Sounds like NoA is getting ahead of unionization efforts to outsource QA. It’s a lose lose situation!

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You mean no manageable workloads because they will be fired so we can have the studio just pick a style from a list instead of making any kind of artistic input wooo

How can we make anime look even generic than we’ve gotten today?! Oh, okay, generative ai! At least then, we won’t have to pay those dastardly animators to animate anime

yes, if you want a controller that will never exhibit drift you have to find one that specifically markets itself as using hall-effect joystick assemblies. all other controllers will (eventually) exhibit stick drift.

They aren’t spending the money to preserve film either. The best case is storing the film in salt mines, and that only slows the degradation. Film isn’t being digitally scanned unless there’s a uhd release to profit from it, and every week that it isn’t scanned, it degrades a little more

Nope. I really can’t get behind this thinking at all. “Generic” is not a term I would ever use for vanillaware titles. They put so much detail and thought into every brush stroke. It’s unreal.

The native apps are functionally webapps, they are not “native”. You should be able to tell that if you “work in mobile”.

A native ui wouldn’t have much or any impact on time to show your dashboard. But it would add an astronomical overhead to the development costs

I do believe the days of PlayStation and Xbox are probably numbered. Though atleast one or two more generations are still likey.

I’ve been reading this statement for the past 20 years.

Jellyfin is 90% plex, and it’s impressive how it comes forward in leaps and bounds, but it’s not better than plex. People just appreciate it more.

If you only need that 90% that it does (and don’t need things like intro detection, conversions, mobile sync, ass/sas subtitles), then you’ll come away super happy with not having to pay plex and not being locked into plex.

It doesn’t really do much over that 90%, it’s just neat that the 90% isn’t plex

Yeah, I think the ‘successors’ are still in dmca violation (at least one not sure about the other). But it’s still early days, anyway. Yuzu was successful because of the dedicated team behind it. Just setting up other repos doesn’t mean much yet. It’s gonna take months to see how things shake out.

But you can’t deny the potential chilling effect of it all. Nintendo has shown that they will come for you.

Honestly, anyone that was gonna emulate switch already knew, and nintendo has all their big hitters out of the way so isn’t going to be loosing much in terms of sales to piracy at this point. they just want a chilling effect for switch 2

Yeah, licensing fees are super high. Who knows what kind of battery life and displays we might have on our personal devices today if eink wasn’t so encumbered.

this is a fairly broad question, so I’ll ignore it and just use it as an excuse to bring up my three favourite ports of the past few years - which just happen to be M2 ported sega games

• Outrun: 60fps outrun on a nice display. Doesn’t have the cd arrangements of the saturn version but outrun doesn’t really need that, and man it’s just fun to play
• Virtua Racing: oooh geez, virtua racing has never looked this good before. silky smooth 60fps port running at HD. the game is still the same it ever was, nothing added. but it’s really a joy to play now
• Phantasy Star 1: it’s a shame the other games didn’t get the treatment the first one did, but the quality of life improvements make this the default choice for playing Phantasy Star now. dungeon mapping so you can figure out where you are without a guide and easy access to manual stuff, great time.

I’m gonna just preface this by saying Nintendo suck and I don’t agree with what they are doing.

But it’s worth understanding what is happening here, nintendo isn’t just throwing random legalize against the wall to find something that sticks. They are specifically going after yuzu via a fairly well tested part of the DMCA.

The DMCA allows them this, and if you don’t feel like nintendo or anyone else should get to dictate what device you play the games you own on, you should be looking into whatever you can do to pressure your representatives to add to the many exceptions of that dmca clause for this purpose.

Nothing glow-in-the-dark is anything that could be described as “bright.” What you probably want is something that is florescent under a blacklight. Someone probably makes something specifically for that, but otherwise, a lot of dyes are naturally florescent

The answer that the status service websites will tell you: we automatically detect outages by performing http requests and checking responses for errors

the actual answer: some overworked developer gets woken up at 3am via pagerduty and manually set the status website to an outage state

No. But not because of AI. There’s currently hundreds of thousands of out of work people surrounding tech. You’re competing with them for every job.

Even then, most of engineering isn’t in the nuts and bolts of putting it together. It’s in the endless discussions and decisions that lead to the nuts and bolts.