Former Rockstar dev believes Grand Theft Auto VI on Switch 2 wouldn’t ‘even make sense’
Does it make sense for you to go out of your way to probably have the risk of delivering a subpar experience because it does not run exactly the same and so on while you know that anybody will buy a PS5 to get your game?”
As someone whose favorite console is the Switch, I agree. Nintendo has always been my favorite game company, but even Minecraft is virtually unplayable on Switch. I’m assuming it runs a little better on Switch 2, but GTA VI is a behemoth compared to anything Nintendo has ever put out.
Fark.com is the only website I use with no dark mode so it’s my default flashlight when the led is too bright
Finished playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps a couple days ago. Hands down one of the top five metroidvanias I’ve ever played. The characters are cute and the storyline is excellent. I needed a new side scroller so I got the Axiom Verge 1 & 2 bundle on sale through the Switch store just now.
Curious about changedetection.io with Reddit dropping rss feeds soon. Set up an instance on Pikapods to tool around with. I only watch a couple of the feeds in Miniflux anyway. Luckily, it looks like I’ll still be able to use Narwhal:
Narwhal is thankfully not going anywhere! Reddit reached out to me today to let me know that Narwhal will not be affected. This could of course change years down the road, but I hope that Reddit will continue to offer some form of an API that Narwhal can use.
Edit: well it looks like ChangeDetection is a no-go, so I’m checking out some feeds from Lemmy, Lobste.rs and Hacker News to see if I can’t reproduce something close to what I had with the few Reddit feeds I used to follow.
ModRetro Partners With OpenAI To Help “You” Make… AI Retro Games?
Most people, especially retro gamers, do not want to buy or experience AI-generated games that steal from the very creatives that make retro gaming so damn good. We want to experience new, remarkable games, made by humans who have genuine passion for game development, and I am disappointed to see ModRetro put so much marketing and effort into promoting a tool/partnership that goes against their very core demographic’s values.
ModRetro founder/owner Palmer Luckey is pretty much the Alex Karp of retro gaming already, so this isn’t that surprising.
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
A zero-account browser chat room mimicking mid-90s online services. The state runs on Upstash Redis and is shared across three different frontends (React/Vite deployed on Vercel): * The standalone chat interface (https://lolchat.rip) * A Windows 95 simulator (https://56k.rip) * A Mac System 7 simulator (https://dialup.rip) Users dialing in from the Mac desktop and users on the Win95 machine end up in the exact same rooms talking to each other.
Hits all those nostalgic early web buttons, right down to the dial-up modem sound when you’re connecting.
The Weirdest Game I’ve Ever Made
Broken Files is now available (for free)! This game is a series of personal firsts. It has voice acting. It has a character, and she does dialog to you. It seems like the sort of thing that would feel at home on itch.io, so it’s there too. And it contains no code, so it runs on everything – in fact, it doesn’t run at all.
This is so cool! It’s an ARG-style puzzle where you have to edit hex codes using clues in a .zip you download from her site. I know that might sound a little sketchy, but she’s the dev behind the ad blocker I use, Wipr 2, and she also uploaded the game to itch.io, so I trust it. I won’t spoil anything, but I will say I made it to the shrine and learned a bit about hex editing in the process.
Worth noting: it’s not an impossibly complicated Cicada 3301 level ARG, so don’t overthink it!
Audiobooks make stories available to people who are driving, working, visually impaired, dyslexic, exhausted, or who take in spoken information better. Calling them “not real readers” doesn’t protect literature. It turns enjoying books into a purity contest.
I feel dumb a lot of the time when I admit I read something via audiobook, but I really shouldn’t. My attention span is shit so I usually get sidetracked when I try to sit down and crack a book. I do love my Kindle, and I’ve been reading a lot on it lately, but I’ve got a backlog on Libro I need to tend to.
Non-detection at traffic lights in the United States
Traffic lights that do not service traffic due to non-detection may not meet the federal legal definition adopted by most states for a traffic control signal, which is any device “by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed”.
Did not know this was a thing. The abomination of a stoplight that leads to my street does this sometimes. I’m running the fucker the next time it misses my little car.
I Can’t Imagine Being This Desperate for Attention
I recently got shared a post from a friend about this blogger revealing they were the mastermind behind some shitpost ragebait blog that a collective 5ish people gave a fuck about (didn’t stop him from thinking he’s “talk of the town”), hell I hadn’t even heard of this blog before. But golly gee does this yutz want you to know it was him all along like some unaired Scooby-Doo villain.
I won’t post the actual blog either, but I’m 100% sure I just came across this same person on Bear Blog lmao. Big this guy energy at 0:32.