[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

EU commission, really. That's the only way

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 25 points 11 months ago

He's a cunt just like Johnson was a cunt and I'd have the same opinion if I were fucking blind. Skin colour means shit.

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Here's a fun one

Open up retroarch and apply the following as settings for a game:

  • adjustment filter to mirror the screen, I think it's in an image adjustment folder but can't check which one at the moment
  • swap left and right in the controls (in-game remap, not the menu controls)

Mirror mode! On any game! As long as you don't care about text, it's a fun way to add replay value. Great for platformers like Donkey Kong Country 2, Mario, etc.

If you really want a mindfuck, play a top down game like Zelda Link to the Past with the above but ALSO top down inverted too. I do that with the ALTTP randomizer sometimes.

Edit: hang on, I got Yoshi's Story at launch and I 100% remember the ultimate aim of the game is to actually get all the melons. It's not an alternative mode really, it's the actual goal for 100%. At least, it's how I played it in 1998.

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Um, what?

Elon Musk owns x.com, he launched it over twenty years ago. It split into what became PayPal, and then he bought it back.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

"X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho in 1999 in Palo Alto, California."

He bought the domain rights back in 2017.

Literally less than a minute on Google to find that, dude.

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I met Jeremy Clarkson - he was alright, very pleasant and funny

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

Fucking terrible.

Upvoted

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not entirely software, but the MiSTer FPGA project. Having accurate zero-lag hardware accurate versions of almost every console, many arcade games, PCs (Amiga, Commodore etc), and handheld up to and including the PlayStation in a box the size of a game boy is unreal.

Majority of the project is open source, and has been used for ports to the analogue pocket handheld, which I also have and use often

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago

"The name's Bond, James Bond". Because of that quote, I have never failed to remember James Bond's name.

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago

To be fair, the Tim Burton film was far closer to the original novel. And that's what I grew up with, so the 70s gene wilder version (that Dahl hated) never gelled with me.

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I walk, a lot. Everywhere. Always have done.

It keeps me nice and slim, and is my way of dealing with stress and any thoughts I may have swishing around in my head. I live in an area that allows me to walk anywhere I want (ie. not America) and I don't need a car at all, luckily.

And I do push it a bit. I walked 36km which is around 21 miles on Sunday, and 32km on Saturday. My legs were starting to hurt like hell nearing the end of it but I always keep going. It feels good to push past what I thought was my limit and keep going. I don't think there's any real conscious thought behind it, it's just how I am. And as I'm in the office today, I'll be walking there and back too (5 miles each way), no bother at all.

Running and weight lifting though? Not my thing. Too much rushing around for the former and not enough moving around for the latter!

Edit: realised my conversion to miles is off. It's early. Turns out according to Google maps I walked 21 miles Sunday...! Took just under 5 hours. And I did get a bit sunburnt, but otherwise fine as usual

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@beehaw.org

I wrote a pretty long comment elsewhere regarding Xenoblade 3, which is pretty much my favourite game of all time in 30+ years of gaming. I guess it would be a cool idea for others to do the same - but don't just give a list, sell your favourite title to us!

So, Xenoblade 3 (Switch, although I now play it on my PC via Yuzu in 4k) is the final part of the RPG trilogy developed by Monolithsoft (Nintendo owned second party, responsible for the overworld tech in Zelda BOTW/TOTK). The director of the series is Tetsuya Takahashi, who is also the creator of Xenogears and Xenosaga (there are links to Blade, I won't spoil). It shows what happens to the individual worlds of Xenoblade 1 and 2 once they collide. However the series is structured in such a way that you can arguably play them in any order and not miss out. There are of course twists and callbacks throughout to reward those who play them in order. The one absolute rule is for the two massive DLC expansions. Xenoblade 1 (Future Connected, play after 1), Xenoblade 2 (Torna - to be played after 2) and Xenoblade 3 (Future Redeemed - to be played only after playing EVERYTHING else as it wraps up the trilogy).

Xenoblade 2 put off a lot of people with it's anime-ness and big tidday girls (not me, but eh). Xenoblade 3...doesn't have that.

It's serious and is set in the midst of an eternal war between two nations. Each inhabitant of this world is born at age 10, trained as a soldier to fight, and then either die on the battlefield or live long enough to die at age 20 by force. Both nations rely on the life force of the other side to live - hence the war.

The story concerns two groups (three from either side) from opposing sides who join together with the aim to live longer than their artificially reduced lifespans - of the two main protagonists, one (Mio) has only three months remaining. This is the crux of the story, really.

best bet to see if you'd like it are these two videos I took. The first is the first 15 minutes of the game - it introduces the world, scenario, characters, and also introduces the gameplay part-by-part. NO SPOILERS in any of these, I promise.

https://youtu.be/7DtxCIM3XJQ

The battle system is gradually introduced throughout, at a pretty good pace (eg. chain attacks, transformations, combos, class changing). It ends up sometimes chaotic, but always fun. You can stay as a healer with a rifle, swap to a martial arts class and attack with your fists, or change to a tank class for each characters, for example. You also recruit computer playable heroes throughout the game who offer new classes and weapons.

Chain attacks are an entirely other thing, relying on measured logic and number skills. The other main draw is the story - this game takes some pretty dark turns. Your mileage may vary though, depending on your tolerance for cutscenes. There's still 100+ hours of actual gameplay easily and the sidequests and community supports are all actually well thought out.

and this is a short video showing the scale of the world (one of 9 massive regions - there's another desert, a canyon and a forest halfway up a mountain trail in this one. The sword in the distance holds a city at its peak. There's also an ocean that has a rocket powered boat to traverse, or you could just swim it), plus a short battle with 7 team members:

https://youtu.be/l5Fe_saXoxo

lastly I guess, if you're a dr who fan (who knows?), it may interest you that Jenna Coleman voices the Kevesi Queen.

anyhow the game is cool imo. I got the first Xenoblade a week before the UK launch date in August 2011 as I ran a Blockbuster at the time (Xenoblade was localised by Nintendo UK and came out here, Europe and Australia a mere year after Japan. NOA refused to launch it in America, until a petition forced their hand another year later). It blew me away, and the remastered Definitive Version is a classic. The fact that Nintendo UK localised it is why it has its unique UK focused VA throughout. The regions in the games are Welsh, Scottish, etc. It adds a huge amount of character that American voiced games lack imo.

Worth giving a shout out to Xenoblade X (outside of the trilogy's storyline), which still has the largest world of any game I've ever known, eternally stuck on the Wii U. That's a fucking mental game and I don't even know where to start with it. If you like Xenoblade, mech battles/flights and Attack on Titan's soundtrack (sawano), then it's the game for you.

anyhow back to Xenoblade 3, you may hate it who knows but... hopefully this does sell a few people on it.

Your turn

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not on my 65" 8k OLED they aren't! You can absolutely tell the difference.

Smaller/low res screens though, sure.

[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thomas the Tank Engine on SNES. Me and my mates used to find it hilarious when high. Still do.

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