the16bitgamer

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Persona 5.

Wasn’t the biggest fan of RPGs but 5 is as easy as Chrono Trigger, with a cozy life sim and anime stapled ontop. A fun ride if you enjoy any of these. Though drop the difficulty to easy if you aren’t the biggest fan of RPGs

on End of an era? · c/gaming · 8 pts · 9d

Nah, PS3 was just like today. Just their arrogance bit them in the butt.

PS3 was $599USD and was made fun of for that. They had no games and just expected devs to come to them. Like they did with PS2. They didn’t see Xbox as a threat… until they were.

Difference was back then the 360 was competition. So Sony had to come back swinging.

They dropped the price (by loosing PS2 backward compatibility and streamlining the hardware), they paid out the nose for exclusives, from both their first party devs (uncharted, resistance, Infamous, LittleBigPlanet) but also the new and growing market of indi devs (Journey, PixelJunk Monsters, Patchwork Heroes).

It’s why the end of the gen, PS3 matches the sales of Xbox. And why when PS4 came out they moved must of the “greatest hits” over to PS4.

However their attitude remained, not learning from this. It doomed the Vita, and it’s hurting them now. Sony needs real competition, and while it’s there with PC. They don’t see it, just like with Xbox and I don’t they they will see it until it’s too late.

My watch face, eyeing it carefully for bugs. Paranoid I forgot something 🤣 (loving it though and happy I can get a Aqua color like in platinum)

The Time 2, loving it. Had the original time and it feels like it but smoother and faster. Time has moved on and I hope Pebble will make a more expensive one which has GPS for actual fitness tracking. But as a smartwatch, it’s crazy that no one else has made a superior product.

The Framework 13, best laptop I've ever gotten. Now I got it at a time when RAM and storage was cheap, so it was a lot cheaper than it is today. But even the base AMD machine is a beast when it comes to development and gaming. Not as good as a steam deck, but I don't think I have a need to upgrade for a long time.

I could write the watch face app in a day, their tutorials were clear enough for that. But holes started appearing for things like, how to utilize 1 or 2bit Palettes. How to implement a sprite sheet and select a character, and the formats which are being returned from Clay when you update the settings.

There are no guides, just example projects, which I could use and learn from. But man the LLM made it easier. Even when it was wrong, it gave me enough that I could go to the docs and say, oh that’s what that meant.

Compared to my previous watches.

Pebble Time: It's a significant improvement, but that was to be expected considering it's 10 years old. I love the larger display and the slimmer bezels are nice. The build is excellent, and I appear to not have gotten a defective unit, so it's solid. I put a 3D Printed Bezel on it for the glass, mostly since I wanted to add more color, and partially due to the hoopla about the cracked displays a small number of users are reporting. Currently I've only charged my watch once since it arrived to top it off, and I am only at 34% at 19 days in. It looks like I might get close to the promised 30 day battery life. But we'll see.

Garmin Fenix 6: I prefer to use my Garmin as my exercise tracker, especially with the GPS built it. The Pebble's battery life is equal since they both have transflective screens. But where the Pebble wins out is being a better watch. Day to day, it has better app support for watch features, like timers, and stop watches. Notifications read better on the Pebble, and on Android more options to respond to messages. I'm still going to use my garmin for bikes and other fitness stuff. But my Pebble Time 2 has outright replaced it at this point.

With that said, I find it hard to recommend a Pebble, if the idea of a Pebble hasn't already sold you. If you are looking for a fitness tracker you will be much better severed with a Garmin. But the tinkerability of Pebble, it's long life time (my original time did last 10 years), and the fact the entire eco system of Pebble, from the App to the website is now open source, I would recommend it, if this sounds nice to you.