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The 3DS is unironically one of the few consoles I wish I actually had. Why? It’s just feels wrong to emulate, same with the Wii U and to a lesser extent, the Wii (unless you have one of those fancy pc-compatible sensor bars). The hardware is too unique and something gets lost when you try to emulate it.
Would you consider Jet Set Radio a platformer? If so then Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is really, really good (and it has a kickass soundtrack like the JSR series did). Other than that, I haven’t really spent a lot of time playing platformers. At the very least there have been some good remasters like the Spyro Reignited trilogy and Crash Bandicoot remaster.
I think I’ve heard some of the recent Sonic games have been good, though I don’t really play Sonic stuff so I can’t verify that myself.
I’ve heard Super Mario Wonder is really good, but that’s not really 3d (though iirc there are some 3d wonder flower sections).
Warframe might help scratch the 3d platformer itch, it’s got a decent amount of platforming tiles, especially on Jupiter (the maps are proceedurally generated from a tile set, the Jupiter tiles have a lot of verticality); though platforming isn’t by any means a focus.
If you’re okay with foregoing 3rd person view, you might give Mirror’s Edge a try. It’s a 1st-person parkour/freerunning game.
If you like the collect-a-thon aspect, check out the Lego games, especially stuff like Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones, etc. those are very much collect-a-thons and tend to have platforming elements to them. They’re a lot of fun.
Otherwise… Maybe platformers just need a revival like the boomer-shooters got. From what I’ve heard, Yooka-Laylee kinda tried, but it ended up being nostalgia-bait and not too great standing by itself.
Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. All we know is that the climate is changing and we appear to be causing it as the average global temperature reversed and began increasing during what would normally be a cooling period. We also believe that we’re the ones causing it because the increase in temperature correlates with the increase in CO2, methane and other greenhouse gases emitted. Now, of course correlation isn’t causation, but because gases like CO2 are known to have a warming effect due to their ability to trap heat, it makes sense to believe that these gases would contribute to a hotter climate.
It’s entirely possible that, in hindsight, we’ll find that we were panicking over nothing, and that the earth fixes itself or that this is somehow normal. However, that’s a hell of a gamble considering this is our only home in the cosmos. Do you really want to take that gamble?
You can get a first gen Xbox for about $50~$100, including games. Just be aware of the clock capacitor. A lot of xboxes have bad clock capacitors now (they used them instead of coin cell batteries for some reason), which can leak and damage the board. If you get an OG Xbox, make sure you A) check the serial number to figure out where the capacitor is and if the Xbox needs it because B) the last Xbox version had better capacitors that don’t fail nearly as much, but they’re required for the Xbox to start up. On older models you can just snap off the capacitor and call it a day so long as it didn’t leak and corrode the board traces.
Oh, and electron shepherd has an hdmi adapter for the Xbox. Works pretty well.
There’s a streamer I sometimes watch on twitch who used to play a game and then spend some time watching analog horror that chat had recommended. He intentionally phrased his stream titles so they’d show up in twitch notifications as, “now: [game/activity] later: anal…”
Space Dandy. He’s a dandy guy, in space. He combs the galaxy like he combs his pompadour on the search for aliens. Planet after planet he searches, discovering bizzare new creatures, both friendly… and not. These are the spectacular adventures of Space Dandy and his brave space crew, in space.
I don’t really want to be Space Dandy, but living in Space Dandy’s universe would be awesome.
They already do this fyi. Solar plants tend to use mirrors that concentrate light to heat water and turn a turbine instead of actual solar panels. Amazingly, iirc converting light into heat, the heat into steam, and then the steam into kinetic energy, is still more efficient than a normal photovoltaic cells.
Tbh I might have a unique way of processing fiction, because my brain seems to process it as, “I’m watching a future documentary” or “I’m watching future reality TV” or something. Like, these people have a camera crew or something following them around, so the camera crew is part of the act if that makes sense; so when the camera crew focuses on something, my brain interprets it as being important to the fictional future-history.
As such, while I don’t remember anyone actually being upset about them being gay in-universe, the fact that the camera crew seemed to like focusing on them being intimate makes my brain say, “this must be important to 23rd century humans in some way”.
Then again, I’m also not super into shows that feel like they spend too much time focusing on romantic relationships, so I might also be more critical that I should be as a result. If you’re gonna spend a bunch of time exploring a romantic relationship in a non-romance show, at least make it interesting. Maybe one of them is a cold-blooded lizardman and there’s some conflict about the temperature of the crew quarters or something.
I mean, I guess it’s possible. When it comes to my gender and sexuality, I’d say, “it’s complicated” because I’m not cishet, it’s just… complicated. Additionally I don’t tend to enjoy romance in media all that much to begin with, so it’s possible that I’m being more critical than I should. It’s just that gay relationships in media don’t bother me, it’s more when it feels “in my face” that I start to question the motivations behind it.
I guess the big thing is that if you’re happy with it, then cool! Something about it just felt off to me.
I kinda disagree with this because at the end of the day the federation kinda did end up forcing their will on the Moclans. However, the federation tried as hard as they could to find solutions and compromises that would have allowed them to maintain their culture while also allowing people who didn’t want to be a part of it, primarily female Moclans, to have their own space where they could live the way they wanted to.
The reason why the federation eventually ended up forcing their will on the Moclans was for the same reason that modern society tends to eventually tell bigots to fuck off; the bigots weren’t content with bigoting off in their own little corner but instead felt offended by the fact they weren’t allowed to bigot everywhere else and threw a hissy-fit about it. Then people got tired of the bigots throwing whiney tantrums about not being allowed to bigot outside of their designated bigot-spaces and said, “fuck you, eat shit.”
Fyi for people curious, digital cinema tends to max out at 4k resolution (digital IMAX is probably higher though). Yeah, you’re going to the theater to see a movie at a resolution you could watch it in at home. Now there is a catch, the movie and audio is lossless 4k, which you can’t get anywhere else currently, and therefore higher quality than what you can see at home.
…unless you happen to have unencrypted DCPs, and some are, in which case the quality will be very similar. Though have fun storing your movie collection when they normally weigh in at 200-300gb.
Now, will you see the difference between 35mm and 4k DCP, or 70mm and digital IMAX? Maybe? Part of the question comes down to how the movie was mastered (was it fully analog mastered to digital or digital mastered to analog), the quality of the cameras, the quality of the projectors, the quality of the projectionist, and how familiar you are with the movie. If it’s digital to analog, almost certainly not. If you’ve never seen the movie before then you may not notice the difference either. However, if you’ve seen the movie in a different format, if the movie was mastered in analog, and the projectionist has good, properly calibrated projectors, you probably could.
Beaststar: A rubber-hose styled cartoon series about a man’s journey to create music and stage-plays for animals.
A Single Thing, In A Single Place, At A Single Moment In Time (Everything, Everywhere, All At Once): an avant-garde art-house flick featuring a single image of a random object that’s displayed in complete silence for 2h19m. Each screening is unique, showing a different object every time.
One Night At Freddy’s: a gaysploitation film about a one-night stand between Freddy and an unnamed male lover.
A Dungeon and Dragon: An Honorable Thief: a gaysploitation film about a dragon’s relationship with a would-be Robin Hood who attempts to steal the dragon’s horde before falling head-over-heels for the giant reptile. The movie ends with the thief convincing the dragon to be content with the love between them before distributing the dragon’s massive wealth among the nearby townsfolk.
The Super Mario Movie: An Italian-American from the Brooklyn, New York discovers his extra-terrestrial heritage.
It’s Life (IT Lives): a movie about coming to terms with hardship. The movie is presented entirely without character dialogue with running narration read from a detached perspective. The movie follows a professional clown who has become depressed by his job prospects in a world where clowns are rapidly losing popularity.
Jaw: a movie about a man with a prosthetic jaw. Will his prosthetic-induced speech impediment keep him from love?
Star War: an animated movie about an anthropomorphic star that goes off to war and returns with severe PTSD. Can the star’s close relatives survive when the star begins to lash out with solar flares as a result of their trauma?
This is a Spinal Tap: an educational documentary about spinal taps used to help train surgeons about when to use a spinal tap and how to administer one.
Reservoir Dog: a documentary about a stray dog who lives in a reservoir. There is nothing special about the dog. The only dialogue comes in the form of candid interactions between the stray dog and various humans who come into contact with it. The final scene shows the dog being brought to a shelter by animal control where it is vaccinated and nursed back to full health, before eventually being put down as no one wanted to adopt it.
No Country For An Old Man: a documentary about a man who, due to being born homeless during a time of strife and rebellion, grows up to discover that he lacks any form of citizenship or birth records. The movie follows him as he finds himself caught in bureaucracy, bouncing from country to country as each one deports him in spite of his appeals for citizenship on the grounds of statelessness. The movie concludes with him dying homeless and alone, without any possessions or friends. He is buried in a pauper’s field, his body unclaimed and unnamed.
This was fun, but jesus christ this got dark. I know This Is (A) Spinal Tap and It’s Life/IT Lives is a stretch regarding the titles, but they seemed fun to do.
Some opposites:
The Godfathers: a bunch of men fight with each other over who should be the Godfather to their best friend’s children. There can be only one.
Jurassic Parks: oh no there are more of them.
The Terminators: OH NO THERE ARE MORE OF THEM.
Shawns of the Dead: during the zombie apocalypse, a group of men discover that only people named Shawn are immune to the z-virus. The twist comes when one of the Shawns comes out as trans and is immediately overwhelmed by the virus after announcing her new preferred name to the group of surviving Shawns.
Uppies! (Up): A cult animated movie created by a small team of furries about cute animal-people asking/begging humans for uppies.
Yep! (Nope): A live-action movie about a horse ranch and a helpful eldritch alien with a can-do attitude.
After reading that article, I have mixed feelings on it. The people who busk for money are okay imo (they’re giving music for free, you don’t have to tip them). The ones who try to sell crafts are kinda eh… I don’t think it’s terrible, but I don’t think it’s good either. The ones who just beg are kinda shitty. The ones like in OP’s article are just straight-up criminal.
No, I mean, I remember there being a further expanded version that adds more steps between social sciences and philosophy. I haven’t been able to find it though.
That’s kinda the point though. Math is a language inspired by reality. It describes the logical relationships between things in an abstract format. Physical sciences like physics or chemistry build off it by adding rules and units to more accurately describe or predict real-world relationships, but at the end of the day, it’s all made up. Nature isn’t doing math to create a fractal any more than you’re doing math when you move your fingers or toes. Math doesn’t create a fractal, it describes it! You can then use that description to create a fractal, but the fractal isn’t math.
Here’s my thing about meat: I’ll switch away from meat if you make it taste good. It doesn’t have to pretend to be meat, as long as it tastes good, that’s all I care about. I will still eat the occasional burger or bbq, but if you can find me vegetarian or vegan recipes that make me as happy as bbq does, I’ll try it.
I’m almost certain I’ve heard stories about soldiers eating or even burning c4^1 for shits and giggles. Not surprised they have to put a warning label on it, though I doubt it does any good.
^1 : iirc c4 by itself is very safe because it has to be exposed to a sudden increase in pressure and heat to detonate (e.g. a shock wave, or supposedly, stomping on it while it’s on fire). Just burning it or throwing it at a wall won’t make it explode.
He might just be shielding his face from the heat. That said, I saw a little plant that almost survived the lava flow, and it was much closer than he was, so idk.
Normally when I see geologists standing around lava they have masks on, so I’d assume he has one under whatever he’s got on his face. Either that or maybe he was getting a couple quick scoops and wasn’t going to be standing around long enough for a mask to make a huge difference.
Yeah, well... (lemmy.world)
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I moved from Lemmy.ml because I liked the name of Lemmy.world and it ran a newer Lemmy version which meant I could make communities. I moved from Lemmy.world because they defederated from piracy communities they didn’t even host (but for some reason still kept the small piracy community they DID host) From thelemmy.club...
Today I made stickers for the Christmas present for my niece (lemmy.world)
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Why aren't modern 3D platformers as good as the PS2 era of 3D platformers?
Please prove me wrong and suggest me some modern ones that stand up to the older ones....
What do *you mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? (lemmy.ca)
Gotta get that flarp (lemmy.world)
Unfortunate cropping of a phone notification (sh.itjust.works)
Sorry for a photo of a phone screen. I had trouble screen capturing the notification shade.
i’m living in a school with gamblers (lemmy.world)
I have a software joke, but I’m not ready to release it yet (i.imgur.com)
For real this time, NSF, I swear it's the last time. (mander.xyz)
When is season 4 anyway? (izzydata.xyz)
How ‘Oppenheimer’ Ignited an Explosion of 70mm (archive.today)
Film-school administrators and a student weigh in whether the celluloid celebration is here to stay or merely a passing fad
Turn a plural into a singular to ruin the title of a movie, book or album
I’ll get the ball rolling:...
Japan investigates foreign YouTubers accused of dodging train fares and stealing food (www.theguardian.com)
fishing for math (feddit.de)
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Vegan food: The west vs India (lemmy.ml)
Modern blocks of C4 explosive come with the warning “poisonous if eaten” on the packaging (lemmy.world)
Honestly, fuck the diamond industry (lemmy.zip)
How geologists collect lava (i.imgur.com)