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Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
The greatest—and most hilarious—political rebuttal I’ve ever read.
And yes, this is real. It’s a joint reply from the Tla’amin, Klahoose, K’ómoks and Homalco Nations over a local MP getting up in arms over First Nations land acknowledgements.
We need more “Chillax, Bud”.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
When my daughter was born, I made a commitment to her:
I would raise her to listen to vinyl.
At the time, I didn’t fully understand why I felt this was important. And certain people on the Internet said I was being cruel to my child for making her listen to my music. But it’s been 12 years of listening to vinyl almost every day of her life.
Through this experience, what I’ve come to understand is that this isn’t about music in and of itself. It’s actually about many things at once.
Having a time where we talk to each other. Sharing an experience. The ritual of holding the sleeve, touching the record, then carefully placing the needle to the groove.
But most of all, it’s about realizing that culture is often tactile, not ephemeral. And each record is a memory. A moment in her life.
Sometimes when she discovers her own music—gets excited about a band—I tell her, “Let’s go buy the vinyl”. Then we listen to it for a solid week. And we come away realizing this is a part of our lives.
And funny enough, this happens quite often. We’re sometimes in a supermarket, a tune comes on, and my kid goes, “Hey, I remember that song! We have that album! I was in grade 5 when we heard it!”
RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/898338bc-a1af-4e38-87ec-3f3d7a014905
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Physical media is making a comeback.
I’ve never stopped buying physical media. I still have all my CDs, DVDs, vinyl, cassette tapes, and cartridges. So I guess I’m ahead of the curve.
But I have a love/hate relationship with it.
On one hand, I have tremendous value looking at my shelf full of media. It says something about me and a little bit about my life. Not just my taste, but also what I aspire towards.
And there is something nice about using all of this on vintage electronics. Yesterday, I bought a VHS. I popped it into my VCR and watched it on my tube TV.
On the other hand, all this stuff takes up space. As time goes on, I find myself having to be more and more choosey about what I bring home. Sometimes I look at my stuff and go, “Do I really need this?”
Which is why I gave away five of my physical games to my local video game shop yesterday. I figured it was time for someone else to get joy out of it.
So as the younger generations think about acquiring more physical stuff, I keep thinking, “How do I keep only the stuff that truly means something to me?”
https://fstoppers.com/film/why-physical-media-making-comeback-among-younger-generations-722024
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
The R36S handheld console is so impressive!
I own Tetris on Game Boy. Playing on the original platform is a struggle. The original screen is muddy and lacks a backlight.
But on the R36S, it is a revelation. The display is crisp and vibrant. The music sings.
It looks similar to an original Game Boy. But it’s better. And for C$55, when it comes to gaming, this is the best bang for your buck.
RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/5ae6dbc9-d28e-4c23-ad54-57857f406056
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Xbox was never just a console. It was a defensive move.
Bill Gates saw Sony pushing PlayStation into the living room and understood the risk. If the console became the center of home computing, Windows lost strategic relevance. In 1999, Microsoft even tried to buy Nintendo to secure that ground and was rejected. Xbox was the fallback. Control the box under the TV or risk losing the OS on the desk.
The current reality is that there’s no “big 3” but a “big 4”. Valve, of course, being the 4th. And I mention this because, funny enough, Valve is a reaction to Microsoft.
Microsoft is an odd duck in that Xbox, the platform they put lots of effort in, lags behind its competitors. Windows, the platform they neglect, is the market leader in the PC gaming space but is slowly having its share eaten by Valve. And Valve, to add insult to injury, have successfully “consolized” PC gaming.
Interestingly, Gabe Newell had a huge hand in the popularity of Windows as a gaming platform, and Xbox indirectly, because he was the dude to discover Doom had a bigger install base than Windows 3.x. So he helped port Doom to Windows 95.
Ultimately, this is why I don’t think Microsoft can afford to abandon Xbox. Abandoning Xbox is not just abandoning console gaming. Because within Microsoft, Xbox serves a specific purpose.
Xbox keeps devs inside Microsoft’s ecosystem. It keeps DirectX as a gaming standard. It keeps Windows as the default gaming OS, and anchors Game Pass as a cross-platform service.
The reason I say Valve is Microsoft’s primary competitor—not Sony or Nintendo—because they control the default PC gaming storefront. And through this, they’ve introduced technology that directly threatens Microsoft:
Valve has reduced dependence on Windows.
The Steam Deck runs Linux. Proton allows Windows games to run without Windows. That is the first credible consumer-scale challenge to Windows as the default PC gaming layer. For decades, PC gaming meant Windows. Now it increasingly means Steam.
If Xbox disappears, Microsoft hasn’t just ceded the console market, but the PC market as well. Because without Xbox, Game Pass loses hardware leverage, DirectX weakens in relevance, and Steam becomes even more dominant. Potentially, it could mean devs optimize for SteamOS first, not Windows.
This directly harms Windows.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Oh my God! A new New Zealand Story is getting released tomorrow!
And apparently Commodore (remember them?) has had a hand in getting this on the market.
I’m not sure how I feel about the graphics, but I’m glad this old franchise is getting a sequel.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4193730/THE_NEWZEALAND_STORY_Untold_Adventure/
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Listen, I would love for Xbox to be spun off from Microsoft.
Microsoft demands 30% profit margins from Xbox. Which doesn’t make for good art. And it’s no surprise this is a big reason why they closed studios and laid off devs.
But Xbox is a really valuable brand amongst consumers. And what happens to Windows should Microsoft spin off their gaming division?
I, myself, stayed on Windows longer than I wanted to simply because of its stellar game library.
And gaming is important for Windows long-term survival because Valve is investing big time in Linux, and this has resulted in growth for Linux on the desktop.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-should-be-spun-off-from-microsoft-expert-says/1100-6538398/
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
The reason why I personally don’t play mobile games is because of Steam Link.
I have an RTX 3090 in my living room. I can stream games from my PC to my phone, play them at high settings, and it won’t kill my battery.
And I’m not the only one who’s opted for streaming PC games over playing native mobile games. This is becoming a big business for Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft.
RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/15513364-4cb4-49bf-be54-5ed910049850
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Why I think mobile gaming has stopped growing, and actually shrunk when you consider inflation:
Attention is limited – smartphones and tablets are the most generalist of generalist devices, which means mobile games compete with WhatsApp, TikTok, ChatGPT, etc.
Lack of games that incentivize deep attention – on PC and console, you have games that can keep you busy for hours, sometimes even days; and the biggest mobile games are momentary distractions, not immersive
Free-to-play is now nagware – you start a mobile game, then you’re peppered with ads, are always pushed for micro-transaction and loot crates, and sometimes you have to pay to win
Performance kills battery – technically, you could create a AAA title for mobile, but that would mean your smartphone dies within an hour or two—and it’s a bigger deal to have your smartphone run out of power than your laptop or SteamDeck
Live service market is saturated – this is true across the board even for PC and console, but it’s even more true for the mobile market where titles like Roblox reign supreme, and few people will stop playing Roblox to try something new
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
iPod Classic has a better library than Virtual Boy.
Right now, there’s a lot of nostalgia for the Virtual Boy. However, only 14 games were ever released on the Virtual Boy in North America, 22 worldwide. “
Meanwhile, no one thinks of iPod Classic as a gaming platform. And for good reason: the focus was on music.
However, 32 games were released for the iPod Classic. Many of them were quite good too.
So let’s compare Virtual Boy’s library to the iPod Classic’s library.
Virtual Boy:
iPod Classic:
The best game on Virtual Boy is Virtual Boy Wario Land. If there’s a reason to get a Virtual Boy, this is it.
However, the best game for iPod Classic is Phase. It’s a rhythm game that allows you to play music that’s stored on your iPod. And it’s made by the same devs that created Guitar Hero. Every song is a new custom challenge, delivering something unique.
Having experienced both Wario Land and Phase, I have to say that Phase is better.
Virtual Boy’s biggest genre was puzzlers, which included 3D Tetris, Panic Bomber, V-Tetris, and Virtual Lab. However, only 3D Tetris was released in North America.
Meanwhile, iPod Classic had Bejeweled, Peggle, and Zuma Deluxe. I believe these puzzlers are superior compared to what was on Virtual Boy.
What about RPGs? Virtual Boy has SD Gundam Dimension War, which was only released in Japan. Meanwhile, iPod Classic has Crystal Defenders, a spin-off of Final Fantasy developed by Square Enix. There’s also Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes, an iPod Classic exclusive likewise developed by Square Enix.
Galactic Pinball is well-liked on Virtual Boy. But I got far more enjoyment out of Mystery Mansion Pinball on iPod Classic.
I will admit that Virtual Boy has more and better sports games with Nester’s Funky Bowling, Mario’s Tennis, Virtual Fishing, among others. iPod Classic only has Real Soccer 2009 and The Sims Bowling.
Virtual Boy has no board games. Yet iPod Classic has board games with Chess & Backgammon Classics, Monopoly, and EA Mahjong.
Finally, Nintendo just officially released Zero Racers, a “lost” F-Zero spin-off. Since it just appeared this year, I’m not sure it counts. If we do, this is Virtual Boy’s only racing game.
iPod Classic has Asphalt 4: Elite Challenge and Pole Position: Remix.
So what’s the takeaway here? Platforms with branding often fall short. And platforms which we don’t regard as “gaming” systems often have stronger libraries than the ones branded for gaming.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Yesterday, SPACE INVADERS: Deck Commander was just delisted from Steam, which means you can no longer buy it—it’s gone forever.
Now I’m shocked because I’m a Space Invaders fan, and yet I have never heard of this game until it was gone. Apparently, I’m not the only one because the Steam page shows six reviews.
Development was started in 2024, was supposed to be released in 2025, yet never left Early Access. They were never able to attract enough funding to finish the game.
Unlike typical Space Invaders, this was not a straight up fixed screen shooter. Instead, it was a deck-building competitive card game. While a single player mode was available, they were advertising a PvP online mode.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3060310/view/521990850610203731?l=english
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
The Highguard situation is everything wrong with the games industry.
And by that, I mean the problem clearly wasn’t with the devs. They were genuinely doing their best.
The problem is the economics of the industry and the toxicity of so-called “gamers”.
This game took 2.5 years to make. From the moment it was announced at the Game Awards, they got a dogpile of hate—for a game that was unreleased and free-to-play. And within 16 days of its release, lay-offs ensued because 2.5K daily concurrent users is supposedly not enough to sustain devs.
I don’t understand why someone’s livelihood has to live or die based on the assumption it will pull in 100,000s of users instantly. I also don’t understand why gamers put so much energy into hate instead of celebrating the things they love.
Personally, I didn’t play Highguard because it’s unplayable on Linux. Oh well, there’s 1,000s more games for me to play. I’m not wanting for titles.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my fully-managed family Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I’m a proud husband and father.
