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About as weird as calling Nihon “Japan”.

I miss my old Motorola Droid 2. I don’t need a thinner phone, give me that slider form factor.

This is the tricky part of representation, and it goes beyond just Barbie here. How do you represent an autistic character without just having them turn to the camera and tell the audience, “I, [character name], am officially and canonically autistic”? That often feels ham-fisted and shallow, pandering even, but anything less than that and you’ll have endless debates over whether a character that could be read as autistic-coded but never explicitly says it out loud counts or not.

Don’t ever be fooled into thinking corporations are your friend, or that anything they do doesn’t have selfish motives behind it. But we can acknowledge that being seen as a profitable demographic worth marketing to is… something. It is a sign of social progress.

Miyamoto says: If the player is not locked into a succession of inescapable and slowly plodding text boxes where they’re offered neither choices nor agency, it must mean they’re not sufficiently engaged!

What Miyamoto game is this describing? If anything I’d say he’s got a reputation for being anti-text.

Did you have a modded console? Without modification, the 10NES lockout chip prevents PAL cartridges from running on NTSC or vice versa. But it is possible to disable the chip to get around this.

The real point here is that they don’t have the ability to manufacture at the scale of the big three. It literally can’t be in direct competition.

I don’t think that’s had much of an impact when Nintendo sold more Switch 2s at launch than Valve has manufactured Steam Decks over its entire lifespan. The Steam Deck is still an enthusiast product for a niche crowd, and will likely never be in direct competition with the big three.

NES and SNES were region-locked. In addition to an actual lockout chip, they even had different cartridge shapes so you couldn’t physically fit Famicom or Super Famicom games.

Handhelds were not (until DSi and 3DS), but I specifically said home consoles.

It’s early and there aren’t a lot of heavy hitters yet. But for me, Kirby Air Riders alone was well worth it, I waited 22 years for this sequel and it delivered.

That was always the case for Nintendo’s home consoles, not like it was a new thing that started with the Wii. Switch was the first one to be region-free.

I’d already been on the microblogging side of Fedi for about a year prior, but the first time I saw Lemmy I thought it wasn’t really there yet, no critical mass. Then the API debacle happened and I decided to try out Kbin, later Mbin. Never looked back, even if this place can’t actually replace the kinds of niche communities I used Reddit for, I still refuse to go back to Reddit on principle.

• AI bubble doesn’t dramatically pop in the way people might be expecting, but much of the tech industry will become more and more of a disaster over time. Especially the job market. But they’ll keep insisting everything is normal and this isn’t a pop.
• Linux marketshare rises a full percentage point.
• A major assassination of a billionaire or politician. A much bigger incident than Brian Thompson or Charlie Kirk. With how much more venomous the political climate keeps becoming, I expect violence to escalate into something this severe.
• No consequences whatsoever for Donald Trump. Given his health there’s a small possibility he just dies though, but that’s the only possible way he ever leaves office.
• Frieren season 2 will be peak, and it’ll be the one little bit of joy to keep me going just a little longer.

Your Gamecube controller also isn’t Hall Effect.