People always give shit to MadCatz but they had the sturdiest 64 controllers. All the first party ones would last maybe 2 or 3 games of Mario Party or WWF Smackdown. The MadCatz we had was the GOAT for games that required spinning the stick a lot. But I hated how extra THICC they were. Made them a bitch to hold.

I’ve played an Atari Jaguar before. Those controllers were fucking awful.

The 64 controller is a close contender, although it’s hard to give it shit when it was from when 3D first started being a thing and nobody really figured shit out. But I mean, it should have been a no brainer to not design it so you’d need 3 hands to comfortably use all the inputs.

If you mean specific brands and what not; I can’t even remember all the garbage 3rd party things I’ve used throughout my life. Not good enough or terrible enough to even remember.

I remember when the go-to search term was “warez.”

I still don’t know if that was supposed to be pronounced like “wares” or “war-ehz.” 🤔

Give 'em an occular pat down.

I pirate games to demo them. If I like them, I buy them legit. If I don’t like them, I don’t even play more than an hour and delete them.

It’s the only medium I’ve done this… If I am pirating a movie or a TV show, it’s either old and not able to be purchased or only available on Paramount+ which is absolute garbage and doesn’t work 90% of the time I have tried to use it.

PCVR.

Even if I’m playing a regular non-VR game, I like playing it in a VR environment so I can have a bigger screen than my biggest display IRL. I spend a lot of time in VRChat on the native Quest app while using a 2D remote desktop app that runs in the menu overlay to play Elden Ring.

Hell yeah for Duskers! I was sold on it like 2 minutes into a 12 minute review just on the basis of its uniqueness.

When I think “space game” I usually have a specific genre in mind and Mass Effect isn’t it. You don’t even do anything in space unless you count the hub area since it’s your spaceship. For Starfield to be an honorable mention but Elite completely devoid from the list has dealt me near lethal psychic damage. 😩

I just learned about “gaussian splats” and it was the first thing I thought of that might be useful for generating a 3D model that could be converted to a hologram because it specifically uses distance data of reflections to generate the model and how that model fills a volume.

But industry experts have pointed out that businesses with limited Java use would have to license the software per employee under the latest model

Yikes.

I’ve played so much Punch-Out, I tend to think of it more like a puzzle game. Especially Super Punch-Out since your opponents don’t even seem to randomize their patterns like they do in the original NES one. 😅

Shadow Boxer maybe. It’s an arcade boxing game with the same kind of format as Punch-Out but not as easy.

If you want something a little more realistic, there’s Undisputed; a Fight Night clone currently in early access on Steam. But it’s not remotely like Punch-Out other than being a boxing game.

Afaik, it’s possible for any file to be infected with a virus. Videos themselves can be, and .MKV is a container of other files (video, audio, subtitles). The video source, audio source or even .txt containing the subtitles could be a malicious virus inside the container.

I have FBT using an old phone connected as a camera and some cardboard with QR tags printed on them. Works damn near flawlessly vs the built-in inside-out-tracking on the Q3. Now if I can just get a small little pen camera inside the headset to use eye tracking software I’d be set… 😅

Depends on when it was made. A modern, multi-game cabinet could run entirely on a Raspberry Pi and cost far less to build than a console.

Those things are complicated as fuck. An arcade cabinet is relatively simple compared to a pinball machine. Even modern ones still need all the moving parts for the board; video game just needs the computer, a controller and a screen.

I’ll finally get to play this \o/

Never had it when it was new, and playing the original on a modern machine (even with GOG’s version) doesn’t really work. Riven and Creatures 2 are the only GOG games that refuse to work for me, and it sucks because those are the two I have wanted to play the most, the longest since I knew of them as a kid, but never had them.

I fuckin’ love Myst’s lore. My favorite book of all time became The Book of Ti’ana because of it going into great detail about the height and fall of D’ni. I’ve even made models of the city in Minecraft based on the descriptions of it in that book.

Man, I can’t believe that site is still going. It was always my first choice for no-cds when games actually still came on CD/DVDs.

Go to rental place in the 90’s/2000’s

Rent things

Copy things

Return original - No harm | Return copy - ???

On the rare occasion it’s not on Spotify? Because it’s not on Spotify and I wanna hear it.