They might not keep a game from going to a platform like Sony does, by literally preventing it from being ported, but thay doesnt mean they have to port the game. I don’t see what this is supposed to mean other than saying they don’t specifically prevent games from being ported (such as exclusivity deals).

Turns out when you stop selling something and close the stores people could buy them in, they dont sell as much.

Manufactured decrease in demand.

Lunacid was an okay game, but ultimately I was disappointed.

It was sold as a King’s Field-like game when I bought it (which was in Early Access, before version 0.6 was released), and it shares almost nothing with King’s Field. Like, its a first person game and it has RPG elements, and thats pretty much where the similarities end. In actuality, it has more in common with Shadow Tower than King’s Field.

The weird slime ERP side quest really did not need to be in the game. I think it involved Patchouli ,(which IIRC is intentionlly a Touhou character name reference) but I could be wrong. Also, the anime character art clashed with the environment art style. I love anime, but honestly the anime characters didn’t fit. Should have been a bit more realistically stylized, more similar to the characters from King’s Field 4 or Shadow Tower.

Plus, the developer and I don’t get along. I won’t get into any details, because honestly I don’t care enough about it to explain it all, but they were pretty rude. I choose not to contact them, nor would I play any of their future games. This was before the Early Access update 0.7, in case anyone who has followed the game’s development is curious.

Misreading the first word as “Diddy” was absolutely WILD for a moment, holy

It amazes me that the developers and executives really thought they were cooking with this one.

My point was simply to illustrate how unfair of a comparison it was, not to comment on the hardware capabilities of those two systems.

The thing is, with FM sythesizers you always know it is an FM synthesizer. Nothing you can do will mask the sound of it. However, with a sampler it is significantly harder to know for sure a sampler is being used just from the sound.

Yes, I am aware. Again, I was merely illustrating that the comparison was not a fair one. But my point remains, FM synthesizer music is very prone to ear piercing shrieking, whereas the SNES tends to produce a softer, warmer sound. Yes, it can still shriek, but you really have to try with the correct note and sample combinations to do that. Even though the Genesis can output a better range of notes, it is easier for the notes to clash as well. Mostly you will find games from those times had the audio crunched into the midtones, and this is probably because CRT speakers werent very good and pushing the audio into the midtones produced a better sound.

If you are guilty of a crime, then certainly being truthful and cooperative with police can lead the Judge to be more lenient with sentencing than if you had been a problem. It also can directly lead to you being treated less roughly (or “normally”) by police, and less additional charges ontop of your existing charge. Obviously it depends on the severity of the crime, but it is not entirely a myth. Judges usually have within their discretion a range of time for sentencing, and I have seen multiple times where a Judge takes the Defendant’s cooperation and truthfulness into account, giving the lowest possible sentencing.

My personal opinion is to just be truthful and own your actions. Be accountable. If you broke the law you broke the law, you know? Yes, a lawyer can help lower your sentence, and its really never advisable to not speak to a lawyer, but its just my opinion of “If you cannot do the time, then do not do the crime.” Yes, sometimes following the law can be a hassle, and yes there are laws I think are stupid and I do not agree with. But they are still the laws of the land and if I want to live here, then I am obligated to follow the law to the best of my ability.

THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVISE BY THE WAY

Be polite, be respectful. Kinda like bees. If you don’t mess with them, usually the bees aren’t going to mess with you. If you don’t give police a reason to interact with you, unless you were a witness to a crime or something they will usually leave you alone, where I live at least. I am over 30 and that is the only interaction with police I have ever had where I would consider myself as a suspect. Also, I feel obligated to mention that I am a Mexican American, and a legal citizen.

I had police called on me once. I was working for a homeowner while they were out of the country, and one of their neighbors called the police to report me being in the homeowners backyard.

I was watering their plants, by the way. But their neighbors might not have known or seen that since the backyard is behind the house and a fence.

Anyways, police showed up and took a few steps up the driveway to the side of the house where I was working and asked me if I was the homeowner. I politely said “No, I am not the homeowner.” The officer gave me a look, to which I elaborated “I work for the homeowner, they are currently on vacation in [country name], and they asked me to water their plants for them.” I was holding the water hose in my hand and the plants were wet on the side of the house he could see.

He was also polite, asked me for my ID which I presented, he took a picture of it on his phone and then took some notes. He asked me to hang out around the front of the home a bit because I think he may have been relaying information to dispatch, but then he came back and shook my hand and said “Thank you for being cooperative, I was on a call with the dispatch who told me the person who reported you said the homeowner was on vacation in [country name]. I don’t want to take any more of your time, but hope you have a nice day and I already let dispatch know if anyone else calls about it to let them know you work for the homeowner.” And that was that.

Be polite and respectful. Don’t lie or be untruthful. You might not like the police, but they are still humans, treat them like humans. Purposefully making their job harder will never, ever end well for you.

Every citizen can choose for themselves if they wish to remain silent, and if you choose to do so you must say specifically that you exercise your right to remain silent. If you have to speak to the police for whatever reason after you said you exercise your right to remain silent, you are legally obligated to say you will continue to exercise your right to remain silent if you choose to continue to do so.

Its obviously not a fair comparison, lol.

“If you connect a Nintendo Wii to a surround system and play a game that supports surround, it sounds way better than an Xbox Series X connected to a 1981 portable radio tv with a mono speaker.” Yeah, of course it will. But when considering the output capabilities of the audio systems of each, absolutely nobody is talking about this kind of scenario.

The comparison is assuming all things are equal, which includes the skill or knowledge of the sound programmer, speaker quality, etc. The Genesis can sound more crisp, but at the cost of being only capable of FM synthesizer music, which is extremely prone to sounding piercing or tinny. High pitch notes especially are susceptible to this. The Genesis is vastly easier to make it sound worse than the SNES, specifically because of the ability to have 8 channels of samples.

I am not sitting here saying that this sounds so much worse than this because its obvious. That is also not a fair comparison.

Again, don’t get me wrong. I love FM synthesizer music, Ryu Umemoto was a god on the PC98, not a single one of his entire composed library sounded bad. But in comparison to hardware capable of sample playback, that is already an unfair comparison right from the beginning.

Being debt free one of the few status symbols you cannot see. At that point, is it a status symbol if other people cannot see it?

I mean, I still agree though. Be debt free, seriously.

This feels like such a Post-Reddit Migration Lemmy response. You are trying to invalidate what I am saying by calling me part of the problem I am talking about.

I had a Reddit account, but I actually deleted my account in March, prior to the announcement of the API changes. I was then convinced to join Lemmy by a third party on Discord in mid-June, thus my account creation date. The first real wave of Reddit joiners took place shortly after June 30, as this is when the API changes went into effect. One month later in August, the Hexbear instance would be created. Around this time, there was a flood of CSAM posts in every community on the .world instance. To say that the quality of Lemmy as a whole went down when this happened would be a massive understatement.

My account creation was coincidentally two weeks before the Reddit API changes took place, but that does not make what I said invalid just because I used to have a Reddit account.

This is cool but the title of this article could not be more wrong.

The Genesis SPU is not capable of recreating the output of the SNES APU. The Genesis SPU was a programmable FM synthesizer, which is a completely different technology that is significantly more limited than the programmable sampler-like SNES APU. It is impossible for the Genesis to “perfectly recreate” anything from the SNES, unless the SNES soundtrack used samples of an FM synthesizer, in which case the other way around would be more accurate: that the SNES is recreating the Genesis. This did happen in some multiplat games that were made for the Genesis first. Even if somehow one could program the Genesis SPU to use only samples, there is only one channel capable of sample playback on the Genesis, whereas on the SNES, ALL 8 channels were capable of sample playback.

While it does not sound bad, in comparison to the SNES, the Genesis will lose every time. Its like comparing the NES to the SNES, the capability of the SNES APU (which was actually only slightly modified and then used for the PlayStation 1 SPU, both chips were designed by the same person, fun fact) just vastly outshines it.

Don’t get me wrong, I love FM synthesizer music. Games from the PC98 just sound wrong to me when played through generic MIDI or the Roland SC-88 Pro. But to say that the Genesis is perfectly recreating the music from a SNES game is just incorrect.

Honestly. That is good news. The last time people came here from Reddit, Lemmy became way worse with more insufferable users.

Government is government, they all have equal capacity to be evil serve the Empruh.

In other words:

“We ran out of time to add them and the investors want the game out NOW.”

Star Wars was not so obvious in its real world parallels as Star Trek was.

I did not mean that Star Wars contained absolutely no “message” about ethics or morals. All entertainment art contains a message. As humans, it is not possible to create entertainment that is completely void of this, as such a piece of media cannot entertain a human. (Just to clarify, I mean entertainment art that has a storyline. Tetris, for example, is entertaining as a puzzle game, but it does not have a story. Tetris would therefore be excluded). Rather, Star Wars did not present real world social issues to its audience in the way that Star Trek did.

The Jedi were good, but also demonstrated that a person that becomes too imbalanced can also become just as evil as a Sith. Star Wars also showed that even an evil Sith can change their mind and become good again. Fantastic messages that are easy to understand and applicable to any person, place, or time.

Star Trek, on the other hand, openly debated the benefits of something like religion or slavery. Still timeless messages, but presented in a very different way. An alien race would believe a religion or have slaves, and the benefits of such would be clearly presented. Maybe the aliens were happier with a religion or their economy was reliant on slaves to continue otherwise their world would fall into economic collapse or whatever. Then the Enterprise crew would talk about the down sides, maybe the religion was oppressive, or the obvious downsides of slavery. Usually, in the end the crew of the Enterprise would choose to not interfere with the aliens, for fear of damaging their culture or something. They never made an “evil” choice, but they never made a choice that caused the viewer to feel like the writers of the show were telling them how to think.

I will make an exception this one time, but I have a personal policy to block anyone talking about current world politics. I will not engage in that discussion myself, because I do not want to.

A bigger difference IMO was that Star Trek attempted to make commentary on real world social issues, whereas Star Wars did not. Star Wars was a fantasy story about good versus evil, it did not try to comment on the real world. Well, pre~2012 mostly, anyways.

Star Trek, I mean the old good Star Trek from pre~2012 and not its most modern iterations, could logically present an episode that was very obviously about X or Y real world social issue. So far, same as modern Star Trek so why do I differentiate them? Well, old Star Trek did not feel compelled to tell its viewers the “correct” answer, or how to think. The episode would present the viewer with an issue, and then it would usually spend time explaining both sides of the issue. Then, the crew of the Enterprise would make their choice, and explain why they chose that answer. It was not about “this is the correct answer,” it was mostly about getting the viewer simply to think. To use their brain. Form their own opinion just like the Enterprise crew did. If someone disagreed with what the Enterprise crew chose, they did not feel like the show writers were calling them unsavory names. The viewer simply felt like they didn’t agree with the Enterprise crews choice, but that did not make them stop watching the show because they felt insulted. They would tune in next week to see what happened next.

This is where I think modern Star Trek goes wrong. The last two or three episodes I tried to watch featured character assassination, bad writing in general, lore inaccuracies, but also it tried to tell the viewer how to think, or what the correct answer was, at the same time insulting the viewer if they chose any other answer than whatever was decided in the show. The only one that I didn’t get this feeling from and actually still liked a bit was the Lower Decks animated comedy.

I mean, some people will agree and others will disagree because ultimately the two series are quite different from each other.

Star Trek is for the people that like hard science fiction. They want the technical explanation why something happens or how it works.

Star Wars is for the people that don’t really care about hard science fiction. There might be a scentific explanation for something or there might not be. The people that like Star Wars aren’t really going to care if it isn’t explained.

As for me, I like both for different reasons. Though I don’t really like either series after ~2012.

“Its not OUR fault, its THEIR fault.”

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