Original F-Zero (and GBA Maximum Velocity to some extent) is kind of an acquired taste, it was kind of a SNES tech demo (from launch, even) and it’s a bit abstract.

Like there were already 30 racers but only 4 are playable and the rest are identical brown machines, and there are rules just for the 4 main characters (you have to place at least 8th before lap 2, then 4th before lap 3 or you’re eliminated, or something like that).

The 3D episodes X and GX are awesome, incredibly fluid and with great zero gravity tracks in absurd shapes. X managed that on the N64 by looking rather rough, but speed and chaos from the 30 contestants make up for it IMO. They’re also very fucking hard, especially unlocking everything in GX. Which includes a lot of tracks, new characters and machine parts for the gimmicky but fun custom machine editor. Technically a lot of that extra content are the characters and tracks from AX, GX’s counterpart game on arcade machines.

3D F-Zero looks a bit like weaponless WipeOut (but still quite aggressive, because you are encouraged to take down your opponents with physical attacks. Especially your current rival on the scoreboard who the UI helpfully highlights).

Oh sure, a genre that got on the radar with a 1987 MSX game, one that became what it is partly because of hardware limitations, is impossible to do nowadays because “now we can do realism”.

Talk about creating problems for yourself.

Super Circuit has a lot (all?) of the old Super Mario Kart maps too. They are quite a bit smaller than the new ones, so they added laps on them. I played a lot of MKSC on my original GBA back then.

Also F-Zero GP Legend. Not the first GBA one (Maximum Velocity, that was very clunky and SNES-like), the one based on the awful American localization of the not that good to begin with F-Zero anime. That shit is almost lost media, except the infamous mega-falcon punch clip from the ending that’s been a meme.

The story mode of the game was complete shit, but mechanically, the core game was very good, quite fast and feeling more like a flat X/GX than SNES.

There’s a third GBA F-Zero (Climax) that’s supposedly better, but it only released in Japan and last time I tried it was still kinda hard to emulate.

Indeed not really Stop Killing Games territory. You can’t really force a company to keep selling a game they don’t want to sell (or even contractually can’t sell) anymore.

It’s about preventing them from rendering sold copies inoperable.

It is still a tiny niche, clearly, and devs would have to carefully evaluate the benefits/costs of developing for it.

But I consider Zuckerberg abandoning the metaverse only an evidence of nobody giving a fuck about his metaverse. Including most people who got a quest.

Oh. I thought it could walk/run, which would have been 200% scarier (and totally overkill, surely).

Turns out that in action the thing looks more like Curiosity with a creepy furby on top of it.

Well, we need a defence against terminators.

Glasses with high correction don’t look that great with thin frames IMO. Even when you get thinner lenses, there still quite thick on the edges.

Thin frames also have kind of an uncanny effect when the lenses warp the size of your eyes a lot. Better have a bulky, obvious thing instead.

There is a distinct rift between what the AI companies are trying to sell and what they can actually do. Anthropic is among the worst, they basically communicate on how astonished they are about their AI every other week (including the mythos claims that have been vastly disproven).

They don’t “claim” it. They suggest and deliberately exploit people’s imagination. Because if they don’t nobody would be buying their shit.

Well, if all it takes for your super-intelligent thinking machine to be evil is just someone to suggest it might be evil, something doesn’t add up.

Some of them are even basic post-it functionality.

Also : these (valid) authorized applications should be completely offline solutions. Because privacy, and because you don’t want your aid failing at random times because it’s relying on some corporate server and network.

Oh shit, they actually said that, “they” being the American department of justice.

“How dare those people try to apply laws to mega corporations?!!”

I have a Quest headset, and I have no idea. But of course I don’t want anything to do wih their “metaverse”, so I would’t be able to see where most of their work went.

What I can tell you is the parts I did use, like the system UI and app store, are complete shit and never improved one bit through the years.

The app store is especially terrible for a company with those resources. It’s using the worst machine translation I ever saw (forget LLMs, this is a lot worse than 2010 google translate). It has terrible search and discoverability options for a store that has comparatively so little content.

Whenever I find something interesting in it, it’s also regularly failing transactions with a major bank in my country. I’m almost listing that as a pro since it discouraged me to get stuff from a headset-locked store that will be completely abandoned very soon.

What are you talking about, we have high intelligence artificial humans

Have you seen the Nexus-6 replicants from Tyrell Corp? They’re models from 2019.

I’m really curious how “AI” helped him golf, other than providing basic advice he could have found just as easily anywhere else.

He’s lucky his AI is not Mr Meeseeks from Rick & Morty.

Your graphics processor identified itself as or similar.

Ah yes, Or similar, great GPU, love it.

I have stopped using chrome on mobile too.

Problem is, on a stock android you can’t remove chrome, only hide it. So my point is, if they decide to force the model download on a chrome update, even if you never use it, it’ll still ruin a good chunk of your storage space.

At least gemini isn’t a forced install… on my device it isn’t, in any case. I sure hope it stays that way.

Next time I change my phone, I’ll look into it (and probably choose it for that purpose). I don’t want to risk ditching official support on this one just yet.

Google aside, I chose a phone that comes relatively crap-free.