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Re:Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:39PM (#22871805)
Ac,- Multiplayer is unpolished, and you can only have 1 main player. Also https://www.wired.com/story/animal-crossing-i-am-not-relaxed...

Botw is empty. Yes, large maps are common in 2020. Elder scrolls, assassin's Creed, and GTA come to mind as full but large worlds. Instead of walking to a destination, you'd often run into side quests.

I'm wondering if you've only Nintendo gamed and are just unaware.

Re:Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:53PM (#22870657)
>There's a level of polish that a lot of Nintendo games have.

I'm not sure what games you are referring to, unless you are talking about n64 and GameCube era.

Botw was empty and Animal crossing has huge problems. Not to mention the failures of Mario party.

Re:Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:25PM (#22869575)
I'm pretty objective since I've beaten every Zelda and I can't agree. Their games just aren't at the same level as anything modern.

They use a big marketing budget to push their otherwise medicore platform.

Although I think n64 was decent.

Re:Google cancels legacy Google Play Music subscriptions on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:39PM (#22868933)
No luck.

But I did make that python program to take photos. 64 images to scrape one day. I'm not too concerned of the difficulty of OCR, there's gotta be some libraries for it, especially on black and white text from a web page.

(I did OCR with cellphone pictures and it worked)

Re:Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:10PM (#22868521)
Classic Nintendo fan. Not enough content to satisfy, make your own entertainment.
Re:Google cancels legacy Google Play Music subscriptions on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:51PM (#22868261)
I've added Google to my Don't buy list.

It's - Apple, Samsung, Google

Re:Google cancels legacy Google Play Music subscriptions on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:50PM (#22868253)
Current plan is to write a Python script that takes screenshots every 1 second, and I'll tab through my huge playlist.

Then later I'll scrape those photos for text.

Re:Google cancels legacy Google Play Music subscriptions on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:38AM (#22865773)
Are they going to carry over my playlists?

I don't mind a price change, the government printed a lot of money. But I have hundreds of songs in a playlist.

Re:Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong on Monday April 13, 2020 @10:50PM (#22862302)
I could see indentured servitude being acceptable. Btw, is debt different?
Marketing is all powerful evil. Even if ads don't work.

Some companies are better than others. Instead of "buy my product" they teach consumers they look cool if they buy. We wouldn't be dealing with Apple's BS if people only cared about quality.

You make a good point.

Only thing I could think of is credentialing.

"elected officials call to close the warehouse"

How out of touch and uneducated are these people? Pandemics can't be stopped outside a vaccine. We are all going to catch it or be quarentined for 18 months.

Want to flatten the curve? I could go to Walmart and interface with 50 people to get ibuprofen, or I can interface with 1 worker?

We need to stop electing marketers and start electing people that understand math.

Re:“Mamma Desta” and Ethiopian food in the U.S on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:21PM (#22851432)
Is beef and chicken really available in quantities and prices deemed "affordable" in Ethiopia?

Beef seems like a luxury good here. Chicken may not be quite luxury, but it's more expensive than vegetarian.