The meme about googling site:Reddit comes out of how deeply shitty Google has let their search engine become.

It was two-part, the other side was that reddit’s own search was so crap people use google search instead.

If Nintendo hasn’t made more money selling emulated video games than anyone else I would be surprised.

(virtual console, NSO, (s)nes mini, pokemon stadium, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, etc)

If they claimed emulation was illegal they would be a laughing stock. Of course it all comes down to the IP rights and copy protection measures.

A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 145+ Petabytes of server space – and we store at least 2 copies of everything).

https://archive.org/about/

Runs with DOXBox-X and DOSBox (0.74-2 or earlier). ScummVM has an issue where loading a saved game loads with missing text boxes.

This is great as a proof of concept but I would consider scummvm compatibility a hard requirement for me these days.

Teen: partial nudity and sexual themes

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/real-hentai-switch/

So it’s soft porn

People should think of how they can contribute to society

I think that is the discussion that was happening here?

At that point you might as well build another set of roads above the current street level.

Repeat as needed.

Animal crossing (2001) as a gateway drug.

Yeah, if you want to have a master list of games available to install then the purchases have to be under one account.

Otherwise each account will see their own list of available titles, if purchases are arbitrary then these lists may appear random.

I have 99% of my family’s games on my account but have placed titles gifted to or purchased by my 8yo on his account. This isn’t important now while we share a loungeroom and set of consoles but as he grows up we will need to separate our libraries at some point.

• Each account has their own saves.
• Each account has their own digital purchases
• Each account can nominate one physical console as their “primary”*, any other account on that console is then licenced to run their games. Note however:
  • child accounts can be restricted from running mature content
  • accounts that don’t own the content can run the games but not install them. This is a hassle for me because I own my family library but have to cycle through the games when my son wants to replay something.

* technically each account can have one primary ps4 and one primary ps5, in the cross gen period people you use this to lend their ps4 console and library to family/friends but that isn’t so relevant today.

Edit:

For digital purchases the owning account can login to other non-primary consoles and access their library there (for the duration of the login session). This can be used to share the library when visiting other households but does require careful consideration about who should own each title.

This sounds like an X-Y Problem.

In the video game industry, AAA (Triple-A) is a buzzword used to classify video games produced or distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games.
[…]
The term “AAA” began to be used in the late 1990s by game retailers attempting to gauge interest in upcoming titles, and first appeared in print in a press release from Infogrames in June 2000. The term was likely borrowed from the credit industry’s bond ratings, where “AAA” bonds represent the safest investment opportunity and are the most likely to meet their financial goals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industryDLC

Since then it has become shorthand for large budget games produced for major publishers and the problems that come with that:

• “safe” game design and themes that a major business might require before they invest 100s of million dollars on the project. This will often means that they follow industry wide trends (e.g. zombies, or open world game with crafting)
• overpriced for the base games, special editions, and often season pass and DLCs. again its the business trying to make good a profit on their investment
• if the design allows it be padded with copy-paste content to increase game time in an effort to justify the high price. (see: Ubisoft syndrome).

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

As an example of this, one of the easiest and most performant methods a nation has of blocking a website is dictating which DNS records its ISPs return for domains.

This has the advantages that it doesn’t require traffic inspection and doesn’t slow traffic at all.

But it has the disadvantages that it has an all-or-none effect on the domain e.g. it can’t be used to bock specific pages.

It can also be bypassed by simply using an international DNS server. There are people bypassing this kind of censorship without even knowing they are doing so.

There’s always some sort of excuse with them. Have to go pick him up from the bus stop, have to go pick him up from school because they got in trouble, dance recital during the middle of the day, always something.

I am a single parent and work the same hours per timesheet and get the same allotment of personal leave per year as everybody else at my employer.

If I happen to use that personal leave to pick up a kid who threw up in their classroom while somebody else uses it to see their optometrist or attend a funeral isn’t really anybody’s business.

I take one early afternoon each week to take my kid to an after school activity, this puts a weekly 2 or 3 hour deficit in my timesheet that I either make up by working a bit longer on the other days or if the sheet doesn’t balance I make up the difference by spending some annual leave. (I try to avoid using AL like this because I would rather save it for holidays but it is occasionally required.)

I don’t telegraph all of this timesheet accounting to my colleagues, they will know which day I’m leaving early that term and the rest isn’t really their business. At the end of the day/month/year I have my schedule OKed by my line manager and work the commitments of my contract.

But when it comes to ordinary normal people who don’t have kids, it feels like there’s a lot more scrutiny. Why do you need a doctor’s appointment in the middle of the day? Why do you need to go pick up a prescription at lunch time, like why can’t you work through lunch?

If your employer / manager is second guessing your leave thats an issue between you and them and shouldn’t have your looking at your peers with resentment.

True, but we don’t use HDD for much anymore.

I still consider a microSD card a must for my portable devices so I can hoard media locally.

But I pay for a cloud backup of anything I produce.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-revenues-by-format/

Nothing has been as big as CDs but total revenue has been growing since 2015.

ISO 8601 gets a bit weird with times.

Using T to separate the date and time components looks a but strange but is unambiguous and widely compatible.

Then the : delimiter between the time components is just impractical because, well again we put data in files and files live in filesystems. Any special characters that can’t be used in filenames on all major filesystems is a nonstarter.

/ can’t be used in a filename on most common filesystems so that doesn’t enter the conversation the real question is if you include - as a delimiter at all.

20241212 or 2024-12-12? They are fixed width fields so I skip the delimiter when I’m storing data* but tend to use the delimiter when writing for a general audience.

* Y10k problem right here!

GOG launched in 2008 (when windows vista was current), some of the titles added to the catalog over the years will have problems with modern operating systems, hardware, drivers, etc.

Anything they add to the preservation program has confirmed comparability with Windows 10/11 and popular hardware currently in use. There is an element of housekeeping here that goes beyond simple PR.