The PS5 Pro is way overpriced and the regular PS5 doesn’t really have many exclusives over PS4 so it’s not a big surprise they can’t move consoles

I don’t have a single exclusive for PlayStation 5 that didn’t also come out on ps4. So idk, I’d probably say Astro Bot is PlayStation’s game

Playstation: we have one game

FTFY

The generation has been hell

I played this game all the way through without a guide about 3 years ago. It has NES jank but the only really frustrating parts are unlocking the dungeon with the flute and with the candle. Everything else had a hint to tell you how to find it or was just out in the open

The key was to write everything down. The dungeons are fine, it’s just the overworld that needs hints

Phil was probably the last thing keep Xbox from fully imploding. You could tell he was an actual gamer that cared about the Xbox as a games console and not whatever Frankenstein they are going to turn it into.

It’s sad but Xbox had a really good run. Xbox won’t exist beyond the next console generation, it may not even make it that far before it just becomes gamepass.

Seems kind of icky to immerse that young of a child into brands like that. I ended up letting my kids play Mario with me whenever they started showing interest in it which was around 3 or 4.

It’s probably harmless, lots of people buy apparel for their baby with their favorite sports team and such on it. I think I’m just so black pilled on capitalism that I can’t see it unbiased anymore. Sorry for a bummer politically adjacent rant on the Nintendo community…

I thought the steam deck would have been priced higher than it was as well, so I thought that they’d probably surprise us with a $600 machine. $800 made sense for the specs (Now I expect it to be $1000)

Once GPU prices super inflated 6 or 7 years ago, I got out of PC gaming for new titles. I built a top spec machine for $1200 in 2012 (when I had disposable income and no kids), that barely gets you an entry level today. I guess PC gaming, for new titles at least, will forever be out of my budget.

I was gonna upgrade when the steam machine came out but with the likely price hike taking it to $800+ I think I’ll just keep playing 20 year old Call of Duty: United Offensive

This will probably be unpopular but the leftist - liberal infighting is my least favorite part of the fediverse and why I usually end up having to give people a warning before telling them to get on the fediverse.

This drama is kind of the epitome of that

My Gen Alpha children will probably lead happy and fulfilling lives. Sure they don’t have a privileged childhood but they have food security and two loving parents which is the best predictor of future adult happiness that I know of.

I recently got an Xbox One S to play my 360 games via remote play but $10 a month for Xbox live is ridiculous

Not sure that HDMI to component would be any better than just going straight component if your PVM doesn’t accept HDMI. Even if it does accept HDMI, it probably would be better to do straight component anyway. I would defer to your research as I’m not an experts on PVMs.

But personally I would probably just play ps3 on an LCD rather than a CRT. Most games, especially the last half of the generation were designed to plan on an LCD and it’s the easiest to connect and get good picture quality.

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You are right but you can’t exactly publish something and expect it to be private

The added content for the switch 2 looks underwhelming but I really liked wonder. It was a breath of fresh air after nearly 2 decades of new souper ports and sequels

The protocol is ActivityPub not ActivityPriv

If you don’t sign in or don’t interact, then you don’t have anything to worry about. Reddit doesn’t make votes public but it definitely is selling your voting data as well as IP and location data to third parties.

Lemmy just publishes the data it needs to make activity pub work. If you don’t do anything that generates an AP action then there is no data on you that somebody can compile. I agree that it probably isn’t a good idea to hide the fact that AP actions like upvotes or downvotes are public, but that’s how the protocol works

PS3 comes with Composite cables. Why not use them instead of trying to downscale HDMI back to SD and adding lag?

Funny I keep saving instead of spending and yet my savings never grow because the costs of living do instead

36 is not old lmao. Your friends probably have parents in their late 40s/early 50s and so expect your parent to be like theirs