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by dcw303 10y ago
Good point. What do you think is forcing them to release the system before most games are ready? I know Wii U hasn't been a great success, but would holding off the Switch for another six months have been so dire?
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by dcw303 10y ago
I had to laugh when during the livestream they were going through each of the innovations of their past systems, and the only thing they could mention about the Gamecube was that it had a handle :) But overall I think they continue to show
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by dcw303 10y ago
I have a high preference to games of skill over games of chance. Most of the fun I get out of video games is in understanding the patterns and behaviour of the game world, and then using that understand to master the environment. For this t
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by dcw303 10y ago
> It's the same mechanics as almost everything else with a lower amount of difficulty with the auto running and jumping We'll have to agree to disagree, but this is essence of Nintendo's acclaimed level design. Yes, the ba
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by dcw303 10y ago
I may not have expressed it well, but I agree with you 100% - clearing the levels for the first time is only one part of the fun.
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by dcw303 10y ago
The appeal is what Mario has always been to me - gameplay mechanics and level design. I'll concede that this may not be interesting to a majority of people, but Nintendo games have always immersed me due to the consistency of their in
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by dcw303 10y ago
I played through the first couple of levels and was instantly hit by how much better the level design, gameplay and characters were than the usual mobile game. I happily plonked down my ten bucks. I cleared the game in a single lunch hour,
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Super Mario Run Debuts at No. 1 as Nintendo Embraces Smartphones(bloomberg.com)
2 points by dcw303 10y ago|0 comments
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by dcw303 10y ago
Tell me about it. I'm selling a MacBook Pro in Tokyo, and the thought of dealing with those queries is pretty depressing. Plus the fact that the items on this list are not moving at all: https://tokyo.craigslist.jp/sear
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by dcw303 10y ago
Of course! It was either that or some public domain clone. The commander I remember using was black and white only. I vaguely remember using "dc" to launch it? Google doesn't find much.
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by dcw303 10y ago
My hacking coming of age story involves Doom. In eleventh grade, we had a classroom with around 20 486 PCs connected in a token ring network. When the teacher wasn't watching, we used to sneak in Doom on floppies, exit Windows out to t
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by dcw303 10y ago
Thanks. I'm thinking of replacing my MBP for a Surface Pro 4. I'd heard the battery life wasn't great but didn't know about it taking a long time to wake up.
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by dcw303 10y ago
which version of Surface Pro? 2 / 3 / 4 ?
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by dcw303 10y ago
Thanks for this! Strangely, I had tried fx 6/7, but I was putting them over the existing chords, which was as ugly as it sounds! Guess I should RTFM :D
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by dcw303 10y ago
I got a Pocket CHIP recently too. I'm having lots of fun with the music tracker in PICO-8. I just wish I could figure out a way to write chords that didn't take up three of the precious four channels! Makes you realise how impress
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by dcw303 10y ago
This may be related to Scott McCloud's analysis of comic frame transitions in Understanding Comics [0]. I don't have my copy in front of me, but from memory he observed that Japanese manga has a much larger amount of aspect-to-asp
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by dcw303 10y ago
I am in no way trying to be snarky here, but can I ask what is meant by the phrase, "Capital D Depressed"? I've also seen someone use "Capital A Architect". Does the meaning change by capitalizing a word that isn&#x
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by dcw303 10y ago
I never said career. But it pays better than other common working holiday jobs, like bartending.
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by dcw303 10y ago
About ten years ago I took a year off to teach English in Japan. Within a couple of months I was dying to go back to development. Trust me, even compared to other white collar jobs, you would not believe how cushy we have it.
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by dcw303 10y ago
I'm pretty happy that pico-8 1.9 support is done. Now just waiting for my one month old order to ship in "November". edit: Wow, glad I checked my spam folder. I had to confirm my mailing address to get my pre-order to ship!
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by dcw303 10y ago
That's the one. It hasn't been updated since Meteor 0.6(?) a few years ago, so I'd be amazed if it still worked.
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by dcw303 10y ago
I've been guilty of this. When meteor.js was new, I made an issue tracker, and proudly submitted it to HN with a title something like "Issue tracker made with Meteor". Some things I found: 1. You have a much better chance of
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by dcw303 10y ago
The site makes no claims as such, but it undermines its own credibility if it uses .js files. Surely they could have figured a way to do without them.
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by dcw303 10y ago
When I was googling the PocketCHIP I was surprised to find some random forum posts warning people NOT to peel the clear plastic coating off the keys, as apparently they hold them in place! That's certainly something I can imagine doing
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by dcw303 10y ago
I'm waiting for a PocketCHIP (mainly to mess with pico8) that I preordered at the start of this month, and it has estimated shipping of November. I wonder if the Chip Pro shipping in December will have any impact on my order.
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by dcw303 10y ago
I'm about to hit 40 as well, and I completely identify with the pressure to keep up to date with new languages and frameworks, with the fact that I've lost memory of many things I haven't used recently, and that despite the p
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by dcw303 10y ago
It's important to highlight that Nintendo have stayed true to one of their core principles: that the game should reflect the characteristics of the hardware it is played on. They've done this to great success before - think of Sup
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by dcw303 10y ago
Potential usability issue: The majority of people wear watches on their left wrist; the ticket gate barriers in Japan have the NFC sensor on the right hand side.
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Apple Pay coming to Japan with iPhone 7(apple.com)
2 points by dcw303 10y ago|1 comments
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by dcw303 10y ago
Being a child of the 80s, I was first introduced to PKD through Total Recall - the original, good one with Schwarzenegger in it. The mix of sci-fi, paranoia, and reality bending was mesmerising. Verhoeven is the only director who really got

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