RightHandOfIkaros

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Steam Deck is not any closer to real ownership than Xbox or PlayStation. Video Games have had "non-ownership" clauses in their EULAs long before the Xbox or PlaysStation existed, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It is great for video games. Other content can work with it but that would be more finnicky. I have successfully got movies and downloaded TV shows to appear in it but you have to set them up like emulated games. The neat part is for older content, you can actually load it up in Retroarch and gain access to Retroarch's screen shaders like the CRT shaders, which can add a nice touch to older 4:3 content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Iron Will is the name of a Survivor perk in Dead by Daylight, which reduces the volume of your Survivors noises when they are injured.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I have the same one. Works well for what I need it for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

For a moment I thought this was a Dead By Daylight Survivor meme and thought you might've been lost lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (5 children)

Yes, the keyboard wont require regular use but you should still have one. You can use a frontend like I do, but there will always be little quirks or issues with updates so youll have to keep a mouse and keyboard handy, but you dont need to have it always visible or to use for the system, just for correcting problems.

I set up an HTPC for emulation and gaming. LaunchBox is my frontend of choice. Set up the PC to autoreboot every day at 3am. It only occasionally has an issue where LaunchBox crashes and needs to be manually restarted or something needs an update.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Could?

Will. By design.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Never forget, releasing your game means you already made it farther than 90% of the other game developers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

I think for a visual novel, you're probably better off buying it near release for full price. Maybe even get the more expensive version that comes with the soundtrack if you like the game.

For other types of games, especially more mass market games, they're more complex and prone to bugs. Visual novels, not so much. So being patient in this particular case would certainly hurt the small creator making the game more than it will hurt your bank account. Visual novels aren't usually $60.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I mean, visual novel games are VERY hard to make them unstable. In the case of a visual novel, it will probably have the same stability whether you buy it at release or 20 years later (if its even still for sale). It might only get one or two updates that entire time, and probably to correct typos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not necessarily. Even if the hardware wasn't exactly the same, it came out too close to the Saturn. Had there never been a Saturn and the Dreamcast, even if it was slightly weaker like a Saturn 2.5, would have launched in 1996, the console would not have done so poorly. It also would not have been so quickly outclassed by its competition, as it would have directly competed with the PS1 and Nintendo64 the same year.

Its really all to my point that piracy had nothing to do with the console's failure. There were other problems with the Dreamcast that caused its death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The 32X and Saturn releases were confusingly close to each other and could easily lead to some confusion with consumers. Releasing both a disk console and a disk addon for the existing console in the same year could confuse people on whether they needed the new console or just the disk addon, especially with marketing that didn't exactly make it clear. Similar issue the WiiU had with people thinking it was an addon for the Wii and determining they didnt need it. If the Dreamcast had started development instead of the Saturn, and released even 2 years after the Saturns release date in 1996, the console would have fared significantly better.

SEGA just didn't pick the right console features for the right time. The Dreamcast was ahead of its time releasing in 1998, but by the time the PS2, GameCube, and especially Xbox launched just 2-3 years later, the Dreamcast hardware looked extremely outdated, because it was.

 

I am getting kinda sick of constantly not being able to post comments on seemingly random posts due to this error.

The instance is English, the post title is English, and my comment is in English. I have even logged into my instance website to change the language settings to have both "Undetermined" and "English" selected, and that still doesn't work. Not all posts have this problem, and not even posts in just one community or instance. Seems like the error is completely random.

I have to imagine this is an error specific to Connect for Lemmy, since I don't get the same error if I comment from my web browser. It seems to come from Connect for Lemmy not having an option to set the comment language when posting? Can that be corrected please?

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