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Grangle1

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  • Most under-utilized consoles?

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  • The one notable time I can think of a game trying the dual perspective thing with the gamepad was Star Fox Zero at the end of its life cycle, and it was not received well at all because it made the control and aiming way too complicated since it was too much of a challenge to try to look at both screens at the same time. Can't think of another game that tried something like that, but I did see a good number of games that used the gamepad for inventory, like the Zelda games and Monster Hunter.

  • Most under-utilized consoles?

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  • Lack of advertising and its business model of the hardware basically being produced by licensees tacked on to other electronics products of the time ended up crippling consumer awareness, and the price point was the big nail in the coffin, at roughly $700 in the early 90s you really had to commit to wanting one. Unlike most other console companies, 3DO couldn't afford to sell the hardware at a loss because they didn't have much, if anything, for first party games to make up for it. It had some games that look like they'd be decent, at least a better quality library overall than arguably the Jaguar and definitely the CDi, but it's that tough cycle in gaming where you need good games to sell consoles (especially at $700, in any time) but third party devs won't make good games for consoles that don't sell.

  • I did not like Pokémon Emerald.

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  • TBF, the poor sounding soundtrack was likely as much to do with the GBA hardware as the music itself, they did what they could with the GBA's God-awful sound chip. The type distribution isn't great but Diamond and Pearl's in Gen 4 is even worse (Platinum fixed it in Sinnoh though).

  • Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025 - YouTube

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  • This looks like any Nintendo launch lineup I can remember: one "big" game they think will draw people in just for that (in this case Mario Kart) and not much aside from that. The fact we're even getting more than one additional first party title is comparatively impressive, but overall Nintendo launch lineups are pretty much always sparse. I think you're right and we'll see the "real" launch window lineup around the holidays.

  • My Advanced Retro Simulation Environment brings all the boys to the yard

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  • I like big content and I cannot lie, you other brothers can't deny

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  • Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Tired of government censorship, whether it's left or right wing. They both do it, and it sucks either way. Then both sides will "champion free speech" when they're not the ones in power.

  • Almost finished Gold and looking forward to starting Emerald.

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  • I recently purchased a copy of Alpha Sapphire since I haven't finished a Hoenn playthrough yet. Looking forward to finally finishing a Hoenn region run!

  • Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake New Trailer

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  • I admit I haven't played too much of either Dragon Quest or FF. I have a bit more experience with FF (I've at least started playing 1, 7 and 10). I've only played Dragon Quest III, currently going through its HD-2D remake and enjoying it decently enough. If I like it enough when I finish it maybe I'll pick up I and II as well.

  • Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake New Trailer

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  • This, and it's THE big traditional JRPG franchise in Japan itself, as big as or bigger than Final Fantasy. FF just happened to have more worldwide appeal.

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  • I think the biggest factor in that is getting tutorials and such out there that focus on the basics, written by people who mainly do things on Linux using the basics and GUI tools. So much of the Linux content out there is focused on power users and even the tutorials for new users tend to be written by those power users who may have been tech focused before switching and forget or just don't know how basic they really have to get to not make people feel intimidated. Given the right distro/desktop environment, and there's plenty of good ones to start with, people can use Linux almost just how they use Windows. They just need someone to show them how without pushing them to do everything in the terminal too fast or going immediately to scripting as a solution to problems.

  • PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist

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  • I don't think it will ever happen, but the way PeerTube as a whole would be able to rival YouTube is when looking at all instances as a whole, or a large number of federated instances sharing content. That distributes the content storage and bandwidth to help ease things up and expand the amount of content available/searchable on each instance. Kind of like how lemm.ee was made to help ease the load from other bigger instances of Lemmy such as lemmy.world. The closest a Fediverse platform has gotten to actually posing some real competition to a mainstream platform was Mastodon compared to Twitter/X, but even then it wasn't just one instance but Mastodon as a whole.

    That said, doesn't Bluesky run on something like a federated model?

  • Source: NFL likely to pitch tweak to kickoff rule

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  • They mess with kickoffs every year for some reason or another. They really need to just compromise on something and leave it at that.

  • Orange County, Florida authorizes $10 million to lure Jaguars to Orlando for 2027 season

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  • I don't know how big the Jacksonville market is, but if I were the NFL or the team owner(s) I'd be tempted to move them to Orlando permanently.

  • BloodBorne Released 10 Years Ago Today, Fans Once Again Organize a Return to Yharnam

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  • My daily reminder that I'm older than I think/feel like I am.

  • What are you playing this weekend? 2025-03-21

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  • There's a Monastery-like area in Engage called the Somniel. Unlike in 3 Houses, though, you don't need to build a relationship with any characters to gain others - every unit and (base game) Emblem is automatically recruited in the main story. I recommend picking up both parts of the DLC, the stages to unlock the extra Emblems and the DLC side story, since some of the extra Emblems are fun to use (Tiki is straight up broken) and the DLC with the side story gives you more cool units and classes, though the side story is a fair bit more difficult than the main story.

  • What are you playing this weekend? 2025-03-21

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  • Never had reason to check, is the Switch region-unlocked/region-free? That's cool if true. But given that the DS was a pirate's dream machine partially due to it being region-free I can see why Nintendo locked down the Wii/3DS/Wii U, annoying as it is.

  • What are you playing this weekend? 2025-03-21

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  • I'm playing on an actual 3DS. Conquest is the last FE game I have yet to finish on it (I played Birthright before this). If I ever want to play Revelations I'd have to emulate or otherwise sail the high seas since the 3DS eShop is dead. My own 3DS is actually Japanese but I modded it to region unlock it.

  • What are you playing this weekend? 2025-03-21

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  • I bought Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe a couple weeks ago and I'm a few stages in. Having a good time with it so far. Sometimes it's nice to just sit back and enjoy a nice easy game to relax. I'm even enjoying the minigames in the Merry Magoland mode and getting all the masks (I will rarely use, lol).

    I also bought Pokemon Alpha Sapphire because I've never finished a Hoenn region Pokémon game, but I haven't started it yet because I'm still playing through Fire Emblem Fates Conquest. Like others I agree that Fates' story, especially Conquest's, is probably the worst I've played in the franchise (seriously, the game utterly fails to give Corrin any reason to choose Nohr when they make their "fateful" choice that's supposed to be so difficult), but the gameplay is not bad. I would put it down for Pokemon but considering FE is my favorite franchise I feel a certain obligation to grit my teeth on the story and push through it to the finish.

  • Vikings haven't completely closed the door on Aaron Rodgers

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  • Oh for Pete's sake, who in our front office won't give it up? NOBODY but whoever that guy is wants Rodgers here. He's washed up and instant cancer to the team. Just sign Flacco as QB2 and be done with it.