drcouzelis

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On the Game Boy Advance, there's Punch King...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS7vE0Llwkw

...and Wade Hixton's Counter Punch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP2VkguvyTs

I haven't played either of them, so no promises that they're good!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Metroid II is my all-time favorite game in the series. It introduces her ship, introduces her iconic look, and is the last game in the series to not include the "break this with this item" blocks. I just love everything about that game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Justin Bailey Samus >>> Zero Suit Samus 👀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu

FYI we got this game when we we got our Switch and it sat, untouched, for YEARS, until I finally picked it up a few months ago. Honestly, I REALLY enjoyed it! BUT... the first 30 minutes to an hour are very poorly done, and are soooo boring. After that it hooked me.

As someone who's favorite game in the series is the original Pokémon Red, I think this remake was quite well done. It looks great (much better than Sword / Shield in my opinion), and really trims out a lot of the fluff and grind of the classic games.

Also if he's playing, you can use the second controller to join him and casually help him catch and battle Pokémon. It's cute. :)

Let me know if you want any more in depth review or info.

[–] [email protected] 151 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I don't have an answer to your exact question but I want to emphasize...

NOTHING in the history of humankind has ever existed like computer data. A 100% identical copy of videos, pictures, and music can be made almost instantly at what is essentially zero cost to the original holder of the data. Any comparison to "stealing" or to a physical object (a car lol) just falls flat because the situation is just so different.

Practically speaking, the world we live in, with computers everywhere, cheap storage, and easy fast internet access for so much of the world, has only been around for about two decades, maybe three. NOTHING like this has ever existed before, and businesses, culture, and laws have been very slow to catch up.

I'm not saying pirating is right or wrong, just that the whole idea is still so new that society hasn't caught up to it yet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

OMG I'm on a technical Discord server where some brilliant people spend all day responding to technical questions on a niche subject and it makes me SO ANGRY that all that knowledge is tucked away inside Discord, non searchable, and going to disappear some day.

So now I use the Discord Chat Exporter CLI program every couple of months to save all of that knowledge into text files on my computer.

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (20 children)

This article is strange... The author uses "being able to open Microsoft Office documents" as a common example of what an OS that claims to be easy to use should be able to do. Then says...

When people download Ubuntu 23.04 they get an OS that can do everything Windows 95 did - with 23.10 they don’t

No default installation of Microsoft Windows EVER opened Microsoft Office documents. If this was a simple oversight in the write-up it'd be fine, but the point is hammered over and over again.

I don't have an opinion about Ubuntu including or not including more software in the default installation (my guess is it became too big to fit on a DVD?) but this article failed to make it's point to me by making a comparison to Windows that isn't true.

Also...

the world’s most popular desktop Linux operating system (that’s Ubuntu, for those of you playing dumb)

Is this supposed to be a cocky joke? I can't tell. What metric of "most popular" is the author using?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

To anyone reading this article, only the first quarter of it is about the beliefs and political stance of the developers. The rest of the article after that goes into more technical reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It was years after the Switch came out that I finally decided to get one, and honestly the one game that combined me to get it was Link's Awakening. I love that game so much!

Over the years, I ended up spending the most time playing Animal Crossing. I beat Mario Odyssey and it was nice. I really could not get into Breath of the Wild at all, or the sequel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Oof. Sounds like it needs a huge back end with a ton of pre-processed data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What is it? What functionality are you looking for?

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