Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

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  • Microsoft has a responsibility to support decades-old software, which is why you can download an app or game made for Windows 95 and still run it on Windows 11.

    Eh, debatable, some titles of the 90s might not run, even if you set the executable to run in compatibility mode.

    My other concern is that WinUI surfaces have historically paid a cold-start cost when loading the runtime. Even today, File Explorer’s WinUI context menu gets criticized for exactly that. The WinUI-based Home tab in File Explorer is slower than “This PC,” which does not use WinUI.

    M$ wondering why people are pinching their noses when near w11 when they’ve been slopping all over it. Release something broken, “fix” it later, only this is going way, way worse than XP (which needed 2 service packs to “feel good” and be safer), Vista (which needed W7) and even 8 (which needed W10)



  • As someone with a bit over 800h in Palworld, fuck Nintendo and their shitty attitude to Pocket Pair.

    I like Nintendo’s games, but I never in my life bought one legally, since they completely pulled out of Brazil after the N64. NES and SNES were gray market items, while the GameCube nobody really cared about, since the PS2 completely dominated the market. The Wii was similarly a gray market item.




  • It’s one of the biggest reasons Xbox is on life support right now.

    The series of terrible decisions began with the X1: “You can watch netflix! You can watch youtube! You can’t share or sell your games! Kinect is mandatory for us to monitor you 24/7!” - M$ made the perfect advertisement for the PS4. Their complete lack of creativity with console naming didn’t help either, it was worse than Wii -> WiiU. Xbox One ~> Xbox One S/X -> Xbox Series S/X

    Then there’s M$ buying several big studios and having no fucking clue how to best use them. Everyone who saw how they treated Rare knew that was coming.

    Alos, because they’re a corporate first company, everything that “works” for M$Office ends up being applied to everything else. No more ownership, only subscription renting! Going all in on subs (xbox live) meant they had to widen their market, so increasing reach to PC and other consoles was the best option for increasing subscribers. That they didn’t care at all about how that’d hurt their own fucking specialized gaming hardware was no surprise.

    What I’m actually surprised is that they haven’t rammed Copilot into any of their games or Xbox subscriptions yet.









  • If you want to feel like a big, stompy, slow robot, there aren’t many choices besides Mechwarrior 5. Armored Core also features big robots, but they’re considerably more agile - they’re gundams, if you will.

    Vox Machinae seems to be very close in spirit to Mechwarrior style. Also supports VR.

    Front Mission games are turn based tactical RPGs and you can customize your mechs a lot.

    EDF (Earth Defense Force) 4, 5 and 6 has some mechs you can bring and pilot in some missions, though it’s not the focus of the game.