Dan Salvato @ VCF West

Q6600 mentioned! Truly one of the GOATs of silicon

"I think you're the fake club member around here"

#DokiDokiLiteratureClub

If you read Papyrus dialogue, and your head does *not* make it sound like Skeletor, and symptoms persist for longer than 4 hours, consult a physician

I can't believe authorblues is coming out of retirement to run Top Banana on Amiga

This is basically me right now, I code a ton of Assembly and I'm so scared of C that I'm literally looking into contributing to the LLVM backend for m68k to keep C out of my future

Serenity Forge and I maintain a good relationship, and I talked to them about this incident in length. Ultimately, I want to see them make a game that can speak for itself without leaning on the reputation of other developers' games they've published.

That's everything, now back to game dev for me.

Even though SF didn't actually authorize the use of that tagline, I'm hurt that a lot of their PR exacerbated the confusion, rather than mitigate it. They allowed their reputation to be bolstered through others misinterpreting some creative connection to DDLC. I felt taken advantage of.

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- Serenity Forge did not make DDLC, they published and helped with technical dev on DDLC Plus.
- I have zero involvement in SF's new games, and they're currently not involved in mine.
- SF's new game is 100% unrelated to DDLC, it is their own project with no tie-ins to my creative work.

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Recently, a new Serenity Forge game was announced with the tagline "DDLC meets Silent Hill". This caused a lot of confusion because I'm not involved in the project, and it also has nothing to do with DDLC. So I'm listing some clarifications below to help clear things up.

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What a surprise it was to see you there! As a PNG enjoyer it's a treat to see what you've been up to

Apple Music has a feature called iTunes Match that basically matches tracks in your local library to their streaming versions. So you get to have a local library full of music you own (e.g. on your PC), while any device without the local copy (e.g. phone) will instead stream it from Apple Music.

Something I haven't seen reported is that N64 is currently worse performance on Switch 2 due to the compatibility layer (it's still a Switch 1 title). Yoshi's Story is a perfect 60fps on Switch 1, stutters badly every 10-20 seconds on Switch 2. Just hoping the native SW2 version is around the corner

Blu-Ray movie releases are just a mess, aren't they? This one's 1080p, this one's 4K but has weird color grading and de-noising, this one's scanned from a lower-quality source, this one has bad audio mixing, this one was only released in one country and costs $150. And the DVD has 2 hours of extras

Interesting how "teardown" and "disassembly" functionally refer to the same thing in tech videos (taking something apart), but usually, the former is a review of the internals and the latter is a step-by-step tutorial. The evolution of language is subtle and cool

So you've retired from Melee, thinking you're safe from tendinitis forever, blissfully unaware of the suffering that awaits you in the Switch 2 Welcome Tour paint scraping minigame

A screenshot from Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate featuring a character in a chef outfit with a frying pan sheathed on their back

A screenshot from Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate featuring a character in a chef outfit wielding a frying pan as a weapon

It's funny how I have to keep my Switch 1 around, because I use homebrew mods to play Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate at 60fps. So now I have a Switch 2 and next to it a Monster Hunter machine screaming at the limits of its overclock to run a 3DS port at a good frame rate

"Roguelike" vs. "roguelite" is too confusing, it should be roguelike and roguedislike

I still think about this one time like 10 years ago I saw a post about a Smash doubles bracket, and one of the teams had DK and Mr. Game & Watch, and they were named "Team Ding Dong"

Yooo my first ever Melee locals were in a garage just like this lol. The memories. Eventually I had over 10 CRTs in my college apartment. We weren't grassroots, we were the Mariana Trench

I love 90s game ads that scream "We're afraid this game is too cute to have any appeal in the West"

You mean the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lucasfilms™ Brian Moriarty™? Why it's an extraordinary adventure with an interface of magic, stunning high-resolution, 3D landscapes, sophisticated score and musical effects. Not to mention the detailed animation and special effects, elega

To elaborate: Twin-stick movement means that it's more obvious where to move (away) and more obvious where to shoot (at the biggest threat). But as it is, I'm constantly having to ask: Do I run away to reduce risk and let the threat build up, or do I take a risk to keep the threat under control?

This game ended up hooking me thanks to the aesthetic alongside the high difficulty.

You said "Kiki Kaikai would have been better if it was a twin-stick shooter" but I really like it the way it is. Tying shot direction to movement adds some great complexity to the decision-making and risk-taking.

There are a few parts to it. In CSS I have a variable `highlight`, and various page elements like the logo are given that variable as their color. Then I use JS to change the value of the `highlight` variable based on scroll position. You can use your browser's inspector to look at the page source.

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Sounds more like the owners of his estate are inseparable from a big paycheck

YouTube video by GameSpot The Complete MORTAL KOMBAT Timeline Explained!

The Mortal Kombat series has a really convoluted multiverse plot going on because they put an extremely honest effort into explaining the appearance of every character (including canonically dead ones) in every game www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Dc...

In early high school we came up with a simple but effective prank in computer class. At a friend's PC we'd quickly press Win+D, Ctrl+A, Enter, Enter to select all desktop icons and open them simultaneously. Enjoy waiting 10 minutes for your single-core CPU to open every single Office and Adobe app

The DS era was actually wild. Brain Age sold 19 million copies??? It literally outsold Pokemon. Nintendogs sold 24 million. Even Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games sold over 4 million lmao

I got the impression that the tracks themselves also have more of an "open" feel to them because of their integration with the larger world (prob also to reduce clutter in 24-player races). But something about racing on a more open road really entices me, as someone who hasn't bought MK since MK Wii