Wheeljack

Sony made some significant changes between the PS4 and PS5 controllers. I don’t know the details beyond the dynamic resistance triggers, but if you buy a controller board to make your own fightstick, it’ll work with everything up through PS4 and then you need an additional daughter-board to make it work with the PS5.

I don’t really grok products like this.

If you have a fundamental disagreement with a platform, continuing to engage with it, even through a condom, is still perpetuating it. It’s maintaining that platform as still important and integral, and a place that others should continue to engage with. It’s telling advertisers that it’s still a place that’s worth their money to maintain a presence on. It stymies the momentum in shifting to an alternative; why put the effort into a new service if people are still seeing your posts?

It’s like pirating Windows instead of moving to a different OS. You’re still perpetuating the MS hegemony and telling software developers that Windows is the platform they need to develop for.

Seeing a game is Ubisoft makes it a total nonstarter. I refuse to have to have a separate account and be forced to log into it just to play a goddamn game.

Full agree. Get his product’s name as part of the general term and it’d confuse people into thinking it was the original.

I’ve never heard the term “threadiverse”. Where are you coming across it?

In OP’s situation where they’re downloading a car, I think it’s a safe assumption that the car has already been designed/engineered and OP is just printing it out and assembling it. This would be akin to a kit car, and modern kit cars certainly don’t require specialized engineering skills to assemble.

At it’s core, whatever system you implement is going to have four buckets:

• I need to see and deal with this immediately
• I need to see this immediately, but can deal with it later
• I need to see this at some point
• This is a complete waste of my time

When you set up filters/rules, it’s typically safer to err in putting something in a higher priority bucket.

Past that, it really depends on the email you receive. For mine, an easy differentiator is if I’m a direct recipient, just a CC, or if I’m getting it as a member of a group mailbox. I get a lot of automated notifications, and those are easy to sort based on source and subject line.

It seems rather ironic to make that post on a fediverse service.

Use Ubuntu until you have a first-hand reason why you should use something else.

It’s not perfect, but it’s still the 800 lb gorilla, and it’s what things have the least chance of not working with. It has the most eyes on it and the most immediate solutions when you google a problem.

If you don’t like Gnome, then use Kubuntu.

Six does look great. I really appreciate the Zangief redesign and how it takes him looking like a bodybuilder to looking like a strongman competitor. Hopefully they’ll be an analogue to Champion Edition so I can pick it up for a bit less and not have to pay extra for half the roster.

You could always try booting up a Live CD and testing it out. It’ll run a bit slower than a native install, but it’s a super-easy way to check things out.

Which is hilarious to me because how Linux handles application installations/updates though package management is so much easier than anything on the Microsoft side. No muss, no fuss, no chasing down dependencies, just “install X” and X is now cleanly installed on your system as well as everything it needs to run.

Wing Commander: Privateer.

I’ll never forget when I went over to my friend’s house and I couldn’t understand how the pirates weren’t attacking him. And then we loaded up my save (off a 3.5" floppy) and he couldn’t understand how the militia weren’t attacking me. It’s the first time we were ever exposed to factions that responded to your actions.

I sank so much time in that game. Never paid too much attention to the storyline, but I did have the fastest ship with highest-end targeting computer and a full load-out of the best weapons.

I assume by “realism” they’re talking about setting, not that those games are simulations of what it’s like to get shot at.

Interesting to me that this is getting such high reviews. I played through the demo and came away entirely uninterested in playing it any further. The story looks fantastic and I really enjoyed the world, but I felt like I was only in control of my character maybe a quarter of the time; the rest was all cutscenes, QTEs, or rail-shooter. When I was in control, it felt pretty shallow, either button mash, or button mash with correct enough timing to trigger parries/perfect blocks. It doesn’t look like a bad game, it’s just not something I’m interested in spending my time and money to play.

I’d LOVE to watch this as an anime.