I’m both dumber and smarter than anyone realises. Saying things that lead to „told you so” is like going through motions now.
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US only has 25% of all Patriot missile interceptors needed for Pentagon’s military plans
(www.theguardian.com)
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Nintendo addresses Switch 2 price, supply versus demand, and Game-Key Card concerns
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
I’ve been hanging around here for over a year, I know the vibe. Also autism and great pattern recognition.
Who picked that live service market, Sony?
I’m not really convincing that guy since I doubt he debates in good faith. He represents American brand of libertarianism - think Elon Musk simps. Old school libertarians like Adam Smith recognised that a free market doesn’t exist without state regulation.
At this point I’m just exposing how childish that American libertarianism is although it seems to be very popular amongst gamers and this community in particular. I don’t mind being inconvenient to people and I know it makes people pause since those mass downvotes say more about them than about me.
Approach to monopolies is a political thing and that was as free market approach as you can get. Guy self described himself as anarchist in the next comment so I was right to label him that.
Not sure how US domestic cell phone carrier and phone reseller is world news.
What the fuck does economics have with idpol.
Why should anyone care.
N64/GC sure (if you’re okay with letterboxed screen) although not the most efficient use of battery. Switch is debatable since compatibility is not there and won’t improve anytime soon. With DS/3DS you must be joking, it’s a different form factor entirely.
Do yourself a favour and get a DS Lite and a flashcart, they’re dirt cheap and it’s just super convenient device. I’d say the same for 3DS but they are ridiculously expensive these days for some reason, glad I got mine years ago. Some games really utilised that 3D screen for spatial puzzles and such (like Mario 3D Land), not really easy to reproduce so that’s a bummer.
This hasn’t been possible for years now unfortunately. I mean, you can extract all the certs you want with Lockpick but they won’t get you anywhere. It’s been like 7 years since then so I don’t recall the name of the tool that was used for downloading stuff. Could have been this.
Back in Wii U / 3DS days Nintendo didn’t protect their CDNs at all, no authentication. It was quite funny on 3DS because if you bought something on eShop it was stored as a small file on your end so you could just copy those „ticket” files and then go to eShop and have an experience like a paying customer.
When Nintendo finally realised they blocked comms from non-Nintendo devices but you could still extract a cert and use it to authenticate. Most people used shared ones because it was assumed they’d be burned sooner or later. When those shared certs became harder to get I tried using my own assuming they get burned because so many people used them. I was wrong and burned mine too very quickly.
Steam Machines ran Linux so you were limited to Steam and couple of odd ports pretty much. It was definitely too early and most just installed Windows I think. Mine’s a home server to this day, I love that little gamer coffin (Asus GR6).
There’s much more variety on Windows so this is pretty cool. I think the biggest unanswered question is whether Microsoft pulls off running Xbox games on those.