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I was just gonna say - he looks like the Nazi in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade about halfway through his visual effect death…

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It DID outdo Nintendo’s equivalent - the previous mainline Mario entry - Super Mario Odyssey - in every way except maybe 4 :

1. Quantity - Mario had more moons than Astro had Bots to rescue… so more collectibles.
2. replayability - with the Luigi balloon challenges, they extended the game’s longevity with this feature and it is better than Astro Bot’s simpler “speed run challenges” because of Mario’s unique game mechanic of allowing players to create and compete by crafting one-of-a-kind challenges for each other.
3. Nostalgia - Mario’s New Donk City party was absolute peak love letter to the origins of Super Mario and the sequence with the song sung by Mayor Pauline honestly brought me to tears…

…But everything else - the scale of and pure ingenuity of the boss mechanics, the visuals - from both a stylistic and technical standpoint, the Dual-Sense’s controller gimmicks, the complete lack of load times… it brought into stark contrast how far Nintendo has fallen behind - not so much from a game design perspective necessarily - but certainly at least from a hardware power standpoint.

Looks like it’s a behind the scenes image from the recent film starring Margaret Qualey and Demi Moore - The Substance.

My shitty cartoons that I moved to a new animation-focused YouTube channel that now are getting less than 1/10th the views after seeming like non-subscribers liked them but subscribers were leaving my channel every time I uploaded them.

Dave is awesome. Great dude.

Not good enough. Any OTA updates your TV can get over the web will eventually be trying to circumvent your IP blacklists to shove in any ad-riddled garbage they can.

Literally just blacklist your TV’s MAC address, and use a dedicated set top box of some kind to avoid this shit. My current choice is my NVIDIA Shield Pro 2019, which I installed a 3rd party WOLF launcher (there’s also F-Launcher) and turned off auto-updates so I could avoid NVIDIA and Google doing the same.

At some point, I will probably need to switch to a NUC or other HTPC with some flavor of Linux on it, as eventually the Shield may succumb to this shit as well.

Excellent summary, but I think folks were sad because a bunch of us had tuned in hoping to see :

🦆… 🗞️💥

Was gonna say - how long after Elden Ring did Shadow of the Erdtree DLC come out?

How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”

Payday 2 was a really novel idea a long time ago. Highly scripted replayable missions with unique aspects but RNG for procedurally variable elements like guard patrol positions, locations and security aspects… in addition to dynamic changes based off how successful the player was at doing a job without letting security escalate the mission to going “loud.”

It made otherwise boring repetitive loops of missions feel new and different enough each time that it was exciting. Being randomly matched with others fed into the unpredictable heist aspect as well…

But instead of focusing on constantly further improving upon those systems, fixing terrible issues related to both friendly and antagonistic A.I. (I remember how for the longest time your teammates could not literally pick up a duffle bag), they saw dollar signs with in-app-purchases… and with Payday 3, they doubled down on that aspect… so no one got on board… and eventually longtime players like myself stopped playing Payday 2 as well.

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At this point, I treat Adobe like malware on my personal systems.

Enshittification seems to be accelerating.

Valve showed how to do this right years ago at this point with the Steam Deck.

1. Force (or at least put a sizeable number of devices to be available for exclusive) purchase through their own store.
2. Limit to only a single unit purchase per official account.
3. Require the official account to have already been present before the device was announced to be available to purchase.

Boom. Scalper market collapsed for Steam Deck, PS5, etc.

Bingo. Shield pro, and blacklist the MAC address of the TV and NEVER update the firmware.

Scrolling to find out what “EE” is… I can’t find anything. Can someone fill me in?

Honestly, Apple still are being assholes assholes and - either via firmware or software - are limiting transfer speeds of the standard non-Pro iPhone 15’s USB-C connector down from 10gb/s to 480mb/s (Lightning cable speeds) (scroll down to the “Charging and Expansion” section to see for yourselves).

The EU should hit them with a fine or ban EU sales of the 15 non-Pro model for skirting the law.