Ad blocking is done client side in the browser, it’s impossible to hide.

You can obfuscate, but you can do that now.

Why would I be pissed that you don’t eat cake? That’s more cake for me.

The number of people that have it on surprises me.

I’m reminded of the 24 hour news channels who love to put ultra detailed timing. If there is a press conference at 9pm they don’t just say it’s at 9pm, at noon they’ll start a 9 hour countdown.

So if you watch the news at any point that day you’ll know it’s 8:43:22 until the press conference. It’s 6:12:43 until the press conference. It’s 5:24:46 until the press conference.

Those numbers don’t mean anything.

When I started writing this comment I had 92% battery left. Now I have 91% battery left. If I ramble for too long what if it goes to 90%? At the rate it’s dropping am I going to have less than two hours of battery life left? Where is my charger?!?!

Or, I can just look at the list mostly full icon. I’m good.

So you’re not 100% incorrect, but does it happen in 2027? 2028?

Logistically it’ll probably happen eventually, but when?

The Thing should be fine.

I mean nowadays you carry a computer on your person constantly. Your hands are touching a computer, your eyes are looking at a computer.

Computer glasses are seen as the next step.

I’m not confident it actually is, but I understand the why it’s being tried.

Except that one time when you use portals to cut the neurotoxin pipes.

is it all posturing

we still value our physical culture. Rather than completely abandoning that, we are currently challenging ourselves to shift towards being able to think about and act on the important aspects of digital in parallel.

Yeah. They are challenging themselves to think about the shift.

It Sony doesn’t make disks or the PSwhatever doesn’t have a disk drive… Not much to think about.

It’s a good message, but just a message.

The timing of AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) was unfortunate. Nintendo pretty much ignored the Metroid franchise, but they had done a remake of the first Metroid game “recently”.

AM2R came out right around the time Nintendo was announcing their own Metroid 2 remake, and a solid one at that. (That same developer would next make Metroid Dread, which is excellent.)

Regardless Nintendo was going to takedown AM2R eventually, but they were particularly aggressive because they were also remaking Metroid 2.

But both games are excellent. You should play AM2R.

It’s not one-to-one but Pokopia exists and sold extremely well.

Basically they’ve written the design document for the next game, which is why they can reveal the engine because that’s been decided on. It doesn’t mean they know the story yet, but they likely have a good general idea, because that would inform the design document.

For example if the game needed jetpacks, but that wasn’t an existing engine feature, then they have a plan for jetpacks. And if you NEED jetpacks, you probably know roughly where they’re going to be used, so you have some gameplay/story ideas mapped out.

But also a design plan and a finished product are very different things. You might plan for one thing, but create something very different.

So the game is probably still 4-5 years away.

Nowadays, 6. As a kid, 9, 11 or 12.

Because they can release a game sooner and at a lower quality. In fact a day one patch is standard for nearly every game nowadays.

Before being patchable games were definitely still released with bugs, but it was rare for them to be truly game breaking.

They want the companies that make the games to release patches for any bugs that are discovered

Technically someone who buys a game just wants it to work. Many generations of games were released without the ability to patch them after release. Games had a higher quality to them before being released.

While I won’t disagree that there is a benefit of this feature for consumers, the larger benefit it to the company creating the game.

Just to be fair, the Nintendo Switch 2 does support “Game Key Card” games. Such that you still must download the game and use the card to authenticate your game.

However there are zero first party* Nintendo games that are “Game Key Card” games. If you buy Mario or Zelda you do get the game on the card.

I do expect that will change in the future and follow the trend Sony is taking to be 100% digital. So you’re right to be concerned that they are heading in the same direction.in fact with Sony already heading that direction it’s even more certain.

*(Pokemon, which feels like a first party and Nintendo owns a large portion of, is technically third party.)

I looked it up, since I wasn’t sure, it looks like online launched about two weeks after the single player game. But it also was console exclusive for two years. When it came out for PC is when it actually began to catch my attention, and it launched on PC as both GTA5 and Online.

So that’s probably where my confusion came from. I already hadn’t played GTA4 so it wasn’t high on my list to investigate further.

It’s funny I looked into GTA4 and GTA5 support on the Steam Deck. GTA4 says playable and online reviews say it works well. GTA5 says unsupported but online reviews say it also works great, but you can’t play it online. So both are options for me.

The stories and single player is definitely what interests me, so maybe someday.

No, but also I was never going to buy GTA6.

I loved GTA3, Vice City & San Andreas. Played for hundreds of hours. I played GTA4 for a few hours but it never really clicked the same. I also played Saints Row 2 and Saints Row 3, which I really enjoyed and scratched that same itch (those games eventually went a little over the top, but I still had fun.)

When GTA5 came out all I ever heard about it was it being “online” which turned me off of the series completely. I think I later understood that there is a single player component and an online component, but by then I didn’t really care.

If anything I’m likely to try revisiting GTA4 this year. Maybe.

A bottle garden can also be sealed.

I have a degree in Internet oddities if that counts. I know bottle gardens are a thing, where you have a sustaining ecosystem of plants inside a bottle. Could you make them small spheres instead? Maybe?