Same. I’m looking around at the KBin instance and it’s in bad shape, some of the communities are in. The admin is MIA due to IRL issues with health so he can’t be around to help. Moderators are abandoning already weakened communities that are now stuffed with bots and spam content.

The only real lively community is over in Lemmy’s instances. But, the Fediverse still yet has a long ways to go, it needs more maturity as an alternative and needs more time to gather membership that’ll hopefully be comparable to reddit’s but not in quantity but quality.

looks at RES in hopes they have much longer

Which they most likely will, just won’t say anything.

In the Video Game Business, it’s not estranged to find video game companies doing casino things. Konami doing pachinko for example, which lead to them pissing a lot of their IPs off to pachinko machines that were themed.

Hell, Nintendo licensed to Konami to do Mario Roulette which is a medal game.

And they totally wasted a new Earthworm Jim game on that thing.

But yeah, Tommy Tallarico had a personal vendetta with Pat the NES Punk for a while, taking swipes at them as he was covering the whole issue on his podcast the CUPodcast. It’s a really wild ride from beginning to end, if it ever did end.

Which is hilarious because they were both part of the reason the video game market crashed back then.

They’ve been this way since the late 90s and 2000s. More publishing than doing. Sometimes they’ll throw out a Atari Classics compilation but that’s it.

Google search needs to just branch itself off into several micro-search engines. It is useless as a general purpose search engine.

Again, try searching ‘skillet’ and you’ll get more results on the band with the name than the pan itself. Make a media-based micro search engine where it’s nothing but music, movies, shows .etc

But as big as Google is, they won’t do it.

And that is when you start seeing pockets of people defend their favorites. Very hard to gauge.

But I don’t see a lot of people defending the Castlevania games on the N64. If you were expecting Castlevania to hold up to it’s legacy if you picked N64 over PS1 back then, you were in for a world of disappointment. And there were no released Contra games for the N64 either, there was a canceled title, but no known releases.

There’s a point here. The N64 too had a significantly lower count of games than the PS1. The PS1 had like three times larger the amount of games with 1,278 than N64. So there was a lot more options to pick and choose from. And there were definitely superior versions of some of the games listed.

But it is sort of like the Genesis vs Super Nintendo comparison. People can list banger after banger off of the SNES library that it easily fills a Top 50 list, whereas people can list maybe 20 good Genesis games? So I do believe that’s where a lot of the favoritism stems off from is that, Nintendo had to make their games good for the N64, least the first party titles. Everything else off of it were really more misses than hits, you probably had 10 underrated gems that people now talk about (and pretend they always were that when nobody had a clue back then).

What turned me off from multiplayer games was the entitled obnoxiousness of the other players. Playing with others is cool for a few minutes, but if you run into several shit players, ruins everything. This is when the whole “if all you find are assholes, you must be one yourself” rhetoric does not apply when it comes to multiplayer games. People just choose to be bastards.

I remember how many damn licensed games came out during that period. There was just almost a game for everything, it was nuts.

American Choppers had a game. Hannah Montana had several. Let’s give Dukes of Hazzard a game, let’s give Starsky and Hutch a game. Do they have to be good? Nope, they never were but let them be a thing anyways.

Probably has a future? It’s already here.

I understand that things don’t last forever. But and it sounds selfish to say and maybe people might agree, I’d like for these things to last as long as I’m alive to view them whenever I please.

Though I’m really sick of this god damn hot potato shit with the content that’s spread across several streaming platforms. As well as unstable services. “Oh, we’ve shut this down, fuck your purchases” “Oh, we couldn’t sustain this platform, go elsewhere”.

It means a lot to the customer. Doesn’t mean dick to these services.

Steam really did try with the movies idea, it didn’t last too long though. Licensing is a bitch to maintain.

But people will still, en masse, be like “REMASTER DIS GAME! REMASTER DAT GAME!”

Never learning what the risks are.

For Whom the Cat Tolls

Mewtallica

And Justice…for Cats

Yeah because we’ve gotta share clips of what we play to several dozen fucking media places. I’m glad my better gaming days seemed to be resting at the PS2 era, didn’t have all of this social media shit.

Especially if one of them is based off the other.

Rust is based off of C/C++
Ruby is based off of Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, BASIC, Java, and Lisp

Just a couple of examples. Quite frankly, it’s dependent on what system, what infrastructure .etc that’ll be the call for a specific programming language. Nothing wrong with just picking one or two and sticking to them.

And I think that’s what a lot of beginners in wanting to study programming languages can fall into, they want to be the jack of all trades in programming. But there’s this problem of a new language coming in all of the time and it can get very wiry trying to remember them all.

“While the jury is still out on whether Meta’s new Threads will be a Twitter killer”

Excuse me while I laugh out loud at that line. Yes because the best options people have are a reckless out of touch sycophant or a data farming sycophant. What wonderous choices…

Yes, Decentralization is the future of social media. Because we’re fucking tired of all of these platforms, controlled by control freaks with lots of money and a very skewed perception on how it sees their audiences per platform. This isn’t a trend. This is a movement. A movement to escape from these decaying platforms. It’s not really that hard to see.

And quite frankly, Mark of all people, should stay the fuck away from the idea of decentralization. When he is part of the problem that has lead to us to go to the fediverse route. What does he know and understand with the fediverse, when he’s the catalyst as to why the fediverse is more on the spotlight than ever? He is the opposite of decentralization, because all that he cares about is more people he can farm data from and sell under the table to manipulate.

Fuck Musk. Fuck Mark. Fuck Spez.