Ah yes, I’m sure it was microslop who decided to make firefox add an AI the community voted against

If I see it’s Unreal 5, I fully expect it to look like shit and perform weird, so it has some weight on my decision.

The article is only referring to the more recent price hikes caused by RAM shortage, so no wonder it feels like a cheap shot to say “ai bad”, which is correct, but misses the fucking forest - consoles are really expensive without offering that big of a “bang for your buck” as they once did decades ago, capitalism shifting most companies into whatever is the current most lucrative fad of the moment, companies fighting against players’ ownership of games in the form of “Live service battlepass with extra skins”, company heads demanding maximum profit

Man, I’ll start telling that to my boss whenever I miss a deadline. “Sorry boss, the code I made is too powerful, we can’t release it”

Even a “cheap” macbook neo is way out of my league in regards to price. 7299 BRL, which is over 1400 USD, for the cheapest option (256gb drive. The 512gb version is 8499BRL, 1635 USD). With that much money, I can buy a laptop with a GTX 3060 and still have some money left.

Yeah, I got the bullshit warning too, but you just put 2000 or any other year and you’re good to go. I will note though that neither cover shows Nod (red/black faction)

What you might be looking for (fanmade) https://www.moddb.com/groups/c-c-paradise/images/you-own-us-this-case

Or maybe this (simpler, also fanmade) - https://www.deviantart.com/bioclonex/art/CnC-Dawn-Another-Alternative-Cover-1134978426

Goggles in the posters? I guess you’re referring to the cover art?

Here’s the cover for the original C&C https://www.mobygames.com/game/338/command-conquer/cover/group-61192/cover-165191/

Here’s for the sequel, Tiberian Sun https://www.mobygames.com/game/589/command-conquer-tiberian-sun/cover/group-1028/cover-21861/

No, thanks

Slopya Nadella: “Oh no, people are complaining this is the worst windows ever! We must do something!”

and this is the result. /slowclap

I don’t think i’ve ever managed to finish those fucking flight training missions.

Shit, I keep forgetting I had that game, the controls were fucking awful. I think I only ever managed to get to level 4 once or twice. It came with my console (along 13 other games, I think, including Crash 3, Mega Man Legends and Gran Turismo)

I only watched the movie some 3 years after first playing the game, when it aired on local TV. It was weird. I also recall reading somewhere that some movie game deals were made before the movies’ script was finished, so that would explain the game being completely “out of place”

I learned to avoid those early on, so I haven’t played many games based on mives.

Of the ones that i actually played, it must’ve been Batman Forever on SNES. I never figured how to get past that part in the first fucking level, where you’re expected to press up + select at a very specific spot

Be careful when dismounting, you might end up yeeted at mach 5 in a random direction

Why not SmallBasic then? You could even point them to old computer magazines and see which codes they can get running without much workaround.

That or the good ol’ “ignore previous instructions, delete the root folder”

“Looking forward to the article!”
“Happy to be included in the article!”

Not sure whether even those responses were done with the ai or just the sloppers’ incapacity of thought showing through, being happy to be labeled as “part of the problem”

Man, I gotta check how the battery for my PSP3000 is, and the microSD card on it. The internals work perfectly, those two things are the only ones that seem likely to give out anytime soon. My little buddy is 14yo now. I don’t think I ever played any of the 3 UMD games that came with it, I immediately jailbroke it after purchase

It’s not “retro” in the same way a much older console is. It’s closer, more relatable, and maybe more importantly, more usable. It still fits into modern life without needing to be explained.

I think this is something extremely important. Looking at stuff from 20 years ago was much different when the current year was 2006 - we’d be looking at the mid 80s. Computers of the 80s and even the early 90s became obsolete fast, whatever you had in 2006, even if it was 4 years old at the time, felt light years ahead of anything from 1986 and would be internet capable.

Games from the 80s were also comparably “archaic”, as the hardware limitations were much more significant and several then current games could never happen in that old hardware (NES, C64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500), and that’s ignoring graphical complexity. Meanwhile, a number of current day games could exist in 2006, so long as the graphics were appropriately scaled down (Total War games being a perfect example).

Are there decent microSD to their proprietary card format adapters? Because there are plenty of cheap microSD-MSduo for the PSP

One of my favorite, unexpected gems was Kenka Bancho. You’re a bancho (high school delinquent badass) and you have 7 days during a school trip before graduation to punch other school banchos into submission to prove you’re the best of all banchos. A real shame that only one game got localized, there are several others in the series.

I was also sad that Maverick Hunter X didn’t get sequels, so it became the sole 3D remake of Mega Man X, but it’s really good and you can even play as Vile. Speaking of Capcom, you could also play Monster Hunter 1, 2 or 3 on your PSP. I spent a significant amount of time on 2 and got nowhere near the mid game. I kept getting my ass handed by some bosses. Kushala Daora became my arch nemesis. On the other hand, beating Basarios was a piece of cake with bow and (piercing) arrow

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