The feature, which is buried at the bottom of Nintendo's patch notes, allows for boosted Switch 1 games when playing in handheld, with performance akin to playing with the console docked.

Today’s game is Mario Kart DS. I was planning to play Metal Gear Solid Delta and even finish it. My computer had other plans. To cut a long story short, the boot partition just decided it felt like being full today. No reason why. I couldn’t empty it though try as I might. It owed to fun issues like: not being able to log in, not being able to update, and booting right into emergency mode. Somewhere in the 5 hours I guess my eyes glazed over and I accidentally deleted my home directory. Not to worry though. As some fucking genius made an app called PhotoRec and I was able to recover them from a live partition. Christophe Grenier. I don’t know who you are but I could fucking kiss you man. Everything is a little out of sorts but a few hours and I can fix that. The worst part will just be reinstalling things. Which I can do.

Anyways. So. Mario Kart DS. I picked this because it was either this or 7. I wanted to give this a try so I picked it. My First impressions are that it’s a very basic modern Mario Kart. Is that a bad thing? No. Not at all. It laid the ground work for a lot of what we have now. And especially Wii. But I also think that means there’s not much of a reason to return to this one if you didn’t grow up with it.

The track selection is pretty good. Delphine Square was pretty on the graphics. And of course there’s Waluigi Pinball. My personal favorite is DK Pass purely for the theme. But there’s some other good tracks too I have yet to unlock.

Maybe it was just my character choice but I did find myself struggling a lot though. Especially on this desert track where it felt like I was sliding fucking everywhere. The drifting especially I had trouble with.

Ultimately today was definitely me trying to make the best of a bad situation. For future reference definitely do backups. I’m a fucking idiot for not doing so. The lack of screenshots today is also on me because my Screenshot Archive on my DS was of course filled to the brim too. That’s why today is a little barebones. I would have had a full cup had it not been for that.

In 2005, a bug in World of Warcraft turned Azeroth into a virtual pandemic, and gave scientists a rare glimpse into human behavior during an outbreak.

So recently I started a page in a notebook where I jotted down article ideas. Older games with interesting stories to them. Just as a part of a series of retrospectives I've been writing. So far I have done:

• Seaman
• GoldenEye 007
• Star Fox 2
• EarthBound
• Dune II
• Uniracers

...and now, obviously, World of Warcraft. This one is a bit more brief than the others, but the story is fascinating to me. An unexpected bug caused so much drama, and it ended up being studied. It came back to focus when Covid hit, it was covered by regular 'big' news services, the whole thing is such an odd story to me.

Anyway, I had a great time writing this up, maybe you were ther when it happened? I'd love to hear a comment if so!

https://gardinerbryant.com/the-digital-plague-when-world-of-warcraft-accidentally-simulated-a-pandemic/

I'm completely speechless. This looks so terrible I thought it was a joke, but apparently Nvidia released these demos to impress people. DLSS 5 runs the entire game through an AI filter, making every character look like it's running through an ultra realistic beauty filter.

The photo above is used as the promo image for the official blog post by the way. It completely ignores artistic intent and makes Grace's face look "sexier" because apparently that's what realism looks like now.

I wouldn't be so baffled if this was some experimental setting they were testing, but they're advertising this as the next gen DLSS. As in, this is their image of what the future of gaming should be. A massive F U to every artist in the industry. Well done, Nvidia.

Pretty wild!

I have one and I have been enjoying it.

Today’s game is some more Metal Gear Solid Delta. I cleared all the way to the sorrow today. I’ve started getting a whole lot better at the gameplay too which makes it a whole lot more enjoyable.

Namely I wish I had known the lab coat makes me invisible to non-scientists. It would have been so handy before. I thought it just made me harder to detect in lab settings.

The sorrow’s fight was amazing too, it at first had me a little scared because I didn’t realize it was coming up. After seeing The End’s ghost floating upside down though it cracked me up and I couldn’t take it seriously.

I also found this fun reference on the table when escaping. I thought it was a cool nod to the magazine and it was cool to find.

I have a feeling I’m getting close to the end. All the loose ends started by the game are closing and pretty soon I’ll be fighting Volgin I assume. I’m thinking about a second play through. I kind of want to 100% it like I did Silent Hill 2 (and plan to do for f)

I want to watch a play through of RE9. I’ve played almost all the games in the series, but this one is kinda priced high and I want to give watching someone else play it a chance.

I’m looking for a streamer who isn’t very noisy and distracting. I hope they can be focused on the game and less on chat and stuff.

I’m hoping they take the time to look around and not just rush through everything.

Based on this, is there a streamer you recommend?

Additional context from the thread:

In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

Background: Last summer, Bloomberg broke the news that Krafton had fired the execs behind Subnautica 2 and delayed the game months before it was due to pay the $250 million bonus.

Krafton argued that the game wasn't ready. People who played it told me otherwise.

Over the last few months, the former execs have been in a legal battle with Krafton, which argued that they were fired for neglecting their duties and stealing data.

The judge's ruling today is scathing. Argues that Krafton was hunting for a way to get out of paying the $250 million bonus.

Today’s game is Sea of Thieves. Me and some friends were talking about playing this the other day. We even got a new guy on to join us. We didn’t do much of anything, it was kind of a clusterfuck, in a good way.

We tried doing an Ashen Fort but our Galley Cook got a little too into his job and tried to cook the boat. By setting it on fire. So we kept having too rush between the fort and the boat and save it. Eventually we ran out of supplies and had to turn back.

That’s what’s partly fun about this game. You can’t kill eachother but you can fuck each other over in other ways. It creates some hilarious moments, especially when you buckle down and actually put team work to the test.

After the fort we accidentally sailed right out of bounds, and got thoroughly terrified because we all forgot the water turns blood red there and couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. We had to hit the anchor to do a 180 and book it out of there. Only once we were clear did we go “ohhh. Yeah. We went out of bounds. Okay.”

After all that though we made for port to end for the night. A total of 1 hour spent in burning a ship and panicking over blood red water. It was a hell of a way to spend the night, and we talked about doing it again.

Though, one thing that rubbed me the wrong away about returning is for some reason personalized audio for my headset is locked behind a paywall? And not even a cheap one. It’s fucking 20$. 20$ for a sound profile for my headphones is ridiculous.

Gripes aside, it was fun even if that soured my mood. I hope to play again soon, and maybe get more done this time.

Also, asking non-rhetorically, if I keep redesigning my game's aesthetic, does it mean i have early onset schizophrenia? I really hope this is my last "new vision", but probably won't be.

Country Architect's brief UI history:

Find it on: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4136240/Country_Architect

I don't know what else to say rn, I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.

Does anyone remember iiSU?

Last year, out of nowhere, a new front-end for managing and playing emulated games appeared online. It came with a beautiful trailer and some huge promises: a console-like interface, social features, and a design that clearly took inspiration from Nintendo’s UI style (mixed with a bit of Sony’s XMB). It was called iiSU, for retro handhelds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AD8R8co1YA

Unfortunately, things quickly fell apart. Allegations about the lead developer began to surface, including inappropriate behavior toward community members, harassment in private messages, and other conduct that raised serious concerns within the scene.

In the aftermath, Usagi (said dev) stepped away from the project completely, leaving iiSU effectively abandoned for a short time. Since then, a lot has changed. A new team (led by a new developer who was already involved in the project) stepped in and has already released a number of updates and their own vision.

I invited two members of the iiSU team to join me for an interview to talk about the project’s history, what actually went into building it, and where it’s heading next. I deliberately skipped the drama (plenty of articles covered that at the time) and instead focused on the future of iiSU.

If you want to read my article on their efforts, you can find it here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/the-vision-behind-iisu-an-interview-with-iisu-developers/

If you want to listen to it though, Gardiner has just started a Podcast on our articles, and this one's the first. So if you would prefer to listen to a story about what they've been up to and how they've done it, you can find that here:

https://podcast.subscribeto.me/@thebryantreview/episodes/the-vision-behind-iisu-an-interview-with-iisu-developers

Has anyone tried this? It looks pretty interesting.

I assume it's AI.

Today's game is **Halo 3 **. How many times have I played this now? Too many to count. I think this game has created a monster. I may not have been born playing Halo, but I will certainly die playing it.

I dragged some friends along to play the campaign. We were originally going to play Halo 3: ODST but someone was lacking it and one of our other players were on Xbox, so it narrowed the choice down to a single one. Halo 3.

Because of how much we've played this game we were basically able to navigate it on Normal like the back of our hand, minus that singular time we got lost and discussed how messed up It would be for an Elite to eat a human corpse.

We ended up half of the time just gunning each other down, like here where my friend went over the waterfall.

Being able to just dick around I think is part of what makes this game great. Like, yeah, you could play the game, or you could blow each other up or just fire at the same wall for 5 minutes straight and still have fun. It's sown a new kind of trust in me learning to trust my teammate won't blow me up at the last second for shits and giggles. We should make leaders play Halo Co-Op just to learn to trust each other a little better.

On a side note, I had a whole setup with OBS and an image grid for taking screenshots, but you know what I discovered? My monitor I bought purely for editing photos for my side hobby of photography? It has a fucking image grid built into it. Asus, I'm sorry, I assumed you were the Roseart of the Monitor world, but you are better than I thought. Rest assured I will be using this new image grid a whole lot more now.

We only made it as far as the second level, partly because the second level took 30 minutes just to get past purely because we made it a big slaughter fest, but I hope we'll be returning to finish this save. Maybe if I do this right I can get the last of my Halo 3 achievements besides the 3 hour legendary and LASO

adding AI to everything will continue until morale improves