It's just fishing. For every 10 users that notice the deceptive "free trial then bills per week" model, there's a guy who doesn't notice until he's been charged $15 and cancels. And for every ten of that guy, there's a guy that doesn't notice for a month, and for every ten of that guy there's the rare whale who looks at their $700/mo "google bill" and goes yeah that sounds about right.
There's also just the naming problem. Social media works best when its name sounds like a place and its verbs sound like normal actions. Mastodon is a three syllable elephant (or a metal band), versus a sky or a book (note: this isn't a hard and fast rule, since Twitter and Instagram pulled it off). And they call their posts toots. Officially, too, unlike the user-made meme of "Skeets". Toots are farts. No politician or business professional is going to say "retoot" with a straight face.
If you block somebody that quote posts you on Bluesky, their quote post no longer has your post in it or anything pointing to you. You also can straight up delete people's replies to your posts there. Hopefully Masto's iteration on QRTs works similarly, though people always have the option to "screenshot dunk" instead.
Genie's out of the bottle now though. The casual-attracting features needed to be in place before twitter exploded. They weren't. Bluesky's were. Casuals don't care about what-ifs or principles, it's a miracle Musk let Twitter get so terrible that the casuals even noticed. It'll take a monumental event now to get the casuals to switch again from the blueskys they just made and got invested in.
This is just an SBC with production value though. Devices like the Odin 2 can already "serve as anything from a game controller to a media player to a penetration testing tool" since all you have to do to claim that is run Linux or Android.
Nice that this one's got hardware ports on it other than USB-C though. No adapter squid.
Tell that to the Gamecube and Wii U eras. Funny that those are also all-time peaks for game quality, Nintendo is better at making video games when they're struggling.
"Official Sonic games" run the gamut from Sonic 2 to Sonic Boom/'06. It's kind of the poster child for a franchise that is an unstoppable media juggernaut that has beloved all-time classic games... and some absolute garbage games.
There's also just grammatical stuff that looks better in text. "In the future, it's player driven" would conversationally flow perfectly well, but as written text the tense of "it's" doesn't line up with the statement being about the future. Hence the present tense being corrected to future tense.
Krafton seems to be attempting to diversify with this purchase and also the purchase of Unknown Worlds. We'll see how many enshittification mandates they force on their studios when Subnautica 2 hits early access this year (it's already confirmed to have online multiplayer so eyebrows are raised)
the game is a slot machine. It's a purely aesthetic slot machine (zero ads, zero MTX, zero premium currency, zero paid DLC), but it turns out "does it look like casino gambling" is the concern, not "is it actually something that you can ruin your life over because it preys on gambling addiction"
It looks like the dev is just gonna sigh and accept the garbage "age rating" system, and let LBAL stay on the store as a "mature 18+ audiences only" app.
Reddit was like that for ages before they implemented i.redd.it and v.redd.it. it's the whole reason Imgur even exists, Reddit wouldn't let you "upload an image" and would only aggregate comments and upvotes for links to external content.
That said, this Plebbit project raises more red flags than a Danish standing army.
Miyoo also doesn't have portmaster. Not sure about Moonlight.
The most "future-proof" sort of SBC game device would probably be an Android based one like the Odin, since Android software at least pretends to be consistent.
PEGI is a joke, but it's a consistent joke. Any gameplay that looks like playing a casino game is consistently "simulated gambling" and an instant 18+. PEGI is why the Pokémon series stopped putting Game Corners in after gen 4, even though Pokémon's "slot machines" were timing-based skill challenges.
I never connected mine to wifi, you can actually get everything needed for portmaster set up on your PC! Hopefully your four year old doesn't get too frustrated with the RG35XX "not turning on".
Native 4k output instead of a crappy upscaler or a RetroTink which costs more alone than this Analogue product. N64's native composite is laggy and hideous on a flatscreen TV, you need something like this or a retrotink or a CRT to make the games look good. Even if the Analogue couldn't play ROMs off an SD card (it can, if Analogue's previous products are any indication), you could just stick a Summercart in it.
I personally am a ride-or-die CRT player for my retro consoles, but big CRTs are getting rarer and living rooms less accommodating. And N64's library has a ton of absolutely killer party games that are best experienced on a big TV with your friends, not a dark retro cave on a 20" CRT the way SNES RPGs are. If someone I knew wanted to go a "step past" emulation, I'd absolutely recommended this thing as the second shopping list priority. In order (imo):
Real N64, Real CRT, Summercart/ED64X7 (most authentic, and also cheapest if and only if you can source a CRT that fits your needs)
Analogue 3D, HDTV they already have
Real N64, RetroTink, Summercart/ED64X7 (more expensive than option 2 even if they already have the console and summercart lol)
Real N64, RetroTink or CRT, buying real copies of games at jacked-up collector prices
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It's just fishing. For every 10 users that notice the deceptive "free trial then bills per week" model, there's a guy who doesn't notice until he's been charged $15 and cancels. And for every ten of that guy, there's a guy that doesn't notice for a month, and for every ten of that guy there's the rare whale who looks at their $700/mo "google bill" and goes yeah that sounds about right.