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I never saw the connection!

If nothing else, I have a bunch of brats to introduce to some great literature! Uncle Nerd Powers Activated!

NEW ACHIEVEMENT!

You’ve made your first post in this community!

REWARD?

Posting is its own reward.

You are taking the comments too literal. If something is subsidized (which means cheaper than normal) and it is useful as a PC or PC parts, it will be vacuumed up by non-gamers as well.

You are technically correct about mega corps and such but missing the point being made. Every subsidized PC not bought by gamers is lost money for Valve.

Megacorps won’t sit and refresh Steam sure, but fucking scalpers absolutely will. There are lots of shady middlemen companies that will buy them up from eBay and resell to small businesses too.

Hell, I’d snap one up and resell on eBay in a heart beat myself if this thing goes for anything close to what a PS5 sells for. Let’s say $1200 in parts, I buy for $700, I resell for $900, reseller scoops up a few hundred at a time off ebay, sells in bulk to small businesses for $1100… Everyone wins… Valve fucking loses. Now, let’s say a million people do the same thing because it is free money.

This is how this works and why they can’t subsidise this thing like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have. (Also why Xbox doesn’t run actual windows for that matter.)

Hi Mudkip, you are totally right! Our posts are getting very sterile. We will try to delve into the reason for this and do a better job going forward.

Also, a lot of games hide it in load screens and don’t explicitly tell you. If you’ve ever updated a game and first run seems to be slower to load, that’s the game compiling shaders for you.

Well you are insufferable.

Not wrong, just insufferable.

The third sub-heading is simply “Bullshit”. The fact that they describe how a “Bullshitter” differs from “Liar” is a TIL for me… I never really thought about it before, but the description here is spot on.

Watching the credits for Super Metroid for the first time.

That end card probably stayed on my tv for for like an hour while I just sat there.

implying people read nutritional labels closely.

There is nothing more fucking annoying to me than some of the portion size bullshit on packages. Like, when I have a bowl of fruit loops, I’m going to have a bowl, not a tablespoon*. Either give me the whole fucking package worth of calories (which… seriously some people need) or at least be realistic with portion sizes. I know it’s an estimate, but I’m pretty sure companies love to make their crap sound better than it is by giving the minimum.

Edit: * - I call out fruit loops but I haven’t actually looked them in a long time now, so my example is not real world. As someone paying attention to this across a lot of different products though, it’s been really grinding my gears and I needed to rant. XD

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Hearty chuckle

Or they made their seasonal change from their summers to winters, and if, like me, you have separate rims so you can easily do it at home, you now get to drive around with the car whining about no tpms. Because fucking cars can’t have this as built in diagnostic functionality in these giant computers on wheels.

When I have time I’ll pop over to a shop that can reprogram them to the second set, but it’s not exactly priority numero uno.

Is this a real book? It looks delightful, and possibly needs to be on my daughters bookshelf!

I suspect more than a few of us are feeling called out with this comment.

A lot of comments on here saying “but X is better”. Y’all are missing the point though. These “better technologies” are not being used in the creative and fun ways that flash was - not to the scale that we saw in peak Newgrounds/HomestarRunner era. It goes to show that no one company should ever control tools and the stuff our works are built upon. A lesson we, as a society, sure struggle to learn.

Don’t get me wrong, my rose tinted glasses aren’t all the way on. I remember critical infrastructure systems developed in flash of all fucking things.

But a very real piece of the creative internet died with flash. Maybe it’s a coincidence, and it’s the corpo-sites we all congregate around now to blame. I don’t know. Peak internet was 2000-2010 and I’ll stake my flag on that hill - don’t @ me.

Just like 50x100’s are usually more like 40x90’s, or something even more insane - 39x86? Like I’m sorry, but the unit of measurement is NOT the problem, it’s the centuries old “traditions” and “standards” to normalize dimensional lumber that are the problem.

At any rate, one should look at the names of boards as the ratio of their dimensions and leave the inches and mm out of it and it starts to make more sense.

Uhuh, ex-excuse me? I believe you have my stapler. Taking it was not very nice.

_{I-I, um, I am now going to set the building on fire.}

I can’t recall another game with a free roam camera that gave lore to their camera. You control two characters at the same time!

My head canon is that Lakitu is the camera operator in all Nintendo games to this day.

Might be something you can do on Switch 2 pro controller with GL/GR at least?

I can’t speak for BOTW but the remap capability in the NSO Classics is such a massive improvement that I’m finally playing N64 games on it.

I kind of hold out hope that maybe maybe it’s a sign Nintendo is finally pulling it’s head from its ass when it comes to letting us change controls.