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Nintendo cuts Switch sales forecast as the wait for new hardware continues
  • Nintendo is estimating that about 12.5 million Switches will be sold in 2024. Previously, Nintendo predicted that the Switch would sell 13.5 million for the year. That means that the demand for the Switch is dropping off a bit faster than they expected but it is still selling.

  • Discussion: People who use Kagi search don't understand how does Kagi work.
  • If they have a great meta-search algorithm, users would be able to search without an account and see how great the results are. Then, when a user wants to personalize ranking and block sites, they can create an account.

    I always assumed that they make you create an account to track search usage and cut you off once you hit the free tier limit.

  • After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller
  • Uncharted and Last of Us are first party Sony games. If they were to say that a game can still be enjoyable without cutting edge graphics no one would want to buy the latest PlayStation iteration.

  • Crafty unpowered device raises the roof on bike storage
  • Great for people who have flat eight foot ceilings in their garage.

  • It seems like a difficult language to learn
  • Polish is a Slavic language written out using Latin letters.

  • GAME THREAD Tuesday 22-10-2024 Season Opening Night
  • Maybe, but I could see the Celtics falling short due to lack of size. Even when everyone is healthy, the Celtics front court tends to be one big player and two small forwards. Not that they have much of a choice since their two best bigs are Horford, who is too old to play for long stretches, and Porzingis, who is injury prone. In the playoffs last year, the Celtics struggled to contain dominant bigs like Bam.

  • The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing
  • How is Nintendo using emulators news? All the virtual console games and "Classic" systems run an emulator. It would not be too surprising if Nintendo ported their in-house emulator to run on Windows.

  • Nintendo playtesting mystery new Switch Online feature this month with up to 10K people (Sign up link in description)
  • It probably means that they are going to keep using the Switch Online backend for their next console. Why throw away working friends lists and online matchmaking?

  • Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world
  • Or it is news about the publisher of a popular (outside of the hobby) game.

  • Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world
  • According to them, they registered a Super PAC to run this promotion. As a Super PAC, they were able to buy data about voters (did the voter vote in the last election and, separately, predicted party affiliation based on profiling).

  • Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world
  • How does the Musk part work? Musk launched a petition to pledge support for guns and free speech (I think that is what it is about, I did not read it nor understand how that is a petition). To AstroTurf support for the petition, he set up a referral code system. If you get a voter in a key state to sign the petition and say that you told the voter to sign, Musk's Super PAC will pay you $47.

    Getting people to sign Musk's petition feels a bit wrong, even if the money is going to what CAH thinks is a good cause.

  • Cards Against Humanity continue to bring good into the world

    cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14072409

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    What are your favourite coffee table 2p games?
  • My wife and I like Dairyman. It is a light push-your-luck dice game with a drop of engine building.

  • Raptors to retire VC's number
  • Why do you dislike Carter so much? What did he do to hurt the team?

  • Rockets buying out AJ Griffin, retiring from basketball at 21
  • I don't follow teams outside of my local, so what is the story with Griffin? From a quick Google, I don't see anything about a debilitating injury or serious off the court issues, just that he struggled to find a role in the NBA. Normally, I would expect a guy like that to spend the rest of his rookie contract as a bench warmer or playing in the G League and then turning his experience practicing with NBA stars into a career in a less competitive league.

  • “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs
  • Are there any good lists of known AI user agents? Ideally in a dependency repo so my server can get the latest values when the list is updated.

  • With Seattle and Las Vegas coming, what western team should join the east?
  • I would say both New Orleans and Memphis should be in the East, since the US regions, as I learned them in school, would say both of those are in the Southeast while, for historical reasons, Minnesota is in the Midwest. Obviously, that would make the conferences unbalanced, so we could move Milwaukee or Chicago into the West.

  • Wouldn't this mean that a majority of patients that need this are unable to buy it? Meaning that there's less customers? Just a thought
  • If they sell you pay $5 for the drug and the next person in line pays $2k for the same drug, they are making $1k per patient. They are also writing off the $3k that they could be charging you as a charitable contribution, so they don't have to pay taxes on the income. They hope that if they keep you alive, some day you will make enough money to pay full retail price.

  • Switch 2 Rumors Are Hitting A Fever Pitch
  • Woah, I don't want to post for that beefy of a GPU. (I am joking, if that is not clear)

    Really, most games I am interested in are JRPGs, adventure games, 2D platformers, top-down action games, and other genres that work fine with rather simple graphics. A game does not need pretty visuals to be fun.

    I recognize that I am in the minority and most people want 3-D graphics in their games.

  • Switch 2 Rumors Are Hitting A Fever Pitch
  • Do they? I thought they replace stick drift joycons for free. I guess it depends on how many people take advantage of that vs. buying a new set of controllers.

  • FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported
  • It would be a nice gesture, but I will believe those promises of support when they have teeth to them.

    What happens if they stop doing it? Do I have to sue them for breach of contract, have to prove actual damages, and settle the class action lawsuit for $5 in store credit?

    What happens if the company goes bankrupt or creates a new subsidiary to service the product and the subsidiary folds?

    What level of support are they obligated to provide? What issues must be fixed and how promptly?

  • Looking to upgrade my GPU

    During the pandemic, I rebuilt my computer but with GPU prices being insanely inflated, I decided to limp along with my old GPU (a GeForce GTX 760). The issue is that I have a 4k monitor and my current card can barely handle my desktop, never mind a game.

    I have heard that prices are coming back down to a sane level, so I am looking for part suggestions. I am not looking to play new games or ultra high settings, but I would want to at least be able to handle older/indie games, on medium settings, at a steady 30 FPS.

    Current parts: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DhFPy4

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    App to organize work notes (OSX)

    I am looking for a note talking app to keep work notes in. My requirements are:

    • Allow hierarchical organization of notes (like project1, project1/build, project1/configure) and easy to navigate to different notes.
    • Allow basic formatting (heading, code block).
    • Run locally
    • (Optionally) Have a table of contents for quick navigation

    Obsidian looked promising and had the additional benefit of storing notes in Markdown format for easy export. Unfortunately, I would need to buy a commercial license in order to store work-related information.

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    Accessory maker MobaPad says that Switch 2 will accept Switch cartridges and extra Joy-Con buttons

    arstechnica.com Report suggests Switch 2 can play all original Switch games

    New Joy-con buttons, 1080p screen also feature in MobaPad's "first-hand information."

    Report suggests Switch 2 can play all original Switch games

    MobaPad is a Switch controller and game case maker (that I have never heard of), so they should have reliable info. They said that:

    • The Switch 2 will have physical cartridges and the slot will also be able to accept Switch 1 games.
    • There will be a new button on the back of each Joy-Con, behind the triggers.
    • There will be a new button on the right Joy-Con, by the Home button.
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    Any good April Fools jokes out there?

    Are there any good April Fools jokes today? For example, a few years ago Google announced a sewage based ISP (i.e. flush some fiber optic cable down the toilet and they would fish it out and connect it).

    The only one I have come across is IGN article about the Nintendo Virtual Boy Pro.

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    newsletter.bijanstephen.blog lateral thinking with withered technology

    I've been thinking about Gunpei Yokoi a lot lately. Before his tragic death in 1997, Yokoi was a game designer at Nintendo — one of the first, in fact. For them, he created the Game & Watch, the Virtual Boy, and the original Game Boy; over in games, he produced games like

    lateral thinking with withered technology

    TL;DR: The author asserts that Nintendo is able to be so creative because they retain employees long term rather than hiring and firing like other game developers.

    Some excerpts that I found interesting:

    > All of the designers of the original Super Mario Bros. on the original Nintendo Entertainment System are credited designers on Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

    > Back in 2013, the late Satoru Iwata — the former president of Nintendo — said this at a shareholder meeting: > > "If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease, and I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world."

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    Has anyone ever shopped at Gate Play?

    Has anyone ever shopped at the online store Gate Play? I have never heard of them.

    I saw an out of print expansion being sold below MSRP and wanted to see if anyone knew if the site was a scam. I am going to pay by credit card and read the terms of service, but don't want to have to bother with charge backs if I am not their first victim.

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    What gifts are you getting for your friends and family members?

    Share your gift ideas, because I am a bit stumped.

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    Are there clients that allow switching accounts without losing my place?

    Are there any Lemmy clients that allow me to quick change accounts and return back to the last community or post that I was looking at? Ideally, one that has an Android app version.

    This matters to me because whenever I see any discussion of instances degenerating or having uptime issues, the go to answer is to create accounts on several servers. It is also good to allow me to have several distinct "identies" (for example a professional one, a hobby one, a local one).

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    Subscribing to a KBin magazine from Lemmy

    From what I understand, KBin can import a Lemmy Community as a Magazine. Is the inverse also possible? Can I subscribe to a KBin magazine in Lemmy?

    I want to subscribe to @[email protected], but [email protected] returns no search results on https://lemmy.world/ .

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