You can get it repaired. There are lots of places online that can do it, and there are probably some repair shops near you that can too. It might be some small part that’s causing the whole issue, so it’s worth checking out.

Day 500! Awesome! Thank you for posting all of these. I rarely comment, but I do love seeing them. :)

I mean if you run on an operating system, you’re not really serious about anti cheat. You should require all of your players to buy your own hardware that is sealed in a titanium box. They should have to give a blood sample before each session, and they should have to be completely surrounded by webcams the entire time. Better yet, have them report to their nearest prison’s solitary confinement wing for a 100% monitored play session.

Let’s get actually serious about anti cheat.

A non-insignificant portion of my life has been spent enjoying code that she wrote and games that she developed. Rest in peace.

Yes, but that’s a different sale. My point is it can still be considered a loss leader if they sell it at cost. It took them many millions to develop it, so overall they would be losing money on the hardware sales.

That’s as opposed to something like Costco’s hot dogs. There was no R&D there, so if they sold it at cost, I wouldn’t consider it a loss leader.

Even if they sell at cost, they’re losing money because of the R&D costs.

He has stated as much, so, yeah.

Turn based RPGs would be good. You could use the controller one handed. Especially things made for game boy, since there aren’t a lot of buttons.

I couldn’t imagine how EA games could be worse, but then that’s why I’m not in charge. Good job, new owners, on finding a novel way to suck more.

Zero? Come now. Be honest. It cost you more than you paid for it. That’s negative return.

Yeah, I don’t know why anyone cares about the Switch 1 prices. They make no sense where they are.

Used isn’t exactly the same as refurbished, but even a new unit is still cheaper than a Switch 2, more versatile, has more games, and isn’t locked into any ecosystem. You get a lot more value with a Steam Deck, and like you said, for $50 less.

Refurbished.

Ah, ok. Well then this is probably moot anyway. There’s a huge second hand market for the Switch 1.

We’re talking about the Switch 2.

Sure, the deck can go up in price, but it would have to go up a lot to even reach the Switch’s current price. The Switch was already way more than I’d be willing to pay to get locked into Nintendo’s ecosystem.

Oh no. I’ll have to continue to use my Steam Deck even harder now.

Minecraft is substantially farther along in terms of gameplay, mechanics, details, etc. than Luanti. You will probably have more fun playing Minecraft.

That being said, Luanti is free and also pretty fun.

So my advice is if you only want to play one, play Minecraft. But if you want to, play both.

I get not liking a game about SA and incest, but how about just not play that game?

Sounds like a pretty good life.

You’re probably holding your controller wrong.

That does make sense considering every other developed country has free healthcare and literally 100% of their young men spend every waking hour playing video games.

Cool. I’ll just be over here happily playing my Steam Deck.

Play it just to sabotage my own teammates.

Back when I wrote my own start menu replacement (for Windows XP), it worked by turning itself transparent and not responding to mouse input. When you clicked the start button, it would turn itself back to opaque and start responding to mouse input. This meant it opened in maybe 32 milliseconds if it was being particularly slow and took two frames to open instead of one.

Lolwut? They made the Start Menu with JavaScript? Who are they, me?

I’d be willing to pay that. But honestly, I’ll probably wait until it’s on sale.

HDMI and a mouse, maybe?

I was on the fence about Switch 2, leaning toward not getting one. This just solidified that position. No way I’m paying for something that charges for the instruction manual.

New GPUs don’t work on Linux? Where did you get that idea from?

I got ahead of the game a little bit by switching to Linux in 2008.

Fantastic! I’m buying this right now. This is such a great middle finger to the bigots complaining about anything that isn’t exactly like them.

How long until someone fucks it?

I mean, they didn’t try making a good game store.

This guy is such a dickhead.

We knew they would get dumber after ingesting their own slop, so…

Is this from Hello: The Mister Chef Collective?

What the fuck is that picture? Jesus Christ. I didn’t know body horror applied to robots too.

Even if it’s relevant and well written, if its agenda is something like “white race is best race” or “trans people are insane”, then I don’t care, it’s shit. Then again, people who think that don’t usually make good art. Some have in the past, like JK Rowling, but what has she done lately? She’s a has been.

Other DEI heavy games like LoL, that have been wildly successful for years.