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  • They wouldn't need "free" water, electricity, or go to Israel for a job if they had autonomy.

  • Yeah, that's the craziest thing. EU citizenship means you have freedom to be in any EU country. There is no "deporting" a citizen of the EU if you're a country in the EU.

    Yet here we are...

  • Which is why CFWs and emulators are shared there. Just not the games.

  • Bottle of water. Wash with hand.

  • Hmm... I've heard a few things about Sonic All-Stars too. Guess I should give it a shot.

    Would be cool if Crash Nitro Kart isn't still a PlayStation exclusive...

  • There are also resources on emulation. Generally speaking, if it's about console hacking, rom hacking, custom roms, homebrew, and general technical stuff, GBATemp is the place for it.

    A lot of people that develop CFWs, emulators, or homebrew hang out on that forum.

    However, be advised; the only reason why that forum is even alive after all these decades is because they're not allowed to directly link to pirated software.

  • Can't wait to wait 2 years and then pirate it.

    But besides that; are there any good PC kart racers?

    (Emphasis on "good", because I already know about Super Tux Kart, used to play it a lot more than 10 years ago, but today it feels very... Clunky and dated).

  • My dude, with a tital and description like that, you should've seen the innuendo coming from all the way in Proxima Centauri.

  • You can download and keep the installers forever in your personal storage somewhere, and install them without the need of Internet connection.

    When you buy a game from GOG you're buying without DRM and have all the installers available to download as backups. Regardless of what the fine print may say, this is effectively owning your games forever.

  • Yup. Install either Heroic or Lutris (though Heroic is a little better). I think there's also a plugin to allow you to access Heroic through the Steam frintend, but in Desktop Mode, when installing a game through Heroic, it'll add it to your Steam library, which means you can access it in Game Mode too.

  • For the past 20 years that also included fun gimmicks. They sometimes fail, as with the Wii U, or were good but... Kinda just a gimmick, like the 3DS. But Nintendo has been making their consoles pretty unique from every other console. The DS format and the Wii are still very unique consoles. The Switch 2... Not so much...

    I don't doubt the Switch 2 will see success, but how it'll stand out from everything else like the Switch originally did is still a question.

  • That first part really resonates because I experienced the DS lite. I didn't see many phat NDS consoles, but kids everywhere had a DS lite. Mariokart did insanely well on that console, but not just because it was Mariokart, but also because of the download play feature.

    It seems like Nintendo wants to replicate something like that through it's virtual game card sharing feature. But it also seems like it's a feature on the original Switch, so I wonder what new things they've planned.

    I too will be surprised if the Switch 2 does better than the Switch. The 3DS, arguably the real sequel to the NDS, as opposed to the DSi, didn't really touch the same highs that the DS lite did.

  • I'm honestly curious is the Switch 2 will follow in that success.

    Credit where credit is due; lots of kickstarters and small private companies have tried making something like the Switch for years, but very few people knew or cared about them. Then Nintendo pulls it off, which leads to the Steam Deck, which then compells a whole market to spring up for similar format devices.

    Now there is a market, with competition from all sides, and Valve seems to be the one most are talking about for this format. Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?

  • Maybe that's the point. You begin the video, the host says "Hello, and welcome!", then you immediately stop the video having just watched 15 seconds.

    "That was a pretty interesting Nintendo Direct!"

  • Careful with Denmark. Our immigration laws have become pretty strict. We're also a pretty tiny country.

  • The only one that sounds good to me, perhaps, are the voting rights. I'd pay for that. Patreon artists and creators do this sort of thing, and if this is something GOG needs to do to get by, then fine by me.

    Downloading offline installers/backups, however... That would be locking away a feature that exists now to everyone that has bought a game. That means locking away a feature from customers who have spent money on a product already... Likely for the explicit point of being able to get installers that don't need an online connection. If they choose to do this, they'd be desfeting their own purpose.

    For context; I bought most of my games on GOG. I don't really buy games anymore, and my Steam library is low absolutely massive, however. Both of those reasons are because I've been subbed to Humble Monthly for a few years. But ultimately when I go looking to buy a game, my preference is to buy from GOG specifically because it's offline and DRM free.

  • Got a Wooting keyboard. Comes with a Linux app. Pretty good keyboard. Can't complain.

  • Well... Yes. But I never used limewire because our Internet was so shit it'd take 25 minutes just to load in a Web page entirely made of just text.