missingno

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Do remember that the vast majority of these kinds of patents never end up getting used, I doubt this one will be.

We learned this lesson from the early days of mobile gaming. Many games tried to emulate on-screen controllers, and it was pretty awful. Developers realized it was awful and shifted towards designing control schemes from the ground up with touchscreens in mind.

Though now that I say this, I suppose it's entirely possible that a controller like this could be used not to emulate or replace a DualShock, but as a peripheral that new kinds of games can be designed around. That feels even more unlikely though, I miss the glory days of games built around goofy peripherals (Boktai my beloved), but those days are so far behind us that I don't see them ever coming back.

  • Little Witch Academia - I think this is probably my top recommendation for this age group, and if she likes Sabrina then this is probably perfect too. Beautifully colorful art style.
  • Spy x Family - This one starts off leading you to think it's a high stakes action series, then bait-and-switches you into a wholesome sitcom about two bozos trying to be good parents to their adopted daughter. So maybe a little bit of Modern Family vibes, though much much sillier.
  • Teen Titans (original, not Go) - Definitely one to watch if she liked Avatar.
  • Bocchi the Rock! - This one might be a stretch because it's entirely dependent on whether she's alright with subtitles. If that's cool with her, watch Bocchi.

I begrudgingly put up with Puyo Puyo Tetris back when it was the only way to officially play Puyo Puyo in the west, but it is the worst thing that ever happened to the franchise. Only thing I hate more than the game itself is the impact it had on the series, because Sega has done nothing but lazily rehash it four times. It's been a full decade since the last proper main series game and there's still no word on when or if we'll ever get another.

on Homer (Simpson) · c/microblogmemes · 32 pts · 6d

We basically know nothing about who Homer was or whether he really wrote both stories. There are only a few survivng accounts about him, but they're all conflicting and could all be bogus.

Maybe he really did write both books. Maybe one but not the other. Maybe these stories were first passed down orally and he was just the first to write them down. Maybe he never existed at all.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/games · 1 pts · 6d

It's not a game I'm interested in to begin with, so it doesn't really matter to me what the price is. But if some of my favorite IPs could get new releases, especially if they had the same kind of budget GTA will, there are games I'd hypothetically spend that much money on if I could.

Nearly every cartridge-based system up to the 3DS saves to the cartridge. But many older cartridge games from that era (SNES, GBC, sometimes GBA) used volatile SRAM that needs to be constantly powered with an internal battery. When the battery dies, the save is wiped and it can no longer hold a save, though you can always open the cart up and replace the battery.

I got my degree in CS a decade ago, but wasn't able to get my foot in the door finding any entry level position in the field. Had to give up and work a shitty unrelated job elsewhere, but after letting it drain my my soul for too long I've spent all year searching again. But no matter how many resumes I fire out into the void I have yet to get as far as even a single interview. It still feels like my degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on. The only thing recruiters want is 5 years of experience in some technology that came out 2 years ago, and I can't get experience because I don't have experience.