi service, so not sure. I see a bunch of videos pop up from Mastodon users, but I just browse it from a Loops account (and never post videos).
Both is the answer. Most people will flip past a 10 minute short-form video. Just like the TikTok/Youtube sitution, edit some things to be vertical and short, and post those to Loops. Include a link in your profile to your Peertube, and let the short videos direct people who like your stuff to your longer horizontal videos.
Because it’s so simple, it applies to psychology (including for humans) very broadly. Remove the context of dog and food and bell.
event -> reward -> response
becomes
event -> response
And being able to predict or control behavior (responses) without providing value (rewards) is a powerful concept.
Edit: instead of ‘without providing value’, I should have phrased that to be more generic.
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Took me a sec too
I haven’t tried it yet, but Mina the Hollower just released and seems really cool. Should be way less than 20 GB.
There are a lot of good ones. I’ll just highlight Streets of Rage 2. Plays great, music is great, looks good. It’s my favorite game on either system.
One of my first memories of being disillusioned with media, having my hopes up and being let down was TPM. I went and saw it, kinda convinced myself it was cool…
Then a couple days later, someone was asking me about, and they asked what happened. I took a moment to think and finally had to come back and say ‘idk, I guess nothing really’.
The two longest and most memorable waits I’ve done were for the Wii and Wii U.
The Wii was great. Was a very social, collaborative experience.
Got to the store probably at 6 or 7 am. Two people were in front of me in line. The first would show up in my circle of friends years later, and I didn’t even realize until going back and looking at the pictures. The other was an older gentleman getting in line for his son, and when his son did show up later it turned out to be a friend of mine. I just hadn’t met his dad before.
At first we were in the lobby, then moved to the garden center, eventually to outside the front entrance before noon. Employees didn’t really know to expect us or what to do with us.
Everyone had their DSes and we spent most of the day playing something or other. Toward the end of the night, when the crowd got bigger, I remember doing 8-person Bomberman battles.
It was a cold November day. By the evening, I was freezing and hungry. My parents and some friends swung by at different times to bring blankets, snacks, etc, and those felt like such exciting moments.
Fast forward to the Wii U. I got a preorder, but they said there weren’t enough preorders to do a midnight launch. Stubbornly wanting to relive the great time I had waiting for the Wii, that was enough to make me drive over to the next big town and wait at a different store.
For a long time, I think I’m the only one in line? Or maybe someone was before me. Idk. But the line didn’t build up until like, an hour before midnight. I talked to people, but didn’t really connect with anyone strongly.
The cold was bitter this time. I was layered up way more, but felt as tho I was barely hanging in by the end of it. Folks in line kept asking if I was alright, offering to hold my place in line if I wanted to go take a break and warm up in the car.
I don’t know that we did any multiplayer sessions, but it was cool at least to get 3DS streetpass hits all day.
After all of it, I could just as easily have walked into a store the next weeks and bought one.
So yeah, the Wii was a moment for me, the U was a failed attempt to revisit that moment (a lot like the systems themsleves, kinda). Then there’s the difference between being in high school, hanging out with friends in your home town, and being in college keeping to yourself.
For what it’s worth, I see this image fine from Lemmy/Voyager.
It’s fun to see which games get cool borders or color palettes!
I have not noticed the faster frame rates. But I’m one of those weirdos who couldn’t tell you 30 from 60 unless I’m staring hard at a side by side or something. So take me with a grain of salt, lol.
Really it’s up to your preference. I like the Super Game Boy for plain GB games and GB Player for Color/Advance. But the cost on the latter is annoying, so if it were me I’d start with the SGB and enjoy that for a while since you already have SNES hardware.
I don’t think it pervades all of Lemmy, but I do think rage bait does well here. Seems like the most popular comments are expletive laden diatribes about how x, y, or z is evil and bad, and the most popular posts are headlines about megacorps or evil politicians doing it wrong.
It’s not even that the outrage is usually misplaced. Reddit and Windows and Gen AI and Facebook are indeed all bad things in various ways and degrees. But there’s room for nuance, and no need to jump down people’s throats about stuff.
Certainly there’s a selection bias - enough of the people here left Reddit in principled stands. That or they’re just into open source enough to try niche projects.
To be fair, the taste for negativity isn’t just here. Online culture seems to have that slant at large these days. But it does seem more here in some ways.