Well you’re clearly not 4 years old anyway.

There are many rules to friendship, and a good friend knows when they need to be broken.

Steam Deck verification includes things like text being legible and buttons showing up correctly in prompts and mapping, etc. For example, Civilization VI has a Linux native version but is not verified because some game text is too small, and it might require some typing using the virtual keyboard which may not pop up automatically when required.

Unless I’m looking at it wrong, it’s not print in place, it needs to be glued together. It looks like a 2-piece set for either side. To be printed in one piece, it would require non-removable supports.

Terminator II feels like it was the start of this trend. The big bad guy from the first movie returns, with the twist later revealed to be that this time he’s here to protect the main character. Only instead of a movie with a shocking twist, we got a trailer that reveals it instead.

Nobody was going into that movie thinking Arnold was the bad guy again.

Still winning gold medals in gymnastics at 27, when most gymnasts of that age have retired from the sport.

Is this really what’s considered a “great feature?”

Why do I need everyone to know I’m playing on my Steam Deck? I mean it’s not bad, but it seems more like a footnote than a feature.

Fry: As long as you don’t make me smell Uranus. Hahaha.
Leela: I don’t get it.
Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all…
Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.

Does it also have the power-limiting features?

columbo deserves a reboot

Nah, we don’t need everything we’re nostalgic for to be rehashed for the newer generation.

And because resources are finite, all else isn’t held equal. You’re giving up time spent working on gameplay or whatever to stick fancier graphic assets in.

That’s not how game design works. The people who work on the gameplay and level design and dialog are not the same people who work on the graphics. Sure, making the game prettier takes more time, but it has no effect on how long the rest of the game takes to be built. And lower-quality assets can be used in the interim for things like scripting animations, with higher quality assets swapped in later.

There are also arcade and Wii versions of Punch Out.

All the Linux updates, not the game updates. I don’t know if they’re all flatpak, but I have tons of them waiting to update

Hades II just sneakily dropped into Early Access on Steam.

What was sneaky about it? They had a technical test recently, and announced Early Access would be coming soon as they were shutting down the test period.

Crouching MK a is less committing poke. It’s faster and has more range, and has less recovery time. You can basically always chain it into a fireball, and if the kick hits, so does the fireball. If the kick is blocked, the fireball has to be blocked as well.

Use the fireballs alone at medium range. If they jump over, a quick dragon punch knocks them down. If they block, you get some chip damage in.

If you really want to get good, look up frame info for your character. It will let you know which attacks can be chained into each other, and which ones are easier or harder to punish.

I watched a guy riding a bike get doored by a car, flip over the door and land on his feet uninjured.

No, no, Microsoft cares about my privacy. I get a daily popup reminding me of this and also asking for me to share my private data with them.

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?

It’s not amazing, but as far as side-scrolling platformers go, it was fairly compelling.

Also the PSP can play PS1 games, so you have access to a pretty big library of classics.

We could certainly use legislation that prevents companies from calling it a buy/sell transaction when in reality it’s a license transaction. Purchases can’t be revoked or altered after the fact.

That’s what differentiates free games from free-to-play games. A free game gets you the entire experience for free. A FTP game gets you a barebones experience unless you spend money.

Big studios typically don’t release actual free games, obviously because there’s no money to be made that way.