[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago

I don't understand. We just need to gather the dragon balls and he'll be back in time for dinner.

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago

Most are system-on-a-chip implementations with only okay compatibility. Color palettes will be slightly off or sounds will be a slightly wrong pitch, won't support all carts, etc.

Your best bet for playing your games on a modern screen is to get an FPGA based system, a top loader NES modded with HDMI output or simply use a cycle-accurate software emulator on a computer.

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I noticed yesterday on Steam that a game I was interested in had a much higher percentage of negative reviews from its Early Access days. Since there weren't enough votes overall to offset these negatives, it really hurt the game's overall score.

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

Yes. Because they don't have any familiarity with the way Linux desktops look and work, it all looks very much like the technology depicted in movies/shows/games that is very frequently a tool of a "hackerman" type character. That's even more true when a terminal enters play.

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 13 points 9 months ago

He got Pac-Man Fever and went on a murderous rampage

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much for your work! It's sorely needed.

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On March 28, 2022, U.S. federal judge Stephanos Bibas accepted a motion by investors Innovate 2 Corp., Continental General Insurance Company, and Leo Capital Holdings LLC to sue Motorsport Games in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. In the filing, the investors accuse four Motorsport Games executives of securities fraud, claiming that the executives provided misleading statistics to the remaining investors of 704Games about the company's financial situation and the sales performance of its main product, the NASCAR Heat franchise. The investors allege that the information they received allowed Motorsport Games to buy out the remaining shares of 704Games at a significant discount to what Motorsport Games offered at their IPO, at which point the NASCAR Heat series accounted for a majority of Motorsport Games' total net revenue, estimated at 99%. [48]

In November 2022, Motorsport Games received a notice of non-compliance with Nasdaq listing rules after its board of directors resigned over funding disputes. The company reported losses of $7.5 million against revenue of $1.2 million in the third quarter of 2022.[49]

In January 2023, Motorsport Games organised the fourth annual Le Mans virtual 24-hour endurance race, a parallel to the real-life 24 Hours of Le Mans event. The race took place in Motorsport Games' sim racing video game rFactor 2 and featured notable motorsport drivers such as Formula One World Champion Max Verstappen and former Formula One driver Romain Grosjean. The event was plagued with server issues and disconnections, and featured a lot of backlash from participants. Verstappen described the event as a "clown show"[50] and online content creator and participant Jimmy Broadbent stated that this would ultimately "damage sim racing"[51] as a medium. Several days after the event, an anonymous employee threatened to publicly leak the source code for NASCAR Heat 5, NASCAR 21: Ignition, KartKraft, and the unreleased IndyCar game unless unpaid wage payments were made.[52]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorsport_Games

Seems like a well-run company.

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Space. The 64gb micro already has little usable space for games, and hibernate requires that you write all of the contents in RAM to disk. Rather than fracture their feature set by model options, Valve instead decided not to bother with it (just guessing).

That, and as another person said, hibernate just hasn't enjoyed great support under Linux. There are definitely other issues that need to be fixed with the Deck, like the audio bug while docked and the need to disable half the CPU cores in order to have good emulation performance.

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

Social change comes in small steps more often than giant leaps. Unions are on the rise again, and this is the NLRB moving a step in that direction too.

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He should be fired out of a cannon and into a volcano

[-] PlasticExistence@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Canonical has completely torched my original opinion of them. I started with Red Had Linux back in the late 90s, but it wasn't until I could get a better-than-dialup Internet connection in the mid 2000s that I was able to finally dump Windows.

At that point, I was hearing a lot of good things about Ubuntu, so I gave it a go. Like most Linux users, I've distro hopped. I kept coming back to Ubuntu though. It was just so nice to have a polished Debian available out of the box.

Once they moved the default UI to Unity, I became less enchanted and would use the alternative releases instead. But then came the Amazon ads. And then Snaps and other not-so-hot choices. And now shit like this.

And IBM has destroyed Red Hat now too. Sigh.

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