u/captain_aggravated — Captain Aggravated

No it doesn't.

Super Famicom controller, Japanese market


Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PAL market


Super Nintendo Entertainmen System, NTSC market


Identical except plastic colors and the YX buttons on the North American market are concave on top. Fun fact, the face buttons are keyed to their holes. You can't take the controller apart and mix up the buttons, because they have little tabs that fit in little slots. Even on the NTSC controller, the X button and the Y button are physically different because they used (almost all) the same molds.

Nintendo's buttons are arranged differently than Xbox. From left to right, top to bottom, Xbox goes XY AB, Nintendo goes YX BA.

That's not consoles, that's cartridges.

I'm not so sure. Like I say, we saw several studios say "Well since Proton works so well, we're going to stop supporting a separate Linux version. Linux users are to install the Windows version under Proton, and we'll only support that." Because almost all player communities are mostly Windows. As much as us Linux nerds hate it, we're a small (but rapidly growing!) minority, and developers would rather support the thing most people use and just ladle what everyone else is drinking into a sippy cup for the special kids than have to make a whole separate jug of kool aid. I don't think we'll see a reversal in that until Linux-based platforms represent an actual majority of the install base and do so for awhile. Nothing is more permanent than a bodge job that works for now. Not to call Proton a "bodge job" but you know what I mean.

ARM is yet another leap, possibly a farther one, than Linux.

So, when Proton came out, and Windows games Just Worked on Linux, a lot of developers gave up making or maintaining native Linux versions of games, and the way you make games for Linux is make them for Windows and run them in Proton.

Are we now going to make games for Windows x86 and run them in Proton, on ARM? And are we going to get to a point where we start actually making games for the hardware and OS we play them on, or are we just stuck with compatibility lasagna?

I won't be. I've set up my old rig, a Ryzen 3600/Radeon 7600 mini-ITX machine on my television running Bazzite. AFAIK it's quite a similar experience to SteamOS (Launches in Steam big picture mode, can switch to a KDE desktop, immutable distro with flatpak apps), from what they've released, it seems my machine has relatively similar performance, it's about 3 times as big, but...I don't need a Steam Machine.

I might spring for a Steam Frame headset though.

A bit how, most of the time in Breath of the Wild, the gyros don't do anything. They only activate while aiming a bow, using Magnesis or a few other context-sensitive moments. Because yeah, if it was constantly doing something like camera control that would get turned off immediately.

They were talking about "magnetic joysticks" so they're hall effect?

Flush the toilet with it?

Look into it; Nestle owns a lot of bottled water brands that they very purposefully don't put their name on.

Haha no they aren't.

If we keep it conventional, we could bring about a new dark age. It would have to go nuclear before we start wondering if the deep sea tube worms will survive. We can definitely end humanity unilaterally, we might need Russia's help to boil the oceans.

72 hours, the average length of a special military operation.

I grocery shop every 2 weeks and at any given time I have a month of food in stock. because I live in a hemisphere with hurricanes.

When the UK voted to leave the EU, how many members were they allowed to send to the EU council and the Parliament of Europe?

When the thirteen colonies declared independence from the British Empire, how many members were they allowed to send to the British House of Commons and House of Lords?

The UK was not in the position where they were outright denied representation in a government that exerted power over them; that...what would the appropriate British word be? Burk? Pillock? ...on Facebook I was talking to was *removed* about not getting to vote against that guy from Greece or Germany in the same way I don't get to vote against that guy from Kentucky or Texas.

My home state and about a dozen others DID secede from the union while having fair and legal representation in Washington once...look how that turned out.

The United States has been called "the great experiment in democracy." Well I think the experiment has yielded data. I recommend carefully analyzing it.

I will never forget a conversation I had with some random Brit on Facebook before Brexit. He said to me, "You yanks don't know what it's like having your laws made for you by politicians you didn't vote for 500 miles away." In this hemisphere we call that Washington, D.C.

I mean, he had a point. What does a citizen of the American south know about secession, anyway?

Is or was Russia a developed country?

I think "gassing jews at industrial scale" is the deepest nadir known to political science.

That's the age where he's strong enough to physically lift a rifle. That's good enough for the state.