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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Been using this mouse for years. The scroll wheel is already spazzing out whenever I use it. Still, haven’t had any complaints about it other than that (except for needing iCue).

    I don’t need all the side buttons anymore though, so I may go for something simpler for my next mouse. Still, it was the best mouse I could find with that many inputs available to it.




  • Back when I was playing it, I believe it’d work just fine without the steamapi DLL if purchased through Steam.

    Plus, the modding scene is big enough that these days you can pretty much compile the PC version of the game from source, assuming you can find a suitably cleaned up decompiled version of it. (Do pay for a license if you go this route, it’s definitely worth the price.)

    No idea about the Switch port. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s harder to find though due to the Switch being more locked down in general.



  • Why would they stop working with Roblox? It’s the perfect platform for their execs to use when they’re looking to cheat on their SOs.

    Porn is too heavily regulated for them, so they don’t like it. To begin with, it has a minimum age requirement that’s much higher than Roblox.

    Payment processors (and any banks that are a part of it) can’t really be hated more than they already are. It’s amazing how much someone can fuck over society as a whole without any remorse. Narcissists and psychopaths I guess. I hope I see the companies cease to exist at some point during my life, and not be replaced with something worse (or equally as bad).


  • Is there any technical reason you couldn’t save a game with its license, in its entirety, to a SD card? Skip the cartridges, and if people want to resell, they can export their license + game files to a SD card and sell that instead.

    None of this seems to be an issue on PC. I can copy game files onto an external drive and load them on another PC. Even for games with DRM, it’s usually not an issue as long as any required software is installed and the game files are copied to the right location.

    For Nintendo’s DRM, export the license (unlink it from the account), then the other user can link the license to their account and use the files on the drive.



  • Do people just seriously not give a fuck and buy this ancient thing because of the exclusive games?

    This is pretty much true of all consoles. People play games, not consoles, and they’ll use whatever hardware they need to.

    I mean, I get it, nintendo are royal pieces of shit for locking all their games down inside of a captive platform. But that’s a great reason not to buy this shit.

    Again, universally true of consoles, though unlike Xbox where games have become more and more crossplatform, or PS where some games are getting licensed for PC ports, Nintendo’s head is so far up its own ass that it won’t even let you record gameplay without worrying about a DMCA.

    Fuck Nintendo, but for the same reason as Oracle: because they spend more on lawyers than the people who actually do the work creating something. Also, they could use some modern hardware for a change instead of always being multiple generations behind.


  • When you tariff them by over 100% of their value, they tend to cost more to import.

    My whole comment was on the tariffs specifically, and there is a 100% chance they affect sales in the US. Even with cost reductions in manufacturing over the total lifetime of the console, there’s no chance they cut costs enough to keep up with the tariffs, and there is no chance they planned for the tariffs to be this high in their planning.

    Outside the US? These tariffs aren’t applied, but raising the prices globally limits the impact of them on one of their largest markets since they can amortize the cost across all their markets instead of just one.