missingno

missingno, 6 days ago

Is that you?

missingno, 19 days ago

Do not give Reddit money.

missingno, 19 days ago

Puyo Puyo. The three best games in the series were Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary, and Puyo Puyo Chronicle (25th in all but name). None of these games ever got released outside of Japan, but after the crossover did well overseas there were high hopes in the community we'd get a similar mainline game for the series' 30th anniversary.

I wrote a very long essay about how that didn't happen, and the state of the series ever since. And a more recent followup video on Sega's newest blunder.

missingno, 27 days ago

Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Ultimately Did the Right Thing

missingno, 29 days ago

Refusing to treat people with the barest minimum of respect is not a "personal opinion", it's behavior that no space should tolerate.

missingno, 1 month ago

Desktop audio streaming has never worked. Bug report has been outstanding since the beginning and Discord has just... never addressed it.

missingno, 1 month ago

I'm never not playing Skullgirls. Somehow still going, Marie DLC just dropped last week.

missingno, 1 month ago

While my 2021 essay did aim to be as thorough as I could in criticizing PPT itself, all of my criticism of the game is secondary to my greater criticism of how Sega handled the series afterward. I wonder if being too thorough may have caused that thesis to be lost in the woods, but I hope this video today hammers that point back home.

If Sega had followed up PPT1 with a full mainline game, using its commercial success as a jumping off point for the series to go onto bigger and better things, I wouldn't be so frustrated today. But instead of doing that... we got Apple Arcade.

missingno, 1 month ago

Yeah, the online being fake is appalling. Sega knew in advance that this game would be completely dead online, meaning no one's playing it. They knew what would happen and they took this deal anyway.

missingno, 1 month ago

What do you define as them "winning"? You can say that out and open neo-nazis will never make up a majority of the voting populace. But they don't need to be a majority to do real damage, and they shouldn't be ignored just because they're under 51%.

Look at everything that's been happening already. Trump. Bolsonaro. Brexit. The repeal of Roe v. Wade. The erosion of LGBT rights. These are real issues, and they will not go away if we close our eyes.

And outside of just legislation they pass, consider a more human perspective. Each and every impressionable person that gets suckered into their ideology, that they teach to hate, that's a tragedy already. We need to do everything we can to save people from hate.

missingno, 1 month ago

All of these issues absolutely are cause for concern. The more I read you trying to pretend they're not, the more I'm beginning to wonder if you're just a fash in disguise.

missingno, 1 month ago

Important point of clarification, the level isn't truly impossible, a TAS proves it's theoretically winnable. Bombs5 by the same author turns out to also have been TAS, but was beaten anyway.

The issue is that if the author themself couldn't do it humanly, then the community doesn't consider it legitimate. It's disqualified, the author even came out and said Team 0% should be declared victorious.

That said, several players are still grinding it anyway. They've come too far to stop now, consider it the optional postgame superboss so we can get the True Ending. And I really hope it happens.

missingno, 1 month ago

I'd been on the microblog side of Fedi for a while, when Reddit shat the bed I went to check out the link aggregator/forum. But it's a long way from ever being able to replace what I used Reddit for: communities for niche microinterests. And I'm not optimistic it'll ever get to that level. We have a slow moving frontpage for memes and world news but that's about it.

I still keep the tab open and poke my head into it from time to time, but I don't do much more than lurk because there's not much for me to see here. I'm still not going back to Reddit either, but that just means I'm a hermit living in a cave now.

missingno, 1 month ago

There were a lot of valid conversations to be had about journalistic integrity. Which made it all the more damning that Gamergate never once had any of these conversations, ever.

missingno, 2 months ago

What answer would have satisfied you? You started off aggressive and combative in the OP, then acted surprised when you were met in kind.

missingno, 3 months ago

Built a new desktop, backed up everything on my old laptop, next step was to format an Arch installer USB. Instead of formatting the USB, I formatted my laptop's /boot partition. No big loss since I had the backup and was done with that old toaster, but oops.

missingno, 4 months ago

I picked up a Miyoo Mini Plus earlier this year as an impulse buy, and ended up liking it enough that I regret not buying a higher end model with analog sticks. Still, don't know if it's worth trying to upgrade now - I'm waiting for the day we can get a full SteamOS device in this form factor.

missingno, 6 months ago

Youtube has a captive audience that isn't going anywhere. The platform is too big to die, and too expensive for any challenger to seriously threaten it. And the only users they stand to lose with this move are the users who are costing them money, they don't care if adblock users leave as long as they keep everyone else.

missingno, 6 months ago

I'm using Stream Cleaner on Twitch, still works. The cat has not won yet.

missingno, 6 months ago

I already have enough zillion-hour games to grind, I don't need every game to be that. As much as I love JRPGs I have a hard time setting aside time to finish one these days since I have too much else I also want to play.

missingno, 6 months ago

Pretty small patch overall, little bit underwhelmed.

Main weapon changes all look fine. I might give Hydra another go because I do like the kit, we'll see how impactful this is.

Curling bomb 70%->65%... why. This is the teensiest tiniest non-buff that won't help. At this point it just feels like they want half the subs in the game to be garbage, they'll never get meaningful buffs.

Zooka nerf, it's something. Still combos with itself, but you'll have to be quick enough for them to not heal, and it does reduce how easily it combos with other things. But IMO what Zooka needed more than anything else was startup frames. It needs to be less of a jumpscare.

What did Custom Dualie Squelchers do to deserve 210p?

missingno, 6 months ago

They would sooner go all-digital than eat the manufacturing costs of cartridges. The reason they're trying to wean us off of physical media is because digital is more profitable, they're not gonna give up even more of their margins.

missingno, 6 months ago

The biggest thing I want out of the Switch 2 is the ability to run Switch 1 games at a higher clock speed. Most of the games the Switch 2 should run have already been ported to Switch 1, poorly, and aren't likely to get re-ported. Instead I expect new Switch 2 ports will again be games the hardware can't handle, so I'd just like to forego those and catch up, hoping last-gen titles can hit stable framerates.