Iirc moonie also quoted legal statue and stuff on his video but was rebuked my Karl as well

Yeah, that’s why I’m planning to look into whether that was a screw up or not, thanks for the link too.

I’m familiar with HBG but it’s always good to mention him.

Yes, it is insane. That case is also a great showcase of how trying to make example out of a single guy doesn’t really work since, as you mentioned, rest of the team is still doing their thing.

I’d like to think (well, hope anyway) that no one looks at Bowser’s story and thinks “yeah, that’s a reasonable conclusion”.

Oh no, I completely agree no one should be completely screwed over piracy. Just wanted to add some context as I saw a lot of discussion about him ending with “poor innocent dude” without digging into details. That’s all.

Nintendo has a lot of problems that should absolutely be called out. I hope me trying to add more details didn’t imply otherwise.

No idea, I’m only familiar with some of his videos so can’t say one way or another. Is there any place I could read about it?

Edit: Also, I believe the video I mentioned has links to specific legal documents surrounding this case so it should be easy to fact check. Still, I’m not trying to whitewash the situation you wrote about would love to learn more if it happened.

Edit 2: A’ight, while I didn’t have time for a deep dive I did manage to confirm that situation happened.

I sucks since the videos I’ve seen seemed reasonably researched and now I’m wondering whether that was a one-time screw up or a normal thing that simply wasn’t caught more often. Guess I’ll try to look into it more when I’m free.

As much as I dislike Nintendo and wish Yuzu devs all the best I’d like to point out that Bowser wasn’t some innocent guy who was caught by big bad company - Moonie has a video that goes into specifics about his involvement with a pirate enterprise worth a shitton of money.

Other than that yeah, I hope they can survive this situation. I wonder if Ryujinx devs are next.

I’d agree about P3R if not for the fact that despite remaking the game Atlus still couldn’t be bothered to make a definitive edition of P3.

Besides that, you could also argue P3P doesn’t really belong here due to being available on Steam but the question was about our favorite games played on an emulator and PSP version is what I’m playing right as I’m typing this :P

Parasite Eve is great, isn’t it? I wish we got more RPGs like this set in modern times.

I don’t expect anything will come out this but I really appreciate Ross trying to give it an honest shot. I can’t help since I don’t own the game but I can at least cheer from the sidelines an lend my power for a spirit bomb.

Go Ross Go!

I’ve been using emulation pretty much since I started playing games. It’s actually one of the main reasons gaming became my passion (and eventually major money drain).

My favorite thing? I don’t have to shuffle different devices to play everything I want - it’s even more importent now, since I have a Steam Deck and can have all of them on the go again.

Here’s a short list of titles I love that don’t show up too often in threads like this one:

• Tetris DX (GBC / mGBA)
• Fantasy Golf Pangya (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Persona 3 Portable (PSP / PPSSPP) - just started NG+ with female protagonist
• Puzzle Quest - Challenge of the Warlords (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Ridge Racer 2 (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Parasite EVE (PSX / DuckStation)
• Captain Toad Tresure Tracker (Switch / Yuzu)

I’m not going to dump my whole library here but these are fun and rare enough worth mention.

I checked out the demo and you can actually select one of the few speed settings in the options menu. Some of them felt pretty fast but I’m not an expert on racers so you might want to check out the demo to see if any of them gets close to what you’re looking for.

Just wanted to mention that just like with any other F2P games, there are gacha titles that are fun without paying anything. Not as many as the predatory kind but still.

My point is that however you feel about microtransactions they are successful and that’s why they’re so common.

With subscription services you and me can think “I want to own it and play whenever” but a lot (not only casual) players see it as “I pay a few $ and get access to a huge library of games I can try out for the next month”.

As I wrote initially, just because more dedicated audience doesn’t like the direction industry is moving in doesn’t mean majority will care enough to stop it.

As much as I agree with his sentiment, this title is bullshit - he never wrote “gamers don’t want subscriptions” but that they shouldn’t want that due to where it might lead.

“Gamers” aren’t some hivemind entity that wants a specific thing. Many people don’t worry whether an idea pushed by the publishers will have a long term negative effect on the industry, they just want to have fun with their hobby.

Look at microtransactions - there’s a lot of negative discussion about them and yet they bring huge amounts of money, who’s to say if the same won’t happen with subscription services? We might not like it but majority doesn’t necessarily care.

Sorry for being pedantic about a title but third-parties changing someone’s words is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.

There are also these two sites:

• Lemmy Community-Browser
• Lemmy Explorer

I looked around and apparently it’s not that bad - his term ends in 2025 (elections are to be held in May at the latest) so he’ll be there for about half of new government’s tenance.

Still not great but there’s a chance for at least some time without sabotage from the other side. Here’s hoping they make it count.

Besides already mentioned methods there’s also Lemmy Community-Browser.

It has a search bar and ability to toggle specific instances in case you want to avoid some of them. A bit simpler version of Lemmy Explorer mentioned by @DogMuffins.

I guess it depends on your motivation for said project.

Do you enjoy the process of working on the project? Do you use it to learn new things and improve the skills required for it? Or all you care about is the end project?

If it’s the last one I can see why you could get discouraged but if it’s the other two then not really.

If I work on something specific I do it because I want to create this thing using my skills, experience and ideas. I also try to do as much of it as I can on my own, without using other’s people assets etc. For me, the work I put in is an important of the process and each step towards completion makes me a little proud and happy that I can create something.

At the same time I’m a weirdo who tends to use less efficient methods if they aren’t as fun to use when working on personal projects. I don’t really care about using AI in the first place so that might skew my view a bit.

There’s also the fact that AI isn’t omnipotent. It makes mistakes just like us and I’d rather fix my own mistakes since this way I know what I did, how I did it and where to look when things go wrong.

Sorry for the word salad. Your post gave me a reason to spew some unfiltered thoughts about an issue I never really thought about.

Why do we need lemmy and kbin? Why do we need various linux distros? Why do we need different office suites?

Having a choice is always a positive, more so if those alternatives are compatible like various activity pub projects.

I don’t have an up to date feature comparison between Mastodon and Misskey but some of the things that differentiated the latter were:

• better threading
• improved markdown support (animated, also could render LaTeX formatting if I’m recall correctly)
• calendar
• drive
• emoji reactions (this replaces “likes” for example)
• trends
• tips for newcomers

Keep in mind, these are from few years ago so some things may have been changed or added to Mastodon (I’m not too familiar with Twitter like projects in general).

There’s also already mentioned focus on Japanese audience - some of it comes down to features (I feel like western social media aren’t as… animated? as Asian or at least Japanese ones), as well as culture (I think this picture of one of the tips is a good start.

I’m sure someone more familiar with both can come up with a better comparison but I think that the main point of just having an option is the most valid one.