I’ve played Waku Waku 7 in tournament. It was a side event at Combo Breaker last year.

It is a logistical impossibility if it can’t be manufactured at a reasonable price. Problem not solved.

Have you seen the prices on SD cards lately?

We’re already a lot closer to it than you think. Do you know how many modern games don’t even fit on the disc in the first place? Or ship incomplete because in order to meet a target release date they have to start pressing discs before 1.0 is actually finished? And what about all the updates and DLC?

In 50 years time, when servers are all gone and you can’t redownload the data that wasn’t on the disc, do you still own your games?

He’s half right. An all-digital future is an inevitability, one way or another. In a world where games have a long tail of updates and DLC, what’s printed on the disc is often quickly obsolete anyway, it’s not necessarily the version you want to preserve and won’t be that useful by itself in 50 years time when all servers are gone.

But consumers are angry because you haven’t given us an alternative that lets us trust that we own our games. The problem is that we don’t trust you or the industry, not when the industry is actively fighting against ownership with DRM and games being shut down left and right. If you want to earn our trust, show us what your solution to these problems is. Don’t just tell us we’re wrong to want to own our games, solve the problem.

Did you think Blockbuster or any other rental store could buy a copy from Walmart and rent it out? Those were different licenses and the rental stores paid a shit ton more for their copies to be able to rent them.

Yes and no. They did have licensing deals for video, but for video games they relied entirely on the First Sale Doctrine. Nintendo tried to sue because they didn’t want to allow rentals, and lost.

De facto, yes. De jure, no.

Well they had an API, but…

The second CPU is the GBA CPU, but at twice the clockspeed (which can then downclock for GBA games). You’re double-counting it and making it sound like the system had three.

The 3DS is the real funny one, adding its own new CPU alongside both the DS and GBA CPUs. So that’s actually three.

I really don’t trust BlueSky. I feel like they call themselves federated as a marketing gimmick to convince people they’re better than every other corporate social network, but they’ve deliberately set it up so that 99.9% of everything is going through their central server anyway. And it frustrates me that a lot of people have bought into that lie. Fediverse has been here delivering on everything BlueSky promised to be and did so long before BlueSky even existed, and yet no one cares because BlueSky had the venture capital to push a bigger marketing campaign.

Unfortunately, people jumping ship from BlueSky still aren’t coming over here. So I don’t know what to make of this news really, I know it doesn’t mean what I wish it would mean.

You’re telling me PPMD wasn’t a real MD?

I begrudgingly put up with Puyo Puyo Tetris back when it was the only way to officially play Puyo Puyo in the west, but it is the worst thing that ever happened to the franchise. Only thing I hate more than the game itself is the impact it had on the series, because Sega has done nothing but lazily rehash it four times. It’s been a full decade since the last proper main series game and there’s still no word on when or if we’ll ever get another.

The practical difference is that the code is there for whoever wants to use it.

So? It’s not like upstream should have to accept everything every fork does.

What do you mean “never contributed back”? All of these projects give their source code back, as the GPL requires.

I got my degree in CS a decade ago, but wasn’t able to get my foot in the door finding any entry level position in the field. Had to give up and work a shitty unrelated job elsewhere, but after letting it drain my my soul for too long I’ve spent all year searching again. But no matter how many resumes I fire out into the void I have yet to get as far as even a single interview. It still feels like my degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. The only thing recruiters want is 5 years of experience in some technology that came out 2 years ago, and I can’t get experience because I don’t have experience.

The amount of storage and bandwidth Youtube needs is something no competitor could ever hope to match.

They’re gonna tell you this is the only way to be sure that routers don’t contain a backdoor. They’re gonna tell themselves this is the only way to be sure that routers do contain a backdoor.

It is theatrics. They know they’ve already got literally the entire userbase on their server, so none of this actually matters.

When Bluesky inevitably enshittifies, they take the whole network down with them.

BlueSky pays lip service to federation, but they’ve set it up so that they’ve got effective control of 99% of the network. It’s a sham to convince people they’re different from every other corporate-owned social media platform, but it really isn’t.