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Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:28PM (#50309009)
As much as it pains me to say that, the same could be said about mobile gaming. In fact, I am pretty sure a lot of countries did not have access to Nintendo hardware but they can now enjoy gaming thanks to their phone.
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:02AM (#50260426)
I wish I could be like you, because going back to 60Hz feels like everything is stuttering for me.
Re:Jailbreaking the Switch 2 on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:50AM (#50195336)
I am dumbfounded on why Nintendo still allowed a game that allows to run a full coding language, one that already led to an exploit on the 3DS.
Climate change that keep getting worse, rising political extremism, the wealth gap getting bigger and bigger, I can keep going but you get the point. You just have to open any news media once really.
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:16PM (#49998898)
Will Smith eating spaghetti is the OG benchmark
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:45AM (#49991984)
It will probably happen once the new Pokémon game releases. The most dedicated players really want their hacked monsters.
Re:LLM Ass Bench on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:02PM (#49808798)
Because it is ass.
Plenty of people are happy to surrender their freedom for a feeling of security.
That exist, kinda. Android gaming handhelds have mobile SoC and also active cooling. See Ayn and Retroid devices. Their (almost) throttle free is a very nice experience.
It did, look at the game Suck Up or a variety of Skyrim mods. Problem is gamers are hostile to any obvious trace of IA in their games. Also, consumer hardware is overall too weak to run a convincing llm model.
Re:The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:48AM (#49179388)
EA being voted as the worst company has always been funny to me. The world would be a far better place if it was indeed the case.
Re:GCC steering committee announces AI policy on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:28AM (#49109093)
Lwn.net is the last place I would have expected prophets to lecture us on gods plan for large language models.
It is a red water business, and no one will ever want to switch off from multiple years of game investment.
Re:The World's Most Complex Machine on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:08PM (#47938188)
WDYM? IDK, LGTM.
It reminds me of the US army and their fabulous idea to open a Twitch channel. Went as well as you expect.
Roblox commercialized that excitement. Kids now work directly for them and pretty much for free.
Re:Show HN: Wildex – we built Pokémon Go for real wildlife on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:51AM (#47047467)
"No officer, I am just using this AR-15 as a walking stick. A gun is neutral isn't it?"
Re:Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:36AM (#46957344)
Accuracy isn't always the point of video game emulators since gaming experience is a subjective thing. Most of old games were crippled by the limitations of the hardware their run on. Inaccuracies can very much improve the experience, like removing sprite limits, displaying wider aspect ratios or in this case improving sound interpolation.
Re:Claude's New Constitution on Thursday January 22, 2026 @11:01AM (#46721027)
We just have to define what an "error" is first, good luck with that.
Re:JPEG XL Demo Page on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @12:46PM (#46708896)
Considering "jpeg" has become the shorthand for "digital picture", it would be a shame not to capitalise on it.
GTA6 is most likely the most anticipated cultural product of all times. Unfortunately, sensationalization makes perfect sense from news websites perspective.
Multiple reasons : IA pushback, better gaming experience, Linux becoming more and more mainstream with distro like Bazzite and CachyOS.
Country specific subs aren't better either. They slowly changed from comfy places to talk about laid back topics to a full on brigaded cesspool where only the most polarizing opinion thrive.
Because ad blocking isn't provided by default in Firefox. It isn't as opinionated as Brave, for the better and the worse.
Those games are a grain of sand in the infinite desert that is the indie game world. The vast majority of indie games on Steam are barely even noticed by anyone.
Huh huh, he could have just said "PRs are welcome" then. This is a window manager, no need to be weird by being this specific.
Re:Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable on Thursday November 20, 2025 @03:57AM (#45990526)
It is when those anticheats gatekeep the most popular PC games. For most gamers, they can't compromise on what they play and there is still a very large amount of potential games that would forbid a switch to another OS. See : https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Thank god not every post has to look like a LinkedIn story.
Re:Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark on Sunday November 02, 2025 @02:54PM (#45792902)
You over estimate the will/knowledge of everyday people to do anything else than buy a branded PC, install Steam and be done with it.
Little known fact, the original DS touch screen is pressure sensitive. I don't know of any games using this feature, but the Colors homebrew does use it! So the DS was a fairly convenient digital art machine for its time.

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