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Replaying Sonic Adventure 2 was interesting, the sonic/shadow levels were still pretty great but the tails/eggman levels were way worse than my childhood memories led me to believe.

I've played most of that game, I would describe it as a creature collector with better combat and dark souls style world exploration. There's little to no highschool/persona content.

If you're playing GBA JRPGs, I'd like to recommend Golden Sun 1&2 as fantastic games.

I've been playing through Lost Judgement lately, and really enjoying it. I enjoy the Yakuza/LAD games in general, but I think Judgement/Lost Judgement really benefits from the gameplay additions for detective work. The game runs pretty well on Steam Deck too.

Also been playing through Doom Eternal again, which is always enjoyable. Playing with gyro aiming and flickstick for quick turning is a great way to play the game without a mouse.

I tried to figure out if this was real, and the closest I found was this article where setting a solid color background in windows 7 would cause up to a 30sec delay during login. The solution was apparently to make a small image in the color you wanted, and tile that image so that it would cover the whole desktop.

Here's a hackernews discussion on it, includes some other fun stories like how windows 95 progress bars would complete faster if you were wiggling the mouse the whole time.

The latest Valve Steam Console rumour with AMD RDNA4 can be safely ignored - here's why - Gamingonlinux article

I asked mistral/brave AI and got this response:

How Many Rs in Strawberry

The word "strawberry" contains three "r"s. This simple question has highlighted a limitation in large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 and Claude, which often incorrectly count the number of "r"s as two. The error stems from the way these models process text through a process called tokenization, where text is broken down into smaller units called tokens. These tokens do not always correspond directly to individual letters, leading to errors in counting specific letters within words.

There's also a "r" in the first half of the word, "straw", so it was completely skipping over that r and just focusing on the r's in the word "berry"

9/11/2001 was the end of attitudes of the 90s, so I think the peak would have had to been before that.

I have a strong suspicion that Trump is wanting to do things during his presidency to ensure he has a "legacy". He wants to have some big accomplishments that will make him standout more than some of the other presidents. Things like starting Space Force, wanting to add new states/territories/etc, I think it's all about wanting a bigger legacy.

Oh that's nice. I've used a script for nested desktop for years now, but I completely missed that they added an official app for launching it.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Specs Make Me Optimistic For Steam Deck Playability - Steam Deck HQ

Seems like there's hope.

Personally I'm hoping to see some better sales on the first Spider-Man game once 2 comes out. Right now the lowest I think it goes is about $30, but judging from God of War sales after Ragnarok released, I think that will come down to $15-20 after Spiderman 2 comes out.