My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.

Aww, it’s like he’s keeping his nose warm with his tail.

Thank you! That’s too bad.

That’s interesting, I’ll try to learn more about that.

So, in this case, the community I was trying to post to was !vinyl@lemmy.world. There is also a user with that name on lemmy.world. If I search “vinyl@lemmy.world” on Mastodon, does that mean both of them should show up? And what would their names be? One would start with ! and the other start with @?

I think that’s just a way of getting a link to the community, but it doesn’t actually tag the community in your post or make it get posted into that community. I just tried it, and the post does not show up in the community that I mentioned with !.

If you close the program, you might lose information. Like information about sailors.

I find that it’s good enough for things like the main menu or the pause menu. But I don’t find it usable if I’m having to accurately click something while gameplay is happening. And if I want to minimize the game and look something up on the web, it’ll take me five attempts to click a link with it.

Oh cool, glad to know that Returnal takes advantage of it. I don’t have any games that take advantage of the haptics right now, but I’ve been wanting to try one. And I was already wanting to check out Returnal at some point.

I have a Sony Dualsense controller and haven’t had any problems with it as a game controller. However, I’m always launching games through Steam, or letting Steam run in the background (so that it’s handling the controller input remapping). I don’t know if that’s what you plan on doing; I’ve never tried it without Steam handling the inputs.

My one complaint about it is that the trackpad isn’t good enough to use as a mouse when you’re navigating the desktop. So I ended up switching back to my original Steam controller.

Oh man, I even recognize a few of those! I miss that era of web design.

I found some old websites myself a few months ago and put some links on my blog. These aren’t archive links, they’re still up in their original form.

Pasting a summary below:

Sonic Team, https://www.sonicteam.com/

A bunch of websites for Sonic Team’s games are still up, dating back to the Sega Saturn. Here’s a few highlights:

• Sonic Adventure, for the Dreamcast, released in 1998.
  • A blog from the music team about their trip to a recording studio in New York. Check this one out with Google Translate, it’s amazing.
  • Photos from the trip
• Space Channel 5, also for the Dreamcast, released in 1999.
• Sonic R, for the Saturn, released in 1997.
• Nights into Dreams, also Saturn, relased in 1996. The footer mentions Netscape 3.0.
  • a page about the story with a very 90s era background

The King of Fighters. This fighting game series still has some of the original marketing sites up for its earlier
titles.

• KOF 98 “Unlimited Match”. I’m not sure when this was made. This is for the 2008 re-release of KOF 98. The copyright date says 2007 and there’s a Wordpress logo for the favicon. However, everything else about the website screams <marquee>“1998.”</marquee> It’s using tables for the layout and font tags for text colors. I’m wondering if there was an existing site for KOF 98, and they gave it an update for 2008 without changing the way it was written.
• KOF 2000. A great example of how a site would sometimes have completely different layouts for each page.
• KOF 2002
• A general information site about SNK’s games, last updated in 2009, but looks like it was designed before then.

Honorable Mention: Team Fortress 2, https://www.teamfortress.com/

This one is newer, of course, but still has some hallmarks of mid-2000s web design. I point out some things about it in the blog post.

I managed to stop my constant buying and flipping habit last year and didn’t acquire any. But I’m thinking about getting one of the Seiko 5 GMT models this year. Or, a different brand that uses the same movement.

Thank you! That is good to know.

I have a couple of questions, one about this device and one for anyone just in general:

1. For Android games, does this have the actual Google play store? Or do you need to use the Aurora store? And if so, do you use a throwaway account because Google might decide that they aren’t OK with that someday?
2. This is available with 8 GB or 12 GB of memory. I’ve never played PS2 games on one of these handhelds before – would 8 GB be fine for that?

Great review! And wow, this thing looks fantastic. After using a horizontal retro emulator, I wasn’t sure if I would ever want a vertical one again. Horizontal just immediately felt so much more comfortable for me. But this one definitely looks tempting. Also, the vertical handheld I have, a Miyoo mini, is really small, so maybe that’s part of my ergonomics problem.

It’s amazing just how much better games have been from indie devs and smaller publishers. I don’t see a single game from EA, Ubisoft, or Activision on there.

I haven’t been to one that uses cards, but I would prefer tokens or actual coins over the card. The only arcade near me is a bar arcade, and all of the machines take quarters. I love it.

The only one I’ve tried before is Wekan. I’m not a heavy kanban user, I just basically wanted to put sticky notes in columns, and it worked for that. Looks like it has the features you’re needing, though. There’s read-only demo here: https://boards.wekan.team/b/D2SzJKZDS4Z48yeQH/wekan-open-source-kanban-board-with-mit-license

It looks fairly mobile-friendly, and I think they have Android and iOS apps, too.

Github page: https://github.com/wekan/wekan

Oh nice, I haven’t heard this one before. I’ve been listening to his album “Solved” a lot lately.

I hadn’t heard this one before, that was amazing. :D

I mean, he did leave that girl, who loves Jesus, and America too. Could be atheist.