Anthony D. Green @ThatVBGuy

I'm not saying that every concept in it is wrong but the ux has never felt acceptable to me. The problem in tech is that whenever you complain about the arcane ux of something people are quick to explain how it's impossible to make it better and that wanting better is a sign of weakness, ignorance, lack of skill, encourages bad habits, and that like The Matrix you just have to git gud and learn visualize the code.

So my dad has been ending every phone call with "stay dangerous" instead of "goodbye" for like six months now. We all thought he was just being a weird dad. Turns out he's been mishearing the ending of a podcast he listens to. The host says "stay curious" but my dad is slightly deaf in one ear. He's been going around telling his coworkers, my grandmother, and apparently his DOCTOR to "stay dangerous" this entire time. My mom only found out because his doctor called to check if everything was okay at home. My dad has now decided he likes his version better and refuses to stop. Yesterday he told a nun to stay dangerous.

No. If you want physical media to stay alive, lobby your government rather than hoping businesses get it through sales numbers. "A company selling intellectual property/software or a license thereto within , who chooses to sell a physical item in a storefront as a means of purchasing the same, must make a physical media containing the COMPLETE and functional binary data of the software available for purchase whether at the same location or directly from the manufacturer, by the consumer even if the consumer must pay a reasonable material and shipping cost above MSRP for said media. Software must remain fit for purpose in a disconnected state (offline) in perpetuity to reasonable expectation, and must remain compatible with future updates distributed online." i.e. If you sell me a game key card or a product key or code in a box in a store your business MUST make it reasonably possible for me to buy a physical copy of that software (or e.g. film) from you somehow, even if directly from you and for a reasonable added cost, and you can't do anything to handicap such a copy compared to the direct download or otherwise disable functionality which a reasonable person would expect to continue working offline for the duration of ownership. You have a right to demand your governments create and enforce rules for your protection from corporate interests or lack thereof. Right to Repair, Implied Warranty of Mercantibility, Right to be Forgotten, Right to Own Your Data, etc. We do not form governments so they can NOT promote our general welfare. We're not paying them to be f-ing powerless. We literally make the rules. The rule for interstate commerce, the rules for how old you have to be to buy alcohol, the rule for returning defective cars, the rules for trading stock with insider knowledge, the rules of how much interests a lender can charge, etc. All this stuff is sh*t we decide to make up because we think it's a good idea and we can do that at any time.

An Average Gamer - N @AnAverageGamerX

16 hours ago

If you want physical media to stay alive, then you have one hell of a responsibility this holiday season: Go out and buy The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake for the Nintendo Switch 2

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"I trust you understand your duty." This scene from Age of Calamity might be my favorite & made me like the king more than I had in BotW. I love the writing! Link & Rhoam share an understanding without words that Zelda isn't privy to. This story was so good to be non-canon 😔 I thought of it because it's a version of the events right before the path you've posted and really sets it up well, emotionally.

@SuperZeldaGirl A Link Between Futures! Ship it!

Anyone else ever run a cat5/6 cable around their house to make a makeshift indoor clothes line? ✋🏿

@Kumesicles It's fun being a little scared in a 3D Zelda game for a short period of time. I think folks are fond of those moments like a rollercoaster.

@turtlesoupy It's weird that I had this muted but heard the correct music in my head for the level. I guess that music gives "wtf?" the best.

@Symply_rhoda1 If the date of Men had been true 😞

I've been open to that but if Fi's foot gets blown off and takes on a life of its own it shouldn't look like an every dude that's ever shaked her hand. I know there could be an in-universe explanation, I just would prefer if we didn't need one. Link wasn't in the game, I would have preferred they not try to cheat him in. And I'm more interested in seeing more Fi than Link-lites.

While I have been interested in this title (bought on Switch 1 but dropped it) and would gladly pay a reasonable upgrade price, it is simply inconceivable that I would ever buy this at full price. And I have it digitally so I can't even sell to GameStop. It's nothing personal, every company that doesn't provide a discounted upgrade option for Switch 2 versions of titles with less performance Switch 1 ports or cloud versions is wrong. Not maybe wrong, full-blown wrong. People took a chance on your product when they maybe had cause to be hesitant. You took a business risk to put something out there to get sales and customers were grateful enough for the consideration that we supported you and in recognition for that early-adopter goodwill, you show 0 acknowledgement of that consumer relation. And it's ok to say you don't encourage that kind of parasocial relationship with your customers. You're a business, it's just numbers. Just understand that the state of your business should then be treated with the exact same lack of concern on our part.

@moripoyo_art I also got to Kakariko with about 80 seeds and also didn't know what to do with them. I take it you travel by climbing the mountain tops and avoid a lot of combat?

My problem with this conversation is that there's no 40-year future in anything. Certainly not enough anythings for a population of billions to plan around and certainly nothing that I would advise a 4th grader to think about with the assumption that in 12 years that will be lucrative. The answer isn't to pick another ephemeral lifeboat, it's to figure out how we transcend this millennia old model. In 20 years maybe there's no future in prompt engineering. Then what will people do? We're not on this Earth to strategize our entire 75 years of life around correctly guessing about market demand decades in the future to ensure we have adequate housing and healthcare. If you're picking preschools for your kids based on what the Nvidia CEO says "we'll" need in the 2050s so they won't be poor we've already fucked up to the max. tl;dr there is no "future" in anything other than growing your own tomatoes. It will always be beneficial to you to grow your own tomatoes. You will never regret being able to do so.

alex 🕊️ 🦖 @dove_of_babylon

4 days ago

hey guys did you know software engineers don't like it when you tell them there's no future in software engineering

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@davidfowl Everywhere I've gone it's been unpleasant.

I've beaten it on both Switch and Wii and it's my 3rd favorite after OoT and MM. I used motion on Wii but my joints aren't up for it now so I just finished with button controls. My only complaint about button controls is that using the right stick for camera requires holding down L. But since I got my Switch 2 Pro Controller, I just map that to GR and it's fairly easy. I still **really** wish @Tantalus_Games @tantalusmedia would patch it to let right-stick default to camera and only control the Sword when Z-targeting (when you can't move the camera anyway). I think this would make it more accessible to players used to dual-analog. My muscle memory always confuses me switching from and to other games 😢 What part made you drop off?

@0xPrajwal_ The set of scenarios for application software is many times over larger than that of system software. Almost anyone can have a reason to make a website. A miniscule portion of the population is opinionated about writing a kernel. How would someone just decide to do those things?

Ocarina of Time has my favorite fast-travel system, especially in the Zelda franchise. Nintendo should bring back region-specific magical music-based fast travel in future titles.

Pota Norimaki @BasedPota18

5 days ago

Lowkey fast travel systems in open world games become funny to me when I consider that the main gimmick is “explore the world”, but they also give you the ability to actively skip the main gimmick of the genre Not a complaint just kinda funny to me

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@Kumesicles I remember how completely off guard I was for that finisher. Like the brutality of it in this game like, "wtf did I just watch!?"