Most of the DVDs I’ve played can skip the previews with chapter selection, but daaang the blu-rays locked that up. Can’t skip anything at all!

I thought those players only worked on special 3D TVs? I’ve never tried the feature because my TVs are always the cheap ones.

something that important I’d put into the login banner as well.

Yup, back when it transitioned to UWP. I don’t know if they removed them because I immediately extracted the old version from a previous Windows and have been towing along that import baggage every setup since.

I can’t recall a single computer I sold or had anyone buy having Word bundled with the computer, but Microsoft Works Word Processor was bundled everywhere, before they started doing the Office trial junk. I always ended up using WordPad in rtf format anyway because all the file format differences made moving docs so hard.

And yeah, ads in calc.exe, the death of WordPad, the bloating of Notepad… all pretty normal stuff now. There must be a mandate from the higher ups that anything untouched for x amount of days has to be removed or monetized.

Sometimes it’s not so dramatic. I had one throwing a forever captcha and figured out it was because I set webp to disabled in about:config

Youtube Trailer says FPGA.

… though the article says that SegaCD support will be from external hookup to the official SegaCD device. So I guess it’s just MD/32X. I was really hoping it might have the full suite.

Animyst seemed like a genuinely creepy/interesting game to try to conquer with a handful of friends.

I heard his voice in River City Girls 2 and was like “Is that the Criticom Saga guy…?” I didn’t think it was such a distinct voice but apparently it is.

yeah, weird phrasing. I mean, they have horrifying shipping times, but I never thought of them as gatekeepers.

I really hope this wasn’t some guy’s pet project that accidentally got news coverage. I want to order one!

Last I heard, Capcom was retroactively adding DRM to their games which could severely impact compatibility. I don’t get why Mega Man 2 would need to be protected with spyware, but that’s a big corp for you. So yeah, I’d say Capcom games might qualify.

Both Battle Network Legacy Collection and Mega Man X DiVE were released last year though?

If I’m given a choice between some fixes and no fixes, I’ll take some. You know they’ll dump the code like a hot potato once Sims 5 starts rolling out micro expansions.

Here you go. Reasons the hero shooter aspect is not working.

Blizzard’s Approach To Balancing in Overwatch 2 is Not Working

Overwatch 2 Cancels PvE Hero Mode, Reveals Seasons 5-7 Roadmap

Overwatch 2 players demand “faster” balancing fixes as ‘one-shot’ heroes run rampant

Overwatch 2 Is Failing Its Way Into Reinventing Overwatch 1

Overwatch 2 support role feels stale and needs a shake up, say fans

Overwatch 2 Dev Team Calm on Declining Player Engagement

this is where you say “It failed because…”

My assertion was that it was an imperfect hero shooter among many hero shooters. The more competition, the harder it is to enter a game.

I’m just curious why Valve looked at the oversaturated hero shooter market (seriously, we’ve had failures 8 years ago now) and said “Oh yeah, let’s devote our resources there”

edit: Like, I seriously can’t understand it. Not even Blizzard is coming out unscathed from Overwatch 2.

This might be a controversial take, but this was one of my favorite controllers:

It had the size of a Duke, so comfortable to hold with my large hands, and also felt really nice when the airflow feature was turned on. It had the really bad D-Pads though.

ah, a fellow Duke connoisseur!

Oh no doubt. It’s a shame too. We saw the death of the mid-level developer long ago.

When I go to cons I try to buy any smaller self-published titles I see, but wish the market could support smaller devs while remaining consumer-friendly with a “coop” publisher. An entity that can eat a loss while still finding gems that would be lost to time if stuck on a digital store.

That isn’t to say that smaller titles are dead. Currently I look out for stuff published by Soedesco, GS2 Games, Team17, Microids, EastAsiaSoft, etc etc.