I generally enjoy a Mario Party game but I barely touched the last one. This seems promising though

Judging where they are and how they present themselves, it looks like they are just trying to be a troll

Am I reading this right? The “tool” was magnetic letters and she was able to point at them by supporting her arm?

Who would believe that to be anything other than a ouija board for the living?

“The problem is that for Russian developers, communication with the community, including the international one, and technical support are implemented through Discord,”

Well that’s their problem, isn’t it? It’s also a problem over here. Technical support regarding simple questions is fine, but any in-depth troubleshooting should honestly be done outside of Discord.

Ah I should have checked that, yeah. That will bump up the average by quite a bit. Thanks for the logic to my conspiracies, I should have known better

My Asus laptop draws (a maximum of) 200W as far as I can tell.

This is not my model but here’s the tech sheet for a different one: https://www.asus.com/laptops/for-gaming/tuf-gaming/asus-tuf-gaming-a14-2024/techspec/

It’s only 30 people that have pledged the $14,670. This almost averages to $500 per backer, which is a lot higher than the global average.

My theory? They are arranging the pledges themselves to make it look like they are desired.

Why is this a news article? It’s a reddit comment to a reddit post. And while I like to take things at face value, believing a reddit post is another level of gullible.

This might shock you, but Nintendo was also working on the Switch before it was revealed

(…) the boss didn’t know – or care

Oh they knew. Don’t be naive

Nintendo said they will announce/reveal something this fiscal year, that’s it. No word about launch.

The rest are just rumours and just a bunch of dudebro’s who replaced 2023 with 2024, and now have to scribble in 2025 pretending they never said they were 99% sure it was releasing earlier.

I’m curious, can you elaborate why you need this connector?

To answer your questions, those two USB A connectors are for power and data transfer, separately. But if you got a 3.5" drive, you’re going to need that external 12V power supply anyway.

You can plug the data USB connector into the same PC to manage the files, but you can also put it in a different PC, so to transfer files between two devices quickly.

You can also use a power bank for the USB A power connector, but this will again only work with the 2.5" drives.

Chiming in here to not mess with top level comments. Thanks OP, you’re awesome.

If done well it’s called constructive feedback, not bad communication.

The problem is that many folks feel like it’s the only feedback tool in the toolbox, and the praises can seem less sincere over time, as some managers think they need to find something positive every single time. This can make it less efficient or sincere, so it’s good to have some variety.

I know this isn’t what you want to hear, but they are basically saying that you wouldn’t be a good fit with the team.

Now as for the exact reasoning they will probably not tell you, as ambiguous rejections are easier to manage. But to me that sounds like they think you need guidance / support that they cannot offer (read: don’t have the budget for).

Not saying I agree with any of it, mind you. Just giving my interpretation

Don’t you know? Science is only for those who subscribe to journalists.

I hate it when posts contain paywalled articles. What’s the fucking point in sharing?

Tchia just oozes summer vibes, and is inspired by the culture of New Caledonia. No failing, tons of extra accessibility options, skip gameplay segments if you feel like it, autoplay QTA’s, and so on.

Personally I like a little bit of a challenge even in my cozy games, but Tchia has so much character that I didn’t mind.

If The Pokémon Company decided to put some polish into those games instead of pumping out 3 within 15 months, I’m pretty sure most performance issues could have been solved or alleviated.

In the same vein, better hardware would not have automatically meant that the game would run without such issues.

Pretty much, but yeah it’s more for those that never got the chance to play those WiiU games as content-wise the changes were nonexistent or minimal. I also refused to double dip, apart from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe when they announced DLC tracks would be released, so there was like 8 years between purchasing moments.

Switch is the first to re-release a bunch of games from the generation just before, though. This is mostly due to the previous 2 home consoles being backwards compatible, so there was no need (market).

Optimisation has its limits, yes. The difference is that Nintendo is satisfied with targeting 30fps for a lot of games, and not caring as much about framedrops as long as the core gameplay is solid and works relatively bug-free.

They spent 12 months optimising Tears of the Kingdom, and it still has areas where there are slowdowns. It was not unfixable, they just decided it was good enough.

Its hard to compare games directly as each has their own constraints and dependencies. BotW for example was also released on Wii U, and that was a limiting factor. I don’t remember stuttering in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but they did make it run at 30fps when playing with 3-4 players, if you mean that?

I think a more egregious example would be Hyrule Warriors in co-op, but again this is Koei Tecmo and not in-housed developed so they didn’t have access to the same resources and tricks that Nintendo has.

They could have spent 12 months getting those 10-20fps moments smoothened out, but it was probably not worth the investment as 99% of players don’t care or don’t even notice when a game slows down a bit.