phi1997

@phi1997@mastodon.social

I like video games, computers, and other nerdy stuff. I can be blunt, please don't take it personally.
I should fill out my bio more.
#NoBridge
I try to only boost images and videos with image descriptions. If I forget to include one on something I post, please let me know.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

gamingonlinux, to random
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

Graphics are so impressive these days 😏

phi1997,

@gamingonlinux
The one in the bottom-left looks too unrealistic

gamingonlinux, to PCGaming
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

ZOTAC Zone is yet another AMD gaming handheld https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/zotac-zone-is-yet-another-amd-gaming-handheld/

#ZotacZone #Zotac #PCGaming

phi1997,

@gamingonlinux
That d-pad looks awful

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

I have just been informed that Plex has a bug where if you upload to your Plex server an album either credited to "Various Artists" or containing a mix of artists on each track, it will list that album in the UI as being by "KONAMI". This is apparently a known issue.

phi1997,

@mcc
I imagine that came from their many, many rhythm game soundtracks.

baldur, to random
@baldur@toot.cafe avatar

“VCs are selling shares of hot AI companies like Anthropic and xAI to small investors in a wild SPV market | TechCrunch”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/01/vcs-are-selling-shares-of-hot-ai-companies-like-anthropic-and-xai-to-small-investors-in-a-wild-spv-market/

Looks a bit like we're heading into the "cash out" or "quick! find the greater fool" portion of this bubble

phi1997,

@datarama
What's the orange site?
@falcennial @baldur

GottaLaff, to Canada
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

Ahem. Attention please.

I am now in . 🇨🇦🍁

That is all.

👏🏻💃🏼🥳💥‼️‼️‼️‼️

phi1997,

@GottaLaff
Relevant XKCD:
https://explainxkcd.com/180

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Hey so @Nifflas 's game "Uurnog" is on steep sale RN and I really highly recommend it https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Nifflas/112520440316710187

IMO one of the most underrated games of the last decade, especially for those of you who are game medium deconstructionists. It's surface-simple but has a lot of strange, surprising thoughts about "what is a Video Game and how do you interact with it?" simmering just underneath… it's very good at finding ways that simple mechanics can combine in ways that really surprise you.

phi1997,

@mcc
Glad I followed this recommendation. I've barely started and it's already got me thinking. Just seeing what the other characters do has me thinking. Seeing one make a mistake that I avoided was fairly somber.
@Nifflas

missingno, to random
@missingno@fgc.network avatar

Tried out Maimai in the arcade room. I love that the evolution of the rhythm game genre has been to just make sillier and sillier control schemes.

phi1997,

@missingno
I do think it's important to bring up Chrono Circle: a game that looked at Maimai and asked "What if that ring of buttons could spin?"

phi1997,

@missingno
If you're looking for current arcade rhythm games in the US, then going to a Round1 is your best bet, aside from whatever gets brought to a convention, of course. They're the one Japanese amusement center chain that's expanded outside of Japan. You'll typically find current versions of DDR, Beatmania IIDX, Sound Voltex, as well as the aforementioned Chrono Circle and some Chunithm machines running old versions of the game.

As for fighting games, there are typically some Nesica cabs.

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Would it be weird to learn Street Fighter 6 just so I can play as Marisa

phi1997,

@mcc
Seeing a cool character and wanting to play as them is a common reason to pick up a game.

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Been thinking about getting some sort of Android tablet to read comics on, but worried my preferred feature set ("rectangular screen" "rectangular means the edges of the displayable area are ninety degree angles. that's not a rectangle" "cheap, like tablets were five years ago back when you could still get tablets with rectangular screens" "preferably not Samsung") might reduce the pool of available devices to zero

phi1997,

@mcc
Mood

missingno, to random
@missingno@fgc.network avatar

I got schmixed by baggage claim.

Meeting up with my roommate who’s on a later flight, no biggie I’ll just grab a bite to eat and kill time until he gets here.

Have to grab my bag first though, else I’ll lose it.

But now I can’t go back to all the restaurants behind TSA, one way trip. Thought there’d still be something else down here but nope.

help I’m starving

phi1997,

@missingno
Block this overhead baggage compartment

SirTapTap, to animals
@SirTapTap@mastodon.social avatar

My useless fuck of a son

He's been sleeping like this for almost an hour

#CatsOfMastodon #cats

phi1997,

@SirTapTap
He is without flaw

ifixcoinops, to random
@ifixcoinops@retro.social avatar

Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

phi1997,

@ifixcoinops
True enough, but probably not what you want to lead with

Sheril, to animals
@Sheril@mastodon.social avatar

Dogs are good.

phi1997,

@Sheril
Wrong, dogs are great!

plaguepoems, to random
@plaguepoems@mastodon.social avatar

According to the headline
"H5N1 doesn't have to be
a repeat of Covid-19's
'public health versus the economy,'"
and it will not be a repeat
just look around, with H5N1
we are doing things differently,
this time we won’t let anything
stand in the way
of protecting the economy.

phi1997,

@plaguepoems
They seem to be forgetting that tons of people dying or being disabled is also terrible for the economy

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Now, everyone is so furious about OpenAI stealing a beloved celebrity's voice. But what about the many artists, writers/authors, and creators whose copyrighted works OpenAI stole to create works resembling and replacing those people's products? Not famous enough to generate the same outrage, right? At least now, everyone knows how bad Sam Altman is. He thinks he is above the law. I'm glad someone is standing up to this bully and I hope something good come out of it.

phi1997,

@nixCraft
I think this case was also more obvious

gamingonlinux, to KingdomHearts
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar

The KINGDOM HEARTS games are finally coming to Steam in June https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/the-kingdom-hearts-games-are-finally-coming-to-steam-in-june/

#KINGDOMHEARTS #Steam #PCGaming

phi1997,

@gamingonlinux
Took them long enough

eniko, to random
@eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar

If you come into my mentions saying there are bigger problems than covid and treating it like a flu isn't the end of the world you will be aggressively told to educate yourself on the realities of covid (https://covidsafetyforschools.org) with a minimum of 8 slides from that course and if you then keep minimizing covid to me you will be blocked

The slides will show that an order of magnitude more children are hospitalized from covid than flu, that it kills way more than an order of magnitude people than flu does, that it's a vascular illness not a respiratory illness like the flu, which causes significant long term increases in potentially fatal cardiovascular events, that it causes likely irreversible neuron fusing which causes cognitive impairment, that it causes IQ drops cumulative with each infection, and that it greatly increases risk of developing alzheimer's and parkinson's disease

TL;DR if you're a covid minimizer and you like to follow me I highly suggest you keep it to your fucking self

phi1997,

@eniko
Saying Covid is the same as the flu makes zero sense even as a justification to not try to avoid it. Even if that was even remotely close to being true, getting the flu sucks.

dangillmor, to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

Social media disappointments:

  1. Journalists are still actively participating at exTwitter, thereby actively supporting Musk, who is helping extremists bring down democracy and, by extension, a free press.

  2. Reddit got away with stomping its volunteer moderators and users, and its execs are cashing in on an IPO that in a more just world would have flopped.

  3. Writers I respect decided to stick with Substack despite arrogant, extremist-friendly investors and leadership.

phi1997,

@dangillmor
A common thread here is that people are doing what's easiest: staying where they already are.

anubiarts, to pixelart
@anubiarts@mastodon.social avatar

a silly cat but I keep shrinking him (he was too silly, officer)

#MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #Art #Cats #Animals

phi1997,

@anubiarts
Smolness intensifies

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Sony listing hints at native, upscaled PS2 emulation on the PS5

Download promo promises "up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters."

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/sony-listing-hints-at-native-upscaled-ps2-emulation-on-the-ps5/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

phi1997,

@arstechnica
How much I use this depends on if I can use my own PS2 disks. Given that they have a digital-only model, I doubt this will happen.

bulbagarden, to random
@bulbagarden@mastodon.social avatar

Happy Monday from the terrifying Venusaur from the Electric Tale of Pikachu manga!

phi1997,

@bulbagarden
This is a friend

MrLovenstein, to random
@MrLovenstein@mastodon.social avatar

Secret Panel HERE 💥 https://tapas.io/episode/3005249

phi1997,

@MrLovenstein
Reminds me of this scene in Mega Man 8 at 2:03 in this video: https://youtu.be/iqTWJ0ioRIg

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Alright. Exactly one person reading this is going to be very impressed, two people are going to be like " :/ Why tho", and the rest of you will have no idea what I'm talking about.

I just unlocked… Pyoro 2.

phi1997, (edited )

@mcc
If you have a homebrew-enabled Wii with GameCube controller ports (So not a later model or a Wii U), a GBA, and a GBA to GameCube link cable, you can use this tool:
https://github.com/FIX94/gba-link-cable-dumper

If, for some reason, you somehow don't happen to have all those things lying around, you could buy one of these:
https://www.gbxcart.com/
@lovegame

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

phi1997,

@mcc
Mega Man ZX is easily favorite Mega Man game, and there is a lot of competition.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • mdbf
  • ngwrru68w68
  • tester
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • khanakhh
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • Durango
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • tacticalgear
  • osvaldo12
  • normalnudes
  • cubers
  • cisconetworking
  • everett
  • GTA5RPClips
  • ethstaker
  • Leos
  • provamag3
  • anitta
  • modclub
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •