Insomniac and Sony Santa Monica are honestly the best I’ve seen. God of War Ragnarok, Ratchet and Clank, and the newest Spider-Man games are fantastic accessibility-wise.

Without being specific, someone I care for deeply struggles with something very similar.

They managed to make playing Spider-Man 2 actually work for them, thanks to all the adaptive settings the game supports by default.

Still can’t believe that (spoiler for Astro Bot)

… :(

Already lost interest in Assassin’s Creed after they abandoned the Desmond timeline…

Played a tiny bit of the Black Flag one for the fun shanty stuff but that’s been it for me now for probably a decade… so all this has done has lowered my already completely evaporated interest of “apathy” down now to “actively avoid as if it were a virus.”

And Earthbound.

Excellent summary, but I think folks were sad because a bunch of us had tuned in hoping to see :

That first punch that landed on Paul’s face made him stop dancing around like an idiot… but yeah after 2 rounds it became just a war of attrition, where Tyson’s knees (which apparently were in a brace outside of the fight itself) just couldn’t hold up and let him close the gap and deliver any of his admittedly still-fierce punches.

I always thought “lollygag” was a southern speech idiom, like “piddling” or “dilly-dallying.”

There used to be stories (not sure how many were true) of him going to events like E3, Tokyo Game Show, Gamescom, and other developer-centric game conventions.

He also was a key figure / contributor in some old school PC adventure games like Indiana Jones from waaaaay back in the day.

I’d wait for one of these.

If it had all those features and was made with some real quality parts, I would gladly pay 500 bucks for it.

My friend do I have some exciting news for you…

https://youtu.be/2Tf342fIUVs

There is no perfect controller…

…But I do have a list of features I would want my perfect controller to have based off all the controllers that have ever been made :

• TMR joystick modules (successor to Hall effect sticks)
• adjustable tension springs and locking mechanism for varied stick cap types (Xbox Elite series 2 does most of this but uses magnetic caps which would interfere with the TMR sticks so ball bearing connections or other option would be preferable)
• 6 DOF / gyro sensors + infrared camera (Wii Motion Plus)
• Adaptive haptic triggers (PS5) which can be toggled to hair trigger mode via switches (Xbox Elite series 2)
• multi-touchpad on face (PS5)
• analog face buttons (DualShock 2 controller had this but only a few games utilized this… the best example was the PS2 era Metal Gear Solid games)
• customizable “per-button” color assignment / micro OLED or e-ink screens so button graphics can be swapped (PBTails new controller does the per button RGB color assignment)
• USB-C / 4 wired connectivity + charging
• baseplate contact-charging (PS5 controller has these so you can set them on charging docks)
• hot swappable battery pack + AA battery holder pack or ability to not have a battery on at all when connected via USB-C (Xbox 360 controller had this)
• swappable non-magnetic Zinc-alloy faceplates (PBTails new controller has these)
• removable back triggers with dedicated button assignments (like the Steam Deck’s L4/5 and R4/5 buttons; not just cloned face buttons like Sony and XBox do)
• integrated microphone with hardware toggle (PS5)
• proper “separate keys” d-pad… not the mushy type
• touch-sensitive surfaces for every button and stick (Meta / Oculus Quest controllers do this)
• per-finger-joint touch sensitive grips for each finger segment (Valve’s VR controllers did this)
• the ability to separate the halves of the controller so that each hand could hold one half independently and have them track similar to most standard VR controllers (think combining the switch controllers and Quest controllers)
• NFC communication (Amiibo-stuff for example)

If any single controller did even half of this, they’d easily be the GOAT.

As long as there are killer 1st party titles exclusive to a console platform, there’s a reason to buy one.

Personally, I love Zelda, Mario, and most recently I’ve been excited about the new Astro Bot game about to come out.

Outside of Steam Deck emulation, you need a console to play those, and I do enjoy the convenience.

The last Xbox worth buying was the 360, because all Xbox titles are released on other platforms now - eliminating the need for an Xbox console.

For those who don’t know…

Doesn’t seem to be working - I presume because Steam says those chat links are single-use, so once anyone here clicked it, it becomes invalid.

I think a private message with that same kind of link would work though. Messaging you now. 😅

Hello fellow gamers! Can I trouble any of you for an invite??? 😁😁😁

Now there’s a salute I’d work to unlock.

Yes… overall regular people cause about 1/5th of it…

…But like 57 companies do ALL the rest. Seems a lot more simple we just stop electing Rs and neo-libs, and get laws passed that stop the major contributors, rather than preach to people who - if asked to sacrifice more than they already do (and shouldn’t have to if we first just target the major contributors who can afford to sacrifice much more easily) - will be easier for reactionaries to preach to (for example, see what happened with the Carter administration asking for regular folks to “sacrifice” driving their cars then paving the way for Reagan to de-regulate further)

So both strategically and more effectively, we should target those companies with legislative efforts rather than shitting on Bon Jovi for telling people “let’s save the environment” right before he belts out another rendition of “It’s my life.”

We can do both… but focusing on making fun of hypocritical celebrities preaching about environmental issues as a way to do nothing but market their brand image, rather than pressing the cause for making far more impactful change… is like saying “I really need to go find some meds to help with this pain in my shoulder…” when your arm has just been cut off.

Yeah, the meds might help and we should focus on stopping pain as well… but it probably would be more prudent to focus first (or at least primarily) on immediately stopping yourself from bleeding out and dying from your arm just being cut off.

Prioritize the biggest and most impactful targets, and if you can manage, do the minor stuff as well.

Because it’s the “environment” flavor of this classic right-wing framing :

Just swap out “society” with “environment.”

The issue is the comic implies that a few celebrities who use private airplanes and busses contribute any significant percentage impact in the overall degree of pollution to the world writ-large…

…which is as silly as thinking making people use crappy paper straws will significantly impact plastic waste (when in reality, it instead has basically a negligible positive impact and instead provides easy ammunition to right-wing grifters who preach then how “they want to take away your good things to give you demonstrably eCo-FrIeNdLy alternatives!”)

In truth, the overwhelming majority percentage of pollution is caused by a handful of massive corporate actors… usually in pursuit of cheaper costs and exploiting labor… ie if a company makes a bunch of heavy stuff they have to send on a massive pollution spewing container ship across the Pacific because that company can pay a Chinese factory worker $0.02 a day, they will.

…But if we had things like international universal labor protections to keep companies from being able to exploit folks in 3rd world countries just to then ship goods producible within the native countries across oceans or penalties or carbon tax for having to ship goods on these massive cargo ships, it would provide incentive or punishment to stop the ACTUAL polluters responsible for the overwhelming majority of waste, pollution, etc.

So yeah… Facebook boomer💩.